Zee
@zeespencer.bsky.social
They/Them, residing on unceded Ohlone territory.
Worker-Owner at the Cohere Cooperative; stewarding OpaVote and Transparent Classroom.
Worker-Owner at the Cohere Cooperative; stewarding OpaVote and Transparent Classroom.
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The three others arrested and indicted with Don Lemon were also Black people. I saw many non-black journos outside who weren't arrested, but they came to do the same job.
How they come for the Black journos first, will be how they learn how to successfully come for non-white journos. #MarkMyWords
How they come for the Black journos first, will be how they learn how to successfully come for non-white journos. #MarkMyWords
the federal government is arresting journalists not only without a warrant but after being explicitly denied a warrant
i wonder what our freedom of speech warriors like Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss have to say about this
i wonder what our freedom of speech warriors like Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss have to say about this
January 30, 2026 at 10:02 PM
The three others arrested and indicted with Don Lemon were also Black people. I saw many non-black journos outside who weren't arrested, but they came to do the same job.
How they come for the Black journos first, will be how they learn how to successfully come for non-white journos. #MarkMyWords
How they come for the Black journos first, will be how they learn how to successfully come for non-white journos. #MarkMyWords
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Charging Don Lemon, a Black man, with KKK Act violations is… a lot.
January 30, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Charging Don Lemon, a Black man, with KKK Act violations is… a lot.
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While work requirements are indeed the devil's baculum & it's good to spread the word against means testing, the detached quote below makes it seem like a lot more money is being diverted than is.
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
January 29, 2026 at 3:45 AM
While work requirements are indeed the devil's baculum & it's good to spread the word against means testing, the detached quote below makes it seem like a lot more money is being diverted than is.
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An ICE agent covered head-to-toe in body cams, just thousands of tiny cameras, beating the shit out of an old woman. That's the bipartisan dream
January 29, 2026 at 12:01 AM
An ICE agent covered head-to-toe in body cams, just thousands of tiny cameras, beating the shit out of an old woman. That's the bipartisan dream
The Laconians in the second act of Tiamat's Wrath are a disturbingly accurate reflection of Present-Day 'Murica Fascism.
January 28, 2026 at 2:14 AM
The Laconians in the second act of Tiamat's Wrath are a disturbingly accurate reflection of Present-Day 'Murica Fascism.
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EU nations have been doing great work to end dependence on US tech companies, while also advancing open source and open protocols.
Last year France and Germany mandated use of Matrix-based communication tools within their public sectors, after many years of use. Adios, Teams, Slack, and Zoom!
Last year France and Germany mandated use of Matrix-based communication tools within their public sectors, after many years of use. Adios, Teams, Slack, and Zoom!
Zoom Is the First Casualty in France's War on American Big Tech
Homebrewed video conferencing may not be a moonshot, but you gotta start somewhere.
gizmodo.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:58 PM
EU nations have been doing great work to end dependence on US tech companies, while also advancing open source and open protocols.
Last year France and Germany mandated use of Matrix-based communication tools within their public sectors, after many years of use. Adios, Teams, Slack, and Zoom!
Last year France and Germany mandated use of Matrix-based communication tools within their public sectors, after many years of use. Adios, Teams, Slack, and Zoom!
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Fun fact: Republicans made the first permit requirements for carrying firearms in California. Reagan got it done because white people were afraid of the Black Panthers.
"Gun rights" have never been meant for people of color, the poor, or anyone else not in the oppressive class.
"Gun rights" have never been meant for people of color, the poor, or anyone else not in the oppressive class.
GOP spokespeople this week have said that if you carry a gun you are a valid target, and that if you are where the police are you are a valid target.
I would say something about GOP hypocrisy, but I'm old enough to remember Ronald Reagan pulling this same shit.
I would say something about GOP hypocrisy, but I'm old enough to remember Ronald Reagan pulling this same shit.
It's as if she already sold her soul.
January 28, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Fun fact: Republicans made the first permit requirements for carrying firearms in California. Reagan got it done because white people were afraid of the Black Panthers.
"Gun rights" have never been meant for people of color, the poor, or anyone else not in the oppressive class.
"Gun rights" have never been meant for people of color, the poor, or anyone else not in the oppressive class.
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If they ban whistles switch to cowbells. It'll be fun for all the Gen Xers.
Because we need more cowbell.
Because we need more cowbell.
January 28, 2026 at 12:58 AM
If they ban whistles switch to cowbells. It'll be fun for all the Gen Xers.
Because we need more cowbell.
Because we need more cowbell.
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finally a good dating app
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
Story: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
January 27, 2026 at 8:52 PM
finally a good dating app
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Lots of my artist friends have said it and probably said it better… but yeah. This is how it feels to be an artist right now.
Planning out our year with all of this going on in our country is wild.
Planning out our year with all of this going on in our country is wild.
January 27, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Lots of my artist friends have said it and probably said it better… but yeah. This is how it feels to be an artist right now.
Planning out our year with all of this going on in our country is wild.
Planning out our year with all of this going on in our country is wild.
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ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
January 26, 2026 at 10:14 PM
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
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Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.
Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.
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Y'all are so close. When you can let go of this false notion of American government as the paragon of rule (and stop excusing its faults as some anthropomorphized mistake and acknowledging them as systematic and collaborated intentions), we're going to *actually* win.
January 26, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Y'all are so close. When you can let go of this false notion of American government as the paragon of rule (and stop excusing its faults as some anthropomorphized mistake and acknowledging them as systematic and collaborated intentions), we're going to *actually* win.
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We're planning to launch Henhouse, a cooperatively owned, democratically managed cloud service for values-driven organizations. First up is web hosting, future services TBD by member convo & vote.
Interested? Complete our survey: nc.limeleaf.coop/apps/forms/s...
#coops #bigtech #DigitalAutonomy
Interested? Complete our survey: nc.limeleaf.coop/apps/forms/s...
#coops #bigtech #DigitalAutonomy
Limeleaf Worker Collective
nc.limeleaf.coop
January 26, 2026 at 8:19 PM
We're planning to launch Henhouse, a cooperatively owned, democratically managed cloud service for values-driven organizations. First up is web hosting, future services TBD by member convo & vote.
Interested? Complete our survey: nc.limeleaf.coop/apps/forms/s...
#coops #bigtech #DigitalAutonomy
Interested? Complete our survey: nc.limeleaf.coop/apps/forms/s...
#coops #bigtech #DigitalAutonomy
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If you've never been through secondary immigration* (at an airport, which is likely the least-bad place), it's definitely eye-opening.
now just imagine how border patrol brutalized people at the border when all cameras were not trained on them
January 26, 2026 at 7:38 PM
If you've never been through secondary immigration* (at an airport, which is likely the least-bad place), it's definitely eye-opening.
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It's worth noting that ICE and CBP shot more of those vulnerable neighbors *in-between* Good and Pretti. And yet...
You know what nevermind.
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You know what nevermind.
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Needless to say that Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down as heroes here in Minnesota and nationally, their names synonymous with sacrifice and caring for vulnerable neighbors even at the risk of your own life. And hopefully no more innocent lives are lost.
January 26, 2026 at 7:55 PM
It's worth noting that ICE and CBP shot more of those vulnerable neighbors *in-between* Good and Pretti. And yet...
You know what nevermind.
bsky.app/profile/atru...
You know what nevermind.
bsky.app/profile/atru...
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I keep seeing folks blame President Obama for ICE, and while I have plenty of smoke for his immigration decisions - George W. Bush built ICE. Do not let W. skate away with his paint brushes scott free. He built this machine.
January 25, 2026 at 11:35 PM
I keep seeing folks blame President Obama for ICE, and while I have plenty of smoke for his immigration decisions - George W. Bush built ICE. Do not let W. skate away with his paint brushes scott free. He built this machine.
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I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
January 25, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
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BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
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Good night, everyone. Take care of yourselves.
January 25, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Good night, everyone. Take care of yourselves.
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I am seeing quite a few nurses calling for a nationwide strike over the killing of Alex Pretti. I think we are seeing one of the largest workforces being radicalized before our very eyes.
January 25, 2026 at 3:51 AM
I am seeing quite a few nurses calling for a nationwide strike over the killing of Alex Pretti. I think we are seeing one of the largest workforces being radicalized before our very eyes.
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I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
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People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie
January 24, 2026 at 5:49 PM
People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie
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Live somewhere else and want to lecture people on the ground right now?
As an alternative, may I suggest fucking off into the sun
As an alternative, may I suggest fucking off into the sun
January 24, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Live somewhere else and want to lecture people on the ground right now?
As an alternative, may I suggest fucking off into the sun
As an alternative, may I suggest fucking off into the sun
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As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.