Kyle Leach
@kyleleach.bsky.social
PA & NH Artist-Poet, Gardener, Museum Curator, Local Activist http://www.kyleleach.art
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The kids actually made animals that don't exist. The AI just put a bunch of stuff that already exists together into a polished slop blender. You can't get a better illustration of why AI can't create anything new while human creativity is bottomless.
February 10, 2026 at 6:48 AM
The kids actually made animals that don't exist. The AI just put a bunch of stuff that already exists together into a polished slop blender. You can't get a better illustration of why AI can't create anything new while human creativity is bottomless.
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The *only* response to this is all the other governors drop out.
Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) says he was uninvited from a bipartisan White House dinner for governors
"As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"
"As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"
February 9, 2026 at 5:24 PM
The *only* response to this is all the other governors drop out.
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The Freedom of the Press Foundation files a disciplinary complaint against the federal prosecutor who signed the search warrant of WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson, arguing he failed to cite a federal law barring the application.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:19 PM
The Freedom of the Press Foundation files a disciplinary complaint against the federal prosecutor who signed the search warrant of WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson, arguing he failed to cite a federal law barring the application.
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Sorry for the late start, but this is the fascist bill preview for the week! The House has two bills that fit the description of fascist. The first is HR 2189, a bill that would de-classify less-than-lethal weaponry (i.e. pepper balls, tea gas launchers, rubber bullets) as firearms.
www.congress.gov
February 9, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Sorry for the late start, but this is the fascist bill preview for the week! The House has two bills that fit the description of fascist. The first is HR 2189, a bill that would de-classify less-than-lethal weaponry (i.e. pepper balls, tea gas launchers, rubber bullets) as firearms.
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I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
February 9, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.
Follow along!
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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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ICE is using the Mobile Fortify app to identify protestors and pull them from TSA precheck or global entry as a form of unlawful retaliation.
viewfromthewing.com/court-filing...
viewfromthewing.com/court-filing...
Court Filings: ICE Uses “Mobile Fortify” To Identify Protesters — Global Entry and PreCheck Get Revoked - View from the Wing
ICE is using a smartphone app called “Mobile Fortify” to scan faces and capture contactless fingerprints, instantly pulling back names and biographical data — and court filings say the same encounters...
viewfromthewing.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:13 PM
ICE is using the Mobile Fortify app to identify protestors and pull them from TSA precheck or global entry as a form of unlawful retaliation.
viewfromthewing.com/court-filing...
viewfromthewing.com/court-filing...
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There is not a single social platform I am invested enough in to give them my government ID. I will literally up and move anywhere else, and if there's nowhere else, I will simply go offline. These companies really overestimate their value.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:10 PM
There is not a single social platform I am invested enough in to give them my government ID. I will literally up and move anywhere else, and if there's nowhere else, I will simply go offline. These companies really overestimate their value.
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Tracy Wormworth is best known as the bassist for The B52s and The Waitresses but I love this live collaboration in a very different kind of performance.
February 1, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Tracy Wormworth is best known as the bassist for The B52s and The Waitresses but I love this live collaboration in a very different kind of performance.
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It's not about "enforcing immigration laws." They don't actually care. Every immigrant could follow every rule, no matter how arcane, and they'd still want them gone.
They just hate everyone who isn't cis and white and straight and we all desperately need to stop pretending otherwise.
They just hate everyone who isn't cis and white and straight and we all desperately need to stop pretending otherwise.
February 9, 2026 at 2:17 PM
It's not about "enforcing immigration laws." They don't actually care. Every immigrant could follow every rule, no matter how arcane, and they'd still want them gone.
They just hate everyone who isn't cis and white and straight and we all desperately need to stop pretending otherwise.
They just hate everyone who isn't cis and white and straight and we all desperately need to stop pretending otherwise.
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Thousands of glowing drones rehearsed for the 2026 Spring Festival Gala over Hefei, China.
The Gala reportedly set a Guinness World Record for the number of drones controlled by a single computer.
The Gala reportedly set a Guinness World Record for the number of drones controlled by a single computer.
February 9, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Thousands of glowing drones rehearsed for the 2026 Spring Festival Gala over Hefei, China.
The Gala reportedly set a Guinness World Record for the number of drones controlled by a single computer.
The Gala reportedly set a Guinness World Record for the number of drones controlled by a single computer.
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Fuck this
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month - all accounts set to "teen-appropriate experience" by default www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
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February 9, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Fuck this
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this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth
February 7, 2026 at 2:20 PM
this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth
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I suppose I also take this personally bc attacks on craftivism land poorly with me as a Native person. Beading together, making regalia, sewing in groups — this is at the heart of how the women on my reservation gather to do healing work, political ed, and mutual aid. This has long been true.
February 9, 2026 at 3:08 PM
I suppose I also take this personally bc attacks on craftivism land poorly with me as a Native person. Beading together, making regalia, sewing in groups — this is at the heart of how the women on my reservation gather to do healing work, political ed, and mutual aid. This has long been true.
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Most political performances don't accomplish anything this concrete btw. I applaud the people who've pulled this off.
‘Rage knitting’ against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-ICE messages into crafts
Makers take a stand through ‘Melt the ICE’ red knit caps and sparkly nails – all while raising funds for those affected by immigration raids
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Most political performances don't accomplish anything this concrete btw. I applaud the people who've pulled this off.
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In case you missed the moment.
Art is powerful
Art is powerful
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
In case you missed the moment.
Art is powerful
Art is powerful
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The ‘You Don’t Have to Apologize for Being White Anymore’ guys have now made it against the law to use the word Black at college.
A Florida A&M University law student says the school told her to remove the word 'Black' from a Black History Month event flyer. The school says it is in full compliance with state law
‘Black’ banned from flyers for FAMU College of Law Black History Month event, student says
A student at FAMU College of Law says the school told her to remove the word 'black' from a Black History Month event flyer. The school says it is in full compliance with state law.
www.clickorlando.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:40 PM
The ‘You Don’t Have to Apologize for Being White Anymore’ guys have now made it against the law to use the word Black at college.
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I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.
The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered
February 8, 2026 at 4:06 PM
I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.
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Call it what it is, @nbcnews.com. Concentration camp.
Every time.
The OED defines a concentration camp as “a camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.”
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Every time.
The OED defines a concentration camp as “a camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.”
👀
The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Call it what it is, @nbcnews.com. Concentration camp.
Every time.
The OED defines a concentration camp as “a camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.”
👀
Every time.
The OED defines a concentration camp as “a camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.”
👀
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I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants. Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:40 AM
I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants. Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
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A Kansas man wrote an op-ed criticizing local police for cooperating with ICE. Instead of respecting his First Amendment rights, the police used automatic license plate readers to track him in hopes of finding wrongdoing.
We must keep getting this easily-abused surveillance out of our communities.
We must keep getting this easily-abused surveillance out of our communities.
Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed | ACLU
Targeting followed opinion piece critical of town’s police and anonymously posted anti-ICE fliers
www.aclu.org
February 7, 2026 at 7:15 PM
A Kansas man wrote an op-ed criticizing local police for cooperating with ICE. Instead of respecting his First Amendment rights, the police used automatic license plate readers to track him in hopes of finding wrongdoing.
We must keep getting this easily-abused surveillance out of our communities.
We must keep getting this easily-abused surveillance out of our communities.
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I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art
February 8, 2026 at 1:51 AM
I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art
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A perfect summary of our moment from armond(dot)needs(dot)rest on IG and Tiktok www.instagram.com/reel/DUU20Vg...
February 8, 2026 at 9:57 AM
A perfect summary of our moment from armond(dot)needs(dot)rest on IG and Tiktok www.instagram.com/reel/DUU20Vg...
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This is beyond reprehensible
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:33 AM
This is beyond reprehensible