EKJ (she/her)
@alveolar-trill-0.bsky.social
Voiceless alveolar trill: roll an /r/ but whisper it. ~purrrrrrrr~
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It’s 1853 & people are in hiding from slave catchers. It’s 2026 & people are in hiding from slave catchers.
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:49 AM
It’s 1853 & people are in hiding from slave catchers. It’s 2026 & people are in hiding from slave catchers.
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"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:57 AM
"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.
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nfl trying to explain to conservatives that they hired the #1 most streamed artist on spotify "in order to make money"
February 10, 2026 at 1:26 AM
nfl trying to explain to conservatives that they hired the #1 most streamed artist on spotify "in order to make money"
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If you're wondering if it's because the money was allocated to go to trans, queer, and Black people, yup, it's because the money was allocated to go to trans, queer, and Black people.
The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities,” according to documents reviewed by the NYT
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...
Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:15 AM
If you're wondering if it's because the money was allocated to go to trans, queer, and Black people, yup, it's because the money was allocated to go to trans, queer, and Black people.
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Still a little mad about this. Dismissing craftivists (who are mostly women) as cringey bandwagoneers is bullshit. Not everyone is Extremely Online; communities form in person, too: PTA meetings, book club, grocery store, gas pump, daycare pickup, pharmacy, dog park, ice rink, stadium, etc etc etc
And they aren't all crowing about it on social media, so let's not assume that all the people in hats and buttons passing out whistles are doing nothing else. People - "wine moms," "knitters," who else do you think has ready access to breast milk? - are working behind the scenes for good.
A detail I don't want to get lost in this: So far, Bri and her network have helped more than 500 families with grocery deliveries and more than 300 with diapers and wipes. In just two months.
February 9, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Still a little mad about this. Dismissing craftivists (who are mostly women) as cringey bandwagoneers is bullshit. Not everyone is Extremely Online; communities form in person, too: PTA meetings, book club, grocery store, gas pump, daycare pickup, pharmacy, dog park, ice rink, stadium, etc etc etc
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These people are terrorists. Full stop.
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 4, 2026 at 1:00 AM
These people are terrorists. Full stop.
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We have to report what they do not what they say. That's the job and it's been done pretty well until the last few days, when wishcasting has taken over. We all want it to end. Until it ends, we (journalists) have to lead with ... nothing has changed.
Asked if he is pulling immigration agents out of Minnesota, as his border czar indicated Thursday morning, President Donald Trump said: "No, no. Not at all."
The latest: Trump now says ‘nothing will change’ on immigration enforcement in Minnesota
Border czar Tom Homan said a “withdrawal of law enforcement resources” is in the works. Trump indicated otherwise Thursday night.
www.startribune.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:46 PM
We have to report what they do not what they say. That's the job and it's been done pretty well until the last few days, when wishcasting has taken over. We all want it to end. Until it ends, we (journalists) have to lead with ... nothing has changed.
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I love to hear CEOs whining that people don't want AI in their products, and to please stop being negative about their slop and to stop calling it slop, please keep it up.
January 30, 2026 at 1:55 PM
I love to hear CEOs whining that people don't want AI in their products, and to please stop being negative about their slop and to stop calling it slop, please keep it up.
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Private equity makes US healthcare, retirement, education, housing, and retail worse and more expensive. They torture prisoners and immigrants for profit
The industry should be destroyed. It's slowly killing its host
The industry should be destroyed. It's slowly killing its host
NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler
A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Private equity makes US healthcare, retirement, education, housing, and retail worse and more expensive. They torture prisoners and immigrants for profit
The industry should be destroyed. It's slowly killing its host
The industry should be destroyed. It's slowly killing its host
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What I find so demoralizing is starting with an end goal of finding a way to keep government open rather than finding a way to use the threat of shutdown to end ICE; Possible? Perhaps not. But "abolish ICE" must be the starting position. Reforms are just putting a cup full of diarrhea on a doily.
January 30, 2026 at 1:56 PM
What I find so demoralizing is starting with an end goal of finding a way to keep government open rather than finding a way to use the threat of shutdown to end ICE; Possible? Perhaps not. But "abolish ICE" must be the starting position. Reforms are just putting a cup full of diarrhea on a doily.
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This is old but I am still feeling this way up to this day.
January 30, 2026 at 12:14 PM
This is old but I am still feeling this way up to this day.
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Per the article below -- Percent of video game professionals who think generative AI is good for the gaming industry: 7.
"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'
The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.
www.pcgamer.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Per the article below -- Percent of video game professionals who think generative AI is good for the gaming industry: 7.
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From someone who knows.
Now people understand what “strong borders” have meant in practice. Hopefully it will help them see the core of what we’re actually fighting: white supremacy morphing into widespread fascism.
Now people understand what “strong borders” have meant in practice. Hopefully it will help them see the core of what we’re actually fighting: white supremacy morphing into widespread fascism.
Please stop saying they are untrained! This is the training. You just didn’t care bc it was always on the border aimed at undocumented people. Now you care bc it is affecting white Americans. My work on Substack documents all of this.
This. Is. The. Training.
This. Is. The. Training.
January 26, 2026 at 6:54 PM
From someone who knows.
Now people understand what “strong borders” have meant in practice. Hopefully it will help them see the core of what we’re actually fighting: white supremacy morphing into widespread fascism.
