@marchek.bsky.social
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I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
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Roses are red
Stem held between teeth
I ordered us takeout but it's
Stem held between teeth
I ordered us takeout but it's
February 14, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Roses are red
Stem held between teeth
I ordered us takeout but it's
Stem held between teeth
I ordered us takeout but it's
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Trans rights are a great litmus test for candidates -
Do they believe in bodily autonomy?
Do they believe in science?
Do they like women and believe women are capable adults?
Do they have weird religious hang ups about sex and gender?
Are children people?
Etc
Do they believe in bodily autonomy?
Do they believe in science?
Do they like women and believe women are capable adults?
Do they have weird religious hang ups about sex and gender?
Are children people?
Etc
Me: I want Democrats who plan to run for president to openly declare their support for full trans rights. This is my one requirement in order for me to consider voting for them.
Weird centrists: YOU SHOULD BE QUIET AND VOTE FOR WHICHEVER CANDIDATE HAS A D BY THEIR NAME NO MATTER WHERE THEY STAND
Weird centrists: YOU SHOULD BE QUIET AND VOTE FOR WHICHEVER CANDIDATE HAS A D BY THEIR NAME NO MATTER WHERE THEY STAND
February 13, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Trans rights are a great litmus test for candidates -
Do they believe in bodily autonomy?
Do they believe in science?
Do they like women and believe women are capable adults?
Do they have weird religious hang ups about sex and gender?
Are children people?
Etc
Do they believe in bodily autonomy?
Do they believe in science?
Do they like women and believe women are capable adults?
Do they have weird religious hang ups about sex and gender?
Are children people?
Etc
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One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.
a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate'
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight
An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.
www.thepinknews.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:50 PM
One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.
All my jeepers, creeped
All my cakes, cuppin'd.
all my peasies, easied
February 13, 2026 at 6:03 PM
All my jeepers, creeped
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this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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This is a great time to buy any of my books. Not only are two of them Olympic skating relevant, a pipe burst in my bathroom wall and flooded my basement today.
February 13, 2026 at 4:35 AM
This is a great time to buy any of my books. Not only are two of them Olympic skating relevant, a pipe burst in my bathroom wall and flooded my basement today.
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Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Flock off
buff.ly
February 13, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised!
New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.
New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.
February 12, 2026 at 10:16 PM
The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised!
New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.
New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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Ominous bird valentines.
February 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Ominous bird valentines.
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this thread is harrowing but these lawyers are fucking heroic
So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas?
It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death.
18/
It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death.
18/
February 12, 2026 at 4:30 AM
this thread is harrowing but these lawyers are fucking heroic
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Please honor James’ memory by getting screened for colorectal cancer. Make the call today if you are 45 or have a family history. Rates are surging among young people. Catching it early is the best way to survive it.
www.cancer.org/cancer/types...
www.cancer.org/cancer/types...
February 11, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Please honor James’ memory by getting screened for colorectal cancer. Make the call today if you are 45 or have a family history. Rates are surging among young people. Catching it early is the best way to survive it.
www.cancer.org/cancer/types...
www.cancer.org/cancer/types...
Oh wow. I never watched Dawson's Creek but my spouse was at Drew University at the same time and later used to bribe his middle school students with footage he had of his college theater performances to get them to do their homework.
James Van Der Beek, the actor best known for playing the lead in hit 90s teen drama Dawson’s Creek, has died.
February 11, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Oh wow. I never watched Dawson's Creek but my spouse was at Drew University at the same time and later used to bribe his middle school students with footage he had of his college theater performances to get them to do their homework.
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Whelp. The utility of any and all Gallup polling now - at best - suspect forever. Bootlickers. They’ll bring that poll back the second this administration is gone
Imagine if Gallup had just suddenly and "coincidentally" decided to stop collecting presidential approval data when Biden hit his polling lows.
thehill.com/homenews/med...
thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Whelp. The utility of any and all Gallup polling now - at best - suspect forever. Bootlickers. They’ll bring that poll back the second this administration is gone
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The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance.
bsky.app/profile/pron...
bsky.app/profile/pron...
bsky.app
February 11, 2026 at 6:39 AM
The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance.
bsky.app/profile/pron...
bsky.app/profile/pron...
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The Trump Administration can temporarily lower the pride flag … they’ll never take down pride.
Look forward to joining LGBTQ+ New Yorkers tomorrow at 4 pm to make clear that New York City — the home of Stonewall — fights back when fascists come for the rights of our neighbors.
Look forward to joining LGBTQ+ New Yorkers tomorrow at 4 pm to make clear that New York City — the home of Stonewall — fights back when fascists come for the rights of our neighbors.
NYC officials plan to reraise pride flag at Manhattan’s Stonewall monument after Trump administration removed it
NYC officials plan to reraise pride flag at Manhattan’s Stonewall monument after Trump administration removed it
The Trump administration in January issued guidance drastically limiting the types of flags that could be displayed at NPS-managed sites.
dlvr.it
February 11, 2026 at 2:54 PM
The Trump Administration can temporarily lower the pride flag … they’ll never take down pride.
Look forward to joining LGBTQ+ New Yorkers tomorrow at 4 pm to make clear that New York City — the home of Stonewall — fights back when fascists come for the rights of our neighbors.
Look forward to joining LGBTQ+ New Yorkers tomorrow at 4 pm to make clear that New York City — the home of Stonewall — fights back when fascists come for the rights of our neighbors.
When was an intern there over 20 years ago I was told they believed this space was to access the mechanisms for the pocket doors on the floor below. It's interesting to hear that new research has yielded a different interpretation.
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 6:10 PM
When was an intern there over 20 years ago I was told they believed this space was to access the mechanisms for the pocket doors on the floor below. It's interesting to hear that new research has yielded a different interpretation.
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Great local reporting on an unprecedented, ominous situation in El Paso
elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...
elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...
El Paso, New Mexico airspace closed by FAA without explanation; flights restricted under national defense noticeWithout explanation, FAA closes El Paso and New Mexico airspace for 10 days, cites natio...
The Federal Aviation Administration has closed airspace over El Paso and parts of southern New Mexico for 10 days under a national defense designation, offering no explanation for the rare move.An une...
elpasomatters.org
February 11, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Great local reporting on an unprecedented, ominous situation in El Paso
elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...
elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...
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“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM
“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”
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Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
February 10, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.
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This is Minneapolis:
I fed my kids dinner 1.5 hour late because I learned their classmate's dad was abducted by our federal government this afternoon and needed to jump in to coordinate support for the family.
We're so close to hitting the goal on this GoFundMe. Please donate and share!
I fed my kids dinner 1.5 hour late because I learned their classmate's dad was abducted by our federal government this afternoon and needed to jump in to coordinate support for the family.
We're so close to hitting the goal on this GoFundMe. Please donate and share!
A parent at my kids’ school was abducted a few hours ago.
Please help us help the family with legal expenses and care for their elementary school son (who doesn’t even know his dad was taken yet 💔):
gofund.me/20a5b26ab
Please help us help the family with legal expenses and care for their elementary school son (who doesn’t even know his dad was taken yet 💔):
gofund.me/20a5b26ab
Donate to Support Byron Cabrera's Legal Defense and Son's Care, organized by Luz Riofrio
Hello everyone, I'm asking for your support for Byron Cabrera, who h… Luz Riofrio needs your support for Support Byron Cabrera's Legal Defense and Son's Care
gofund.me
February 11, 2026 at 2:08 AM
This is Minneapolis:
I fed my kids dinner 1.5 hour late because I learned their classmate's dad was abducted by our federal government this afternoon and needed to jump in to coordinate support for the family.
We're so close to hitting the goal on this GoFundMe. Please donate and share!
I fed my kids dinner 1.5 hour late because I learned their classmate's dad was abducted by our federal government this afternoon and needed to jump in to coordinate support for the family.
We're so close to hitting the goal on this GoFundMe. Please donate and share!
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The new voter suppression bill—called the "Save America Act"—would require 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates to register to vote.
Most don't have these documents. This is a poll tax by another name.
#StopTheSaveAct
Most don't have these documents. This is a poll tax by another name.
#StopTheSaveAct
Contact Your MOC
social.demcast.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:26 PM
The new voter suppression bill—called the "Save America Act"—would require 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates to register to vote.
Most don't have these documents. This is a poll tax by another name.
#StopTheSaveAct
Most don't have these documents. This is a poll tax by another name.
#StopTheSaveAct
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Since I have a lot of new followers, I will re-up this. Some folks just wanted to buy a couple whistles from us instead of getting 100-1000 FOR FREE (which you can do at the linktree in my bio!!!!!)
I just kinda stopped doing my day job at this point but etsy keeps us afloat! 🤣💓
I just kinda stopped doing my day job at this point but etsy keeps us afloat! 🤣💓
February 10, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Since I have a lot of new followers, I will re-up this. Some folks just wanted to buy a couple whistles from us instead of getting 100-1000 FOR FREE (which you can do at the linktree in my bio!!!!!)
I just kinda stopped doing my day job at this point but etsy keeps us afloat! 🤣💓
I just kinda stopped doing my day job at this point but etsy keeps us afloat! 🤣💓