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@mndymn.bsky.social
Things I care about: not being hit by a car, excellent views, fancy produce, grant/research administration.
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they're in Maine now, doing all the bullshit
still in LA, doing the bullshit
still in LA, doing the bullshit
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:58 PM
they're in Maine now, doing all the bullshit
still in LA, doing the bullshit
still in LA, doing the bullshit
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One of the things Maria Ressa implored us to do what stop using the term “misinformation.”
When people in power lie, it’s not a mistake. They are active participants in seeding and amplifying that lie to maintain their power over the narrative.
That’s disinformation.
When people in power lie, it’s not a mistake. They are active participants in seeding and amplifying that lie to maintain their power over the narrative.
That’s disinformation.
Had the incredible opportunity yesterday to hear Nobel Laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social speak about journalism’s role in fighting fascism.
She talked about the work her company The Nerve does to map disinformation networks and show how they work to shift narratives.
This slide sums up that work.
She talked about the work her company The Nerve does to map disinformation networks and show how they work to shift narratives.
This slide sums up that work.
January 25, 2026 at 7:26 PM
One of the things Maria Ressa implored us to do what stop using the term “misinformation.”
When people in power lie, it’s not a mistake. They are active participants in seeding and amplifying that lie to maintain their power over the narrative.
That’s disinformation.
When people in power lie, it’s not a mistake. They are active participants in seeding and amplifying that lie to maintain their power over the narrative.
That’s disinformation.
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ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.
January 25, 2026 at 5:50 PM
ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.
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Agents of one federal department killed an employee of another federal department which hasn't commented on his death and the head of a third federal department cheered on the agents that committed the violence.
January 25, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Agents of one federal department killed an employee of another federal department which hasn't commented on his death and the head of a third federal department cheered on the agents that committed the violence.
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This is Minneapolis.
Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.
Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.
January 25, 2026 at 2:46 AM
This is Minneapolis.
Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.
Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.
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Walked to the vigil outside the Fed Building. Some clergy members just returned this afternoon from Minneapolis and sharing their experience. “I spent my time there crying,” one clergymember said. Offers up a prayer for the dead.
January 25, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Walked to the vigil outside the Fed Building. Some clergy members just returned this afternoon from Minneapolis and sharing their experience. “I spent my time there crying,” one clergymember said. Offers up a prayer for the dead.
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What a stark, horrifying demonstration of the tension a union opens itself to when it organizes security forces.
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
My god.
Statement from AFGE: Alex was a member. His killer may have been as well.
Statement from AFGE: Alex was a member. His killer may have been as well.
January 24, 2026 at 9:46 PM
What a stark, horrifying demonstration of the tension a union opens itself to when it organizes security forces.
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
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With alt-text
January 25, 2026 at 12:54 AM
With alt-text
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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We deal with this a lot in our civil rights work against the vast system of pretrial detention. Decades of mass incarceration has left our culture desensitized. We have stopped realizing a core pillar of a reasonable society: the state must have very good reasons for putting a human in a cage.
January 22, 2026 at 11:53 PM
We deal with this a lot in our civil rights work against the vast system of pretrial detention. Decades of mass incarceration has left our culture desensitized. We have stopped realizing a core pillar of a reasonable society: the state must have very good reasons for putting a human in a cage.
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PSA: You do NOT have "until Jan 30th" to call your reps about ICE. The House is voting on the DHS appropriations bill TODAY (1/22) 🚨🚨
January 22, 2026 at 7:13 PM
PSA: You do NOT have "until Jan 30th" to call your reps about ICE. The House is voting on the DHS appropriations bill TODAY (1/22) 🚨🚨
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Today is Day 230 of the ICE raids here in Los Angeles.
On Monday, January 26th at 12 p.m., the Community Self-Defense Coalition will host a Community Patrol Training at All Saints Church (132 N. Euclid Avenue, Pasadena). Validated parking is available at Plaza Las Fuentes.
On Monday, January 26th at 12 p.m., the Community Self-Defense Coalition will host a Community Patrol Training at All Saints Church (132 N. Euclid Avenue, Pasadena). Validated parking is available at Plaza Las Fuentes.
January 21, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Today is Day 230 of the ICE raids here in Los Angeles.
On Monday, January 26th at 12 p.m., the Community Self-Defense Coalition will host a Community Patrol Training at All Saints Church (132 N. Euclid Avenue, Pasadena). Validated parking is available at Plaza Las Fuentes.
On Monday, January 26th at 12 p.m., the Community Self-Defense Coalition will host a Community Patrol Training at All Saints Church (132 N. Euclid Avenue, Pasadena). Validated parking is available at Plaza Las Fuentes.
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In France, schools often have a poignant plaque on the wall near their entrance recounting how many students were kidnapped by the Nazis from that school during the occupation.
Four students have been taken from this Minnesota school district.
Four students have been taken from this Minnesota school district.
January 21, 2026 at 11:19 PM
In France, schools often have a poignant plaque on the wall near their entrance recounting how many students were kidnapped by the Nazis from that school during the occupation.
Four students have been taken from this Minnesota school district.
Four students have been taken from this Minnesota school district.
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
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'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'
The idea that there are no protests in the US and no one is standing up to Trump is proving incredibly hard to kill over here in Germany. It’s become dogma, utterly detached from empirical reality.
