Thomas
@thomaslstrickland.bsky.social
aspiring film bro, non-native new yorker // experience strategist & designer & researcher
also, abolish 🧊, thank you.
also, abolish 🧊, thank you.
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New for @teenvogue.com (!)
The young immigrant women workers of Lawrence won the 1912 Bread and Roses strike because of solidarity—which is also exactly how the people of Minnesota built the durable and inspiring resistance network we all saw on January 23, 2026.
www.teenvogue.com/story/from-m...
The young immigrant women workers of Lawrence won the 1912 Bread and Roses strike because of solidarity—which is also exactly how the people of Minnesota built the durable and inspiring resistance network we all saw on January 23, 2026.
www.teenvogue.com/story/from-m...
From Minneapolis to “Bread and Roses,” Workers Have Always Fought Back
Times and conditions may change, but the struggle between labor and capital continues.
www.teenvogue.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:02 PM
New for @teenvogue.com (!)
The young immigrant women workers of Lawrence won the 1912 Bread and Roses strike because of solidarity—which is also exactly how the people of Minnesota built the durable and inspiring resistance network we all saw on January 23, 2026.
www.teenvogue.com/story/from-m...
The young immigrant women workers of Lawrence won the 1912 Bread and Roses strike because of solidarity—which is also exactly how the people of Minnesota built the durable and inspiring resistance network we all saw on January 23, 2026.
www.teenvogue.com/story/from-m...
“It prints money!”
(from inevitable lawsuits)
(from inevitable lawsuits)
Google’s new world AI model tool let me generate a bunch of Nintendo-inspired games. Including one featuring Link with a paraglider! Gift link: www.theverge.com/news/869726/...
January 29, 2026 at 6:08 PM
“It prints money!”
(from inevitable lawsuits)
(from inevitable lawsuits)
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It’s worth walking people through the logic, because it doesn’t get repeated enough from the top:
1. There is no “immigrant crisis”. This is a panic instigated by racist slurs from a President’s that, even very recently, decent white people would have admitted were shocking and unacceptable.
1. There is no “immigrant crisis”. This is a panic instigated by racist slurs from a President’s that, even very recently, decent white people would have admitted were shocking and unacceptable.
January 29, 2026 at 4:40 PM
It’s worth walking people through the logic, because it doesn’t get repeated enough from the top:
1. There is no “immigrant crisis”. This is a panic instigated by racist slurs from a President’s that, even very recently, decent white people would have admitted were shocking and unacceptable.
1. There is no “immigrant crisis”. This is a panic instigated by racist slurs from a President’s that, even very recently, decent white people would have admitted were shocking and unacceptable.
“Once the (Orion capsule) Integrity is on its way to the moon after Trans-Lunar Injection, there is no turning back — at least, not without going to the moon first. That’s because Artemis II — like the early Apollo missions — enters what’s called a ‘free-return trajectory’ after the TLI.”
Artemis II: The first human mission to the moon in 54 years launches soon — with a Canadian on board
Jeremy Hansen will be the first non-American to fly to the moon — and will make Canada only the second country in the world to send an astronaut into deep space.
theconversation.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:17 PM
“Once the (Orion capsule) Integrity is on its way to the moon after Trans-Lunar Injection, there is no turning back — at least, not without going to the moon first. That’s because Artemis II — like the early Apollo missions — enters what’s called a ‘free-return trajectory’ after the TLI.”
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It's telling that the Bureau of Prisons now claims to have jurisdiction to have agents patrol American city streets.
And tell people they can't walk on sidewalks.
And order people into enclosed spaces.
And tell people they can't walk on sidewalks.
And order people into enclosed spaces.
We’re just not a free country.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
January 29, 2026 at 2:01 PM
It's telling that the Bureau of Prisons now claims to have jurisdiction to have agents patrol American city streets.
And tell people they can't walk on sidewalks.
And order people into enclosed spaces.
And tell people they can't walk on sidewalks.
And order people into enclosed spaces.
Weird time to do Agent Dana Scully cosplay.
“.. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks on the phone while standing inside a vehicle loaded with boxes outside the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center after the FBI executed a search warrant there.”
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Weird time to do Agent Dana Scully cosplay.
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“Austerity capitalism gets rid of redundancies and excess and all the lavish extra-ness that this movie revels in; in that context, it was miraculous to see a movie that puts so many hats on top of hats, and that was the context in which we saw it, in which was made.”
