Maggie Vail
@magicbeans.bsky.social
Label manager of Bikini Kill Records, bass player of Hurry Up. Honk if you like dogs.
PNW'er currently exiled in East Tennessee.
PNW'er currently exiled in East Tennessee.
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Maggie Vail
@magicbeans.bsky.social
· Nov 13
I believe deeply in the radical and transformative power of music.
oh, I quit smoking 30 years ago today.
January 9, 2026 at 11:32 PM
oh, I quit smoking 30 years ago today.
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at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
January 9, 2026 at 11:22 PM
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
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Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.
www.theverge.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:56 PM
In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
www.theverge.com/news/859309/...
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The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
January 9, 2026 at 1:19 PM
The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.
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Black folks are not being "mean" to you when we are truthful concerning the historical pathologies of your kinsmen...
Truth is the greatest love
Truth is the greatest love
January 8, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Black folks are not being "mean" to you when we are truthful concerning the historical pathologies of your kinsmen...
Truth is the greatest love
Truth is the greatest love
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💯 this.
Pass the baton.
Share advice.
Offer material support.
Don't tell people how it is or how to feel or what they have to do if you don't live there.
Pass the baton.
Share advice.
Offer material support.
Don't tell people how it is or how to feel or what they have to do if you don't live there.
AND LISTEN TO LOCAL AND ESTABLISHED ORGANIZERS.
Los Angeles is not Chicago. New York City is not Philadelphia. Local leaders who've been out there doing the work...will know best. Listen. to. them.
Stay frosty.
Los Angeles is not Chicago. New York City is not Philadelphia. Local leaders who've been out there doing the work...will know best. Listen. to. them.
Stay frosty.
They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
January 8, 2026 at 10:41 PM
💯 this.
Pass the baton.
Share advice.
Offer material support.
Don't tell people how it is or how to feel or what they have to do if you don't live there.
Pass the baton.
Share advice.
Offer material support.
Don't tell people how it is or how to feel or what they have to do if you don't live there.
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Here's the full moment of silence including a fan yelling "Go home, ICE"
January 9, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Here's the full moment of silence including a fan yelling "Go home, ICE"
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The paragraph just before this one goes particularly hard: “Vance knows. He doesn't care. Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power.”
January 9, 2026 at 12:30 AM
The paragraph just before this one goes particularly hard: “Vance knows. He doesn't care. Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power.”
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I am being told by a separate reliable source that at least one victim is hospitalized currently. They are not in custody.
After shooting, the ICE or CBP officer (still unclear) "fled the scene".
After shooting, the ICE or CBP officer (still unclear) "fled the scene".
January 8, 2026 at 11:59 PM
I am being told by a separate reliable source that at least one victim is hospitalized currently. They are not in custody.
After shooting, the ICE or CBP officer (still unclear) "fled the scene".
After shooting, the ICE or CBP officer (still unclear) "fled the scene".
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portland city council confirms that two portland residents have been shot by federal agents. at this time, the city council has been told that both victims are alive.
January 8, 2026 at 11:47 PM
portland city council confirms that two portland residents have been shot by federal agents. at this time, the city council has been told that both victims are alive.
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we are really witnessing up close what happens when everyone just goes to press with the quotes they've got in the order they were received and then everyone gets a story in their heads which is hard to budge even when more accurate information is received later
January 8, 2026 at 10:26 PM
we are really witnessing up close what happens when everyone just goes to press with the quotes they've got in the order they were received and then everyone gets a story in their heads which is hard to budge even when more accurate information is received later
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Here is ICE's own data on the leading causes of death for officers—the top is Covid (from @nlanard.bsky.social)
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
January 8, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Here is ICE's own data on the leading causes of death for officers—the top is Covid (from @nlanard.bsky.social)
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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RFK Jr thinks we are in some sort of war on protein. The war on protein is about as real as the war on Christmas.
"The idea of encouraging people to eat more protein makes no sense at all, because people are already eating twice as much protein as they need." www.sciencenews.org/article/new-...
"The idea of encouraging people to eat more protein makes no sense at all, because people are already eating twice as much protein as they need." www.sciencenews.org/article/new-...
New dietary guidelines flip the food pyramid
The new guidelines emphasizes eating protein and full-fat dairy while reducing sugar, carbs and ultraprocessed foods.
www.sciencenews.org
January 8, 2026 at 7:42 PM
RFK Jr thinks we are in some sort of war on protein. The war on protein is about as real as the war on Christmas.
"The idea of encouraging people to eat more protein makes no sense at all, because people are already eating twice as much protein as they need." www.sciencenews.org/article/new-...
"The idea of encouraging people to eat more protein makes no sense at all, because people are already eating twice as much protein as they need." www.sciencenews.org/article/new-...
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Portland is completely blocked off between 34th and 35th and has been since the early morning, residents of the area and activists are monitoring car traffic in and out to give the community room to grieve and process the events of yesterday
January 8, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Portland is completely blocked off between 34th and 35th and has been since the early morning, residents of the area and activists are monitoring car traffic in and out to give the community room to grieve and process the events of yesterday
this song is in my head more often than not lately
"can we save the world in time?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8oG...
"can we save the world in time?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8oG...
Phil Lynott & The Soul Band - The Man's A Fool (HD Live 1982)
YouTube video by Grumberf Warcraft'
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:14 PM
this song is in my head more often than not lately
"can we save the world in time?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8oG...
"can we save the world in time?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8oG...
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Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”
January 7, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”
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There's at least 4 videos of and at least a dozen eyewitnesses to this killing. If DOJ won't cooperate then charge Bovino and make his defense counsel produce the evidence during trial.
January 8, 2026 at 4:36 PM
There's at least 4 videos of and at least a dozen eyewitnesses to this killing. If DOJ won't cooperate then charge Bovino and make his defense counsel produce the evidence during trial.
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No one who treated "wear a mask when you enter this store" as horrific tyranny actually believe in deference to state authority.
It's Schmittian friend-enemy politics all the way down. "We" should be able to do whatever we feel like without consequence. "They" should be harassed, repressed, killed.
It's Schmittian friend-enemy politics all the way down. "We" should be able to do whatever we feel like without consequence. "They" should be harassed, repressed, killed.
January 8, 2026 at 2:56 PM
No one who treated "wear a mask when you enter this store" as horrific tyranny actually believe in deference to state authority.
It's Schmittian friend-enemy politics all the way down. "We" should be able to do whatever we feel like without consequence. "They" should be harassed, repressed, killed.
It's Schmittian friend-enemy politics all the way down. "We" should be able to do whatever we feel like without consequence. "They" should be harassed, repressed, killed.
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"They were doing their jobs"
It's a bad job... Fuck that job
It's a bad job... Fuck that job
January 8, 2026 at 2:32 PM
"They were doing their jobs"
It's a bad job... Fuck that job
It's a bad job... Fuck that job
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There are more of us than there will ever be of them.
January 8, 2026 at 1:29 AM
There are more of us than there will ever be of them.
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If you are running as a Democrat in the 2026 or 2028 elections, ask yourself, do you really want to be running to the right of Bill Kristol in terms of dismantling an authoritarian police state?
Abolish ICE. Really.
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 7, 2026 at 10:19 PM
If you are running as a Democrat in the 2026 or 2028 elections, ask yourself, do you really want to be running to the right of Bill Kristol in terms of dismantling an authoritarian police state?