Nathaniel Styer
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Opinions are mine. Will play your RPG. Michigan born and educated. New York City is my home.
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great profile in the LA Times of the “vato skateboarders” from One Battle After Another, who were actual skaters from El Paso, where the battle of baktan cross (my favorite sequence in the movie) was filmed
El Paso is lowkey one of the coolest cities in the country
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
El Paso is lowkey one of the coolest cities in the country
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
November 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
great profile in the LA Times of the “vato skateboarders” from One Battle After Another, who were actual skaters from El Paso, where the battle of baktan cross (my favorite sequence in the movie) was filmed
El Paso is lowkey one of the coolest cities in the country
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
El Paso is lowkey one of the coolest cities in the country
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
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"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights
The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
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Otherwise, no notes
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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More imp, immigrants have been a huge boon to cities like Buffalo that have faced tough times for decades. A logical government policy would be to try and build upon that as much as possible to reinvigorate the Rust Belt and the Midwest. www.wsj.com/us-news/rust...
buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
Immigrants Revived Rust Belt Cities. Now They’re in Hiding.
Deportations are hitting smaller cities and neighborhoods where economists say recent immigration has helped boost faltering economies.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
More imp, immigrants have been a huge boon to cities like Buffalo that have faced tough times for decades. A logical government policy would be to try and build upon that as much as possible to reinvigorate the Rust Belt and the Midwest. www.wsj.com/us-news/rust...
buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
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Occupying illegal apartments does not exacerbate the housing crisis because... those apartments are illegal! It's terrible for the safety of the people living there. It's why people drown when it floods. But it's not driving the shortage of legal housing.
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Occupying illegal apartments does not exacerbate the housing crisis because... those apartments are illegal! It's terrible for the safety of the people living there. It's why people drown when it floods. But it's not driving the shortage of legal housing.
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Secondly, legally renting an apartment, at least in New York requires among other things:
- Proof of identity
- Proof of bank account
- Proof of employment
Folks here illegally are living with family here legally or in illegal residences, like illegal basement apartments
- Proof of identity
- Proof of bank account
- Proof of employment
Folks here illegally are living with family here legally or in illegal residences, like illegal basement apartments
November 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Secondly, legally renting an apartment, at least in New York requires among other things:
- Proof of identity
- Proof of bank account
- Proof of employment
Folks here illegally are living with family here legally or in illegal residences, like illegal basement apartments
- Proof of identity
- Proof of bank account
- Proof of employment
Folks here illegally are living with family here legally or in illegal residences, like illegal basement apartments
And if you live anywhere near Anyone Comics… that should be where you get your comics.
Hey, friends in NYC! Come hang out with a buncha cool comics creators and fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE! A @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and @bkindivisible.bsky.social event at @anyonecomics.bsky.social in Brooklyn! It's gonna be a blast!
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
Hands Off NYC Zine and Poster Fun in Brooklyn with local comics creators! · Indivisible Brooklyn
Join New York comic creators to fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE in our city! Stay to fold and color a while or just swing by to pick up zines and posters to distribute in your nei...
www.mobilize.us
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
And if you live anywhere near Anyone Comics… that should be where you get your comics.
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Fact-checking seems pointless when the pols do not care — Sean Hannity is never going to do it because that's the point of going on Sean Hannity show, but.
There's ~14 million people living without documents in the US, up by 4m. Not +30m, not 30m total.
- www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
There's ~14 million people living without documents in the US, up by 4m. Not +30m, not 30m total.
- www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
November 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Fact-checking seems pointless when the pols do not care — Sean Hannity is never going to do it because that's the point of going on Sean Hannity show, but.
There's ~14 million people living without documents in the US, up by 4m. Not +30m, not 30m total.
- www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
There's ~14 million people living without documents in the US, up by 4m. Not +30m, not 30m total.
- www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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“We were just immigrants trying to get ahead and celebrating a friend’s birthday.”
New from @francescadnunz.bsky.social: Experts interviewed by the Observer say there's still no concrete evidence the dramatic multi-agency raid on a rented AirBnB had anything to do with preventing gang activity.
New from @francescadnunz.bsky.social: Experts interviewed by the Observer say there's still no concrete evidence the dramatic multi-agency raid on a rented AirBnB had anything to do with preventing gang activity.
Prosecutors Drop Only Criminal Cases from Hays County Airbnb Raid
Pending drug charges have been abandoned from the multi-agency April operation that supposedly targeted Tren de Aragua and led to multiple deportations.
www.texasobserver.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“We were just immigrants trying to get ahead and celebrating a friend’s birthday.”
New from @francescadnunz.bsky.social: Experts interviewed by the Observer say there's still no concrete evidence the dramatic multi-agency raid on a rented AirBnB had anything to do with preventing gang activity.
New from @francescadnunz.bsky.social: Experts interviewed by the Observer say there's still no concrete evidence the dramatic multi-agency raid on a rented AirBnB had anything to do with preventing gang activity.
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Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
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thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
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Trump's super-power is that he simply refuses to acknowledge political wounds that would instantly kill anyone with a modicum of shame. Which has worked well enough for him that many people have fooled themselves into believing he isn't wounded at all. But he is! He always has been!
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Trump's super-power is that he simply refuses to acknowledge political wounds that would instantly kill anyone with a modicum of shame. Which has worked well enough for him that many people have fooled themselves into believing he isn't wounded at all. But he is! He always has been!
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The 4th Day of the Creation, 1926 #mcescher #escher
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The 4th Day of the Creation, 1926 #mcescher #escher
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"If the city is to remain open and functional, it has to keep welcoming both the family that’s been in the Bronx for 50 years and the couple that moved to Bed-Stuy last spring. New York works because both kinds of people keep showing up — not because we decide whose presence counts."
Who Made Mamdani Mayor?
Stop obsessing about transplants; it was the whole city. Anyway, transplants are people too!
joshgreenman.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"If the city is to remain open and functional, it has to keep welcoming both the family that’s been in the Bronx for 50 years and the couple that moved to Bed-Stuy last spring. New York works because both kinds of people keep showing up — not because we decide whose presence counts."
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Pom'po pom'po pon po pon pon, 1948 #surrealism #magritte
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Pom'po pom'po pon po pon pon, 1948 #surrealism #magritte
"There have been real and appalling scandals in the BBC’s recent history. This is not one of them."
Goodall's willingness to go into detail about how the members of the BBC board who hired the author of the leaked Telegraph were also involved in launching an unfounded inquiry that led him to exit the BBC (and led to Newsnight's gutting) is whew -- goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"There have been real and appalling scandals in the BBC’s recent history. This is not one of them."
There was just an election! It gave us evidence that the tactic is working!
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
There was just an election! It gave us evidence that the tactic is working!
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This is what's so aggravating — yes, it was not working in extracting a policy concession but it was working in *driving down trump's numbers and provoking GOP infighting* which is what's important if you take Dem rhetoric about the perils of MAGA remotely seriously.
weirdly honest messaging from the breakaway mod/institutionalist leaders who blew up the party strategy
they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message
they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is what's so aggravating — yes, it was not working in extracting a policy concession but it was working in *driving down trump's numbers and provoking GOP infighting* which is what's important if you take Dem rhetoric about the perils of MAGA remotely seriously.
I was kind of 50/50 on whether or not Ds should make a deal - blocking SNAP payments isn't just a political tactic... it actively hurts people - just one month of missed $ is enough to plunge 23k NYers into poverty.
But then you see this kind of thinking and you get radicalized all over again.
But then you see this kind of thinking and you get radicalized all over again.
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I was kind of 50/50 on whether or not Ds should make a deal - blocking SNAP payments isn't just a political tactic... it actively hurts people - just one month of missed $ is enough to plunge 23k NYers into poverty.
But then you see this kind of thinking and you get radicalized all over again.
But then you see this kind of thinking and you get radicalized all over again.
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Love this story. This kid is so cool apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Love this story. This kid is so cool apnews.com/article/louv...
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across all wikipedias in all languages, vietnamese wikipedia's "game boy" article is the only place that uses the public domain shots of hillary clinton as a tetris addict taken on air force one
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
across all wikipedias in all languages, vietnamese wikipedia's "game boy" article is the only place that uses the public domain shots of hillary clinton as a tetris addict taken on air force one
I know I’m 38 because I now hold the opinion - back by much experience - that one of the best purchases you can make post-college is an electric drill.
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I know I’m 38 because I now hold the opinion - back by much experience - that one of the best purchases you can make post-college is an electric drill.
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worth a read to understand the challenge Zohran faces upholding his rent freeze promise
Super interesting housing proposals by @aarmlovi.bsky.social to enable the incoming NYC mayor to make good on his promises while doing no harm to existing housing stock. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/a-h...
Vital City | A Housing Roadmap for New York’s Next Mayor
How Mayor-elect Mamdani can rise to the central challenge facing the city
www.vitalcitynyc.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
worth a read to understand the challenge Zohran faces upholding his rent freeze promise
Good on Hochul for taking this threat seriously. apple.news/A5J5tZy47Qme...
New York Is Quietly Preparing Against Trump’s Takeover of the City — POLITICO
Gov. Kathy Hochul has built a virtual war room to prepare for Trump’s next move
apple.news
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Good on Hochul for taking this threat seriously. apple.news/A5J5tZy47Qme...