Sam Menefee-Libey
@sml47.bsky.social
Antifascist. Anthropology, Critical Theory, American Studies, dogs, film, music, democratic pedagogy, degrowth and bioregionalism in greater Los Angeles. This world (system) we must leave. https://boxd.it/6oFrP
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One of my comfort-watch movies
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
One of my comfort-watch movies
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there comes a moment about five minutes after encountering a lost dog when you stop actively looking for a panicked owner and start to imagine a life with the dog. which makes the owner’s eventual appearance pretty bittersweet
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
there comes a moment about five minutes after encountering a lost dog when you stop actively looking for a panicked owner and start to imagine a life with the dog. which makes the owner’s eventual appearance pretty bittersweet
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fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
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This is a deeply unsurprising response, but I will repeat it yet again: we—DC residents—are unified in stating that we want federal agents and the National Guard out of our city, and they do not keep us safer. This has always been about control, not public safety.
US Defence Secretary Hegseth: Trump has asked for 500 additional troops to be deployed to Washington, DC, after two National Guard members were shot.
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is a deeply unsurprising response, but I will repeat it yet again: we—DC residents—are unified in stating that we want federal agents and the National Guard out of our city, and they do not keep us safer. This has always been about control, not public safety.
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After 30 years in prison and 25 years on Louisiana's death row, Chris Duncan walked out of Angola today a free man.
"I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."
"I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
After 30 years in prison and 25 years on Louisiana's death row, Chris Duncan walked out of Angola today a free man.
"I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."
"I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."
Policing in the United States is an irretrievably fascist project and we won’t get out of our current tangle with brutal autocracy until that is generally recognized and there are multiple efforts to adequately address it.
From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Policing in the United States is an irretrievably fascist project and we won’t get out of our current tangle with brutal autocracy until that is generally recognized and there are multiple efforts to adequately address it.
As a teacher and researcher, generative LLMs have significantly decreased my productivity in daily tasks (made them worse/harder), and I think that’s true for most people in those very common fields.
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
As a teacher and researcher, generative LLMs have significantly decreased my productivity in daily tasks (made them worse/harder), and I think that’s true for most people in those very common fields.
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I am in awe of everyone who can create and produce right now when simply existing in *gestures around* is so hard. Enjoying those creations had made my day to day better 💖
(Meanwhile, I am hoping one day I'll get my spark back; it could happen!)
(Meanwhile, I am hoping one day I'll get my spark back; it could happen!)
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I am in awe of everyone who can create and produce right now when simply existing in *gestures around* is so hard. Enjoying those creations had made my day to day better 💖
(Meanwhile, I am hoping one day I'll get my spark back; it could happen!)
(Meanwhile, I am hoping one day I'll get my spark back; it could happen!)
About 95% of household pet dogs would benefit from this and it’s super easy!
Here’s a good explanation, a simple version in a free app, and a link to the original veterinary protocol by Karen Overall.
www.scottsschoolfordogs.com/tips/relaxat...
Here’s a good explanation, a simple version in a free app, and a link to the original veterinary protocol by Karen Overall.
www.scottsschoolfordogs.com/tips/relaxat...
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
About 95% of household pet dogs would benefit from this and it’s super easy!
Here’s a good explanation, a simple version in a free app, and a link to the original veterinary protocol by Karen Overall.
www.scottsschoolfordogs.com/tips/relaxat...
Here’s a good explanation, a simple version in a free app, and a link to the original veterinary protocol by Karen Overall.
www.scottsschoolfordogs.com/tips/relaxat...
What a lovely essay, full of hard-won wisdom. I wish those of us in academia spent a larger portion of our time thinking and talking about this kind of stuff, in this clear and earnest manner, both with each other and with our students.
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What a lovely essay, full of hard-won wisdom. I wish those of us in academia spent a larger portion of our time thinking and talking about this kind of stuff, in this clear and earnest manner, both with each other and with our students.
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
This sucks for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that Brett Ratner (a serial sex pest) fucking sucks at directing Jackie Chan action scenes youtu.be/Z1PCtIaM_GQ
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
This sucks for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that Brett Ratner (a serial sex pest) fucking sucks at directing Jackie Chan action scenes youtu.be/Z1PCtIaM_GQ
Can you imagine a US President setting up this kind of focused, participatory, public transition rather than outsourcing everything to the usual party hacks and “think tanks” and expecting people to treat their inauguration like an employee-appreciation pizza party?
Sooo many folks I’m excited to work with on Mamdani’s technology transition committee. All hands on deck to bring the Affordability Agenda to life: childcare, housing, transportation.
While its easy to get swept up in personality, this is a group focused on peoples real needs. LETS KEEP THE FOCUS.
While its easy to get swept up in personality, this is a group focused on peoples real needs. LETS KEEP THE FOCUS.
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Can you imagine a US President setting up this kind of focused, participatory, public transition rather than outsourcing everything to the usual party hacks and “think tanks” and expecting people to treat their inauguration like an employee-appreciation pizza party?
Abolish Marvel Studios and transfer control of their full budget over to Alex Cox, Charles Burnett, and Lizzie Borden to do with as they please.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Abolish Marvel Studios and transfer control of their full budget over to Alex Cox, Charles Burnett, and Lizzie Borden to do with as they please.
This dude is straight out of Generation Kill.
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This dude is straight out of Generation Kill.
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Hi. Please support my favorite independent news outlet in Chicago. Unraveled's recent work revealed:
-DHS agent Timothy Donahue's racist X account.
-DHS agents lied about killing Silverio Villegas Gonzalez
-IL Dems caved to RW law and order rhetoric and built a surveillance state using ALPRs
-DHS agent Timothy Donahue's racist X account.
-DHS agents lied about killing Silverio Villegas Gonzalez
-IL Dems caved to RW law and order rhetoric and built a surveillance state using ALPRs
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November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Good fucking riddance
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has just announced that she is not running for reelection.
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Good fucking riddance
Ben Smith should die. I hope Chotiner kills him.
Like, journalistically.
And then knifes him to death in the middle of 5th avenue.
Like, journalistically.
And then knifes him to death in the middle of 5th avenue.
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Ben Smith should die. I hope Chotiner kills him.
Like, journalistically.
And then knifes him to death in the middle of 5th avenue.
Like, journalistically.
And then knifes him to death in the middle of 5th avenue.
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I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
Burn it all down.
This is who cops are. Abolishing ICE and CBP is not enough. We need a full reckoning for every single institution in the criminal punishment system.
This is who cops are. Abolishing ICE and CBP is not enough. We need a full reckoning for every single institution in the criminal punishment system.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
thebarbedwire.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Burn it all down.
This is who cops are. Abolishing ICE and CBP is not enough. We need a full reckoning for every single institution in the criminal punishment system.
This is who cops are. Abolishing ICE and CBP is not enough. We need a full reckoning for every single institution in the criminal punishment system.
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When the prison guards went on strike, many inmates said they were doing so to preserve their ability to do things like this.
A @nytimes.com investigation has found that state prison guards have been credibly accused of engaging in such behavior — putting inmates in restraints and then assaulting them — far more often than was previously known.
Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
When the prison guards went on strike, many inmates said they were doing so to preserve their ability to do things like this.
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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HAPPENING NOW: DC community members are outside MPD headquarters to demand independent investigations of and release of all officer names and body cam footage in the three deaths in police custody this week, as well as the termination of Trump’s “DC Safe and Beautiful” Task Force.
November 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
HAPPENING NOW: DC community members are outside MPD headquarters to demand independent investigations of and release of all officer names and body cam footage in the three deaths in police custody this week, as well as the termination of Trump’s “DC Safe and Beautiful” Task Force.
I very much look forward to how Mamdani will tell stories about this meeting in the coming years…
Zohran is probably tactful enough not to talk about it publicly but I bet this whole thing is insanely weird for him
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I very much look forward to how Mamdani will tell stories about this meeting in the coming years…