Today was not great weather for flight photos. It was pretty overcast. But I did manage to get this blue jay with a nut. I like this one. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

You've had months to build what you say is needed. Where is it?

🚨STATEMENT: The First NYC High Schooler Abducted By ICE, Dylan is Finally Free "Nearly a year after Dylan was tricked and disappeared by ICE – and shipped to a detention center far away from his family and support system – Dylan is finally home." Murad Awawdeh

In our latest, we speak with Minneapolis organizers Jonathan Stegall & Anne Kosseff-Jones about how the 2020 uprisings laid the groundwork for the last few months of anti-ICE action in the twin cities and where we go from here soundcloud.com/deathpanel/m...

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.

@ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social just wrote a great piece on this bsky.app/profile/ayes...

זה ארוך, אבל ממש מומלץ. איישה סידיקי אחת הפרשניות החדות של העשור האחרון והמקצוע שלה הוא אשכרה בניבוי טרנדים(!)

It's something of a cliché to say that financialization conquered the world, but this piece cashes that observation out in so many unexpected ways, like drawing a parallel between how Klarna and prediction markets both give the illusion of buying money at a discount...

This piece does a lot of very interesting things but probably the most interesting bit for me was the idea that we're so focused on the problems coming from high tech/high finance that we're missing the more prosaic seeds of the next crisis: mass immiseration, consumer debt and gambling...

Ahead of the State of the Union address, I wanted to share my thoughts on the credulous coverage of “prediction markets” and the grim economic structure that coverage has ignored. Prediction market platforms are a pit stop on a crisis…. ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/prediction...

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

"The UK and US are not “being invaded by the third world” despite what their respective fascists say. They are on track to become the very cliched image of the “third world” that they once looked down on – places with little global soft power and impoverished masses

please join me in supporting this family, if just 20 people give $50 this family will have met their goal in time to be reunited ! chuffed.org/project/1699...

this one is a fuckin barn burner

“…prediction markets are not producing “collective wisdom”, they’re sanctioning insider trading against a younger and less financially secure demographic.” A fantastic piece on prediction markets from @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social

Ahead of the State of the Union address, I wanted to share my thoughts on the credulous coverage of “prediction markets” and the grim economic structure that coverage has ignored. Prediction market platforms are a pit stop on a crisis…. ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/prediction...

Ashley Fairbanks @ziibiing.com launched Stand With Minnesota standwithminnesota.com, a mutual aid repository supporting residents under ICE's siege, in early Jan. in the weeks since, it's facilitated covering people's rents and flown folks detained back home from Texas. she can help you do it, too.

"Twice in global history, the Western world has been seized by an era-defining fixation on longevity: the desire to resist ageing, forgo physical and mental decline, and perhaps even escape death.

Reminder of how the U.S. stripped 90-something year old W.E.B. Dubois of his citizenship due to his anti-war statements. #BHM

So good! Can’t wait to read the essay: ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/late-empir... and the forthcoming book by @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social

@reallandsend.bsky.social & @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social on the fascist cultures surrounding looksmaxxing, Mar-A-Lago face, peptide shots, Make America Healthy Again, and more

In our latest, @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social joins us to discuss “anti-aging” trends and longevity influencers as symptoms of imperial decline and the role the wellness industry has played in producing this moment of heightened fascism www.patreon.com/posts/150271...

They are canceling youth sports across the city in Minneapolis this weekend because lawless masked armed federal paramilitaries are targeting the children and families.

Late Empire Life Extension Western decline, like its bloody ascent, produces anti aging panics. And while people might "yearn for woke" the growing beauty market portends concessions to the right wing. This was a great read: ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/late-empir...

On Oura rings and more, from Late Empire Life Extension ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/late-empir...

Remember ten years ago when @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social said it would be Bush era 2.0?

"In our modern era, the deciding factor is a belief that public health is immaterial to individual. [...]rejecting institutional guidance such as vaccines in favour of niche practitioners, are all practices that [...] rose significantly while the Western powers were warring against nonwhite people

new poem 🐾 ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/poem-change

i hope someone got me THE FORT BRAGG CARTEL for Christmas, and @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social's interview with author Seth Harp is well worth reading. open.substack.com/pub/ayeshaas...

I interviewed the author of bestselling book The Fort Bragg Cartel. We cover the potential for regime change in Venezuela, the unique rate of violence around US bases, our “low information” Congress, Israel’s influence on US army doctrine, and more ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/interview-...

I interviewed the author of bestselling book The Fort Bragg Cartel. We cover the potential for regime change in Venezuela, the unique rate of violence around US bases, our “low information” Congress, Israel’s influence on US army doctrine, and more ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/interview-...

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“wellness” tied to anti aging is both cope and accelerant for imperial violence, in this piece I outline the past, present, and grim future marked by the products and routines selling “longevity” ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/late-empir...

Robert E. Wells (British, b. 1956). Chiara Study (oil on panel). Mirror, Mirror (oil on canvas).

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“Eventually, to suffer in such societies is to mark yourself outside their social contract, because if you were among those that belonged you wouldn’t be struggling.” absolutely incredible piece

This is one of the most enlightening and thought-provoking things I’ve read in awhile.

The Quran says God made humans out of clay and jinn out of fire But I am sand in the machinery of the world– waiting for lightning to turn me into glass. In spite of me, perhaps to spite me the machinery churns. If I were glass I could earn a name, like Mirror. I pray for lightning. ....

I have a new poem in @proteanmag.com proteanmag.com/2025/10/16/s... 💎⛰️🪞💙

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