David Loughnot
loughnot.bsky.social
David Loughnot
@loughnot.bsky.social
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HAPPY FUCKING NEW YEARS

TRANS LIBERATION

DEFEND TRANS LIVES
January 1, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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Humanitarian aid workers are calling out Israel's decision to suspend dozens of aid groups' operating licenses in Gaza and the West Bank over alleged ties to Hamas. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/31/gaza
December 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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The folks at The Guardian are really getting climate coverage right (while so many other outlets are flailing).

A great final read about our warming world and its effects in the US on the last day of 2025:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How the climate crisis showed up in Americans’ lives this year: ‘The shift has been swift and stark’
Guardian US readers share how global heating and biodiversity loss affected their lives in ways that don’t always make the headlines
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
❤️❤️❤️
Happy new year!
On December 31, 1995, Bill Watterson published the final 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip. #CalvinandHobbes
December 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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December 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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ICE Returns to Santa Maria for Fourth Day in a Row; At Least 40 Taken
December 31, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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“Buy our home security package named after someone who was utterly destroyed by a back door break-in he didn’t see coming because he was focused solely on the front door.”
December 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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for the longest time on twitter my bio was “the real racist” as a joke about this dynamic.
And that’s part of the problem a lot of people assume Black thinkers are simply acting out of revenge and hatred against white people rather than examining and exploring the dynamics within their communities and larger context.
December 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I think a big part of the political problem in the US is that we never had accountability for our n@2!5 and we memory-holed them so that people don’t understand many supporters of the modern GOP are the heirs of these racist monsters. 1/2
December 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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unironically a good idea
December 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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(Hot Take TM) Providing mutual aid as part of campaign work is a good thing that candidates should do more.
🧵 Our mutual aid hub has been a HUGE draw for our immense volunteer base, many of whom have never wanted to be involved politics before now.

This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!
Turning campaigns into mutual aid hubs isn’t good for campaigns or mutual aid! Your campaign manager should be entirely too busy to schlep around 5600 tampons!
December 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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The body cam footage from Beker’s arrest has been released.

“Hey, this is Officer Hingiss with the Whitefish Police Department. Just out with a male that only speaks Spanish, wondering if you want to check him?”

flatheadbeacon.com/2025/12/19/c...
NEW — I wrote about Beker Rengifo, a Montana resident from Venezuela who was taken by ICE on Thursday after a routine traffic stop, and how local law enforcement is working with the feds to ensnare people with legal status.
ICE abducts Montana resident with legal humanitarian status
Beker Rengifo is the latest victim of Trump's reckless and illegal war on migrants.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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The people have created an alert system - using horns and whistles - to protect communities during ICE raids— and it’s working ❤️‍🔥
When Customs and Border Protection and Commander Gregory Bovino move into town, so does Whistlemania.

Activists create and distribute thousands of 3D-printed whistles, and their piercing cries are used to signal that immigration agents are nearby.
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Powerful
December 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Boris Gurman and Sofia Gurman. 💔 They died Al Kiddush Hashem. May their memory be a blessing and a shield.
Couple in dashcam footage who tried to fight off Bondi shooter identified as Boris and Sofia Gurman
Dashcam footage shows the moment Boris Gurman tackles shooter Sajid Akram and wrests a gun from him
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Nothing more than perceived wealth that doesn’t exist for the purposes of taxes, but magically does for the purposes of leverage. Meanwhile, the rest of us pay real taxes on low wages and can’t leverage shit. The game is rigged. Tax the rich.
The world’s richest person just hit another major milestone thanks to the soaring valuation of his rocket maker SpaceX.

Full story: www.forbes.com/sites/mattdu... (Photo: Kevin Winter via Getty Images)
December 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Bad news for Venezuela. And once again, Marisa called it months ago.
NEW — Trump has signed an executive order "designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemical as weapons of mass destruction (WMD)." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

As a reminder, The Handbasket had the scoop that this was coming back in MARCH:
Trump to declare 'illicit' fentanyl 'Weapon of Mass Destruction,' per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is some great Torah.
History rhymes HARD sometimes.

What an ancient rebellion--

and a medieval midrash featuring ancient surveillance & a desperate bride named Hannah bat Mattisyahu, a heroine kindling revolt--

can teach us about not only igniting,

but winning, against the moral evils in our midst today:
Moral Kindling
how the Maccabees -and we- ignite in the face of tyranny
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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When Charlie Kirk was shot, he did a full oval office address. When it's college kids on campus it's "things can happen." What a sociopath.
December 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I am horrified by the attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia. My thoughts are with the victims and our Jewish communities in NYC mourning. As antisemitism rises across the world, we have a moral obligation to stamp it out everywhere it exists.
December 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat.

The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.

Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
December 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM