Spencer Tyrel
@spencertyrel.bsky.social
For Whom the Bell Skyhooks. he/him.
Hell yeah. I wanna wake up to this every morning.
Minneapolis residents chase ICE out of Cedar-Riverside. @engy5150.bsky.social took the video, @wentrogue.bsky.social identified the neighborhood
December 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Hell yeah. I wanna wake up to this every morning.
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Bluesky, a lot of you are sharing this but not subscribing to the newsletter, let alone paying for it! Do your part to make sure this social media platform is a viable means to sustain independent journalism! I am Pat Spencer dropping bucket after bucket to let you know I’m that motherfucker!
December 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Bluesky, a lot of you are sharing this but not subscribing to the newsletter, let alone paying for it! Do your part to make sure this social media platform is a viable means to sustain independent journalism! I am Pat Spencer dropping bucket after bucket to let you know I’m that motherfucker!
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In these dark times for news media, sometimes we lose sight of why a healthy society needs journalism in the first place.
It’s good when we get notes like these to remind us.
It’s good when we get notes like these to remind us.
November 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
In these dark times for news media, sometimes we lose sight of why a healthy society needs journalism in the first place.
It’s good when we get notes like these to remind us.
It’s good when we get notes like these to remind us.
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If I had to diagnose the cause of the "Bluesky malaise" as @kleinman.bsky.social calls it, I would describe it as a lot of people without the skills or resources or interest in journalism or activism mistakenly believing that being performatively miserable all the time will net the same results.
December 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
If I had to diagnose the cause of the "Bluesky malaise" as @kleinman.bsky.social calls it, I would describe it as a lot of people without the skills or resources or interest in journalism or activism mistakenly believing that being performatively miserable all the time will net the same results.
just bought a year subscription for a friend and now I'm gonna upgrade. roth is truly a delight every time and now I'm thinking year subs for my whole extended family — especially in the midwest. heaven knows they need it.
i asked @davidjroth.bsky.social to write a "a quick 2-3 graf sub appeal" based on his typically excellent blog earlier this week. because he can only be himself, roth turned in 600 original words, trimmed down and reproduced here. if you also liked reading this, consider a sub: defector.com/products
December 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
just bought a year subscription for a friend and now I'm gonna upgrade. roth is truly a delight every time and now I'm thinking year subs for my whole extended family — especially in the midwest. heaven knows they need it.
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Addressing the claim that America was built by "hard working people" by reminding everyone that America was *actually* built on the backs of enslaved Africans and on the genocide of Indigenous people.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Addressing the claim that America was built by "hard working people" by reminding everyone that America was *actually* built on the backs of enslaved Africans and on the genocide of Indigenous people.
Support my advocacy: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
Support my advocacy: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
too big. too springy. watching him in college you could tell it was an anatomical impossibility he'd be available all the time at the next level. game is too fast now. round mound of rebound would also have this issue in the modern game.
New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson will miss extended time with a right adductor injury, sources tell ESPN. He will be re-evaluated in three weeks.
December 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
too big. too springy. watching him in college you could tell it was an anatomical impossibility he'd be available all the time at the next level. game is too fast now. round mound of rebound would also have this issue in the modern game.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
weak ass, sniveling dems. if I didn't need to help primary them I'd already go independent. just the most ineffectual people on the planet.
December 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
weak ass, sniveling dems. if I didn't need to help primary them I'd already go independent. just the most ineffectual people on the planet.
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I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
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Ngl I’ve always had huge issues with university departments of education, which are often grifter hubs for the accumulation of capital to push expensive fads on to teachers, but this is abysmal even by their standards. (This is not to shade all academics who study education before you yell at me).
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Ngl I’ve always had huge issues with university departments of education, which are often grifter hubs for the accumulation of capital to push expensive fads on to teachers, but this is abysmal even by their standards. (This is not to shade all academics who study education before you yell at me).
This year we did two the night before.
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This year we did two the night before.
I make an extra pumpkin pie every Thanksgiving and stick it in the fridge first thing. Then, I gorge on it all Friday morning. The cold solidifies it and the consistency is so much better. My family is not allowed to touch this fridge one and I don't eat the hot one on Thursday.
So my pie take is there are no bad pies, but some pies have to be eaten a certain way:
1. Pecan: Always good
2. Fruit: Must be homemade. Otherwise bad.
3. Pumpkin: Best eaten cold at 7 am standing over a sink before everyone wakes up
1. Pecan: Always good
2. Fruit: Must be homemade. Otherwise bad.
3. Pumpkin: Best eaten cold at 7 am standing over a sink before everyone wakes up
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I make an extra pumpkin pie every Thanksgiving and stick it in the fridge first thing. Then, I gorge on it all Friday morning. The cold solidifies it and the consistency is so much better. My family is not allowed to touch this fridge one and I don't eat the hot one on Thursday.
BEFORE jokic's first mvp, I was on a call w/ one of my very best friends, a professor in Boulder and huge hoop head. we concluded that he might be the greatest offensive force in nba history; never felt more prescient.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
BEFORE jokic's first mvp, I was on a call w/ one of my very best friends, a professor in Boulder and huge hoop head. we concluded that he might be the greatest offensive force in nba history; never felt more prescient.
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When I say that locking mothers in the suburbs with small children breaks them? This is what I mean.
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
When I say that locking mothers in the suburbs with small children breaks them? This is what I mean.
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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Racism is so powerful in America it’s our greatest intellectual export
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Racism is so powerful in America it’s our greatest intellectual export
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
based off the actions of the majority of the elected legislature, our "leaders" don't either.
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
based off the actions of the majority of the elected legislature, our "leaders" don't either.
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the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
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As @lastweektonight.com covered tonight, local public media stations across the country are in crisis. You can help out by going to adoptastation.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM
As @lastweektonight.com covered tonight, local public media stations across the country are in crisis. You can help out by going to adoptastation.org