FREEBROOKLYN
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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!
Nope, have not supported you, ever, Gavin.
And I don’t want to come to your book event, even if it were free, which it is not.
And I don’t want to come to your book event, even if it were free, which it is not.
February 15, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Nope, have not supported you, ever, Gavin.
And I don’t want to come to your book event, even if it were free, which it is not.
And I don’t want to come to your book event, even if it were free, which it is not.
Finding it impossible to think of any aspiring, former, or current office holder whose politics and personal styles would be more poisonous to what the Democratic Party needs to achieve than any one member of this trio.
The Nazi tattoo, like Rahm’s candidacy, and Newsom’s podcast, are all different variations of the same message.
February 15, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Finding it impossible to think of any aspiring, former, or current office holder whose politics and personal styles would be more poisonous to what the Democratic Party needs to achieve than any one member of this trio.
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This is straight-up Nazi rhetoric from Musk, and the only tiny thing I can do is address myself to those of you who are still on X. No more excuses about how you need "reach" or how good the conversation is there or the importance of debate. You will not regret walking away, and it's time.
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 4:31 PM
This is straight-up Nazi rhetoric from Musk, and the only tiny thing I can do is address myself to those of you who are still on X. No more excuses about how you need "reach" or how good the conversation is there or the importance of debate. You will not regret walking away, and it's time.
Quite the thread.
Damning of Graham Platner.
Please vote for someone else, Maine.
Damning of Graham Platner.
Please vote for someone else, Maine.
Since Tattoo Boy is in the news again, a reminder that the Nazi tattoo wasn't just a "Jolly Roger" pirate flag or some obscure symbol as Platner breezily shrugged it off. It wasn't the icon used for toxic/poisonous chemicals. It wasn't the logo of Yale University's "Scull & Bones" society. 1/
This is just an absolutely ridiculous piece of text. This writer ignores known evidence while bending over backwards to excuse Nazi symbols and racism.
February 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Quite the thread.
Damning of Graham Platner.
Please vote for someone else, Maine.
Damning of Graham Platner.
Please vote for someone else, Maine.
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Who Save America Act could disenfranchise:
-146 million without passport
-69 million married women who took spouse's last name
-21 million without ready access to citizenship docs
-21 million without current drivers license
-Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office
-146 million without passport
-69 million married women who took spouse's last name
-21 million without ready access to citizenship docs
-21 million without current drivers license
-Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office
You need to know about the SAVE Act, which recently passed in the House.
So here's a crash course from reporter Ari Berman on how the sweeping voter restriction bill could disenfranchise millions of Americans
So here's a crash course from reporter Ari Berman on how the sweeping voter restriction bill could disenfranchise millions of Americans
February 15, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Who Save America Act could disenfranchise:
-146 million without passport
-69 million married women who took spouse's last name
-21 million without ready access to citizenship docs
-21 million without current drivers license
-Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office
-146 million without passport
-69 million married women who took spouse's last name
-21 million without ready access to citizenship docs
-21 million without current drivers license
-Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office
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And here is what they would be saying now:
February 15, 2026 at 5:17 PM
And here is what they would be saying now:
This is the way.
We can never get true justice for those killed by ICE. Because true justice would mean they would be alive today.
But our demands for accountability remain clear:
Abolish ICE.
Impeach Kristi Noem.
End qualified immunity.
But our demands for accountability remain clear:
Abolish ICE.
Impeach Kristi Noem.
End qualified immunity.
February 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
This is the way.
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One whole thing with Platner stans is this idea he is the only one who can win and framing it as a Dem vs GOP thing. This is a *primary* his presence has deterred other candidates who ... don't have Nazi tattoos.
Platner's dismissive comments about sexual assault in the military were so disgusting that a candidate who had experienced assault in the service dropped out to endorse Mills rather than risk Platner getting into the senate. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/progressiv...
Progressive Candidate Has Dropped Out Of ME Senate Race
Not Platner. Daira Smith-Rodriguez
www.everythingishorrible.net
February 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
One whole thing with Platner stans is this idea he is the only one who can win and framing it as a Dem vs GOP thing. This is a *primary* his presence has deterred other candidates who ... don't have Nazi tattoos.
Got plans for President’s Day, New York?
📣 FLIP TRUMP THE BIRD🖕Pop-up protest
📆 Monday, February 16
⏰ 1 – 2 pm
📍 Trump Tower, 725 5th Ave, NY
Show us how you really feel about Trump and ICE! Flip that summbich the bird 🖕
All expressions welcome, as long as it’s nonviolent.
As always, all are welcome.
📆 Monday, February 16
⏰ 1 – 2 pm
📍 Trump Tower, 725 5th Ave, NY
Show us how you really feel about Trump and ICE! Flip that summbich the bird 🖕
All expressions welcome, as long as it’s nonviolent.
As always, all are welcome.
February 15, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Got plans for President’s Day, New York?
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Students, faculty, alumni, members of the community, let’s keep ICE off campuses and shut down collaborations (which there are at the college and university level) between schools and ICE!
Mass organizing call on Sunday.
www.mobilize.us/aft/event/89...
Mass organizing call on Sunday.
www.mobilize.us/aft/event/89...
Schools: Drop ICE Mass Call · AFT
We will cut off ICE’s corporate enablers — starting on our campuses.
Donald Trump’s deportation machine depends on private corporations for technology to track, places to sleep, cars to drive, planes...
www.mobilize.us
February 13, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Students, faculty, alumni, members of the community, let’s keep ICE off campuses and shut down collaborations (which there are at the college and university level) between schools and ICE!
Mass organizing call on Sunday.
www.mobilize.us/aft/event/89...
Mass organizing call on Sunday.
www.mobilize.us/aft/event/89...
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It's also worth remembering that this narrative is Nazi in a way that actually pre-dates the Holocaust.
Hitler rose to power telling a story of a Germany shackled by guilt and shame (and of course the material concessions fallout) from WWI
Hitler rose to power telling a story of a Germany shackled by guilt and shame (and of course the material concessions fallout) from WWI
This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.
February 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
It's also worth remembering that this narrative is Nazi in a way that actually pre-dates the Holocaust.
Hitler rose to power telling a story of a Germany shackled by guilt and shame (and of course the material concessions fallout) from WWI
Hitler rose to power telling a story of a Germany shackled by guilt and shame (and of course the material concessions fallout) from WWI
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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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