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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 13h

I think this is the "flower in the barrel of the gun" photo of our time.

ICE and police stand off in front of a crowd and there is a "do not cross" blue line. On the other side of the line stands a person completely concealed inside a full body frog suit.

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 15h

Revenge of the untermenschen!

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 16h

Please don't

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 18h

Wow! When that slide guitar comes in to compliment Javier Milei's vocals I feel like I'm riding down the Mississippi Delta with Robert Johnson and the Devil. Some of the best blues you'll see all year.

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 19h

I liked your lecture on Thiel. I say lecture as a compliment because I liked how you structured it and kept the audience focussed as you went.

I'm wondering if you'll talk about TESCREAL and Thiel. I think that gets at some of what you talked about but is more sinister as far as misanthropy.

Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 21h

Richard Pryor, best known for his role as the drummer of Max Frost and the Troopers in the 1968 film "Wild In The Streets."

Black and white photo of Richard Pryor with a group of hipsters under 25 in the film "Wild In The Streets." Pryor wears a long sleeve pirate style shirt with black pant and slightly messy short fro hair. He looks at the camera with a calm disinterested expression.

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 21h

True. Could be music I personally like but if it's not me listening I shouldn't hear it other than as very faint and in the distance at most.

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 22h

Useful reference. While I think their estimate of 5 trans mass shooters may be 1 or 2 high, the fact that the precent is 0.1% is clear. This is not "one percent." It's zero point one percent. So the number is lower than one in a thousand. The numbers aren't everything but they matter.

Few Mass Shooters Have Been Transgender - FactCheck.org

Q: Have many of the mass shooters been transgender? A: The number of transgender mass shooters in the U.S. varies depending on how “mass shooting” is defined, but is relatively small. The Gun Violenc...

www.factcheck.org

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 23h

I got off my cyberduff and called Governor Abbot to stop the October 16th scheduled execution of Robert Roberson. You call this number and hear a message from the Innocence Project. You then enter your zipcode and they connect you to Abbot's office. You leave a message with his voice mail.

Urge Gov. Abbott to Stop Robert Roberson’s Execution

Mr. Roberson would be first person in the U.S. executed based on the discredited shaken baby syndrome hypothesis. Act now.

innocenceproject.org

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 23h

Air Traffic Controllers and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers engaging in "sick outs." So we are seeing worker/work place based resistance to Trump's agenda, in this case specifically the shut down.

Air Traffic Controllers' “Sickout” Over Government Shutdown - 55,000 Canadian Journalist Strike - Chicago NewsGuild Sues ICE

Yesterday, from 4:15 P.M. to 10 P.M., there were no air traffic controllers on duty at Burbank Airport in California.

paydayreport.com

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 1d

Oakland Socialist blogging about three approaches to stopping Trump's Project 2025: Legal cases, street protests, and workplace based mass worker organizing for strikes and shutting down economic choke points to paralyze Trump. All three are useful, but the third has the most potential power.

Mamdani Movement can change New York City and defeat Trump/Project 2025!

For New Yorkers the Mamdani movement can be a means of making life better for themselves. It can make rent, transportation, and child care more affordable. That economic change will also help lift …

oaklandsocialist.com

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 1d

Just watched "Restless" (2024) with Lyndsey Marshal as a woman whose parents moved out of their place next door only to be replaced by party animal assholes who blast the absolute worst rave/techno/ kick drum and scream garbage all night every night. Chaos ensues. Grueling good comedy.

A very tired and disheveled looking woman in her 40s looks in disbelief at her younger asshole neighbor who seems to be yelling at her to calm down. They are in front of their connected apartments on the lawn.

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 1d

17 year old psycho charged with killing two girls by running them over while they rode their bikes. One of the girls had made fun of Charlie Kirk and he left an online trail of videos talking about how angry that made him as he pranked her with pizza deliveries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdcR...

17-Year-Old Suspect In Hit & Run Murder Is Vincent Battiloro

YouTube video by Inside Edition

www.youtube.com

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think it's bad to warn that the militarization of law enforcement is dangerous and that it's something to worry about. In this case though, bringing up Fallujah was implied to be a case where brutal military force was justified "Oh, it was just against brown people in another country." 3/3

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 2d

Fallujah (2004) is comparable to the My Lai massacre. Dahr Jamal witnessed it as one of the few non-embedded reporters in Iraq. One war crime was using white phosphorus, which melts people. Military aged males were not allowed to leave the city and entire families were forced to stay and die. 2/

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 2d

Discussing the Comey arraignment, the guy on the right worried agents in full combat armor like he wore as a marine "in Fallujah" would be used. The panel expressed being impressed by his description but there was no acknowledgment Fallujah was a war crime, mass slaughter of Iraqi civilians. 1/

Nicole Wallace and her panel, two women and one man are displayed in a four screen split. The bottom reads "ABC: JOHN DURHAM UNDERCUT CASE AGAINST COMEY"

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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 3d

So @danielmang.bsky.social and I wrote something about the left in our current moment. It took us ages and ended up being rather longer than intended. Let us know what you think.

Daniel Mang @danielmang.bsky.social · 7d

Left Renewal in an Age of Waiting, by Ben Gidley and Daniel Mang – 1 October 2025 leftrenewal.org/lraw-en/

Left Renewal in an Age of Waiting, by Ben Gidley and Daniel Mang – 1 October 2025 – Left Renewal Blog

leftrenewal.org

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 2d

Borders kill. If you stay put, they destroy your dwelling. Flee by boat, they drowned you or capture you and leave you to die in the desert, or sell you off to a militia, who then uses or ransoms you. There is no humanitarian aid coming, and no way to integrate into any state or safe place.

Trapped in Tunisia | People & Power Documentary

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

www.youtube.com

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 2d

This is the longer version of the video of a group of community members in Chicago surrounding ICE and forcing them to release a man they were trying to abduct in the street. www.facebook.com/CesaRomero/v...

679K views · 6.1K reactions | ICE 63/Cicero WHEN WE ALL STAND TOGETHER SO THEY DONT TAKE OUR PEOPLE #ice #chicago #police | CesaRomero Lopez

ICE 63/Cicero WHEN WE ALL STAND TOGETHER SO THEY DONT TAKE OUR PEOPLE #ice #chicago #police.

www.facebook.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

She’s not wrong as Israel would exterminate them just as Israel exterminates everyone.

It’s the same stupid argument for the past decade. These people think that Queer Palestinians don’t exist, that they’re not also being starved to death and bombed from the skies by that genocidal state.

World+
HERTA MÜLLER
"In Gaza, the Queers for Palestine would not survive for half an hour."
By Jan Philipp Burgard
Editor-in-Chief WELT Group
As of 04.10.2025 | Reading time: 11 minutes

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 3d

This piece at Left Renewal basically considers every imaginable aspect of what a radical internationalist, intersectional, class struggle Left can be, and argues for and against some of the possibilities. This is pamphlet length so it gives you an excuse to have a caffeinated beverage and dive in.

Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 6d

An excellent contribution to questions of how to bring together anti-authoritarian Leftists and "liberals who mean it" to fight back the reactionary wave.

And I'm not just saying that because I'm quoted at length in it lol.

leftrenewal.org/lraw-en/

Left Renewal in an Age of Waiting, by Ben Gidley and Daniel Mang – 1 October 2025 – Left Renewal Blog

leftrenewal.org

Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 3d

I think you're right that they have a tankie streak.

Josiah Walrus tweet from 2022 reads: Qanon Anonymous doing a podcast written by ANSWER/PSL and Empire Files Assad/Putin apologist Mike Prysner exposing Assad/Putin apologist Tulsi Gabbard. This is basically infighting among red-brown factions.

There are screenshots of various pieces of evidence showing Prysner's part of the ANSWER coalition tankie front.

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 3d

Two dying men who are impaled on long pikes talk to each other. To their left we see Vlad the Impaler sitting down to a meal. There is a basket of chopped off limbs near him and behind him a medieval town. One man says "I voted for him because I like his impalement policy, but I never thought this would happen."

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 3d

""All told, the family (including the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner) is now worth an estimated $10 billion, having nearly doubled its net worth since last year’s election.""

Here's How Much The Trump Family Is Worth

President Trump just had the most lucrative year of his life. But percentage-wise, his three sons—Don Jr., Eric and Barron—did even better.

www.forbes.com

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Josiah Walrus @josiahwalrus1.bsky.social · 4d

Local 5 said Kaiser workers in Hawaii are paid up to 30% less than their counterparts on the U.S. continent." They're paid less in Hawaii, which is considered the most expensive state to live in. There will be a concurrent strike in California as well, also starting on the 14th. 2/2