Marsel T Paint
@marselthepaint.bsky.social
Chunky squirrel with too many Twix b'twixt ma cheeks.
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i went to minneapolis and wrote about what i saw (a massive, robust mutual aid network that is ultimately just a bunch of regular people) and what i didn’t see (thousands of people who are terrified to leave their homes)
ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground
Scenes from a city under siege
www.theverge.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:38 PM
i went to minneapolis and wrote about what i saw (a massive, robust mutual aid network that is ultimately just a bunch of regular people) and what i didn’t see (thousands of people who are terrified to leave their homes)
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After a trial over the last few years, Ireland has launched a permanent scheme giving a basic income of €325 a week for artists.
2,000 will be eligible, and successful recipients will be chosen at random from applicants, who must be "professional artists" (definition tbc).
2,000 will be eligible, and successful recipients will be chosen at random from applicants, who must be "professional artists" (definition tbc).
Ireland announces scheme to provide basic income for artists
The Basic Income for Artists (BIA) project is believed to be the first permanent one of its kind in the world.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 2:16 PM
After a trial over the last few years, Ireland has launched a permanent scheme giving a basic income of €325 a week for artists.
2,000 will be eligible, and successful recipients will be chosen at random from applicants, who must be "professional artists" (definition tbc).
2,000 will be eligible, and successful recipients will be chosen at random from applicants, who must be "professional artists" (definition tbc).
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The Trump administration is going directly after LGBTQ healthcare providers and targeting them with threats of losing access to Medicaid/Medicare payments.
This is government by tweet, where every day, HHS targets more and more GAC providers with threats of investigation and withholding of funding.
This is government by tweet, where every day, HHS targets more and more GAC providers with threats of investigation and withholding of funding.
February 11, 2026 at 9:25 PM
The Trump administration is going directly after LGBTQ healthcare providers and targeting them with threats of losing access to Medicaid/Medicare payments.
This is government by tweet, where every day, HHS targets more and more GAC providers with threats of investigation and withholding of funding.
This is government by tweet, where every day, HHS targets more and more GAC providers with threats of investigation and withholding of funding.
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Almost done with this (very good) book and it draws two pretty straightforward conclusions:
1. Humans can’t live in space
2. Billionaires are the people in the best position to solve Earth’s problems instead of hypothetical space problems but that would involve a non-zero amount of accountability
1. Humans can’t live in space
2. Billionaires are the people in the best position to solve Earth’s problems instead of hypothetical space problems but that would involve a non-zero amount of accountability
February 10, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Almost done with this (very good) book and it draws two pretty straightforward conclusions:
1. Humans can’t live in space
2. Billionaires are the people in the best position to solve Earth’s problems instead of hypothetical space problems but that would involve a non-zero amount of accountability
1. Humans can’t live in space
2. Billionaires are the people in the best position to solve Earth’s problems instead of hypothetical space problems but that would involve a non-zero amount of accountability
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
February 9, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
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I hate being an art critic in an inherently conservative culture. And I mean all of American culture, including liberal spaces, is conservative in that people just want to reefy old stories and are so hostile to new perspectives and ideas in the US, generally speaking. It’s so tedious.
February 8, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I hate being an art critic in an inherently conservative culture. And I mean all of American culture, including liberal spaces, is conservative in that people just want to reefy old stories and are so hostile to new perspectives and ideas in the US, generally speaking. It’s so tedious.
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Last month the Japanese American National Museum asked me to deliver a keynote speech on what is necessary to combat authoritarianism and preserve democracy. You can listen to it and the Q&A that followed here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
What Must Be Done? The Battle Against Fascism
Podcast Episode · It Could Happen Here · 02/05/2026 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Last month the Japanese American National Museum asked me to deliver a keynote speech on what is necessary to combat authoritarianism and preserve democracy. You can listen to it and the Q&A that followed here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol.
An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
February 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol.
An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
Dude has the power to stop wars, end world hunger, and bring the world into new era of innovation. Instead he chooses to be a fucking monster drowning in his own misery
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
February 5, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Dude has the power to stop wars, end world hunger, and bring the world into new era of innovation. Instead he chooses to be a fucking monster drowning in his own misery
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
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Schumer doing us a favor here. Making it crystal clear he will not help us. We ignore or rationalize his message at our peril. He, Jeffries et al must be swept aside on the path to power. Thanks for absolutely nothing Chuck.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Schumer doing us a favor here. Making it crystal clear he will not help us. We ignore or rationalize his message at our peril. He, Jeffries et al must be swept aside on the path to power. Thanks for absolutely nothing Chuck.
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For those keeping score at home:
February 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM
For those keeping score at home:
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i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
February 4, 2026 at 1:45 AM
i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
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Host: Marimar Martinez was shot 5 times in Chicago and charged with ramming her car into the vehicle of the Border Patrol agent who shot her. But a judge dismissed those charges in a remarkable reversal. New surveillance video shows it was the agent who sideswiped Martinez.
February 3, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Host: Marimar Martinez was shot 5 times in Chicago and charged with ramming her car into the vehicle of the Border Patrol agent who shot her. But a judge dismissed those charges in a remarkable reversal. New surveillance video shows it was the agent who sideswiped Martinez.
Shit. They figured it out
🚨 Documents leaked to me reveal a federal watchlist of American protesters suspected of being Antifa - including its supposed leader.
One Department of Homeland Security document says a 29-year-old resident of Portland "is the leader of Antifa":
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...
One Department of Homeland Security document says a 29-year-old resident of Portland "is the leader of Antifa":
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...
Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa”
The list they're creating says so, anyway
www.kenklippenstein.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Shit. They figured it out
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This is very, very good.
Here's how Epstein broke the internet
His meeting with the founder of 4chan and his quest to profit off the end of democracy
www.garbageday.email
February 3, 2026 at 12:54 AM
This is very, very good.
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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.
January 31, 2026 at 4:53 PM
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.
More like this please: apple.news/AWLG-cKwdQ8K...
A resignation and call to conscience at company owned by Maga billionaires — Guardian US
Uline employee says she can no longer work for people who helped ‘America descend into fascism’
apple.news
January 31, 2026 at 2:14 PM
More like this please: apple.news/AWLG-cKwdQ8K...
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so a LOT of what's been released are anonymous reports and with a case this famous you are gonna get some nuts sending in nonsense. but the repeated references to Robin Leach, Trump and Epstein at the Rancho Palos Verdes golf club make it pretty clear a bunch went on there involving those people.
Did the DOJ really just oopsie "Robin Leach strangled a child at a sex party attended to by multiple Presidents" then redact the whole page or am I becoming Qanon
January 30, 2026 at 11:44 PM
so a LOT of what's been released are anonymous reports and with a case this famous you are gonna get some nuts sending in nonsense. but the repeated references to Robin Leach, Trump and Epstein at the Rancho Palos Verdes golf club make it pretty clear a bunch went on there involving those people.
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BREAKING: The DOJ just DELETED a document in the Epstein Files that contained allegations made against Donald Trump.
But we saved it. 👇
But we saved it. 👇
DOJ Just DELETED This Document from the Epstein Files. We Saved It.
The Trump Department of Justice has done it again.
www.meidasplus.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:57 PM
BREAKING: The DOJ just DELETED a document in the Epstein Files that contained allegations made against Donald Trump.
But we saved it. 👇
But we saved it. 👇
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.
January 30, 2026 at 8:31 PM
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.
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DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:
January 30, 2026 at 6:28 PM
DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there: