Yana Ludwig
@yana42.bsky.social
Queer, leftist, writer, chronic lymie. Cooperative culture, justice and climate activist. US midwesterner in Wales, uses ufdah unironically. https://www.ic.org/cooperative-culture/
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If we let farmers lose their land, we can blame them for why we lose people to starvation instead of the wealthy who are waiting to pounce and turn it into data centers. They have to make sure they have a scapegoat for.the starvation they're planning. They think most of us are disposable. Save farms
November 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If we let farmers lose their land, we can blame them for why we lose people to starvation instead of the wealthy who are waiting to pounce and turn it into data centers. They have to make sure they have a scapegoat for.the starvation they're planning. They think most of us are disposable. Save farms
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🚨 IMPORTANT THREAD 🚨
People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend.
Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6
People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend.
Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6
September 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
🚨 IMPORTANT THREAD 🚨
People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend.
Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6
People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend.
Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6
Sharing a piece I wrote last week, responding to the bizarrely horrify announcement from the Oklahoma superindentent of school that all high school in his state will now have mandatory Turning Point USA chapter in "honor" of Charlie Kirk.
September 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Sharing a piece I wrote last week, responding to the bizarrely horrify announcement from the Oklahoma superindentent of school that all high school in his state will now have mandatory Turning Point USA chapter in "honor" of Charlie Kirk.
Timothy Snyder's quick take on the "terror memo".
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Trump’s terror memo (audio)
It is about regime change
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September 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Timothy Snyder's quick take on the "terror memo".
snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-ter...
snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-ter...
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Wow — Italy and Spain have now both officially announced they're sending military ships to support the Gaza aid flotilla
Remarkable document: hundreds of European politicians are calling to mobilize European resources to protect the Sumud aid flotilla as it faces escalating attacks on its way to Gaza.
In other words: European politicians are trying to protect humanitarian volunteers *from Israel.*
In other words: European politicians are trying to protect humanitarian volunteers *from Israel.*
September 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Wow — Italy and Spain have now both officially announced they're sending military ships to support the Gaza aid flotilla
Source: The Guardian
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UK recognises Palestine as an independent state
Keir Starmer’s announcement comes seven decades after end of British mandate in Palestine and creation of state of Israel
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September 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Source: The Guardian
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I didn't see everything nominated, but of what I did see, Andor was, IMHO, the best thing on TV this year. Glad it got the 5... and a little salty there weren't more, especially for this amazing cast.
The Emmys are over and ANDOR comes away with an incredible 5 awards out of 14 nominations 🏆
Check out a full list of all the Emmys that ANDOR won and was nominate for (+ learn about the record that Andor broke tonight) here: theholofiles.com/2025/09/14/a...
Check out a full list of all the Emmys that ANDOR won and was nominate for (+ learn about the record that Andor broke tonight) here: theholofiles.com/2025/09/14/a...
September 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I didn't see everything nominated, but of what I did see, Andor was, IMHO, the best thing on TV this year. Glad it got the 5... and a little salty there weren't more, especially for this amazing cast.
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Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family?
It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted
It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted
September 13, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family?
It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted
It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted
This asshole though...
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Charlie Kirk in His Own Words
17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.
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September 13, 2025 at 5:27 AM
This asshole though...
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It would be nice if the US had ways to solve problems that weren't guns, prison & fines. With very rare exception though, that's the menu.
I'm not "glad Kirk's dead".
I am glad he stopped talking.
There were other ways we could have gotten there. Like not platforming him for spewing hate. But no.
I'm not "glad Kirk's dead".
I am glad he stopped talking.
There were other ways we could have gotten there. Like not platforming him for spewing hate. But no.
September 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It would be nice if the US had ways to solve problems that weren't guns, prison & fines. With very rare exception though, that's the menu.
I'm not "glad Kirk's dead".
I am glad he stopped talking.
There were other ways we could have gotten there. Like not platforming him for spewing hate. But no.
I'm not "glad Kirk's dead".
I am glad he stopped talking.
There were other ways we could have gotten there. Like not platforming him for spewing hate. But no.
The whole thread.
The Charlie Kirk shooting brings up some very uncomfortable conversations about decorum in political discourse.
Did I want someone to stroll up and shoot him? No. But also, “Violence isn’t the answer” is easy to say when you are not part of a group targeted by Charlie’s violence.
(Cont.)
Did I want someone to stroll up and shoot him? No. But also, “Violence isn’t the answer” is easy to say when you are not part of a group targeted by Charlie’s violence.
(Cont.)
September 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The whole thread.
Too long to post here, so if you are on FB please go read Matt Stannard's long post re: "debate" and Kirk. It gets at so much of our discomfort with the way that word is misused to obfuscate that deeply bad intentions of Kirk et al.
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September 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Too long to post here, so if you are on FB please go read Matt Stannard's long post re: "debate" and Kirk. It gets at so much of our discomfort with the way that word is misused to obfuscate that deeply bad intentions of Kirk et al.
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
Pritzker, Bernie, AOC (& whole Squad), many state AGs, Mamdani, Wyden, etc... plenty of less problematic people have stepped up. Credit Newsom for doing what he's doing, but it take a lot of things to defeat fascism. Let's not get seduced by good social media into thinking he is all the things.
August 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Pritzker, Bernie, AOC (& whole Squad), many state AGs, Mamdani, Wyden, etc... plenty of less problematic people have stepped up. Credit Newsom for doing what he's doing, but it take a lot of things to defeat fascism. Let's not get seduced by good social media into thinking he is all the things.
Thank the Miccosukee Tribe.
A federal judge ordered that no more immigrant detainees be sent to the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center in the Florida Everglades, and that much of the facility be dismantled. The ruling rebuked the state and federal governments for failing to consider potential environmental harms.
Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now
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August 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Thank the Miccosukee Tribe.
There are two red carpets in this picture that Putin was invited to walk on.
August 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
There are two red carpets in this picture that Putin was invited to walk on.
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Saying that all Jewish people everywhere are somehow implicated in the Israeli government's actions is like saying that me, a woman with some German ancestry and a German last name, should be implicated in the current German government's decisions.
You realize how whacked that sounds, right?
Saying that all Jewish people everywhere are somehow implicated in the Israeli government's actions is like saying that me, a woman with some German ancestry and a German last name, should be implicated in the current German government's decisions.
You realize how whacked that sounds, right?
August 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Saying that all Jewish people everywhere are somehow implicated in the Israeli government's actions is like saying that me, a woman with some German ancestry and a German last name, should be implicated in the current German government's decisions.
You realize how whacked that sounds, right?
Saying that all Jewish people everywhere are somehow implicated in the Israeli government's actions is like saying that me, a woman with some German ancestry and a German last name, should be implicated in the current German government's decisions.
You realize how whacked that sounds, right?
If you've never seen Crip Camp, now is the time.
The ADA was signed on July 26, 1990—35 years ago today. This would be a great day to (re-)watch the documentary Crip Camp (Netflix) in commemoration. Also a great day to think about how we defend the law’s underlying principles in the face of a eugenics-riddled Administration.
July 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If you've never seen Crip Camp, now is the time.
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The Department of Justice has some explaining to do after a forensic examination of the video released to show that the accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died by his own hand shows clear evidence of being "manipulated" in some manner.
'Footage was modified': New Epstein questions raised as Wired reveals video edit
The Department of Justice has some explaining to do after a forensic examination of the video released to show that the accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died by his own hand shows clear evidence of being "manipulated" in some manner.That is according to a report from Wired, which while not making a...
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July 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The Department of Justice has some explaining to do after a forensic examination of the video released to show that the accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died by his own hand shows clear evidence of being "manipulated" in some manner.
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“we've seen the tear gas, flash bangs, and pepperballs fired at the crowd. The crowd was also picking up items, rocks, whatever they could find on the ground and throwing them back towards federal agents.”
July 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“we've seen the tear gas, flash bangs, and pepperballs fired at the crowd. The crowd was also picking up items, rocks, whatever they could find on the ground and throwing them back towards federal agents.”