January 29, 2026 at 12:24 AM
“Austerity capitalism gets rid of redundancies and excess and all the lavish extra-ness that this movie revels in; in that context, it was miraculous to see a movie that puts so many hats on top of hats, and that was the context in which we saw it, in which was made.”
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Castro, Crockett, Community Leaders: Bring Liam Home
YouTube video by JoaquinCastroTX
youtube.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Anyone else feeling more than a little unsettled that the men who killed Alex Pretti haven’t been named and have likely been relocated, possibly to another city entirely?
January 28, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Anyone else feeling more than a little unsettled that the men who killed Alex Pretti haven’t been named and have likely been relocated, possibly to another city entirely?
We’ve got some Mark Helprin’s Winter’s Tale hours going on here.
January 28, 2026 at 10:49 AM
We’ve got some Mark Helprin’s Winter’s Tale hours going on here.
“Look out for your neighbors.”
January 28, 2026 at 12:12 AM
“Look out for your neighbors.”
I grew up around grown adults who would bore out the stocks of brand new rifles to “get rid of those secret government tracking devices the manufacturers have to install” and I can’t imagine they’re taking this well.
Trump: "You can't have guns...You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that."
January 27, 2026 at 6:09 PM
I grew up around grown adults who would bore out the stocks of brand new rifles to “get rid of those secret government tracking devices the manufacturers have to install” and I can’t imagine they’re taking this well.
NYC? At the ”border.”
Philadelphia? At the ”border.”
Chicago? NOLA? Boston?
Yep. Lawless border towns, all of ‘em.
Philadelphia? At the ”border.”
Chicago? NOLA? Boston?
Yep. Lawless border towns, all of ‘em.
fucking hell just remembered, "CBP stays at border" and the way 'border' is defined in this country is this bullshit. awesome work, guys
January 27, 2026 at 1:36 PM
NYC? At the ”border.”
Philadelphia? At the ”border.”
Chicago? NOLA? Boston?
Yep. Lawless border towns, all of ‘em.
Philadelphia? At the ”border.”
Chicago? NOLA? Boston?
Yep. Lawless border towns, all of ‘em.
“We're starting this site because we want to do the kind of work that's hard to maintain on a traditional ad-funded games website.”
Yep, that’s an instant follow.
Yep, that’s an instant follow.
January 27, 2026 at 1:09 PM
“We're starting this site because we want to do the kind of work that's hard to maintain on a traditional ad-funded games website.”
Yep, that’s an instant follow.
Yep, that’s an instant follow.
A Sephora warehouse full of lipstick couldn’t do a makeover on this pig.
Restrictions and restraints aren’t going to rewrite history or restore any reputation ICE had, as if it had one to begin with. They set out to be Guys In Masks Who Kidnap / Shoot Your Neighbors and there’s no going back.
Restrictions and restraints aren’t going to rewrite history or restore any reputation ICE had, as if it had one to begin with. They set out to be Guys In Masks Who Kidnap / Shoot Your Neighbors and there’s no going back.
Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told:
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: “Breaking Point”
As Trump scrambles to contain the damage from the latest ICE horrors, Senator Chris Murphy offers a sharp indictment of Trump-ICE lawlessness—and explains how Dems can meet the urgency of the moment.
newrepublic.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:48 AM
A Sephora warehouse full of lipstick couldn’t do a makeover on this pig.
Restrictions and restraints aren’t going to rewrite history or restore any reputation ICE had, as if it had one to begin with. They set out to be Guys In Masks Who Kidnap / Shoot Your Neighbors and there’s no going back.
Restrictions and restraints aren’t going to rewrite history or restore any reputation ICE had, as if it had one to begin with. They set out to be Guys In Masks Who Kidnap / Shoot Your Neighbors and there’s no going back.
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It's hardly the most egregious failure of fact checking from the New York Times recently, but this outrageous assertion tells me that nobody who edited this story has actually read this book to a child. The entire book is narrated (beautifully) in the third person. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/s...
January 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM
It's hardly the most egregious failure of fact checking from the New York Times recently, but this outrageous assertion tells me that nobody who edited this story has actually read this book to a child. The entire book is narrated (beautifully) in the third person. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/s...
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I hate to be that guy, but the NY Daily News broke this story more than four hours before this Times piece sauntered along to get everyone’s eyeballs.
Here’s a gift link.
www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/26/a...
Here’s a gift link.
www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/26/a...
January 27, 2026 at 2:39 AM
I hate to be that guy, but the NY Daily News broke this story more than four hours before this Times piece sauntered along to get everyone’s eyeballs.
Here’s a gift link.
www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/26/a...
Here’s a gift link.
www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/26/a...
After giving the matter some serious thought (and watching this video about 15 times).
Go Seahawks.
Go Seahawks.
Fuck it, Sam Darnold there’s a bomb in my car highlights
January 27, 2026 at 2:29 AM
After giving the matter some serious thought (and watching this video about 15 times).
Go Seahawks.
Go Seahawks.
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Another story from me, this time about the fears that the feds will cover up Alex Pretti's killing.
From the court and the streets:
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/courts/minne...
From the court and the streets:
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/courts/minne...
Fight Over Evidence From Minneapolis Shooting Kicks Off in Federal Court
Twin Cities residents have taken to the icy streets to express a deep dread that federal agents will engage in a cover-up of this weekend’s fatal shooting.
www.notus.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Another story from me, this time about the fears that the feds will cover up Alex Pretti's killing.
From the court and the streets:
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/courts/minne...
From the court and the streets:
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/courts/minne...
“Carrying out the simple commands of Jesus—feeding the hungry, caring for the sick, visiting prisoners, making peace—now involves risks for the church and grave danger for those we serve.“
Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church doesn’t say “Abolish ICE,” but he sure doesn’t -not- say it either.
Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church doesn’t say “Abolish ICE,” but he sure doesn’t -not- say it either.
From Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe: Death and despair do not have the last word
Dear people of God in The Episcopal Church: Like Jesus, we live in frightening times. His earthly ministry began, as we heard in today’s Gospel reading, when John the Baptist was imprisoned by authori...
www.episcopalchurch.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:05 AM
“Carrying out the simple commands of Jesus—feeding the hungry, caring for the sick, visiting prisoners, making peace—now involves risks for the church and grave danger for those we serve.“
Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church doesn’t say “Abolish ICE,” but he sure doesn’t -not- say it either.
Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church doesn’t say “Abolish ICE,” but he sure doesn’t -not- say it either.
An unsung hero in this category is To Be Or Not To Be (1942), which is basically Lubitsch’s Inglourious Basterds.
January 27, 2026 at 1:43 AM
An unsung hero in this category is To Be Or Not To Be (1942), which is basically Lubitsch’s Inglourious Basterds.
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anyway I need more of you to watch this movie so that when I say its ending provides some ideas about possible next steps for the little guy, you’ll know what I mean and agree
a movie you could watch today is Bacurau, which I mention only because it’s a very good movie if you’re looking for a movie to watch during the snow day boxd.it/cOxUWR
A ★★★★½ review of Bacurau (2019)
now more than ever // get in loser we’re resigning our part in the casual comedy // every film’s a propaganda film, but some of them are right
boxd.it
January 27, 2026 at 1:00 AM
anyway I need more of you to watch this movie so that when I say its ending provides some ideas about possible next steps for the little guy, you’ll know what I mean and agree
Well, that’s one small step…
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Well, that’s one small step…
It’s like watching a drunk try to reverse an F-250 all the back out of a quarter-mile dirt driveway in a thunderstorm.
January 26, 2026 at 10:40 PM
It’s like watching a drunk try to reverse an F-250 all the back out of a quarter-mile dirt driveway in a thunderstorm.
“I failed to view the DHS funding vote as a referendum on the illegal and immoral conduct of ICE in Minneapolis.”
But that’s even worse, right?
To approve funding for any enterprise without a thought to how those funds would be used or what that enterprise does or could do, that’s actually worse!
But that’s even worse, right?
To approve funding for any enterprise without a thought to how those funds would be used or what that enterprise does or could do, that’s actually worse!
Rep. Tom Suozzi(D-NY), getting raked over the coals for his vote for more ICE funding, says in a campaign email that he didn’t understand what he was doing
January 26, 2026 at 4:13 PM
“I failed to view the DHS funding vote as a referendum on the illegal and immoral conduct of ICE in Minneapolis.”
But that’s even worse, right?
To approve funding for any enterprise without a thought to how those funds would be used or what that enterprise does or could do, that’s actually worse!
But that’s even worse, right?
To approve funding for any enterprise without a thought to how those funds would be used or what that enterprise does or could do, that’s actually worse!