Tyler Finken
@t-fink.bsky.social
Masters Student of Degrowth, Political Ecology, and Environmental Justice at UAB
Neurospicy - Anti-Capitalist - Anti-Colonialist
Neurospicy - Anti-Capitalist - Anti-Colonialist
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After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas.
ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.
ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.
January 15, 2026 at 5:11 AM
After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas.
ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.
ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.
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if you told me a year ago that eric adams would be involved in a multimillion dollar crypto rug pull i probably would have said “yeah that sounds right”
January 13, 2026 at 3:49 PM
if you told me a year ago that eric adams would be involved in a multimillion dollar crypto rug pull i probably would have said “yeah that sounds right”
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Is China doing "colonialism" in Africa?
Here I argue that equating China’s activities in Africa to Western colonialism/imperialism is not only empirically incorrect, it trivialises the extraordinary violence of the latter. It is a form of denialism.
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/is-china-d...
Here I argue that equating China’s activities in Africa to Western colonialism/imperialism is not only empirically incorrect, it trivialises the extraordinary violence of the latter. It is a form of denialism.
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/is-china-d...
Is China doing "colonialism" in Africa?
Western claims are contradicted by empirical evidence.
jasonhickel.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Is China doing "colonialism" in Africa?
Here I argue that equating China’s activities in Africa to Western colonialism/imperialism is not only empirically incorrect, it trivialises the extraordinary violence of the latter. It is a form of denialism.
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/is-china-d...
Here I argue that equating China’s activities in Africa to Western colonialism/imperialism is not only empirically incorrect, it trivialises the extraordinary violence of the latter. It is a form of denialism.
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/is-china-d...
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The protestors in Nepal were flying Straw Hit Pirates flags. Fandom is a much more powerful motivator than political theory these days because we exist in a realm of politics that is essentially a form of fandom. Sorry but Marx and Lenin are dead; long live Luffy and Luthen.
January 8, 2026 at 6:52 PM
The protestors in Nepal were flying Straw Hit Pirates flags. Fandom is a much more powerful motivator than political theory these days because we exist in a realm of politics that is essentially a form of fandom. Sorry but Marx and Lenin are dead; long live Luffy and Luthen.
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We should all sit with this ICE murder. Any one of us could be executed by ICE, and our government wouldn’t bat an eye. Instead they’d just lie about us to the world.
January 7, 2026 at 9:39 PM
We should all sit with this ICE murder. Any one of us could be executed by ICE, and our government wouldn’t bat an eye. Instead they’d just lie about us to the world.
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i think what gets overlooked is that part of the humor and charm of edits like these is that you're perfectly aware that someone sat down and spent their own time making it. they chose to do something cool or silly or stupid or genius, regardless of the results
that human element elevates the work
that human element elevates the work
Who needs AI when we had stuff like this? I’ll take photoshop edits over the slop any day
December 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
i think what gets overlooked is that part of the humor and charm of edits like these is that you're perfectly aware that someone sat down and spent their own time making it. they chose to do something cool or silly or stupid or genius, regardless of the results
that human element elevates the work
that human element elevates the work
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"This perspective assumes that decisions about economic policy are made based on rational, intelectual discussion - when in fact they are determined by class struggle between different interest groups"
We already live in a perpetual state of class warfare. It’s called capitalism.
The socialist response is not to convince the ruling class to play nice (or 'learn MMT'). The socialist response is to support people to fight back.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/on-mmt
The socialist response is not to convince the ruling class to play nice (or 'learn MMT'). The socialist response is to support people to fight back.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/on-mmt
On MMT
Does the left want paternalistic technocracy, or democratic socialism?
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"This perspective assumes that decisions about economic policy are made based on rational, intelectual discussion - when in fact they are determined by class struggle between different interest groups"
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There's no world where Trump is going to release information that destroys his Presidency for his billionaire pedophile friends. He's going to release Epstein files that incriminate his enemies while redacting anything that would destroy him under the guise of "national security"
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
There's no world where Trump is going to release information that destroys his Presidency for his billionaire pedophile friends. He's going to release Epstein files that incriminate his enemies while redacting anything that would destroy him under the guise of "national security"
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Iowa City made buses free in August 2023 with a goal of lowering emissions and encouraging people to take public transit.
Now ridership is up, traffic is down, and the program is extremely popular.
So popular that the City Council has voted to extend it for another year.
Now ridership is up, traffic is down, and the program is extremely popular.
So popular that the City Council has voted to extend it for another year.
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Iowa City made buses free in August 2023 with a goal of lowering emissions and encouraging people to take public transit.
Now ridership is up, traffic is down, and the program is extremely popular.
So popular that the City Council has voted to extend it for another year.
Now ridership is up, traffic is down, and the program is extremely popular.
So popular that the City Council has voted to extend it for another year.
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From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays
Black-Owned Farms Fill Gaps Left by SNAP Funding Delays
From North Carolina to Mississippi, small businesses work to feed their communities while benefits are paused.
capitalbnews.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays
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look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists
October 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists
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"For as long as billionaires exist, they will continue to treat our governments like piggy banks.
From lobbying against climate action, to funding powerful think tanks, to donating to political parties, their fortunes give them a veto over the future."
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/why-we-nee...
From lobbying against climate action, to funding powerful think tanks, to donating to political parties, their fortunes give them a veto over the future."
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/why-we-nee...
Why We Need Wealth Taxes
Extreme wealth undermines equality, justice, and democracy.
graceblakeley.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"For as long as billionaires exist, they will continue to treat our governments like piggy banks.
From lobbying against climate action, to funding powerful think tanks, to donating to political parties, their fortunes give them a veto over the future."
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/why-we-nee...
From lobbying against climate action, to funding powerful think tanks, to donating to political parties, their fortunes give them a veto over the future."
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/why-we-nee...
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“Until we confront the climate emergency and the corporate capture of our food system, inflation will remain a permanent feature of daily life.“
Read my latest on the structural causes of food price inflation
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
Read my latest on the structural causes of food price inflation
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
What's Driving Food Price Inflation?
Tariffs, climate breakdown, and the corporate capture of global agriculture.
open.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“Until we confront the climate emergency and the corporate capture of our food system, inflation will remain a permanent feature of daily life.“
Read my latest on the structural causes of food price inflation
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
Read my latest on the structural causes of food price inflation
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
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It’s gonna be so weird watching establishment dems be performatively sadder about this than they were about the colleague and her husband and dog who got shot and killed
September 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It’s gonna be so weird watching establishment dems be performatively sadder about this than they were about the colleague and her husband and dog who got shot and killed
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Will be interesting to see which news outlets omit his years of violent white nationalism. I'm guessing practically every single one.
September 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Will be interesting to see which news outlets omit his years of violent white nationalism. I'm guessing practically every single one.
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Newsom is proof that if Trump was more clean cut and well spoken liberals wouldn’t have a problem with Trump
August 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Newsom is proof that if Trump was more clean cut and well spoken liberals wouldn’t have a problem with Trump
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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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no it’s actually because of the slavery
June 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
no it’s actually because of the slavery
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*the national guard shooting protesters*
liberals: look what you did because you didn’t vote
liberals: look what you did because you didn’t vote
May 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
*the national guard shooting protesters*
liberals: look what you did because you didn’t vote
liberals: look what you did because you didn’t vote
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Students are re-establishing their encampment at
@uab.cat . "We denounce that the university continues to maintain links with Israeli academic institutions and companies that are accomplices in the genocide."
Read their demands here: uabacciopalestina.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/a...
@uab.cat . "We denounce that the university continues to maintain links with Israeli academic institutions and companies that are accomplices in the genocide."
Read their demands here: uabacciopalestina.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/a...
Academic Boycott Now!
UAB Acció per Palestina on UAB’s complicity with Israel’s war on Gaza and the West Bank: a statement and our demands. On Thursday, May 22, a Senate will be held at the Autonomous University o…
uabacciopalestina.wordpress.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Students are re-establishing their encampment at
@uab.cat . "We denounce that the university continues to maintain links with Israeli academic institutions and companies that are accomplices in the genocide."
Read their demands here: uabacciopalestina.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/a...
@uab.cat . "We denounce that the university continues to maintain links with Israeli academic institutions and companies that are accomplices in the genocide."
Read their demands here: uabacciopalestina.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/a...
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Brooklyn bus stop ads being replaced with guerilla public service announcements.
May 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Brooklyn bus stop ads being replaced with guerilla public service announcements.
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So far, Nate Silver and Matt Yglesias have come out against this piece which means you know with 100% certainty that Ed is correct and you should listen to what he’s saying
Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop.
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
Reality Check
I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this and still, to this day, people are babbling about the "AI revolution" as the sky rains blood and crevices open...
www.wheresyoured.at
April 30, 2025 at 5:49 AM
So far, Nate Silver and Matt Yglesias have come out against this piece which means you know with 100% certainty that Ed is correct and you should listen to what he’s saying
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I saw it in 2017 at the women's march. Honestly, I feel jaded and cynical about this. We've been doing these mass protests for 8 plus years and somehow we're still worse off. Power doesn't care about peaceful protests like this. They can be ignored and will be.
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I saw it in 2017 at the women's march. Honestly, I feel jaded and cynical about this. We've been doing these mass protests for 8 plus years and somehow we're still worse off. Power doesn't care about peaceful protests like this. They can be ignored and will be.
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joining the military is the most societally cucked thing you could do
March 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
joining the military is the most societally cucked thing you could do