Brad Narraway
@bnarraway.bsky.social
He/Him, Indigenous person living in the colonial state of Canada, eager to throw off the shackles of capital and the world power built around it, otherwise nondescript.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We've made some solid progress but still have a ways to go. If you want to keep independent, worker-run trans journalism alive here's a great way to do so.
Please share and support as you can. It truly helps.
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For generations people “cut off” parents by moving away and mailing them a card once a year. Travel and long distance phone calls were expensive; distance effectively cut people off w/o being so explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
There's no hard data, so it's impossible to know for sure, but I suspect the number of adult children cutting off their parents isn't significantly higher than it used to be, and what's actually new is that the children are now explaining it in therapy terms rather than simply ceasing contact.
December 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
For generations people “cut off” parents by moving away and mailing them a card once a year. Travel and long distance phone calls were expensive; distance effectively cut people off w/o being so explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
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SACRED INDIGENOUS LAND AND RIGHTS ARE UNDER ATTACK
In the sacred Ȟe Sápa, known in English as the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Lakota sacred site known as Pe’ Sla (“pay-SHLAH”) is currently under attack by mining activity.
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In the sacred Ȟe Sápa, known in English as the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Lakota sacred site known as Pe’ Sla (“pay-SHLAH”) is currently under attack by mining activity.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
SACRED INDIGENOUS LAND AND RIGHTS ARE UNDER ATTACK
In the sacred Ȟe Sápa, known in English as the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Lakota sacred site known as Pe’ Sla (“pay-SHLAH”) is currently under attack by mining activity.
✍🏽 Add your name today: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ad...
In the sacred Ȟe Sápa, known in English as the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Lakota sacred site known as Pe’ Sla (“pay-SHLAH”) is currently under attack by mining activity.
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On a long, slightly chilly walk today, I decided to cut through the local mall to warm up and maybe grab a coffee.
I forgot that the holiday shopping season is a thing.
Many people are shockingly ill and still in a public place. I’m sorry you feel pressured to do that instead of resting at home.
I forgot that the holiday shopping season is a thing.
Many people are shockingly ill and still in a public place. I’m sorry you feel pressured to do that instead of resting at home.
December 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
On a long, slightly chilly walk today, I decided to cut through the local mall to warm up and maybe grab a coffee.
I forgot that the holiday shopping season is a thing.
Many people are shockingly ill and still in a public place. I’m sorry you feel pressured to do that instead of resting at home.
I forgot that the holiday shopping season is a thing.
Many people are shockingly ill and still in a public place. I’m sorry you feel pressured to do that instead of resting at home.
While Molly is a prolific wordsmith and I most certainly am not, I appreciate that we (and many others of you out there, I’m sure!) are drawn towards milestone numbers to irrationally increase our productivity because the alternative is, just a little bit, innately unacceptable.
oh i'm so close to hitting 300,000 words for the calendar year, it looks like it's gonna come in just under and somehow finding out this meaningless information makes me feel like i gotta churn out something extra because what do you mean i'm gonna land in the 290s
December 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
While Molly is a prolific wordsmith and I most certainly am not, I appreciate that we (and many others of you out there, I’m sure!) are drawn towards milestone numbers to irrationally increase our productivity because the alternative is, just a little bit, innately unacceptable.
I’m (naively) hopeful that the existence of the first trillionaire, which is the equivalent of a $100k salary for 10 million years, will wake at least a modest chunk of people out of their slumber w.r.t. class warfare.
Remember that Elon Musk, the man who’s about to become the world’s first trillionaire, is an immigrant who avoids paying taxes.
He wants you to hate immigrants because it keeps you from recognizing that he’s the problem.
Don’t fall for it.
Abolish the billionaire (and trillionaire!) class.
He wants you to hate immigrants because it keeps you from recognizing that he’s the problem.
Don’t fall for it.
Abolish the billionaire (and trillionaire!) class.
December 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I’m (naively) hopeful that the existence of the first trillionaire, which is the equivalent of a $100k salary for 10 million years, will wake at least a modest chunk of people out of their slumber w.r.t. class warfare.
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Gonna be even more earnest than usual on main, but I wanted to share. Because I have a bunch of pain stuff I was in my thoughts about it, and I said to myself, “I have to show love to my body. My body is doing the best it can.” so if anybody needs this, it made me feel good to say that
December 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Gonna be even more earnest than usual on main, but I wanted to share. Because I have a bunch of pain stuff I was in my thoughts about it, and I said to myself, “I have to show love to my body. My body is doing the best it can.” so if anybody needs this, it made me feel good to say that
The ACA is over 15 years old, for those who may have lost track. Republicans have either directly governed, or else had powerful majorities in government for most of those years.
If they could design a palatable replacement for the ACA, they should at least have something to show for it.
If they could design a palatable replacement for the ACA, they should at least have something to show for it.
Roger Marshall on Republicans replacing the ACA: "It's gonna take us a while to figure out the right way to do it"
December 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The ACA is over 15 years old, for those who may have lost track. Republicans have either directly governed, or else had powerful majorities in government for most of those years.
If they could design a palatable replacement for the ACA, they should at least have something to show for it.
If they could design a palatable replacement for the ACA, they should at least have something to show for it.
Abolishing borders is the moderate position, in my opinion.
I feel better about the thing I believe because it can’t be directly compared to a Nazi-era policy. It’s a low bar, but I’ve managed to clear it every time I’ve been confronted with it! 🤷
I feel better about the thing I believe because it can’t be directly compared to a Nazi-era policy. It’s a low bar, but I’ve managed to clear it every time I’ve been confronted with it! 🤷
pretty wild seeing just how far right the average conservative has gotten now that they all say that a standard nazi germany era policy is “moderate” in their bubbles
December 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Abolishing borders is the moderate position, in my opinion.
