Shawn Fleek
@shawnfleek.com
Political. Creative. Portlander. Northern Arapaho. Husband. Dad.
Hype man for humanity and cage free futures.
Hype man for humanity and cage free futures.
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As good an illustration as any that "woke" for these folks just means "non-white people are allowed to exist."
Tuberville: "Unfortunately we've got the Woke Bowl, because we're getting more and more woke. We got Bad Bunny or Bad Rabbit at halftime. I'll be watching the TPUSA halftime show. It's just unfortunate we've gotten to this point."
January 29, 2026 at 10:49 PM
As good an illustration as any that "woke" for these folks just means "non-white people are allowed to exist."
This was such a great essay. I listened to half of it as I did my dishes but ended up wanting to read the rest. The author is paying homage to DFW in so many ways here, it’s nearly as obscure and delightful as Infinite Jest.
“Infinite Jest” is a masterpiece and a pleasure to read, Hermione Hoby writes. “Perhaps the greatest disjunction between the book’s reputation and its contents lies in the notion that it’s a pretentious slog no one could honestly enjoy.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xQHtnb
January 30, 2026 at 5:16 AM
This was such a great essay. I listened to half of it as I did my dishes but ended up wanting to read the rest. The author is paying homage to DFW in so many ways here, it’s nearly as obscure and delightful as Infinite Jest.
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Minneapolis should press its momentum and demand not only withdrawal but start talking about the need for immediate reparations, loudly, with the total certainty that only winners have. "You have wronged us terribly and must pay recompense" and let them argue the second part.
January 30, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Minneapolis should press its momentum and demand not only withdrawal but start talking about the need for immediate reparations, loudly, with the total certainty that only winners have. "You have wronged us terribly and must pay recompense" and let them argue the second part.
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"After you have returned our stolen neighbors you can begin to make up for the pain you have inflicted by funding the reconstruction of our city." Don't even dignify any argument over whether what happened was wrong.
January 30, 2026 at 4:34 AM
"After you have returned our stolen neighbors you can begin to make up for the pain you have inflicted by funding the reconstruction of our city." Don't even dignify any argument over whether what happened was wrong.
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Our goal here is to show what’s happening here. The best way to do that is have press. Press keep us safe by putting eyes of the world in Minneapolis.
January 29, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Our goal here is to show what’s happening here. The best way to do that is have press. Press keep us safe by putting eyes of the world in Minneapolis.
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I would really appreciate if journalists who have done ridealongs would speak up about how important they are to helping Minneapolis. As I’ve said many times, opsec fears are the greatest threat to the networks we’ve built. But the reason we’re out here is to show the world what’s happening.
Ridiculous. @chrislhayes.bsky.social did a ride-along that was played on @ms.now last night - the piece threatened nothing and was good 'publicity' for the cause. Hopefully they'll come around for you, Will. Thanks for what you're doing for our city & state.
January 29, 2026 at 9:07 PM
I would really appreciate if journalists who have done ridealongs would speak up about how important they are to helping Minneapolis. As I’ve said many times, opsec fears are the greatest threat to the networks we’ve built. But the reason we’re out here is to show the world what’s happening.
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@trimet.org's toxic out-of-state contracted security has graduated from slurs to assault. #Portland #transit
Are there any plans to stop contracting with an accountability-free company in PENNSYLVANIA to be useless and annoying on trains and...make them more dangerous?!
katu.com/news/local/a...
Are there any plans to stop contracting with an accountability-free company in PENNSYLVANIA to be useless and annoying on trains and...make them more dangerous?!
katu.com/news/local/a...
Arrest warrants issued for two security guards accused of attacking TriMet passenger
Two private security guards contracted to provide security for TriMet find themselves on the other side of the law.READ MORE |Illness sweeps through two Oregon
katu.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:24 PM
@trimet.org's toxic out-of-state contracted security has graduated from slurs to assault. #Portland #transit
Are there any plans to stop contracting with an accountability-free company in PENNSYLVANIA to be useless and annoying on trains and...make them more dangerous?!
katu.com/news/local/a...
Are there any plans to stop contracting with an accountability-free company in PENNSYLVANIA to be useless and annoying on trains and...make them more dangerous?!
katu.com/news/local/a...
Everything you do on your phone and the Internet is written on a postcard, carried away by a corporate drone, photocopied by a data broker, and left on a table outside a police station en route to its destination. There’s no privacy in the panopticon. There are dangers in feigning invisibility.
The puritanical tendency towards maximal security theater drives me absolutely crazy from tech perspective. Activists have a tendency to gravitate toward the most inconvenient option because surely it's the safest! No, actually, a burner phone is the worse option like 50% of the time
January 29, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Everything you do on your phone and the Internet is written on a postcard, carried away by a corporate drone, photocopied by a data broker, and left on a table outside a police station en route to its destination. There’s no privacy in the panopticon. There are dangers in feigning invisibility.
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The puritanical tendency towards maximal security theater drives me absolutely crazy from tech perspective. Activists have a tendency to gravitate toward the most inconvenient option because surely it's the safest! No, actually, a burner phone is the worse option like 50% of the time
January 29, 2026 at 9:27 PM
The puritanical tendency towards maximal security theater drives me absolutely crazy from tech perspective. Activists have a tendency to gravitate toward the most inconvenient option because surely it's the safest! No, actually, a burner phone is the worse option like 50% of the time
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Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
And also, the central cleavage in 🇺🇸 politics is still neither Democratic vs Republican, nor liberal vs conservative, nor rich vs poor, etc., but rather over the answer to the question, "Who was <actually> president in 2020?"
And also, the central cleavage in 🇺🇸 politics is still neither Democratic vs Republican, nor liberal vs conservative, nor rich vs poor, etc., but rather over the answer to the question, "Who was <actually> president in 2020?"
January 29, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
And also, the central cleavage in 🇺🇸 politics is still neither Democratic vs Republican, nor liberal vs conservative, nor rich vs poor, etc., but rather over the answer to the question, "Who was <actually> president in 2020?"
And also, the central cleavage in 🇺🇸 politics is still neither Democratic vs Republican, nor liberal vs conservative, nor rich vs poor, etc., but rather over the answer to the question, "Who was <actually> president in 2020?"
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What kills kids in America:
1. cars
2. guns
Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?
1. cars
2. guns
Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?
Gov. Landry: "I like to ask Democrats if they like their communities to be dangerous or safe. Do they want their children to be able to walk to school or do they want to worry if they send them on the sidewalks, that unfortunate violent things are going to happen to them?"
January 29, 2026 at 8:01 PM
What kills kids in America:
1. cars
2. guns
Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?
1. cars
2. guns
Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?
The new @opb.org Politics Now episode starts w a great reminder that Oregon has only had short sessions for 15 years, and they were originally supposed to only be for budget adjustments (which meant other policy issues were cause for grumbling).
January 29, 2026 at 8:51 PM
The new @opb.org Politics Now episode starts w a great reminder that Oregon has only had short sessions for 15 years, and they were originally supposed to only be for budget adjustments (which meant other policy issues were cause for grumbling).
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We're once again going to get to watch Trump, his aides, & his fellow travelers run a complete influence operation based on baseless & long debunked conspiracy theories through his press gaggles & social media posts through Fox News & now CBS News right into Congress. 4/
January 29, 2026 at 4:57 PM
We're once again going to get to watch Trump, his aides, & his fellow travelers run a complete influence operation based on baseless & long debunked conspiracy theories through his press gaggles & social media posts through Fox News & now CBS News right into Congress. 4/
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me: [awakening one morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed in my bed into a gigantic insect] how orwellian
April 25, 2024 at 10:08 PM
me: [awakening one morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed in my bed into a gigantic insect] how orwellian
Conversely, if you already had a political axe to grind but want to just root for a football team on the merits, the Patriots are the bad guys and Seahawks the scrappy deserved champions in this drama.
In case you don't really have a dog in this fight and haven't decided who to root for yet.
January 29, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Conversely, if you already had a political axe to grind but want to just root for a football team on the merits, the Patriots are the bad guys and Seahawks the scrappy deserved champions in this drama.
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I wonder how much of the masking has to do less with protecting agents from being doxed and more to do with protecting the government from us finding out how many of the agents are know figures from the world of white nationalists, Jan 6ers, accelerationists, and militias, or just plain unqualified.
Law enforcement officers have always been unmasked in this country until ICE started wearing them last year.
*That* is the departure from norms. *That* is the step too far.
*That* is the departure from norms. *That* is the step too far.
Tillis says he opposes ICE being barred from wearing masks: "I've seen people dox me. I've seen people take pictures and identify law enforcement officers and then put their families at risk. So, I think that's a step too far."
January 29, 2026 at 1:33 AM
I wonder how much of the masking has to do less with protecting agents from being doxed and more to do with protecting the government from us finding out how many of the agents are know figures from the world of white nationalists, Jan 6ers, accelerationists, and militias, or just plain unqualified.
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I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.
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January 28, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
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There is nothing more Midwest Powerful than drinking and pull tabs at the local VFW
This is Brad Lander doing pulltabs in the Uptown VFW. He’s one of us now
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 AM
There is nothing more Midwest Powerful than drinking and pull tabs at the local VFW
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The wild thing about voter demographics is how many people voted for Bush 1 and Bush 2 and Trump. There’s LOTS of them. Why have they never recanted? Their whole ideology has failed like six times in disastrous ways and they just keep doing it. Where’s the growth?
January 28, 2026 at 11:14 PM
The wild thing about voter demographics is how many people voted for Bush 1 and Bush 2 and Trump. There’s LOTS of them. Why have they never recanted? Their whole ideology has failed like six times in disastrous ways and they just keep doing it. Where’s the growth?
There was a common aphorism about “getting older means being more conservative” circulating in the 90s and early 00s. That was just old people covering for the fact they were never going to grow out of racial animus. Most of my millennial homies are further left in middle age than youth.
I asked my class today whether they had any memory at all of the financial crisis, thinking they might have been like 6 or 7 at the time, and one of them said they were 2
January 28, 2026 at 11:14 PM
There was a common aphorism about “getting older means being more conservative” circulating in the 90s and early 00s. That was just old people covering for the fact they were never going to grow out of racial animus. Most of my millennial homies are further left in middle age than youth.
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Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.
January 28, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.
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i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine
January 28, 2026 at 1:33 AM
i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine
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“Are the arts important?” Humanity practiced them long before they had use for science and will practice them long after math is gone. Is the dawn important? Is dusk?
January 28, 2026 at 2:14 AM
“Are the arts important?” Humanity practiced them long before they had use for science and will practice them long after math is gone. Is the dawn important? Is dusk?
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I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
January 28, 2026 at 2:26 AM
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
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Referring to the US as a "homeland" was always creepy as fuck, always nazi-adjacent, and creating a Dept. of Homeland Security was an obvious lurch toward authoritarianism that should have been strenuously resisted from the beginning.
(Oh weird the hippies were right again.)
(Oh weird the hippies were right again.)
January 27, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Referring to the US as a "homeland" was always creepy as fuck, always nazi-adjacent, and creating a Dept. of Homeland Security was an obvious lurch toward authoritarianism that should have been strenuously resisted from the beginning.
(Oh weird the hippies were right again.)
(Oh weird the hippies were right again.)