Phillip Anderson
@phillipanderson.bsky.social
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More details: ICE goons were turned away at HD Cooke. They tried to seize the school nurse in the parking lot without a warrant, but backed off after staff intervened.
The staff at this public elementary school in DC showed far more courage than an Ivy with $15 billion endowment
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The AOC interview at TU Berlin is definitely worth watching in full.
Esp appreciated the reflections on political cynicism, the calling out of political hypocrisy toward the Global South, and the pointing out how "free trade" is often corporate protectionism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvqw...
Esp appreciated the reflections on political cynicism, the calling out of political hypocrisy toward the Global South, and the pointing out how "free trade" is often corporate protectionism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvqw...
Rep. AOC Speaks at TU Berlin on The Future of U.S. Politics
YouTube video by RepAOC
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:58 AM
The AOC interview at TU Berlin is definitely worth watching in full.
Esp appreciated the reflections on political cynicism, the calling out of political hypocrisy toward the Global South, and the pointing out how "free trade" is often corporate protectionism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvqw...
Esp appreciated the reflections on political cynicism, the calling out of political hypocrisy toward the Global South, and the pointing out how "free trade" is often corporate protectionism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvqw...
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Almost forgot tomorrow the parade is happening
Baltimore’s 2nd Annual “A Walk In Legacy: Black History Month Parade” is happening Mon, Feb 16 from 12–1 PM at MLK Jr. Blvd & Eutaw St.
Join Mayor Scott, city officials, & community members to honor the iconic Black leaders who shaped our nation. Attendees are encouraged to wear tribute attire✊🏾
Join Mayor Scott, city officials, & community members to honor the iconic Black leaders who shaped our nation. Attendees are encouraged to wear tribute attire✊🏾
February 16, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Almost forgot tomorrow the parade is happening
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I made a mistake looking into replies. If you're still actively using Twitter you're swimming in a cesspool of the most vile shit imaginable. At this point I just assume you absorbed the stench to the point you don't notice it anymore.
Literally every single sentence Randy Fine utters would be a fireable offense at any company
With alt
With alt
February 16, 2026 at 2:00 AM
I made a mistake looking into replies. If you're still actively using Twitter you're swimming in a cesspool of the most vile shit imaginable. At this point I just assume you absorbed the stench to the point you don't notice it anymore.
Agreed on all counts
February 15, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Agreed on all counts
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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
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This dad should get a free pass to do "a little John Wick" type of deal.
This young girl was battling stage 4 cancer when ICE agents took her Dad.
Ofelia leveraged social media to fight for her Dad’s release.
To call out the cruelty of ICE.
She won.
A judge ordered him released on compassionate grounds & they spent her last month’s together.
Ofelia leveraged social media to fight for her Dad’s release.
To call out the cruelty of ICE.
She won.
A judge ordered him released on compassionate grounds & they spent her last month’s together.
Ofelia Torres, Teen With Cancer Who Fought For Father's Freedom From ICE, Has Died
Torres, 16, died Friday. Her father was arrested in October, the day after she returned from more than a month at the hospital for cancer treatments. She shared her family's plight, and her was father...
blockclubchicago.org
February 15, 2026 at 10:15 PM
This dad should get a free pass to do "a little John Wick" type of deal.
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Thinking about a complicated, fascinating incident early in the war that prompted the Governor of Massachusetts, John Andrew, to write a furious letter to the Secretary of War.
He objected to the use of Massachusetts troops in the "dirty and despotic" practice of capturing fugitives.
He objected to the use of Massachusetts troops in the "dirty and despotic" practice of capturing fugitives.
February 15, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Thinking about a complicated, fascinating incident early in the war that prompted the Governor of Massachusetts, John Andrew, to write a furious letter to the Secretary of War.
He objected to the use of Massachusetts troops in the "dirty and despotic" practice of capturing fugitives.
He objected to the use of Massachusetts troops in the "dirty and despotic" practice of capturing fugitives.
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It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
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no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.
A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU
February 14, 2026 at 3:43 AM
no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.
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Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17
One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage
Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states
www.patreon.com/posts/149210...
One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage
Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states
www.patreon.com/posts/149210...
February 15, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17
One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage
Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states
www.patreon.com/posts/149210...
One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage
Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states
www.patreon.com/posts/149210...
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That's why the incremental shit is so insane. We have the ability to make these sweeping changes and take swings to make life better but instead we play footsie with the opposition and let them set the terms and beg for scraps
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:50 PM
That's why the incremental shit is so insane. We have the ability to make these sweeping changes and take swings to make life better but instead we play footsie with the opposition and let them set the terms and beg for scraps
They lie. All the time. About everything
The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape.
After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.
After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.
February 15, 2026 at 6:18 PM
They lie. All the time. About everything
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Great resource here
Thread of some services/software I'm using instead of various billionaire-owned surveillance/fascist/"A.i." trash products:
For my newsletters, @buttondown.com. Does the job! Great customer service - usually get personalized responses within 24 hours. (Never gonna join Substack.)
For my newsletters, @buttondown.com. Does the job! Great customer service - usually get personalized responses within 24 hours. (Never gonna join Substack.)
February 15, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Great resource here
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It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 3:19 PM
It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.
Bullshit
Tom Homan is given free rein to just say stuff on Fox & Friends: "President Trump has already found 145,000 children. In Minnesota alone, only 33,000 missing children we found that the last administration wasn't even looking for."
February 15, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Bullshit
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The Enlightenment was the greatest thing that ever happened. Fight me.
Rod Dreher has fueled some of the more apocalyptic currents on the Trumpist right. Robert F. Worth spoke with the writer to understand his worldview:
Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake
The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.
bit.ly
February 15, 2026 at 2:03 PM
The Enlightenment was the greatest thing that ever happened. Fight me.
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⚫️🟡Maryland!🔴⚪️
Tomorrow is the hearing for HB 630.
This bill limits the conversion of warehouses into detention spaces.
While it doesn't stop ICE outright, it can limit their ability to use contractors & local resources to run these sites!
Your testimony is needed! Instructions below. 👇
Tomorrow is the hearing for HB 630.
This bill limits the conversion of warehouses into detention spaces.
While it doesn't stop ICE outright, it can limit their ability to use contractors & local resources to run these sites!
Your testimony is needed! Instructions below. 👇
February 15, 2026 at 1:33 PM
⚫️🟡Maryland!🔴⚪️
Tomorrow is the hearing for HB 630.
This bill limits the conversion of warehouses into detention spaces.
While it doesn't stop ICE outright, it can limit their ability to use contractors & local resources to run these sites!
Your testimony is needed! Instructions below. 👇
Tomorrow is the hearing for HB 630.
This bill limits the conversion of warehouses into detention spaces.
While it doesn't stop ICE outright, it can limit their ability to use contractors & local resources to run these sites!
Your testimony is needed! Instructions below. 👇
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ICE has completely broken our social contract.
They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations
They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 14, 2026 at 10:55 PM
ICE has completely broken our social contract.
They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations
They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations
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I may say more later but part of what some of us need to understand is that the right has built an entirely distinct civic society, with its own hierarchy and (mostly networked) cultural institutions. That includes celebrity.
“The convergence of influencer culture and venture capital is part of a broader shift reshaping America’s institutions.”
Jake Paul may have gotten his jaw broken on Netflix, but he and his $65 million fortune are laughing their way into Silicon Valley boardrooms | Fortune
“We’re going to do amazing things in 2026,” said Steve Han, a partner at Paul's Anti Fund, told Fortune. “And then hopefully we'll show it over YouTube.”
fortune.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I may say more later but part of what some of us need to understand is that the right has built an entirely distinct civic society, with its own hierarchy and (mostly networked) cultural institutions. That includes celebrity.
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If you're interested in learning & thinking more about Frederick Douglass in community, well, guess what, we have JUST THE THING for you! On March 8th and 22nd: fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#f...
Our Tours – Full Story Baltimore
Current tours: Full Story @ the Walters: An Independent Museum Tour Centering Black History & Histories of Empire Premiered in February 2025; returning January & February 2026 It's time for something ...
fullstorybaltimore.tours
February 14, 2026 at 6:57 PM
If you're interested in learning & thinking more about Frederick Douglass in community, well, guess what, we have JUST THE THING for you! On March 8th and 22nd: fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#f...
The @bmorecitydot.bsky.social feeds used to be terrible. Not informative, mostly posted about other city stuff & rarely abt transpo. Then it changed. It’s now very informative, fun, topical & (v important) TIMELY. Great example of how to to do pub sector social comms. They obviously hired very well
Happy Valentine's Day!
I'm always working on myself so I can be better for you ❤️ 💪 💘
Baltimore, we love you 😘 💖
I'm always working on myself so I can be better for you ❤️ 💪 💘
Baltimore, we love you 😘 💖
February 14, 2026 at 10:41 PM
The @bmorecitydot.bsky.social feeds used to be terrible. Not informative, mostly posted about other city stuff & rarely abt transpo. Then it changed. It’s now very informative, fun, topical & (v important) TIMELY. Great example of how to to do pub sector social comms. They obviously hired very well