Sam Kam
@samkampix.bsky.social
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Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
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“Thinking is more interesting than knowing but less interesting than looking.”

Goethe
samkampix.bsky.social
“Because real law and order, the kind Locke and Jefferson and Madison risked their necks for, isn’t about domination. It’s about restraint.”

On “Law & Order”

Robert Arnold

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On “Law & Order”
YouTube video by Robert Arnold
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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thebulwark.com
"Some of them do end up being redeemed, but the tragic thing is that all of them are clearly redeemable, if only they’d made different choices." A series of westerns that expertly captured both the genre and much of human nature: www.thebulwark.com/p/randolph-s...
Randolph Scott, Virtuous Loner of the West
Lonesomeness, nobility, and anti-machismo: the ‘Ranown’ westerns are an underappreciated treasure of American cinema.
www.thebulwark.com
samkampix.bsky.social
"temu patton
in front of the american flag
sayin yer all too damn gay
yea yer all too damn fat
all the golden stars and the purple hearts looked dead as spray-on napoleon commander-casino said
get ready boys
look pretty
we're goin into the city"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DguE...
We're Going to the City
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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cwarzel.bsky.social
all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents
eric-reinhart.com
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
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marcelias.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Nashville ruled that the Department of Justice’s criminal case against Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia may be a form of punishment against him for legally challenging his abrupt removal to an El Salvador megaprison earlier this year.
Judge Says DOJ May Be Vindictively Punishing Abrego Garcia for Challenging Removal to El Salvador
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.
bencollins.bsky.social
I am just so fucking proud of her.
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whitehouse.senate.gov
Wanna know whose shutdown this is?

Pay attention to who’s enjoying it.
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united24media.com
⚡️ Drones shut down Munich Airport again.

Airport officials say both runways are closed after drone sightings — the second shutdown in less than 24 hours.
samkampix.bsky.social
"Bob Dylan said money doesn’t talk, it swears. Well, fucking enough already. Trump has seized the means of production (a golden share in U.S. Steel, investments in Intel, carving up TikTok for his donors, and weaponizing institutions so firms bend the knee)." 4/5
samkampix.bsky.social
"If you believe a company shouldn’t let the president dictate its workplace policies, cancel your Target card and purchase a Costco membership. If you’re worried that Trump’s deal to sell TikTok to his cronies will make the platform “100% MAGA,” delete your account." 3/5
samkampix.bsky.social
"Pick an enabler — plenty to choose from, but it’s best to focus on a brand you actually spend money with. Make noise when you cancel and show receipts on social media. State a clear demand. Keep going." 2/5
samkampix.bsky.social
"Rather than a general strike (difficult) against authoritarianism (vague), I believe we need targeted boycotts with clear demands directed at Trump’s enablers. The math is simple: You have power, and they need your money more than you need their product." 1/5
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reazlepuff.bsky.social
What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
phillewis.bsky.social
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.
A photo of Diddy
samkampix.bsky.social
“Art doesn’t have to talk about politics to be political or to change the world. Artists are here to open us, to make us feel more in touch with others and connected and empathetic. That’s what art does.” Jehnny Beth
samkampix.bsky.social
Oliver Kornetzke

"Don’t let this pack of soulless fucks scare you. Point and laugh at them. Mock them so hard it makes their empty skulls ring. Parody every last rotten inch of their dogshit circus until the whole thing looks as pathetic as it really is." substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Big Scary Government, Tiny Balls
I keep seeing people post that the new White House memorandum on “anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-Christian rhetoric or activities” terrifies them.
substack.com
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pgourevitch.bsky.social
can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller
samkampix.bsky.social
"No matter how the war unfolds in the coming months, the memory of the Russian invasion, of Russian atrocities and of Ukrainian sacrifices, will continue to sustain Ukrainian patriotism for generations to come." Yuval Noah Harari www.ft.com/content/2a4d...
Why Ukraine is winning the war
Russia has failed to achieve its core aim — the destruction of the Ukrainian nation
www.ft.com
samkampix.bsky.social
"Human history is rife with contentions about the purity (and superiority) of the bloodlines of one group over another and claims over ancestral homelands.

More than a decade of work on ancient human DNA has upended it all." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
news.harvard.edu
samkampix.bsky.social
“When those systems decay—when the Supreme Court becomes a theater of cruelty, when Congress becomes a marketplace of bribes, when executive power becomes an altar for sociopaths—I refuse to bow.” open.substack.com/pub/oliverko...
The Clarity of Collapse: I Belong to Earth, Not Empire
As often it is with events in our lives that bring chaos and uncertainty, reflection and contemplation—and perhaps clarity—comes with it.
open.substack.com
samkampix.bsky.social
"When we try to find our politics neatly reflected back to us in each of these acts, we forget that the bullet itself is often the message. It’s a desperate act in a world where no words are left." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/m...
Political Violence Isn’t New. But Something About This Moment Is.
www.nytimes.com