Shedwin
@ravenfork.bsky.social
I tried getting a job, but it wasn’t easy with that sum-bitch Reagan in office.
The Japanese maples are stunning this morning
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The Japanese maples are stunning this morning
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
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How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
October 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
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Pre-Columbian North America was in many ways a more advanced society beyond what European settlers lived. The largest platform mound at Cahokia is as big as the Great Pyramid. These people perfected corn based agriculture while the English were sleeping with livestock & eating gruel.
For Indigenous People’s Day, I’d like to infodump about the Cahokia mound. Built near present day St. Louis around 1000 CE, it was a vast trade hub with a population of about 20,000. This made it the largest city north of Mexico on the continent, bigger than London and Paris at the time!
October 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Pre-Columbian North America was in many ways a more advanced society beyond what European settlers lived. The largest platform mound at Cahokia is as big as the Great Pyramid. These people perfected corn based agriculture while the English were sleeping with livestock & eating gruel.
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My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.
This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
October 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.
This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
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Former FBI special agent in the bio, volunteer to get literally fucking murdered with your friends in the skeets
We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire
October 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Former FBI special agent in the bio, volunteer to get literally fucking murdered with your friends in the skeets
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Periodic reminder that Unite the Right in Cville was a gathering to rally around a monument of R E Lee erected during this era (1924).
We really need to be thinking abt the current regime through the lens of the Second Klan, which helped to nationalize systems of Jim Crow state & vigilante violence & exploitation while creating an explicitly white nationalist immigration system. They even paraded down Pennsylvania Ave.
October 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Periodic reminder that Unite the Right in Cville was a gathering to rally around a monument of R E Lee erected during this era (1924).
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we should stop letting the police departments in supposedly progressive cities use poor communities as policy labs for dangerous technology designed to incarcerate as many of those people as possible
NEW: The NYPD plans to gain real-time access to nearly 18,000 cameras across 119 NYCHA developments, officials testified at an emergency City Council hearing.
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NYPD Plans Massive Expansion of Real-Time Surveillance in NYCHA…
The City Council held an emergency hearing on the NYPD's use of a free internet program to gain real-time access to public housing cameras, in response to…
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October 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
we should stop letting the police departments in supposedly progressive cities use poor communities as policy labs for dangerous technology designed to incarcerate as many of those people as possible
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Hey #asheville folks... We've released an album to benefit BeLoved Asheville on the first anniversary of #Helene. This is a trailer for a full demo vid we made. 16 tracks recorded in the days & nights after the storm passed over. coopersonfire.bandcamp.com/album/the-mo...
October 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Hey #asheville folks... We've released an album to benefit BeLoved Asheville on the first anniversary of #Helene. This is a trailer for a full demo vid we made. 16 tracks recorded in the days & nights after the storm passed over. coopersonfire.bandcamp.com/album/the-mo...
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woody guthrie would like a word
October 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
woody guthrie would like a word
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It breaks my heart…
September 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It breaks my heart…
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Fetterman is a fascist and what he is claiming is fascist propaganda. This is a mass normalizing event meant to muddy the waters around the word fascism in an effort to neuter its effectiveness and give permission to their followers to embrace the label.
America is accelerating towards violence
America is accelerating towards violence
September 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Fetterman is a fascist and what he is claiming is fascist propaganda. This is a mass normalizing event meant to muddy the waters around the word fascism in an effort to neuter its effectiveness and give permission to their followers to embrace the label.
