David Forbes
@davidforbes.bsky.social
Anarchic history, queer defiance, cooking and — of course — fighting city hall.
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David Forbes
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· Feb 4
We do not have the luxury of surrender | David Forbes
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Feeling fear is understandable. But we are responsible for our actions in the face of it.
We do not have the luxury of surrender www.patreon.com/posts/we-do-...
We do not have the luxury of surrender www.patreon.com/posts/we-do-...
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St. Paul police brutally assault locals defending their neighbors from ICE, then absurdly accuse the locals of being "professional agitators."
"We are not your adversary. We are your police."
They support ICE with violence, just as they murder with impunity. They are, in fact, our adversaries.
"We are not your adversary. We are your police."
They support ICE with violence, just as they murder with impunity. They are, in fact, our adversaries.
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
St. Paul police brutally assault locals defending their neighbors from ICE, then absurdly accuse the locals of being "professional agitators."
"We are not your adversary. We are your police."
They support ICE with violence, just as they murder with impunity. They are, in fact, our adversaries.
"We are not your adversary. We are your police."
They support ICE with violence, just as they murder with impunity. They are, in fact, our adversaries.
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohammed. Mohammed is 25 years old and before this worked in a market and a house goods store. At the beginning of the war his house was bombed and he lost 22 members of his family who were sheltering there. He is trying to save the survivors.
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohammed. Mohammed is 25 years old and before this worked in a market and a house goods store. At the beginning of the war his house was bombed and he lost 22 members of his family who were sheltering there. He is trying to save the survivors.
There's a reason one of my mentor's regular reminders was "if they don't curse when you walk in the room you're not doing your job right."
I think it’s such a perfect case study for why “access journalism” to political figures is such a crock of shit. Most people can’t spend a ton of time with people without getting to like them, or at least sympathize with them. This is obviously an extreme case, but I think it’s always dangerous
One thing about RFKuzzi is that I feel like we all need to recognize these cloying “personal” details as signs of simpering sycophancy.
When a reporter breathlessly says he was at RFK Jr’s side when he heard the Kirk news, we should think: “Oh, I get it. This reporter is a huge piece of shit.”
When a reporter breathlessly says he was at RFK Jr’s side when he heard the Kirk news, we should think: “Oh, I get it. This reporter is a huge piece of shit.”
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
There's a reason one of my mentor's regular reminders was "if they don't curse when you walk in the room you're not doing your job right."
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"'Peasant revolts were mindless mobs blindly following charismatic leaders' belongs in the same dustbin as 'they were just roommates.'”
Hello #medievalsky here's my novella-length look at how peasants facing feudalism organized and fought.
Ambushes, secret societies, communal pacts, innovative weaponry, ingenious battle tactics and a whole heap of dead nobles:
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Ambushes, secret societies, communal pacts, innovative weaponry, ingenious battle tactics and a whole heap of dead nobles:
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November 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"'Peasant revolts were mindless mobs blindly following charismatic leaders' belongs in the same dustbin as 'they were just roommates.'”
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By request, I wrote out my thoughts on staying and fighting.
The vast majority of trans people aren't going to leave the country. If we care about our survival and liberation, that's the reality.
(And no, this is not primarily about individuals leaving or not).
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The vast majority of trans people aren't going to leave the country. If we care about our survival and liberation, that's the reality.
(And no, this is not primarily about individuals leaving or not).
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On staying and fighting | David Forbes
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October 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
By request, I wrote out my thoughts on staying and fighting.
The vast majority of trans people aren't going to leave the country. If we care about our survival and liberation, that's the reality.
(And no, this is not primarily about individuals leaving or not).
www.patreon.com/posts/on-sta...
The vast majority of trans people aren't going to leave the country. If we care about our survival and liberation, that's the reality.
(And no, this is not primarily about individuals leaving or not).
www.patreon.com/posts/on-sta...
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Importantly, this is also why so many trans gentry are frantically eager to distance themselves from both transness and the vast majority of trans people.
Transition is a practice of self-abolition, and it demonstrates that abolition involves both destroying/ending and building/creating in a way that threatens all ideologies of natural right, of hierarchy and power with a simple gesture of desire and self-knowledge
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Importantly, this is also why so many trans gentry are frantically eager to distance themselves from both transness and the vast majority of trans people.
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NEW: Israel has committed at least 497 ceasefire violations, killing at least 342 Palestinians since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel & Hamas went into effect on Oct. 10.
An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.
An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
NEW: Israel has committed at least 497 ceasefire violations, killing at least 342 Palestinians since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel & Hamas went into effect on Oct. 10.
An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.
An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.
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Cis folks: Shouldn't have to say this, but do not, under any circumstances, refer to a trans person's deadname as their "real name." Whether it has been legally changed or not. For fuck sake.
November 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Cis folks: Shouldn't have to say this, but do not, under any circumstances, refer to a trans person's deadname as their "real name." Whether it has been legally changed or not. For fuck sake.
MOOD
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
MOOD
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People are struggling. I want us to think about how we're going to help each other hang in there this winter. How are you going to support your friends, co-strugglers, and community as they push through this moment? How can you help people muddle through, materially and/or emotionally?
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
People are struggling. I want us to think about how we're going to help each other hang in there this winter. How are you going to support your friends, co-strugglers, and community as they push through this moment? How can you help people muddle through, materially and/or emotionally?
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I dont think everyone needs a gender transition but everyone needs to practice the radical self-knowledge, abolition and community building inherent in the practice and that part DOES threaten this world and Im so fucking proud of each and every one of us who shows the world that
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I dont think everyone needs a gender transition but everyone needs to practice the radical self-knowledge, abolition and community building inherent in the practice and that part DOES threaten this world and Im so fucking proud of each and every one of us who shows the world that
Importantly, this is also why so many trans gentry are frantically eager to distance themselves from both transness and the vast majority of trans people.
Transition is a practice of self-abolition, and it demonstrates that abolition involves both destroying/ending and building/creating in a way that threatens all ideologies of natural right, of hierarchy and power with a simple gesture of desire and self-knowledge
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Importantly, this is also why so many trans gentry are frantically eager to distance themselves from both transness and the vast majority of trans people.
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I'm ICE, boys. I love crashing cars, getting divorced, crashing cars, bargain bin jeans, texting while driving, crashing cars, OLD GLORY, and let's not forget my one true passion in life—crashing cars
ICE agents involved in another vehicle collision, this time in Mesa azmirror.com/briefs/ice-a...
ICE agents involved in another vehicle collision, this time in Mesa | Arizona Mirror
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents collided with a car driven by a person they were attempting to apprehend in a Mesa neighborhood.
azmirror.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm ICE, boys. I love crashing cars, getting divorced, crashing cars, bargain bin jeans, texting while driving, crashing cars, OLD GLORY, and let's not forget my one true passion in life—crashing cars
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Okay, well, first of all, calling it "the Bajoran war" makes it sound like it's the Bajorans' fault that their world was occupied by Cardassia, and that they were wrong to fight back; SECOND, I am in this picture and I do not like it.
Bluesky not addictive to teens but definitely a crutch for elder millennials who know too much about the Bajoran war.
Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat know how addictive their platforms can be to teens.
Those are allegations a group of school districts is making against the social media giants, according to a newly unsealed legal filing that quotes the companies’ own internal documents. https://cnn.it/3Xjq5x5
Those are allegations a group of school districts is making against the social media giants, according to a newly unsealed legal filing that quotes the companies’ own internal documents. https://cnn.it/3Xjq5x5
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Okay, well, first of all, calling it "the Bajoran war" makes it sound like it's the Bajorans' fault that their world was occupied by Cardassia, and that they were wrong to fight back; SECOND, I am in this picture and I do not like it.
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The "Death Before Detransition" design is available in T version and E version on stickers and shirts! Check it out at my merch store: buff.ly/z58i39k
October 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The "Death Before Detransition" design is available in T version and E version on stickers and shirts! Check it out at my merch store: buff.ly/z58i39k
Signed by NC's Democratic governor Josh Stein.
This is a law born of online-generated fear and intentionally uplifted by Elon Musk himself. It will mean more people end up in pretrial detention, more deaths from overcrowding, and the potential for execution methods like the firing squad.
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Signed by NC's Democratic governor Josh Stein.
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This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
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Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
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On Monday, North Carolina's terrible, draconian law will come into effect. One small piece that has gotten little scrutiny -- judges must consider whether someone has a home when deciding pretrial release.
www.wsoctv.com/news/local/c...
www.wsoctv.com/news/local/c...
County braces for jail surge as Iryna’s Law takes effect Monday
The law was passed after the fatal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska on the light rail.
www.wsoctv.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
On Monday, North Carolina's terrible, draconian law will come into effect. One small piece that has gotten little scrutiny -- judges must consider whether someone has a home when deciding pretrial release.
www.wsoctv.com/news/local/c...
www.wsoctv.com/news/local/c...
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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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PIC abolition 🤝 liberation from AI
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
PIC abolition 🤝 liberation from AI
The institutions are folding.
The elites are collaborating.
The people are fighting.
You want hope? It's that. You want to wake up to why we're here? Start there. You want to know why radicals refuse to give up? That's why.
There is a world elsewhere. 🏴
The elites are collaborating.
The people are fighting.
You want hope? It's that. You want to wake up to why we're here? Start there. You want to know why radicals refuse to give up? That's why.
There is a world elsewhere. 🏴
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The institutions are folding.
The elites are collaborating.
The people are fighting.
You want hope? It's that. You want to wake up to why we're here? Start there. You want to know why radicals refuse to give up? That's why.
There is a world elsewhere. 🏴
The elites are collaborating.
The people are fighting.
You want hope? It's that. You want to wake up to why we're here? Start there. You want to know why radicals refuse to give up? That's why.
There is a world elsewhere. 🏴
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Another way to look at this is when ICE, CBP, et al lie on reports, now they can blame AI. “U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis wrote… that the practice of using ChatGPT to write use-of-force reports undermines the agents’ credibility and ‘may explain the inaccuracy of these reports.’”
Judge's footnote on immigration agents using AI raises accuracy and privacy concerns
A federal judge called out an immigration enforcement agent for using artificial intelligence to write the narrative of a use-of-force report as just a small part of a scathing opinion that rebutted f...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Another way to look at this is when ICE, CBP, et al lie on reports, now they can blame AI. “U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis wrote… that the practice of using ChatGPT to write use-of-force reports undermines the agents’ credibility and ‘may explain the inaccuracy of these reports.’”
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There are some tragic exceptions, of course, but that seems to be the general trend.
The gentry are exceptionally prone to delusion. A lifetime of being spoonfed that the world is set up for you, specifically, creates the most gullible of marks.
The gentry are exceptionally prone to delusion. A lifetime of being spoonfed that the world is set up for you, specifically, creates the most gullible of marks.
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
There are some tragic exceptions, of course, but that seems to be the general trend.
The gentry are exceptionally prone to delusion. A lifetime of being spoonfed that the world is set up for you, specifically, creates the most gullible of marks.
The gentry are exceptionally prone to delusion. A lifetime of being spoonfed that the world is set up for you, specifically, creates the most gullible of marks.
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An underrated thread in "AI made this person go completely delusional" tales is that it's so often "Jimothy, a marketing vp with three vacation homes, became convinced he was the reincarnation of Jesus" and "Melyssa, heir to an airbnb barony, believed interdimensional gods chose her personally."
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
An underrated thread in "AI made this person go completely delusional" tales is that it's so often "Jimothy, a marketing vp with three vacation homes, became convinced he was the reincarnation of Jesus" and "Melyssa, heir to an airbnb barony, believed interdimensional gods chose her personally."