Mark Kuznicki
@remarkk.bsky.social
Here for civil discourse, design, digital, systems, leadership, psychology, ADHD, psychedelics, LGBT, consensual non-monogamy, and a thriving future for us all.
Back online after a brief hiatus. Feeling like I can have a voice again now that my Green Card has been approved. I just need you US citizens who have actual free speech rights to hit the streets!
April 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Back online after a brief hiatus. Feeling like I can have a voice again now that my Green Card has been approved. I just need you US citizens who have actual free speech rights to hit the streets!
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A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
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March 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
I generally don't support violence as an answer to our problems. But I also know that sometimes it is the only language that a bully can understand.
So, if all else fails, be prepared to punch that Nazi.
#NaziPunching
So, if all else fails, be prepared to punch that Nazi.
#NaziPunching
The response was entirely positive, so let the Nazi Punch of the Day begin. It seems appropriate to start with a classic. This is from Captain America Comics #1. The cover date was March 1941, but from what I've read, it was on the shelves several months earlier.
#NPD #NaziPunching
#NPD #NaziPunching
February 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I generally don't support violence as an answer to our problems. But I also know that sometimes it is the only language that a bully can understand.
So, if all else fails, be prepared to punch that Nazi.
#NaziPunching
So, if all else fails, be prepared to punch that Nazi.
#NaziPunching
Opinion: Canada’s biggest political comeback could well be in the making - The Globe and Mail
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Opinion: Canada’s biggest political comeback could well be in the making — The Globe and Mail
With Trumpians signalling their support for Poilievre, the Liberals might be back on their way to victory
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February 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Opinion: Canada’s biggest political comeback could well be in the making - The Globe and Mail
apple.news/APzthe-NvT-G...
apple.news/APzthe-NvT-G...
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February 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
So true
This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages
February 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
So true
These optics! Trump appears to serve at the pleasure of the billionaires.
Trump looks thrilled as President Musk gets most of the questions from the press today while he sits there
February 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
These optics! Trump appears to serve at the pleasure of the billionaires.
The DOGE method is clear: with maximum speed, get control of key systems and data, then use that control to strip down entire departments back to the studs. The legal resistance is slow. I’m waiting to see if the new admin will follow judicial orders. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
In chaotic Washington blitz, Elon Musk’s ultimate goal becomes clear
Shrink government, control data and — according to one official closely watching the billionaire’s DOGE — replace “the human workforce with machines.”
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The DOGE method is clear: with maximum speed, get control of key systems and data, then use that control to strip down entire departments back to the studs. The legal resistance is slow. I’m waiting to see if the new admin will follow judicial orders. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
This “darkest timeline” take was really sobering. Foresight says that the future unfolds through a “cone of possibility”. But when the darkest scenario starts to sound not only plausible but probable, it’s time to wake up. Watch, but have your self-care tools handy.
What happens if the courts put the brakes on Trump and he just…ignores them? George and talk through the worst case scenario. @gtconway.bsky.social
How to Stop the Dismantling of Our Government
George Conway explains.
www.thebulwark.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This “darkest timeline” take was really sobering. Foresight says that the future unfolds through a “cone of possibility”. But when the darkest scenario starts to sound not only plausible but probable, it’s time to wake up. Watch, but have your self-care tools handy.
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follow @mmasnick.bsky.social -- trust me, we have seen this entire playbook before, and nothing about it is new or novel
Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is.
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous
Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and th…
www.techdirt.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
follow @mmasnick.bsky.social -- trust me, we have seen this entire playbook before, and nothing about it is new or novel
Signed
Today we launched the Pledge for Canada.
We have voices from across the political, cultural, labour, Indigenous spectrum.
We are building a movement to maintain pressure on our leaders not to sell out our nation or our values.
Please sign and join the movement.
engagement-canada-pledge.ca
We have voices from across the political, cultural, labour, Indigenous spectrum.
We are building a movement to maintain pressure on our leaders not to sell out our nation or our values.
Please sign and join the movement.
engagement-canada-pledge.ca
Pledge for Canada | Engagement pour le Canada
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February 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Signed
I’m trying very hard to not be triggered by every outrage. But I think it is already clear: they are 100% following the Project 2025 blueprint. Add in the Elon effect for additional chaotic energy and it pretty much is the worst case scenario.
Project 2025 is here
Just like we said it would be
Just like we said it would be
February 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I’m trying very hard to not be triggered by every outrage. But I think it is already clear: they are 100% following the Project 2025 blueprint. Add in the Elon effect for additional chaotic energy and it pretty much is the worst case scenario.
Does Mark Carney have the "it" factor to win the Liberal leadership and a federal election in Canada? Watch this clip from the Daily Show and let me know what you think.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs8S...
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Mark Carney - Canada Not Interested in Trump’s Offer & Liberal Leadership Prospects | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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January 15, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Does Mark Carney have the "it" factor to win the Liberal leadership and a federal election in Canada? Watch this clip from the Daily Show and let me know what you think.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs8S...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs8S...
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Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
January 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Since the election, I shifted my media habits, from echo chamber rage-baiting “fast media” to more thoughtful “slow media” that steps back from the brink. This episode of The Bulwark is a great example. Thanks @timmiller.bsky.social & @hcrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/qMQSs45oXow?...
An Unelected Tech Bro Has Taken Over America (w/ Heather Cox Richardson) | Bulwark Podcast
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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December 21, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Since the election, I shifted my media habits, from echo chamber rage-baiting “fast media” to more thoughtful “slow media” that steps back from the brink. This episode of The Bulwark is a great example. Thanks @timmiller.bsky.social & @hcrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/qMQSs45oXow?...
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Bye bye 2024, I won't miss you. But I am proud of or excited by some of what occurred this year, so I attempted to document that. made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io/bye-bye-2024...
Bye-bye 2024, I won't miss you.
Well, it's been one heck of a year. ::shaking head:: Although I love getting those end-of-year postcards from folks, I've never managed to make them. Instead of recounting my familial adventures and e...
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December 20, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Bye bye 2024, I won't miss you. But I am proud of or excited by some of what occurred this year, so I attempted to document that. made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io/bye-bye-2024...
Love a good Tiny Desk to discover new to me artists youtube.com/watch?v=-91v...
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December 7, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Love a good Tiny Desk to discover new to me artists youtube.com/watch?v=-91v...
Two things can be true:
1) those seeking to shrink or destroy the administrative state are incompetent fools & grifters, and…
2) there is enormous waste of resources in how the public sector delivers value to the public
The resistance should not defend the latter while attacking the former.
1) those seeking to shrink or destroy the administrative state are incompetent fools & grifters, and…
2) there is enormous waste of resources in how the public sector delivers value to the public
The resistance should not defend the latter while attacking the former.
December 5, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Two things can be true:
1) those seeking to shrink or destroy the administrative state are incompetent fools & grifters, and…
2) there is enormous waste of resources in how the public sector delivers value to the public
The resistance should not defend the latter while attacking the former.
1) those seeking to shrink or destroy the administrative state are incompetent fools & grifters, and…
2) there is enormous waste of resources in how the public sector delivers value to the public
The resistance should not defend the latter while attacking the former.
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Adding more all the time! bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 28, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Adding more all the time! bsky.app/starter-pack...
Very heartened by the response of South Koreans to protect their democracy.
Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.
December 4, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Very heartened by the response of South Koreans to protect their democracy.
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One of the hallmarks of this era is the frequent appointment of people who could not get hired in any capacity to work *for* federal agencies to run them.
December 1, 2024 at 8:22 AM
One of the hallmarks of this era is the frequent appointment of people who could not get hired in any capacity to work *for* federal agencies to run them.