America is accelerating towards violence
America is accelerating towards violence
One year ago. This is where we normally get on the interstate. The geese are swimming over a large intersection normally filled with cars
September 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
One year ago. This is where we normally get on the interstate. The geese are swimming over a large intersection normally filled with cars
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A year later, the firefighters whose heroism was so widely praised are badly underpaid, but there's plenty of money for police to harass the homeless. Helene survivors live out of tents while glossy tv segments shout from the largest mansion in America that wealthy tourists are welcome back #avlnews
September 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
A year later, the firefighters whose heroism was so widely praised are badly underpaid, but there's plenty of money for police to harass the homeless. Helene survivors live out of tents while glossy tv segments shout from the largest mansion in America that wealthy tourists are welcome back #avlnews
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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Food insecurity across WNC increased after Helene. A year later, it remains high
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2301626/food-insecurity-across-wnc-increased-after-helene-a-year-later-it-remains-high/
ASHEVILLE – Food Connection has been through storms before. As the region braced for Tropical …
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2301626/food-insecurity-across-wnc-increased-after-helene-a-year-later-it-remains-high/
ASHEVILLE – Food Connection has been through storms before. As the region braced for Tropical …
Food insecurity across WNC increased after Helene. A year later, it remains high - Dining and Cooking
ASHEVILLE - Food Connection has been through storms before.
www.diningandcooking.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Food insecurity across WNC increased after Helene. A year later, it remains high
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2301626/food-insecurity-across-wnc-increased-after-helene-a-year-later-it-remains-high/
ASHEVILLE – Food Connection has been through storms before. As the region braced for Tropical …
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2301626/food-insecurity-across-wnc-increased-after-helene-a-year-later-it-remains-high/
ASHEVILLE – Food Connection has been through storms before. As the region braced for Tropical …
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Again, this is a broad coalition of people across the ideological spectrum whose top concern is making sure everyone rues and laments the “Woke Times” forever. It’s very much akin to the myths around “Negro misrule” in Reconstruction, which justified Jim Crow.
I will not link to it. I just want to reiterate that thousands of books have been banned by the right. And American Dirt sold millions of copies.
September 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Again, this is a broad coalition of people across the ideological spectrum whose top concern is making sure everyone rues and laments the “Woke Times” forever. It’s very much akin to the myths around “Negro misrule” in Reconstruction, which justified Jim Crow.
Big bear in my tiny backyard pond.
September 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Big bear in my tiny backyard pond.
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Not too late to register for this Indigenous led Rights of Nature conference tomorrow. RoN is a movement that seeks to give legal protections & personhood status for things western society doesnt often consider, like the health of a river itself. IMO this conference is a historic event in N America.
Heres a climate action you can do from home, consider registering for this event on Rights of Nature at the Sovereign Nations of VA Conference. Part of resisting fascism is letting go of inherited colonial attitudes & RoN offers a way to change our minds.
Indigenous Conservation & Rights of Nature
Indigenous Conservation & Rights of Nature
sovereignnationsva.org
September 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Not too late to register for this Indigenous led Rights of Nature conference tomorrow. RoN is a movement that seeks to give legal protections & personhood status for things western society doesnt often consider, like the health of a river itself. IMO this conference is a historic event in N America.
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you know this is all just fodder for Sally’s upcoming Atlantic piece on the incivility of Bsky, which she was gonna write anyway and which you’re all gonna click on and hate-read, thus continuing the cycle
free yourselves from caring about the white moderate. you don’t have to live like this
free yourselves from caring about the white moderate. you don’t have to live like this
September 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
you know this is all just fodder for Sally’s upcoming Atlantic piece on the incivility of Bsky, which she was gonna write anyway and which you’re all gonna click on and hate-read, thus continuing the cycle
free yourselves from caring about the white moderate. you don’t have to live like this
free yourselves from caring about the white moderate. you don’t have to live like this
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Context: City hall adopted a corrupt rate scale for Asheville's aging water system that charged big business *less* the more they pumped. So locals got gouged and repairs/upgrades lagged.
System failures, especially in winter 2022-23, showed need for disaster reserves. #avlgov put aside none.
System failures, especially in winter 2022-23, showed need for disaster reserves. #avlgov put aside none.
September 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Context: City hall adopted a corrupt rate scale for Asheville's aging water system that charged big business *less* the more they pumped. So locals got gouged and repairs/upgrades lagged.
System failures, especially in winter 2022-23, showed need for disaster reserves. #avlgov put aside none.
System failures, especially in winter 2022-23, showed need for disaster reserves. #avlgov put aside none.