Ramsin Canon
@ramsincanon.bsky.social
Not ill jeeves but all of a twitter
“God’s Son” across the belly
I prove you lost already
I prove you lost already
There is no pain
You are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
You are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“God’s Son” across the belly
I prove you lost already
I prove you lost already
One of the things that shapes the difference in strategy between the right and the left is there is no scarcity on the right. There is so much money in so few hands they’ll throw it and anybody and everybody who sniffs their jock. The left is crabs in a barrel
I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
One of the things that shapes the difference in strategy between the right and the left is there is no scarcity on the right. There is so much money in so few hands they’ll throw it and anybody and everybody who sniffs their jock. The left is crabs in a barrel
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CPD officers so far this year have shot 17 people, killing eight, more than in all of last year, records show. In 2024, CPD officers shot 12 people, killing six, records show.
Approximately an hour before the hearing began, officers shot a man after a foot chase on the South Side.
Approximately an hour before the hearing began, officers shot a man after a foot chase on the South Side.
NEW: The significant increase in the number of times Chicago police officers have used force against Chicagoans since 2022 threatens the effort to reform the Chicago Police Department, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office told a federal judge on Tuesday. @wttw.bsky.social
CPD’s Increasing Use of Force Threatens Consent Decree Push: Illinois Attorney General
The Office of the Attorney General told U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer that immediate steps must be taken to ensure the push to reform the Chicago Police Department results in meaningful ...
news.wttw.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
CPD officers so far this year have shot 17 people, killing eight, more than in all of last year, records show. In 2024, CPD officers shot 12 people, killing six, records show.
Approximately an hour before the hearing began, officers shot a man after a foot chase on the South Side.
Approximately an hour before the hearing began, officers shot a man after a foot chase on the South Side.
Raekwon’s new album is called Emperor’s New Clothes and here he is explaining the origin of that title and the folktale behind it to Fat Joe and Jadakiss
November 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Raekwon’s new album is called Emperor’s New Clothes and here he is explaining the origin of that title and the folktale behind it to Fat Joe and Jadakiss
Carol Marin John Hancock-ing it by signing twice
If you grew up in this area, this list of names will quite clearly resonate with you. If you didn't, picture every important news person from your hometown coming together to speak up.
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Carol Marin John Hancock-ing it by signing twice
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outside of individual donations to gofundmes and such, one helpful destination for your money right now is this bond fund. everyone being released from broadview needs to pay $1500 bond, which is obviously insane. it's going to cost like $925k to successfully spring 615 people linktr.ee/mw_bondfund
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund | Linktree
We formed in 2020 & began paying out immigration bonds for IL, IN, WI, and KY.
linktr.ee
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
outside of individual donations to gofundmes and such, one helpful destination for your money right now is this bond fund. everyone being released from broadview needs to pay $1500 bond, which is obviously insane. it's going to cost like $925k to successfully spring 615 people linktr.ee/mw_bondfund
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Last week, 65,000+ residents voted to elect a democratic socialist mayor. All Council races that had a DSA-endorsed candidate won by overwhelming margin. These results send a clear message: people want leaders who will fight for working-class communities, not corporate interests.
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Last week, 65,000+ residents voted to elect a democratic socialist mayor. All Council races that had a DSA-endorsed candidate won by overwhelming margin. These results send a clear message: people want leaders who will fight for working-class communities, not corporate interests.
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This—agents driving around in circles and provoking the community—has gone on for hours at this point with no discernible goal other than to inflict terror.
They also just fired pepper balls at someone.
They also just fired pepper balls at someone.
Border Patrol is out and about in Little Village this morning.
November 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This—agents driving around in circles and provoking the community—has gone on for hours at this point with no discernible goal other than to inflict terror.
They also just fired pepper balls at someone.
They also just fired pepper balls at someone.
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Dick Cheney is dead and DSA is alive
November 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Dick Cheney is dead and DSA is alive
It was very disappointing when that picture dropped of Cheney’s huge hog
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It was very disappointing when that picture dropped of Cheney’s huge hog
Hahahaha
Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago
November 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Hahahaha
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"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
Yeah the “legal case” for a third term is nonexistent. It’s absurd to interpret the amendment to mean that someone can’t be “elected” more than twice but can *be* president more than twice. OTOH it shows the right knows Trump has hollowed out their political apparatus and wired it directly into him
that legal case? the barrel of a gun.
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
October 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Yeah the “legal case” for a third term is nonexistent. It’s absurd to interpret the amendment to mean that someone can’t be “elected” more than twice but can *be* president more than twice. OTOH it shows the right knows Trump has hollowed out their political apparatus and wired it directly into him
The left’s personnel settling into nonprofits and academia with the collapse of mass organizations in the 70s, and the political logic of nonprofits, and academics’ instinct towards novelty, have just wrecked working peoples’ movements. It boils down to an instinct that universal demands are suspect
From my latest: no, it is not suspicious to talk about the working class.
www.peoplesline.org/p/no-it-isnt...
www.peoplesline.org/p/no-it-isnt...
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The left’s personnel settling into nonprofits and academia with the collapse of mass organizations in the 70s, and the political logic of nonprofits, and academics’ instinct towards novelty, have just wrecked working peoples’ movements. It boils down to an instinct that universal demands are suspect
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NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products
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They really turned this unfortunate elder man into Wil E Coyote lol
MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters
October 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
They really turned this unfortunate elder man into Wil E Coyote lol
In my ultraliberalism I referred to this as Tyre difference between organizing the 100 people in a room versus organizing 100 people into a room
if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything
October 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
In my ultraliberalism I referred to this as Tyre difference between organizing the 100 people in a room versus organizing 100 people into a room
To the contrary, it “explicitly requires” using every means available, including the tools this administration has created that were assumed to be unconstitutional, to break the institutions they rely on, crush their organizations, and exclude them permanently from any social safety.
Saving America from Trump and preserving our democracy explicitly requires that people who voted for Trump change their mind. Which in turn requires that those who didn’t vote for Trump show grace and empathy to those whose change of heart came from being hurt by the guy they voted for…
September 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
To the contrary, it “explicitly requires” using every means available, including the tools this administration has created that were assumed to be unconstitutional, to break the institutions they rely on, crush their organizations, and exclude them permanently from any social safety.
You know what would stop political firings, just-cause clauses in union contracts
September 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
You know what would stop political firings, just-cause clauses in union contracts
Very few schools are selective, much less highly selective. What guys like Andreesen are playing on is the sense of exclusion that comes from cost, and the conflation of admissions with assistance. Making public college free would collapse any association w exclusion for like 99% of people
oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
July 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Very few schools are selective, much less highly selective. What guys like Andreesen are playing on is the sense of exclusion that comes from cost, and the conflation of admissions with assistance. Making public college free would collapse any association w exclusion for like 99% of people