Justin
Justin
@architectskodes.bsky.social
Architect, urbanist, flaneur, cat dad, muž, and traveler.
It is. It’s piracy and illegal.
The rest of the world should condemning the USAs actions against Venezuela. A decade of crippling economic sanctions … thousands dead and impoverished by the US.
December 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Reposted by Justin
I really think putting staggeringly dumb rich people who are also total jerks in charge of everything was a bad call.
November 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Reposted by Justin
What we must all remember from the Gaza genocide is that the international system is rotten to its core and needs to be completely replaced.

We cannot accept a system where Western governments and leaders can commit genocide and war crimes with total impunity.
October 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Reposted by Justin
“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.
Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’
Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs
www.independent.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reposted by Justin
Israeli drone footage shows the destruction in Gaza:
October 6, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Reposted by Justin
Anyone proposing that an official be allowed to revoke the passport of a citizen for criticizing *this* country would be rightly regarded as batshit insane and deeply hostile to this country's laws and traditions.

Proposing that they can do that if we criticize some *other* country?

Fuck. That.
September 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Reposted by Justin
The bills to renew the Cap & Trade program just passed, including:
* $200 million in continuous funding for transit service.
* $400 m in continuous funding for transit & rail capital
* $800 m for affordable housing near transit
* $125 m for transit passes
* ongoing funding for high speed rail
September 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Reposted by Justin
he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest
September 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Reposted by Justin
i dont think multiple democratic governors should have lowered flags to half mast for a racist who said gay people should be stoned. i dont think a democratic governor should have called for continuing "the work" of a man who said mlk was a myth and evil.

is that too much to ask? ffs.
What are you blathering on about? “We knew what the right would do Democrats fell for it” fell for what ? What is it that you wanted them to do that they didn’t do What do you Oliver think needs to be done?
The minute Kirk died we all knew the right would do this and yet a cavalcade of Democrats fell for it, including Newsom and Polis. Why the fuck after decades of this are leaders in the Democratic Party so fucking stupid?
September 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Reposted by Justin
calling it the department of war is so incredibly stupid and obvious pure slop for the MAGA hogs but it might be so blatantly evil that maybe it would be easier to call for defunding it in the future
September 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Reposted by Justin
Thread, on how LA and MS are sending NatGuard troops to DC even as homicide rates are higher in many of their own cities, and even as Trump guts federal funding for any and all programs that reduce crime but don't use a gun.

Social control, not safety. Over and over and over and over.
Gutting such programs for crime control, said @johnpfaff.bsky.social means "your focus is clearly not about reducing crime, it’s about intimidation and social control. And this is made all the more clear by where federal troops deployed — not where the crime is, but where the cameras will be." 5/5
September 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Reposted by Justin
What are they teaching in schools these days. Are they still saying that the government has three branches and all that
August 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Reposted by Justin
The problem is that any form of technological innovation that occurs under the existing regime of fascism, surveillance capitalism and empire will be used to further the domination of an inhumane elite.

We are not threatened by new technology, but by the system that give technologists control.
July 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Reposted by Justin
Yes
July 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Reposted by Justin
They are doing Defund The Police in reverse: Gutting the social safety net and giving unlimited power to a vast, violent gestapo to deal with the consequences.
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk

Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).

Senate passed it 51-50.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
July 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Reposted by Justin
1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
July 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Reposted by Justin
elon musk’s body count will end up being higher than most wars and most of the worst most oppressive regimes in history
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
What good is “order” if there is no justice. Without justice there can be no peace. Peace produces “order”. “Order” cannot be forced to create peace. The fascist right wants order for order’s sake and holds it above all else.
June 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Reposted by Justin
Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines

"These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"
June 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Reposted by Justin
You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary
June 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Reposted by Justin
There is this very surreal feeling when you are planning out hopeful events for 5-6 months away while also stockpiling medication, checking your go bag, and making sure you are ready to leave your home at the drop of a hat. Also you are working all day like nothing is going on in the wider world.
May 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Reposted by Justin
I don't care if it's bad sloganeering: we need to abolish ICE, we need to smash the entire carceral immigration system with a fucking hammer. We have come to a point where it's legally okay for absolute thugs to hold you in confinement for weeks with less process than even the pettiest criminal.
Everyone should notice that they are VERY deliberately deporting precisely the people who are attempting to work legally within the system.

The whole line about how "I'm just against illegal immigration" is bullshit. It always was.
USCIS tricked a Kansas mom into showing up for a spousal interview for her green card appointment—it was a trap for ICE to detain her. www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...
April 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Reposted by Justin
Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Reposted by Justin
Kate’s new piece on Trump, architecture, real estate, and the ACSA is stellar @katewagner.bsky.social

www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Real Estate Is the Key to Trump’s Worldview
His policies and behavior may often baffle, but he is a developer at heart.
www.thenation.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Trump take egg at grocery store today
April 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM