Maggie Vail
@magicbeans.bsky.social
Label manager of Bikini Kill Records, bass player of Hurry Up. Honk if you like dogs.
PNW'er currently exiled in East Tennessee.
PNW'er currently exiled in East Tennessee.
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Maggie Vail
@magicbeans.bsky.social
· Nov 13
I believe deeply in the radical and transformative power of music.
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We live on a small sphere of rock orbiting an ongoing fusion reaction, the whole thing floating along in...nothing at all. It's kinda weird, yes? No one talks about this.
what’s the most obvious on-the-ground truth that your profession knows, but people don’t live like it’s true?
what other jfc-inducing truths are sitting in plain sight for people who know how to see what’s happening?
February 13, 2026 at 3:16 AM
We live on a small sphere of rock orbiting an ongoing fusion reaction, the whole thing floating along in...nothing at all. It's kinda weird, yes? No one talks about this.
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Middle schoolers FTW
Hundreds of Richmond middle schoolers join student-led anti-ICE protest
Hundreds of Richmond middle schoolers join student-led anti-ICE protest
Hundreds of students gathered outside their Richmond middle school to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday.
www.wric.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Middle schoolers FTW
The latest is up. We added 48 new entries to the Immigration timeline this week, a lot of it very heavy, so our briefing is full of important countermoves by the people fighting back:
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
This week at Unbreaking, February 12 — Unbreaking
This week, our big update is from Immigration, with special emphasis on community responses.
unbreaking.org
February 12, 2026 at 11:02 PM
The latest is up. We added 48 new entries to the Immigration timeline this week, a lot of it very heavy, so our briefing is full of important countermoves by the people fighting back:
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
Even the fucking CATO Institute gets that right. www.cato.org/blog/biden-d...
Biden Didn’t Cause the Border Crisis, Part 1: Summary
From his administration’s first day in January 2021, Biden actually increased border enforcement—arrests, detentions, and removals of border crossers all increased. The prevailing narrative that blame...
www.cato.org
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Even the fucking CATO Institute gets that right. www.cato.org/blog/biden-d...
ICE detentions have quadrupled in our county in the last year. Our county does indeed have a 287(g) partnership with ICE. It is happening everywhere, all of the time.
I think many people are not aware of the scale of ICE presence in their communities because those kidnappings are happening largely out of sight thanks to partnerships with local law enforcement.
This also drives home just how much of what we are seeing in blue areas is about political retribution.
This also drives home just how much of what we are seeing in blue areas is about political retribution.
February 12, 2026 at 9:05 PM
ICE detentions have quadrupled in our county in the last year. Our county does indeed have a 287(g) partnership with ICE. It is happening everywhere, all of the time.
today I learned I live in a sinkhole hotspot! new fear unlocked.
February 12, 2026 at 2:07 AM
today I learned I live in a sinkhole hotspot! new fear unlocked.
ME TOO. I will actually say this to other people sometimes.
February 12, 2026 at 1:11 AM
ME TOO. I will actually say this to other people sometimes.
every once in a while I just mutter to myself "all my apes gone"
February 12, 2026 at 12:56 AM
every once in a while I just mutter to myself "all my apes gone"
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Seems the Pentagon is testing anti-drone high-energy lasers near Fort Bliss in El Paso, and didn't feel this was dangerous enough to close airspace over.
The FAA administrator disagreed.
Last week, these lasers successfully protected the American people from a sinister children's party balloon.
The FAA administrator disagreed.
Last week, these lasers successfully protected the American people from a sinister children's party balloon.
Airspace closure followed spat over drone-related tests and party balloon shoot-down, sources say
Pentagon officials had undertaken planning to use military technology near Fort Bliss, in El Paso, to practice downing drones.
www.cbsnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Seems the Pentagon is testing anti-drone high-energy lasers near Fort Bliss in El Paso, and didn't feel this was dangerous enough to close airspace over.
The FAA administrator disagreed.
Last week, these lasers successfully protected the American people from a sinister children's party balloon.
The FAA administrator disagreed.
Last week, these lasers successfully protected the American people from a sinister children's party balloon.
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Memphis is under a federal task force occupation that includes DEA, CBP, ICE, National Guard, state troopers, and (I’m not joking) IRS agents (IRS jackets kidnapping people). No national news.
ICE and CBP haven’t withdrawn from a single fucking U.S. city that they’ve occupied.
February 11, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Memphis is under a federal task force occupation that includes DEA, CBP, ICE, National Guard, state troopers, and (I’m not joking) IRS agents (IRS jackets kidnapping people). No national news.
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This is phantasmagorical. An experience. Watch it.
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
February 11, 2026 at 2:23 AM
This is phantasmagorical. An experience. Watch it.
What in the actual fuck was all that?
February 11, 2026 at 2:16 PM
What in the actual fuck was all that?
I was gonna say it's usually after the time change!
February 11, 2026 at 1:29 AM
I was gonna say it's usually after the time change!
Her real name was Naomi!
February 10, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Her real name was Naomi!
My great uncle/step-grandfather (my grandmother married my grandfather's little brother after he left her) was known as Carl but his first name was actually Julius.
February 10, 2026 at 11:55 PM
My great uncle/step-grandfather (my grandmother married my grandfather's little brother after he left her) was known as Carl but his first name was actually Julius.
Uncle Willis, the sibling I knew best, is also in overalls. Aunt Dot, the only girl and a really lovely human, is being carried by my great-grandfather. My dad tells me stories of his grandma, she was apparently very eccentric and very sweet. She always looks very intriguing in photos.
February 10, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Uncle Willis, the sibling I knew best, is also in overalls. Aunt Dot, the only girl and a really lovely human, is being carried by my great-grandfather. My dad tells me stories of his grandma, she was apparently very eccentric and very sweet. She always looks very intriguing in photos.
Picture of my granddad and his siblings, probably around 1920. Uncle Happy is the one on he far right, granddad is the one in overalls with his eyes closed. He ended up looking a whole lot like his daddy.
February 10, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Picture of my granddad and his siblings, probably around 1920. Uncle Happy is the one on he far right, granddad is the one in overalls with his eyes closed. He ended up looking a whole lot like his daddy.
One of the Dude's was named Floyd. I think Uncle Happy's name was Albert? I dunno!
February 10, 2026 at 11:35 PM
One of the Dude's was named Floyd. I think Uncle Happy's name was Albert? I dunno!
All of my grandfather's siblings had nicknames. He was know as Huck most of his life (his real name was Raymond). His brother, Uncle Happy, worked at Disneyland, there were two Dudes on either side of the family. My great uncle Homer's wife was known as Nehi (she was super short).
Baffled by transphobes insisting that the name on your birth certificate is Your True Name Forever when it was common in my grandparents' generation to just...pick a name you like and use that, nbd. I literally found out both of my grandma's birth certificate first names FROM THEIR OBITUARIES.
February 10, 2026 at 11:35 PM
All of my grandfather's siblings had nicknames. He was know as Huck most of his life (his real name was Raymond). His brother, Uncle Happy, worked at Disneyland, there were two Dudes on either side of the family. My great uncle Homer's wife was known as Nehi (she was super short).
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we almost never saw pieces like this when the prevailing epstein accusations were based on totally made up claims from the right. now that the actual evidence in the files implicates trump and other right wing figures, we get 5 articles like this a day.
Last week the far right started peddling a narrative that the outrage over Epstein is a moral panic. Today, like clockwork, a more polite version of that narrative appears in the Atlantic.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 10, 2026 at 1:36 PM
we almost never saw pieces like this when the prevailing epstein accusations were based on totally made up claims from the right. now that the actual evidence in the files implicates trump and other right wing figures, we get 5 articles like this a day.
fuuuuck. I have immunity to measles but not mumps (checked my titers) and was just sort of ignoring that. guess I'll need to get a booster!
February 10, 2026 at 6:45 PM
fuuuuck. I have immunity to measles but not mumps (checked my titers) and was just sort of ignoring that. guess I'll need to get a booster!
I think the surges often give the impression that it's not also happening in your backyard but if you're living in the US, it is.
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I think the surges often give the impression that it's not also happening in your backyard but if you're living in the US, it is.
it's happening everywhere, all of the time. www.wbir.com/article/news...
ICE detainees in Knox County Jail have quadrupled in a year, researcher says
University of Tennessee researcher says cooperation between local law enforcement and ICE is driving higher detention numbers.
www.wbir.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:53 PM
it's happening everywhere, all of the time. www.wbir.com/article/news...