becca
@beccakilljoy.bsky.social
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Despite what some adults seem to think, teenagers are fully human.
December 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Despite what some adults seem to think, teenagers are fully human.
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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
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Everything is awful!
*But it would be worse if I relapsed.*
This is my thought for the day, you can have it as yours for FREE if that's helpful to you.
*But it would be worse if I relapsed.*
This is my thought for the day, you can have it as yours for FREE if that's helpful to you.
December 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Everything is awful!
*But it would be worse if I relapsed.*
This is my thought for the day, you can have it as yours for FREE if that's helpful to you.
*But it would be worse if I relapsed.*
This is my thought for the day, you can have it as yours for FREE if that's helpful to you.
yes! for anyone who’s ever shopped at target, request they delete your data and/or online account here to cut ties✌️🎯 www.target.com/guest-privac...
December 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
yes! for anyone who’s ever shopped at target, request they delete your data and/or online account here to cut ties✌️🎯 www.target.com/guest-privac...
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As the Department of Education is further dismantled, the US political elite vote to condemn what they and the overwhelming majority of the US public cannot define: socialism.
4 senior House Dems — Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, Pete Aguilar, & Ted Lieu — voted for a Republican-led resolution to “CONDEMN SOCIALISM,” a symbolic measure that passed the chamber on Wed. The vote comes as NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to meet with Pres. Donald Trump at the WH today.
November 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
As the Department of Education is further dismantled, the US political elite vote to condemn what they and the overwhelming majority of the US public cannot define: socialism.
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“Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth...and they certainly know little or nothing of the complexities and contradictions comprised within words like ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism.’”– Stellan Skarsgård
November 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth...and they certainly know little or nothing of the complexities and contradictions comprised within words like ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism.’”– Stellan Skarsgård
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Dear god.
“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Dear god.
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year, the Trump administration has now granted protection to members of far-right European parties.
This plan, which recently became official, makes the country's refugee program into a tool for white nationalism.
This plan, which recently became official, makes the country's refugee program into a tool for white nationalism.
Trump could soon make America’s refugee program a tool for white nationalism
The White House is considering a plan to overhaul refugee admissions in favor of right-wing whites.
www.motherjones.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year, the Trump administration has now granted protection to members of far-right European parties.
This plan, which recently became official, makes the country's refugee program into a tool for white nationalism.
This plan, which recently became official, makes the country's refugee program into a tool for white nationalism.
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At the food pantry I volunteer at we were absolutely swamped today and by many first timers. We ran out of whole categories of food. Please donate cash to your local organization if you at all can.
October 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
At the food pantry I volunteer at we were absolutely swamped today and by many first timers. We ran out of whole categories of food. Please donate cash to your local organization if you at all can.
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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
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Today seems like a great day to re-up my slides from 2017 about the Nazi takeover of German physics, in part because in my estimation, a lot of American physicists in 2025 are confused about whether "agreeing to work with them" is resistance (it's not) and whether it works (it doesn't) 🧪⚛️
In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪
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drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...
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drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...
October 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Today seems like a great day to re-up my slides from 2017 about the Nazi takeover of German physics, in part because in my estimation, a lot of American physicists in 2025 are confused about whether "agreeing to work with them" is resistance (it's not) and whether it works (it doesn't) 🧪⚛️
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All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.
October 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.
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The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.
The crowd has no beginning and no end as it begins its march to the White House
September 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.
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Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.
Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods
This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.
organizingmythoughts.org
August 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.
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I hope one thing leftists all take away from Mamdani’s campaign though is that it doesn’t matter how chill and wholesome you are, the dinguses are going to smear and trash you in increasingly unhinged ways anyway, so you might as well shoot for the moon and campaign on what makes your heart sing
August 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I hope one thing leftists all take away from Mamdani’s campaign though is that it doesn’t matter how chill and wholesome you are, the dinguses are going to smear and trash you in increasingly unhinged ways anyway, so you might as well shoot for the moon and campaign on what makes your heart sing
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People do this thing regularly online: "this word is just made up" and it's always so funny to me because every fucking word is made it. That's language. It changes all of the time. That's why the dictionary adds words REGULARLY.
August 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
People do this thing regularly online: "this word is just made up" and it's always so funny to me because every fucking word is made it. That's language. It changes all of the time. That's why the dictionary adds words REGULARLY.
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There are so many factors contributing to our stress and anxiety right now but imo the breakdown of consensus reality is an under-discussed one.
August 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
There are so many factors contributing to our stress and anxiety right now but imo the breakdown of consensus reality is an under-discussed one.
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For the second night in a row, DC locals heckled officers participating in Trump's crackdown.
As the federal government consolidates a police state, our best hope is to direct so much loathing at these mercenaries that they cannot recruit enough scum to fill the streets.
bsky.app/profile/dcmi...
As the federal government consolidates a police state, our best hope is to direct so much loathing at these mercenaries that they cannot recruit enough scum to fill the streets.
bsky.app/profile/dcmi...
Police from many agencies were out in force Thursday night 14 August harassing DC during a crime emergency’ declared during one of the lowest crime levels in 30 years. Residents are calling bullshit and taking video while heckling them. #DC #FakeCrimeEmergency
August 15, 2025 at 5:48 AM
For the second night in a row, DC locals heckled officers participating in Trump's crackdown.
As the federal government consolidates a police state, our best hope is to direct so much loathing at these mercenaries that they cannot recruit enough scum to fill the streets.
bsky.app/profile/dcmi...
As the federal government consolidates a police state, our best hope is to direct so much loathing at these mercenaries that they cannot recruit enough scum to fill the streets.
bsky.app/profile/dcmi...
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Black August is a time to commemorate and honor Black political prisoners and all who have struggled for Black freedom and liberation, and to reflect on the ongoing fight against oppression. We've put together a list of suggested resources here: www.akpress.org/featured-pro...
August 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Black August is a time to commemorate and honor Black political prisoners and all who have struggled for Black freedom and liberation, and to reflect on the ongoing fight against oppression. We've put together a list of suggested resources here: www.akpress.org/featured-pro...