Greg Martin 🇵🇸
@yablonowitz.bsky.social
He/Him. When not working, I write about Missoula’s early Black history here: https://medium.com/@gregmartin_76328
“This is all that we’ve learned about living.”
“This is all that we’ve learned about living.”
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They line up perfectly.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
They line up perfectly.
“Sometimes a poem contains the words that fell off the page, just like the people who fell off the sidewalk.” youtu.be/U2sV6mG18C4?...
Tom Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues" (Live on The Human Factor)
YouTube video by Tom Waits
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“Sometimes a poem contains the words that fell off the page, just like the people who fell off the sidewalk.” youtu.be/U2sV6mG18C4?...
This is why people like Gavin Newsom should never have popular support as a national leader. All these Democratic politicians enabling the anti-trans assaults should be automatically disqualified from holding power.
Lia Smith, transgender student athlete at Middlebury College, died to suicide last week after being banned from participating in competition.
A somber piece by @alyssaur.bsky.social describes how she's being remembered by her friends and family.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
A somber piece by @alyssaur.bsky.social describes how she's being remembered by her friends and family.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Transgender Student-Athlete Lia Smith Remembered as a Friend and Fierce Advocate — Assigned
Lia Smith, a 21-year-old trans student-athlete in Vermont, took her own life last week. Her friends, family and community mourn, and remember her as a bright young woman who spoke on behalf of her com...
www.assignedmedia.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is why people like Gavin Newsom should never have popular support as a national leader. All these Democratic politicians enabling the anti-trans assaults should be automatically disqualified from holding power.
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honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
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Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?
October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?
Donate if you can.
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The fact that left-of-center folks see it as hypocrisy is itself a sign that they do not understand the contemporary right. From the basic Wilhoit-ian perspective of conservatism, there's no contradiction, no hypocrisy. Power *is* the principle.
When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.
September 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The fact that left-of-center folks see it as hypocrisy is itself a sign that they do not understand the contemporary right. From the basic Wilhoit-ian perspective of conservatism, there's no contradiction, no hypocrisy. Power *is* the principle.
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I call this piece the “Hypocrisy of Rosenbury: A story of American Fascism”
September 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I call this piece the “Hypocrisy of Rosenbury: A story of American Fascism”
Does anyone know who or what started using the shortened term “antifa” which sounds in the reactionary right’s ear like intifada (with all that racialized anti-Muslim interpretation)? Because if it actually was an antifascist, they made a major PR mistake.
September 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Does anyone know who or what started using the shortened term “antifa” which sounds in the reactionary right’s ear like intifada (with all that racialized anti-Muslim interpretation)? Because if it actually was an antifascist, they made a major PR mistake.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the best yet commentary on last week's events, while pundits, politicians and others have disgraced themselves in their whitewashing of of this man's legacy. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
September 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the best yet commentary on last week's events, while pundits, politicians and others have disgraced themselves in their whitewashing of of this man's legacy. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
The gender dynamics here are insane.
Striking: New Quinnipiac poll finds 56% of voters nationally oppose Trump's sending of National Guard into DC. Only 41% support it.
Independents oppose it by 61-34.
Trump's overall approval on crime is cratering at 42-54.
That sound you hear is a lot of dimwitted pundit narratives imploding.
Independents oppose it by 61-34.
Trump's overall approval on crime is cratering at 42-54.
That sound you hear is a lot of dimwitted pundit narratives imploding.
August 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The gender dynamics here are insane.
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“Both Trump’s noted germaphobia and nativism and Kennedy’s anti-vaccine activism map onto fascism's eugenicist tradition of using national hygiene as a frame for politics.”
Powerful piece.
Powerful piece.
Good, illuminating @aselrod.bsky.social piece laying bare how RFK's agenda echoes "eugenicist and fascist thinking around medical science" and how that's all linked to the "logic that drives other aspects of Trumpism":
www.liberalcurrents.com/degenerate-n...
www.liberalcurrents.com/degenerate-n...
Degenerate Nation: RFK Jr’s Far-Right Disease Prevention
RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda is of a piece with Trump's nativist, Darwinian politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“Both Trump’s noted germaphobia and nativism and Kennedy’s anti-vaccine activism map onto fascism's eugenicist tradition of using national hygiene as a frame for politics.”
Powerful piece.
Powerful piece.
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🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
August 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL ASSASSINATES AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT ANAS AL-SHARIF
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Israel also killed Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Quraqa and wounded Al-Kawthar correspondent Mohammed Subh in a strike on Al Jazeera’s tent at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
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⚠️ Israel killed prominent Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif in Gaza.
A tent housing journalists outside of Al-Shifa Hospital was targeted.
He was reporting until the moment of his death.
The final words of one of his last messages were a plea to people to speak out:
“Silence is complicity.”
A tent housing journalists outside of Al-Shifa Hospital was targeted.
He was reporting until the moment of his death.
The final words of one of his last messages were a plea to people to speak out:
“Silence is complicity.”
![Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAISharifo
• Translated by Grok
Relentless bombardment...
For two hours, the Israeli aggression has intensified on Gaza City.
[video of an missile exploding in the darkness]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/bafkreibhpbb35bdqm7iogoq5hidys6jsizv2s5d4dexib7orwfcfhmm7ry@jpeg)
August 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
⚠️ Israel killed prominent Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif in Gaza.
A tent housing journalists outside of Al-Shifa Hospital was targeted.
He was reporting until the moment of his death.
