Anarchic Squid
@leahanelson.bsky.social
Knower of things about Alabama, mass criminalization, fines and fees, healthcare access, capital punishment. Chair of the Praline Matzo Committee. Actively fearful of the Mariana Trench.
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Anarchic Squid
@leahanelson.bsky.social
· Jan 10
The Only Narcan Vending Machine In Alabama
oxfordamerican.org
In a postage stamp of a town at the southernmost tip of Appalachia, a minister and self-described anarchosocialist operates Alabama's only Narcan vending machine. I wrote about his lifesaving work in this, my first piece for @oxfordamerican.bsky.social.
oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/the-o...
oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/the-o...
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Never ever ever ever ever ever surrender the microphone. Restricting press is meaningless as long as we drive our own cars with our own bodies, they keep safe in the same way we do for our own.
I’m not totally sure how to address this but apparently I’m getting kicked out of ICE rapid response for the moment because I’m allowing press ridealongs, with an extremely strict condition that no other observer be identified. Lots of observers have allowed ridealongs and they benefit us.
January 29, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Never ever ever ever ever ever surrender the microphone. Restricting press is meaningless as long as we drive our own cars with our own bodies, they keep safe in the same way we do for our own.
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This is a huge mistake. What Will and others are doing is showing the country how to effectively resist ICE and showing the world that Americans are fighting back. Kicking Will out is bad opsec, bad policy, bad politics. Grow the movement and tell the story. Don't gatekeep.
I’m not totally sure how to address this but apparently I’m getting kicked out of ICE rapid response for the moment because I’m allowing press ridealongs, with an extremely strict condition that no other observer be identified. Lots of observers have allowed ridealongs and they benefit us.
January 29, 2026 at 9:09 PM
This is a huge mistake. What Will and others are doing is showing the country how to effectively resist ICE and showing the world that Americans are fighting back. Kicking Will out is bad opsec, bad policy, bad politics. Grow the movement and tell the story. Don't gatekeep.
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I’m not totally sure how to address this but apparently I’m getting kicked out of ICE rapid response for the moment because I’m allowing press ridealongs, with an extremely strict condition that no other observer be identified. Lots of observers have allowed ridealongs and they benefit us.
January 29, 2026 at 8:57 PM
I’m not totally sure how to address this but apparently I’m getting kicked out of ICE rapid response for the moment because I’m allowing press ridealongs, with an extremely strict condition that no other observer be identified. Lots of observers have allowed ridealongs and they benefit us.
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She didn’t even wait to find out what the substance was…
Ilhan said “we throwing substances?????”
Ilhan said “we throwing substances?????”
January 29, 2026 at 8:17 PM
She didn’t even wait to find out what the substance was…
Ilhan said “we throwing substances?????”
Ilhan said “we throwing substances?????”
I’ve been a regular reader of the Economist for more than half my life and I’ve never seen a US dispatch like this. By @danielknowles24.bsky.social with @whstancil.bsky.social
www.economist.com/united-state...
www.economist.com/united-state...
Inside the movement challenging—and disrupting—ICE
A non-violent network of activists is forming across America
www.economist.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I’ve been a regular reader of the Economist for more than half my life and I’ve never seen a US dispatch like this. By @danielknowles24.bsky.social with @whstancil.bsky.social
www.economist.com/united-state...
www.economist.com/united-state...
Is anyone doing “we know what we saw” yard signs? I would post one
good morning. (quilt by Melissa Laranjeira, via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...)
January 29, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Is anyone doing “we know what we saw” yard signs? I would post one
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good morning. (quilt by Melissa Laranjeira, via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...)
January 29, 2026 at 12:59 PM
good morning. (quilt by Melissa Laranjeira, via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...)
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Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you
January 28, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you
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We are living through the total moral collapse of the United States of America.
Folks get touchy about the Nazi Germany comparisons but I cannot think of a more apt comparison, at least in the modern history of developed democracies.
Folks get touchy about the Nazi Germany comparisons but I cannot think of a more apt comparison, at least in the modern history of developed democracies.
January 29, 2026 at 2:57 AM
We are living through the total moral collapse of the United States of America.
Folks get touchy about the Nazi Germany comparisons but I cannot think of a more apt comparison, at least in the modern history of developed democracies.
Folks get touchy about the Nazi Germany comparisons but I cannot think of a more apt comparison, at least in the modern history of developed democracies.
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If Iran refuses to make a deal, Donald Trump says the next attack will be “far worse” than the raids on its nuclear sites last year. That is a credible threat. We lay out the three possible scenarios econ.st/4rohQNm
Photo: U.S. Navy
Photo: U.S. Navy
January 29, 2026 at 2:00 AM
If Iran refuses to make a deal, Donald Trump says the next attack will be “far worse” than the raids on its nuclear sites last year. That is a credible threat. We lay out the three possible scenarios econ.st/4rohQNm
Photo: U.S. Navy
Photo: U.S. Navy
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I do not give a shit if it's Noem or the Keebler elves who run the Gestapo, I want you to stop paying them.
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (one of 7 Democrats who just voted to fund DHS) defends her stance.
