Bittersweet update: Time is of the essence for the wolf that recently visited LA County to find a mate. Wolves are only fertile around Valentine's Day, and she’s been looking for love. Now she's in Kern County, likely because she came up empty down south. bit.ly/462RyrO

Chayote frito 💚

“Unless the sacred places are discovered and protected and used as religious places, there is no possibility of a nation ever coming to grips with the land itself. Without this basic relationship, national psychic stability is impossible.” -Vine Deloria Jr.

Virginia Giuffre's original draft (in the Epstein files) is way more engaging than the book that was eventually published. She is a hugely significant figure in U.S. history and I hope will be remembered with care and accuracy. flaminghydra.com/issue-500/

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Regardless of the state institution that they’re employed by, authorities treat child sexual abuse and gender-based violence as rites of passage and the unspoken privilege of certain classes. There were teachers sex trafficking kids in the district where I taught who were allowed to quietly resign…

Shit like this airspace closure and conflicting reports about what did or didn’t happen is exactly what authoritarians and fascists want. A world where we have no idea what’s going on and don’t trust anything we’re told by anybody is their perfect and desired environment.

Looking around DC which fell out the national narrative for being occupied but still is. Confirmed.

ICE and CBP haven’t withdrawn from a single fucking U.S. city that they’ve occupied.

Native communities that faced centuries of displacement from colonization now face displacement from climate disasters. Last fall the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk was devastated by Typhoon Halong. The community is now voting on whether to relocate in the aftermath. www.knba.org/news/2026-02...

While I think that the billionaire class will be instrumental in their own downfall, I’m also 100% committed to helping them self-destruct…

"That workload creep can in turn lead to cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. The productivity surge enjoyed at the beginning can give way to lower quality work, turnover, and other problems." hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

This story of police violence hasn’t received enough media coverage. In 2024, BIA police shot Cody Whiterock in the face, back and chest after chasing him for over an hour in the snow. Whiterock, who is Shoshone-Paiute, was unarmed. Native men face the highest rates of police...

A good thread. This is persistent and shows up in all forms of moderation; from folks in the FCC to even Bluesky's moderation systems (auto-marking Black and brown bodies as pornographic but not for that of white bodies in the same way)

Pasadena fire captain sexually abused children for more than two decades, prosecutors allege

Miami police shot and killed a woman experiencing a mental health crisis this weekend after her 12-year-old daughter called for help. No mental health crisis should turn deadly by those called to help. Our hearts are with the family as they await answers.

This. I counsel survivors of SA. None of the many survivors I’ve worked with were abused by billionaires or conservative politicians. The perpetrators have been uber drivers. Teachers. Real estate agents. Dads. Soldiers. Uncles. Jail and prison staff. Handy men. Pastors…

All doomerism, including doomerism inspired by the existence of rape culture, plays directly into the hands of authoritarianism.

Multiple friends have caught COVID recently, including some of my more cautious pals. There are a lot of winter germs in crowded places right now, fam. Personally, I never feel that shopping or riding transit unmasked is worth potentially getting sick. You can always renew this practice.

Yesterday, a friend and I organized a small hike for survivors. It was really uplifting and reminded me that fighting fascism requires having FUN.

The Trump administration is using a big display of force in Minnesota. In red states, quieter but just as dangerous operations are under way. www.huffpost.com/entry/red-st...

Anywho, would be nice if there were Latine and Caribbean cultural critics employed by the MSM...

ICE sacked some tiny Idaho town and deported ~4 percent of the population at a stroke, it's liable to collapse the local economy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

A few months ago I talked about a documentary that Gloria Estefan did called Sangre Yoruba (Yoruba Blood) about how because of slavery the Yoruba people in Cuba and Brazil created new styles of music. Please watch it. It's really good and interesting. Here's the full doc: youtu.be/WeCHmiRl7uY?...

I much prefer being around people who try to improve things, even if they ultimately aren't successful, rather than folks who assume nothing will ever change.

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

WIP

Well, it looks like the Epstein files are finally proving to some people that nerds are perfectly capable of being dangerous misogynists…

I admit to being confused by some of the discourse re: protest on here. Community defense and mutual aid can in fact be forms of protest. Definition of protest is: "a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something." Community defense is an objection to something, for ex.

Altar bathed in morning light . . .

Even with the so-called "drawdown," many Minneapolis area activists say little has changed since hundreds of agents left and they're preparing for prolonged resistance. The anxiety remains palpable after two fatal shootings of US Citizens by federal agents in January. https://cnn.it/4rAFZ34

Anarchism is definitely having a moment in Minnesota. The anarchy is real, productive, and amazing here these days.

A wolf has come to Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century

Idyllwild 🌿

I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art

the modern equivalent of the ford pinto. they should be pulled off the road.

I published a short and quick primer on how local law enforcement, mostly sheriffs, can collaborate with ICE. I hope it's useful -- I also would love to know what people are seeing in their community. sheriffs.substack.com/p/how-local-...

In the greater story of Minneapolis’ resistance to ICE, one chapter absolutely belongs to the punks organizing at every level. They’re observing, fundraising, running supplies, opening their spaces, coordinating, etc. A story for @rollingstone.com. Thanks to everyone who spoke on the record.

In terms of paper waste, maybe, but ebooks aren'tthe solution. Speaking as a librarian, ebooks are the bane of my fucking existence. I can buy 10 MMPB for the cost of 1 restricted access temporary license ebook. See: bsky.app/profile/book...

Hey guess what? @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and I are creating our own news outlet to cover the PNW, launching soon. Please consider subscribing.

When Biden was elected president, so many people just went to sleep. They stayed that way through his presidency and are just now waking up…If Trump is prevented from usurping a third term, will the masses go back to sleep?

After I was inspired by #metoo to publicly identify my abuser, admin forced me out of my public school classroom. The district sent a group of 5 ppl 2 remove me: 1 fml security guard, 2 fml admins, an armed fml cop, and a male security guard. The men who shut down #metoo had lots of help from women…

I agree that concentration camp is the correct term for sites that imprison immigrants. I also find it interesting that the term concentration camp fell into disuse during Biden’s presidency while the camps themselves remained…

Most of the people currently abusing kids aren’t listed in the Epstein files…and those are the abusers you can actually do something about.

Medicine 💨

A reporter reached out to me in June 2025 for a story they were working on re ICE in LA. It took me about a week to return their message. By the time I did, the reporter told me that he had moved on because that was “over” now. Meanwhile, ICE was still here and things were getting worse!

Happy heavenly birthday Trayvon 💜

The way that so many people post about Epstein and CSA makes me want to leave social media. So much of it isn’t naming or shaming abusers. So much of it, if not most of it, is done at the expense of survivor well being.