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@wmrina.bsky.social
I'm here mostly for spite, but while I'm here I'll also take a good helping of video games, cats, & tea.
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One thing we can do now:
Call Congress 📞☎️📱(202) 224-3121
1. Where you are from.
2. Tell them NOT to approve Homeland security appropriation bill
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Call Congress 📞☎️📱(202) 224-3121
1. Where you are from.
2. Tell them NOT to approve Homeland security appropriation bill
👇
bsky.app/profile/shor...
January 21, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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if two people are already restraining someone physically while spraying their face with pepper spray, that is torture, plain and simple. no debate to be had about it
This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 10:07 PM
if two people are already restraining someone physically while spraying their face with pepper spray, that is torture, plain and simple. no debate to be had about it
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Our book, "Making a Career in Dictatorship: The Secret Logic Behind Repression and Coups," will be shipping in less than a month.
For all those curious, here is the updated information kit with summaries, pointers, and more:
tinyurl.com/4n5da6p6
For all those curious, here is the updated information kit with summaries, pointers, and more:
tinyurl.com/4n5da6p6
January 21, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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This is going to be the most cited paper of the second Trump term. Shout out to @iansociologo.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention.
ICE is quite literally full of losers.
ICE is quite literally full of losers.
January 21, 2026 at 10:44 PM
This is going to be the most cited paper of the second Trump term. Shout out to @iansociologo.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention.
ICE is quite literally full of losers.
ICE is quite literally full of losers.
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Democratic Leadership will never cut funding for ICE state-sanctioned terrorism without extreme pressure.
That’s why a coalition of creators (w/ a reach of over 20 million followers) & organizers are presenting them with an ultimatum if they don’t whip their caucuses against this DHS funding bill.
That’s why a coalition of creators (w/ a reach of over 20 million followers) & organizers are presenting them with an ultimatum if they don’t whip their caucuses against this DHS funding bill.
January 21, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Democratic Leadership will never cut funding for ICE state-sanctioned terrorism without extreme pressure.
That’s why a coalition of creators (w/ a reach of over 20 million followers) & organizers are presenting them with an ultimatum if they don’t whip their caucuses against this DHS funding bill.
That’s why a coalition of creators (w/ a reach of over 20 million followers) & organizers are presenting them with an ultimatum if they don’t whip their caucuses against this DHS funding bill.
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The relentless negativity will continue until disinvestment occurs
January 21, 2026 at 7:56 PM
The relentless negativity will continue until disinvestment occurs
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Tech lords: Our AI products will enable you to fire most of your employees!
Also Tech lords: Why are employees so negative about AI?
Also Tech lords: Why are employees so negative about AI?
January 21, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Tech lords: Our AI products will enable you to fire most of your employees!
Also Tech lords: Why are employees so negative about AI?
Also Tech lords: Why are employees so negative about AI?
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AI CEOs: "we need literally all the money in the world to build data centers that destroy the environment so we can replace your job with a chatbot that writes emails no one will read and also tells you to kill yourself"
also AI CEOs: "why are u guys so mad at us??? 😤😭💔"
also AI CEOs: "why are u guys so mad at us??? 😤😭💔"
i’m fascinated by this new strategy wjere multiple ai company CEOs have been going on tears tours this year so far complaining about how anti ai sentiment has hurt their businesses
Jensen Huang of Nvidia, $NVDA, has said relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has done a lot of damage, per Techspot.
January 21, 2026 at 5:35 PM
AI CEOs: "we need literally all the money in the world to build data centers that destroy the environment so we can replace your job with a chatbot that writes emails no one will read and also tells you to kill yourself"
also AI CEOs: "why are u guys so mad at us??? 😤😭💔"
also AI CEOs: "why are u guys so mad at us??? 😤😭💔"
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"we're going to replace your job, generate child pornography, raise your electric bill, and read your emails. Why are you so angry?!"
i’m fascinated by this new strategy wjere multiple ai company CEOs have been going on tears tours this year so far complaining about how anti ai sentiment has hurt their businesses
Jensen Huang of Nvidia, $NVDA, has said relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has done a lot of damage, per Techspot.
