Franki Butler
@frankitheb.bsky.social
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If this works tomorrow, it won't be because a general strike is easier than we all thought.
It will be because the twin cities went all in on community and built a path to a place the rest of us still can't reach... Yet.
It will be because the twin cities went all in on community and built a path to a place the rest of us still can't reach... Yet.
January 23, 2026 at 1:32 AM
If this works tomorrow, it won't be because a general strike is easier than we all thought.
It will be because the twin cities went all in on community and built a path to a place the rest of us still can't reach... Yet.
It will be because the twin cities went all in on community and built a path to a place the rest of us still can't reach... Yet.
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Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways
January 22, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways
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January 22, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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EdTech is enclosure. Enclosure precedes erasure. Erasure parallels indoctrination. History is what they want to replace. It is what we all (not just historians) must unflinchingly teach.
I understand and appreciate the fact that for some it is genuinely uncomfortable and distracting to think about how grim US history is. yes, that is strategically relevant, and no, I wouldn't put "did you know people used to send lynching photos to each other as postcards?" on a recruitment flyer
January 22, 2026 at 8:42 PM
EdTech is enclosure. Enclosure precedes erasure. Erasure parallels indoctrination. History is what they want to replace. It is what we all (not just historians) must unflinchingly teach.
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my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue
January 22, 2026 at 5:38 PM
my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue
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There will always be enough votes to beat us but never to feed us. There will always be enough votes to spy on us but never to give us healthcare. There will always be enough votes to pay for prisons but never tuition. The parties aren’t the same but at the end of the day whoever wins, we lose
7 democrats made this bill pass.
If they all voted “no” it would’ve failed 213-214.
If they all voted “no” it would’ve failed 213-214.
NEW: DHS appropriations bill funding ICE passes 220-207
7 Democrats voted YES on the bill:
- Jared Golden
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
- Henry Cuellar
- Tom Suozzi
- Laura Gillen
- Don Davis
- Vicente Gonzalez
One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie
7 Democrats voted YES on the bill:
- Jared Golden
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
- Henry Cuellar
- Tom Suozzi
- Laura Gillen
- Don Davis
- Vicente Gonzalez
One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie
January 22, 2026 at 10:26 PM
There will always be enough votes to beat us but never to feed us. There will always be enough votes to spy on us but never to give us healthcare. There will always be enough votes to pay for prisons but never tuition. The parties aren’t the same but at the end of the day whoever wins, we lose
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Decentering your personal feelings and patriotic leanings is a necessity to address a systemic issue. This is like ghe myth that racism will die out with a generation. It's not true and pretending it is got us white Millenials with tiki torches shouting white supremacist slogans in Charlottesville
January 22, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Decentering your personal feelings and patriotic leanings is a necessity to address a systemic issue. This is like ghe myth that racism will die out with a generation. It's not true and pretending it is got us white Millenials with tiki torches shouting white supremacist slogans in Charlottesville
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I mean they killed him for trying to cash that check so...
Navel-gazing academics would do well to learn a thing or two about how Martin Luther King Jr. did politics rather than start doing this pedantic nonsense.
January 22, 2026 at 7:02 PM
I mean they killed him for trying to cash that check so...
So many people insist on reading this as finger-wagging instead of recognizing that it won't be enough to end ICE; we have to reckon with and dismantle the systems that got us here if we don't want to end up here again.
Just so much emotionally dysregulated flag-fetishizing childishness.
Just so much emotionally dysregulated flag-fetishizing childishness.
I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
January 22, 2026 at 6:22 PM
So many people insist on reading this as finger-wagging instead of recognizing that it won't be enough to end ICE; we have to reckon with and dismantle the systems that got us here if we don't want to end up here again.
Just so much emotionally dysregulated flag-fetishizing childishness.
Just so much emotionally dysregulated flag-fetishizing childishness.
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Some of y’all would have heard Frederick Douglass say “what to the slave is 4th of July?” and would call him a buzzkill and the sole cause of your lost motivation
January 22, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Some of y’all would have heard Frederick Douglass say “what to the slave is 4th of July?” and would call him a buzzkill and the sole cause of your lost motivation
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They aspire to stop whatever atrocity they personally object to without understanding that it isn't an isolated event. If they meant it then we wouldn't be doing the same things over and over. And the education on offer isn't fake, it does require more effort than parroting slogans
People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.
I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 PM
They aspire to stop whatever atrocity they personally object to without understanding that it isn't an isolated event. If they meant it then we wouldn't be doing the same things over and over. And the education on offer isn't fake, it does require more effort than parroting slogans
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We paid reparations to slave owners, we hired the Nazis, and we have never punished in any meaningful crimes against humanity inside America
Speaking of slave-catchers, ICE should be labeled Confederate traitors to the Union & the U.S. Constitution. Nazis are a convenient ref point b/c WW2 is closer in timeline to present, but remember how U.S. Jim Crow & Slave Codes were inspiration for Nazis? Battle is still Owning Class vs Labor Class
January 22, 2026 at 4:09 PM
We paid reparations to slave owners, we hired the Nazis, and we have never punished in any meaningful crimes against humanity inside America
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The EEOC has just voted 2-1 to remove the entirety of its employer guidance on sexual harassment because portions of it protected trans people.