The final words of one of his last messages were a plea to people to speak out:
“Silence is complicity.”
A tent housing journalists outside of Al-Shifa Hospital was targeted.
He was reporting until the moment of his death.
The final words of one of his last messages were a plea to people to speak out:
“Silence is complicity.”
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
August 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
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"stick to menswear"
August 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"stick to menswear"
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the world stands idly by while a manmade famine takes the lives of thousands of people because they're either profiting from using gaza as a weapons testing lab or they're afraid to be called antisemitic/hamas' useful idiots if they demand israel stop starving gaza to death
If you are ever confronted with Zionist genocide apologism of any kind, don’t waste your time debating.
Just send them this headline.
www.972mag.com/gaza-starvin...
Just send them this headline.
www.972mag.com/gaza-starvin...
July 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
the world stands idly by while a manmade famine takes the lives of thousands of people because they're either profiting from using gaza as a weapons testing lab or they're afraid to be called antisemitic/hamas' useful idiots if they demand israel stop starving gaza to death
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This throw seems impossible... it just kept going
July 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This throw seems impossible... it just kept going
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really don't care if you disagree with me, i think constantly filming everything everywhere is bad, i think the widespread deployment of facial recognition is bad, i think the fact there are cameras everywhere inside of arenas & that increasingly you have to use your face to buy a hot dog is bad
July 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
really don't care if you disagree with me, i think constantly filming everything everywhere is bad, i think the widespread deployment of facial recognition is bad, i think the fact there are cameras everywhere inside of arenas & that increasingly you have to use your face to buy a hot dog is bad
Note that Andreessen is Gen X. Exhibit 5,000 that growing up in the 80’s was equivalent to drinking from the firehouse of racial backlash and misogyny.
So let me get this straight:
In the summer of 2020 tens of millions of Americans took to the streets in multi racial protests spurred by witnessing the torture & murder of a Black man by a white police ofcr.
And THAT was the last straw for white people who feel discriminated against???
In the summer of 2020 tens of millions of Americans took to the streets in multi racial protests spurred by witnessing the torture & murder of a Black man by a white police ofcr.
And THAT was the last straw for white people who feel discriminated against???
July 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Note that Andreessen is Gen X. Exhibit 5,000 that growing up in the 80’s was equivalent to drinking from the firehouse of racial backlash and misogyny.
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So let me get this straight:
In the summer of 2020 tens of millions of Americans took to the streets in multi racial protests spurred by witnessing the torture & murder of a Black man by a white police ofcr.
And THAT was the last straw for white people who feel discriminated against???
In the summer of 2020 tens of millions of Americans took to the streets in multi racial protests spurred by witnessing the torture & murder of a Black man by a white police ofcr.
And THAT was the last straw for white people who feel discriminated against???
July 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
So let me get this straight:
In the summer of 2020 tens of millions of Americans took to the streets in multi racial protests spurred by witnessing the torture & murder of a Black man by a white police ofcr.
And THAT was the last straw for white people who feel discriminated against???
In the summer of 2020 tens of millions of Americans took to the streets in multi racial protests spurred by witnessing the torture & murder of a Black man by a white police ofcr.
And THAT was the last straw for white people who feel discriminated against???
It’s also reminiscent of the arguments people make about children in Gaza. Soul deadening stuff.
Yes, it’s fucked up. It’s not better than MAGA. It’s also supremely stupid: the majority of the missing and deceased children are from Dallas and Houston: reliably blue dots in Texas.
July 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It’s also reminiscent of the arguments people make about children in Gaza. Soul deadening stuff.
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🚨Want to know where all the immigration enforcement money is going to? We've got you covered!
- $51.6 billion for border wall ($46.6 billion for wall, $5 billion for CBP checkpoints and facilities).
- $45 billion for ICE detention
- $29.9 billion for ICE enforcement
Grand total: $170.7 billion.
- $51.6 billion for border wall ($46.6 billion for wall, $5 billion for CBP checkpoints and facilities).
- $45 billion for ICE detention
- $29.9 billion for ICE enforcement
Grand total: $170.7 billion.
July 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🚨Want to know where all the immigration enforcement money is going to? We've got you covered!
- $51.6 billion for border wall ($46.6 billion for wall, $5 billion for CBP checkpoints and facilities).
- $45 billion for ICE detention
- $29.9 billion for ICE enforcement
Grand total: $170.7 billion.
- $51.6 billion for border wall ($46.6 billion for wall, $5 billion for CBP checkpoints and facilities).
- $45 billion for ICE detention
- $29.9 billion for ICE enforcement
Grand total: $170.7 billion.
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My opinion on the Bob Vylan / Kneecap controversy is that the IDF just bombed a seafront café
Israeli strike on Gaza seafront cafe kills at least 20 Palestinians, witnesses and rescuers say
The outdoor cafe was frequently used by journalists, activists and local residents.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
My opinion on the Bob Vylan / Kneecap controversy is that the IDF just bombed a seafront café
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All the reactionary centrists attacking Mamdami every day will deny -- to us, even to themselves I think -- that they play a key role in enabling this kind of shit. But that is literally their function in the current US political structure.
Karoline Leavitt indicates the administration is open to a denaturalization-oriented investigation against Zohran Mamdani
June 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
All the reactionary centrists attacking Mamdami every day will deny -- to us, even to themselves I think -- that they play a key role in enabling this kind of shit. But that is literally their function in the current US political structure.