Now people understand what “strong borders” have meant in practice. Hopefully it will help them see the core of what we’re actually fighting: white supremacy morphing into widespread fascism.
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AI is a systemized way for people to debate the worth of other people. It's greatest function is a rhetorical device that makes otherwise sensible decent people believe they are noble for engaging with open fascists
about whether other people are worthy of basic care
about whether other people are worthy of basic care
“…when it comes to your fitness tracker and some health records, the new Dr. ChatGPT seems to be winging it. That fits a disturbing trend: AI companies launching products that are broken, fail to deliver or are even dangerous.”
Column | I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data. Then I called my doctor.
I gave the new ChatGPT Health access to 29 million steps and 6 million heartbeat measurements. It drew questionable conclusions that changed each time I asked.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:55 PM
AI is a systemized way for people to debate the worth of other people. It's greatest function is a rhetorical device that makes otherwise sensible decent people believe they are noble for engaging with open fascists
about whether other people are worthy of basic care
about whether other people are worthy of basic care
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signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association
January 25, 2026 at 11:49 PM
signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association
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Just a reminder that the paper is owned by one of the wealthiest men in the world who recently paid $40 million to distribute a documentary about the first lady.
News: The Washington Post is preparing to slash upwards of 300 staffers, incl sports, metro and foreign desks @nataliekorach.bsky.social reports.
“The newsroom is being punished for absolute incompetence from the owner and publisher,” one staffer told @status.news
www.status.news/p/washington...
“The newsroom is being punished for absolute incompetence from the owner and publisher,” one staffer told @status.news
www.status.news/p/washington...
Post Parting Depression
Looming cuts at The Washington Post threaten to decimate key coverage areas as staffers question the motives and commitment of billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.
www.status.news
January 26, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Just a reminder that the paper is owned by one of the wealthiest men in the world who recently paid $40 million to distribute a documentary about the first lady.
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Top story, from @stevanzetti.bsky.social: As Dallas policy on homelessness shifts back towards prosecution and institutionalization, it reflects the growing interest of right-wing billionaires in America's treatment of its poorest people.
A Dallas Megadonor, a New Nonprofit, and the War on ‘Housing First’
A scheme to relocate the unhoused out of one Texas city's downtown sheds light on a larger right-wing takeover of federal homelessness policy.
www.texasobserver.org
January 19, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Top story, from @stevanzetti.bsky.social: As Dallas policy on homelessness shifts back towards prosecution and institutionalization, it reflects the growing interest of right-wing billionaires in America's treatment of its poorest people.
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“Trump is the first president not to issue an official proclamation recognizing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day since President Reagan made it a holiday.”
January 19, 2026 at 9:30 PM
“Trump is the first president not to issue an official proclamation recognizing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day since President Reagan made it a holiday.”
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“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”
- Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Silence is not neutral. It is a choice.
- Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Silence is not neutral. It is a choice.
January 19, 2026 at 10:48 PM
“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”
- Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Silence is not neutral. It is a choice.
- Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Silence is not neutral. It is a choice.
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imagine if it happens on tv
January 19, 2026 at 7:49 PM
imagine if it happens on tv
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but will it last? unironically one of the biggest problems we’re dealing with right now is the “lol nothing matters” view the stock market has taken the entire second term
stocks are one of the few numbers Trump pays attention to and one of the few things that sometimes get him to back down
stocks are one of the few numbers Trump pays attention to and one of the few things that sometimes get him to back down
Dow set to fall more than 300 points on Trump’s new tariff threat over Greenland: Live updates
Dow set to fall more than 300 points on Trump’s new tariff threat over Greenland: Live updates
Stock futures on Monday night pointed to a downbeat session on Wall Street as President Donald Trump intensifies his rhetoric on Greenland.
cnb.cx
January 19, 2026 at 11:17 PM
but will it last? unironically one of the biggest problems we’re dealing with right now is the “lol nothing matters” view the stock market has taken the entire second term
stocks are one of the few numbers Trump pays attention to and one of the few things that sometimes get him to back down
stocks are one of the few numbers Trump pays attention to and one of the few things that sometimes get him to back down
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jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
![YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT
[a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision]
"In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors!
See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/
https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p2aefnvhb3zmkrazk67dppxw/bafkreic7teyeocg7k5qcqxnc666k7clyiislh2zfi6iopcz6fs3e3lt6xy@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
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from the party platform (1920):
"Only a member of the nation [Volksgenosse] may be a citizen of the State. Only someone of German blood, whatever their creed, may be a member of the nation. Accordingly, no Jew may be a member of the nation."
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
"Only a member of the nation [Volksgenosse] may be a citizen of the State. Only someone of German blood, whatever their creed, may be a member of the nation. Accordingly, no Jew may be a member of the nation."
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
January 19, 2026 at 11:17 PM
from the party platform (1920):
"Only a member of the nation [Volksgenosse] may be a citizen of the State. Only someone of German blood, whatever their creed, may be a member of the nation. Accordingly, no Jew may be a member of the nation."
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
"Only a member of the nation [Volksgenosse] may be a citizen of the State. Only someone of German blood, whatever their creed, may be a member of the nation. Accordingly, no Jew may be a member of the nation."
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
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German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had
removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews.
In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship.
Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.
removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews.
In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship.
Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.
January 19, 2026 at 10:22 PM
German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had
removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews.
In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship.
Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.
removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews.
In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship.
Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.