Bernell Loeb
@artisall.bsky.social
Artist specializing in oil painting, drawing, assemblage and installations, jewelry maker, serial renovator of vintage homes, avid reader, nature lover, vegetarian, feminist, poet.
"Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency. Yet Democratic leadership has refused to back the call to defund ICE, with thinktanks suggesting “abolish ICE” goes too far."
“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough.
Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:21 AM
"Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency. Yet Democratic leadership has refused to back the call to defund ICE, with thinktanks suggesting “abolish ICE” goes too far."
All of this.
January 17, 2026 at 10:45 PM
All of this.
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Why are we not working 15-hours a week as John Maynard Keynes predicted?
This is related to what David Graeber calls: 'Bullshit Jobs.'
This is related to what David Graeber calls: 'Bullshit Jobs.'
January 16, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Why are we not working 15-hours a week as John Maynard Keynes predicted?
This is related to what David Graeber calls: 'Bullshit Jobs.'
This is related to what David Graeber calls: 'Bullshit Jobs.'
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@demgovs.org this is a message for you..
January 15, 2026 at 11:47 PM
@demgovs.org this is a message for you..
Tech is building an authoritarian future:
www.authoritarian-stack.info
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
January 15, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Tech is building an authoritarian future:
www.authoritarian-stack.info
www.authoritarian-stack.info
These technofacists only bring misery and death to the world.
January 14, 2026 at 8:31 PM
These technofacists only bring misery and death to the world.
"The raison d’être of art and literature is to disrupt the status quo: and one doesn’t have to be a student of history to know that art in the service of “social cohesion” is propaganda."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:58 PM
"The raison d’être of art and literature is to disrupt the status quo: and one doesn’t have to be a student of history to know that art in the service of “social cohesion” is propaganda."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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CALIFORNIANS! 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
Fascist POS "flips to Democrat" because most people don't bother checking or verifying anything these days and he's hoping to slip past their guardrails without them knowing he's an abomination.
Fascist POS "flips to Democrat" because most people don't bother checking or verifying anything these days and he's hoping to slip past their guardrails without them knowing he's an abomination.
This Nazi thug is running for governor in California.
He's the Nazi who posted a photo of himself at the entrance of Auschwitz saying it's the solution to homelessness in California.
He also called the death camp a “beautiful work camp.”
Plus...
He's the Nazi who posted a photo of himself at the entrance of Auschwitz saying it's the solution to homelessness in California.
He also called the death camp a “beautiful work camp.”
Plus...
Pro-Auschwitz Republican flips to Democrat in bid to win after California redistricting
A Republican candidate for governor in California will instead run for Congress as a Democrat despite floating Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi concentration camp, as an "unemployment plan."In paperwork f...
www.rawstory.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:59 PM
CALIFORNIANS! 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
Fascist POS "flips to Democrat" because most people don't bother checking or verifying anything these days and he's hoping to slip past their guardrails without them knowing he's an abomination.
Fascist POS "flips to Democrat" because most people don't bother checking or verifying anything these days and he's hoping to slip past their guardrails without them knowing he's an abomination.
"The slow moral rot of the backwards-looking, theocratic regimes behind the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the Reagan revolution of 1980 has finally decayed to the point where thousands of people are out in the streets of Tehran, Minneapolis, Tabriz, and Philadelphia."
- @willbunch.bsky.social
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- @willbunch.bsky.social
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Trump now a tyrant restrained only by ‘my own morality.’ We stop him with our own. | Will Bunch
After a monumental week that changed America, Trump believes there is no limit on his powers. We can prove him wrong.
www.inquirer.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car
January 8, 2026 at 7:41 PM
interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car
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Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
January 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
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Context:
www.axios.com/2026/01/05/t...
Before vaccines, 1 in 5 kids died before age 5 due to infectious diseases. Scientists spent time, money, and effort to make sure don't have to live this way — we've eradicated these diseases.
But that's going down the drain thanks to Trump and RFK Jr.
www.axios.com/2026/01/05/t...
Before vaccines, 1 in 5 kids died before age 5 due to infectious diseases. Scientists spent time, money, and effort to make sure don't have to live this way — we've eradicated these diseases.
But that's going down the drain thanks to Trump and RFK Jr.
Trump, RFK dramatically overhaul child vaccine schedule
The move is a public health gamble that assumes children's health won't be endangered by cutting the shots they get.
www.axios.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Context:
www.axios.com/2026/01/05/t...
