Maggie Vail
@magicbeans.bsky.social
Label manager of Bikini Kill Records, bass player of Hurry Up. Honk if you like dogs.
PNW'er currently exiled in East Tennessee.
PNW'er currently exiled in East Tennessee.
Pinned
Maggie Vail
@magicbeans.bsky.social
· Nov 13
I believe deeply in the radical and transformative power of music.
good luck, have fun, don't die was a bit of a mess but I laughed hysterically multiple times. I don't normally do that these days.
February 16, 2026 at 3:13 AM
good luck, have fun, don't die was a bit of a mess but I laughed hysterically multiple times. I don't normally do that these days.
We don't celebrate Valentine's as Feb 13th is Jon's bday (and the anniversary of our first date) and the 18th is our wedding anniversary. So I was a little miffed he broke the no-gifts rule until I looked into the bag. It's been over 15 years since I've had cheez its!!! 😍
February 14, 2026 at 4:39 PM
We don't celebrate Valentine's as Feb 13th is Jon's bday (and the anniversary of our first date) and the 18th is our wedding anniversary. So I was a little miffed he broke the no-gifts rule until I looked into the bag. It's been over 15 years since I've had cheez its!!! 😍
I log into FB still from time to time and today my entire feed essentially was GOP politicians posting, mostly videos, about their support of the SAVE act. I don't follow any of them. It's a full court press over there.
February 14, 2026 at 2:05 PM
I log into FB still from time to time and today my entire feed essentially was GOP politicians posting, mostly videos, about their support of the SAVE act. I don't follow any of them. It's a full court press over there.
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So first Vought murders people by stealing their aid and now one year later the money is just a slush fund for whatever he wants? Sickening and illegal: www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:06 AM
So first Vought murders people by stealing their aid and now one year later the money is just a slush fund for whatever he wants? Sickening and illegal: www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
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you know, it still seems like it should be an even bigger issue that the president has been sending armed forces to kidnap and assault people in an ethnic cleansing campaign, with a specific geographic focus on regions that didn't vote for him in the last election
February 13, 2026 at 8:38 PM
you know, it still seems like it should be an even bigger issue that the president has been sending armed forces to kidnap and assault people in an ethnic cleansing campaign, with a specific geographic focus on regions that didn't vote for him in the last election
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We live on a small sphere of rock orbiting an ongoing fusion reaction, the whole thing floating along in...nothing at all. It's kinda weird, yes? No one talks about this.
what’s the most obvious on-the-ground truth that your profession knows, but people don’t live like it’s true?
what other jfc-inducing truths are sitting in plain sight for people who know how to see what’s happening?
February 13, 2026 at 3:16 AM
We live on a small sphere of rock orbiting an ongoing fusion reaction, the whole thing floating along in...nothing at all. It's kinda weird, yes? No one talks about this.
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Middle schoolers FTW
Hundreds of Richmond middle schoolers join student-led anti-ICE protest
Hundreds of Richmond middle schoolers join student-led anti-ICE protest
Hundreds of students gathered outside their Richmond middle school to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday.
www.wric.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Middle schoolers FTW
The latest is up. We added 48 new entries to the Immigration timeline this week, a lot of it very heavy, so our briefing is full of important countermoves by the people fighting back:
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
This week at Unbreaking, February 12 — Unbreaking
This week, our big update is from Immigration, with special emphasis on community responses.
unbreaking.org
February 12, 2026 at 11:02 PM
The latest is up. We added 48 new entries to the Immigration timeline this week, a lot of it very heavy, so our briefing is full of important countermoves by the people fighting back:
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
ICE detentions have quadrupled in our county in the last year. Our county does indeed have a 287(g) partnership with ICE. It is happening everywhere, all of the time.
I think many people are not aware of the scale of ICE presence in their communities because those kidnappings are happening largely out of sight thanks to partnerships with local law enforcement.
This also drives home just how much of what we are seeing in blue areas is about political retribution.
This also drives home just how much of what we are seeing in blue areas is about political retribution.
February 12, 2026 at 9:05 PM
ICE detentions have quadrupled in our county in the last year. Our county does indeed have a 287(g) partnership with ICE. It is happening everywhere, all of the time.
today I learned I live in a sinkhole hotspot! new fear unlocked.
