Lou Novak
@lounovak.bsky.social
I live north of Canada in Detroit
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Anger over the H-1B visa program has helped ignite racist rhetoric targeting the Indian community across the U.S., and in Frisco, Texas — where someone identifying himself as a college student told a recent City Council meeting, "We must maintain our Rhodesia." nyti.ms/4tMxgwX
How the H-1B Visa Debate Is Driving a Wave of Racism Against South Asians
A dispute over the impact of H-1B visas on U.S. workers has been overshadowed by racist rhetoric, with troubling echoes of the great replacement conspiracy theory.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Anger over the H-1B visa program has helped ignite racist rhetoric targeting the Indian community across the U.S., and in Frisco, Texas — where someone identifying himself as a college student told a recent City Council meeting, "We must maintain our Rhodesia." nyti.ms/4tMxgwX
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Feeling gloomy about our current president?
Here are 5 ways to fight back against his cruel agenda. https://youtu.be/8W-lVRQQGtI?si=jwUjHmAZZcU9h4Ti
Here are 5 ways to fight back against his cruel agenda. https://youtu.be/8W-lVRQQGtI?si=jwUjHmAZZcU9h4Ti
Five Ways to Fight Trump's Fascism
People are constantly asking me — what can I do?Between now and the 2026 midterm elections, here are five practical step
youtu.be
February 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Feeling gloomy about our current president?
Here are 5 ways to fight back against his cruel agenda. https://youtu.be/8W-lVRQQGtI?si=jwUjHmAZZcU9h4Ti
Here are 5 ways to fight back against his cruel agenda. https://youtu.be/8W-lVRQQGtI?si=jwUjHmAZZcU9h4Ti
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From @theathletic.com: Eileen Gu’s defense of her freeski big air title ended with silver as Canada’s Megan Oldham produced a sensational performance to win gold.
Italy's Flora Tabanelli won bronze, competing at her first Olympics, without her ACL. nyti.ms/4qJBPoJ
Italy's Flora Tabanelli won bronze, competing at her first Olympics, without her ACL. nyti.ms/4qJBPoJ
Winter Olympics 2026 live updates: Latest from Eileen Gu's big air final, plus curling, bobsled and more on Day 10
Follow live from Milan Cortina with six more gold medals handed out today
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 9:02 PM
From @theathletic.com: Eileen Gu’s defense of her freeski big air title ended with silver as Canada’s Megan Oldham produced a sensational performance to win gold.
Italy's Flora Tabanelli won bronze, competing at her first Olympics, without her ACL. nyti.ms/4qJBPoJ
Italy's Flora Tabanelli won bronze, competing at her first Olympics, without her ACL. nyti.ms/4qJBPoJ
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If you enjoy seeing the debunking of climate change deniers and Trump's fossil fuel lobby groups then you might enjoy this channel www.youtube.com/@TheDisproof
TEACHING CLIMATE
On this channel you will find:
Videos that debunk Human Induced Climate Change deniers.
Videos that debunk climate action delayers.
Videos that debunk misinformation from fossil fuel lobby groups.
F...
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:56 PM
If you enjoy seeing the debunking of climate change deniers and Trump's fossil fuel lobby groups then you might enjoy this channel www.youtube.com/@TheDisproof
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Join us for our statewide all hands meeting this Tuesday February 17th at 7pm eastern. Follow (or copy/paste) the following link to sign up:
secure.ngpvan.com/fVAGNpKvq0iG...
Let's improve democracy together!
secure.ngpvan.com/fVAGNpKvq0iG...
Let's improve democracy together!
February 16, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Join us for our statewide all hands meeting this Tuesday February 17th at 7pm eastern. Follow (or copy/paste) the following link to sign up:
secure.ngpvan.com/fVAGNpKvq0iG...
Let's improve democracy together!
secure.ngpvan.com/fVAGNpKvq0iG...
Let's improve democracy together!
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Help us bring more voice, and more choice to Michigan with Ranked Choice Voting.
Join us: rankmivote.org/volunteer
Join us: rankmivote.org/volunteer
February 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Help us bring more voice, and more choice to Michigan with Ranked Choice Voting.
Join us: rankmivote.org/volunteer
Join us: rankmivote.org/volunteer
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Today we honor Susan B. Anthony, who fought for a simple, radical idea: democracy only works when everyone’s voice counts.
She never saw women’s suffrage, but she showed us how change happens. Organize. Educate. Keep going.
In Michigan, we’re building that future with Ranked Choice Voting.
She never saw women’s suffrage, but she showed us how change happens. Organize. Educate. Keep going.
In Michigan, we’re building that future with Ranked Choice Voting.
February 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Today we honor Susan B. Anthony, who fought for a simple, radical idea: democracy only works when everyone’s voice counts.
She never saw women’s suffrage, but she showed us how change happens. Organize. Educate. Keep going.
In Michigan, we’re building that future with Ranked Choice Voting.
She never saw women’s suffrage, but she showed us how change happens. Organize. Educate. Keep going.
In Michigan, we’re building that future with Ranked Choice Voting.
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Hey everyone! We've been quiet lately, but as the temperatures begin to slowly climb back out of the depths of winter we're also emerging and kicking back up for the amazing year we have planned here in Michigan in 2026!
Check out our plans for 2026 on YouTube! youtube.com/shorts/Oy1Go...
Check out our plans for 2026 on YouTube! youtube.com/shorts/Oy1Go...
Looking Ahead in 2026 #rankedchoicevoting #democracy #michigan #voters #voterawareness #2026
We have a lot going on in Rank MI Vote this year and we're looking forward to everything we're going to accomplish! We'd love to have you join us and take part in improving our democracy as we charge…
youtube.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Hey everyone! We've been quiet lately, but as the temperatures begin to slowly climb back out of the depths of winter we're also emerging and kicking back up for the amazing year we have planned here in Michigan in 2026!
Check out our plans for 2026 on YouTube! youtube.com/shorts/Oy1Go...
Check out our plans for 2026 on YouTube! youtube.com/shorts/Oy1Go...
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A new message board for artificial intelligence agents has prompted some strange conversations, and existential questions about the inner lives of bots.
Moltbook is the newest social media platform — but it's just for AI bots
A new message board for artificial intelligence agents has prompted some strange conversations, and existential questions about the inner lives of bots.
n.pr
February 8, 2026 at 7:42 PM
A new message board for artificial intelligence agents has prompted some strange conversations, and existential questions about the inner lives of bots.
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Beautiful meditation on this moment from @emorwee.bsky.social. "How am I supposed to keep writing about, and caring about, climate change and pollution and government capture by Big Oil, when the government is executing people in broad daylight?"
heated.world/pp/i-dont-kn...
heated.world/pp/i-dont-kn...
I don't know how to do this
But I'm going to keep doing it anyway.
heated.world
January 26, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Beautiful meditation on this moment from @emorwee.bsky.social. "How am I supposed to keep writing about, and caring about, climate change and pollution and government capture by Big Oil, when the government is executing people in broad daylight?"
heated.world/pp/i-dont-kn...
heated.world/pp/i-dont-kn...
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The Winter Olympics – ironically sponsored by Petro Canada – are running out of winter www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/27/n...
The Winter Olympics are running out of winter
Warming winters are reducing the number of places that can host the Winter Olympics and Paralympics and could soon force the games to be held earlier in the winter, a new Canadian-led study finds.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:56 PM
The Winter Olympics – ironically sponsored by Petro Canada – are running out of winter www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/27/n...
it ain't so vague any more, is it?
January 27, 2026 at 2:37 AM
it ain't so vague any more, is it?
Childish Gambino - This Is America (Official Video)
YouTube video by ChildishGambinoVEVO
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January 25, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
OMG. "DHS said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Update from Devon Lum
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:47 PM
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
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Understand that if what these agents did was disarm someone with a license to carry because he was recording them, and then shoot him because one of the agents who stole his gun accidentally let it go off, that is *still* an execution for exercising your Second Amendment rights.
January 24, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Understand that if what these agents did was disarm someone with a license to carry because he was recording them, and then shoot him because one of the agents who stole his gun accidentally let it go off, that is *still* an execution for exercising your Second Amendment rights.
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The *best-case* scenario is that agents of the state executed a man for exercising his Second Amendment rights.
Yet you won't hear a fucking word from Second Amendment advocates—though this is exactly what they claimed to fear for the last half-century.
Fuck all these fascists.
Yet you won't hear a fucking word from Second Amendment advocates—though this is exactly what they claimed to fear for the last half-century.
Fuck all these fascists.
January 24, 2026 at 11:22 PM
The *best-case* scenario is that agents of the state executed a man for exercising his Second Amendment rights.
Yet you won't hear a fucking word from Second Amendment advocates—though this is exactly what they claimed to fear for the last half-century.
Fuck all these fascists.
Yet you won't hear a fucking word from Second Amendment advocates—though this is exactly what they claimed to fear for the last half-century.
Fuck all these fascists.
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It was an execution.
The gun taken by the agent appears to match the general appearance of the firearm shared online by DHS, and which they said was Pretti’s. This agent’s back is turned from the scene with the gun in his hand when the first shot occurs.
January 24, 2026 at 11:14 PM
It was an execution.
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'Musk described the explosion of one of his space rockets as a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.” He did the same with your government.'
Thorough review of the carnage
Thorough review of the carnage
New, from me: A year in, did DOGE deliver on its promises?
Not the promises it made to us (cut spending, modernize government, improve services). It worsened state capacity.
But it was part of a successful broligarchy exercise in state capture. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
Not the promises it made to us (cut spending, modernize government, improve services). It worsened state capacity.
But it was part of a successful broligarchy exercise in state capture. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
A Year On: The DOGE Disaster
A Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of your government
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM
'Musk described the explosion of one of his space rockets as a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.” He did the same with your government.'
Thorough review of the carnage
Thorough review of the carnage
"Stay politically engaged, but don’t wait for the Democratic Party to get a spine or hope that the Republican Party discovers integrity. We are moving beyond party politics."
How to Mobilize America Against Fascism
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
How to Mobilize America Against Fascism
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
How to Mobilize America Against Fascism
What you can do, beyond party politics
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:01 PM
"Stay politically engaged, but don’t wait for the Democratic Party to get a spine or hope that the Republican Party discovers integrity. We are moving beyond party politics."
How to Mobilize America Against Fascism
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
How to Mobilize America Against Fascism
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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The Big Die-Up teaches us to be in relationship with the land, rather than conquering it. The land can also connect us to each other. Film festivals this month discuss the history of the West and what it means for building a stronger America in today’s world. open.substack.com/pub/monicatr...
The Big Die-Up and the Big Screen
Two years before Montana was granted statehood, in the winter of 1886-1887, the northern plains were buried under a cold so deep it erased all sense of life.
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM
The Big Die-Up teaches us to be in relationship with the land, rather than conquering it. The land can also connect us to each other. Film festivals this month discuss the history of the West and what it means for building a stronger America in today’s world. open.substack.com/pub/monicatr...
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ICE just confronted us in our car saying it’s our first & final warning. There’s nothing illegal about driving your car safely on Stinson, Lowry, or any street in our community.
They are purposefully surging at school get out times terrorizing our families. Ice needs to stay away from our kids.
They are purposefully surging at school get out times terrorizing our families. Ice needs to stay away from our kids.
January 14, 2026 at 9:57 PM
ICE just confronted us in our car saying it’s our first & final warning. There’s nothing illegal about driving your car safely on Stinson, Lowry, or any street in our community.
They are purposefully surging at school get out times terrorizing our families. Ice needs to stay away from our kids.
They are purposefully surging at school get out times terrorizing our families. Ice needs to stay away from our kids.
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This is where it is going. This is what Stephen Miller is pushing to Trump. The only reason it has not happened yet is that the violence is obviously coming from state actors. There is no insurrection to control. But we are one incident away from Trump sending in the military.
President threatens to deploy the Insurrection Act against Minnesota.
January 15, 2026 at 1:12 PM
This is where it is going. This is what Stephen Miller is pushing to Trump. The only reason it has not happened yet is that the violence is obviously coming from state actors. There is no insurrection to control. But we are one incident away from Trump sending in the military.