Patrick Egan
@pegan.bsky.social
Former Comms @ejusa.bsky.social. Still a little bit of justice transformation but maybe more job seeking+guitars+Mets=messier
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“bari weiss’s wife in the epstein files” is simply too perfect
If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss
January 31, 2026 at 4:12 PM
“bari weiss’s wife in the epstein files” is simply too perfect
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BREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes.
This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.
This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.
January 29, 2026 at 6:26 PM
BREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes.
This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.
This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.
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Amazon has spent over $70M on Melania Trump’s Eva Braun “documentary” while also laying off 16,000 workers. These are choices. So is how you buy stuff. Vote with your wallet.
January 29, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Amazon has spent over $70M on Melania Trump’s Eva Braun “documentary” while also laying off 16,000 workers. These are choices. So is how you buy stuff. Vote with your wallet.
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@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social video he posted to Facebook about the horrific conditions at Dilley
I edited out the last 20 seconds so I could upload it to Bluesky, added captions, and cleaned up the audio
He says parents are being handcuffed and humiliated in front of their children as punishment
I edited out the last 20 seconds so I could upload it to Bluesky, added captions, and cleaned up the audio
He says parents are being handcuffed and humiliated in front of their children as punishment
January 28, 2026 at 5:35 PM
@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social video he posted to Facebook about the horrific conditions at Dilley
I edited out the last 20 seconds so I could upload it to Bluesky, added captions, and cleaned up the audio
He says parents are being handcuffed and humiliated in front of their children as punishment
I edited out the last 20 seconds so I could upload it to Bluesky, added captions, and cleaned up the audio
He says parents are being handcuffed and humiliated in front of their children as punishment
Your daily reminder...
Crime is down
Crime is down
Crime is down, all over the country, to often historic lows.
truthout.org/video/in-bat...
Crime is down
Crime is down
Crime is down, all over the country, to often historic lows.
truthout.org/video/in-bat...
In Battle Over DHS Funding, Reforms Like Body Cameras Are a “Copaganda” Myth
Let’s focus on changes that will actually reduce the violence these agencies commit, says author Alec Karakatsanis.
truthout.org
January 28, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Your daily reminder...
Crime is down
Crime is down
Crime is down, all over the country, to often historic lows.
truthout.org/video/in-bat...
Crime is down
Crime is down
Crime is down, all over the country, to often historic lows.
truthout.org/video/in-bat...
I love this African proverb that comes at the end of this needed op-ed on gun violence in #Philadelphia and how we must share the responsibility.
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Tackling gun violence as our shared purpose | Opinion
Philadelphia made history in 2025, recording the fewest homicides in almost 60 years. But we need to stay tuned in and keep showing up.
www.inquirer.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I love this African proverb that comes at the end of this needed op-ed on gun violence in #Philadelphia and how we must share the responsibility.
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
I think Clint Smith is one of our most important writers today. His essay on visiting Montgomery and the National Lynching Memorial reminded me of my visit, a real highlight of my time at EJUSA, that left me hollowed out but also inspired to keep working.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Those Who Try to Erase History Will Fail
Montgomery shows what’s possible when museums aren’t subject to capricious executive orders.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:14 PM
I think Clint Smith is one of our most important writers today. His essay on visiting Montgomery and the National Lynching Memorial reminded me of my visit, a real highlight of my time at EJUSA, that left me hollowed out but also inspired to keep working.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Billy Bragg always meets the moment.
I wrote this song yesterday as a tribute to the bravery of the people of Minneapolis who...are still willing to put themselves in harms way to defend their community.
Get in their face!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
I wrote this song yesterday as a tribute to the bravery of the people of Minneapolis who...are still willing to put themselves in harms way to defend their community.
Get in their face!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Billy Bragg always meets the moment.
I wrote this song yesterday as a tribute to the bravery of the people of Minneapolis who...are still willing to put themselves in harms way to defend their community.
Get in their face!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
I wrote this song yesterday as a tribute to the bravery of the people of Minneapolis who...are still willing to put themselves in harms way to defend their community.
Get in their face!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
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Join us Tues, January 27th at 10am at Philly City Hall (NE corner) to launch the ICE Out bill package
This legislation will strengthen Philly’s laws by prohibiting collaboration with ICE & our city, & expand protections for discrimination & ICE’s illegal practices
#ICEout #ImmigrantsAreWelcomeHere
This legislation will strengthen Philly’s laws by prohibiting collaboration with ICE & our city, & expand protections for discrimination & ICE’s illegal practices
#ICEout #ImmigrantsAreWelcomeHere
January 26, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Join us Tues, January 27th at 10am at Philly City Hall (NE corner) to launch the ICE Out bill package
This legislation will strengthen Philly’s laws by prohibiting collaboration with ICE & our city, & expand protections for discrimination & ICE’s illegal practices
#ICEout #ImmigrantsAreWelcomeHere
This legislation will strengthen Philly’s laws by prohibiting collaboration with ICE & our city, & expand protections for discrimination & ICE’s illegal practices
#ICEout #ImmigrantsAreWelcomeHere
I spoke with a friend yesterday, a bit despondent about how to stop the horror.
I think Natasha is right...and we all can play a role in making these strikes meaningful and powerful...and everywhere.
I think Natasha is right...and we all can play a role in making these strikes meaningful and powerful...and everywhere.
“The general strike is the name for when the riot, the strike, and the commune all happen at once,” late theorist Joshua Clover said..."that’s the day, the week, or the year where there will be a role for everyone.” There is a role for everyone; that time must be now theintercept.com/2026/01/24/s...
We Can Fight This: Minnesota’s General Strike Shows How
A day before Alex Pretti’s brutal killing by federal agents in the Minneapolis steets, Minnesota showed us a way forward: the general strike.
theintercept.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:18 PM
I spoke with a friend yesterday, a bit despondent about how to stop the horror.
I think Natasha is right...and we all can play a role in making these strikes meaningful and powerful...and everywhere.
I think Natasha is right...and we all can play a role in making these strikes meaningful and powerful...and everywhere.
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Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.
January 25, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.
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The Murder of Alex Jeffrey Pretti
A Cup of Coffee Extra
www.cupofcoffeenews.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
This administration's rewriting of the cop PR playbook is much more than lies for the sake of lies, an attempt to put a sheen on shit.
It's a disavowal of any kind of accountability when it comes to the way it betrays our public safety. That is authoritarianism.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
It's a disavowal of any kind of accountability when it comes to the way it betrays our public safety. That is authoritarianism.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:17 PM
This administration's rewriting of the cop PR playbook is much more than lies for the sake of lies, an attempt to put a sheen on shit.
It's a disavowal of any kind of accountability when it comes to the way it betrays our public safety. That is authoritarianism.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
It's a disavowal of any kind of accountability when it comes to the way it betrays our public safety. That is authoritarianism.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
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HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
January 25, 2026 at 12:00 AM
HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
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He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.
January 24, 2026 at 8:21 PM
He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.
Reduced to background noise...a country currying favor with this fascist GAVE HIM a $200mm plane...and every Republican congress person is cool with it.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
Trump Could Begin Flying on Jet Donated by Qatar by Summer
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Reduced to background noise...a country currying favor with this fascist GAVE HIM a $200mm plane...and every Republican congress person is cool with it.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
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this guy is a terrible liar who genuinely believes he is great at lying
CNN put together a clip of JD Vance claiming ICE agents have "absolute immunity" followed by him two weeks later claiming "I didn't say that officers who engage in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity"
January 24, 2026 at 3:20 AM
this guy is a terrible liar who genuinely believes he is great at lying
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"At the rate things are going today, we should be far less worried about what foreign governments could do with our social-media information than about how our own government might abuse it" @davekarpf.bsky.social (9/24/25)
January 23, 2026 at 10:27 PM
"At the rate things are going today, we should be far less worried about what foreign governments could do with our social-media information than about how our own government might abuse it" @davekarpf.bsky.social (9/24/25)
#MusicChallenge
Day. 24 ( A song that feels like a warning)
Miles Davis
Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e7f...
Day. 24 ( A song that feels like a warning)
Miles Davis
Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e7f...
Miles Davis - Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)
YouTube video by jazzhole13
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January 23, 2026 at 10:45 PM
#MusicChallenge
Day. 24 ( A song that feels like a warning)
Miles Davis
Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e7f...
Day. 24 ( A song that feels like a warning)
Miles Davis
Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e7f...
All 7...all the evidence and you want to sustain this horror show?
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...
7 House Democrats Vote With GOP to Give ICE More Money Despite Deadly Invasions of US Cities | Common Dreams
Seven Democrats in the House sided with Republicans to pass a DHS funding bill, despite calls to rein in Trump's deadly immigration operations.
www.commondreams.org
January 23, 2026 at 9:17 PM
All 7...all the evidence and you want to sustain this horror show?
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...
This is only like #23 on the list of outrageous shit happening right now.
The house is a memorial to the enslaved people of our first present, and we have erased them.
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The house is a memorial to the enslaved people of our first present, and we have erased them.
www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
The slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been removed following Trump administration push
President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered content at national parks that “inappropriately disparage” the U.S. to be reviewed and potentially removed.
www.inquirer.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:00 PM
This is only like #23 on the list of outrageous shit happening right now.
The house is a memorial to the enslaved people of our first present, and we have erased them.
www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
The house is a memorial to the enslaved people of our first present, and we have erased them.
www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
Definitely interested in this movie, and even more hooked by this soundtrack. Do more than let it play in the background. There's an intensity to it.
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Cover-Up (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film), by Maya Shenfeld
14 track album
mayashenfeld.bandcamp.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Definitely interested in this movie, and even more hooked by this soundtrack. Do more than let it play in the background. There's an intensity to it.
mayashenfeld.bandcamp.com/album/cover-...
mayashenfeld.bandcamp.com/album/cover-...
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Really excited for this project- please sign up to keep tabs on what's happening across this big, beautiful, and crazy state.
We are told Texas is a "freedom state," but every day we see officials trying to regulate what we read, what we believe, who we love, and how we use our bodies.
Today, the Wren Action Group is launching a new Substack to fight back: Texas is on Fire. 🔥 🧵
wrenactiongroup.substack.com
Today, the Wren Action Group is launching a new Substack to fight back: Texas is on Fire. 🔥 🧵
wrenactiongroup.substack.com
Texas on Fire | Wren Action Group | Substack
Gathering the good, the bad, and the outrageous about Texas that may not have hit your newsfeed. Click to read Texas on Fire, by Wren Action Group, a Substack publication. Launched 23 minutes ago.
wrenactiongroup.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Really excited for this project- please sign up to keep tabs on what's happening across this big, beautiful, and crazy state.
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ICE agents left a Mexican restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota, after patrons yelled at them to get out.
President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota to quell protests over a recent federal immigration enforcement surge. https://wapo.st/4by8f1A
President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota to quell protests over a recent federal immigration enforcement surge. https://wapo.st/4by8f1A
January 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
ICE agents left a Mexican restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota, after patrons yelled at them to get out.
President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota to quell protests over a recent federal immigration enforcement surge. https://wapo.st/4by8f1A
President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota to quell protests over a recent federal immigration enforcement surge. https://wapo.st/4by8f1A