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Todd Walker

@toddwalker.bsky.social

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He/him. Ephemera collector, idea connector. Anti-fascism, graphic design, Zen Buddhism, progressive politics, neo-Luddism, and more. I have friends everywhere.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · Dec 30

The conditions of one’s birth - country, parents’ wealth and education, language, etc. - are the biggest lottery ticket you never paid for. To be proud of any of it or look down on others’ lot is the pinnacle of delusion.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 5m

Torture. Plain and simple.

Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 9m

As a kid, I would carefully cut out and collect the Star Wars posters from the newspaper movie listings. This one by Struzan was my favorite

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 44m

I now cry every time I watch this or hear it.

Also, remember, this is now under the Tom Holland rule and must be reposted every time you see it.

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 49m

Remember this: Try.

youtu.be/wQd4JdFP0d0?...

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The Verge @theverge.com · 1h

"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?"

Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 24m

Right on schedule, the text message appears.

Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 28m

@moderation.bsky.app drop this?

a parental advisory sign that says explicit content on it

ALT: a parental advisory sign that says explicit content on it

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 43m

“My donors wouldn’t like that.”

Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 47m

“Obviously, she’s a very accomplished young woman with a very strong personality and a strong point of view,”

Two of these things are true.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1h

"The pattern is familiar, stretching back to 1929: Whenever access expands faster than safeguards, charlatans rush in and ordinary investors are often left holding the bag."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/m...

The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929?

www.nytimes.com

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 1h

WTF is up with these doorway interviews?

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1h

the buildup to this Jeffries bit in the piece is really well done, and manages to impart real depth to a standard no-comment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...

"I never did get to talk with Jeffries about Mamdani. Several phone calls to his team soon turned to voice mail messages that went unanswered. In October I told Jeffries’s staff that I would have to write that he avoided talking about Mamdani for months. There was still no response. Schumer and Gillibrand each declined an interview request."

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 1h

This is from eight months ago and still holds true.

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · Feb 3

New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.”

If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.

Primary Every Democrat

It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.

newrepublic.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1h

"Mamdani told me he understands that his success or failure will not be seen as only his own. He is right."

This is true but also tells on itself because The Discourse Gatekeepers do not declare centrism dead because Eric Adams proved to be an incompetent buffoon crook. It only goes one way!

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 3h

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 1h

What is “winning the AI race”?

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 1d

major US outlets would never publish any of this

every time listen to what israeli politicians commanders etc are actually saying they are like "we are genociding these people, and it's great, except we need to kill more quickly, especially the children." every time read the NYT it's like "israel's muscular security stance has drawn criticism"

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1h

We should get this number to zero. (NYT too)

AP & Guardian are relatively better general news sources. Don’t sleep on Teen Vogue & Rolling Stone. Bolts, Balls & Strikes, & Pro Publica are better on democracy niches. New Republic, Boston Review, Liberal Currents are better on analysis & commentary.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 17h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Just George Oh🦇🎃👻🐈‍⬛🕸️ @timmytwoshirts.bsky.social · 12h

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columbo:

just one more thing... when you were 'discovering' america, was there anyone else there at the time?

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 14h

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If you were loud for Jimmy Kimmel, crank it up for Leticia James. Authoritarian bullies count on silence to get away with it; make some noise and have her back!

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 15h

Just warming up!