FREEBROOKLYN
@freebklyn.bsky.social
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.)
For my newsletters, @buttondown.com. Does the job! Great customer service - usually get personalized responses within 24 hours. (Never gonna join Substack.)
Pak with the helpful threads!
Please share, and heed, and take actions, large and small!
Please share, and heed, and take actions, large and small!
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And we’re got big news! Next year’s artist in residence is none other than @roxanegay.bsky.social!!!! Imagine getting to study writing with her AND me!!! At the same time!! APPLY!!!
You there, smart person, come study with me at Harvard Medical School! Our program is so fun! The application deadline is March 13.
Master of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health
The Master of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health is a nine-month Harvard Medical School graduate program for those interested in using storytelling to make a difference in health. The Master of Sc...
ghsm.hms.harvard.edu
February 15, 2026 at 3:26 PM
And we’re got big news! Next year’s artist in residence is none other than @roxanegay.bsky.social!!!! Imagine getting to study writing with her AND me!!! At the same time!! APPLY!!!
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Just once I’d like Schumer and Jeffries to show up on tv and not sound like wet noodles. Today isn’t that day. We’re faced with fascist thugs trying to destroy everything we believe in and the both of them are playing out of the safe consultant playbook like it’s still 1993.
February 15, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Just once I’d like Schumer and Jeffries to show up on tv and not sound like wet noodles. Today isn’t that day. We’re faced with fascist thugs trying to destroy everything we believe in and the both of them are playing out of the safe consultant playbook like it’s still 1993.
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average european conflict over the past 1000 years is like “[french king] declares war on [french king] over claim to [italian speaking territory] based on their shared great great grandparents. both raise army of peasants consisting of 30 mutually unintelligible dialects
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 15, 2026 at 4:16 PM
average european conflict over the past 1000 years is like “[french king] declares war on [french king] over claim to [italian speaking territory] based on their shared great great grandparents. both raise army of peasants consisting of 30 mutually unintelligible dialects
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This is called a community college and if we funded them properly we wouldn't need private individuals to offer these kinds of services.
Schools across the country are offering courses and retreats for people 50+ who want to reinvent themselves and embrace lifelong learning and discovery.
Need a new path in midlife? There's a school for that and a quiz to kickstart it
Schools across the country are offering courses and retreats for people 50+ who want to reinvent themselves and embrace lifelong learning and discovery.
n.pr
February 15, 2026 at 3:07 PM
This is called a community college and if we funded them properly we wouldn't need private individuals to offer these kinds of services.
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The reason these people have been attacking scholars and universities is that they stand in the way of the ahistorical bullshit they need to spew in order to construct white Christian nationalism
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The reason these people have been attacking scholars and universities is that they stand in the way of the ahistorical bullshit they need to spew in order to construct white Christian nationalism
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Learning that Platner covered his Nazi tattoo with some “norse-celtic” bullshit is not convincing me that he was ever getting any tattoos “accidentally”
February 15, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Learning that Platner covered his Nazi tattoo with some “norse-celtic” bullshit is not convincing me that he was ever getting any tattoos “accidentally”
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Rep. Robert Garcia: "Why was Mar-a-Lago a location where women continued to be trafficked from. We have questions for President Trump. And the broader issue here is why wasn't this investigated when these accusations were heard by the FBI years ago?"
February 15, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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The Trumpists like to present themselves as defenders of the West.
There is one country fighting against brutality and barbarism, and in defense of everything we cherish about the West: Ukraine.
The Trumpists are hostile to Ukraine.
The Trumpists are betrayers of the West.
There is one country fighting against brutality and barbarism, and in defense of everything we cherish about the West: Ukraine.
The Trumpists are hostile to Ukraine.
The Trumpists are betrayers of the West.
February 15, 2026 at 2:48 PM
The Trumpists like to present themselves as defenders of the West.
There is one country fighting against brutality and barbarism, and in defense of everything we cherish about the West: Ukraine.
The Trumpists are hostile to Ukraine.
The Trumpists are betrayers of the West.
There is one country fighting against brutality and barbarism, and in defense of everything we cherish about the West: Ukraine.
The Trumpists are hostile to Ukraine.
The Trumpists are betrayers of the West.
The Epstein class and the Epstein administration.
Massie: "Donald Trump told us that even though he had dinner with these people in NYC and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent. But he's not. He's still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration."
February 15, 2026 at 4:43 PM
The Epstein class and the Epstein administration.
Botstein at Bard College.
This is a local story, New York.
This is a local story, New York.
Botstein has to resign.
This is a horror. It makes me feel sick.
At minimum, if Botstein did not understand how his own prestige would be borrowed and “used” by Epstein, his judgement is too awful for him to safely run *anything*.
This is a horror. It makes me feel sick.
At minimum, if Botstein did not understand how his own prestige would be borrowed and “used” by Epstein, his judgement is too awful for him to safely run *anything*.
February 15, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Botstein at Bard College.
This is a local story, New York.
This is a local story, New York.
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Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
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medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday
Schumer on DHS reforms: "I believe Republicans will have no choice but to go along with us because it's so common sense"
February 15, 2026 at 2:51 PM
medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday
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How to end an interview:
In 1889, Frederick Douglass told a visitor to his DC home that any government that would "grant the right of suffrage and deny itself the power to protect that right is...a sham and a fraud."
Then he grabbed his violin and played the Star Spangled Banner.
In 1889, Frederick Douglass told a visitor to his DC home that any government that would "grant the right of suffrage and deny itself the power to protect that right is...a sham and a fraud."
Then he grabbed his violin and played the Star Spangled Banner.
February 14, 2026 at 4:01 PM
How to end an interview:
In 1889, Frederick Douglass told a visitor to his DC home that any government that would "grant the right of suffrage and deny itself the power to protect that right is...a sham and a fraud."
Then he grabbed his violin and played the Star Spangled Banner.
In 1889, Frederick Douglass told a visitor to his DC home that any government that would "grant the right of suffrage and deny itself the power to protect that right is...a sham and a fraud."
Then he grabbed his violin and played the Star Spangled Banner.
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February 15, 2026 at 8:07 AM
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Of course law enforcement can access Ring footage. Surveillance scholars have been documenting this for years.
The problem with doorbell cams: Nancy Guthrie case and Ring Super Bowl ad reawaken surveillance fears
Many people bought the devices thinking they would do little more than protect their delivery packages
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Of course law enforcement can access Ring footage. Surveillance scholars have been documenting this for years.
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Just FYI — we had a TikTok account for about three hours today to share video content. It was banned just a few minutes ago.
The last thing we posted before the ban was an explainer of today’s article about GEO Group getting on to WEXMAC TITUS.
The last thing we posted before the ban was an explainer of today’s article about GEO Group getting on to WEXMAC TITUS.
February 14, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Just FYI — we had a TikTok account for about three hours today to share video content. It was banned just a few minutes ago.
The last thing we posted before the ban was an explainer of today’s article about GEO Group getting on to WEXMAC TITUS.
The last thing we posted before the ban was an explainer of today’s article about GEO Group getting on to WEXMAC TITUS.
Don’t like this one bit.
Locals don’t want it and am certain they will continue to protest.
Carl Icahn, bum.
Locals don’t want it and am certain they will continue to protest.
Carl Icahn, bum.
ICE buys the Chester, NY warehouse. It was sold by Icahn Enterpises — a company with ties to Trump insider Carl Icahn — for an undisclosed sum.
ICE says it has purchased Hudson Valley site for detention facilities
An ICE spokesperson said Thursday that it had purchased a site in the Hudson Valley.
spectrumlocalnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Don’t like this one bit.
Locals don’t want it and am certain they will continue to protest.
Carl Icahn, bum.
Locals don’t want it and am certain they will continue to protest.
Carl Icahn, bum.
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Trump’s Director of Election Security Is an Election Denier www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
Trump’s Director of Election Security Is an Election Denier
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Trump’s Director of Election Security Is an Election Denier www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
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Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.
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remember that things like literacy tests for voting were never applied equally either. we have seen this playbook run before.
The SAVE act would only disproportionately affect Republican voters if the Trump administration enforces the law equally everywhere
Under this administration, laws are not rules that apply to everyone, they are weapons to be used against their enemies
Under this administration, laws are not rules that apply to everyone, they are weapons to be used against their enemies
Oops! MAGA to be most affected by SAVE act.
Secure Democracy Foundation analysis of State Dept & census data shows states Trump won handily have the largest percentage of citizens without valid passports.
So MAGA just assumed citizenship was written on their faces?
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Secure Democracy Foundation analysis of State Dept & census data shows states Trump won handily have the largest percentage of citizens without valid passports.
So MAGA just assumed citizenship was written on their faces?
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
February 15, 2026 at 5:02 AM
remember that things like literacy tests for voting were never applied equally either. we have seen this playbook run before.
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I joined residents in Phillips for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Day of Remembrance March. I’m still calling for justice and accountability in the mishandling of the Allison Lussier case and countless cases impacting our Native relatives.
February 14, 2026 at 9:22 PM
I joined residents in Phillips for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Day of Remembrance March. I’m still calling for justice and accountability in the mishandling of the Allison Lussier case and countless cases impacting our Native relatives.
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For tens of thousands of US service members with undocumented family members, there’s no guaranteed protection from immigration raids.
"They’re taking Shirly": An Army sergeant thought his family as safe. Then ICE deported his wife.
For tens of thousands of US service members with undocumented family members, there’s no guaranteed protection from immigration raids.
www.motherjones.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:00 PM
For tens of thousands of US service members with undocumented family members, there’s no guaranteed protection from immigration raids.
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Once a leader in the Christian right, I joined clergy risking arrest to confront ICE—and the faith I helped weaponize.
I went to Minneapolis to bear witness—and to make amends
Once a leader in the Christian right, I joined clergy risking arrest to confront ICE—and the faith I helped weaponize.
www.motherjones.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Once a leader in the Christian right, I joined clergy risking arrest to confront ICE—and the faith I helped weaponize.
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New update, including my reasoning that getting off US tech means deleting Uber and going back to taxis instead of jumping to another labor-violating ride-hailing service.
February 15, 2026 at 1:31 AM
New update, including my reasoning that getting off US tech means deleting Uber and going back to taxis instead of jumping to another labor-violating ride-hailing service.
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I'm running for Hudson County Commissioner in District 4 because if you don't know how to use power, then you shouldn't have it.
My opponent believes she's already done enough to protect us from ICE. I believe that position is disqualifying.
davidguirgis.com
My opponent believes she's already done enough to protect us from ICE. I believe that position is disqualifying.
davidguirgis.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:44 PM
I'm running for Hudson County Commissioner in District 4 because if you don't know how to use power, then you shouldn't have it.
My opponent believes she's already done enough to protect us from ICE. I believe that position is disqualifying.
davidguirgis.com
My opponent believes she's already done enough to protect us from ICE. I believe that position is disqualifying.
davidguirgis.com