Shawn Lavelle
@shawnlavelle.bsky.social
Charming to the last. he/him
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Is it important to stay engaged in the present and focus on the problems my community has right now? Yes.
Is there stuff from a dozen years ago that I'm gonna die mad about? Also yes.
I contain multitudes.
Is there stuff from a dozen years ago that I'm gonna die mad about? Also yes.
I contain multitudes.
November 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Is it important to stay engaged in the present and focus on the problems my community has right now? Yes.
Is there stuff from a dozen years ago that I'm gonna die mad about? Also yes.
I contain multitudes.
Is there stuff from a dozen years ago that I'm gonna die mad about? Also yes.
I contain multitudes.
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So my book about Howard Zinn’s outsized life comes out August 2026. That’s now official. If you want me to come to your bookstore/library/community center/house party to talk about Zinn’s life and and what teaches us about how to beat back the bastards, please email [email protected]
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
So my book about Howard Zinn’s outsized life comes out August 2026. That’s now official. If you want me to come to your bookstore/library/community center/house party to talk about Zinn’s life and and what teaches us about how to beat back the bastards, please email [email protected]
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ICE is using Uber stickers in order to disguise themselves and kidnap people. Spread this for awareness!
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
ICE is using Uber stickers in order to disguise themselves and kidnap people. Spread this for awareness!
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Look forward to Bari Weiss asking "has identity politics gone too far?" while studiously ignoring the most virulent identity politics driving American government
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Look forward to Bari Weiss asking "has identity politics gone too far?" while studiously ignoring the most virulent identity politics driving American government
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100%
This clip is really bad. Absolutely hollow. But important to remember also that as this tech becomes "better" and more advanced, simply it being "bad" isn't going to cut it as a rhetorical argument. Slop like this must be opposed because it's fundamentally anti-human, regardless of "quality"
This clip is really bad. Absolutely hollow. But important to remember also that as this tech becomes "better" and more advanced, simply it being "bad" isn't going to cut it as a rhetorical argument. Slop like this must be opposed because it's fundamentally anti-human, regardless of "quality"
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
100%
This clip is really bad. Absolutely hollow. But important to remember also that as this tech becomes "better" and more advanced, simply it being "bad" isn't going to cut it as a rhetorical argument. Slop like this must be opposed because it's fundamentally anti-human, regardless of "quality"
This clip is really bad. Absolutely hollow. But important to remember also that as this tech becomes "better" and more advanced, simply it being "bad" isn't going to cut it as a rhetorical argument. Slop like this must be opposed because it's fundamentally anti-human, regardless of "quality"
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I just subscribed to The Onion because our dumbass President just announced a White Nationalist Ethnostate and all of my "serious" news apps are giving me push notifications about edible dining table centerpieces and fart walks.
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I just subscribed to The Onion because our dumbass President just announced a White Nationalist Ethnostate and all of my "serious" news apps are giving me push notifications about edible dining table centerpieces and fart walks.
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This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
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If you're scrolling right now, we don't need to tell you what day it is.
Fight back against the e-commerce giants with @freedcproject.bsky.social's shopping guide, which features dozens of local businesses that have pledged to support D.C.'s autonomy.
Fight back against the e-commerce giants with @freedcproject.bsky.social's shopping guide, which features dozens of local businesses that have pledged to support D.C.'s autonomy.
Shop local with Free DC's holiday shopping guide
A new shopping guide features dozens of places that have pledged to support D.C.'s autonomy.
51st.news
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
If you're scrolling right now, we don't need to tell you what day it is.
Fight back against the e-commerce giants with @freedcproject.bsky.social's shopping guide, which features dozens of local businesses that have pledged to support D.C.'s autonomy.
Fight back against the e-commerce giants with @freedcproject.bsky.social's shopping guide, which features dozens of local businesses that have pledged to support D.C.'s autonomy.
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And who can forget www.latimes.com/california/s...
Video: Armed agents drive off with child after detaining her father
Federal immigration agents detained a man in Cypress Park whose toddler was strapped into the back seat of his vehicle. Two agents toting weapons climbed into his car and drove off, video showed.
www.latimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
And who can forget www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Or this one www.latimes.com/california/s...
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Or this one www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Or this one www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Bodycam videos show ICE agents’ initial reactions to fatal Chicago shooting
Video from local police who first responded to the scene provides crucial context, since the immigration agents weren't wearing body cameras.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Or this one www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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More on that one www.reuters.com/world/us/pol...
Footage of deadly ICE shooting in Chicago suburb challenges official narrative
Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was pulled over and eventually shot by an ICE agent.
www.reuters.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 AM
More on that one www.reuters.com/world/us/pol...
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Or this one blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/20/a...
A Tragic Homecoming For Man Killed By ICE Agents In Franklin Park
After nearly two decades in Chicago, Silverio Villegas González returned to Michoacán in a coffin. His death at the hands of federal agents left two families divided by borders, shattered with grief, ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Or this one blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/20/a...
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
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Also: This widely obscures the role that the US often has in the countries we later declare “failed.” Often, their mess is our mess.
Stephen Miller explains his view about why non-Aryans Musk not be allowed to emigrate to the United States.
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Also: This widely obscures the role that the US often has in the countries we later declare “failed.” Often, their mess is our mess.
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Also a category that includes his mother, paternal grandparents, and two of his three wives. But of course that's different, because neither he nor de facto President Miller actually care about immigration as such. They care about racism, and it's a farce to concede the pretense it's anything else.
Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Also a category that includes his mother, paternal grandparents, and two of his three wives. But of course that's different, because neither he nor de facto President Miller actually care about immigration as such. They care about racism, and it's a farce to concede the pretense it's anything else.
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This is both offensive and intentional. If the ICE agents are "ignorant" they are willfully and deliberately ignorant. Their job is not to uphold the law but to terrorize non-white Americans in service to the white nationalist cause.
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is both offensive and intentional. If the ICE agents are "ignorant" they are willfully and deliberately ignorant. Their job is not to uphold the law but to terrorize non-white Americans in service to the white nationalist cause.
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I don’t know who is ready to hear this but people don’t have to add value
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
May 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I don’t know who is ready to hear this but people don’t have to add value
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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This is my yearly PSA that, no matter how old you are, you should have a basic health directive and will. The forms are free online in California. The number of senior citizens in my neighborhood with no directives and no plan who are already a little off the rails is staggering. A short rant 1/
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is my yearly PSA that, no matter how old you are, you should have a basic health directive and will. The forms are free online in California. The number of senior citizens in my neighborhood with no directives and no plan who are already a little off the rails is staggering. A short rant 1/
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Thread.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Thread.
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I wrote this six years ago and if anything we have to hear from this fucking guy *more* now. newrepublic.com/article/1565...
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I wrote this six years ago and if anything we have to hear from this fucking guy *more* now. newrepublic.com/article/1565...
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If you like the idea of Democrats going all-in with a genuinely progressive economic message, that's great. You should support people who run on that. But if you support James Carville's take on it which, in his mind, requires sacrificing marginalized people to do it, you can fuck the fuck off.
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If you like the idea of Democrats going all-in with a genuinely progressive economic message, that's great. You should support people who run on that. But if you support James Carville's take on it which, in his mind, requires sacrificing marginalized people to do it, you can fuck the fuck off.
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Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
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tech companies continually learning people don't want these things
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
tech companies continually learning people don't want these things