MartenMartin
@mcmjk1995.bsky.social
USA | Minnesota | They / Them
I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. - Etienne de Grellet
I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. - Etienne de Grellet
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MartenMartin
@mcmjk1995.bsky.social
· Mar 11
can't overstate how much mental real estate he occupies
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Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
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“Rather than being threatened with a criminal sentence, he should be commended for his courage in organising the largest Pécs Pride in history.”
Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and the many other activists in Hungary fighting for their freedoms. Everyone should be free to celebrate Pride.
🇭🇺🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and the many other activists in Hungary fighting for their freedoms. Everyone should be free to celebrate Pride.
🇭🇺🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Hungary: Pride organiser faces prison in latest attack on LGBTI rights
We uncover truth and hold the powerful to account. Take action, donate and join the Amnesty movement to protect human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk
February 9, 2026 at 8:05 PM
“Rather than being threatened with a criminal sentence, he should be commended for his courage in organising the largest Pécs Pride in history.”
Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and the many other activists in Hungary fighting for their freedoms. Everyone should be free to celebrate Pride.
🇭🇺🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and the many other activists in Hungary fighting for their freedoms. Everyone should be free to celebrate Pride.
🇭🇺🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers
In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.
interc.pt
February 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
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I love the idea that the Super Bowl is supposed to be "a unifying event for the country" since any given year half the people who watch it leave pissed off
Megyn Kelly just shouting “FOOTBALL IS OURS” at Piers Morgan about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show is the perfect example of this moment in time. Put it in a time capsule and send it out into space.
February 10, 2026 at 3:37 AM
I love the idea that the Super Bowl is supposed to be "a unifying event for the country" since any given year half the people who watch it leave pissed off
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Notice the framing of sex trafficking victims as “consensual sex workers” and the simultaneous framing of consensual sex workers as “sex trafficking victims”
February 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Notice the framing of sex trafficking victims as “consensual sex workers” and the simultaneous framing of consensual sex workers as “sex trafficking victims”
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ProLife protests turns super spreader for measles; a potentially fatal infection (though fatality potential is lesser in healthy ppl with strong immune systems). Many , especially on the right, don't believe in immunizations.
www.rawstory.com/march-for-li...
www.rawstory.com/march-for-li...
Right-wing pro-life march ends up being measles super spreader: health officials
Anti-abortion protesters who travelled to Washington, D.C. for the March for Life ended up at a measles super spreader-event, according to health officials.Thousands of pro-lifers came for the Jan. 23...
www.rawstory.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:31 PM
ProLife protests turns super spreader for measles; a potentially fatal infection (though fatality potential is lesser in healthy ppl with strong immune systems). Many , especially on the right, don't believe in immunizations.
www.rawstory.com/march-for-li...
www.rawstory.com/march-for-li...
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i think about this every day and the more history i learn, the truer it becomes
so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration
February 8, 2026 at 9:49 PM
i think about this every day and the more history i learn, the truer it becomes
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Vance gets a chilly Winter Olympics reception in Milan, with booing and jeering
Vance gets a chilly Winter Olympics reception in Milan, with booing and jeering
The moment highlighted the growing unpopularity of the Trump administration on the world stage, especially in Europe.
www.ms.now
February 7, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Vance gets a chilly Winter Olympics reception in Milan, with booing and jeering
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6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
![Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k4jt6heuiamymgi46yeuxtpt/bafkreihpnudavq27nzelfb2kd3fjjthco7haqmhvx4zryksfbfruoxkm74@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 PM
6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
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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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So, you can kind of see where Herbie from The Love Bug (1968) and Christine from the film Christine (1983), is a transfem allegory with sentient cars-
Everyone at my Super Bowl party:😐
Everyone at my Super Bowl party:😐
February 9, 2026 at 1:25 AM
So, you can kind of see where Herbie from The Love Bug (1968) and Christine from the film Christine (1983), is a transfem allegory with sentient cars-
Everyone at my Super Bowl party:😐
Everyone at my Super Bowl party:😐
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the work @bellingcat.com is doing in Minneapolis is essential. I spoke with @eoghanmacguire.bsky.social about the site's U.S. strategy
www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/in-m...
www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/in-m...
In Minneapolis and other U.S. cities, Bellingcat supplements local news by “zooming in with a forensic lens”
Partnerships with local news outlets help "bring our stories to the audiences who need to see them most."
www.niemanlab.org
January 26, 2026 at 11:34 PM
the work @bellingcat.com is doing in Minneapolis is essential. I spoke with @eoghanmacguire.bsky.social about the site's U.S. strategy
www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/in-m...
www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/in-m...
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Reminder when you watch the Intuit Super Bowl ads, they have Super Bowl ad money because they are a successful rent seekers who have worked for decades to kill free, quality, public tax preparation services donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
The Death of Direct File
Tech for good not welcome in the Trump administration
donmoynihan.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Reminder when you watch the Intuit Super Bowl ads, they have Super Bowl ad money because they are a successful rent seekers who have worked for decades to kill free, quality, public tax preparation services donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
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VC, founder, dumbass
February 8, 2026 at 9:37 PM
VC, founder, dumbass
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It’s incredibly frustrating to see people spread conspiracies that Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre “didn’t really kill herself.” It ignores her allegations of domestic abuse against her husband before she did, actually, die by suicide. It’s a way to minimize how pervasive abuse really is
February 8, 2026 at 5:25 PM
It’s incredibly frustrating to see people spread conspiracies that Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre “didn’t really kill herself.” It ignores her allegations of domestic abuse against her husband before she did, actually, die by suicide. It’s a way to minimize how pervasive abuse really is
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i started researching Russian disinfo networks in 2014 and writing about them in 2015 and the sheer amount of smug online assholes who dismissed every piece of reporting as CIA propaganda or whatever will never not piss me off
Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:45 AM
i started researching Russian disinfo networks in 2014 and writing about them in 2015 and the sheer amount of smug online assholes who dismissed every piece of reporting as CIA propaganda or whatever will never not piss me off
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I watched 12 ANGRY MEN (1957) for the first time this past week and I've determined we lost our way when men in movies stopped being drenched in sweat.
February 7, 2026 at 4:20 PM
I watched 12 ANGRY MEN (1957) for the first time this past week and I've determined we lost our way when men in movies stopped being drenched in sweat.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 19
A Man's Battle
Introjection
Episode 19
A Man's Battle
Introjection
February 8, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 19
A Man's Battle
Introjection
Episode 19
A Man's Battle
Introjection
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Tiny Pants tossed from bar.
Don't let them rest.
Don't let them eat.
Make them quit.
#ICEOUT #Bovino #PedoProtectionForce
lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...
Don't let them rest.
Don't let them eat.
Make them quit.
#ICEOUT #Bovino #PedoProtectionForce
lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...
Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar
Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers.
lasvegassun.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Tiny Pants tossed from bar.
Don't let them rest.
Don't let them eat.
Make them quit.
#ICEOUT #Bovino #PedoProtectionForce
lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...
Don't let them rest.
Don't let them eat.
Make them quit.
#ICEOUT #Bovino #PedoProtectionForce
lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...
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Anyone expressing shock that trump is a racist has been deliberately ignoring the fact he has been racist for decades.
February 6, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Anyone expressing shock that trump is a racist has been deliberately ignoring the fact he has been racist for decades.
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cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox
February 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM
cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox