Ian
@feralskink.bsky.social
Air pollution scientist | PhD Student | union organizer | (he/they)
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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This is worse than the worst thing ever attributed to any “Bernie Bro”. The Democratic leader literally refusing to say WHETHER HE VOTED FOR THE DEMOCRAT.
this shit right here is wrecker shit, as much as wrecker shit as any online leftist has done, if not more so. no wonder so many people are repulsed by anyone (rightly) saying 'vote blue no matter who', the most powerful elected Dem in the nation won't do it! it undermines the whole coalition! jfc
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is worse than the worst thing ever attributed to any “Bernie Bro”. The Democratic leader literally refusing to say WHETHER HE VOTED FOR THE DEMOCRAT.
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The ruling class has had 20 years to come up with something better than “buy less avocado toast” to explain why you can’t afford a house. And they’ve opted to just play the old hits.
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The ruling class has had 20 years to come up with something better than “buy less avocado toast” to explain why you can’t afford a house. And they’ve opted to just play the old hits.
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I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have
October 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have
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even the democratic consultants are evaluating the democratic party according to the caricatures put out by republican-aligned media
Incredible to claim that “abolish the police” is in any way a Democratic policy
October 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
even the democratic consultants are evaluating the democratic party according to the caricatures put out by republican-aligned media
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Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.
October 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.
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this is exactly what's happening
The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.
October 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
this is exactly what's happening
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Mamdani is well dressed, has to be very careful in his approach, and his record is damn near spotless. Platner is a fucking Blackwater merc with an SS tat and everyone from Sanders to Vigeland to fucking Jacobin is tripping over themselves to defend and equivocate. Fucking disgusting.
Mamdani: "I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality ... if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough ... it would allow me to be more than just my faith. I was wrong."
October 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Mamdani is well dressed, has to be very careful in his approach, and his record is damn near spotless. Platner is a fucking Blackwater merc with an SS tat and everyone from Sanders to Vigeland to fucking Jacobin is tripping over themselves to defend and equivocate. Fucking disgusting.
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I don't really think this will work? idk trumpism is so tied up with ahistoricity and the personality cult that reagan's personality cult doesn't have a shot
Democrats should just start rolling out ad after ad of Reagan voiceovers.
October 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I don't really think this will work? idk trumpism is so tied up with ahistoricity and the personality cult that reagan's personality cult doesn't have a shot
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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i'm just a simple oyster farmer who only supplies my mom's restaurant and my grandpa invented a $5,000 chair and i went to GW and i worked for blackwater and i accidentally got a nazi tattoo even tho i luv history and i said some racist stuff on reddit and i'm offering my staff $15k NDAs and and and
October 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
i'm just a simple oyster farmer who only supplies my mom's restaurant and my grandpa invented a $5,000 chair and i went to GW and i worked for blackwater and i accidentally got a nazi tattoo even tho i luv history and i said some racist stuff on reddit and i'm offering my staff $15k NDAs and and and
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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"Win" what, in order to accomplish what, for whom.
October 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"Win" what, in order to accomplish what, for whom.
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the other thing i’ll say here is i am a bit frustrated with the narrative of online radicalization that treats it as akin to brainwashing. it lets individuals, families and communities off the hook for the choices they make and the environments they foster
this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
the other thing i’ll say here is i am a bit frustrated with the narrative of online radicalization that treats it as akin to brainwashing. it lets individuals, families and communities off the hook for the choices they make and the environments they foster
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seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
October 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
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They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
October 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
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Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
October 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
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The evil that men do lives after them
September 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The evil that men do lives after them
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If anyone on the left was as nasty to people on the right as Charlie Kirk was to everyone not a white Christian nationalist, every fucking liberal pundit, including Klein, would scold that leftist for not doing politics right, and you know it.
It's not just that Ezra Klein said that Kirk was doing politics in the right way, it's that Klein said he "ENVIED what he built."
Just think about that for a second. Mask's off, I would say.
Just think about that for a second. Mask's off, I would say.
September 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
If anyone on the left was as nasty to people on the right as Charlie Kirk was to everyone not a white Christian nationalist, every fucking liberal pundit, including Klein, would scold that leftist for not doing politics right, and you know it.
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they didn't do this when democratic lawmakers were targeted by a gunman. the mainstream media barely peeped when a Kyle Rittenhouse fan did a mass shooting at a Portland protest. Democrats and the mainstream media are just terrified of conservatives to the point where no one else's lives matter
September 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
they didn't do this when democratic lawmakers were targeted by a gunman. the mainstream media barely peeped when a Kyle Rittenhouse fan did a mass shooting at a Portland protest. Democrats and the mainstream media are just terrified of conservatives to the point where no one else's lives matter
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For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country…
Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.
And America shrugged and moved on.
Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.
And America shrugged and moved on.
September 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country…
Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.
And America shrugged and moved on.
Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.
And America shrugged and moved on.
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It's always remarkable when we get to see through the pretense to whose lives matter and which ones power mourns, humanizes, and validates in its response to violence, but I'm not sure we've ever seen anything this transparent.
September 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It's always remarkable when we get to see through the pretense to whose lives matter and which ones power mourns, humanizes, and validates in its response to violence, but I'm not sure we've ever seen anything this transparent.
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I’ve been thinking about how the white moderate think about free speech. Where calling for violence and the dehumanization of entire groups of people is merely supposed to be pluralism at work rather than an a threat to that pluralism.
September 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I’ve been thinking about how the white moderate think about free speech. Where calling for violence and the dehumanization of entire groups of people is merely supposed to be pluralism at work rather than an a threat to that pluralism.