Phoenix Calida
@phoenixcalida.bsky.social
Black. Boricua. Midwest af. I like flowers and yarn. I talk about sex workers rights, racism, and politics. A lot. 18+ please
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1. Start planning on how to protect your polling places now.
2. Stay strong. If their policies were actually favored by the majority, they wouldn't need to suppress voters and steal elections
2. Stay strong. If their policies were actually favored by the majority, they wouldn't need to suppress voters and steal elections
KAROLIE: “I can’t guarantee an ICE agent won’t be around a polling location in November.”
February 5, 2026 at 10:41 PM
1. Start planning on how to protect your polling places now.
2. Stay strong. If their policies were actually favored by the majority, they wouldn't need to suppress voters and steal elections
2. Stay strong. If their policies were actually favored by the majority, they wouldn't need to suppress voters and steal elections
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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
February 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
February 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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the number of academics who were in touch with Epstein really puts the (elite) backlash to Title IX's enforcement against sexual violence into perspective.
DiChristina also invited Epstein to attend an editorial meeting for the Scientific American, where she worked as editor-in-chief.
Correspondence from 2010 also showed DiChristina on a guest list for a meeting on “the islands,” though it was not immediately clear what Epstein meant by “islands.”
Correspondence from 2010 also showed DiChristina on a guest list for a meeting on “the islands,” though it was not immediately clear what Epstein meant by “islands.”
BU COM dean corresponded extensively with Jeffrey Epstein in 2014 and 2015, files show
Mariette DiChristina, dean of Boston University’s College of Communication, corresponded extensively with Jeffrey Epstein in 2014 and 2015. The two set up a one-on-one meeting, had “phone dates” and D...
dailyfreepress.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:24 AM
the number of academics who were in touch with Epstein really puts the (elite) backlash to Title IX's enforcement against sexual violence into perspective.
Please just let us have one fucking thing rn
1) PLEASE tell me this is real
2) lmao
3) elooooon, i have two solutions for your misery. one is to do the hard work of confronting the self centered fear underlying your massive ego. two? well I can't post it on this website lol
2) lmao
3) elooooon, i have two solutions for your misery. one is to do the hard work of confronting the self centered fear underlying your massive ego. two? well I can't post it on this website lol
February 5, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Please just let us have one fucking thing rn
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love to see it
NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts
Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?
boltsmag.org
February 4, 2026 at 10:41 PM
love to see it
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I can now report that Judge Blackwell did not grant Julie Le’s request for a nap, and also noted that, as overwhelmed as she may be, the people who the Trump administration is detaining in violation of court orders have it worse
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
February 4, 2026 at 11:04 PM
I can now report that Judge Blackwell did not grant Julie Le’s request for a nap, and also noted that, as overwhelmed as she may be, the people who the Trump administration is detaining in violation of court orders have it worse
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
February 4, 2026 at 9:53 PM
This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Hey you guys.
Im starting to think the people who have been screaming that billionaires shouldn't exist for decades were right and maybe a ruthless handful of guys who prioritize their profits and social power at the expense of everyone and everything else on the planet aren't actually the heros
Im starting to think the people who have been screaming that billionaires shouldn't exist for decades were right and maybe a ruthless handful of guys who prioritize their profits and social power at the expense of everyone and everything else on the planet aren't actually the heros
NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Hey you guys.
Im starting to think the people who have been screaming that billionaires shouldn't exist for decades were right and maybe a ruthless handful of guys who prioritize their profits and social power at the expense of everyone and everything else on the planet aren't actually the heros
Im starting to think the people who have been screaming that billionaires shouldn't exist for decades were right and maybe a ruthless handful of guys who prioritize their profits and social power at the expense of everyone and everything else on the planet aren't actually the heros
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The left Joe Rogan is Hasan Piker but establishment Dems hate him. There is no centrist Joe Rogan because it is impossible to be a centrist and build a slavish political fanbase because you stand for nothing, not even something atrocious.
I wrote a bit about the misguided effort by Democrats to replicate Joe Rogan the right-wing podcast ecosystem.
February 4, 2026 at 6:53 PM
The left Joe Rogan is Hasan Piker but establishment Dems hate him. There is no centrist Joe Rogan because it is impossible to be a centrist and build a slavish political fanbase because you stand for nothing, not even something atrocious.
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TN is considering a new bill that allows parents to sue large platforms that allow "material harmful to minors"— including sculpture, drawings, photos, music or video games— that describe or depict nudity, sex or "excessive violence"
The censorship that started with "porn" is coming for everything.
The censorship that started with "porn" is coming for everything.
February 4, 2026 at 7:12 PM
TN is considering a new bill that allows parents to sue large platforms that allow "material harmful to minors"— including sculpture, drawings, photos, music or video games— that describe or depict nudity, sex or "excessive violence"
The censorship that started with "porn" is coming for everything.
The censorship that started with "porn" is coming for everything.
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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
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We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
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they're trying to be coy about salivating over the prospect of raping women, they'll contest that but if pushed to explain, that's exactly what they would describe. forced pregnancy of any kind, by a man or by the state, is gender-based violence
February 4, 2026 at 6:08 PM
they're trying to be coy about salivating over the prospect of raping women, they'll contest that but if pushed to explain, that's exactly what they would describe. forced pregnancy of any kind, by a man or by the state, is gender-based violence
Fuck ICE and fuck landleeches
BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.
New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
www.propublica.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Fuck ICE and fuck landleeches
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It’s not like there’s anything happening in the Middle East that affects US national politics or involves Trump and members of his family and administration, right?
February 4, 2026 at 3:05 PM
It’s not like there’s anything happening in the Middle East that affects US national politics or involves Trump and members of his family and administration, right?
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Everybody has it backwards.
Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.
They’re creating a world they control completely
Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.
They’re creating a world they control completely
February 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Everybody has it backwards.
Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.
They’re creating a world they control completely
Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.
They’re creating a world they control completely
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Everyone who actually makes TV and films: “we can reduce production costs if you commission original, lower budget projects, are willing to back actors who aren’t household names, and dial back on bland VFX spectacle in favour of artistry”
Amazon: “haha no”
Amazon: “haha no”
Exclusive: Amazon plans to use AI to speed up TV and film production
Amazon plans to use artificial intelligence to speed up the process for making movies and TV shows even as Hollywood fears that AI will cut jobs and permanently reshape the industry.
www.reuters.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Everyone who actually makes TV and films: “we can reduce production costs if you commission original, lower budget projects, are willing to back actors who aren’t household names, and dial back on bland VFX spectacle in favour of artistry”
Amazon: “haha no”
Amazon: “haha no”
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I've never been a conspiracy theory guy, but you're never gonna convince me that there hasn't been a specific cabal of ultra-rich dullards trying to buy, strangle, and bring to heel all of the most important reality-shaping machines since the uptick in power labor had during COVID
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM
I've never been a conspiracy theory guy, but you're never gonna convince me that there hasn't been a specific cabal of ultra-rich dullards trying to buy, strangle, and bring to heel all of the most important reality-shaping machines since the uptick in power labor had during COVID
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The important question here is not, "is light vandalism good, yes or no?"
The important question is, "is it worth it to potentially send your fellow protesters to jail for perhaps a long time, just so you can create content for your fandom moralizing about light vandalism?"
The important question is, "is it worth it to potentially send your fellow protesters to jail for perhaps a long time, just so you can create content for your fandom moralizing about light vandalism?"
February 4, 2026 at 2:24 AM
The important question here is not, "is light vandalism good, yes or no?"
The important question is, "is it worth it to potentially send your fellow protesters to jail for perhaps a long time, just so you can create content for your fandom moralizing about light vandalism?"
The important question is, "is it worth it to potentially send your fellow protesters to jail for perhaps a long time, just so you can create content for your fandom moralizing about light vandalism?"
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If you don't UNDERSTAND that this is a possible consequence of filming light vandalism in the context of antifascist protest, you are still just as much a danger to movement.
February 4, 2026 at 2:18 AM
If you don't UNDERSTAND that this is a possible consequence of filming light vandalism in the context of antifascist protest, you are still just as much a danger to movement.
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If you are willing get another protester put on a terrorist database and possibly sent to jail over some light vandalism (and I'm sorry, but setting trash on fire is absolutely light vandalism, no one's torching houses here), you are a danger to movement.
February 4, 2026 at 2:17 AM
If you are willing get another protester put on a terrorist database and possibly sent to jail over some light vandalism (and I'm sorry, but setting trash on fire is absolutely light vandalism, no one's torching houses here), you are a danger to movement.
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DHS is tracking people who protest using biometrics and entering them into databases; hunting people who send emails on behalf of asylum seekers; tracking neighbors who help immigrants w/ facial recognition and license plate readers, and Hakeem Jeffries wants more surveillance tech for every agent.
February 4, 2026 at 3:05 AM
DHS is tracking people who protest using biometrics and entering them into databases; hunting people who send emails on behalf of asylum seekers; tracking neighbors who help immigrants w/ facial recognition and license plate readers, and Hakeem Jeffries wants more surveillance tech for every agent.
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@pressley.house.gov just introduced #HR7046 H.R.7046 - Qualified Immunity Abolition Act of 2026
CALL YOUR CONGRESSMEN (202) 224-3121 AND DEMAND THEY PUT THIS TO THE FLOOR ASAP AND VOTE FOR ACCOUNTABILITY
#AbolishICE
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
CALL YOUR CONGRESSMEN (202) 224-3121 AND DEMAND THEY PUT THIS TO THE FLOOR ASAP AND VOTE FOR ACCOUNTABILITY
#AbolishICE
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov
February 4, 2026 at 12:53 PM
@pressley.house.gov just introduced #HR7046 H.R.7046 - Qualified Immunity Abolition Act of 2026
CALL YOUR CONGRESSMEN (202) 224-3121 AND DEMAND THEY PUT THIS TO THE FLOOR ASAP AND VOTE FOR ACCOUNTABILITY
#AbolishICE
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
CALL YOUR CONGRESSMEN (202) 224-3121 AND DEMAND THEY PUT THIS TO THE FLOOR ASAP AND VOTE FOR ACCOUNTABILITY
#AbolishICE
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
Pretty sure I just saw a grown man with ice get stompted tf out by children???
February 4, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Pretty sure I just saw a grown man with ice get stompted tf out by children???