Michael Tristano Jr.
@mtrist2.bsky.social
director of cultural studies & assistant professor @ Towson｜radical queerness, brownness, & performance｜generally a curmudgeon｜he/him/his
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*At least* a thousand people, probably more, out in the streets today protesting against the ICE detention center in downtown Baltimore
January 30, 2026 at 8:39 PM
*At least* a thousand people, probably more, out in the streets today protesting against the ICE detention center in downtown Baltimore
It’s abolish ice which means abolish the police which means free Palestine.
Did like 50+ circles of the action today and terrorizes citizens all over the city.
Did like 50+ circles of the action today and terrorizes citizens all over the city.
Baltimore if you’re interested in what your tax dollars are up today that isn’t the removal of a foot of ice from our fucking sidewalks and bike paths, it’s Foxtrot flying low right circles over a bunch of people exercising our constitutional rights.
January 30, 2026 at 8:39 PM
It’s abolish ice which means abolish the police which means free Palestine.
Did like 50+ circles of the action today and terrorizes citizens all over the city.
Did like 50+ circles of the action today and terrorizes citizens all over the city.
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Baltimore if you’re interested in what your tax dollars are up today that isn’t the removal of a foot of ice from our fucking sidewalks and bike paths, it’s Foxtrot flying low right circles over a bunch of people exercising our constitutional rights.
January 30, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Baltimore if you’re interested in what your tax dollars are up today that isn’t the removal of a foot of ice from our fucking sidewalks and bike paths, it’s Foxtrot flying low right circles over a bunch of people exercising our constitutional rights.
It’s so embarrassing to have to admit I graduated from the same uni in the same year as Colton Underwood.
Get this stalker off my television.
Get this stalker off my television.
January 30, 2026 at 5:17 PM
It’s so embarrassing to have to admit I graduated from the same uni in the same year as Colton Underwood.
Get this stalker off my television.
Get this stalker off my television.
I am telling you right now that all my classes this term are teaching students multiple ways a) to understand the contemporary nexus of fascist power (e.g. white supremacy, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, transphobia) and b) to get organized.
I sincerely feel it is the only ethical choice.
I sincerely feel it is the only ethical choice.
January 27, 2026 at 5:01 PM
I am telling you right now that all my classes this term are teaching students multiple ways a) to understand the contemporary nexus of fascist power (e.g. white supremacy, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, transphobia) and b) to get organized.
I sincerely feel it is the only ethical choice.
I sincerely feel it is the only ethical choice.
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From Minneapolis to Baltimore, anti-ICE protests explode
New report from me
@therealnews.com @baltimorebeat.bsky.social
youtu.be/l2OEbJVut1A
New report from me
@therealnews.com @baltimorebeat.bsky.social
youtu.be/l2OEbJVut1A
From Minneapolis to Baltimore, anti-ICE protests explode
YouTube video by The Real News Network
youtu.be
January 24, 2026 at 5:30 AM
From Minneapolis to Baltimore, anti-ICE protests explode
New report from me
@therealnews.com @baltimorebeat.bsky.social
youtu.be/l2OEbJVut1A
New report from me
@therealnews.com @baltimorebeat.bsky.social
youtu.be/l2OEbJVut1A
It’s almost like refusing to name white nationalism in schools forever has absolutely gotten us to this point. Because that’s how power works.
January 24, 2026 at 6:33 PM
It’s almost like refusing to name white nationalism in schools forever has absolutely gotten us to this point. Because that’s how power works.
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You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul
www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...
Donate to Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE, organized by Jac Kovarik
I have been involved in rapid response in the Twin Cities area since the b… Jac Kovarik needs your support for Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE
www.gofundme.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul
www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...
Read this whole thread. This is what we all need to be doing.
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Read this whole thread. This is what we all need to be doing.
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
The vet 2 times in a week ✅✅💰🤠
January 21, 2026 at 3:52 PM
The vet 2 times in a week ✅✅💰🤠
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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. That is not a fringe claim but the settled judgment of the international human rights community.
What Gavin Newsom is rejecting here is an established fact, in the same category as Trump’s refusal to accept the 2020 election results.
What Gavin Newsom is rejecting here is an established fact, in the same category as Trump’s refusal to accept the 2020 election results.
Ben Shapiro: "Israel did not commit a genocide in Gaza"
Gavin Newsom: "I agree with you."
Gavin Newsom: "I agree with you."
January 18, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. That is not a fringe claim but the settled judgment of the international human rights community.
What Gavin Newsom is rejecting here is an established fact, in the same category as Trump’s refusal to accept the 2020 election results.
What Gavin Newsom is rejecting here is an established fact, in the same category as Trump’s refusal to accept the 2020 election results.
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big things happening
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 10:03 PM
big things happening
Who is writing about the Black queer sounds of Danny Brown? I want to read anyone thinking critically about it. Specifically about Stardust.
January 16, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Who is writing about the Black queer sounds of Danny Brown? I want to read anyone thinking critically about it. Specifically about Stardust.
A little bright spot from the past weeks is that the project @drclaw1.bsky.social and I have been working on for a while has finally been published (film and artist statement!) in Liminalities. With a lovey response by our comrade Michael Frischherz. Open access:
liminalities.net/21-5/1000-cu...
liminalities.net/21-5/1000-cu...
1000 Cuts: A Performance Studies Curriculum
A video of a perfomrance originally made for a silent noise festival
liminalities.net
January 13, 2026 at 2:51 PM
A little bright spot from the past weeks is that the project @drclaw1.bsky.social and I have been working on for a while has finally been published (film and artist statement!) in Liminalities. With a lovey response by our comrade Michael Frischherz. Open access:
liminalities.net/21-5/1000-cu...
liminalities.net/21-5/1000-cu...
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The chapter is an invitation to consider coloniality of sexuality as an analytic, similar to coloniality of gender, with its own critical language, exercise and manifestation, notwithstanding its proximity to coloniality of gender.
Head to bit.ly/49L8LIj to read my work on coloniality of sexuality.
Head to bit.ly/49L8LIj to read my work on coloniality of sexuality.
Coloniality of Sexuality: Enacting Impositions
Whereas coloniality of gender has exceedingly animated transnational academic and activism scholarship, coloniality of sexuality – even though a potentially nuanced analytic – endures scant engagement...
bit.ly
January 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
The chapter is an invitation to consider coloniality of sexuality as an analytic, similar to coloniality of gender, with its own critical language, exercise and manifestation, notwithstanding its proximity to coloniality of gender.
Head to bit.ly/49L8LIj to read my work on coloniality of sexuality.
Head to bit.ly/49L8LIj to read my work on coloniality of sexuality.
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The states ethnic cleansing police returns to the scene of the original genocide.
Like nothing left to analogy. It this was a show it’d be criticized for being too literal.
Like nothing left to analogy. It this was a show it’d be criticized for being too literal.
Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
January 10, 2026 at 1:24 AM
The states ethnic cleansing police returns to the scene of the original genocide.
Like nothing left to analogy. It this was a show it’d be criticized for being too literal.
Like nothing left to analogy. It this was a show it’d be criticized for being too literal.
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If you read one thing today, let it be this:
“An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good: Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness”
❤️💔
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
“An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good: Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness”
❤️💔
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good
Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness
www.harpersbazaar.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:42 PM
If you read one thing today, let it be this:
“An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good: Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness”
❤️💔
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
“An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good: Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness”
❤️💔
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
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True depravity.
Jesus christ. The Birzeit University raid was over screening a movie about Hind Rajab?! Fucking monsters.
www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...
www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...
11 Palestinians injured as Israeli forces raid Birzeit University in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces used live fire, tear gas during raid on university camps, health officials said - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr
January 6, 2026 at 8:52 PM
True depravity.
My partner is in a workshop for one of their new musical projects and the focus is ethnography (so that musicians can compose about "culture") and it is taking ALL OF MY STRENGTH to not sit outside their office and scream BOON or BANE every 5 seconds.
January 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM
My partner is in a workshop for one of their new musical projects and the focus is ethnography (so that musicians can compose about "culture") and it is taking ALL OF MY STRENGTH to not sit outside their office and scream BOON or BANE every 5 seconds.
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It's illegal for the president to relieve student loan debt. It's completely fine for the president to unilaterally decide to have the head of a foreign nation black bagged on foreign soil.
January 3, 2026 at 2:36 PM
It's illegal for the president to relieve student loan debt. It's completely fine for the president to unilaterally decide to have the head of a foreign nation black bagged on foreign soil.
The only thing you need to know about my 2025 is that I got hotter. Again.
December 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The only thing you need to know about my 2025 is that I got hotter. Again.
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the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.
December 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.
I would not say any of my Spanish is good. But as a vegetarian of nearly 15 years, it is especially bad at the carniceria.
December 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I would not say any of my Spanish is good. But as a vegetarian of nearly 15 years, it is especially bad at the carniceria.