Argues funding for ICE "is not the question." Instead, Senate Democrats have leverage for various demands.
"I think they could negotiate to replace Noem with someone that doesn't skirt the filibuster."
Argues funding for ICE "is not the question." Instead, Senate Democrats have leverage for various demands.
"I think they could negotiate to replace Noem with someone that doesn't skirt the filibuster."
January 28, 2026 at 9:59 PM
I do not give a shit if it's Noem or the Keebler elves who run the Gestapo, I want you to stop paying them.
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Kanye West easy, it is hard to remember now but Kanye was damn near permanently goated for voicing what people were feeling re Katrina.
Question for the Skyline: What was your HARDEST "cancel"?? Like the actor/singer/athlete that was the hardest to drop.
I feel like it's always people I don't fw getting canceled so it's never really a loss.
The hardest one was maybe TI because I actually liked multiple albums by him.
I feel like it's always people I don't fw getting canceled so it's never really a loss.
The hardest one was maybe TI because I actually liked multiple albums by him.
January 28, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Kanye West easy, it is hard to remember now but Kanye was damn near permanently goated for voicing what people were feeling re Katrina.
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HOLY SHIT: Donald Trump just sent out a fundraising email to his supporters saying if they don’t donate to his campaign, he’ll have ICE deport them.
January 28, 2026 at 7:03 PM
HOLY SHIT: Donald Trump just sent out a fundraising email to his supporters saying if they don’t donate to his campaign, he’ll have ICE deport them.
Objectively untrue. Younger generations have been more than clear about their reasons. A person is free to disagree with those reasons in the pages of the NYT but this is not that.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Opinion | Why Gen Z Doesn’t Love ‘Harry Potter’
The wizarding worldview is naïve.
nyti.ms
January 28, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Objectively untrue. Younger generations have been more than clear about their reasons. A person is free to disagree with those reasons in the pages of the NYT but this is not that.
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I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.
lpeproject.org
January 28, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
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January 28, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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To say aloud that the vice president is friends with Nazis and to point out that his Holocaust tweet is crafted so as not to offend them is to sound crazy to everyone who doesn’t know both are stone cold facts. Frustrating thing.
Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
January 28, 2026 at 5:34 AM
To say aloud that the vice president is friends with Nazis and to point out that his Holocaust tweet is crafted so as not to offend them is to sound crazy to everyone who doesn’t know both are stone cold facts. Frustrating thing.
“We need to reform immigration detention” ??? What do these words mean in the context of this child we killed?
Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez died in government custody.
She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.
We need to reform immigration detention.
She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.
We need to reform immigration detention.
January 28, 2026 at 1:45 PM
“We need to reform immigration detention” ??? What do these words mean in the context of this child we killed?
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Speaking out is essential. Especially when so many institutional leaders are failing us. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
Exclusive: ‘Pink coat lady’ who recorded fatal encounter between federal officers and Alex Pretti speaks to Anderson Cooper | CNN
Anderson speaks with Stella Carlson, the witness who captured crucial video showing exactly what happened when Alex Pretti was shot and killed by DHS officers.
www.cnn.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Speaking out is essential. Especially when so many institutional leaders are failing us. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
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Excellent piece on the deliberate hypocrisies of the 2nd Amendment and why nonviolence is the most common effective tactic against something deliberately designed to sanction violence by a small group of white elites.
Don't just read the headline. This essay is my lengthy ode to the hard-fought, hard-won successes of the communitarian movement in the Twin Cities, which has been the scourge of fascists and put the most cracks in Trump's fascist front.
Nonviolence has achieved much, and will do more still.
Nonviolence has achieved much, and will do more still.
Don't Buy a Gun
Confrontational but nonviolent protest is more effective than the solipsistic comfort of an assault rifle.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Excellent piece on the deliberate hypocrisies of the 2nd Amendment and why nonviolence is the most common effective tactic against something deliberately designed to sanction violence by a small group of white elites.
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Get yourself some Truthpaste!
January 28, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Get yourself some Truthpaste!
Yesssss
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller
January 28, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Yesssss
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, as well as countless other victims.
We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear.
Never again means never again for anyone.
We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear.
Never again means never again for anyone.
January 28, 2026 at 2:47 AM
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, as well as countless other victims.
We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear.
Never again means never again for anyone.
We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear.
Never again means never again for anyone.
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Dude looks like’s going to get a Tony for playing Templeton in a stage production of Charlotte’s Web
Director: Get me a Trump supporter type for this part
Intern: Got it.
[Days later]
Intern: Here he is chief
Director: Jesus Christ this is PRESTIGE CABLE how about a LITTLE subtlety. This is hitting them over the head
Intern: sorry chief
Director: I don’t know why I even let you blow me
Intern: Got it.
[Days later]
Intern: Here he is chief
Director: Jesus Christ this is PRESTIGE CABLE how about a LITTLE subtlety. This is hitting them over the head
Intern: sorry chief
Director: I don’t know why I even let you blow me
January 28, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Dude looks like’s going to get a Tony for playing Templeton in a stage production of Charlotte’s Web