@theoutergates.bsky.social
Community organizer, educator, Appalachian.
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New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
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The Companies Behind ICE
Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM
New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
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Respectfully, to the people saying abolition is wrong because we need to incarcerate ICE ghouls, I disagree.
ICE proves why Abolition is necessary, because any armed paramilitary force will eventually turn into what ICE is now.
We know this because so many police departments already did.
ICE proves why Abolition is necessary, because any armed paramilitary force will eventually turn into what ICE is now.
We know this because so many police departments already did.
January 14, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Respectfully, to the people saying abolition is wrong because we need to incarcerate ICE ghouls, I disagree.
ICE proves why Abolition is necessary, because any armed paramilitary force will eventually turn into what ICE is now.
We know this because so many police departments already did.
ICE proves why Abolition is necessary, because any armed paramilitary force will eventually turn into what ICE is now.
We know this because so many police departments already did.
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if you can get a southern politician on the prayer list at his church for being an asshole, you can get him to do anything
January 12, 2026 at 4:08 PM
if you can get a southern politician on the prayer list at his church for being an asshole, you can get him to do anything
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This was so good youtu.be/XlUxAN4kCOw?...
White Men, We Have A Problem
YouTube video by Swolesome
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January 8, 2026 at 4:12 PM
This was so good youtu.be/XlUxAN4kCOw?...
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Great video, very relevant right now - youtu.be/R57pujATIs8
Are you actually revolutionary or just performative?
YouTube video by revolutionaryth0t
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November 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Great video, very relevant right now - youtu.be/R57pujATIs8
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
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September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
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I really just think it's class and racial solidarity at work. They see themselves in him and they do not have solidarity with his targets.
The reason Charlie Kirk is being lionized by so many journalists is simple: he was very good at cultivating journalists and it seems a lot of journalists don't seem to understand the concept of being cultivated as a pet reporter in exchange for scoops or leads. They think he was their friend.
September 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I really just think it's class and racial solidarity at work. They see themselves in him and they do not have solidarity with his targets.
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Thinking about the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing and how Italy's security services blamed it on anarchists, arrested nearly 100 activists and threw one of them out the 4th floor window of the police station.
The bombing was carried out by a neo-fascist group with ties to the state security services.
The bombing was carried out by a neo-fascist group with ties to the state security services.
September 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Thinking about the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing and how Italy's security services blamed it on anarchists, arrested nearly 100 activists and threw one of them out the 4th floor window of the police station.
The bombing was carried out by a neo-fascist group with ties to the state security services.
The bombing was carried out by a neo-fascist group with ties to the state security services.
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stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...
it's not a distraction
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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August 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...
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i think people need a refresher on what constitutes a Distraction. the cracker barrel logo thing (zero stakes, obviously invented controversy) is a Distraction. the ongoing military occupation of washington dc (ample footage of random delivery drivers being violently detained by feds) is not
August 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
i think people need a refresher on what constitutes a Distraction. the cracker barrel logo thing (zero stakes, obviously invented controversy) is a Distraction. the ongoing military occupation of washington dc (ample footage of random delivery drivers being violently detained by feds) is not
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"Incarcerated workers are a part of the working class,” journalist @kimkelly.bsky.social says. And we are “not telling the real history of labor in this country if [we’re] not focusing on the organizing efforts & the labor of people who are in prison” @therealnews.com
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America is built on prison labor. When will the labor movement defend prisoners?
“Incarcerated workers are a part of the working class,” award-winning journalist Kim Kelly says. And we are “not telling the real history of labor in this country if [we’re] not focusing on the organi...
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July 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"Incarcerated workers are a part of the working class,” journalist @kimkelly.bsky.social says. And we are “not telling the real history of labor in this country if [we’re] not focusing on the organizing efforts & the labor of people who are in prison” @therealnews.com
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the difference between Dem politicians like Beshear & Walz (who say supportive things about LGBTQ ppl) and the Newsoms, Emanuels & other Dem politicians/pundits throwing trans ppl under the bus isn't "strategy", it's that the latter group is transphobic
If the (wildly popular) governor of Kentucky can say this with his whole chest then what excuse does the (wildly unpopular) governor of California have?
July 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
the difference between Dem politicians like Beshear & Walz (who say supportive things about LGBTQ ppl) and the Newsoms, Emanuels & other Dem politicians/pundits throwing trans ppl under the bus isn't "strategy", it's that the latter group is transphobic
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some of these replies are really cruel and I’d really like people to sit with why their first reaction to hearing about a poisoned, precarious workforce trying to improve their lot is “lol idiots good luck”
July 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
some of these replies are really cruel and I’d really like people to sit with why their first reaction to hearing about a poisoned, precarious workforce trying to improve their lot is “lol idiots good luck”
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So much rhetoric around the medicaid cuts is yet another example of how willing we are to sacrifice poor southerners and Appalachians as scapegoats for the sins of institutionalized racism, which are perpetrated by the rich and powerful, not by someone's papaw who just lost access to insulin.
July 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
So much rhetoric around the medicaid cuts is yet another example of how willing we are to sacrifice poor southerners and Appalachians as scapegoats for the sins of institutionalized racism, which are perpetrated by the rich and powerful, not by someone's papaw who just lost access to insulin.
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man it’s gonna be a police state but of people who were too stupid to be police
July 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
man it’s gonna be a police state but of people who were too stupid to be police
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On the ICE budget: In general, adding money to a law enforcement agency's budget will not make people safer. Adding massive amounts of money to a massively corrupt and incompetent law enforcement agency's budget will, likewise, not make people safer.
July 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
On the ICE budget: In general, adding money to a law enforcement agency's budget will not make people safer. Adding massive amounts of money to a massively corrupt and incompetent law enforcement agency's budget will, likewise, not make people safer.
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"I can't believe The New York Times did this" Trans kids? Claudine Gay? Gaza? At some point we have to stop being surprised. The right sees the Times as a vehicle for laundering its conspiracy theories and injecting it into elite America and the Times is very happy to oblige them.
July 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM
"I can't believe The New York Times did this" Trans kids? Claudine Gay? Gaza? At some point we have to stop being surprised. The right sees the Times as a vehicle for laundering its conspiracy theories and injecting it into elite America and the Times is very happy to oblige them.
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The law in its infinite wisdom bans trans and cis people alike from being trans
June 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The law in its infinite wisdom bans trans and cis people alike from being trans
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Lots of talk on “law and order,” and “tough on crime” legislation, from both sides of ‘the aisle’.
Why?
As @prisonpolicy.bsky.social reports:
💣 Crime rates are *historically* low
💣 3/4 of all jail bookings are for *nonviolent* charges
💣 3/4 of people in jail have *not* been convicted of a crime
Why?
As @prisonpolicy.bsky.social reports:
💣 Crime rates are *historically* low
💣 3/4 of all jail bookings are for *nonviolent* charges
💣 3/4 of people in jail have *not* been convicted of a crime
February 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Lots of talk on “law and order,” and “tough on crime” legislation, from both sides of ‘the aisle’.
Why?
As @prisonpolicy.bsky.social reports:
💣 Crime rates are *historically* low
💣 3/4 of all jail bookings are for *nonviolent* charges
💣 3/4 of people in jail have *not* been convicted of a crime
Why?
As @prisonpolicy.bsky.social reports:
💣 Crime rates are *historically* low
💣 3/4 of all jail bookings are for *nonviolent* charges
💣 3/4 of people in jail have *not* been convicted of a crime