I feel better about the thing I believe because it can’t be directly compared to a Nazi-era policy. It’s a low bar, but I’ve managed to clear it every time I’ve been confronted with it! 🤷
I feel better about the thing I believe because it can’t be directly compared to a Nazi-era policy. It’s a low bar, but I’ve managed to clear it every time I’ve been confronted with it! 🤷
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That is patently false: not only do immigrants score better than native-born Americans in tests, the mere presence of immigrants improve test scores for all students, when factoring in white flight
sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
That is patently false: not only do immigrants score better than native-born Americans in tests, the mere presence of immigrants improve test scores for all students, when factoring in white flight
sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
I knew the Q&A episode of @socialistdogmom.bsky.social’s podcast would be lighter than the usual episode, but I didn’t anticipate audibly laughing at so much of it!
The friendly voice in my ear being a) constantly frazzled b) scrappy and c) mostly just unafraid at this point is great news! 😅
The friendly voice in my ear being a) constantly frazzled b) scrappy and c) mostly just unafraid at this point is great news! 😅
December 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I knew the Q&A episode of @socialistdogmom.bsky.social’s podcast would be lighter than the usual episode, but I didn’t anticipate audibly laughing at so much of it!
The friendly voice in my ear being a) constantly frazzled b) scrappy and c) mostly just unafraid at this point is great news! 😅
The friendly voice in my ear being a) constantly frazzled b) scrappy and c) mostly just unafraid at this point is great news! 😅
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
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every year someone does a study that’s like “we gave 100 homeless ppl money and their lives improved” and every year the government kills that guy
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
every year someone does a study that’s like “we gave 100 homeless ppl money and their lives improved” and every year the government kills that guy
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Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people
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ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event
If you have a medical emergency in ICE custody, there’s a chance you will simply “disappear”
Or you could end up like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel who was deported to Costa Rica in a persistent vegetative state.
He died soon after.
If you have a medical emergency in ICE custody, there’s a chance you will simply “disappear”
Or you could end up like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel who was deported to Costa Rica in a persistent vegetative state.
He died soon after.
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 AM
ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event
If you have a medical emergency in ICE custody, there’s a chance you will simply “disappear”
Or you could end up like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel who was deported to Costa Rica in a persistent vegetative state.
He died soon after.
If you have a medical emergency in ICE custody, there’s a chance you will simply “disappear”
Or you could end up like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel who was deported to Costa Rica in a persistent vegetative state.
He died soon after.
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42 million people were cut off from SNAP, many of them children and the disabled.
There have been multiple court orders pay up, but the regime refuse.
Now they’re going to force everyone to reapply.
This will kill people.
Which I firmly believe is the point.
There have been multiple court orders pay up, but the regime refuse.
Now they’re going to force everyone to reapply.
This will kill people.
Which I firmly believe is the point.
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
42 million people were cut off from SNAP, many of them children and the disabled.
There have been multiple court orders pay up, but the regime refuse.
Now they’re going to force everyone to reapply.
This will kill people.
Which I firmly believe is the point.
There have been multiple court orders pay up, but the regime refuse.
Now they’re going to force everyone to reapply.
This will kill people.
Which I firmly believe is the point.
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Fear and denial are powerful emotions.
Most people have already had multiple infections and accepting the damage that’s been done is hard.
We’re also terrible at adaptation.
Too many folks think avoiding Covid means locking down forever.
They don’t realize the power of respirators & clean air!
Most people have already had multiple infections and accepting the damage that’s been done is hard.
We’re also terrible at adaptation.
Too many folks think avoiding Covid means locking down forever.
They don’t realize the power of respirators & clean air!
40 years later… And the thing is, we already have mountains of data NOW that show what COVID does to brains. Why can’t we acknowledge it? Why can’t we face it? Why can’t we say it?
My dad trained as a neurosurgeon in the late ‘50s and they were still studying the long term neurological effects of the Spanish flu.
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Fear and denial are powerful emotions.
Most people have already had multiple infections and accepting the damage that’s been done is hard.
We’re also terrible at adaptation.
Too many folks think avoiding Covid means locking down forever.
They don’t realize the power of respirators & clean air!
Most people have already had multiple infections and accepting the damage that’s been done is hard.
We’re also terrible at adaptation.
Too many folks think avoiding Covid means locking down forever.
They don’t realize the power of respirators & clean air!
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"We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 AM
"We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
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I tried to whistle over a stray cat in my neighborhood and a woman walked by, who I worried thought I whistled at her. So I said “im whistling at the cat” but when I looked back down at it I realized it was just an old fast food bag
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I tried to whistle over a stray cat in my neighborhood and a woman walked by, who I worried thought I whistled at her. So I said “im whistling at the cat” but when I looked back down at it I realized it was just an old fast food bag
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Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
My tiny little Canadian heart is broken for the Blue Jays, but also as a lifelong Toronto sports fan AND a fan of the Buffalo Bills in the NFL, the idea that a mere loss can hurt me is quaint. 😛Have a great night everyone, have fun LA! ❤️
November 2, 2025 at 4:50 AM
My tiny little Canadian heart is broken for the Blue Jays, but also as a lifelong Toronto sports fan AND a fan of the Buffalo Bills in the NFL, the idea that a mere loss can hurt me is quaint. 😛Have a great night everyone, have fun LA! ❤️