Turning 24 today! 🧙‍♂️ Shares of my art are very much appreciated 🌛

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

*puts on tinfoil hat* They’re putting ICE in the airports to do nothing so we eventually forget that they kill people and think of them as the friendly armed paramilitaries who chill at the airport with their bros

Wrenching, beautiful, and indispensable (as usual). Highest and most grateful recommendation!

Portland 💪🐟

reshare for alt text, republicans and rich people who want to privatize mail have been lying about the USPS and trying to push this narrative longer than I've been alive, and imposing massive financial burdens on it to make it "insolvent"

A $3.5billion data centre is to built in Makarewa, just outside of Invercargill. It will suck up 220 million litres of water a year, be the 2nd biggest draw on electricity in Aotearoa, and generate one hell of a hum. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #DataCentres #Resources #Water

Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot. This was Mueller’s FBI:

Ludwig & Ryan met at USC film school. Would a Black kid from Oakland even be admitted into the program today? And would a Swede even want to come to this country for training?

My latest Substack post.

People on awards shows don't "make it political." The world is political. Our lives are political. Our choices are political. The only decision is whether to acknowledge it.

If you've got 5 more years on earth, you should refrain from pushing for wars. OK?

This is an enormous step forward for women of people.

"No to war... and free Palestine" Javier Bardem

damn your eyes, you mustn’t swear that way when you’re preaching

Why many Pacific Islanders don’t trust scientists, exhibit n+1: “More than 300 Marshallese were removed from their homeland to make way for the US nuclear program, which commenced 80 years ago this year.” 🧪

March 11, 1918: US Army mess cook Private Albert Gitchell of Fort Riley, Kansas becomes the first documented case of Spanish flu; start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million.

Chaplin & Costello

Sharing because it's #TwinPeaksDay and because fiction tells the truth first

The State of our Union is traumatizing our children. And that is because of the violent rhetoric & policies enacted by the Occupant of the Oval Office. That’s why I’m boycotting #SOTU tonight & my honorary guests are children who’ve been directly harmed & impacted by ICE.

There are now 12 US warships in the Middle East, and the Ford carrier strike group and two additional destroyers are nearby to the north in the Mediterranean. Such massive US military buildup has not taken place since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.

All from Minnesota. Love to see it.

The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries. prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...

My second post on Substack is a brief essay called "Terror, Stupidity, and Barbed Wire" about Nabokov's resistance to authoritarian propaganda and violence. open.substack.com/pub/bdwlecte...

Another gift of an essay from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social in this time of burgeoning horror. Highest and most grateful recommendation!

"I didn’t feel like writing this week, but God decided to lay it on thick, so here we are." The first two weeks of this year have seemed like a decade. It's no small comfort to have @sarahkendzior.bsky.social to help guide us through the madness.

Definition of Ponzi Austerity, from here: theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/transcript...

True underwater photography in the 1916 version of 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

She dragged her dog to a gravel pit and shot her. Later she dragged her pet goat to the gravel pit and shot him, because he smelled like a goat. Conclusion: So what's the problem dragging a few protesters to a gravel pit and shooting them?

Elon Musk is using Grok to fill the internet with child pornography. Some liberals object.

once again encouraging you all to support billionaire-free, worker-run, independent newsrooms how and where you are able

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

“Venezuela has become the laboratory for the new US security strategy. It is an experiment based on the economic control that the United States exerts over the region.” From the @wired en Espanol team, who’ll be covering this story from the region.

I have been thinking that the major divide in Canadian politics now is really wrestling with Trump’s US or wholly embracing it, and now Pierre Poilievre and Melissa Lantsman are praising Trump’s illegal attack on Venezuela while Danielle Smith pushes separation. It’s a really dangerous time.

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

It's not very popular but crucially most of that 11% are cable news producers and newspaper editors

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

rubio pretty much believes in a reverse domino theory for latin america and since he is effectively running foreign policy in the region i would expect him to see cuba as his next target

an “inherent power” to respond to an “imminent” attack is just a license for aggressive war on the president’s whim

If Maduro is in custody my expectation is the admin will try to hold Dumb Nuremberg. They'll make it a judicial referendum on fentanyl and try to blame Maduro for the deaths from the opiate crisis.

So Russia stole a few Billion in gold from Venezuela & trump kidnapped President Maduro . ..

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

5 million-plus kindergartners now live in counties where schools don’t have “herd immunity” for measles, Washington Post reporters found. WaPo also built a tool to look up your own county. Exceptional, and alarming work by @laurenweberhp.bsky.social @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al. (Gift link.)

Revelers recovering from New Year’s Eve celebrations on the steps of Grand Central Station, New York, circa 1940.

This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

The world’s 500 richest people have total wealth of $11.9tn. Their wealth up by $2.2tn in 2025. 8 billionaires accounting for a 25% of the gains. No one becomes this rich by working. They fund right-wing parties, oppose worker/human rights, cause more pollution than normal people.