This administration is pro sexual harassment while simultaneously claiming they protect women.
This administration is pro sexual harassment while simultaneously claiming they protect women.
January 22, 2026 at 3:55 PM
The EEOC has just voted 2-1 to remove the entirety of its employer guidance on sexual harassment because portions of it protected trans people.
This administration is pro sexual harassment while simultaneously claiming they protect women.
This administration is pro sexual harassment while simultaneously claiming they protect women.
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This part. Black soldiers that fought in WWII came home and were lynched for wearing their uniforms. They were excluded from veterans programs. They took off that uniform and immediately had to fight for basic rights.
Y’all’s grandfathers flew around the world to fight Nazis as hard as they fought Black people moving into their neighborhoods.
Miss me with the theatrics.
Miss me with the theatrics.
January 22, 2026 at 4:11 PM
This part. Black soldiers that fought in WWII came home and were lynched for wearing their uniforms. They were excluded from veterans programs. They took off that uniform and immediately had to fight for basic rights.
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a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
January 22, 2026 at 3:05 AM
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
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You don’t need Dems or consultants. You need COURAGE. GO OUTSIDE AND GRAB A DAMN WHISTLE.
Wish this could scale but you know there's gonna be narcissists and dem consultants that are going to try to control things (maybe some fed ops too)
It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
January 22, 2026 at 1:55 PM
You don’t need Dems or consultants. You need COURAGE. GO OUTSIDE AND GRAB A DAMN WHISTLE.
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The fugitive known as “Bitcoin Jesus” was indicted for tax evasion and facing prison.
Then he hired a “Friend of Trump.”
This is how it went down, from Avi Asher-Schapiro & @mtredden.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/bitc...
Then he hired a “Friend of Trump.”
This is how it went down, from Avi Asher-Schapiro & @mtredden.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/bitc...
January 22, 2026 at 12:03 PM
The fugitive known as “Bitcoin Jesus” was indicted for tax evasion and facing prison.
Then he hired a “Friend of Trump.”
This is how it went down, from Avi Asher-Schapiro & @mtredden.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/bitc...
Then he hired a “Friend of Trump.”
This is how it went down, from Avi Asher-Schapiro & @mtredden.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/bitc...
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Still need more? That's fine. I expected some people to be unconvinced. Look up Colored Orphans Asylum, House of Reformation and Instruction, Negro Boys Industrial School, Dozier school, & Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children. You're going to notice a multi generational pattern
January 22, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Still need more? That's fine. I expected some people to be unconvinced. Look up Colored Orphans Asylum, House of Reformation and Instruction, Negro Boys Industrial School, Dozier school, & Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children. You're going to notice a multi generational pattern
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Let's take it a step further. Look up Asian Exclusion Acts (yes the first act was Chinese exclusion, but it wasn't the only one) then look up Bath Riots. By this point in the reading you should be clear on what's happening. But let's say you aren't, look up Mississippi appendectomy
January 22, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Let's take it a step further. Look up Asian Exclusion Acts (yes the first act was Chinese exclusion, but it wasn't the only one) then look up Bath Riots. By this point in the reading you should be clear on what's happening. But let's say you aren't, look up Mississippi appendectomy
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I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
January 22, 2026 at 12:48 PM
I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
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This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
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Unclear to me if this fucking five year old kid getting kidnapped is breaking through outside of the Twin Cities and I don’t want to speak for anyone else but this has really steeled my resolve. This shit cannot be allowed to stand.
January 22, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Unclear to me if this fucking five year old kid getting kidnapped is breaking through outside of the Twin Cities and I don’t want to speak for anyone else but this has really steeled my resolve. This shit cannot be allowed to stand.
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right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 AM
right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out
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BREAKING: Another of DOJ's invasive trans care subpoenas quashed as to patient records. This one was challenged by patients of Children's National Hospital.
Opinion from Judge Julie Rubin (Biden): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Opinion from Judge Julie Rubin (Biden): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 22, 2026 at 1:38 AM
BREAKING: Another of DOJ's invasive trans care subpoenas quashed as to patient records. This one was challenged by patients of Children's National Hospital.
Opinion from Judge Julie Rubin (Biden): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Opinion from Judge Julie Rubin (Biden): storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Border Patrol agents are very sad that everyone in Minnesota hates them.
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
January 22, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Border Patrol agents are very sad that everyone in Minnesota hates them.
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”
“At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”