Levi4c
@levi4c.bsky.social
Librarian, Bibliophile, marathoner, Sports Fanatic, Tar Heel Born and Bred. Tweets are my own and represent myself only. He/him RTs=/=endorsements
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This book banning bill would set the precedent that the Miller Test is irrelevant, which will legally imperil creators nationwide, especially queer creators. It died last year and it's shambling corpse has been trotted out to horrify us anew this year.
If you're in FL pls call your state reps.
If you're in FL pls call your state reps.
Please email members of each Subcommittee and stress your opposition to the bills.
HB 1119, Book Ban Bill
Education Administration Members:
www.flhouse.gov/Sections/Com...
HB 1119, Book Ban Bill
Education Administration Members:
www.flhouse.gov/Sections/Com...
Education Administration Subcommittee
Education Administration Subcommittee
www.flhouse.gov
January 20, 2026 at 3:30 AM
This book banning bill would set the precedent that the Miller Test is irrelevant, which will legally imperil creators nationwide, especially queer creators. It died last year and it's shambling corpse has been trotted out to horrify us anew this year.
If you're in FL pls call your state reps.
If you're in FL pls call your state reps.
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Tired: philanthropy
Wired: 90% top marginal tax rates
Wired: 90% top marginal tax rates
January 20, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Tired: philanthropy
Wired: 90% top marginal tax rates
Wired: 90% top marginal tax rates
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it's okay if you're an elected politician to post about affordability if...
(1) you share what you're doing to actually, practically help people, and...
(2) you're actively working towards getting ICE out of our cities and entirely abolishing and defunding the agency.
then it's totally cool!
(1) you share what you're doing to actually, practically help people, and...
(2) you're actively working towards getting ICE out of our cities and entirely abolishing and defunding the agency.
then it's totally cool!
January 19, 2026 at 11:39 PM
it's okay if you're an elected politician to post about affordability if...
(1) you share what you're doing to actually, practically help people, and...
(2) you're actively working towards getting ICE out of our cities and entirely abolishing and defunding the agency.
then it's totally cool!
(1) you share what you're doing to actually, practically help people, and...
(2) you're actively working towards getting ICE out of our cities and entirely abolishing and defunding the agency.
then it's totally cool!
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In Louisiana, an ICE officer named David Courvelle has pleaded guilty on charges related to his monthslong sexual abuse of a Nicaraguan woman held in a detention center. www.wbrz.com/news/contrac...
Contract detention officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee at ICE facility in Basile
A former ICE detention officer pleaded guilty Monday to the sexual abuse of a Nicaraguan detainee at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, according to court documents obtained by WBRZ.
www.wbrz.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:10 PM
In Louisiana, an ICE officer named David Courvelle has pleaded guilty on charges related to his monthslong sexual abuse of a Nicaraguan woman held in a detention center. www.wbrz.com/news/contrac...
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“The truth always lies somewhere in the middle” has to be one of my least favorite phrases. Sometimes, one side is actually truthful and one side is actually malicious and lying!
January 19, 2026 at 8:34 PM
“The truth always lies somewhere in the middle” has to be one of my least favorite phrases. Sometimes, one side is actually truthful and one side is actually malicious and lying!
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the racism is obvious when countless non white people (gender irrelevant) are obviously what any non-racist person would call working class. but where did “no degree” come from? are the college grads working two jobs who still can’t make ends meet not working class, just because of a piece of paper?
January 19, 2026 at 9:18 PM
the racism is obvious when countless non white people (gender irrelevant) are obviously what any non-racist person would call working class. but where did “no degree” come from? are the college grads working two jobs who still can’t make ends meet not working class, just because of a piece of paper?
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The original concentration camps didn't start as death camps. But they did kill a lot of people through neglect, malnutrition, disease, and individual murders.
There's no distinction between this facility and dachau in 1933.
There's no distinction between this facility and dachau in 1933.
A third immigrant detainee at facility in El Paso has died, ICE says.
Third immigrant detainee at facility in El Paso has died, ICE says
Camp East Montana on Fort Bliss in El Paso is one of the largest ICE detention centers in the country.
nbcnews.to
January 19, 2026 at 9:21 PM
The original concentration camps didn't start as death camps. But they did kill a lot of people through neglect, malnutrition, disease, and individual murders.
There's no distinction between this facility and dachau in 1933.
There's no distinction between this facility and dachau in 1933.
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I’m convinced that all the people yelling at us to go get killed by our army and police think that we all wear cowboy hats while surfing and shooting guns in the air after our big breakfast of hamburgers and barbecue.
I think a lot of the world looks at the US and sees 330 million spoiled, stupid rich people and I wish it was easier to explain why that's wrong to people who've only seen New York and maybe DC or LA, but you can never convince them that they don't understand the whole thing.
January 19, 2026 at 8:32 PM
I’m convinced that all the people yelling at us to go get killed by our army and police think that we all wear cowboy hats while surfing and shooting guns in the air after our big breakfast of hamburgers and barbecue.
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Remember that one time when a court ordered ICE to stop doing this and people were like "see the system is working calm down" and then ICE ignored them completely and kept doing the same shit
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Remember that one time when a court ordered ICE to stop doing this and people were like "see the system is working calm down" and then ICE ignored them completely and kept doing the same shit
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
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This dynamic is basically unchanged in the decades I've followed US politics. The right raises a bullshit bad-faith objection, Dems try to change policy to address it, the right just repeats the bad-faith objection, Dems try again ... forever.
So in the end, what does this article amount to? Republicans are telling the same lie about welfare that they've told for 40 years despite consistent efforts — including many led by Democrats — to restrict and police it.
And in response, Democrats should restrict and police it even more.
And in response, Democrats should restrict and police it even more.
January 19, 2026 at 7:04 PM
This dynamic is basically unchanged in the decades I've followed US politics. The right raises a bullshit bad-faith objection, Dems try to change policy to address it, the right just repeats the bad-faith objection, Dems try again ... forever.
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On MLK Day, we’ll hear a lot of quotes from people actively dismantling his legacy, including the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
Dr. King’s work was never finished. It was interrupted.
Dr. King’s work was never finished. It was interrupted.
January 19, 2026 at 4:36 PM
On MLK Day, we’ll hear a lot of quotes from people actively dismantling his legacy, including the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
Dr. King’s work was never finished. It was interrupted.
Dr. King’s work was never finished. It was interrupted.
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MLK in ‘68:
“As long as justice is postponed, as long as there are those in power who fail to address themselves to the problem, we're going to find ourselves sinking into darker nights of social disruption…
“As long as justice is postponed, as long as there are those in power who fail to address themselves to the problem, we're going to find ourselves sinking into darker nights of social disruption…
January 19, 2026 at 7:28 PM
MLK in ‘68:
“As long as justice is postponed, as long as there are those in power who fail to address themselves to the problem, we're going to find ourselves sinking into darker nights of social disruption…
“As long as justice is postponed, as long as there are those in power who fail to address themselves to the problem, we're going to find ourselves sinking into darker nights of social disruption…
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I know I live in the Devil Nation but please understand I was just born here. My family and friends live here so I’m probably not going to leave. Also systematized class exploitation has left me with no safety net so I gotta keep going to work. Keep calling me a “USian” though I’m sure it’s helping
January 19, 2026 at 6:37 PM
I know I live in the Devil Nation but please understand I was just born here. My family and friends live here so I’m probably not going to leave. Also systematized class exploitation has left me with no safety net so I gotta keep going to work. Keep calling me a “USian” though I’m sure it’s helping
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Klanpa is going to get us all killed and I have to go to work tomorrow?
January 19, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Klanpa is going to get us all killed and I have to go to work tomorrow?
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A six year old little girl was left abandoned on the street after ICE took her dad!
If the spiritual leader of your place worship sees these videos & isn't preaching that what ICE is doing is wrong, their silence is complicity.
You can make a big difference here.
www.instagram.com/reel/DTf9mpS...
If the spiritual leader of your place worship sees these videos & isn't preaching that what ICE is doing is wrong, their silence is complicity.
You can make a big difference here.
www.instagram.com/reel/DTf9mpS...
January 19, 2026 at 11:49 AM
A six year old little girl was left abandoned on the street after ICE took her dad!
If the spiritual leader of your place worship sees these videos & isn't preaching that what ICE is doing is wrong, their silence is complicity.
You can make a big difference here.
www.instagram.com/reel/DTf9mpS...
If the spiritual leader of your place worship sees these videos & isn't preaching that what ICE is doing is wrong, their silence is complicity.
You can make a big difference here.
www.instagram.com/reel/DTf9mpS...
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The goal here is to do whatever it takes to force the MAGAs to back down before we get to a point of "the USA launches an imperialist war against the European Union."
