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Doctor in Women's Studies | Writer, researcher, reporter | Co-founder of The Flytrap | she/her | hire me: nicolefroio@gmail.com | tip me on Signal: nicolefroio.57 | anarcho-feminist | Free Palestine
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let me actually tag @copalmn.bsky.social. Follow them and donate directly if you don't want a bandana. Otherwise, we are raising funds by selling a FUCK THE ALGORITHM bandana below: theflytrapmedia-shop.fourthwall.com/en-brl/produ...
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February 10, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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This week we are launching our FUCK THE ALGORITHM bandanas, which were designed by our amazing art director rommy torrico. All proceeds will be going to Comunidades Organizando El Poder Y La Acción Latina, a grassroots, immigrant-led organization supporting Latine families in Minnesota. Get yours!
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February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
nicolefroio.bsky.social
I'm kind of feeling the same. Back then, nobody cared, they thought i was weird for loving Un Verano Sin Tí. I feel vindicated!
beckyhammer.bsky.social Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 2h
Playing "Un Verano Sin Ti" in the office this morning and getting a little misty eyed about how when this album came out in 2022 nobody I knew wanted to listen to it with me

I'm so happy this week
February 10, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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noonechomsky.bsky.social
(Curioso como IA não democratiza a arte, porque usar IA não é a mesma coisa que fazer algo, mas democratiza parte da experiência de ser bilionário: ser medíocre e pensar que "se eu mandei fazer, eu que diz".)
February 10, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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annaleighmaria.bsky.social
I feel like "explaining gay" is less difficult then having to explain Grandpa has a wife *and* a mistress which is what I grew up with! 😭 That my Abuelitos were still married but separated and that he had girlfriends was just something I was aware of my whole life!
amybrown.xyz amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 14h
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
The Wall Street Journal just illustrated the core argument of my book: a system rigged to reward capital over labor is one in which even full-time work no longer secures the most basic material needs.

This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless."

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article titled "The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor." Two charts show trends since 1980: corporate profits rising as a share of gross domestic income, while labor compensation steadily declines.
February 10, 2026 at 2:41 PM
nicolefroio.bsky.social
hang on. wait up. you mean Bad Bunny performing in a capitalist American football event does NOT mean he is starting the socialist revolution? You mean a pop star has NOT managed to abolish ICE from the NFL stage? fuck!!!!!!!!!!!
February 10, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
February 3, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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"I don’t know how people use ChatGPT to write grocery lists. I don’t want a grocery list made by a computer designed to tell kids to kill themselves."
Dehumanizing Humans, Personifying Computers: Why Modern Fascism Wants You to be Lonely
Welcome to fully-automated luxury fascism. Can I take your personhood?
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February 10, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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HAPPY FLYTRAP TUESDAY!! Today, we have worker-owner @andreagrimes.com on how modern fascism wants to dehumanize humans and personify computers to make us all lonelier. Making connections is resistance, she argues:
Dehumanizing Humans, Personifying Computers: Why Modern Fascism Wants You to be Lonely
Welcome to fully-automated luxury fascism. Can I take your personhood?
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February 10, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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"Dehumanization has always been a project of fascism, of empire, of colonialism, of capitalism, of white supremacy. It is, with deplorable irony, very human."
Dehumanizing Humans, Personifying Computers: Why Modern Fascism Wants You to be Lonely
Welcome to fully-automated luxury fascism. Can I take your personhood?
www.theflytrapmedia.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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"quieren quitarme el rio/ y también la playa" - Bad Bunny

"Tire as construções da minha praia/ Não consigo respirar" - BaianaSystem
February 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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Co-founder and worker-owner @tinavasquez.bsky.social will be discussing the origins of movement journalism at this @studyhall.bsky.social event. Sign up at the link:
Uncover the Roots of Movement Journalism
Join our free live event with Tina Vasquez to explore the origins and significance of movement journalism. Sign up now!
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February 9, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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"To live in a so-called tropical paradise in Latin America is to witness the afterlife of colonialism and the impacts of imperialism up close, while also navigating your life the best you can. "
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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"quieren quitarme el rio/ y también la playa" - Bad Bunny

