Todd Walker
@toddwalker.bsky.social
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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Man remember when that "Deciding To Win" manifesto came out a month or two back that people like the Pod Save America hosts and David Axelrod and James Carville signed off on that said M4A was an unpopular nonstarter that should be jettisoned?
none of those people should work again
none of those people should work again
🚨NEW: A new poll Americans’ support for Medicare For All has intensified to the point where the old attacks may no longer work.
As both parties legislate criticism of socialism, there has been a 50-point shift on a key question in just 6 years.
This is YUGE.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
As both parties legislate criticism of socialism, there has been a 50-point shift on a key question in just 6 years.
This is YUGE.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
A Massive Shift In Health Care Politics
As both parties are legislating criticism of socialism, Americans’ support for Medicare For All has intensified to the point where the old attacks may no longer work.
substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Man remember when that "Deciding To Win" manifesto came out a month or two back that people like the Pod Save America hosts and David Axelrod and James Carville signed off on that said M4A was an unpopular nonstarter that should be jettisoned?
none of those people should work again
none of those people should work again
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Fantastic discussion of Zohran, NYC, and ethnonationalism here from @peterbeinart.bsky.social, @mattsitman.bsky.social, and @samadlerbell.bsky.social on Know Your Enemy pod. Will make you understand the deeper currents of the Zohran victory in a new way:
dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...
dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...
Know Your Enemy: Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza - Dissent Magazine
Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
dissentmagazine.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Fantastic discussion of Zohran, NYC, and ethnonationalism here from @peterbeinart.bsky.social, @mattsitman.bsky.social, and @samadlerbell.bsky.social on Know Your Enemy pod. Will make you understand the deeper currents of the Zohran victory in a new way:
dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...
dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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"It is not accurate to say that all CBP and Border Patrol employees are criminals coming 'from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels,' but it is quite scary to see how many of them are hired."
CBP and Border Patrol are not sending us their best.
It is not accurate to say that all CBP and Border Patrol employees are criminals coming “from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels,” but it is quite scary to see how many of them are h...
borderland-talk.ghost.io
November 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"It is not accurate to say that all CBP and Border Patrol employees are criminals coming 'from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels,' but it is quite scary to see how many of them are hired."
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Criminal liability attaches for following an order "which a man of ordinary sense and understanding would, under the circumstances, know to be unlawful, or if the order in question is actually known to the accused to be unlawful." U.S. v. Calley (1974)
So the order for the US military to launch these deadly Caribbean boat strikes was straightforwardly illegal under US and international law, immoral under long established standards, and on top of that, terrible strategy.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Criminal liability attaches for following an order "which a man of ordinary sense and understanding would, under the circumstances, know to be unlawful, or if the order in question is actually known to the accused to be unlawful." U.S. v. Calley (1974)
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I am a dev and I dislike AI because
•it cannot operate without stolen data
•it does not work reliably
•it lies all the time
•it is terribly inefficient
•it pollutes
•it is/was oversold
•the biggest frauds champion it
•the people behind it are psychos
none of these are unreasonable complaints
•it cannot operate without stolen data
•it does not work reliably
•it lies all the time
•it is terribly inefficient
•it pollutes
•it is/was oversold
•the biggest frauds champion it
•the people behind it are psychos
none of these are unreasonable complaints
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I am a dev and I dislike AI because
•it cannot operate without stolen data
•it does not work reliably
•it lies all the time
•it is terribly inefficient
•it pollutes
•it is/was oversold
•the biggest frauds champion it
•the people behind it are psychos
none of these are unreasonable complaints
•it cannot operate without stolen data
•it does not work reliably
•it lies all the time
•it is terribly inefficient
•it pollutes
•it is/was oversold
•the biggest frauds champion it
•the people behind it are psychos
none of these are unreasonable complaints
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In den letzten Tagen wurden 31 Ukrainer*innen aus belarussischer Haft entlassen. Darunter die heute 18-jährige Anarchistin Mariya Misyuk, die mit 16 Jahren auf Grund von angeblichem Terrorismus inhaftiert wurde. 1/
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
In den letzten Tagen wurden 31 Ukrainer*innen aus belarussischer Haft entlassen. Darunter die heute 18-jährige Anarchistin Mariya Misyuk, die mit 16 Jahren auf Grund von angeblichem Terrorismus inhaftiert wurde. 1/
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I recently heard from someone who works for Moody’s that it banned the use of the word “climate” at a major sales conference. If you look on their website now it’s wall-to-wall AI. OTOH among Moody’s products is actuarial analysis of systemic risk for insurance. The conflicts of interest are absurd.
#OtD 28 Nov 1985 a Shell report showed they knew that global heating was real, caused by fossil fuels, and that global temp and sea levels were rising and would rise further. Shell covered it up and began sponsoring fake studies to deny climate change stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1004...
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I recently heard from someone who works for Moody’s that it banned the use of the word “climate” at a major sales conference. If you look on their website now it’s wall-to-wall AI. OTOH among Moody’s products is actuarial analysis of systemic risk for insurance. The conflicts of interest are absurd.
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
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🦃🎮 Creator Day returns this Friday with the start of our Black Friday 2025 Sitewide Sale. For 24 hours we'll waive our free on all transactions. Over 15,000 projects to be on sale from this Friday through December 3rd. More details here itch.io/blog/1124058/creator...
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
🦃🎮 Creator Day returns this Friday with the start of our Black Friday 2025 Sitewide Sale. For 24 hours we'll waive our free on all transactions. Over 15,000 projects to be on sale from this Friday through December 3rd. More details here itch.io/blog/1124058/creator...
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liberal/progressive aesthetics are about *hope*. hope even in the blackest pits of despair. it doesn't mean you cannot enjoy movies like sicario, because they depict a slice of humane experience that is very real
November 28, 2025 at 5:22 AM
liberal/progressive aesthetics are about *hope*. hope even in the blackest pits of despair. it doesn't mean you cannot enjoy movies like sicario, because they depict a slice of humane experience that is very real
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
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i love telling people in the 90s my local paper would *pay* people to report the local high school sports scores. my coach used to do it for our hs tennis matches, eventually he let me do it. it was like 50-75 per season (for each the star ledger & courier news) they'd mail you a check
i think a lot about how the job of local newspapers even 15 years ago was largely to go to town meetings, events, etc and record what happens there. people in any town in the country could keep track of what their local government and reps are doing, and that pipeline's been all but cut
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
i love telling people in the 90s my local paper would *pay* people to report the local high school sports scores. my coach used to do it for our hs tennis matches, eventually he let me do it. it was like 50-75 per season (for each the star ledger & courier news) they'd mail you a check
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Why We Fear AI is my favorite AI critique now, and these two paragraphs sum up so much so well, many thanks to @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer 🙏🏻
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Why We Fear AI is my favorite AI critique now, and these two paragraphs sum up so much so well, many thanks to @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer 🙏🏻
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Nam June Paik's TV Buddha is a perfect artwork, though I think we need to see all the variations together to make sure. TV Frogs, otoh, I'm not so sure greg.org/archive/2025...
October 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Nam June Paik's TV Buddha is a perfect artwork, though I think we need to see all the variations together to make sure. TV Frogs, otoh, I'm not so sure greg.org/archive/2025...
Luminous beings! My latest link newsletter is out: www.westernbarbarian.com/post-thanksg...
Post-Thanksgiving Reads
Prison Culture: We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A year since the 2024 election.
We aren’t superheroes, and we cannot individually stop all suffering. The most we might do is to lessen it for som...
www.westernbarbarian.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Luminous beings! My latest link newsletter is out: www.westernbarbarian.com/post-thanksg...
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The guy who incited an insurrection against our government wants to lecture about sedition
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The guy who incited an insurrection against our government wants to lecture about sedition
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Thomas Nast got it
November 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Thomas Nast got it
You owe it to yourself to watch at least the opening act… extension765.com/blogs/soderb...
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 AM
You owe it to yourself to watch at least the opening act… extension765.com/blogs/soderb...
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No doubt, the Navy was my ticket out out of a lifetime working in tobacco or textile mills, gave me an education that I've turned into an excellent civilian career. I'm not sad for that.
But there should be more paths for poor kids to have those things without being asked to kill people.
But there should be more paths for poor kids to have those things without being asked to kill people.
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 AM
No doubt, the Navy was my ticket out out of a lifetime working in tobacco or textile mills, gave me an education that I've turned into an excellent civilian career. I'm not sad for that.
But there should be more paths for poor kids to have those things without being asked to kill people.
But there should be more paths for poor kids to have those things without being asked to kill people.
May all beings be free from suffering.
May all that they have gained by doing right not be lost.
May all beings use their karma correctly and lead a good life.
Let everyone the world over live in peace and harmony.
May all that they have gained by doing right not be lost.
May all beings use their karma correctly and lead a good life.
Let everyone the world over live in peace and harmony.
November 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM
May all beings be free from suffering.
May all that they have gained by doing right not be lost.
May all beings use their karma correctly and lead a good life.
Let everyone the world over live in peace and harmony.
May all that they have gained by doing right not be lost.
May all beings use their karma correctly and lead a good life.
Let everyone the world over live in peace and harmony.
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I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
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Thanksgiving 2025 in America.
My special Thanksgiving toon for CALÓ News. Please share, and support CALÓ News at calonews.com/donate and get my 2026 Cartoon Calendar at laloalcaraz.com .
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Thanksgiving 2025 in America.
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This is my favorite piece on the Zero Units, the Afghan locals who actually fought the war under the direction of the CIA.
The Evacuation of the CIA’s Afghan Proxies Has Opened One of the War’s Blackest Boxes
Afghan Zero Units hold clues to many of the war’s mysteries, including how the CIA engineered deadly night raids that contributed to the Taliban’s victory.
theintercept.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This is my favorite piece on the Zero Units, the Afghan locals who actually fought the war under the direction of the CIA.