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Day two of running again, and I’m lowkey impressed with myself. I used to hate winter running when I was in high school. Turns out I still hate it but I’m getting it done
At ground level, a singular black and gray feather in a green and yellow patch of grass On two network devices on the side of a house, written in marker Verizon Network Device: Veo La Migra? See ICE? Xfinity Network Device: Call Llama 1-888-214-6016
January 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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Modified BlackSky textfield with the placeholder now reading "Some things we can keep in our head, friend..."
January 16, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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Of course I find this the day before the temp goes subfreezing🤦🏾 I might wait til Saturday to give this a go

(found via IG @womanfromtheprotest)
THE "FITTER THAN A FASCIST CHALLENGE" Context: Ice Agents clearly have ZERO shame about being lawless and cruel, you can't "shame" people who DGAF about the thing you're trying to shame them for. However, ICE Agents care A LOT about being seen as "strong men" and "badasses" which is really quite funny since THESE ATE THE ACTUAL PHYSICAL "STANDARDS" TO BECOME AN AGENT: 1. Sit ups: 32 sit-ups in 1 minute or less 2. Push Ups: 22 push-ups in 1 minute or less 3. Sprint: 220-yard sprint in 47.73 seconds or less 4. Run: 1.5-mile run in 14 minutes 25 seconds or less SOURCE: www.ice.gov/careers/how-apply/physical-fitness-test THE "FITTER THAN A FASCIST CHALLENGE" How to Join: 1. Meet or beat the "standards" below - film, or take pictures for evidence! Get creative and CYO share OR see my page for remix-able reels + 6 for a fillable template. 2. Post online to flood social media with talk about how truly lame and low the bar is to become an ICE agent. 3. Tag/send to 3 friends you think could melt ICE "standards" as well! THESE ATE THE ACTUAL PHYSICAL "STANDARDS" TO BECOME AN AGENT: 1. Sit ups: 32 sit-ups in 1 minute or less 2. Push Ups: 22 push-ups in 1 minute or less 3. Sprint: 220-yard sprint in 47.73 seconds or less 4. Run: 1.5-mile run in 14 minutes 25 seconds or less SOURCE: www.ice.gov/careers/how-apply/physical-fitness-test 3 REASONS To participate in and/or share the “Fitter Than A Fascist” Challenge: 1. MAKE IT EMBARRASSING TO BE AN ICE AGENT: A trend highlighting how little it takes physically to be an ICE agent decreases ICE’s cultural currency with the people they are trying to “get”. Let’s keep ICE in the news for both their actual atrocities AND for things that will be embarrassing to THEM — they DGAF about unaliving innocents, they HATE to be seen as wimps. 2. BUILD IRL AND ONLINE RESISTANCE COMMUNITIES: MAGA is great at making folks feel like they “belong”. Having a fun, intentional, “group project” helps bind the movement for the bigger, more risky, and needed work. Tag your internet friends, favorite accounts, or meet up in-person with friends to do together! 3. WE NEED TO BE “FITTER” THAN THE FASCISTS: Being “fit” isn’t for vanity, and it can’t be something the far-right co-opts for itself. Being strong and active is how we protect our bodies and minds from the stress of the time, boost our immunity in light of coming pandemics, and prepare physically for future resistance efforts, community defense, or manufactured scarcity (water, food, etc.). Final thoughts: I’d love to see the Swoletariat completely blow these numbers out of the water, and sure, getting SMOKED by truly fit people is embarrassing to ICE. …but what I actually think will be MORE embarrassing is when your “typical snowflake” makes the cut. So please, don’t assume this “challenge” isn’t for you because you’re not as fit as you’d like to be…yet. If you’re hitting that 22nd push-up RIGHT at 59 seconds, guess what… You’d STILL become an ICE agent. If your lungs are gonna’ collapse and you’re crossing the 1.5 mile finish line at 14 minutes and 21 seconds, guess what… You’d STILL become an ICE agent. And that’s the point right? To flood the internet with evidence that ICE isn’t actually “badass” at all. Imagine a few months from now, “Oh, you’re an ICE agent? My mom just posted a video of her and her friends beating y’all’s fitness test!” If you’re a healthy and normal human this shouldn’t be an insult, but if you’re a dude who used their free will to join ICE? That’s embarrassing as fuq, bro. I hope you tap-in, I really do. Undermining the regime’s cultural “clout” is a real way to weaken them, while physically and socially building the resistance. Still, don’t let this be the end of your work. It will take more than a social media trend to take these assholes down. But perhaps getting your numbers up with your people can be a way to prepare physically and mentally for all the work ahead that will take more local planning, more risk, and more courage. There is much to be done. Let’s get stronger than ICE this year, together. With all my love and all my rage — C
January 15, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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A picture of “Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice” by Phillip Hoose
January 13, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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For a hot sec, I was shocked it’s suddenly getting cold and then I realized this tracks, the MLK Day parade is always cold as hell
A Baltimore weather screenshot from Carrot Weather App. The 10 day forecasts shows today and tomorrow facing highs in the 50s but then the next 8 have lows as low as 4 and highs up to 43
January 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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My favorite part
Final sentences of "Grace's B-Side Story" ( https://baltimore.org/b-side/ ): "...that's Baltimore for you. We start conversations. We're full of surprises. We're passionate, gritty, off-kilter, and oftentimes, misunderstood. We hang onto traditions. We're weird, and a little intense if you're not used to guzzling unsweetened lemon juice through a soft peppermint straw, but like lemon sticks, we can be oddly refreshing."
January 13, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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Earthseed photos from yesterday
A copy of Parable of the Sower (with a Red Emma’s bookmark) in the grass A green electrical bike outside the public pool has had ABOLISH ICE stenciled on it in white spray paint Two tall trees close together, alone in the open park field, with the soccer field to the left and the sun momentarily shining bright behind them An green e-bike sits in the background of the park and the neighboring tree in foreground
January 12, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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Hasn't even been a month before he decided to tack on another L: blacksky.community/profile/did:...
A screenshot of a skeet I made on Dec 16 2025: https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:rapcmhxajpxqgvx5mmza6ubh/post/3ma5p4qfc722l It's a quote of a Baltimore Banner skeet ( https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:jlrkasnphblmno5psz4aueaq/post/3ma52jrxrji2k ) which says "Maryland lawmakers override Moore vetoes on trio of climate and energy bills" and links to https://buff.ly/cla2eGH My quote reads Just want to make sure I'm caught up on Moore: Pro - Gen AI (Anthropic partnership) - Self driving (Waymo coming to Bmore) - Quantum computing Against - Studying MD climate costs - An office that would study our grid (which will be impacted by data centers owned by companies like ... Anthropic)
January 11, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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I love taking the bus because I just get to look around in a way I don’t get to when I drive
Through a rain covered bus window, on a yellow bridge girder, it seems someone has written in marker: HU$TLE OR STARVE
January 11, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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The grandma I marched next to vs me
The meme of two friends in a car, one with rainbow colored hair and one with black hair and a black fit
January 9, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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One thing about Baltimore, we gonna show the fuck out
January 9, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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On a metal light pole, a slightly rusty pair of metal handcuffs hangs above a flyer that says DENY DEFEND DEPOSE in mixed lettering but the first e and f in DEFEND have been ripped off
January 8, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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The door of a local shop with two signs: The handwritten one on top says NO SKI-MASK ALLOWED!!! TAKE THAT SHIT OFF I’M NOT PLAYING The printed one below says I.C.E NO ES BIENVENIDO AQUI TENEMOS EL DERECHO DE NEGARLE A I.C.E EL ACCESO A AREAS PRIVADAS SIN UNA ORDEN JUDICIAL AFIRMAMOS NUESTROS DERECHOS CONSTITUCIONALES QUE SE APLICAN A TODOS EN ESTE PAIS INDEPENDIENTEMENTE DE SU ESTATUS MIGRATORIO PSLWEBORG @BALTIMOREPSL
January 8, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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FROM BALTIMORE TO MINNEAPOLIS STOP ICE TERROR GEORGE H. FALLON FEDERAL BUILDING 31 HOPKINS PL THU.1/8 6PM With logos for PSL, Baltimore Eyes on Ice, FSC, and Baltimore CPUSA
January 8, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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Had an idea I wanted to explore and I'm so far I'm just happy with how the autocomplete turned out
January 8, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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Two blue Cigna insurance posters on a wall. The right is dark blue. The left is a lighter blue with a headshot of Magic Johnson in a black shirt with his eyes closed. Above him it says “Cigna Healthcare • Magic Johnson” and “magic” and across his chest it says “sounds” To the left of the left poster it says “Brown Boy Down For the Revolution” and covering the right is a whitish, silvery fist holding a golden yellow lightning bolt Below both posters is the artist’s IG: @1983__gemini A picture of the smaller Patterson Park before sunset. The sky is mostly cloudless, a pretty blue transitioning into orange right above the tree line. The sun shines on the baseball diamond and open field while some people play with their dogs
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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Getting vaccinated is an act of love

Walked to the neighborhood Walgreens, read a bit in the waiting area, didn’t cost me anything

Doc said in the future the best time is in October before all the holiday gatherings, but considering it’s peak season, the second best time is now
Excerpt from https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/health/flu-highest-level-25-years : Choosing vaccination is choosing to protect yourself, your family, your friends, your colleagues, and your community.” A partial mirror selfie of me (a Black man wearing a dark heather gray shirt with orange and teal lettering), focus is on my arm with my red Walgreens bandaid
January 6, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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A top down view of two books side by side on a table. On the left is The Historian’s Craft by Marc Bloch and on the right is Refusing to be a Man by John Stoltenberg
January 6, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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Excerpt from https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/health/flu-highest-level-25-years : “In the next 48 hours, if you haven’t been vaccinated, get vaccinated. Don’t wait,” said Dr. Michael Osterholm who directs the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. “You know, you may still be able to protect yourself from the the last parts of the seasonal epidemic, but you know, it takes us, seven to 10 days to develop some immunity relative to the vaccine, and so you don’t have a lot of time to waste,” he added.
January 6, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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A little cartoon black cat sticker on a pole
January 4, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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Might be time for me to reread this one
My copy of “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism”
January 3, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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Despite the circumstances, it’s heartwarming to see all the folks who came out on such short notice braving the cold and for the socialist orgs who showed up to: @pslweb.bsky.social, Black Alliance for Peace, CPUSA
HANDS OFF COLOMBIA & VENEZUELA FUND PEOPLE'S NEEDS, NOT THE WAR MACHINE NON ALANO War is costly. It costs lives, and it costs billions of dollars Since September 2025, the Trump administration has - money that could be spent sustaining life instead of carried out several deadly, illegal air strikes on boats destroying it. Over the last 30 years, the U.S. govern- across the Caribbean, killing over 55 people. Trump ment has almost constantly been at war overseas. Now, claims these are so-called "counter-narcotics opera- the Trump administration is threatening to provoke a tions", but provides no proof that he is not just murder- new war in the Caribbean. In late October 2025, Senator ing local fishermen. Even if the boats were trafficking Lindsey Graham said: drugs, Trump has no right under domestic or international law to act as judge, jury, and executioner. "PRESIDENT TRUMP TOLD ME YESTERDAY THAT HE PLANS TO BRIEF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHEN HE GETS BACK FROM ASIA ABOUT FUTURE POTENTIAL MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST VENEZUELA AND COLOMBIA" This "war on drugs" is just a false pretext to cover up Trump's real motivations. His actions are a continuation of the Monroe Doctrine: a historical foundation of U.S. foreign policy that declared that the U.S. has the right to control Latin America. Trump wants to steal Venezuela's oil - the largest reserves in the world. He wants to destroy governments that stand up to him, as Colombia and Venezuela's both do. As the Trump administration makes massive funding cuts to programs that we rely on to survive, like Medicaid and SNAP, it is simultaneously blowing billions of dollars to provoke regime change in Venezuela, and possibly in Colombia. The people of the Americas need peace and cooperation, not another imperialist war. Everyone in the U.S. should join the international community to condemn Trump's attacks on the people of Latin America. Fund people's needs, not the U.S. war machine! INSTAGRAM: @PSLNational TWITTER: @PSLNational WEB PSLWeb.org, LiberationNews.org FUND PEOPLE'S NEEDS NOT THE U.S. WAR MACHINE BAP BALTIMORE NO COMPROMISE NO RETREAT! SIGN THE PETITION! bit.ly/demilitarize-baltimore DEMILITARIZE BALTIMORE! The inside of a brochure handed out by Black Alliance for Peace detailing their call for a Zone of Peace
January 3, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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BALTIMORE EMERGENCY PROTEST NO WAR ON VENEZUELA STOP THE BOMBINGS! SAT 1/3 2PM CITY HALL (100 HOLLIDAY ST) ANSWERCOALITION.ORG/VENEZUELA
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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My body hurts all over but I’m so happy I got a chance to climb with friends yesterday. It’s been like 6 months and idk, I was worried I’d struggle I guess, that I’d lost too much ground. But it was like coming home. My callouses are gone after all this time, but it just felt right to be on the wall
January 3, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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I love raiding my friends’ bookshelves
A copy of The Body Keeps The Score and We Should All Be Feminists
January 3, 2026 at 1:24 AM