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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The wildest thing to me is that multiple Black people had to die in a manner akin to public spectacles for 2020 to happen and the backlash is being fueled by white guys who can’t sell a screenplay or manuscript.
December 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The wildest thing to me is that multiple Black people had to die in a manner akin to public spectacles for 2020 to happen and the backlash is being fueled by white guys who can’t sell a screenplay or manuscript.
it is now the time in between.
December 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
it is now the time in between.
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This is what they’re comfortable doing on camera, not enough people internalizing that part.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is what they’re comfortable doing on camera, not enough people internalizing that part.
nearly every time I watch an older movie for the first time I check the seattle times archives to see if my uncle john reviewed it and what he thought about it. sure enough, we agree on die hard.
December 26, 2025 at 4:59 AM
nearly every time I watch an older movie for the first time I check the seattle times archives to see if my uncle john reviewed it and what he thought about it. sure enough, we agree on die hard.
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the long prophesied Final Discourse
You thought DoorDash discourse was bad? We're just getting warmed up
December 26, 2025 at 4:41 AM
the long prophesied Final Discourse
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saw a massive meteor while out walking the dog just now. what a magical, magical sight.
December 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
saw a massive meteor while out walking the dog just now. what a magical, magical sight.
had a long & elaborate dream about scott last night. he didn't die, instead he'd been in prison for the last 22 years?! he looked the same as he did when I last saw him and was very eager to tour japan again. I got started working on the karp rider and talking to promoters right before I woke up.
one of my favorite humans should have turned 50 today. he's been gone nearly as long as he was here, it's hard to believe. I still dream about him, still hear his laugh. he was a brilliant drummer, this footage is when he was only 19. who knows what he might've done www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt1T...
KARP Scott Jernigan drumming Yoyo a Gogo 1994 Olympia Capitol Theater
YouTube video by TD
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
had a long & elaborate dream about scott last night. he didn't die, instead he'd been in prison for the last 22 years?! he looked the same as he did when I last saw him and was very eager to tour japan again. I got started working on the karp rider and talking to promoters right before I woke up.
today I have made a pear tart, scallion pancakes (lunch), and chocolate chip cookies. all gf, as I have to be.
it's now naptime.
it's now naptime.
December 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
today I have made a pear tart, scallion pancakes (lunch), and chocolate chip cookies. all gf, as I have to be.
it's now naptime.
it's now naptime.
I would lose my mind dancing to this version of his song in my room when I was 8: youtu.be/nNOfFaTokUQ?...
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I would lose my mind dancing to this version of his song in my room when I was 8: youtu.be/nNOfFaTokUQ?...
I have an announcement to make: I finally watched Die Hard.
December 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I have an announcement to make: I finally watched Die Hard.
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As people comb the Epstein files for some crime they can get Trump on I’m thinking about how he was found with boxes of stolen top secret files in his possession and somehow that ended up being impossible to prosecute.
December 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
As people comb the Epstein files for some crime they can get Trump on I’m thinking about how he was found with boxes of stolen top secret files in his possession and somehow that ended up being impossible to prosecute.
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NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
jesus christ, it's like he's onstage at the last waltz or something
yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle
December 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
jesus christ, it's like he's onstage at the last waltz or something
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Parents everywhere are terrified that their teens’ sudden need to download the forbidden 60 minutes story is a gateway drug to wanting even more news
December 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Parents everywhere are terrified that their teens’ sudden need to download the forbidden 60 minutes story is a gateway drug to wanting even more news
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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WHAT IS CAUSING THE RISING DEMAND, CNN
Residents in mid-Atlantic states like Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania who have spent the last few years plagued by high electricity bills just got some bad news: Relief is not on the way.
There’s just not enough electricity to meet rising demand. https://cnn.it/4ja4CAR
There’s just not enough electricity to meet rising demand. https://cnn.it/4ja4CAR
December 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
WHAT IS CAUSING THE RISING DEMAND, CNN
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
my dad got him this cookie jar YEARS ago. one cannot even hum anything close to this song without chaos ensuing in our house.
December 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
my dad got him this cookie jar YEARS ago. one cannot even hum anything close to this song without chaos ensuing in our house.
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Anything Democrats do beyond this point to hold back on a full-scale push for invalidating and prosecuting this rogue criminal government is simply a signal of support for every single horrible thing it does
67% of voters specifically disapproving of an *Attorney General* is beyond unprecedented
67% of voters specifically disapproving of an *Attorney General* is beyond unprecedented
Pam Bondi Favorables:
Unfavorable: 67% (+18)
Favorable: 26% (-8)
AtlasIntel / Dec 19, 2025
(% Change With Oct 2025)
Unfavorable: 67% (+18)
Favorable: 26% (-8)
AtlasIntel / Dec 19, 2025
(% Change With Oct 2025)
December 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Anything Democrats do beyond this point to hold back on a full-scale push for invalidating and prosecuting this rogue criminal government is simply a signal of support for every single horrible thing it does
67% of voters specifically disapproving of an *Attorney General* is beyond unprecedented
67% of voters specifically disapproving of an *Attorney General* is beyond unprecedented
I have eaten only cookies and party mix so far today.
December 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I have eaten only cookies and party mix so far today.
I baked the dog some xmas cookies too
December 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I baked the dog some xmas cookies too
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you.
Who's coming to save you?
I feel pretty, pretty good about my chances
Who's coming to save you?
I feel pretty, pretty good about my chances
December 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you.
Who's coming to save you?
I feel pretty, pretty good about my chances
Who's coming to save you?
I feel pretty, pretty good about my chances
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.