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Let’s have a better Brooklyn, and a better America, and a better world.
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Thread of some services/software I'm using instead of various billionaire-owned surveillance/fascist/"A.i." trash products:

For my newsletters, @buttondown.com. Does the job! Great customer service - usually get personalized responses within 24 hours. (Never gonna join Substack.)
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This sounds incredible. Friends in NYC, please do check out this @bkindivisible.bsky.social / @handsoffnyc.bsky.social event this Saturday, 2/21 - a Solidarity School fundraiser for a new South Brooklyn Family Legal Fund to help people with families in detention!

www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/...
Solidarity School Fundraiser for South Brooklyn · Hands Off NYC
If you are inspired by the solidarity we have seen in Minneapolis in recent weeks, this is the event for you! Come eat delicious food and learn how to build solidarity with neighbors across South Broo...
www.mobilize.us
February 16, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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This is a short from one of the all-time bangers of feature animation, "Memories."

"Cannon Fodder" features an entire militarized civilization centered around an endless war with an unseen enemy, wherein the children are indoctrinated with the single purpose of fighting that war from grade school.
From: Cannon Fodder (1995), dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, Studio 4°C

This film was designed to flow without hard cuts -- the camera just goes and goes and goes
February 16, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Dynamic pricing should be illegal.
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
February 16, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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Everything in this country has to change.

Everything.
Is this the “golden age” economy we’ve heard so much about?

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
February 16, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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We sure don’t allow AI slop—and it shows in our fantastic reporting and writing. Follow @mississippifreepress.org and other real journalism on this list.
Today is a good day to follow news outlets that explicitly disallow Generative AI slop:

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
February 16, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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Trump seeks international gendarmes to protect the Western colonial real estate outlined by Jared Kushner, a private citizen with international real estate investments.

This farce is going to be a vector of extremist recruitment and violence. One of those bold-faced events in textbooks.
President Trump said Sunday that members of his newly created Board of Peace have pledged $5 billion toward rebuilding war-ravaged Gaza and will commit thousands of personnel to international stabilization and police forces for the territory. https://to.pbs.org/4bXt2fj
Trump says Board of Peace members promise $5 billion for Gaza rebuild
Israeli forces have carried out repeated airstrikes in Gaza and frequently fire on Palestinians despite a ceasefire deal. Trump did not detail which member nations were making the pledges for reconstr...
to.pbs.org
February 16, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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if you want schumer out, you might consider donating to stratton's campaign. she is cash poor, and the leader with all the money is a centrist asshole who I think would legit be worse than Durbin.
February 16, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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We all gathered around to bully a delivery robot on the sidewalk
February 16, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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Tomorrow NYCers we make merry. Join us at Trump Tower to flip him the bird 🖕🐧
📣 FLIP TRUMP THE BIRD, Pop-Up Protest
📆 Mon, Feb 16
⏰ 1 – 2 pm
📍 Trump Tower, 725 5th Ave, NY

Rise and Resist invites you to join us for our joyous
🖕🏾🖕🖕🏿PRESIDENTS' DAY FLIP OFF!🖕🏿🖕🖕🏾
Music!🎵Drums! 🥁Dancing!
All expressions welcome, as long as it’s nonviolent.

🎵OleFuckTrump!
February 16, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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ICE is using a Navy war-fighting contract (WEXMAC TITUS) to turn warehouses into detention sites in the US.

They're using mil procurement to skip transparency & local safety laws.

Call your Reps and demand:

1. Why is ICE using WEXMAC TITUS?
2. Where is the oversight?
3. What are you going to do?
February 16, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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This would be, in every way, worse than a Netflix-WB deal. No point in preserving the integrity of the theatrical experience for a company funded by a right-wing ideologue. I don't believe there's a world in which Larry Ellison funds One Battle or Sinners. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/b...
Warner Bros. Is Said to Consider Reopening Talks With Paramount
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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Agree with you entirely that we all need to band together and make sure that Newsom is not the Democratic presidential candidate and Platner is not the Democratic Senatorial candidate in Maine.
February 16, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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Newsom is not the one. And he’s clearly running all the old and new plans that establishment Dems think will make someone the inevitable candidate. The social media, the book tour, the deliberately selected “stands,” the podcast, overseas trips. So, agreed that we should call that out!
February 16, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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Court fees and charges are yet another way to punish poor people—and keep them poor.
Iowa’s Top Court Ended Court Fees in Dismissed Cases. Politicians Want Them Back
The state can no longer saddle defendants with court fees when charges are dismissed. Prosecutors are backing legislation to restore them.
www.themarshallproject.org
February 15, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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My name is Jon Rosenthal. I’m a career engineer, not a career politician. Today, I’m announcing my candidacy for the Texas Railroad Commission, one of the most corrupt offices in our state.

Together, we’ll clean up the Railroad Commission and return it to the people.
September 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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I’m running for Congress.

I’ve spent my career holding the powerful accountable as a political & legal journalist. I’m running for Congress to tell you the truth, fight for New York, and Unf*ck Our Country.

Join us: secure.actblue.com/donate/mbs-e...

Learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=20U5...
Unf*ck Our Country
YouTube video by Mike Sacks for Congress
www.youtube.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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If you want to hear from the NY-17 candidate who doesn't work for Palantir, @mikesacks.bsky.social joined us on Normal Men in December. You can listen here:
February 16, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Thank you, Portland!

For the rest of us, elsewhere, please spread the word that we must boycott Enterprise Rent-a-Car.

They rent more vehicles to ICE than any other car rental service!
Tell Enterprise Rent-a-Car: ICE OUT! Oregon Park in Portland on Monday, February 16th at 3PM.
February 16, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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The best time to get whistles into your community was yesterday the next best time is right now. We will make and send you whistles, for free, in quantities of 100 to thousands, just ask here: linktr.ee/3dwhistles
While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started

Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch
A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.
www.inquirer.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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30 DAYS UNTIL THE ELECTION!
Want to get involved but don't know where to start?

Here’s our campaign schedule this week:
February 16, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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It’s going to be a balmy 38 degrees in NYC on Monday as we FLIP OFF TRUMP on #presidentsday . Bring your middle fingers and your outrage. Cuz — fuck that guy. @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social
February 16, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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BREAKING: @barackobama.bsky.social clarifies his position on aliens after his answer during the speed round of our interview went viral.
February 16, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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Nope. I'm nobody. But I'm from California and I listen to what Newsom actually says and does as opposed to what his brilliant social media team posts.

He isn't the one. So if Establishment Dems are behind him and he doesn't change, I'll be a thorn in his side.
Do you have a lot of influence?
February 16, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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February 16, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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There’s also a progressive candidate running who HASN’T taken money from Palantir partners @mikesacks.bsky.social :

www.mikesacksforcongress.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:25 AM