Artie Hartsell 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
@artiehartsell.bsky.social
they/he || BSW/MSW || Southern || at the intersection of organizing, liberatory faith, and LGBTQ+ inclusion || abolitionist || opinions, mine.
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NCGOP spokesman appears to be threatening @propublica.org's @dougbockclark.bsky.social with retaliation by the Trump administration for reporting on a state Supreme Court justice www.propublica.org/article/paul...
October 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
NCGOP spokesman appears to be threatening @propublica.org's @dougbockclark.bsky.social with retaliation by the Trump administration for reporting on a state Supreme Court justice www.propublica.org/article/paul...
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It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
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Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."
September 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."
As a trans, I am sorry for
1 mass shootings (still trying to figure this one out)
2 shutting down the government
3 being a [looking at notes]… terr0rist
Didn’t know I had it in me tbh
them.visitlink.me/6TsiZD
1 mass shootings (still trying to figure this one out)
2 shutting down the government
3 being a [looking at notes]… terr0rist
Didn’t know I had it in me tbh
them.visitlink.me/6TsiZD
September 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
As a trans, I am sorry for
1 mass shootings (still trying to figure this one out)
2 shutting down the government
3 being a [looking at notes]… terr0rist
Didn’t know I had it in me tbh
them.visitlink.me/6TsiZD
1 mass shootings (still trying to figure this one out)
2 shutting down the government
3 being a [looking at notes]… terr0rist
Didn’t know I had it in me tbh
them.visitlink.me/6TsiZD
I didn’t see Jimmy Kimmel crying for CK. I saw a man who went through something stressful on a global stage, with a lot of employees who rely on him, and who has been getting threats.
Like him or not, I saw a nervous system response.
Like him or not, I saw a nervous system response.
September 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I didn’t see Jimmy Kimmel crying for CK. I saw a man who went through something stressful on a global stage, with a lot of employees who rely on him, and who has been getting threats.
Like him or not, I saw a nervous system response.
Like him or not, I saw a nervous system response.
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All three people who were hit by the sniper in Dallas were ICE detainees.
September 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
All three people who were hit by the sniper in Dallas were ICE detainees.
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a Reichstag fire, but one of them every week
September 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
a Reichstag fire, but one of them every week
Every Democrat with 2028 ambitions is showing their hand by throwing trans student athletes under the bus: Gavin Newsome, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris
People want an alternative vision of economic safety outside of fascism. That's not it.
People want an alternative vision of economic safety outside of fascism. That's not it.
September 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Every Democrat with 2028 ambitions is showing their hand by throwing trans student athletes under the bus: Gavin Newsome, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris
People want an alternative vision of economic safety outside of fascism. That's not it.
People want an alternative vision of economic safety outside of fascism. That's not it.
I keep trying to click "cancel" for my Hulu Bundle, and it starts to load the page and then goes back to the account main page.
September 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I keep trying to click "cancel" for my Hulu Bundle, and it starts to load the page and then goes back to the account main page.
Evergreen
Can we collectively decide to stop giving inches, pages, links to Ezra Klein? Please? I beg.
September 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Evergreen
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Hell of a piece to have written Tuesday night. My newest piece in @slate.com follows up on my August piece, looking at the right-wing anti-trans ideology and how that leads us into a rapid descent towards out and out fascism.
The Bullets That Killed Charlie Kirk Were Not Engraved With “Trans Ideology.” But That Won’t Stop the Campaign to Brand Trans People as Violent Monsters.
Now is the time to resist this dangerous strategy, before it’s too late.
slate.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Hell of a piece to have written Tuesday night. My newest piece in @slate.com follows up on my August piece, looking at the right-wing anti-trans ideology and how that leads us into a rapid descent towards out and out fascism.
same but I don't want fame or event like wealth, just enough to exist comfortably
I wish I could be rich and famous for just like… chillin out
September 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
same but I don't want fame or event like wealth, just enough to exist comfortably
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The issue is not whether regular people will know why these flags are at half mast but that the state and its leaders know who Kirk is and decided to lower the flags in the first place.
September 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The issue is not whether regular people will know why these flags are at half mast but that the state and its leaders know who Kirk is and decided to lower the flags in the first place.
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This was LITERALLY last month. I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing rightwing posts over on Twitter tonight.
nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
September 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
This was LITERALLY last month. I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing rightwing posts over on Twitter tonight.
nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
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Truly bizarre to see people attacked, shamed, and disciplined for saying things about Charlie Kirk that are 1000x less offensive than what Charlie Kirk said about people
September 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Truly bizarre to see people attacked, shamed, and disciplined for saying things about Charlie Kirk that are 1000x less offensive than what Charlie Kirk said about people
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Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist
September 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist
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The oligarchs are consolidating all of the legacy media. This would leave David Ellison, son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, in control of CBS News and CNN. On top of that, 2 major studios in Paramount and Warner Bros. This is a hostile takeover of the information space.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
Exclusive | Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
The bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio, according to people familiar with the situation.
www.wsj.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The oligarchs are consolidating all of the legacy media. This would leave David Ellison, son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, in control of CBS News and CNN. On top of that, 2 major studios in Paramount and Warner Bros. This is a hostile takeover of the information space.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
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One thing that everyone with any sense will have to do over the next few years is to refuse to accept lies and bullshit.
September 12, 2025 at 2:59 AM
One thing that everyone with any sense will have to do over the next few years is to refuse to accept lies and bullshit.
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i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
September 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
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Just reminding everyone that we still don't know who killed Kirk or why so can we all stop talking about how his murder is an assault on democracy or whatever.
We don't know anything so why are folks advancing a narrative that the regime has run with. It's really dumb
We don't know anything so why are folks advancing a narrative that the regime has run with. It's really dumb
September 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Just reminding everyone that we still don't know who killed Kirk or why so can we all stop talking about how his murder is an assault on democracy or whatever.
We don't know anything so why are folks advancing a narrative that the regime has run with. It's really dumb
We don't know anything so why are folks advancing a narrative that the regime has run with. It's really dumb
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“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.”
So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.
So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.
September 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.”
So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.
So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.