January 21, 2026 at 8:40 PM
"we're going to replace your job, generate child pornography, raise your electric bill, and read your emails. Why are you so angry?!"
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"Please, let us have all your water and electricity so we can make a machine print an image of art we stole from other people! It's the future! Let the computer give bad, sometimes fatal advice! C'mon. We just want to fire all the programmers and QC people. And doctors. Not our doctors of course."
i’m fascinated by this new strategy wjere multiple ai company CEOs have been going on tears tours this year so far complaining about how anti ai sentiment has hurt their businesses
Jensen Huang of Nvidia, $NVDA, has said relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has done a lot of damage, per Techspot.
January 21, 2026 at 8:58 PM
"Please, let us have all your water and electricity so we can make a machine print an image of art we stole from other people! It's the future! Let the computer give bad, sometimes fatal advice! C'mon. We just want to fire all the programmers and QC people. And doctors. Not our doctors of course."
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I would simply not tell the millions of people who hate my useless technology and want it to die both how to beat my ass and that it will passively occur if you do nothing
i’m fascinated by this new strategy wjere multiple ai company CEOs have been going on tears tours this year so far complaining about how anti ai sentiment has hurt their businesses
Jensen Huang of Nvidia, $NVDA, has said relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has done a lot of damage, per Techspot.
January 21, 2026 at 10:22 PM
I would simply not tell the millions of people who hate my useless technology and want it to die both how to beat my ass and that it will passively occur if you do nothing
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AI CEOs: We’re going to steal everyone’s jobs!
Regular people: That’s not good
AI CEOs: Why are you being so mean 😭
Regular people: That’s not good
AI CEOs: Why are you being so mean 😭
January 21, 2026 at 7:54 PM
AI CEOs: We’re going to steal everyone’s jobs!
Regular people: That’s not good
AI CEOs: Why are you being so mean 😭
Regular people: That’s not good
AI CEOs: Why are you being so mean 😭
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*creates the Torment Nexus from the sci-fi film “Don’t Build the Torment Nexus”*
“Why don’t people like my Torment Nexus?”
“Why don’t people like my Torment Nexus?”
January 21, 2026 at 5:29 PM
*creates the Torment Nexus from the sci-fi film “Don’t Build the Torment Nexus”*
“Why don’t people like my Torment Nexus?”
“Why don’t people like my Torment Nexus?”
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Guy who has eighty bajillion dollars: if I don’t get ninety bajillion dollars society will fall
January 21, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Guy who has eighty bajillion dollars: if I don’t get ninety bajillion dollars society will fall
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everyone is finally learning that The Cloud is just someone else's computer(s) and those computers live in data centers on lil rack-mount blades. this is good news, people can stop treating it like it's magic now and start realizing "oh god the company can see my files"
January 21, 2026 at 8:55 PM
everyone is finally learning that The Cloud is just someone else's computer(s) and those computers live in data centers on lil rack-mount blades. this is good news, people can stop treating it like it's magic now and start realizing "oh god the company can see my files"
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i’m fascinated by this new strategy wjere multiple ai company CEOs have been going on tears tours this year so far complaining about how anti ai sentiment has hurt their businesses
Jensen Huang of Nvidia, $NVDA, has said relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has done a lot of damage, per Techspot.
January 21, 2026 at 4:07 PM
i’m fascinated by this new strategy wjere multiple ai company CEOs have been going on tears tours this year so far complaining about how anti ai sentiment has hurt their businesses
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I think an underrated low-simmering point of discontent about our economy is the bifurcation of consumer goods between "extremely low quality Chinese crap" on the low end and "artisanal-batch high quality extremely expensive stuff" on the high end.