February 12, 2026 at 2:07 AM
today I learned I live in a sinkhole hotspot! new fear unlocked.
every once in a while I just mutter to myself "all my apes gone"
February 12, 2026 at 12:56 AM
every once in a while I just mutter to myself "all my apes gone"
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Seems the Pentagon is testing anti-drone high-energy lasers near Fort Bliss in El Paso, and didn't feel this was dangerous enough to close airspace over.
The FAA administrator disagreed.
Last week, these lasers successfully protected the American people from a sinister children's party balloon.
The FAA administrator disagreed.
Last week, these lasers successfully protected the American people from a sinister children's party balloon.
Airspace closure followed spat over drone-related tests and party balloon shoot-down, sources say
Pentagon officials had undertaken planning to use military technology near Fort Bliss, in El Paso, to practice downing drones.
www.cbsnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Seems the Pentagon is testing anti-drone high-energy lasers near Fort Bliss in El Paso, and didn't feel this was dangerous enough to close airspace over.
The FAA administrator disagreed.
Last week, these lasers successfully protected the American people from a sinister children's party balloon.
The FAA administrator disagreed.
Last week, these lasers successfully protected the American people from a sinister children's party balloon.
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Memphis is under a federal task force occupation that includes DEA, CBP, ICE, National Guard, state troopers, and (I’m not joking) IRS agents (IRS jackets kidnapping people). No national news.
ICE and CBP haven’t withdrawn from a single fucking U.S. city that they’ve occupied.
February 11, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Memphis is under a federal task force occupation that includes DEA, CBP, ICE, National Guard, state troopers, and (I’m not joking) IRS agents (IRS jackets kidnapping people). No national news.
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This is phantasmagorical. An experience. Watch it.
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
February 11, 2026 at 2:23 AM
This is phantasmagorical. An experience. Watch it.
All of my grandfather's siblings had nicknames. He was know as Huck most of his life (his real name was Raymond). His brother, Uncle Happy, worked at Disneyland, there were two Dudes on either side of the family. My great uncle Homer's wife was known as Nehi (she was super short).
Baffled by transphobes insisting that the name on your birth certificate is Your True Name Forever when it was common in my grandparents' generation to just...pick a name you like and use that, nbd. I literally found out both of my grandma's birth certificate first names FROM THEIR OBITUARIES.
February 10, 2026 at 11:35 PM
All of my grandfather's siblings had nicknames. He was know as Huck most of his life (his real name was Raymond). His brother, Uncle Happy, worked at Disneyland, there were two Dudes on either side of the family. My great uncle Homer's wife was known as Nehi (she was super short).
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we almost never saw pieces like this when the prevailing epstein accusations were based on totally made up claims from the right. now that the actual evidence in the files implicates trump and other right wing figures, we get 5 articles like this a day.
Last week the far right started peddling a narrative that the outrage over Epstein is a moral panic. Today, like clockwork, a more polite version of that narrative appears in the Atlantic.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 10, 2026 at 1:36 PM
we almost never saw pieces like this when the prevailing epstein accusations were based on totally made up claims from the right. now that the actual evidence in the files implicates trump and other right wing figures, we get 5 articles like this a day.
it's happening everywhere, all of the time. www.wbir.com/article/news...
ICE detainees in Knox County Jail have quadrupled in a year, researcher says
University of Tennessee researcher says cooperation between local law enforcement and ICE is driving higher detention numbers.
www.wbir.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:53 PM
it's happening everywhere, all of the time. www.wbir.com/article/news...
February 10, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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please click and see about adopting the dog, but i really want to thank threads' link previews for prioritizing the avatar and really taking this places
February 10, 2026 at 1:23 AM
please click and see about adopting the dog, but i really want to thank threads' link previews for prioritizing the avatar and really taking this places
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February 9, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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now that's the power of a union
The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said
Ford worker who heckled Trump keeps job, 'no discipline' for incident
The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.
www.detroitnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:28 PM
now that's the power of a union
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You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?
February 9, 2026 at 3:24 AM
You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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Holding us accountable for the shameful failure to restore power to PR
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Holding us accountable for the shameful failure to restore power to PR