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· Dec 28
Thinking more about it now: Moby Dick is a book about skateboarding
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Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
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Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
We’re so cooked as a country. We need accountability for the genuinely bad faith manipulators and mass deprogramming for the brain-fried manipulated if we’re ever going to live the the same reality again
February 10, 2026 at 4:53 PM
We’re so cooked as a country. We need accountability for the genuinely bad faith manipulators and mass deprogramming for the brain-fried manipulated if we’re ever going to live the the same reality again
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The skate studies community dropped some academic hammers last year. @skateorphi.bsky.social takes us on a comprehensive journey through their work, the trends found within it, and reveals the 2025 SSSOTY.
www.simplemagic.ca/the-state-of...
www.simplemagic.ca/the-state-of...
The State of Skate Studies 2025
Professor Brian Glenney's annual compendium catalogues and analyzes 141 scholarly skateboarding-related books and papers published last year.
www.simplemagic.ca
February 10, 2026 at 4:10 PM
The skate studies community dropped some academic hammers last year. @skateorphi.bsky.social takes us on a comprehensive journey through their work, the trends found within it, and reveals the 2025 SSSOTY.
www.simplemagic.ca/the-state-of...
www.simplemagic.ca/the-state-of...
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The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.
if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed.
everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.
everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.
January 10, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.
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This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.
5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 PM
This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.
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They have tried everything they can think of to distract us and prevent the truth from coming out — posting racist memes and even shutting down the House. But we will not stop until all involved are held accountable and the survivors get justice.
February 9, 2026 at 8:44 PM
They have tried everything they can think of to distract us and prevent the truth from coming out — posting racist memes and even shutting down the House. But we will not stop until all involved are held accountable and the survivors get justice.
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From 1975 to 2023, $79 trillion in wealth was transferred from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
Trump, Extreme Wealth Concentration, and Our Societal Crisis | Common Dreams
The US government simply has not done enough to ensure that the livelihoods of all Americans are protected or improved in this new Gilded Age. What it has done is made sure the rich get richer by the ...
www.commondreams.org
February 9, 2026 at 2:52 PM
From 1975 to 2023, $79 trillion in wealth was transferred from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
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for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI.
one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."
one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."
These are the high schoolers taking a stand against ICE: ‘You can’t let despair take over’
Thousands of students across the US have been walking out of their schools to protest ICE in their communities
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:04 PM
for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI.
one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."
one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."
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As the negotiations over DHS budget continue, please remember: the ICE detention budget alone was exploded in 2025 so it is now 62% greater than the entire Bureau of Prisons. People are not clocking what this infusion of cash to build concentration camps will do to our society.
February 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM
As the negotiations over DHS budget continue, please remember: the ICE detention budget alone was exploded in 2025 so it is now 62% greater than the entire Bureau of Prisons. People are not clocking what this infusion of cash to build concentration camps will do to our society.
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Remember. Your Ring camera is fascist.
The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life
February 9, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Remember. Your Ring camera is fascist.
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I never noticed this either.
February 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I never noticed this either.
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hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 7, 2026 at 3:53 AM
hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
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Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
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Only thing close to natural talent can be how fast someone picks something up or how fast they improve but for real everyone you think of as Talented has worked at it. Ai sloppers just mad they have to work like At All
February 6, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Only thing close to natural talent can be how fast someone picks something up or how fast they improve but for real everyone you think of as Talented has worked at it. Ai sloppers just mad they have to work like At All
THE LEGEND OF PHIL SHAO Documentary
YouTube video by ThrasherMagazine
youtu.be
February 6, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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it’s Bandcamp Friday and there’s no future left to be saving your money for so why not give it to artists you love, who make these last days just that little bit more sweet and endurable.
February 6, 2026 at 1:52 PM
it’s Bandcamp Friday and there’s no future left to be saving your money for so why not give it to artists you love, who make these last days just that little bit more sweet and endurable.
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Okay, so you wanna do a general strike? Here's some real, practical advice on how to make it happen, from conversations with various Minnesota organizers.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Six vital lessons from Minnesota’s general strike
Minneapolis organizers weigh in on how to make the movement go national.
www.motherjones.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Okay, so you wanna do a general strike? Here's some real, practical advice on how to make it happen, from conversations with various Minnesota organizers.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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New Social Network Exclusively For AI Bots https://theonion.com/new-social-network-exclusively-for-ai-bots/
February 5, 2026 at 10:30 PM
New Social Network Exclusively For AI Bots https://theonion.com/new-social-network-exclusively-for-ai-bots/
This is the truth. If anyone’s freedom is conditional or contingent or limited, your freedom is also subject to the whims of whoever holds power. Also, the it’s just and compassionate to way to build a society
No one is free until all are free.
They tell U.S.-born workers that cracking down on immigrants will “protect” us.
@sarahlazare.bsky.social reports the research says the opposite: raids + intimidation mean more wage theft, more dangerous jobs, and a weaker labor movement for everyone.
@sarahlazare.bsky.social reports the research says the opposite: raids + intimidation mean more wage theft, more dangerous jobs, and a weaker labor movement for everyone.
February 5, 2026 at 11:02 PM
This is the truth. If anyone’s freedom is conditional or contingent or limited, your freedom is also subject to the whims of whoever holds power. Also, the it’s just and compassionate to way to build a society
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I can't stop thinking about anthropologist Michael Taussig's book about the terror of the rubber trade in Colombia. In it, he describes how colonizers wantonly tortured Putumayo workers, with violence becoming a culture in itself, for its own sake. Like it was a sunk cost they couldn't escape
January 8, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I can't stop thinking about anthropologist Michael Taussig's book about the terror of the rubber trade in Colombia. In it, he describes how colonizers wantonly tortured Putumayo workers, with violence becoming a culture in itself, for its own sake. Like it was a sunk cost they couldn't escape
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Early in his career, William Randolph Hearst famously joked that if his papers kept losing $1 million a year, he'd lose all his money in 60 years. If the Post continues to lose $100 million a year, it will take Jeff Bezos 2000 years to lose his money.
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Early in his career, William Randolph Hearst famously joked that if his papers kept losing $1 million a year, he'd lose all his money in 60 years. If the Post continues to lose $100 million a year, it will take Jeff Bezos 2000 years to lose his money.
Has anybody DMed him like a man? Tony better be ready to deal with some shit hitting the fan, because spending any time on that island is bad shit that cannot be tolerated
February 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Has anybody DMed him like a man? Tony better be ready to deal with some shit hitting the fan, because spending any time on that island is bad shit that cannot be tolerated