More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Bringing back some out of context snippets while I Power Through the final two transcripts of the whole ding dang dissertation! First up, in conversation with S, a nonbinary Arab person on their experience of Arab vs Western womanhood:

They consider being trans to be a disorder, so anything that facilitates the survival of persistently trans people is also bad to them.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Pro tip: if you want to impress your trans gf, a political assassination that gets the regime frothing at the mouth to eradicate trans people as a class is a horrible way to do it.

be trans, be crime

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

This isn't what I want in a world. I don't want politicians and activists just getting sniped, but the world I want isn't a possibility due to men like him standing in the way, and while the method is condemnable, so is the politically violent world he's been building.

“I do not want and have never wanted any of them dead. I want them to chill out and be normal for the first time in their lives.” god has anything more true ever been typed

“The police want me dead to make sure their children don’t end up like me, so I guess every time I fuck and I’m happy and I do what I want I would like to call that an anti-state action. The people I love alive—yes, we weaken the state.... 1/3

I feel it is my responsibility as your mainstream comic book friend to further explain that what dc is doing to Gretchen is unprecedented They haven’t only cancelled the series, they are refunding the comics that are already created and recalling the issue that is already sold.

Friends keep asking for my apple butter recipe, so here it is (I regret to inform you that this is the most detailed version): note: this is the easy way, not the correct way 1. Peel, core, chop, and wash a large quantity of apples. As many as you can muster. I use random street apples. 🍎 1/5

Niche content for the zinesters: you know when you finish a zine and you suddenly become aware of the feverish creative frenzy you've been immersed in for hours/days? I'm currently experience that, but it's been 9 MONTHS, and the zine is part of my doctorate, and also it's about zines.

In related news, if you live in the Lower Mainland and have mason jars lying around, I would love to trade you empty mason jars for the fruit preserves of your choice! We're making apple butter, apple pear sauce, apple pie filling, apple cranberry sauce, pear ginger jam, and blackberry jam

Happy foraging season to all who celebrate 🍐🍎 this is all from our neighborhood! And we're not done! Abundance!

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.

if you are worried about a civil war, learn birdwatching, orienteering, and first aid. learn how to go fuckin' camping man

Making friends on vacation

Once again I am begging everyone to understand that climate change and trans rights are not separate issues

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

After spending the weekend dancing with them, can confirm that nobody goes as hard or feels as free as the old guys dancing next to the speakers at their favorite music festivals 🕺 another year, another magical Vancouver folk fest

grading POLI 100 finals, and so far all of the students who chose the questions on democracy and international organizations have lost faith in the ability of either to represent their interests and confront global crises. Which, like, yeah, I get it.

This is why criticism of it can't rely on its low quality. It will keep getting better and that is worse for all of us

If it takes all of this to eek out a "win" for Cuomo, then the establishment Dems should be extremely concerned about future elections. A lot of people are done with the Democratic party.

Having just stepped on a bed of nails with bare feet (I did not know it was there), it is nothing like stepping on a Lego.

The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity

We watched 50 Shades Darker last night as a bit, and hear me out: as a romantic movie, it's horrendous, but it's low-key a decent domestic thriller.

I spend a lot of time thinking about Chrystos' "No Rock Scorns Me as Whore," so I wrote some of those thoughts down and turned them into a lil essay. Up now on Substack :) open.substack.com/pub/addyesus...

The countries largest gender clinic with 3000 patients is complying in advance and shutting down. They treat up to age 25 so trans adults will lose access as well. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Reports of an uprising inside Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark NJ. I was here with people trying to visit family when we all started choking due to tear gas used inside.

NEW: 12 masked armed men try to enter a homeless shelter without saying who they are. ICE agents park outside an elementary school, sparking fear and a car accident. Local police respond to a call about a possible assault, only to find ICE. Inside one day on LI: theintercept.com/2025/06/13/i...

Attending a protest this weekend? Here's a guide on how to best protest safely, what to bring, and what to do if you're confronted by officers. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Jumping on the bandwagon and starting a Substack to share some of my writing and experiment with new work! Here's a lil intro, incl. a ramble on introducing myself outside of my PhD, what I'll be posting, and a very earnest call for name suggestions 🙏 addyesusnick.substack.com/p/hello-inte...

for the last 5 years I've thought daily of the solidarity, creativity and care I saw during the 2020 uprisings. I asked @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @deanspade.bsky.social +more what lessons from then we can use now @teenvogue.com

Once heard a friend describe a pack of cyclists as "MAMiLs" (pronounced mammals, stands for Middle Aged Men in Lycra), and now you too have been blessed with this word 🚴🚴🚴

Jumping on the bandwagon and starting a Substack to share some of my writing and experiment with new work! Here's a lil intro, incl. a ramble on introducing myself outside of my PhD, what I'll be posting, and a very earnest call for name suggestions 🙏 addyesusnick.substack.com/p/hello-inte...

Also, let MA be proof that a wealth tax not only didn't cause a mass exodus of millionaires, there are more of them than before the tax was enacted, & it raised about 2 and a half billion dollars in 2023 alone

I am BEGGING working class people in NYC to NOT RANK THIS MAN. He will be a disaster for anyone in this city who is not rich. Open your eyes.

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

"Here it's also useful to make a distinction between property damage (which protesters in the USA in our era have done from time to time) and harming living beings (which is largely something done by law enforcement in these demonstrations)."

🚨 Israeli forces have reportedly boarded the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Connection to the Madleen ship has been lost.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

My partner is a potter and just made us this perfect little snack dish, and I need to tell the internet abt it

A fun thing about being a professional political theorist and also an anarchist weirdo is that random dudes regularly try to teach me Marxism 101 or basic intersectionality or whatever, only to be shocked that I do, in fact, know quite a lot about this stuff. Love to jump scare the misogynists 🤙

Transcribing the latest round of interviews for my dissertation, so here's an ongoing thread of some of my favorite snippets as I come across them to make it a slightly less impossible task lol

I often think of this quote when I’m feeling frustrated with this world… But I’m here, as our most of us, because of those who suffered through that bondage and I’m going to try to summon up that kind of courage in the face of relentless oppression. Mutual aid and collaboration is key. #Wakanda

Happy new Ezra Furman album to all who celebrate (transsexuals and Jewish leftists)

I would guess that Zohran Mamdani cultivates alternative media because the New York Times covers him in the Styles section as a “long shot” while he is running a solid second place in the polls.