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Joy
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artist, librarian, now into creative reuse ✨
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prisonculture.bsky.social
I don't know how to convey to people that POLICING in the US is experienced by countless Black and brown people in the way that ICE is currently acting towards people.
January 14, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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propublica.org
Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.

Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
"Arnoldo had filmed much of the incident, but agents had taken his phone. He used Find My to locate the phone — at a vending machine for used electronics miles away, close to an ICE detention center. The footage, which ProPublica has reviewed, backed the family’s account of the chase."
January 14, 2026 at 12:47 AM
ellysajoyful.bsky.social
Metal sign inside the Saint Louis Museum of Art reading in all caps: SOME DAYS YOU WAKE AND IMMEDIATELY START TO WORRY. NOTHING IN PARTICULAR IS WRONG, ITS JUST THE SUSPICION THAT FORCES ARE ALIGNING QUIETLY AND THERE WILL BE TROUBLE.
January 10, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
once again we are all tapping the sign
Claire Willett @clairewillett honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion 02:00 • 13/08/2020 From Earth 19K Reposts 685 Quotes 103K Likes 881 Bookmarks
January 9, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.
January 10, 2026 at 2:33 AM
ellysajoyful.bsky.social
Her name was Good.
January 8, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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jsweetli.bsky.social
Protest sign on Route 4 in Paramus, New Jersey reads “ICE murders woman in MN”
January 7, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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culturecrave.co
January 1, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein
The media has spent the last few months trying to make sense out of nonsense, attempting to conjure motive, manifesto, and meaning out of the dumbest shit scrawled onto bullets. These were sad attempts to impose meaning on an increasingly incoherent world by a literati that has not yet accepted its irrelevance in a postliterate society. But the most humiliating display of literate obliviousness in the face of the total collapse of meaning, however, was Ezra Klein's bizarre eulogy to Charlie Kirk. The now-infamous column ("Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way") can best be understood as an expression of class solidarity. Klein, I would argue, sees both himself and Kirk as being Debate Guys, wordcels who engage in the marketplace of ideas and let speech sort itself out into political action. Kirk did not commit violence, not because he abhorred it, but because committing violence was someone else's job. Last year, he called for using whips against migrants, saying, "Of course you should be able to use whips against foreigners that are coming into your country. Why is that controversial?" In early June of this year, as the president deployed troops to Los Angeles, Kirk publicly advocated for invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 to crush the immigration protests. And in August, he called for "federalizing" the district of Columbia, saying, "Roll in the tanks, bring in the military." With his close relationship to the commander in chief of the United States of America, Charlie Kirk was no mere talker, idea-peddler, or purveyor of discourse. He built an empire on legitimizing violence and harvesting the enthusiasm and glee around it. Even before his death became a pretext to enact violence on American cities, he had already substantively shaped history. Charlie Kirk was a part of the real world in a way that Ezra Klein will never be.
December 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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leftistlawyer.com
Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives.

It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
December 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
ellysajoyful.bsky.social
A perfect future obituary!
emilynussbaum.bsky.social Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · Dec 16
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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hsilsbee.bsky.social
Please read this Facebook post from Darnella Frazier about her sister Rekeya, who is in federal custody.

For those who don't know, Darnella was the girl who shared the first viral video of George Floyd's murder.
Public Facebook post from Darnella Frazier: This is my sister. Rekeya Frazier. Last Wednesday, a number of ICE agents approached her and her boyfriend. They were in an unmarked vehicle and were not all fully dressed in their uniforms. In the world we live in today, you don't know what's real and fake, or what to trust anymore. Allegedly her boyfriend's student visa was expired and they were questioning him about his immigration status. In the process of doing that, he got extremely scared and hopped in the back seat of my sister's car, allegedly pointing his gun at my sister while she drove to the nearest police station in complete fear. Meanwhile her boyfriend, Bamigboye was on the phone with the police. My sister is not a criminal. Why would she drive to the police station if she intentionally committed a crime? She was scared, as most of us would be. Rekeya is 23. A manager, A CNA who's spent countless days saving lives and coming home to her dogs every night. She loves make up, she loves fashion, cooking, and she is very creative. She's built her own little harmless life. I'm sharing this because my sister is more than a mugshot and a headline. There are REAL families behind these stories. My sister is currently in federal custody with no voice or outlet. So I will use mine. An expired student visa does not make you a criminal. Neither does seeking help when you feel you are in danger. If you have read this far, please help spread the word. #SeeSomethingSaySomething 4 photos, 3 of which show Rekeya, a young Black woman dressed up and happy. The 4th is a screenshot of an Alpha News headline with Rekeya and Bamigboye's mugshots with the headline "Two charged with assaulting federal HSI agent who feared 'he was being abducted'"
December 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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raypride.bsky.social
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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wilwheaton.net
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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kibblesmith.com
“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
ellysajoyful.bsky.social
I KNEW IT www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Taylor Swift's Last Album Sparked Bizarre Accusations of Nazism. It Was a Coordinated Attack
Data analysis from startup GUDEA reveals inauthentic social media network that pushed false narrative about her ties to MAGA world and white supremacy
www.rollingstone.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
"Their rent-controlled apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side functioned as a fine-art storage locker as well as an exhibition space. Stacked on the floor and crammed into closets were some 4,000 works..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/a...
Dorothy Vogel, Librarian With a Vast Art Collection, Dies at 90
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Nov 28
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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jlazarus.bsky.social
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Nov 23
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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madwyer.bsky.social
Wheatpasted outside the Metro in #OccupiedDC
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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samadams.bsky.social
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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jvagle.me
Which is worse: Not knowing that your product is actively harming people despite many months of news like this, or not caring?

What if I told you that these companies were also asking the govt to guarantee their multibillion dollar Enron-like circular investments?

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
ellysajoyful.bsky.social
I got to vote for the first LGBTQ+ member of my local school board!!!!!!!!!!
janeclimatepac.bsky.social Jane Fonda Climate PAC (JanePAC) @janeclimatepac.bsky.social · Nov 5
Fighting for change can be hard, but moments like this remind us why we do it. Last night, PJ Errera won his race for Kent School Board in Ohio, and the joy was something to behold. Congrats, @pjerrera.bsky.social!
November 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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leftistlawyer.com
I WANT MY TAX MONEY PAYING FOR KIDS TO EAT LOBSTER AND STEAK AND COOKIES, NOT PAYING TO BOMB PALESTINIAN AND SUDANESE KIDS AND INVADING VENEZUELA.
October 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM