Josephine Stewart
@jostewart.bsky.social
Proofreader/editor for hire, chronic replier, lover of tea and brown liquor. I also do weird art shit. I like to dance. COVID is not over.
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OMG
LOOK WHAT HATH ARRIVE!
beautiful coin.
we'll get these packaged up and start sending these out as soon as we can!
big thanks to everyone who supported us with this fundraiser--we cannot wait for you to receive yours...
MEMENTO MORI
beautiful coin.
we'll get these packaged up and start sending these out as soon as we can!
big thanks to everyone who supported us with this fundraiser--we cannot wait for you to receive yours...
MEMENTO MORI
February 16, 2026 at 7:48 PM
OMG
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do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh
"if they socially transition too early we think they can get locked onto a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them"
Direct quote.
Direct quote.
February 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM
do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh
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Restore Customs and the Secret Service to the Treasury.
Restore TSA and the Coast Guard to the Dept. of Transportation.
Restore FEMA to its original independent status - hell, make it a whole Department, we're going to need it.
Restore all the small random agencies to Justice.
Be done with it.
Restore TSA and the Coast Guard to the Dept. of Transportation.
Restore FEMA to its original independent status - hell, make it a whole Department, we're going to need it.
Restore all the small random agencies to Justice.
Be done with it.
shutdowns aren't generally a negotiating strategy—people don't usually get more than they otherwise would have out of a shutdown.
but in this case I think Ds are hearing from the base that they'd rather the thing just be defunded.
but in this case I think Ds are hearing from the base that they'd rather the thing just be defunded.
February 14, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Restore Customs and the Secret Service to the Treasury.
Restore TSA and the Coast Guard to the Dept. of Transportation.
Restore FEMA to its original independent status - hell, make it a whole Department, we're going to need it.
Restore all the small random agencies to Justice.
Be done with it.
Restore TSA and the Coast Guard to the Dept. of Transportation.
Restore FEMA to its original independent status - hell, make it a whole Department, we're going to need it.
Restore all the small random agencies to Justice.
Be done with it.
They're still snatching people all over the country; motion of the media spotlight doesn't mean they're gone. They're in Chicago, LA, Portland, Baltimore, everywhere... Even if they DO move a few hundred agents around, the public statements about "drawdown" do not match what's actually happening.
ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week.
Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.
Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.
February 13, 2026 at 3:43 PM
They're still snatching people all over the country; motion of the media spotlight doesn't mean they're gone. They're in Chicago, LA, Portland, Baltimore, everywhere... Even if they DO move a few hundred agents around, the public statements about "drawdown" do not match what's actually happening.
Dance historian and local sweet bright spark Hannah's family is dealing with an awful medical situation (her father—misdiagnosed Coxsackie B infection leading to heart attack and severe cardiomyopathy). So many people are struggling right now, but if you've got the cash, they truly need the help:
Donate to Help Support Steven Lane’s Medical Recovery, organized by Hannah Lane
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February 12, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Dance historian and local sweet bright spark Hannah's family is dealing with an awful medical situation (her father—misdiagnosed Coxsackie B infection leading to heart attack and severe cardiomyopathy). So many people are struggling right now, but if you've got the cash, they truly need the help:
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Rip out your Ring doorbell RN, jfc
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Rip out your Ring doorbell RN, jfc
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masking is not an extreme measure; it’s like, level zero of measures. it’s the easiest possible option
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy. n.pr/4akK70l
Olympic Covid restrictions are gone, but some athletes still self-quarantining
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy.
n.pr
February 9, 2026 at 1:18 PM
masking is not an extreme measure; it’s like, level zero of measures. it’s the easiest possible option
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Shut down all of these concentration camps and provide everyone inside with medical care and US citizenship as reparations, if they want it.
One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
www.texastribune.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Shut down all of these concentration camps and provide everyone inside with medical care and US citizenship as reparations, if they want it.
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Good morning! Taxing the wealth of the richest 1% of Americans down to the median wealth of the next-richest 9% ($5.2 million per household) would free up $48 trillion. Redistributing that to the poorest 50% of Americans would give *68 million households* an average of *$700k per household*.
February 8, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Good morning! Taxing the wealth of the richest 1% of Americans down to the median wealth of the next-richest 9% ($5.2 million per household) would free up $48 trillion. Redistributing that to the poorest 50% of Americans would give *68 million households* an average of *$700k per household*.
I am on a train, wearing an N95 mask. I am the only person in this car wearing a mask. There are no fewer than five people with really gnarly coughs. It would be so easy for them to protect the people around them, but here we are.
February 3, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I am on a train, wearing an N95 mask. I am the only person in this car wearing a mask. There are no fewer than five people with really gnarly coughs. It would be so easy for them to protect the people around them, but here we are.
Friends, if you are even a little bit into the folky end of the music world and even a little bit near anywhere they're going, I think you should go see Ye Vagabonds. Holy hell, what a set. yevagabonds.com/tour
Ye Vagabonds - Tour
Ye Vagabonds - Tour Information
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February 3, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Friends, if you are even a little bit into the folky end of the music world and even a little bit near anywhere they're going, I think you should go see Ye Vagabonds. Holy hell, what a set. yevagabonds.com/tour
Last repost: Unbreaking.org is a thing I do with my fighty brain cells. I never know if it matters enough, or how much, or to whom, but I have to think that keeping track of events in a durable, intelligible way is meaningful. 1/3
Immigration — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
January 31, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Last repost: Unbreaking.org is a thing I do with my fighty brain cells. I never know if it matters enough, or how much, or to whom, but I have to think that keeping track of events in a durable, intelligible way is meaningful. 1/3
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A thing about this project is that we intentionally work *behind* the news cycle, like gleaners. We wait until we can describe something clearly and then we add that brick to the wall. It’s an unnatural fit for social media, which is kind of the point.
From the killing of Alex Pretti to the detention of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos thousands of miles from home, Minnesota continues to suffer violence at the hands of federal agents. We’ve added more than 30 events to our timeline just this week:
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
Immigration — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
January 31, 2026 at 4:09 AM
A thing about this project is that we intentionally work *behind* the news cycle, like gleaners. We wait until we can describe something clearly and then we add that brick to the wall. It’s an unnatural fit for social media, which is kind of the point.
These are the rapid tests I buy. I am not a doctor or scientist, but the doctors and scientists I look to recommend them. Be a responsible resident of the COVID age: Keep supplies on hand and test carefully (interval testing at 48-hr gaps).
20% off FlowFlex COVlD tests at Pharmalynk.
It's the test I trust and the company I've ordered from consistently the past 2 years. Better validity and lower cost than other rapid antigen tests.
I do not receive any revenue from any product or company, just a good deal.
It's the test I trust and the company I've ordered from consistently the past 2 years. Better validity and lower cost than other rapid antigen tests.
I do not receive any revenue from any product or company, just a good deal.
January 31, 2026 at 10:48 PM
These are the rapid tests I buy. I am not a doctor or scientist, but the doctors and scientists I look to recommend them. Be a responsible resident of the COVID age: Keep supplies on hand and test carefully (interval testing at 48-hr gaps).
A book of many things I didn't hear about in school, relevant to current horrors. We say we fought the Nazis, and we did. We also grew a lot of Nazis at home, before the war, absorbed useful Nazis afterward, and committed a(nother) massive campaign of legalized racial persecution. Things rhyme.
January 31, 2026 at 9:34 PM
A book of many things I didn't hear about in school, relevant to current horrors. We say we fought the Nazis, and we did. We also grew a lot of Nazis at home, before the war, absorbed useful Nazis afterward, and committed a(nother) massive campaign of legalized racial persecution. Things rhyme.
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I don't need all the folks working in facial recognition tech who told me I as being ridiculous and overly paranoid when asking about how these tools will be used to track, identify and harm people to apologize. But I do need them to actually *do something* about their work being used this way.
January 30, 2026 at 2:55 PM
I don't need all the folks working in facial recognition tech who told me I as being ridiculous and overly paranoid when asking about how these tools will be used to track, identify and harm people to apologize. But I do need them to actually *do something* about their work being used this way.
This part. @bmorecitydot.bsky.social telling people to keep off the roads if at all possible, don't drive, seriously, don't—and then kind of doing a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about all the non-car infrastructure! Curb cuts, sidewalks, bus stops a mess (not to mention alleys don't get plowed *at all*)...
This has been driving me insane all week. Downtown is completely ass backwards right now with fragile human bodies (the ones outside of cars) incurring all the weather risks. Curb cuts are behind walls of snow, sidewalks are skating rinks, it’s bananas.
Our priorities are exactly the opposite of what they should be as a society. Snow should be cleared off of sidewalks and crosswalks onto car lanes on the vast majority of streets in a major city. Clear a few emergency routes for ambulances and major bus routes and otherwise people should be walking.
January 30, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This part. @bmorecitydot.bsky.social telling people to keep off the roads if at all possible, don't drive, seriously, don't—and then kind of doing a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about all the non-car infrastructure! Curb cuts, sidewalks, bus stops a mess (not to mention alleys don't get plowed *at all*)...
It is after midnight on a Thursday on a night so cold no reasonable person would have a window open, and there is *very loud* music happening. I can feel the bass. I am not usually a noise scold, but come on. Are you trying to subwoof the ice off your sidewalk? Desist.
January 30, 2026 at 5:23 AM
It is after midnight on a Thursday on a night so cold no reasonable person would have a window open, and there is *very loud* music happening. I can feel the bass. I am not usually a noise scold, but come on. Are you trying to subwoof the ice off your sidewalk? Desist.
Many of us are old enough to have been, to various degrees, politically aware during the creation of DHS. Many people said *at the time* that it was a fascist enterprise established for evil ends, and we were right and have only gotten righter with time. Ramirez is right and she should say it.
DHS is not a rogue agency. Founded without essential accountability and oversight policies, DHS was built to violate our rights and empowered to act with impunity. But true security cannot be realized through oppression, dehumanization, and criminalization.
January 29, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Many of us are old enough to have been, to various degrees, politically aware during the creation of DHS. Many people said *at the time* that it was a fascist enterprise established for evil ends, and we were right and have only gotten righter with time. Ramirez is right and she should say it.
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There is no "immigration problem"
There is no migrant problem
There is no problem with illegals
There is no border crisis
Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
There is no migrant problem
There is no problem with illegals
There is no border crisis
Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
January 24, 2026 at 10:05 PM
There is no "immigration problem"
There is no migrant problem
There is no problem with illegals
There is no border crisis
Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
There is no migrant problem
There is no problem with illegals
There is no border crisis
Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
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I'm sorry I can't stop thinking "all democrats know how to do is fund police, do means test and lie" on repeat now
Unfortunately Democrats only know how to give cops more money, technology, and staffing. They only have one button to press and they’re making a very concerned face as they press it
January 27, 2026 at 4:58 PM
I'm sorry I can't stop thinking "all democrats know how to do is fund police, do means test and lie" on repeat now
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Idk I kinda think we should bring beliefs like this back. Tell them we gotta fix global warming asap or the Leviathan will escape. We gotta sacrifice another billionaire to the ocean or the harvest will be bad and food will get more expensive
a not insignificant number of people on Threads seem to believe the snow storm was The Government's attempt to refreeze the Leviathan, the world-eating serpent, which was getting loose (to eat the world, I assume)
January 26, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Idk I kinda think we should bring beliefs like this back. Tell them we gotta fix global warming asap or the Leviathan will escape. We gotta sacrifice another billionaire to the ocean or the harvest will be bad and food will get more expensive
This is very, very cool. Hard to overstate how cool this is. I've been hearing about this unfinished film for years; the fact that William Greaves's widow and then in turn his children took up the project and brought it to fruition is amazing. They're looking for wide release and I hope they get it.
Just watched the world premiere of Once Upon a Time in Harlem. In 1972 William Greaves filmed Harlem Renaissance luminaries bearing witness, sparring, reciting poetry, jubilating. The film was finally complete 50 years later. It's a masterpiece and a gift. www.onceuponatimeinharlemfilm.com #sundance
January 26, 2026 at 6:40 PM
This is very, very cool. Hard to overstate how cool this is. I've been hearing about this unfinished film for years; the fact that William Greaves's widow and then in turn his children took up the project and brought it to fruition is amazing. They're looking for wide release and I hope they get it.
Baltimore, if you need to shovel and you haven't done it, go do your shovel-and-resalt *now*. Stuff was already decently heavy, and I have a feeling that the little spitty stuff that's coming down right now will make you sad if you stack a few hours of it on top of the overnight snow.
January 25, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Baltimore, if you need to shovel and you haven't done it, go do your shovel-and-resalt *now*. Stuff was already decently heavy, and I have a feeling that the little spitty stuff that's coming down right now will make you sad if you stack a few hours of it on top of the overnight snow.
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Very much related.
Folks not in MN (since MN have this down) - if you're tracking, they're tracking you. You can't do mutual aid if you're on the radar. Don't lead the bastards to your neighbors you're fighting to protect.
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Folks not in MN (since MN have this down) - if you're tracking, they're tracking you. You can't do mutual aid if you're on the radar. Don't lead the bastards to your neighbors you're fighting to protect.
bsky.app/profile/norm...
A thing that might not be clear from the outside is that while everyone here is engaged in this fight, ICE’s use of dystopian technology means that you essentially have to pick a lane between observing ICE and doing mutual aid. They are tracking observers’ cars, and taking pictures of their faces.
January 23, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Very much related.
Folks not in MN (since MN have this down) - if you're tracking, they're tracking you. You can't do mutual aid if you're on the radar. Don't lead the bastards to your neighbors you're fighting to protect.
bsky.app/profile/norm...
Folks not in MN (since MN have this down) - if you're tracking, they're tracking you. You can't do mutual aid if you're on the radar. Don't lead the bastards to your neighbors you're fighting to protect.
bsky.app/profile/norm...