Joey Schafer
@schafer.bsky.social
UW-Seattle PhD candidate, studying online attention dynamics & creators/influencers @ HCDE/CIP, advised by @katestarbird.bsky.social . SETS Fellow @ Cornell Tech, working w/ @informor.bsky.social . UAW 4121 Steward. He/Him
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Call your reps to demand they:
1) Abolish ice (every day!)
2) Vote no whenever the "Make Elections Great Again" Act comes up. It's an atrocious set of restrictions on elections made to make voting harder. Fuck that! Don't let them hear the end of it.
Remember. Squid can't use phones, so we have to.
1) Abolish ice (every day!)
2) Vote no whenever the "Make Elections Great Again" Act comes up. It's an atrocious set of restrictions on elections made to make voting harder. Fuck that! Don't let them hear the end of it.
Remember. Squid can't use phones, so we have to.
January 29, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Call your reps to demand they:
1) Abolish ice (every day!)
2) Vote no whenever the "Make Elections Great Again" Act comes up. It's an atrocious set of restrictions on elections made to make voting harder. Fuck that! Don't let them hear the end of it.
Remember. Squid can't use phones, so we have to.
1) Abolish ice (every day!)
2) Vote no whenever the "Make Elections Great Again" Act comes up. It's an atrocious set of restrictions on elections made to make voting harder. Fuck that! Don't let them hear the end of it.
Remember. Squid can't use phones, so we have to.
As always, @parkermolloy.com's work is excellent and worth reading right away. Great commentary here, thank you for writing this
Today's newsletter: there's a new video from 11 days before Alex Pretti was shot to death. Some people refuse to believe it's real. I wrote about why that's going to be a problem moving forward: www.readtpa.com/p/thats-ai-i...
January 29, 2026 at 9:22 PM
As always, @parkermolloy.com's work is excellent and worth reading right away. Great commentary here, thank you for writing this
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Just a little cuttlefish having cuttlefish thoughts
January 29, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Just a little cuttlefish having cuttlefish thoughts
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Not to be a hipster about it but @fightforthefuture.org was organizing to ban facial recognition way before it was cool and you can donate to us right here www.fightforthefuture.org/donate
January 29, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Not to be a hipster about it but @fightforthefuture.org was organizing to ban facial recognition way before it was cool and you can donate to us right here www.fightforthefuture.org/donate
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By “public safety” they always mean more cops and never more snow plows
January 29, 2026 at 5:16 PM
By “public safety” they always mean more cops and never more snow plows
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Maybe “shitpost populism” is a better name for it?
January 29, 2026 at 5:22 AM
Maybe “shitpost populism” is a better name for it?
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ICE needed to steal the data of everyone in this country and partner with Palantir to do their evil deeds. People in neighborhoods blowing on whistles and honking horns is often enough to defeat them. Somehow this thought came to me just now, and gave me a little bit of hope.
January 28, 2026 at 7:17 AM
ICE needed to steal the data of everyone in this country and partner with Palantir to do their evil deeds. People in neighborhoods blowing on whistles and honking horns is often enough to defeat them. Somehow this thought came to me just now, and gave me a little bit of hope.
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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"They told us what they were going to do. They published it. They put it on a website. And when it happened, the press was surprised."
Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.
Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.
This is Literally the Job
Political journalists need to stop pretending they don't know what Republicans are going to do.
www.readtpa.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:37 PM
"They told us what they were going to do. They published it. They put it on a website. And when it happened, the press was surprised."
Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.
Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.
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When I teach Vietnam, I explain that opposition to the war really grew in fits and starts. Some big rallies and visible protests, but also a steady stream of celebrities and ordinary folks breaking with their priors and taking a new stand.
This last month, this last week, feels like a real shift.
This last month, this last week, feels like a real shift.
January 26, 2026 at 10:20 PM
When I teach Vietnam, I explain that opposition to the war really grew in fits and starts. Some big rallies and visible protests, but also a steady stream of celebrities and ordinary folks breaking with their priors and taking a new stand.
