Alison Ryland
@acryland.bsky.social
No TERFs, SWERFs, or cop apologists. A gestapo by any other name is still a gestapo. Genocide is bad, actually. So are concentration camps.
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One of the most useful things a community organizer ever told me was "if someone wants to play tug of war with you, let go of the rope." The power in any conflict lies not w/ the person who initiates, but w/the person who responds. "Thanks for sharing your perspective, you may be right." And move on
January 8, 2026 at 9:12 PM
One of the most useful things a community organizer ever told me was "if someone wants to play tug of war with you, let go of the rope." The power in any conflict lies not w/ the person who initiates, but w/the person who responds. "Thanks for sharing your perspective, you may be right." And move on
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Do your best work offline and do not expect to be thanked. Do it because it's the right thing to do, not because you want people to like you. We all go into the dirt alone. No one else will be there when your guardian angel starts listing off your good deeds. Learn to be emotionally self-sufficient.
January 8, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Do your best work offline and do not expect to be thanked. Do it because it's the right thing to do, not because you want people to like you. We all go into the dirt alone. No one else will be there when your guardian angel starts listing off your good deeds. Learn to be emotionally self-sufficient.
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Since the infighting and one-upsmanship has started--people who feel helpless + frustrated turn on each other, it's just a sad fact--remember: you don't have to like the people you fight alongside. Your comrades will say profoundly stupid bullshit to you, about you, etc. Let it roll off, keep going
January 8, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Since the infighting and one-upsmanship has started--people who feel helpless + frustrated turn on each other, it's just a sad fact--remember: you don't have to like the people you fight alongside. Your comrades will say profoundly stupid bullshit to you, about you, etc. Let it roll off, keep going
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The way that people have memory-holed that Abolish the Police was the actual radical demand in 2020 and Defund the Police was incrementalist reformism to help get there is extremely depressing
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
January 8, 2026 at 4:18 AM
The way that people have memory-holed that Abolish the Police was the actual radical demand in 2020 and Defund the Police was incrementalist reformism to help get there is extremely depressing
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?!
Alexander Van Hook is confirmed 53-40 to be a District Judge of Western Louisiana. According to @senatepress.bsky.social, the Dems yeas are Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), and Peter Welch (VT). Angus King (I-ME) was also a yea.
January 8, 2026 at 9:36 PM
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?!
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So...has there been any explanation as to WHY no one is looking to prosecute anyone over Grok creating CSAM?
Because no one disputes that it is happening...
Is there some specific reason it is NOT being treated like CSAM usually is? I genuinely don't get it.
Because no one disputes that it is happening...
Is there some specific reason it is NOT being treated like CSAM usually is? I genuinely don't get it.
January 8, 2026 at 6:26 PM
So...has there been any explanation as to WHY no one is looking to prosecute anyone over Grok creating CSAM?
Because no one disputes that it is happening...
Is there some specific reason it is NOT being treated like CSAM usually is? I genuinely don't get it.
Because no one disputes that it is happening...
Is there some specific reason it is NOT being treated like CSAM usually is? I genuinely don't get it.
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Sorry to be That Person but there's no point in dropping the paywall if you're not going to do something about the 227 adtech trackers on that page, including the collection of location data about your readers, which data brokers are selling to ICE www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Sorry to be That Person but there's no point in dropping the paywall if you're not going to do something about the 227 adtech trackers on that page, including the collection of location data about your readers, which data brokers are selling to ICE www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
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Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."
January 8, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."
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This is a genuinely important question, btw. Lolicon/shotacon sites are bending over backwards and removing anything with graphics more realistic than a PS2 render to make sure they're staying within the realm of legal by a mile, and meanwhile Grok is just straight up doing this.
So...has there been any explanation as to WHY no one is looking to prosecute anyone over Grok creating CSAM?
Because no one disputes that it is happening...
Is there some specific reason it is NOT being treated like CSAM usually is? I genuinely don't get it.
Because no one disputes that it is happening...
Is there some specific reason it is NOT being treated like CSAM usually is? I genuinely don't get it.
January 8, 2026 at 9:27 PM
This is a genuinely important question, btw. Lolicon/shotacon sites are bending over backwards and removing anything with graphics more realistic than a PS2 render to make sure they're staying within the realm of legal by a mile, and meanwhile Grok is just straight up doing this.
