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@crabbyaf.bsky.social
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proud liberal with emoji characteristics 🧦🔰🦀
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proud liberal with emoji characteristics 🧦🔰🦀
they/them
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this is now a Charles Sumner stan account. man got beat nearly to death for calling out slavocrats for being the awful, un-American pieces of shit that they are
I'm reading @ztameez.bsky.social's bio on Sumner, and found a quote I quite like from the senator contrasting America and England of the early-19th century:
"The true Pride of America is in her middle and poorer classes, in their general health and happiness and freedom from poverty,..."
"The true Pride of America is in her middle and poorer classes, in their general health and happiness and freedom from poverty,..."
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So sick of stupid f*cking people who refuse to grasp the fact that the Constitution doesn't apply exclusively to American citizens, but to every person within the U.S. And they bask in the arrogance of ignorance. Is it any wonder that it's hard not to hate them.
February 17, 2026 at 6:52 PM
So sick of stupid f*cking people who refuse to grasp the fact that the Constitution doesn't apply exclusively to American citizens, but to every person within the U.S. And they bask in the arrogance of ignorance. Is it any wonder that it's hard not to hate them.
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BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days.
Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work.
Details on thehandbasket.co later today!
Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work.
Details on thehandbasket.co later today!
February 18, 2026 at 3:40 PM
BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days.
Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work.
Details on thehandbasket.co later today!
Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work.
Details on thehandbasket.co later today!
I was inspired this year to write the following haiku after the storm
sharing
narrow shoveled sidewalks
with neighbors
sharing
narrow shoveled sidewalks
with neighbors
For @bostonglobe.com, I wrote about how a snowstorm can bring out the best in Boston, while the aftermath often inspires the worst. This paradox applies to many places. Why does the solidarity seen during acute disasters often fade as soon as it's over?
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/18/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/18/o...
Why does it take a crisis for Boston to feel neighborly? - The Boston Globe
Our sense of community seems to fade when extreme events are over.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 18, 2026 at 5:56 PM
I was inspired this year to write the following haiku after the storm
sharing
narrow shoveled sidewalks
with neighbors
sharing
narrow shoveled sidewalks
with neighbors
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The fascist wants you to feel “how can it be possible for such a clown to have the powers of a monster-god” and it is your duty, privilege, and joy to instead feel “this fuckin’ clown thinks he’s a monster-god.”
Or again to analyze through a semiotic disorientation frame, the desire of the fascist is to disorient your relation to the symbols because their relation to the symbols is disoriented. They want to inflict on you the core wound you inflicted on them.
February 17, 2026 at 2:24 PM
The fascist wants you to feel “how can it be possible for such a clown to have the powers of a monster-god” and it is your duty, privilege, and joy to instead feel “this fuckin’ clown thinks he’s a monster-god.”
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Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
February 16, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
from Columbus to Calhoun
and before anyone disregards this as just the ravings of a racist poaster, SecState Rubio is proposing the same worldview as an aspiration for transatlantic alliance. we need a resounding progressive/liberal answer to the celebration of dominance and colonialism.
February 15, 2026 at 9:58 PM
from Columbus to Calhoun
I think it's likely that LLMs consolidate more jobs than it replaces in tech. like, I know AI will not be able to fully replace my role as a data analyst, because it requires trust. see below, woof. building that trust is extra cost to adoption
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 2:10 AM
I think it's likely that LLMs consolidate more jobs than it replaces in tech. like, I know AI will not be able to fully replace my role as a data analyst, because it requires trust. see below, woof. building that trust is extra cost to adoption
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Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
February 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
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straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:28 PM
straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies.
It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony
It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony
February 14, 2026 at 12:20 PM
China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies.
It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony
It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony
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Happy birthday to one of the greatest, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, he didn't know his actual birthday, but chose to celebrate it on this day.
Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.
Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.
February 14, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Happy birthday to one of the greatest, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, he didn't know his actual birthday, but chose to celebrate it on this day.
Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.
Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.
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I never got around to reposting my Weird Duck Time comic this year! Also, unrelatedly, today is a good day to help out at standwithminnesota.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:05 PM
I never got around to reposting my Weird Duck Time comic this year! Also, unrelatedly, today is a good day to help out at standwithminnesota.com
what do we gotta do to get embed to work always. who needs to get in a room and hash it out? there's gotta be a protocol or something that solves this bc I can't keep coming to the group chat with my bare links out. it's embarrassing
February 14, 2026 at 4:09 AM
what do we gotta do to get embed to work always. who needs to get in a room and hash it out? there's gotta be a protocol or something that solves this bc I can't keep coming to the group chat with my bare links out. it's embarrassing
it is so genuinely refreshing to read quality journalism on a worthwhile subject
🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”
"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS
The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 14, 2026 at 3:48 AM
it is so genuinely refreshing to read quality journalism on a worthwhile subject
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i'm slaying this week
February 12, 2026 at 12:46 PM
i'm slaying this week
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It will very much be worth your time to read this.
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 12, 2026 at 2:30 PM
It will very much be worth your time to read this.
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Two related but different things; Yimby is an activist movement that has a lot of hooks in elite discourse but was buttressed by on the ground action. Abundance was an effort to use the success of YIMBY to translate into a larger elite persuasion project.
February 11, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Two related but different things; Yimby is an activist movement that has a lot of hooks in elite discourse but was buttressed by on the ground action. Abundance was an effort to use the success of YIMBY to translate into a larger elite persuasion project.
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We now have data from Trump's first full year in office. Let's review the performance of Trump and the two parties since 1989 and a new age of globalization began.
However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
February 11, 2026 at 3:12 PM
We now have data from Trump's first full year in office. Let's review the performance of Trump and the two parties since 1989 and a new age of globalization began.
However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
we are going to win
Support For Abolishing ICE:
Support: 47%
Oppose: 42%
YouGov / Feb 9, 2026
Support: 47%
Oppose: 42%
YouGov / Feb 9, 2026
February 10, 2026 at 11:46 PM
we are going to win
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The Cambridge City Council unanimously voted in support of a policy order that could bar any sworn federal immigration agent from being employed by the Cambridge Police Department.
Shawn A. Boehmer and Claire A. Michal report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Shawn A. Boehmer and Claire A. Michal report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
City Council Backs Policy to Restrict Cambridge Police Hiring of Federal Immigration Officers | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Cambridge City Council unanimously voted in support of a policy order that could bar any sworn federal immigration agent from being employed by the Cambridge Police Department — the city’s latest…
www.thecrimson.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:15 PM
The Cambridge City Council unanimously voted in support of a policy order that could bar any sworn federal immigration agent from being employed by the Cambridge Police Department.
Shawn A. Boehmer and Claire A. Michal report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Shawn A. Boehmer and Claire A. Michal report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."