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Todd Walker

@toddwalker.bsky.social

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He/him. Ephemera collector, idea connector. Anti-fascism, graphic design, Zen Buddhism, progressive politics, neo-Luddism, and more. I have friends everywhere.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · Dec 30

The conditions of one’s birth - country, parents’ wealth and education, language, etc. - are the biggest lottery ticket you never paid for. To be proud of any of it or look down on others’ lot is the pinnacle of delusion.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1h

I see absolutely no downsides to huge private companies issuing their own currencies to compete with the currencies of major countries.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1h

Ten major banks including Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and UBS announce an early-stage project to explore issuing stablecoins to G7 currencies (Reuters)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 3h

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 2h

Graphis 226, 1983. Cover design by Zenji Funabashi designreviewed.com/artefacts/gr...

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 2h

mario and luigi are standing next to each other on the street

ALT: mario and luigi are standing next to each other on the street

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 2h

It’s wild, given I don’t watch sports, that the unifying characteristic of people I follow on BlueSky appears to be a die hard dedication to watching late night baseball.

Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 2h

Inevitable.

Bubblegum Burst GIF

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 3h

The non-fascist states need to immediately band together and build a new CDC, hiring all those RFK Jr has fired and try to quickly reassemble the infrastructure he’s destroyed. I assure you we don’t want to live in a world without proper infectious disease tracking and prevention.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 4h

Terrible. Worse: Pretty sure that at minimum, 1/3 of ticket-holders were White—but #MAGACultists don’t want ANYONE to hear #Ta-NehisiCoates share Hard Truths about American history. Welcome to the White Nationalist Terrordome. www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 3h

Unironically, yes, and thousand times over, to say nothing of the Tokyo tribunals.

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 4h

hard to escape the conclusion that the nuremberg trials were too gentle an admonishment

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 4h

Every ICE Agent is the worst person alive

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 7h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

"Turn around or you're going to get the dog."

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 8d

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

The Billionaire Oligarchs and Corporations Profiting from ICE’s Deportation Machine - Little Sis

A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate profiteers enabling ICE's deportation apparatus

littlesis.org

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 6h

What. The. Fuck.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 6h

A billionaire jagoff like all the rest.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 8h

Powerful

Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 10h

This is so fucked up‼️Military families are having to go to food banks because #TrumpShutUSDown We bailed out Argentina to the tune of $20 billion and Qatar is getting a Air Force base in Idaho, but our military personnel have to resort to this. Republicans can’t govern‼️

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 9h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

this man's name is written in the book of life

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 12h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 9h

He’s going to be a remarkable mayor.

Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 9h

Bring it @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
🔥🔥!!

@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @nywfp.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social

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Diana Nightbloom @diananightbloom.bsky.social · 9h

Just happy to help ^^ Hope this helps a bit! Here's also a Google doc with more info about mutual aid feeds and #'s

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Blue Sky Mutual Aid Community

Blue Sky Mutual Aid Community (Insert Table of Contents Soon) Updates & Additions by @QuyetPawz.bsky.social / @QPMutualAid.bsky.social Suggestions? Tag QuyetPawz on BlueSky or E-Mail Qp.Needs.Help@...

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 11h

What a difference a 747 makes

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11h

The amount of money the US government is going to owe the thousands of victims of such unconstitutional lawlessness is going to be staggering. I can imagine someone maybe suggesting we might nationalize Amazon, Meta, and Twitter to cover it.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away.

More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...

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