Before vaccines, 1 in 5 kids died before age 5 due to infectious diseases. Scientists spent time, money, and effort to make sure don't have to live this way — we've eradicated these diseases.
But that's going down the drain thanks to Trump and RFK Jr.
www.axios.com/2026/01/05/t...
Before vaccines, 1 in 5 kids died before age 5 due to infectious diseases. Scientists spent time, money, and effort to make sure don't have to live this way — we've eradicated these diseases.
But that's going down the drain thanks to Trump and RFK Jr.
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If John Pilger was around today, he'd have a lot to say about the Venezuela situation.
January 5, 2026 at 3:06 PM
If John Pilger was around today, he'd have a lot to say about the Venezuela situation.
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1. The military raid on Venezuela and ouster of Maduro will create a financial windfall for a Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
Follow this thread for details.
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Follow this thread for details.
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Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire
The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
popular.info
January 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM
1. The military raid on Venezuela and ouster of Maduro will create a financial windfall for a Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
Follow this thread for details.
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popular.info/p/venezuela-...
Follow this thread for details.
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popular.info/p/venezuela-...
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Are we watching an AI revolution, or a slow-motion economic disaster? https://youtu.be/0wxBHxpMFXA?si=SPx1PI-Np8otRi5S
Brace Yourself for the AI Bubble
Robert Reich
youtu.be
January 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Are we watching an AI revolution, or a slow-motion economic disaster? https://youtu.be/0wxBHxpMFXA?si=SPx1PI-Np8otRi5S
Trump did not invent the corporate state. He's simply more brazen in his profiteering.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/31/us/trump-deals-policy-conflicts-web.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BFA.1YYr.h5OB8B4Woqte&smid=bs-share
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches (Gift Article)
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Trump did not invent the corporate state. He's simply more brazen in his profiteering.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/31/us/trump-deals-policy-conflicts-web.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BFA.1YYr.h5OB8B4Woqte&smid=bs-share
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Then why didn’t he go public?? Why didn’t Biden- because @sarahkendzior.bsky.social explained it best—-
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December 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Then why didn’t he go public?? Why didn’t Biden- because @sarahkendzior.bsky.social explained it best—-
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Radical love. I'm here for it.
2026: radical truth, radical love, radical care.
Happy New Year 🤍
Happy New Year 🤍
January 1, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Radical love. I'm here for it.
"I think AI is only inevitable when we believe the lie of its inevitability.
I think people actually hate it. I think they naturally resist it because we can smell the existential threat coming off it like the stench of the aforementioned bad shrimp."
I think people actually hate it. I think they naturally resist it because we can smell the existential threat coming off it like the stench of the aforementioned bad shrimp."
Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
My Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And Publishing
The tl;dr before you get into this post is this: the SFWA came out, said that some AI usage was okay enough in books for the authors of those books to not to be disqualified from winning a Nebula a…
terribleminds.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
"I think AI is only inevitable when we believe the lie of its inevitability.
I think people actually hate it. I think they naturally resist it because we can smell the existential threat coming off it like the stench of the aforementioned bad shrimp."
I think people actually hate it. I think they naturally resist it because we can smell the existential threat coming off it like the stench of the aforementioned bad shrimp."
"Those who rack up vast impacts then walk away, and those who spread misinformation freeload on the rest of us. They are always leaving other people to live with the consequences."
Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way | George Monbiot
From merrily dismissing climate science, to promoting irresponsible health claims, the podcast was an unintentional warning for our times, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"Those who rack up vast impacts then walk away, and those who spread misinformation freeload on the rest of us. They are always leaving other people to live with the consequences."
"We have all, of course, always been able to imagine this: how fragile life is, how close we all are to the membrane between well and unwell."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...
Opinion | The Beauty in Imagining Loss
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"We have all, of course, always been able to imagine this: how fragile life is, how close we all are to the membrane between well and unwell."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | In Appalachia, Children Inherited the Opioid Crisis (Gift Article)
The pain of drug addiction continues to course through towns like Clarksburg, W.Va., where many babies are born withdrawing and have to be taken from their parents.
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up.
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
We Went to Arkansas. The Farm Crisis Will Shock You
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up.
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
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With a dozen crazy events like this now happening every day
I almost admire the discipline it takes for corp news & white liberals to still, even as we cross 1.5C warming,
pretend we’re not in a real time global emergency.
I almost admire the discipline it takes for corp news & white liberals to still, even as we cross 1.5C warming,
pretend we’re not in a real time global emergency.
December 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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