This last month, this last week, feels like a real shift.
This last month, this last week, feels like a real shift.
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The vast majority of the country DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS MAN.
January 24, 2026 at 10:13 PM
The vast majority of the country DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS MAN.
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we don't need more martyrs. we need to be able to live in liberation.
January 24, 2026 at 9:58 PM
we don't need more martyrs. we need to be able to live in liberation.
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Even the doodles know.
January 24, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Even the doodles know.
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no matter what trump or anyone in his administration or any republican or any random shit online says happened to alex pretti, we know what we saw. never forget that you KNOW what you fucking saw.
January 24, 2026 at 9:37 PM
no matter what trump or anyone in his administration or any republican or any random shit online says happened to alex pretti, we know what we saw. never forget that you KNOW what you fucking saw.
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Folks have to move away from suing as the primary way to address every fucking issue in this country.
We need so much more creativity and focus.
We need so much more creativity and focus.
January 24, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Folks have to move away from suing as the primary way to address every fucking issue in this country.
We need so much more creativity and focus.
We need so much more creativity and focus.
REALLY enjoyed this paper - "The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics" by @curdknupfer.bsky.social @yunkangyang.bsky.social and @mikecowburn.bsky.social (my summary as a reader in the thread). 1/
The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics
Across democratic systems, ideological cleavages increasingly emerge not only between but also within political parties. At the same time, hyperpartisan and digitally networked media ecosystems amp...
www.tandfonline.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:31 PM
REALLY enjoyed this paper - "The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics" by @curdknupfer.bsky.social @yunkangyang.bsky.social and @mikecowburn.bsky.social (my summary as a reader in the thread). 1/
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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this (inspiring) thread on state AGs is possibly one of the strongest signs of people willing to use institutional backbone and say things out loud. plus acknowledging all the different parts of practicing democracy.
I wasn't sure what to expect from a group of Democratic state AGs, but I definitely was not expecting a long monologue about Ruby Ridge and the Boston Massacre www.theverge.com/policy/86588...
January 22, 2026 at 8:43 PM
this (inspiring) thread on state AGs is possibly one of the strongest signs of people willing to use institutional backbone and say things out loud. plus acknowledging all the different parts of practicing democracy.
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Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
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Queen behavior from Paige as usual.
Paige Bueckers (Dallas Wings, Breeze FC) is donating $50,000 to relief efforts organised in response to ICE raids in her hometown of Hopkins, Minnesota. On Monday Bueckers won $50,000 in the #Unrivaled free throw competition after successfully scoring 13 free throws. (Source @brwsports)
January 23, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Queen behavior from Paige as usual.
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I'll say yet again: Trump & his party do something virtually every day that constitutes a more violent & alarming suppression of speech than anything that happened during the entire alleged tyranny of woke. Every day. Yet the entire Free Spech army has just vanished into mist.
I wrote on the shameful situation re: the recession of a deanship to Emily Suski at the University of Arkansas Law. What was the reason? Prof. Suski signed an amicus brief supporting trans rights. The Arkansas legislators admitted that was it! Horrible outcome. ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
A Law School Dean Signed a Brief Defending Trans Rights. She Lost Her Job Because of It
The revocation of Emily Suski’s job offer at the University of Arkansas sends a chilling message to law professors everywhere.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 22, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I'll say yet again: Trump & his party do something virtually every day that constitutes a more violent & alarming suppression of speech than anything that happened during the entire alleged tyranny of woke. Every day. Yet the entire Free Spech army has just vanished into mist.
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Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
January 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
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My take on the Jan 23 action in Minneapolis is that I don’t really care whether it’s a “true” general strike (we could argue about that all day).
What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance
What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance
January 21, 2026 at 11:51 PM
My take on the Jan 23 action in Minneapolis is that I don’t really care whether it’s a “true” general strike (we could argue about that all day).
What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance
What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance
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This judge should haul Bovino in every time one of his goons violates the order.
January 21, 2026 at 9:27 PM
This judge should haul Bovino in every time one of his goons violates the order.