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i made a helpful reference
September 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
i made a helpful reference
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I feel like this is extremely relevant again
Not “this was not self-defense” but “this was murder”
Not “she didn’t run the ICE agent over” but “she was murdered while trying to drive away”
Not “this was not self-defense” but “this was murder”
Not “she didn’t run the ICE agent over” but “she was murdered while trying to drive away”
i made a helpful reference
January 8, 2026 at 9:24 PM
I feel like this is extremely relevant again
Not “this was not self-defense” but “this was murder”
Not “she didn’t run the ICE agent over” but “she was murdered while trying to drive away”
Not “this was not self-defense” but “this was murder”
Not “she didn’t run the ICE agent over” but “she was murdered while trying to drive away”
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start with what it is (not what it isn't)
focus on why they're lying (not their lies)
make it about them (not her)
eat their frame
focus on why they're lying (not their lies)
make it about them (not her)
eat their frame
I feel like this is extremely relevant again
Not “this was not self-defense” but “this was murder”
Not “she didn’t run the ICE agent over” but “she was murdered while trying to drive away”
Not “this was not self-defense” but “this was murder”
Not “she didn’t run the ICE agent over” but “she was murdered while trying to drive away”
i made a helpful reference
January 8, 2026 at 9:32 PM
start with what it is (not what it isn't)
focus on why they're lying (not their lies)
make it about them (not her)
eat their frame
focus on why they're lying (not their lies)
make it about them (not her)
eat their frame
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So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact.
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact.
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
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Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
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Morrison: "The president & Noem are asking us to not believe what we're all seeing with our own eyes. It's incredibly irregular for the secretary to come out making pronouncements before victim had even been identified. We didn't even have her name & she was already calling her a domestic terrorist"
January 8, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Morrison: "The president & Noem are asking us to not believe what we're all seeing with our own eyes. It's incredibly irregular for the secretary to come out making pronouncements before victim had even been identified. We didn't even have her name & she was already calling her a domestic terrorist"
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just saw their little hem-haw article despite the video proof. right on time
ICE is killing American citizens the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
January 8, 2026 at 4:57 AM
just saw their little hem-haw article despite the video proof. right on time
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"We're gonna keep the oil" because it was NEVER about drugs
January 6, 2026 at 3:06 PM
"We're gonna keep the oil" because it was NEVER about drugs
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“Trump appears to envision something like a “hegemonic carve-up” that also gives regional MAGA-friendly oligarchies a major stake in our “share” of that tripartite division’s spoils.” Spot-on from @gregsargent.bsky.social
Get in losers, we’re doing Scramble for Africa 2.0
Get in losers, we’re doing Scramble for Africa 2.0
Trump just said "all" of Venezuela's oil must be made accessible to US oil companies. Trump wants to emulate Putin's model: Authoritarian, expansionist rulers carving up their regions and distributing the spoils of conquest to friendly oligarchs. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
Trump Blurts Out Dark Truth about Venezuela Plan—and about MAGA Voters
To some critics, it’s about plunder. To others, it’s about hemispheric hegemony. Actually, it’s about both.
newrepublic.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:44 PM
“Trump appears to envision something like a “hegemonic carve-up” that also gives regional MAGA-friendly oligarchies a major stake in our “share” of that tripartite division’s spoils.” Spot-on from @gregsargent.bsky.social
Get in losers, we’re doing Scramble for Africa 2.0
Get in losers, we’re doing Scramble for Africa 2.0
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"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money."
I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.
I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.
If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money. Famously, we know that's people working in child care.
January 6, 2026 at 5:53 AM
"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money."
I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.
I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.
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If you understand that the modern patriarchy really objects to women owning themselves every other policy makes sense.
The rise of deepfakes and AI CSAM prove public and private sectors don’t actually care about abuse, but still punish sex workers, queer people, and women under that guise. Credit cards companies and law enforcement punish consensual sex and sexuality, but ignore and therefore encourage abuse
January 6, 2026 at 2:55 PM
If you understand that the modern patriarchy really objects to women owning themselves every other policy makes sense.
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i keep staring at this and it gets dumber. "neoliberalism" from "the enlightenment period" is one thing, but if your idea of fascism is literally just "a government willing to kill dissenters," then to be frank you don't have a good grasp of what "fascism" is either.
January 6, 2026 at 2:54 PM
i keep staring at this and it gets dumber. "neoliberalism" from "the enlightenment period" is one thing, but if your idea of fascism is literally just "a government willing to kill dissenters," then to be frank you don't have a good grasp of what "fascism" is either.
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For a sec I didn’t realize this was the Onion
January 6, 2026 at 3:34 AM
For a sec I didn’t realize this was the Onion
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