Jeff Seelbach
@sievefistedfind.bsky.social
Documentary Film & TV including jams like Philly DA (PBS), Queer Futures (Criterion), 16 Shots (Showtime), Dear Mr. Brody (Discovery+)
Old Haunts: Topic, AJ+, Wide Angle/PBS, WNUR, Dusted Mag
Header: Uncle Sam
Avatar: use in case of Purple Rain
Old Haunts: Topic, AJ+, Wide Angle/PBS, WNUR, Dusted Mag
Header: Uncle Sam
Avatar: use in case of Purple Rain
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💥💥Our podcast When The Wolves Came is a Signal finalist for Best Documentary! It explores the extremist politics that have taken over US evangelical Christianity, and the pastors, congregants, and organizers who are pushing back in favor of a pluralist path. It is, as they say, relevant.
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Never mind the Last Waltz — here’s the Rolling Thunder Revue celebrating thanksgiving in 1975 in Bangor, ME. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8013725...
Doom & Gloom From The Tomb
Bob Dylan - Bangor Municipal Auditorium, Bangor, Maine, November 27, 1975
Fifty Thanksgivings ago! Bob Dylan was going down (up?) to Bangor, Maine, with the entire Rolling Thunder Revue. An absolutely...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Never mind the Last Waltz — here’s the Rolling Thunder Revue celebrating thanksgiving in 1975 in Bangor, ME. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8013725...
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Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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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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Israeli forces target buildings in central Gaza's Bureij and eastern Khan Younis.
Israel escalates aerial assault of southern, central Gaza past yellow line
Israeli forces target buildings in central Gaza's Bureij and eastern Khan Younis.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Israeli forces target buildings in central Gaza's Bureij and eastern Khan Younis.
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posting the classics
Leslie Jones Stops Your Annoying Relatives from Ruining Thanksgiving | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
posting the classics
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for @404media.co i wrote about Slop Evader, a plugin by artist Tega Brain which filters all your web searches to only include results from 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 27, 2025 at 4:59 AM
for @404media.co i wrote about Slop Evader, a plugin by artist Tega Brain which filters all your web searches to only include results from before November 30, 2022 — the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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Our friends at the audio magazine @signalhillfm.bsky.social are making great work under a novel premise. In their Transom Manifesto, indie co-founders Jackson Roach & Liza Yeager bring us their backstory: offering up inspiration and new ways of approaching audio.
transom.org/2025/climbin...
transom.org/2025/climbin...
Climbing Signal Hill - Transom
Climbing Signal Hill - Transom
transom.org
June 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Our friends at the audio magazine @signalhillfm.bsky.social are making great work under a novel premise. In their Transom Manifesto, indie co-founders Jackson Roach & Liza Yeager bring us their backstory: offering up inspiration and new ways of approaching audio.
transom.org/2025/climbin...
transom.org/2025/climbin...
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OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
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Highly recommend setting aside some time to read the full investigation into Oregon's AI-fueled toxic drinking water crisis by @rollingstone.com and @thefern.org
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
‘The precedent is Flint’: How Oregon’s data center boom is supercharging a water crisis | Food and Environment Reporting Network
In the spring of 2022, Jim Doherty kept having the same conversation with folks at the only grocery store in Boardman, his eastern Oregon hometown, or at the grain depot where he picked up food for…
thefern.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Highly recommend setting aside some time to read the full investigation into Oregon's AI-fueled toxic drinking water crisis by @rollingstone.com and @thefern.org
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
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Please help us out. If you know of a Palestine book club / reading group, let us know.
There is: falasteenbookclub.com
And of course Llegir Palestina: arablite.org/2025/11/10/l...
Where else?
There is: falasteenbookclub.com
And of course Llegir Palestina: arablite.org/2025/11/10/l...
Where else?
Falasteen Book Club – A growing local book club in the Austin, Texas area dedicated to Palestine. We discuss the history, the culture, the occupation, the geopolitics and various realities that are ra...
falasteenbookclub.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Please help us out. If you know of a Palestine book club / reading group, let us know.
There is: falasteenbookclub.com
And of course Llegir Palestina: arablite.org/2025/11/10/l...
Where else?
There is: falasteenbookclub.com
And of course Llegir Palestina: arablite.org/2025/11/10/l...
Where else?
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Trying to get 50 more people to send a letter to your City Council member in NYC demanding that they increase and stabilize public library funding. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Trying to get 50 more people to send a letter to your City Council member in NYC demanding that they increase and stabilize public library funding. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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Evening viewing recommendation? Watch our NATIVE NONFICTION program! Since the birth of cinema, Indigenous people have been staple subjects of documentary—until a new generation of Native American filmmakers emerged in the 1980s who insisted on becoming its authors too.
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch our NATIVE NONFICTION program! Since the birth of cinema, Indigenous people have been staple subjects of documentary—until a new generation of Native American filmmakers emerged in the 1980s who insisted on becoming its authors too.
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Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
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this is not a drag of the writer of this particular piece, which is largely sympathetic, but this line of argument makes me nuts
young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees
young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees
My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
this is not a drag of the writer of this particular piece, which is largely sympathetic, but this line of argument makes me nuts
young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees
young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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FIFA and Saudi Arabia announce joint $1bn fund for infrastructure for FIFA members. Unclear why this is needed. FIFA already distributes huge sums to FAs. Oversight of that existing spending is mixed.
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
FIFA and Saudi Arabia announce joint $1bn fund for infrastructure for FIFA members. Unclear why this is needed. FIFA already distributes huge sums to FAs. Oversight of that existing spending is mixed.
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UPDATE: We've added 5 more staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 114.
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
projects.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
UPDATE: We've added 5 more staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 114.
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
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bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry
Fluidly going from athleisure to Stuart Hall isn't the only reason to read Derek but it sure is a great one....
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Fluidly going from athleisure to Stuart Hall isn't the only reason to read Derek but it sure is a great one....
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in for a repeat of last time they tried to do a coup in venezuela?
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
in for a repeat of last time they tried to do a coup in venezuela?
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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House votes on dumbass resolution condemning socialism, meanwhile the DSA's Lisan al-Gaib rolls the truculent child brain president like a pair of socks
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
House votes on dumbass resolution condemning socialism, meanwhile the DSA's Lisan al-Gaib rolls the truculent child brain president like a pair of socks