Achieving this may require temporarily inconveniencing us Americans.
sorry!! tough shit!
Achieving this may require temporarily inconveniencing us Americans.
sorry!! tough shit!
January 19, 2026 at 6:49 PM
The goal here is to do whatever it takes to force the MAGAs to back down before we get to a point of "the USA launches an imperialist war against the European Union."
Achieving this may require temporarily inconveniencing us Americans.
sorry!! tough shit!
Achieving this may require temporarily inconveniencing us Americans.
sorry!! tough shit!
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If anything, King and Malcolm influenced each other. After the Nation of Islam booted Malcolm X, he met with Coretta Scott King and told her "I thought that if the white people understood what the alternative was that they would be willing to listen to Dr. King."
wapo.st/4sODOdS
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Review | Civil rights icons who antagonized, and influenced, each other
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X had a symbiotic relationship, Peniel E. Joseph writes.
wapo.st
January 19, 2026 at 6:54 PM
If anything, King and Malcolm influenced each other. After the Nation of Islam booted Malcolm X, he met with Coretta Scott King and told her "I thought that if the white people understood what the alternative was that they would be willing to listen to Dr. King."
wapo.st/4sODOdS
wapo.st/4sODOdS
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There's no better way to observe MLK Day than to go on the news and insist that the civil rights protesters objecting to police brutality are actually "paid agitators"
Rep. Byron Donalds: "These agitators -- who by the way are paid, folks. America, they are paid to do this kind of mess."
January 19, 2026 at 4:22 PM
There's no better way to observe MLK Day than to go on the news and insist that the civil rights protesters objecting to police brutality are actually "paid agitators"
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As usual, the demand is for Democrats to do what they're already doing. Social security and food stamp fraud are vanishingly rare. Minnesota is stepping up enforcement.
None of these safeguards have stopped Republicans from lying about fraud. Why would even more make a difference?
None of these safeguards have stopped Republicans from lying about fraud. Why would even more make a difference?
January 19, 2026 at 4:54 PM
As usual, the demand is for Democrats to do what they're already doing. Social security and food stamp fraud are vanishingly rare. Minnesota is stepping up enforcement.
None of these safeguards have stopped Republicans from lying about fraud. Why would even more make a difference?
None of these safeguards have stopped Republicans from lying about fraud. Why would even more make a difference?
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What’s happening here is accelerating and expanding no matter if you are still hearing about it or not. Minneapolis is a fascist police state where they are disappearing whole families while going door-to-door to ethnically cleanse the city.
It’s happening here.
It’s happening here.
Today in St. Paul: A house is raided by ICE agents and other law enforcement officers in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, January 18, 2026. REUTERS/Leah Millis
January 18, 2026 at 8:56 PM
What’s happening here is accelerating and expanding no matter if you are still hearing about it or not. Minneapolis is a fascist police state where they are disappearing whole families while going door-to-door to ethnically cleanse the city.
It’s happening here.
It’s happening here.
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this is an excellent example actually because just like Greenland, Hawaii should also rule itself
January 19, 2026 at 2:54 PM
this is an excellent example actually because just like Greenland, Hawaii should also rule itself
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If protesters were getting paid, there's be a massive chain of solicitations, emails that would easily prove the case. There is none
Any TV interviewer needs to demand proof when this claim is made and end the interview when it's not provided
Any TV interviewer needs to demand proof when this claim is made and end the interview when it's not provided
Rep. Byron Donalds: "These agitators -- who by the way are paid, folks. America, they are paid to do this kind of mess."
January 19, 2026 at 3:41 PM
If protesters were getting paid, there's be a massive chain of solicitations, emails that would easily prove the case. There is none
Any TV interviewer needs to demand proof when this claim is made and end the interview when it's not provided
Any TV interviewer needs to demand proof when this claim is made and end the interview when it's not provided
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good morning, it’s way too soon and foolish to give a moment’s consideration to who deserves “off ramps” from fascism when people are still in the streets fighting fascists
January 19, 2026 at 2:40 PM
good morning, it’s way too soon and foolish to give a moment’s consideration to who deserves “off ramps” from fascism when people are still in the streets fighting fascists
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January 19, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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Democrats should be out there saying that they will prosecute everyone involved. State and local governments need to be clamoring for ICE agents’ arrest.
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Democrats should be out there saying that they will prosecute everyone involved. State and local governments need to be clamoring for ICE agents’ arrest.