Rebecca Bridge
@rebeccabridge.bsky.social
Writer, professor, poet, editor, cryptic crosswords, painter, screenwriter, metalsmith, mother, woodworker, and, you know, liver of life. Author of A Month's Worth of Instructional Poems & co-author of Clear Out the Static in Your Attic. Pretty despondent.
Pinned
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i need to admit something. the more i think about how many of our problems are downstream of a very small number of ppl and organizations hoarding all the wealth and power, the less interested i am in discussions of american democracy that prefer to focus on anything else.
February 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM
i need to admit something. the more i think about how many of our problems are downstream of a very small number of ppl and organizations hoarding all the wealth and power, the less interested i am in discussions of american democracy that prefer to focus on anything else.
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When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
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Oceti Sakowin Tipi camp sent up at Mni Owe Sni/ Cold River springs directly across the road form the Whipple federal building. Holding space at a sacred site offering prayers to those held in Whipple.
02/10/26
02/10/26
February 11, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Oceti Sakowin Tipi camp sent up at Mni Owe Sni/ Cold River springs directly across the road form the Whipple federal building. Holding space at a sacred site offering prayers to those held in Whipple.
02/10/26
02/10/26
We are all responsible for what happens in our communities.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 1:58 PM
We are all responsible for what happens in our communities.
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This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.
February 3, 2026 at 5:04 PM
This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.
I have none of those qualifications and my hourly rate is orders of magnitude higher than that 😂
$40 an hour for what would probably be one of the sixty most accomplished fiction writers in America
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 30, 2026 at 9:55 PM
I have none of those qualifications and my hourly rate is orders of magnitude higher than that 😂
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legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards
January 30, 2026 at 2:14 PM
legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards
Fuck ICE.
FUCK ICE
Fuck ICE
January 30, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Fuck ICE.
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And these guardrails, are they in the room with us right now?
January 29, 2026 at 11:46 PM
And these guardrails, are they in the room with us right now?
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Lorine Niedecker
January 26, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Lorine Niedecker
Illinoisans, get on the horn to Durbin and Duckworth this morning and give them heck about what needs to be the minimum requests Senate Democrats make. Nobody ever answers the phone when I call Durbin's office, so you'll likely just be leaving messages. You only get a minute, make it count.
January 29, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Illinoisans, get on the horn to Durbin and Duckworth this morning and give them heck about what needs to be the minimum requests Senate Democrats make. Nobody ever answers the phone when I call Durbin's office, so you'll likely just be leaving messages. You only get a minute, make it count.
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I'm outside the Jesse Brown VA in Chicago for the second second time this week, where once again hundreds of people have gathered for a vigil for Alex Pretti, who was executed by federal agents in Minneapolis.
January 29, 2026 at 1:53 AM
I'm outside the Jesse Brown VA in Chicago for the second second time this week, where once again hundreds of people have gathered for a vigil for Alex Pretti, who was executed by federal agents in Minneapolis.
Heads up
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
January 29, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Heads up
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I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.
January 28, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.
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It wasn’t enough for Stephen Miller that these American citizens were murdered by ICE and CBP, he had to slander them with lies after their deaths.
Miller is a deranged, bloodthirsty bigot, and his policies put lives at risk every day he remains in power.
Fire Stephen Miller.
Miller is a deranged, bloodthirsty bigot, and his policies put lives at risk every day he remains in power.
Fire Stephen Miller.
January 28, 2026 at 6:36 PM
It wasn’t enough for Stephen Miller that these American citizens were murdered by ICE and CBP, he had to slander them with lies after their deaths.
Miller is a deranged, bloodthirsty bigot, and his policies put lives at risk every day he remains in power.
Fire Stephen Miller.
Miller is a deranged, bloodthirsty bigot, and his policies put lives at risk every day he remains in power.
Fire Stephen Miller.
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(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
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"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
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Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:51 AM
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
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BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.
The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force.
@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the en...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:27 PM
A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.
As someone who stood in front of him and told him how small his dick is, this is not wrong.
many of you are coming off the top rope for greg bovino, but you really don't need to do that. bottom rope is high enough
January 27, 2026 at 1:32 AM
As someone who stood in front of him and told him how small his dick is, this is not wrong.
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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 11:35 PM
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.
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Over the next few weeks @literaryhub.bsky.social will be publishing letters from Minnesotans about ICE’s authoritarian occupation of their home. First up today is poet Dobby Gibson. lithub.com/letter-from-...
Letter From Minnesota: Can You Hear Us, America?
Since early December of last year, thousands of ICE officers have streamed into Minnesota to carry out a violent and grossly unconstitutional campaign of state intimidation upon the people of Minne…
lithub.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Over the next few weeks @literaryhub.bsky.social will be publishing letters from Minnesotans about ICE’s authoritarian occupation of their home. First up today is poet Dobby Gibson. lithub.com/letter-from-...