Greg Martin 🇵🇸
@yablonowitz.bsky.social
He/Him. When not working, I write about Missoula’s early Black history here: https://medium.com/@gregmartin_76328
“This is all that we’ve learned about living.”
“This is all that we’ve learned about living.”
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Ilhan Omar is a tiny little lady and she was absolutely prepared to throw hands with that Chud. She rules.
January 28, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Ilhan Omar is a tiny little lady and she was absolutely prepared to throw hands with that Chud. She rules.
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Like fucking clockwork.
"What do you want dems to do? They don't have the power!"
THEY JUST VOTED IN MORE FUNDING FOR ICE YOU FUCKING GOLDFISH
"What do you want dems to do? They don't have the power!"
THEY JUST VOTED IN MORE FUNDING FOR ICE YOU FUCKING GOLDFISH
January 24, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Like fucking clockwork.
"What do you want dems to do? They don't have the power!"
THEY JUST VOTED IN MORE FUNDING FOR ICE YOU FUCKING GOLDFISH
"What do you want dems to do? They don't have the power!"
THEY JUST VOTED IN MORE FUNDING FOR ICE YOU FUCKING GOLDFISH
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The House voted 341 to 79 to fund Trump's war-mongering foreign policy agenda.
Only 57 Democrats voted NO.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...
Only 57 Democrats voted NO.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...
January 14, 2026 at 11:48 PM
The House voted 341 to 79 to fund Trump's war-mongering foreign policy agenda.
Only 57 Democrats voted NO.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...
Only 57 Democrats voted NO.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...
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I think the proper critique of identity politics is that we live in an era of radicalized politics, and it gave powerful people a way to channel that anger into an infinite well of critique that did nothing to actually change the power structure
One of the most contradictory and frustrating aspects of the first Woke Era was that people talked a lot about structural injustices but seemed way more concerned with policing personal behaviour
January 13, 2026 at 6:21 PM
I think the proper critique of identity politics is that we live in an era of radicalized politics, and it gave powerful people a way to channel that anger into an infinite well of critique that did nothing to actually change the power structure
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This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.
The shooting is shocking enough but the government's response is off the charts when you consider that this incident is forensically documented on video.
January 8, 2026 at 1:41 PM
This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.
Now is as good a time as any to urge people to read Greg Grandin’s “America, América”. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747326...
America, América by Greg Grandin: 9780593831250 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A New York Times bestseller • A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, 2025 Kirkus Prize, 2025 Cundill History Prize, and 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction •...
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January 3, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Now is as good a time as any to urge people to read Greg Grandin’s “America, América”. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747326...
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Men in masks — in a woman’s restroom. Isn’t that worse than what we were warned would happen if trans people were allowed to pee?
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Men in masks — in a woman’s restroom. Isn’t that worse than what we were warned would happen if trans people were allowed to pee?
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Also, 4 Republicans voted nay (Cruz, Lee, Moran, and Paul) & 3 didn't vote (Daines, Hawley, & Moody). Meaning this bill absolutely could not have passed this stage without the support of the Democrats.
December 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Also, 4 Republicans voted nay (Cruz, Lee, Moran, and Paul) & 3 didn't vote (Daines, Hawley, & Moody). Meaning this bill absolutely could not have passed this stage without the support of the Democrats.
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Jon Ossoff (GA), Gary Peters (MI), Jack Reed (RI), Jacky Rosen (NV), Chuck Schumer (NY), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Elissa Slotkin (MI), Mark Warner (VA), Raphael Warnock (GA), & Sheldon Whitehouse (RI).
U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session
www.senate.gov
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Jon Ossoff (GA), Gary Peters (MI), Jack Reed (RI), Jacky Rosen (NV), Chuck Schumer (NY), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Elissa Slotkin (MI), Mark Warner (VA), Raphael Warnock (GA), & Sheldon Whitehouse (RI).
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Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), Dick Durbin (IL), John Fetterman (PA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Maggie Hassan (NH), Martin Heinrich (NM), John Hickenlooper (CO), Mazie Hirono (HI), Tim Kaine (VA), Mark Kelly (AZ), Angus King (I-ME), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Ben Ray Lujan (NM), ->
U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session
www.senate.gov
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), Dick Durbin (IL), John Fetterman (PA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Maggie Hassan (NH), Martin Heinrich (NM), John Hickenlooper (CO), Mazie Hirono (HI), Tim Kaine (VA), Mark Kelly (AZ), Angus King (I-ME), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Ben Ray Lujan (NM), ->
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Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
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After my dad’s health forced him to retire, I spent a decade organizing his research and uncollected writing, finishing after he died in 2018. Now @tomsugrue.bsky.social has edited this volume of it (and written a great intro) for @uchicagopress.bsky.social.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Segregating Cities
Collects critical essays by the author of Making the Second Ghetto. Arnold R. Hirsch (1949–2018) was one of the preeminent urban historians of his generation, a reputation cemented by his landmark b...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
After my dad’s health forced him to retire, I spent a decade organizing his research and uncollected writing, finishing after he died in 2018. Now @tomsugrue.bsky.social has edited this volume of it (and written a great intro) for @uchicagopress.bsky.social.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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They line up perfectly.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
They line up perfectly.
“Sometimes a poem contains the words that fell off the page, just like the people who fell off the sidewalk.” youtu.be/U2sV6mG18C4?...
Tom Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues" (Live on The Human Factor)
YouTube video by Tom Waits
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November 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“Sometimes a poem contains the words that fell off the page, just like the people who fell off the sidewalk.” youtu.be/U2sV6mG18C4?...
This is why people like Gavin Newsom should never have popular support as a national leader. All these Democratic politicians enabling the anti-trans assaults should be automatically disqualified from holding power.
Lia Smith, transgender student athlete at Middlebury College, died to suicide last week after being banned from participating in competition.
A somber piece by @alyssaur.bsky.social describes how she's being remembered by her friends and family.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
A somber piece by @alyssaur.bsky.social describes how she's being remembered by her friends and family.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Transgender Student-Athlete Lia Smith Remembered as a Friend and Fierce Advocate — Assigned
Lia Smith, a 21-year-old trans student-athlete in Vermont, took her own life last week. Her friends, family and community mourn, and remember her as a bright young woman who spoke on behalf of her com...
www.assignedmedia.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is why people like Gavin Newsom should never have popular support as a national leader. All these Democratic politicians enabling the anti-trans assaults should be automatically disqualified from holding power.
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honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
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Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?
October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?
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The fact that left-of-center folks see it as hypocrisy is itself a sign that they do not understand the contemporary right. From the basic Wilhoit-ian perspective of conservatism, there's no contradiction, no hypocrisy. Power *is* the principle.
When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.
September 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The fact that left-of-center folks see it as hypocrisy is itself a sign that they do not understand the contemporary right. From the basic Wilhoit-ian perspective of conservatism, there's no contradiction, no hypocrisy. Power *is* the principle.
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I call this piece the “Hypocrisy of Rosenbury: A story of American Fascism”
September 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I call this piece the “Hypocrisy of Rosenbury: A story of American Fascism”
Does anyone know who or what started using the shortened term “antifa” which sounds in the reactionary right’s ear like intifada (with all that racialized anti-Muslim interpretation)? Because if it actually was an antifascist, they made a major PR mistake.
September 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Does anyone know who or what started using the shortened term “antifa” which sounds in the reactionary right’s ear like intifada (with all that racialized anti-Muslim interpretation)? Because if it actually was an antifascist, they made a major PR mistake.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the best yet commentary on last week's events, while pundits, politicians and others have disgraced themselves in their whitewashing of of this man's legacy. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
September 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the best yet commentary on last week's events, while pundits, politicians and others have disgraced themselves in their whitewashing of of this man's legacy. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
The gender dynamics here are insane.
Striking: New Quinnipiac poll finds 56% of voters nationally oppose Trump's sending of National Guard into DC. Only 41% support it.
Independents oppose it by 61-34.
Trump's overall approval on crime is cratering at 42-54.
That sound you hear is a lot of dimwitted pundit narratives imploding.
Independents oppose it by 61-34.
Trump's overall approval on crime is cratering at 42-54.
That sound you hear is a lot of dimwitted pundit narratives imploding.
August 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The gender dynamics here are insane.
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“Both Trump’s noted germaphobia and nativism and Kennedy’s anti-vaccine activism map onto fascism's eugenicist tradition of using national hygiene as a frame for politics.”
Powerful piece.
Powerful piece.
Good, illuminating @aselrod.bsky.social piece laying bare how RFK's agenda echoes "eugenicist and fascist thinking around medical science" and how that's all linked to the "logic that drives other aspects of Trumpism":
www.liberalcurrents.com/degenerate-n...
www.liberalcurrents.com/degenerate-n...
Degenerate Nation: RFK Jr’s Far-Right Disease Prevention
RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda is of a piece with Trump's nativist, Darwinian politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“Both Trump’s noted germaphobia and nativism and Kennedy’s anti-vaccine activism map onto fascism's eugenicist tradition of using national hygiene as a frame for politics.”
Powerful piece.
Powerful piece.
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🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
August 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.