January 17, 2026 at 7:59 PM
I think an underrated low-simmering point of discontent about our economy is the bifurcation of consumer goods between "extremely low quality Chinese crap" on the low end and "artisanal-batch high quality extremely expensive stuff" on the high end.
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BUT, imo, Occupy Wall Street was when the idea of 'whiteness' saving your ass was over with. That's what some people need to pick up on.
Simply being white won't save you. You now have to also be the right type of white.
You should pick a side.
Simply being white won't save you. You now have to also be the right type of white.
You should pick a side.
January 15, 2026 at 5:55 PM
BUT, imo, Occupy Wall Street was when the idea of 'whiteness' saving your ass was over with. That's what some people need to pick up on.
Simply being white won't save you. You now have to also be the right type of white.
You should pick a side.
Simply being white won't save you. You now have to also be the right type of white.
You should pick a side.
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I think that people don’t comprehend that the state has been unapologetically beating young people’s asses basically nonstop & charging us with massive crimes for protesting since at least Occupy Wall Street & growing up like that has a chilling effect on the way people engage with democracy
January 15, 2026 at 3:45 AM
I think that people don’t comprehend that the state has been unapologetically beating young people’s asses basically nonstop & charging us with massive crimes for protesting since at least Occupy Wall Street & growing up like that has a chilling effect on the way people engage with democracy
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the number of gigantic marches I have attended this year that barely got mentioned in the NYT if at all, smdh
'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'
The idea that there are no protests in the US and no one is standing up to Trump is proving incredibly hard to kill over here in Germany. It’s become dogma, utterly detached from empirical reality.
I wonder if the people who keep talking like that understand they’re perpetuating regime propaganda.
I wonder if the people who keep talking like that understand they’re perpetuating regime propaganda.
January 21, 2026 at 5:31 PM
the number of gigantic marches I have attended this year that barely got mentioned in the NYT if at all, smdh
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Actually, prisoners routinely get denied health care in the U.S. and this kind of situation has long been true for people kept in the U.S. carceral system.
January 20, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Actually, prisoners routinely get denied health care in the U.S. and this kind of situation has long been true for people kept in the U.S. carceral system.
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6. Starting in 2002, the VA played a small but critical role in providing medical care to ICE detainees. When an ICE detainee needed medication or treatment that the ICE facility could not directly provide, the VA processed reimbursement claims from pharmacies and 3rd-party medical providers
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM
6. Starting in 2002, the VA played a small but critical role in providing medical care to ICE detainees. When an ICE detainee needed medication or treatment that the ICE facility could not directly provide, the VA processed reimbursement claims from pharmacies and 3rd-party medical providers
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7. Beginning in 2023, however, the VA’s role in administering these claims from ICE was subject to criticism by GOP officials and right-wing media outlets. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who introduced legislation to end the practice, falsely claimed Biden was “robbing veterans to pay off illegals
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM
7. Beginning in 2023, however, the VA’s role in administering these claims from ICE was subject to criticism by GOP officials and right-wing media outlets. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who introduced legislation to end the practice, falsely claimed Biden was “robbing veterans to pay off illegals
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5. In lawsuits, numerous ICE detainees with severe illnesses allege that they cannot obtain treatment.
Viera Reyes, an ICE detainee, has symptoms and test results that suggest he has prostate cancer. Despite often being in excruciating pain, Reyes cannot obtain a biopsy or see a urologist.
Viera Reyes, an ICE detainee, has symptoms and test results that suggest he has prostate cancer. Despite often being in excruciating pain, Reyes cannot obtain a biopsy or see a urologist.
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM
5. In lawsuits, numerous ICE detainees with severe illnesses allege that they cannot obtain treatment.
Viera Reyes, an ICE detainee, has symptoms and test results that suggest he has prostate cancer. Despite often being in excruciating pain, Reyes cannot obtain a biopsy or see a urologist.
Viera Reyes, an ICE detainee, has symptoms and test results that suggest he has prostate cancer. Despite often being in excruciating pain, Reyes cannot obtain a biopsy or see a urologist.
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1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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