"Tire as construções da minha praia/ Não consigo respirar" - BaianaSystem
February 9, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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"quieren quitarme el rio/ y también la playa" - Bad Bunny

"Tire as construções da minha praia/ Não consigo respirar" - BaianaSystem
February 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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Yikes: the alternative TPUSA “All-American” Halftime Show had fewer than 14,000 views.
February 9, 2026 at 2:12 AM
nicolefroio.bsky.social
i fucking hate the USA
February 9, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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7/ Read the rest of the letters:
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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February 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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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.
Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. 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.” 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.
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”

From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “Hello I am Ender and I am 12 years old, I have been at this center  for 2 months. I arrived here for an immigration appointment and I don’t think they should grab immigrants who are innocent, like instead of grabbing criminals because I mean they prefer to lock up children than look for people who really shouldn’t be in the U.S. They told me I could only be here 21 days but I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals, going outside and that the majority of guards never pay attention to people, eating dinner  always the same as the day before, seeing people cry every day for the same reasons, trying to sleep in that horrible uncomfortable bed, going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…” Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “…going to wait for the bad answers from the judges, hearing the bad news from people who no longer have hope, having to share a room with minimum 3 families, and all that so they send us back to our countries.” Below the text is a drawing in pen of three women, titled “My family” and labeled with “Mama,” “Sister,” and “me” in Spanish.
February 9, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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4/ “Mi Familia,” by 5-year-old Luisanney Toloza from Venezuela, who had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border
A child’s illustration, made in what appears to be crayon, of more than a dozen figures standing together. It’s titled “Mi Familia” and credited to “Luisanney Toloza, 5 años.”
February 9, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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3/ “I have never been separated from my siblings and its honestly sad because they are little and they need their mom and sister.”

From 14-year-old Ariana V.V, whose U.S.-citizen siblings are 2 and 5 years old. Detained for 45+ days
Page 1 of handwritten letter. Transcript: "Hello, my name is Ariana V.V. im 14 years old and im from Honduras, ive been detained for 45 days and I have never felt so much fear to go to a place as I feel here everytime I remind myself that once I go back to Honduras a lot of dangerous things could happen to my mom and my younger siblings haven’t been able to see their mom in more than a month. They are very young and you need both of your parents when you are growing up. Since I got to this Center all you will feel is sadness and mostly depression. When people have their courts the longest they will last is 15 minutes, our rights are not being provided, arrest are happening when people don’t even have any type of order, arrests are happening illegally. Its sad to hear that peoples case are being denied and are getting send back to their country places where they are escaping from and are looking for protection and want to feel safe. Not a lot of people know what is happening in the Centers where immigrants are placed at. I haven’t been getting any school time. Every single person in here had their jobs they had their lifes, they aren’t any danger for this Country." Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter. Transcript: "Ive been in this country for almost 7 years and in those 7 years my mom and I found a home and made a bigger family. I have never been separated from my siblings and its honestly sad because they are little and they need their mom and sister, yeah they are with their dad but its still different for them and my mom and I. Since the day my mom and I get detained in Manhattan NY, my life was instanly paused, from my knowledge you can’t be under custody for more than 15 or 20 days, well here in Dilley Immigration Processing Center people have been in this place for 7 months, 5 months, 4-2 months, its not fair that the ICE officers are not following the laws. All kids are being damage mentally, they witness how the’ve been treated. They don’t have schools, doctor, all they have are nurses, if you need medical attention the longest you have to wait is 3 hours, but to get any medicine, pill, anything it takes a while, there are various viruses people are always sick. Serious situations happen and the officers can’t take them serious enough there are no consecuenses, they don’t care."
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.”

From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days
The first page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in different colors of pencil. Transcript: “Hello, my name is Susej F and I’am 9 years old. I’am from Venezuela. I have been 50 days in Dilley Immigration Processing Center. And I want to go to my Country. But I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long. I have been 2 years and 6 months in united states, and I was happy with my friends in The school but now I need to leave. I miss my family in my country so now I want To go to Venezuela. But my mom do not want to leave because she wants a better future for me.” The second page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil on notebook paper. Transcript: “Seen how people like me, immigrants are been treated changes my perspective about the U.S. My mom and I came to The U.S looking for a good and safe place to live, and my mom was looking for a Good job.”
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM