Evan
@evangobragh.bsky.social
he/him
Writer. Activist.
Posts about my poodles, video games, horror movies, & telling fascists "No."
Writer. Activist.
Posts about my poodles, video games, horror movies, & telling fascists "No."
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This is what you do when you’re running death camps
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 6:02 PM
This is what you do when you’re running death camps
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Being an abolitionist is watching every horror you said would happen come to be all the while being miserable about being right because you are living the consequences.
January 20, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Being an abolitionist is watching every horror you said would happen come to be all the while being miserable about being right because you are living the consequences.
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You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 6:17 PM
You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.
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this is just straight up murder by the regime
🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 20, 2026 at 6:10 AM
this is just straight up murder by the regime
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Everyone seems to understand what needs to happen and yet
January 19, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Everyone seems to understand what needs to happen and yet
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The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
January 19, 2026 at 8:47 AM
The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
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I keep thinking about them saying "haven't you learned [from Renee Good's murder]" and... they don't understand why people are still coming out after they've shown they can and will kill us, because they're cowards, and they don't understand what it's like not to be a coward
January 17, 2026 at 10:22 PM
I keep thinking about them saying "haven't you learned [from Renee Good's murder]" and... they don't understand why people are still coming out after they've shown they can and will kill us, because they're cowards, and they don't understand what it's like not to be a coward
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When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways
The top 10% now account for nearly half of all consumer spending.
January 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM
When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways
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If I was kidnapped by ICE I'd be so annoyed at everyone who stood and watched and waited til the midterms to set a good example for society at large.
January 17, 2026 at 9:05 PM
If I was kidnapped by ICE I'd be so annoyed at everyone who stood and watched and waited til the midterms to set a good example for society at large.
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this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.
January 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM
this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.
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“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision – then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
Audre Lorde
Link to art here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/dare...
Audre Lorde
Link to art here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/dare...
January 17, 2026 at 7:02 PM
“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision – then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
Audre Lorde
Link to art here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/dare...
Audre Lorde
Link to art here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/dare...
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i love checking in on the president’s personal social media posts on the weird website he owns just to make sure he hasn’t announced that we’re at war with all of NATO or the whole european union or colombia or some new thing he just thought of while taking a shit this morning.
January 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM
i love checking in on the president’s personal social media posts on the weird website he owns just to make sure he hasn’t announced that we’re at war with all of NATO or the whole european union or colombia or some new thing he just thought of while taking a shit this morning.
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I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
January 17, 2026 at 9:42 AM
I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
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ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home
Just keep coming back to the fact that keeping people in a constant state of terror is a form of mass disablement and essential to the eugenic project that is the United States.
January 17, 2026 at 6:08 AM
ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home
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I don't think there should be secret police who can shoot people in the street for no cause and with no consequence. This makes me a radical in the 2026 United States.
January 16, 2026 at 11:00 PM
I don't think there should be secret police who can shoot people in the street for no cause and with no consequence. This makes me a radical in the 2026 United States.
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I know our conversation at this week's "what can artists do?" event was 90% focused on actions *beyond* our actual art - fundraising, signal-boosting, etc. (here are the notes: guante.info/what-can-artists-do)...
But like, you still have to make the art. If only for yourself. Here's a poem I wrote.
But like, you still have to make the art. If only for yourself. Here's a poem I wrote.
January 16, 2026 at 1:29 AM
I know our conversation at this week's "what can artists do?" event was 90% focused on actions *beyond* our actual art - fundraising, signal-boosting, etc. (here are the notes: guante.info/what-can-artists-do)...
But like, you still have to make the art. If only for yourself. Here's a poem I wrote.
But like, you still have to make the art. If only for yourself. Here's a poem I wrote.
Made an appointment to get my first tattoo in 9 years. It will also be my first time w/ a new artist/shop after being w/ the same artist for 11 years before the long gap, but I'm excited to support the place I've found that seems to fit the vibe I'm looking for.
January 16, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Made an appointment to get my first tattoo in 9 years. It will also be my first time w/ a new artist/shop after being w/ the same artist for 11 years before the long gap, but I'm excited to support the place I've found that seems to fit the vibe I'm looking for.
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Look at this absolute queen
January 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Look at this absolute queen
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I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS
January 15, 2026 at 9:34 PM
I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS
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This was an intense hearing. Judge Young, an 85-year-old Reagan appointee who has served on the federal bench for 47 years, didn't mince words. He closed the hearing by reading from Lincoln's address at Gettysburg. Some of the people in the courtroom were in tears. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
January 16, 2026 at 12:37 PM
This was an intense hearing. Judge Young, an 85-year-old Reagan appointee who has served on the federal bench for 47 years, didn't mince words. He closed the hearing by reading from Lincoln's address at Gettysburg. Some of the people in the courtroom were in tears. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
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If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
Newport co-ed cheerleading team is at center of Trump transgender athlete crackdownTrump admin focuses on swimming, cheerleading in Maine transgender athlete probes
The U.S. Department of Education announced a slew of Title IX-related investigations this week that include 2 school districts in Maine.
www.pressherald.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:09 AM
If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
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"Republicans are taking away your healthcare so they can fund an unaccountable gang that is killing mothers and tear-gassing babies in Minnesota" is the most easy-win political layup I've ever seen in my entire fucking life
any "consultant" advising against it is braindead or doing active sabotage
any "consultant" advising against it is braindead or doing active sabotage
Yes, voting against ICE funding is the morally right thing to do. But you can be the most heartless political consultant bastard out there - cutting ICE is still the smart play. That Schumer/Jeffries are silent right now is political malpractice (and morally reprehensible, if you care about that).
New poll from Navigator also with an incredible result; the largest drop in support for ICE since June was actually among *Republicans*, 25% of which now say they have an unfavorable opinion of the agency.
January 15, 2026 at 11:43 PM
"Republicans are taking away your healthcare so they can fund an unaccountable gang that is killing mothers and tear-gassing babies in Minnesota" is the most easy-win political layup I've ever seen in my entire fucking life
any "consultant" advising against it is braindead or doing active sabotage
any "consultant" advising against it is braindead or doing active sabotage
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It really can't be overstated that the policy solutions to ICE have nothing to do with training, expecting other cops to oppose them, replacing them with other people who will do the same violence, or appeasing the border regime demands of Republicans.
January 15, 2026 at 10:33 PM
It really can't be overstated that the policy solutions to ICE have nothing to do with training, expecting other cops to oppose them, replacing them with other people who will do the same violence, or appeasing the border regime demands of Republicans.
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