Todd Walker
@toddwalker.bsky.social
He/him. Ephemera collector, idea connector. Anti-fascism, graphic design, Zen Buddhism, progressive politics, neo-Luddism, and more. I have friends everywhere.
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Todd Walker
@toddwalker.bsky.social
· Dec 30
The conditions of one’s birth - country, parents’ wealth and education, language, etc. - are the biggest lottery ticket you never paid for. To be proud of any of it or look down on others’ lot is the pinnacle of delusion.
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Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.
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Attack at a mosque in Nigeria yesterday killed at least 5. Likely suicide bombing, could be Boko Haram or ISIS. But the US president said something about protecting Christians.
Nigeria is a US counterterrorism partner, so it’s not like if US bombed Venezuela. But unclear if Nigeria asked for this.
Nigeria is a US counterterrorism partner, so it’s not like if US bombed Venezuela. But unclear if Nigeria asked for this.
December 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Attack at a mosque in Nigeria yesterday killed at least 5. Likely suicide bombing, could be Boko Haram or ISIS. But the US president said something about protecting Christians.
Nigeria is a US counterterrorism partner, so it’s not like if US bombed Venezuela. But unclear if Nigeria asked for this.
Nigeria is a US counterterrorism partner, so it’s not like if US bombed Venezuela. But unclear if Nigeria asked for this.
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Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
December 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
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I want to *stress* that the backlash to this administration needs to be overwhelming, sustained, and come bearing legal consequences.
Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis on Nick Fuentes running for president one day.
Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
December 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I want to *stress* that the backlash to this administration needs to be overwhelming, sustained, and come bearing legal consequences.
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Interesting article about Peter Kropotkin’s interest in Christmas.
“Unpublished archival sources reveal that Kropotkin was fascinated by this family tie [to St. Nick] and the striking physical similarity between himself and the figure of Father Christmas”
www.opendemocracy.net/en/transform...
“Unpublished archival sources reveal that Kropotkin was fascinated by this family tie [to St. Nick] and the striking physical similarity between himself and the figure of Father Christmas”
www.opendemocracy.net/en/transform...
An anarchist guide to Christmas
On the night before Christmas, we’ll all be about. While the people are sleeping, we’ll realise our clout. We’ll expropriate goods from the stores, ‘cos that’s fair. And distribute them widely, to tho...
www.opendemocracy.net
December 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Interesting article about Peter Kropotkin’s interest in Christmas.
“Unpublished archival sources reveal that Kropotkin was fascinated by this family tie [to St. Nick] and the striking physical similarity between himself and the figure of Father Christmas”
www.opendemocracy.net/en/transform...
“Unpublished archival sources reveal that Kropotkin was fascinated by this family tie [to St. Nick] and the striking physical similarity between himself and the figure of Father Christmas”
www.opendemocracy.net/en/transform...
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UN’s Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese:
“I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”
“I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”
December 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
UN’s Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese:
“I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”
“I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”
Keep it up.
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Keep it up.
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When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
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That dude's the majority leader in the Indiana state senate. Absolutely wild post.
December 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
That dude's the majority leader in the Indiana state senate. Absolutely wild post.
“Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. But because he cannot be at home in it, because he is out of place in it, and yet he must be in it, his place is with those others for whom there is no room.”
The Uninvited Christ: Thomas Merton on the Shock of Christmas and the Meaning of No Room at the Inn - Biola University Center for Christian Thought / The Table
Thomas Merton offers stark and raw commentary on the meaning and importance of Christ being rejected even from "this demented inn." A beautiful expression of the glory and shock of Christmas.
cct.biola.edu
December 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
“Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. But because he cannot be at home in it, because he is out of place in it, and yet he must be in it, his place is with those others for whom there is no room.”
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A word from a Christmas sermon by Meister Eckhart, on our need to give birth to God ourselves.
December 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
A word from a Christmas sermon by Meister Eckhart, on our need to give birth to God ourselves.
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As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
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There was a 26th death in ICE custody today.
Rodney Taylor, the disabled double amputee snatched by ICE in March, is still being detained.
He’s been denied his new prosthetic legs.
Placed in solitary confinement.
Denied adequate medical care.
He needs us to make noise:
Rodney Taylor, the disabled double amputee snatched by ICE in March, is still being detained.
He’s been denied his new prosthetic legs.
Placed in solitary confinement.
Denied adequate medical care.
He needs us to make noise:
Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
www.disabledginger.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:57 AM
There was a 26th death in ICE custody today.
Rodney Taylor, the disabled double amputee snatched by ICE in March, is still being detained.
He’s been denied his new prosthetic legs.
Placed in solitary confinement.
Denied adequate medical care.
He needs us to make noise:
Rodney Taylor, the disabled double amputee snatched by ICE in March, is still being detained.
He’s been denied his new prosthetic legs.
Placed in solitary confinement.
Denied adequate medical care.
He needs us to make noise:
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Sure hope the ADL is feeling good about their decision to go all in on working with this administration right about now.
December 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Sure hope the ADL is feeling good about their decision to go all in on working with this administration right about now.
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“The US federal regime is now trying to make the case that zines are criminal—viewing even the possession of them as a way to subvert fascism, which in different times, would traditionally have been seen as a good, uncontentious thing.”
#FreeDes
mini zine:
freedes.net/wp-content/u...
#FreeDes
mini zine:
freedes.net/wp-content/u...
Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social)
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Zines as Subversive
When I first tried to print a mini zine, and assemble it by a series of folds and one cut, I’d have insisted—out of frustration and somewhat tongue-in-cheek—tha...
kolektiva.social
December 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“The US federal regime is now trying to make the case that zines are criminal—viewing even the possession of them as a way to subvert fascism, which in different times, would traditionally have been seen as a good, uncontentious thing.”
#FreeDes
mini zine:
freedes.net/wp-content/u...
#FreeDes
mini zine:
freedes.net/wp-content/u...
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A lot of people are watching Die Hard tonight. It is an amazing movie, but did you ever notice the problems with the touchscreens at Nakatomi Plaza? A Back button would have made it much easier to use.
www.retroist.com/p/the-terrib...
www.retroist.com/p/the-terrib...
December 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
A lot of people are watching Die Hard tonight. It is an amazing movie, but did you ever notice the problems with the touchscreens at Nakatomi Plaza? A Back button would have made it much easier to use.
www.retroist.com/p/the-terrib...
www.retroist.com/p/the-terrib...
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Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
www.reuters.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
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Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel.
"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel.
"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
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👇🎯 This works in both directions. The idea that rich financiers & CEOs understand <anything at all> about macroeconomics, sovereign debt, or monetary & fiscal policy because of their finance/corporate success is a complete category error.
One of the biggest myths in the United States which I think genuinely causes so many of our problems is the belief that executives of large companies/financial institutions need a good or accurate understanding of the macroeconomy to consistently make money. Its just not true.
how did this guy run an investment bank?
December 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
👇🎯 This works in both directions. The idea that rich financiers & CEOs understand <anything at all> about macroeconomics, sovereign debt, or monetary & fiscal policy because of their finance/corporate success is a complete category error.
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CA Winner: Joe Newton. “Citizen Printer”
A collection of over 800 images of type-driven messages of social justice and Black power, with a type-forward design, exposed binding, and a double-gatefold showcasing 300 unique prints. https://ow.ly/FNo850XN4BJ
A collection of over 800 images of type-driven messages of social justice and Black power, with a type-forward design, exposed binding, and a double-gatefold showcasing 300 unique prints. https://ow.ly/FNo850XN4BJ
December 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
CA Winner: Joe Newton. “Citizen Printer”
A collection of over 800 images of type-driven messages of social justice and Black power, with a type-forward design, exposed binding, and a double-gatefold showcasing 300 unique prints. https://ow.ly/FNo850XN4BJ
A collection of over 800 images of type-driven messages of social justice and Black power, with a type-forward design, exposed binding, and a double-gatefold showcasing 300 unique prints. https://ow.ly/FNo850XN4BJ
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Happy birthday Thomas Miller. The graphic designer & artist, best known for his Founders Mosaics at the DuSable Museum of African American History, was born today in 1920.
December 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Happy birthday Thomas Miller. The graphic designer & artist, best known for his Founders Mosaics at the DuSable Museum of African American History, was born today in 1920.