Ryan Abt (He/Him)
@ryanabt.bsky.social
History PhD in the intersection of Education (NYC & Texas), anti-racism, & Holocaust Memory. I also have opinions based on my evangelical upbringing and my anabaptist views.
Protect immigrants, Protect LGBTQ+, Protect PoC, Protect everyone!
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Protect immigrants, Protect LGBTQ+, Protect PoC, Protect everyone!
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Ryan Abt (He/Him)
@ryanabt.bsky.social
· Jun 20
It’s Juneteenth, so I’ve put together a list of history books that have helped me better understand slavery and its impact today. Knowing this can help us better secure the elusive equality for all promised at this nation’s founding.
Please make suggestions. Particularly by scholars of color.
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Please make suggestions. Particularly by scholars of color.
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If you work for ICE, you will be unhirable in California.
January 22, 2026 at 3:10 AM
If you work for ICE, you will be unhirable in California.
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Get people accustomed to the idea that ICE’s violent thugs are going to be prosecuted.
They don’t have absolute immunity for committing crimes.
Murder doesn’t have a statute of limitation.
Help shift the Overton window in your daily life.
They don’t have absolute immunity for committing crimes.
Murder doesn’t have a statute of limitation.
Help shift the Overton window in your daily life.
January 22, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Get people accustomed to the idea that ICE’s violent thugs are going to be prosecuted.
They don’t have absolute immunity for committing crimes.
Murder doesn’t have a statute of limitation.
Help shift the Overton window in your daily life.
They don’t have absolute immunity for committing crimes.
Murder doesn’t have a statute of limitation.
Help shift the Overton window in your daily life.
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🧵ICE's tactics for arresting and holding observers and protestors is ever-shifting, and I'm hearing lots of different stories. Right now, my perspective is that these are your best practices:
January 22, 2026 at 2:38 AM
🧵ICE's tactics for arresting and holding observers and protestors is ever-shifting, and I'm hearing lots of different stories. Right now, my perspective is that these are your best practices:
Whew. Truth
For those of us who have done the deep, painful work of processing the pain of growing up like this, we ultimately have to find a way to confront our first bullies -- our moms, dads, pastors, friends, and neighbors who believe in a god-ordained hierarchical patriarchal system.
January 21, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Whew. Truth
I remember in 2016 so many Republicans telling me he’d run the country like a business. Well…they were right.
America is going to probably become Trump’s seventh - and greatest - bankruptcy.
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January 21, 2026 at 9:12 PM
I remember in 2016 so many Republicans telling me he’d run the country like a business. Well…they were right.
It’s no coincidence that the greatest expansion of public school education in our country came when a large number of white people got barred from making political decisions.
January 21, 2026 at 9:11 PM
It’s no coincidence that the greatest expansion of public school education in our country came when a large number of white people got barred from making political decisions.
Trials.
Our city has been over-run by Nazi ghouls kidnapping people to traffic them to concentration camps and other countries.
Did you ever think you'd see the day when masked gunmen jump out of moving vehicles and chase families down the street in your own neighborhood?
FUCK ICE forever and ever.
Did you ever think you'd see the day when masked gunmen jump out of moving vehicles and chase families down the street in your own neighborhood?
FUCK ICE forever and ever.
January 21, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Trials.
I’ll wade in on the Euros blame Americans convo.
It’s Schrodinger’s cat.
Americans who voted against Trump are not overtly responsible.
All Americans who voted against Trump are still acculturated—with varying degree based on sub-culture—in system that enabled Trump.
And we need to explore that.
It’s Schrodinger’s cat.
Americans who voted against Trump are not overtly responsible.
All Americans who voted against Trump are still acculturated—with varying degree based on sub-culture—in system that enabled Trump.
And we need to explore that.
January 21, 2026 at 8:15 PM
I’ll wade in on the Euros blame Americans convo.
It’s Schrodinger’s cat.
Americans who voted against Trump are not overtly responsible.
All Americans who voted against Trump are still acculturated—with varying degree based on sub-culture—in system that enabled Trump.
And we need to explore that.
It’s Schrodinger’s cat.
Americans who voted against Trump are not overtly responsible.
All Americans who voted against Trump are still acculturated—with varying degree based on sub-culture—in system that enabled Trump.
And we need to explore that.
Greenland crisis is a encapsulation of fascism.
Fascism is one man saying “Greenland is ours” and fascists acting on it as a reality until it is a reality (or fascism is proven wrong by force).
To defeat fascism, you must prove its inability to create reality to correspond with its perception.
Fascism is one man saying “Greenland is ours” and fascists acting on it as a reality until it is a reality (or fascism is proven wrong by force).
To defeat fascism, you must prove its inability to create reality to correspond with its perception.
January 21, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Greenland crisis is a encapsulation of fascism.
Fascism is one man saying “Greenland is ours” and fascists acting on it as a reality until it is a reality (or fascism is proven wrong by force).
To defeat fascism, you must prove its inability to create reality to correspond with its perception.
Fascism is one man saying “Greenland is ours” and fascists acting on it as a reality until it is a reality (or fascism is proven wrong by force).
To defeat fascism, you must prove its inability to create reality to correspond with its perception.
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Trump is a convenient deus ex machina for people who support his politics but are too embarrassed to admit so, would be my simplified theory here.
This is why I always emphasize that "the media just likes Trump for clicks and ratings" is not accurate. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is the worst in political history and instead of sensationalizing it, they repeatedly minimize it and downplay it despite massive public interest
public perception says mainstream media is sensationalist, lusts for scandal, will make anything up to sell papers and get clicks etc.,
and then this particular president does like 10 scandals a day and mainstream media insists on describing his actions in the most uninteresting way possible
and then this particular president does like 10 scandals a day and mainstream media insists on describing his actions in the most uninteresting way possible
January 21, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Trump is a convenient deus ex machina for people who support his politics but are too embarrassed to admit so, would be my simplified theory here.
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The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
January 21, 2026 at 2:26 PM
The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
One reason that Dems bringing articles of impeachment on Trump and every appointee who has stepped across the line of constitutionality is so that when these people are no longer in power we will rest secure in going after the entire party for “conspiracy to defraud the United States”.
January 21, 2026 at 5:34 PM
One reason that Dems bringing articles of impeachment on Trump and every appointee who has stepped across the line of constitutionality is so that when these people are no longer in power we will rest secure in going after the entire party for “conspiracy to defraud the United States”.
Remember that the party of “if I saw a Black women pilot I wouldn’t fly on that plane” is apparently thrilled to be on the plane of nation with this guy as pilot.
If they cared about competence they’d have given the black women the job.
If they cared about competence they’d have given the black women the job.
Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."
January 21, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Remember that the party of “if I saw a Black women pilot I wouldn’t fly on that plane” is apparently thrilled to be on the plane of nation with this guy as pilot.
If they cared about competence they’d have given the black women the job.
If they cared about competence they’d have given the black women the job.
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US at the American Revolution: let us be a beacon of freedom and democracy everywhere
Haitian slaves in 1804: let’s fucking go!!
US: not like that.
Haitian slaves in 1804: let’s fucking go!!
US: not like that.
January 21, 2026 at 2:02 AM
US at the American Revolution: let us be a beacon of freedom and democracy everywhere
Haitian slaves in 1804: let’s fucking go!!
US: not like that.
Haitian slaves in 1804: let’s fucking go!!
US: not like that.
Too good.
This is just wonton racism
January 21, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Too good.
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“We can still stop these abuses of power, but we need to be clear about what we’re facing. This is no longer a conversation about law enforcement or immigration policy. This is about authoritarianism.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
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Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.
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January 21, 2026 at 11:13 AM
“We can still stop these abuses of power, but we need to be clear about what we’re facing. This is no longer a conversation about law enforcement or immigration policy. This is about authoritarianism.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
Well, if this place isn’t here when we wake up I appreciate you all.
January 21, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Well, if this place isn’t here when we wake up I appreciate you all.
Cops aren’t more protected than citizens.
Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."
January 21, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Cops aren’t more protected than citizens.
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i thought the president would do something that would distract people from the virality of Bus Thread but somehow he managed to do the exact opposite
January 21, 2026 at 5:18 AM
i thought the president would do something that would distract people from the virality of Bus Thread but somehow he managed to do the exact opposite
Best so far.
January 21, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Best so far.
A very Trumpy Marine Lieutenant assured me that “they never expected us to stay.”
ROFL. What an ass. Yes. He was uber evangelical thanks for asking.
ROFL. What an ass. Yes. He was uber evangelical thanks for asking.
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January 21, 2026 at 6:12 AM
A very Trumpy Marine Lieutenant assured me that “they never expected us to stay.”
ROFL. What an ass. Yes. He was uber evangelical thanks for asking.
ROFL. What an ass. Yes. He was uber evangelical thanks for asking.
Chuck Schumer has made a statement:
“We will not let Trump distract us from bringing affordability to the American people.”
“We will not let Trump distract us from bringing affordability to the American people.”
January 21, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Chuck Schumer has made a statement:
“We will not let Trump distract us from bringing affordability to the American people.”
“We will not let Trump distract us from bringing affordability to the American people.”
The plane
It has turned around
Yes
YES
The plane returns
It has turned around
Yes
YES
The plane returns
January 21, 2026 at 6:06 AM
The plane
It has turned around
Yes
YES
The plane returns
It has turned around
Yes
YES
The plane returns
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MLK weekend at Bernie’s
January 21, 2026 at 6:00 AM
MLK weekend at Bernie’s
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Currently in the lead for Kinda Like Imagining Winning the Lottery with Thousands of Strangers - Volume II
Live view of the Air Force One pilot.
January 21, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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