Shjade
@shajde.bsky.social
Shjade from the other bird place. Cis, he/him, ace. Banner art by @zeichenleere, pfp by @Kruh33 (not sure if either of them are here)
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If this was any other set of medical treatments, the entire medical community would be scrambling to study how they could improve their own treatments.
January 14, 2026 at 8:32 PM
If this was any other set of medical treatments, the entire medical community would be scrambling to study how they could improve their own treatments.
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Mike Johnson compellingly making the case for abolishing ICE ...
Mike Johnson: "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do"
Mike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it.
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
January 14, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Mike Johnson compellingly making the case for abolishing ICE ...
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think it’s time to start treating cbs news links the way sensible people treat free press links, by which i mean ignoring them and not spreading them
January 14, 2026 at 6:44 PM
think it’s time to start treating cbs news links the way sensible people treat free press links, by which i mean ignoring them and not spreading them
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i think it’s pretty fair to consider CBS straight fascist government media, trumps administration is clearly drip feeding them narratives and “scoops” and obviously CBS will run them with zero regard for fact
January 14, 2026 at 6:34 PM
i think it’s pretty fair to consider CBS straight fascist government media, trumps administration is clearly drip feeding them narratives and “scoops” and obviously CBS will run them with zero regard for fact
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ICE took a cell phone. Cops on Atlanta took over $100 million from travelers, mostly Black, and didn't even pretend to charge most of them with a crime.
So yes, cops do beat up 10th graders. And cops do steal cash and other items of value from innocent people.
So yes, cops do beat up 10th graders. And cops do steal cash and other items of value from innocent people.
January 14, 2026 at 8:47 PM
ICE took a cell phone. Cops on Atlanta took over $100 million from travelers, mostly Black, and didn't even pretend to charge most of them with a crime.
So yes, cops do beat up 10th graders. And cops do steal cash and other items of value from innocent people.
So yes, cops do beat up 10th graders. And cops do steal cash and other items of value from innocent people.
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Unfortunately, this is the part where I remind people that Black 10th graders get beat up by cops every day.
This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.
This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.
It is in no way “law enforcement” to beat up an American 10th grader and steal and sell his possessions.
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 14, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Unfortunately, this is the part where I remind people that Black 10th graders get beat up by cops every day.
This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.
This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.
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This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
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This article is a must-read. It matches my own experience of seeing conservative judges go from often siding with trans plaintiffs prior to 2021 to being outwardly hostile. Judges don't live in a hermetically sealed chamber. They absorbed anti-trans propaganda.
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How the Conservative Movement’s Anti-Trans Crusade Brought the Supreme Court to Heel
Six years ago, the Court issued a landmark decision protecting the civil rights of trans people. Republicans set about making sure that that would never happen again.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 14, 2026 at 6:33 PM
This article is a must-read. It matches my own experience of seeing conservative judges go from often siding with trans plaintiffs prior to 2021 to being outwardly hostile. Judges don't live in a hermetically sealed chamber. They absorbed anti-trans propaganda.
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Everyone loves a rebel song!
With contributions from
@asherelbein.bsky.social , @halduncan.com , @maybewill.bsky.social , and yours truly:
With contributions from
@asherelbein.bsky.social , @halduncan.com , @maybewill.bsky.social , and yours truly:
January 14, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Everyone loves a rebel song!
With contributions from
@asherelbein.bsky.social , @halduncan.com , @maybewill.bsky.social , and yours truly:
With contributions from
@asherelbein.bsky.social , @halduncan.com , @maybewill.bsky.social , and yours truly:
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ICYMI: This piece of mine published late last night
For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I wrote about the simultaneous mainstream media erasure of Renee Good's queerness and the right wing amplification of it as a post hoc justification for her murder. xtramagazine.com/power/activi...
Renee Nicole Good’s queerness isn’t an aside—it’s a key part of her story | Xtra Magazine
We can’t ignore the misogyny and homophobia baked into Good’s killing—and erasing her wife does just that
xtramagazine.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:04 PM
ICYMI: This piece of mine published late last night
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Me getting shot by ICE while trying to scan his QR code: oh man you are SO in for it when I get signal
January 14, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Me getting shot by ICE while trying to scan his QR code: oh man you are SO in for it when I get signal
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I hate that these fucking people have pushed me into a place where I’m simultaneously trying to maintain a personal ethos where every person has a right to dignity and humane treatment, and also being slammed in the face with the prospect that the world would be much better if some folks just died
January 14, 2026 at 6:09 PM
I hate that these fucking people have pushed me into a place where I’m simultaneously trying to maintain a personal ethos where every person has a right to dignity and humane treatment, and also being slammed in the face with the prospect that the world would be much better if some folks just died
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If you cannot make “these people are leaving BABIES in CARS in WINTER and then returning them to their carekeepers with BRUISES” into popular sentiment as a politician, you’re either inept or you want this to keep happening.
January 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM
If you cannot make “these people are leaving BABIES in CARS in WINTER and then returning them to their carekeepers with BRUISES” into popular sentiment as a politician, you’re either inept or you want this to keep happening.
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They beat up a tenth grader! (Who is a US citizen, but it shouldn’t matter, why the fuck do you beat up a kid.)
They stole his phone and tried to resell it!
They stole his phone and tried to resell it!
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...
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
January 14, 2026 at 3:07 PM
They beat up a tenth grader! (Who is a US citizen, but it shouldn’t matter, why the fuck do you beat up a kid.)
They stole his phone and tried to resell it!
They stole his phone and tried to resell it!
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Just to be clear about what's happening w CBS News:
Larry Ellison is acquiring a media empire to spread right-wing, billionaire-enabling, hypercapitalist propaganda.
He purchased Paramount to get CBS. He's taking over US TikTok next week. He's attempting a hostile takeover of WBD to control CNN.
Larry Ellison is acquiring a media empire to spread right-wing, billionaire-enabling, hypercapitalist propaganda.
He purchased Paramount to get CBS. He's taking over US TikTok next week. He's attempting a hostile takeover of WBD to control CNN.
January 14, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Just to be clear about what's happening w CBS News:
Larry Ellison is acquiring a media empire to spread right-wing, billionaire-enabling, hypercapitalist propaganda.
He purchased Paramount to get CBS. He's taking over US TikTok next week. He's attempting a hostile takeover of WBD to control CNN.
Larry Ellison is acquiring a media empire to spread right-wing, billionaire-enabling, hypercapitalist propaganda.
He purchased Paramount to get CBS. He's taking over US TikTok next week. He's attempting a hostile takeover of WBD to control CNN.
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Us: Abolish ICE!
Democrats: How about we make the ICE agents have QR codes so after you're murdered in cold blood your corpse can scan it and find out who killed you? 👍
Democrats: How about we make the ICE agents have QR codes so after you're murdered in cold blood your corpse can scan it and find out who killed you? 👍
January 14, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Us: Abolish ICE!
Democrats: How about we make the ICE agents have QR codes so after you're murdered in cold blood your corpse can scan it and find out who killed you? 👍
Democrats: How about we make the ICE agents have QR codes so after you're murdered in cold blood your corpse can scan it and find out who killed you? 👍
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There was a discussion on here - argument really - about the utility of "posting as praxis" and since it's been quiet on that front and I never wanted people to take a comment personally from me, I think I can weigh in and give what I hope is a dialectical approach to speech on the internet briefly.
January 14, 2026 at 4:56 PM
There was a discussion on here - argument really - about the utility of "posting as praxis" and since it's been quiet on that front and I never wanted people to take a comment personally from me, I think I can weigh in and give what I hope is a dialectical approach to speech on the internet briefly.
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laying the groundwork for the election theft
BREAKING: Supreme Court allows candidate challenges to state ballot-counting rules.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the court's opinion, allowing the challenge to “Illinois’s procedure for counting mail-in ballots received after election day" to proceed.
The latest at Law Dork:
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the court's opinion, allowing the challenge to “Illinois’s procedure for counting mail-in ballots received after election day" to proceed.
The latest at Law Dork:
Supreme Court allows candidate challenges to state ballot-counting rules
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the court's opinion, allowing the challenge to “Illinois’s procedure for counting mail-in ballots received after election day" to proceed.
www.lawdork.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
laying the groundwork for the election theft
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“Stop crying about Google Glass and get used to how it’s going to accelerate the blending of the public and the private. Yes, it’s scary...The sooner you adapt, the sooner you’ll be able to profit from it instead of being paralyzed by it.” Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Computerworld (May 2013)
The funny thing is that you can see these exact same articles written about Google Glass in 2012. Casting them as inevitable is part of the hype cycle.
You Won’t Be Able to Escape Smart Glasses in 2026
Meta is betting big on AI eyewear, with production of its Ray-Ban collaboration expected to hit 10 million pairs annually by the end of the year. But will the tech-ified accessory ever actually be con...
www.gq.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:42 PM
“Stop crying about Google Glass and get used to how it’s going to accelerate the blending of the public and the private. Yes, it’s scary...The sooner you adapt, the sooner you’ll be able to profit from it instead of being paralyzed by it.” Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Computerworld (May 2013)
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Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine notes that his Republican colleagues only seem concerned about coerced abortions—and not *coerced pregnancies* due to abortion bans
January 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine notes that his Republican colleagues only seem concerned about coerced abortions—and not *coerced pregnancies* due to abortion bans
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Hassan: "the murder rate, the assault rate on pregnant women by their partners to end a pregnancy has been a long-standing part of human history, so the blame it on mifepristone misses the point to say that women shouldn't be able to get this medication through the mail."
Sen. Maggie Hassan just disclosed her own experience with miscarriage, too.
She calls the hearing "gaslighting at the highest level," pointing out the long history of men hurting women to end their pregnancies, which can't be blamed on mifepristone.
She calls the hearing "gaslighting at the highest level," pointing out the long history of men hurting women to end their pregnancies, which can't be blamed on mifepristone.
January 14, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Hassan: "the murder rate, the assault rate on pregnant women by their partners to end a pregnancy has been a long-standing part of human history, so the blame it on mifepristone misses the point to say that women shouldn't be able to get this medication through the mail."
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The moral panic over the existence of trans people isn't just aimed at Republicans, though. Basic legal protections for trans people are now less popular *among Democrats* than they were three years ago. An unconsionable failure of Democratic leadership. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
January 14, 2026 at 5:22 PM
The moral panic over the existence of trans people isn't just aimed at Republicans, though. Basic legal protections for trans people are now less popular *among Democrats* than they were three years ago. An unconsionable failure of Democratic leadership. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Every time I see someone yammering about abolish ICE / policing and how DEEPLY UNPOPULAR it is, I want to remind them that the GOP abolished Roe v. Wade and that was also deeply, deeply unpopular, and here they are, in charge of everything still.
January 14, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Every time I see someone yammering about abolish ICE / policing and how DEEPLY UNPOPULAR it is, I want to remind them that the GOP abolished Roe v. Wade and that was also deeply, deeply unpopular, and here they are, in charge of everything still.
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just a really good essay from bhatt on how antifeminism has used nationalism to dress itself up as feminism--and why this is so tightly connected with debates about heteropessimism and, ultimately, the love/hate relationship with lesbian feminists
"do i hate her or do i want to be her"
"yes"
"do i hate her or do i want to be her"
"yes"
@taliabhatt.itch.io remains one of the most exciting feminists working today, and now she's back cutting right into a queasy seam of the contemporary consensus--namely, the way that feminists and leftists "reconciled" themselves, and why it might be
bullshit
bullshit
Political Heterosexuality, or: The Tragedy of Feminism
On the specter that is haunting feminism.
taliabhattwrites.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:39 PM
just a really good essay from bhatt on how antifeminism has used nationalism to dress itself up as feminism--and why this is so tightly connected with debates about heteropessimism and, ultimately, the love/hate relationship with lesbian feminists
"do i hate her or do i want to be her"
"yes"
"do i hate her or do i want to be her"
"yes"
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Dear sweet Jesus, these photos from after they drag her away are even worse. (h/t @mprnews.org, doing the Lord's work).
www.instagram.com/reel/DTdrPvZ...
www.instagram.com/reel/DTdrPvZ...
MPR News on Instagram: "On Tuesday, Jan. 13, a woman in south Minneapolis was stopped by ICE, pulled from her car and carried by agents into their vehicle. As she was being carried the woman told agen...
3,476 likes, 207 comments - mprnews on January 13, 2026: "On Tuesday, Jan. 13, a woman in south Minneapolis was stopped by ICE, pulled from her car and carried by agents into their vehicle. As she was...
www.instagram.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Dear sweet Jesus, these photos from after they drag her away are even worse. (h/t @mprnews.org, doing the Lord's work).
www.instagram.com/reel/DTdrPvZ...
www.instagram.com/reel/DTdrPvZ...