Michael Paul Vine
@mpvine.bsky.social
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Michael Paul Vine
@mpvine.bsky.social
· Jun 7
My fellow interlocutors:
This is a forum => (a)fuera.
We outside.
Do not assume [universal] communicative élan.
Develop [polyversal] communicative competence.
Now is the time.
Here is the place.
This is a forum => (a)fuera.
We outside.
Do not assume [universal] communicative élan.
Develop [polyversal] communicative competence.
Now is the time.
Here is the place.
teaching ≠ trolling
Practice walking (habitual thinking) & chewing gum (confronting relevant fact).
Practice walking (habitual thinking) & chewing gum (confronting relevant fact).
January 28, 2026 at 2:16 PM
teaching ≠ trolling
Practice walking (habitual thinking) & chewing gum (confronting relevant fact).
Practice walking (habitual thinking) & chewing gum (confronting relevant fact).
Only due shade:
1. USian exceptionalism is a myth, e.g. your (rather puerile) self-satisfaction at being unConfederate.
2. The South = USian Black pop.
3. Today, gather an [entire] clue & let it become the final battle of the USian Revolution.
1. USian exceptionalism is a myth, e.g. your (rather puerile) self-satisfaction at being unConfederate.
2. The South = USian Black pop.
3. Today, gather an [entire] clue & let it become the final battle of the USian Revolution.
January 28, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Only due shade:
1. USian exceptionalism is a myth, e.g. your (rather puerile) self-satisfaction at being unConfederate.
2. The South = USian Black pop.
3. Today, gather an [entire] clue & let it become the final battle of the USian Revolution.
1. USian exceptionalism is a myth, e.g. your (rather puerile) self-satisfaction at being unConfederate.
2. The South = USian Black pop.
3. Today, gather an [entire] clue & let it become the final battle of the USian Revolution.
(Since you're harkening back, remember, too, that MA gave us Jim Crow, separate-and-unequal.)
January 28, 2026 at 1:50 PM
(Since you're harkening back, remember, too, that MA gave us Jim Crow, separate-and-unequal.)
(Since you're harkening back, remember, too, that MA gave us Jim Crow, separate-and-unequal.)
January 28, 2026 at 1:50 PM
(Since you're harkening back, remember, too, that MA gave us Jim Crow, separate-and-unequal.)
😳Baybeh...
"LA attracts people who believe they exist only if other people are watching them."
☄️💥🔥
"LA attracts people who believe they exist only if other people are watching them."
☄️💥🔥
January 24, 2026 at 6:15 PM
😳Baybeh...
"LA attracts people who believe they exist only if other people are watching them."
☄️💥🔥
"LA attracts people who believe they exist only if other people are watching them."
☄️💥🔥
i.e. "You don't have to be a John Brown, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, or Viola Liuzzo to become a Renee Good."
- inclusion = assimilation
- inclusion = assimilation
January 24, 2026 at 10:24 AM
i.e. "You don't have to be a John Brown, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, or Viola Liuzzo to become a Renee Good."
- inclusion = assimilation
- inclusion = assimilation
i.e. "IFF you don't adopt-accept the PRESCRIPTIONS of Whiteness, the White racial frame, we'll treat you like we treat Black people."
In/As practice, Whiteness = anti-Blackness. Indivisibly.
Ergo, "junior partners"...
In/As practice, Whiteness = anti-Blackness. Indivisibly.
Ergo, "junior partners"...
January 24, 2026 at 10:10 AM
i.e. "IFF you don't adopt-accept the PRESCRIPTIONS of Whiteness, the White racial frame, we'll treat you like we treat Black people."
In/As practice, Whiteness = anti-Blackness. Indivisibly.
Ergo, "junior partners"...
In/As practice, Whiteness = anti-Blackness. Indivisibly.
Ergo, "junior partners"...
Shocking indeed:
For centuries, White supremacists & junior partners have (mis)construed themselves as beneficent world rulers.
Thus, they still do.
For generations, [they/you] celebrated only their riddance of certain competition.
Alas, they/you still do.
For centuries, White supremacists & junior partners have (mis)construed themselves as beneficent world rulers.
Thus, they still do.
For generations, [they/you] celebrated only their riddance of certain competition.
Alas, they/you still do.
January 24, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Shocking indeed:
For centuries, White supremacists & junior partners have (mis)construed themselves as beneficent world rulers.
Thus, they still do.
For generations, [they/you] celebrated only their riddance of certain competition.
Alas, they/you still do.
For centuries, White supremacists & junior partners have (mis)construed themselves as beneficent world rulers.
Thus, they still do.
For generations, [they/you] celebrated only their riddance of certain competition.
Alas, they/you still do.
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Probably helpful to read what you're sharing on the new TikTok and consider how the new owners might handle that data.
[This is good practice for any app.]
Link to new Terms of Service: www.tiktok.com/legal/page/u...
[This is good practice for any app.]
Link to new Terms of Service: www.tiktok.com/legal/page/u...
January 24, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Probably helpful to read what you're sharing on the new TikTok and consider how the new owners might handle that data.
[This is good practice for any app.]
Link to new Terms of Service: www.tiktok.com/legal/page/u...
[This is good practice for any app.]
Link to new Terms of Service: www.tiktok.com/legal/page/u...
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
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The lesson that the systemically oppressed already know: if embodying excellence, goodness, and light were enough to grant you full humanity and equality under the law you'd be free already.
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
www.startribune.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:07 AM
The lesson that the systemically oppressed already know: if embodying excellence, goodness, and light were enough to grant you full humanity and equality under the law you'd be free already.
Consider that the hippies of yesteryear were 99% White...
January 24, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Consider that the hippies of yesteryear were 99% White...
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
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Most US media is downplaying this by talking about how few soldiers were sent to Greenland yesterday by the Nordic countries, but omits the fact that they’re all planning officers, preparing first for a large exercise followed by long term stay by a larger force.
The Danish foreign minister, coming out of a meeting with the Americans: "It's clear that the president has this wish of conquering Greenland."
I don't think that people have quite measured the severity of what is happening nor the intensity of the required response.
I don't think that people have quite measured the severity of what is happening nor the intensity of the required response.
"Denmark is by all means on the right side of history" says 🇩🇰FM Rasmussen, implying 🇺🇸 is on the wrong side.
"We didn't manage to change the American position. It's clear that the president has this wish of conquering Greenland".
"We didn't manage to change the American position. It's clear that the president has this wish of conquering Greenland".
January 15, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Most US media is downplaying this by talking about how few soldiers were sent to Greenland yesterday by the Nordic countries, but omits the fact that they’re all planning officers, preparing first for a large exercise followed by long term stay by a larger force.
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GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER:
“.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish ..
“.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”
“.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish ..
“.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”
January 9, 2026 at 9:15 AM
GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER:
“.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish ..
“.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”
“.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish ..
“.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”
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Can you accept - even w/o agreeing with all our positions - that Black people know profound truths about this country that are not on Schoolhouse Rock?
Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?
Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?
I’m glad to see Bill say this. But when after a century of just the type of abuse we saw today - relentless and cruel, ensnaring our children and intimidating our communities - young Black people said in frustration, anger, and demand for change “defund the police” - so many of you denounced them.
January 8, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Can you accept - even w/o agreeing with all our positions - that Black people know profound truths about this country that are not on Schoolhouse Rock?
Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?
Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?
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"Here is another lesson that can be drawn from this: In the eyes of the state and its agents, all of the rest of us are walking around with a standing presumption, not just of guilt, but of murderous intent. Anything but total and immediate submission is domestic terrorism."
ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It | Defector
On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street. O...
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January 8, 2026 at 6:46 AM
"Here is another lesson that can be drawn from this: In the eyes of the state and its agents, all of the rest of us are walking around with a standing presumption, not just of guilt, but of murderous intent. Anything but total and immediate submission is domestic terrorism."
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"GenAI is the futu--
January 6, 2026 at 3:31 AM
"GenAI is the futu--
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Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them
January 6, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them
What's fascinating is how some humans don't know that our species is yet [genetically] collective.
All they did was to impose their limited vantage---to make a slovenly specious accusation.
And still ignored is that, for the Global Majority, these tropes are not specific to [Jewish] Whitefolks...
All they did was to impose their limited vantage---to make a slovenly specious accusation.
And still ignored is that, for the Global Majority, these tropes are not specific to [Jewish] Whitefolks...
January 3, 2026 at 4:52 AM
What's fascinating is how some humans don't know that our species is yet [genetically] collective.
All they did was to impose their limited vantage---to make a slovenly specious accusation.
And still ignored is that, for the Global Majority, these tropes are not specific to [Jewish] Whitefolks...
All they did was to impose their limited vantage---to make a slovenly specious accusation.
And still ignored is that, for the Global Majority, these tropes are not specific to [Jewish] Whitefolks...
Pardon my interjection:
1. Argued [for] or [that]?
2. What is "under under"?
1. Argued [for] or [that]?
2. What is "under under"?
January 3, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Pardon my interjection:
1. Argued [for] or [that]?
2. What is "under under"?
1. Argued [for] or [that]?
2. What is "under under"?