Jacob Kopcienski
@jkopcienski.bsky.social
(He/They) Queer Music, Performance, Organizing.
Assistant Prof. Musicology, App State.
Writer, I Care if You Listen.
Baker of Pizza, Archive Rat, Enthusiastic Interlocutor.
Assistant Prof. Musicology, App State.
Writer, I Care if You Listen.
Baker of Pizza, Archive Rat, Enthusiastic Interlocutor.
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Taps the sign: this is an elite phenomenon way more than a popular one and it's so gross to see this being imposed on a population by these demented freaks.
DeSantis “also announced the creation of a commission to align Florida with goals laid out by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ..
“.. The commission will be headed by Casey DeSantis, the governor’s wife.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
“.. The commission will be headed by Casey DeSantis, the governor’s wife.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Taps the sign: this is an elite phenomenon way more than a popular one and it's so gross to see this being imposed on a population by these demented freaks.
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I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
US government orders states to destroy trans education materials
The US government has ordered 46 states and territories to destroy education materials referencing trans people.
www.thepinknews.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
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People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people.
These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
August 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people.
These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
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It's important to understand that he singles out Black women because there are few negative consequences for him when he does. It's his most frictionless lane for bullying.
The broader public has shown him few, if any, will step up to defend us, and it's only ramped up since his first term.
The broader public has shown him few, if any, will step up to defend us, and it's only ramped up since his first term.
Trump, in a Move With Little Precedent, Says He Is Firing a Fed Governor
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It's important to understand that he singles out Black women because there are few negative consequences for him when he does. It's his most frictionless lane for bullying.
The broader public has shown him few, if any, will step up to defend us, and it's only ramped up since his first term.
The broader public has shown him few, if any, will step up to defend us, and it's only ramped up since his first term.
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🚨🧵My latest:
As measles took off in Texas, the Trump administration took actions that prevented CDC scientists from responding.
The outbreak became the biggest in 30 yrs. It’s far larger considering the outbreaks it sparked in other states & Mexico. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
As measles took off in Texas, the Trump administration took actions that prevented CDC scientists from responding.
The outbreak became the biggest in 30 yrs. It’s far larger considering the outbreaks it sparked in other states & Mexico. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
As Measles Exploded, Officials in Texas Looked to CDC Scientists. Under Trump, No One Answered. - KFF Health News
Trump officials sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists, slowing their response to the measles outbreak in West Texas. Cases surged and sparked new outbreaks across the U.S. and Mexico. Together...
kffhealthnews.org
August 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🚨🧵My latest:
As measles took off in Texas, the Trump administration took actions that prevented CDC scientists from responding.
The outbreak became the biggest in 30 yrs. It’s far larger considering the outbreaks it sparked in other states & Mexico. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
As measles took off in Texas, the Trump administration took actions that prevented CDC scientists from responding.
The outbreak became the biggest in 30 yrs. It’s far larger considering the outbreaks it sparked in other states & Mexico. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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my brain is really struggling to rectify what my DC friends (and, i guess, myself) are posting/sharing on social media vs people elsewhere sharing normal vacation and back to school pics
August 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
my brain is really struggling to rectify what my DC friends (and, i guess, myself) are posting/sharing on social media vs people elsewhere sharing normal vacation and back to school pics
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I've been wondering how long it would take for these cases to start falling apart www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/u...
In Washington Crackdown, Making a Federal Case Out of Low-Level Arrests
www.nytimes.com
August 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I've been wondering how long it would take for these cases to start falling apart www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/u...
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The Pentagon is reportedly planning to mobilize thousands of National Guard forces and deploy them in Chicago for the purpose of crime control. Trump is on even thinner legal ice with this plan than he is in Los Angeles and D.C. 1/12 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown
President Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The Pentagon is reportedly planning to mobilize thousands of National Guard forces and deploy them in Chicago for the purpose of crime control. Trump is on even thinner legal ice with this plan than he is in Los Angeles and D.C. 1/12 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
August 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
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I could go on for days about first the demise of employee sponsored job training (and how it created the student loan debt bubble) and how it’s circled its way back to being a tool of labor control. A perfect little bon mot of this stage of capitalism.
August 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I could go on for days about first the demise of employee sponsored job training (and how it created the student loan debt bubble) and how it’s circled its way back to being a tool of labor control. A perfect little bon mot of this stage of capitalism.
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Like I said, you don’t have to pay attention to all of the PR about how AI will revolutionize human creativity or whatever nonsense, when the people deploying it are open that its main purpose is to devalue and destroy human labor. futurism.com/ceo-replacin...
August 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Like I said, you don’t have to pay attention to all of the PR about how AI will revolutionize human creativity or whatever nonsense, when the people deploying it are open that its main purpose is to devalue and destroy human labor. futurism.com/ceo-replacin...
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June 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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The New York Times CONTINUES to release piece after piece spreading disinformation on trans care and dancing on the graves of trans youth in the wake of the SCOTUS decision.
Just brought to my attention, from their morning newsletter. Disgusting.
This isn't even their big hit piece today.
Just brought to my attention, from their morning newsletter. Disgusting.
This isn't even their big hit piece today.
June 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The New York Times CONTINUES to release piece after piece spreading disinformation on trans care and dancing on the graves of trans youth in the wake of the SCOTUS decision.
Just brought to my attention, from their morning newsletter. Disgusting.
This isn't even their big hit piece today.
Just brought to my attention, from their morning newsletter. Disgusting.
This isn't even their big hit piece today.
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This is like the third story put out by the New York Times since Skrmetti rubbing transgender people's faces in it.
The paper got the ruling it asked for.
The paper got the ruling it asked for.
June 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is like the third story put out by the New York Times since Skrmetti rubbing transgender people's faces in it.
The paper got the ruling it asked for.
The paper got the ruling it asked for.
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“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”
Doechii at the #BETAwards
Doechii at the #BETAwards
June 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”
Doechii at the #BETAwards
Doechii at the #BETAwards
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I honestly don’t know how any party that accepts this — and not saying the dems have — can ever again be competitive enough to overcome gerrymandering and voter inertia.
The man did a Nazi salute. What are we doing here??
The man did a Nazi salute. What are we doing here??
Some Democrats are looking to cosy up to Musk:
Ro Khanna: “We should ultimately be trying to convince him that the Democratic Party has more of the values that he agrees with.”
Ritchie Torres: “I'm a believer in redemption, and he is telling the truth about the legislation.”
Ro Khanna: “We should ultimately be trying to convince him that the Democratic Party has more of the values that he agrees with.”
Ritchie Torres: “I'm a believer in redemption, and he is telling the truth about the legislation.”
June 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I honestly don’t know how any party that accepts this — and not saying the dems have — can ever again be competitive enough to overcome gerrymandering and voter inertia.
The man did a Nazi salute. What are we doing here??
The man did a Nazi salute. What are we doing here??
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May 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Check out tomorrow’s Popular Music Books in Process. @dandipiero.bsky.social, @holmesjessica.bsky.social, and @robinjames.bsky.social are gonna talk about bad feelings in pop music. Join us at 5p ET on Zoom. I wanna ask them about goth. For more info:
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
Popular Music Books in Process Series
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April 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Check out tomorrow’s Popular Music Books in Process. @dandipiero.bsky.social, @holmesjessica.bsky.social, and @robinjames.bsky.social are gonna talk about bad feelings in pop music. Join us at 5p ET on Zoom. I wanna ask them about goth. For more info:
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
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I started *looks directly at camera* in 2015/2016 because a certain editor-in-chief told the newsroom that we couldn’t call Trump a liar or racist on social media. He encouraged us to use emojis like 🧐 or 🙃 instead. I came up with *looks directly at camera* instead. And here we are.
April 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I started *looks directly at camera* in 2015/2016 because a certain editor-in-chief told the newsroom that we couldn’t call Trump a liar or racist on social media. He encouraged us to use emojis like 🧐 or 🙃 instead. I came up with *looks directly at camera* instead. And here we are.
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An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too.
April 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too.
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The University of Michigan Black Student Union has released a statement on the dismantling of DEI at the institution.
"To Santa Ono: You are a coward, and bending to the will of fascists will not save you.
To the regents: We see you for the racists you are."
Via: www.instagram.com/p/DH1qbq8JpvJ/
"To Santa Ono: You are a coward, and bending to the will of fascists will not save you.
To the regents: We see you for the racists you are."
Via: www.instagram.com/p/DH1qbq8JpvJ/
March 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The University of Michigan Black Student Union has released a statement on the dismantling of DEI at the institution.
"To Santa Ono: You are a coward, and bending to the will of fascists will not save you.
To the regents: We see you for the racists you are."
Via: www.instagram.com/p/DH1qbq8JpvJ/
"To Santa Ono: You are a coward, and bending to the will of fascists will not save you.
To the regents: We see you for the racists you are."
Via: www.instagram.com/p/DH1qbq8JpvJ/