I wonder if the people who keep talking like that understand they’re perpetuating regime propaganda.
I wonder if the people who keep talking like that understand they’re perpetuating regime propaganda.
January 21, 2026 at 3:48 PM
'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'
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NEW: Last year, Google agreed to throw a few crumbs to California newsrooms, whose work they handsomely profit off of.
Now even those crumbs are being swept off the table as Gavin Newsom balked on the state's end of the deal.
Californians deserve better.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Now even those crumbs are being swept off the table as Gavin Newsom balked on the state's end of the deal.
Californians deserve better.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Commentary: California is suffering truth decay. Sacramento should do something about it
A Google deal to bolster local journalism is foundering after Gov. Newsom zeroed out the program in his budget. The state's reporting ranks have been decimated.
www.latimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:20 PM
NEW: Last year, Google agreed to throw a few crumbs to California newsrooms, whose work they handsomely profit off of.
Now even those crumbs are being swept off the table as Gavin Newsom balked on the state's end of the deal.
Californians deserve better.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Now even those crumbs are being swept off the table as Gavin Newsom balked on the state's end of the deal.
Californians deserve better.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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Takeaways:
-2nd compact on the way
-signed agreements from Brown, Columbia, Cornell Northwestern, Penn, and UVA have emboldened the admin (thanks y'all!)
-Vanderbilt's committed to cosplaying as the "reasonable adult" while aiding authoritarians
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
-2nd compact on the way
-signed agreements from Brown, Columbia, Cornell Northwestern, Penn, and UVA have emboldened the admin (thanks y'all!)
-Vanderbilt's committed to cosplaying as the "reasonable adult" while aiding authoritarians
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Investigations and a Billion-Dollar ‘Shakedown’: How Trump Targeted Higher Education
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Takeaways:
-2nd compact on the way
-signed agreements from Brown, Columbia, Cornell Northwestern, Penn, and UVA have emboldened the admin (thanks y'all!)
-Vanderbilt's committed to cosplaying as the "reasonable adult" while aiding authoritarians
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
-2nd compact on the way
-signed agreements from Brown, Columbia, Cornell Northwestern, Penn, and UVA have emboldened the admin (thanks y'all!)
-Vanderbilt's committed to cosplaying as the "reasonable adult" while aiding authoritarians
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
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“nobody is insider trading off his death so it almost certainly didn’t happen” really sums up the state of the world in 2026 huh
January 21, 2026 at 5:30 AM
“nobody is insider trading off his death so it almost certainly didn’t happen” really sums up the state of the world in 2026 huh
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completely unironically, this is how we'll know
Everyone in his inner circle would be insider trading trading on his death on Kalshi before turning the plane around
January 21, 2026 at 4:11 AM
completely unironically, this is how we'll know
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As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts.
Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:
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It’s worse than it looks in Minneapolis
But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.
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January 20, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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The only goal he has in life is vanity
He has the mind of a state fair… prizes and noise
He has the mind of a state fair… prizes and noise
January 19, 2026 at 2:46 PM
The only goal he has in life is vanity
He has the mind of a state fair… prizes and noise
He has the mind of a state fair… prizes and noise
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The labor share of GDP is lower today than it has been at any time since records began being kept in 1947.
The share of the nation’s income going to workers has fallen 16 points in that 78-year stretch. The share going to capital has risen by the same amount.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
The share of the nation’s income going to workers has fallen 16 points in that 78-year stretch. The share going to capital has risen by the same amount.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
A New Low for American Workers
The share of American income going to labor is at its lowest level since measurements began.
prospect.org
January 19, 2026 at 4:42 PM
The labor share of GDP is lower today than it has been at any time since records began being kept in 1947.
The share of the nation’s income going to workers has fallen 16 points in that 78-year stretch. The share going to capital has risen by the same amount.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
The share of the nation’s income going to workers has fallen 16 points in that 78-year stretch. The share going to capital has risen by the same amount.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
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oh it's going to be a Recession recession
January 18, 2026 at 10:56 PM
oh it's going to be a Recession recession
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We are collecting information on terminated SAMHSA grants at Grant Witness: grant-witness.us/submit-samhs...
If you worked on one of these programs, please let us know at the link! And please share with your colleagues. We need a comprehensive record of these terminations to fight back!
If you worked on one of these programs, please let us know at the link! And please share with your colleagues. We need a comprehensive record of these terminations to fight back!
Last night with no warning, RFK Jr. cancelled up to $2 billion in funding for mental health and substance abuse research and programs administered through SAMHSA.
He and his minions did so because “they no longer believe the defunded programs align with the Trump administration's priorities”.
He and his minions did so because “they no longer believe the defunded programs align with the Trump administration's priorities”.
Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants
The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.
www.npr.org
January 14, 2026 at 5:43 PM
We are collecting information on terminated SAMHSA grants at Grant Witness: grant-witness.us/submit-samhs...
If you worked on one of these programs, please let us know at the link! And please share with your colleagues. We need a comprehensive record of these terminations to fight back!
If you worked on one of these programs, please let us know at the link! And please share with your colleagues. We need a comprehensive record of these terminations to fight back!
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we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.
January 14, 2026 at 2:09 AM
we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.