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Sam Menefee-Libey
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Antifascist. Anthropology, Critical Theory, American Studies, dogs, film, music, democratic pedagogy, degrowth and bioregionalism in greater Los Angeles. This world (system) we must leave. https://boxd.it/6oFrP
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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · Dec 9
Inside you are two communists
Doomer Communist Crude meme cartoon of bleary-eyed femme person in black hoodie with a hammer and sickle next to text fragments: Sees capitalism behind all of life’s problems Desire for revolution is secretly suicidal ideation Activist burnout Climate anxiety Hopes for socialism, anticipates barbarism Social isolation preventing real organizing work Bloomer Communist Crude meme cartoon of smiling femme person in teal and black hoodie with a hammer and sickle next to text fragments: Sees crises as potential for radicalization Builds mutual aid network Zeal for activism Genuinely cares for other people A better world is possible
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When police accuse protesters of being "professional agitators," remember—

Police are unscrupulous mercenaries who assault anyone they are ordered to in return for a paycheck.

Protesters who stand up to police are doing so for free, at tremendous risk to themselves, as a service to the public.
crimethinc.com CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 1d
St. Paul police brutally assault locals defending their neighbors from ICE, then absurdly accuse the locals of being "professional agitators."

"We are not your adversary. We are your police."

They support ICE with violence, just as they murder with impunity. They are, in fact, our adversaries.
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
sml47.bsky.social
We live in such weird times, but multi-species relationships are still fascinating
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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brainnotonyet.bsky.social
This is an admission that their goal is explicit ethnic cleansing of America and genocide, and it should be seen as a direct threat to millions of American lives and billions of lives worldwide.
publius24.bsky.social John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 16h
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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tbkf2000.bsky.social
i’m thankful for all of you journalists, researchers, archivists, and activists :D i genuinely don’t even know if i would’ve survived this long without all the work you guys have been doing XD
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
sml47.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times:

Moses Sumney
Sufjan Stevens
Jean Grae
Fucked Up
Blue Scholars
thetattooedprof.bsky.social Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 22h
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times

Metallica
Anthrax
Suicidal Tendencies
Judas Priest
Aerosmith
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times

R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
November 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
sml47.bsky.social
Ditto
Black pit mix asleep in the passenger seat of a car with her face smooshed between the seat and the arm of the driver Black pit mix with spots on her tongue rests amidst fall leaves with a chuck-it ball after lots of fetch A black pit mix invites play with a giant rubber wishbone A black pit mix runs at full speed across a field with a backdrop of trees on summer solstice
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social
At some point I crowdsourced this playlist for the day—half “family is rough,” half “colonialism is bad”

open.spotify.com/playlist/3IE...
Come On Up to the House
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November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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A 21st century Phoenix Program

www.propublica.org/article/afgh...
November 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
sml47.bsky.social
One of my comfort-watch movies
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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ceej.online
there comes a moment about five minutes after encountering a lost dog when you stop actively looking for a panicked owner and start to imagine a life with the dog. which makes the owner’s eventual appearance pretty bittersweet
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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theradr.bsky.social
fuck you

the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased

i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
If I die of aids forget burial just drop my body on the steps of the FDA
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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lolitsjesus.bsky.social
This is a deeply unsurprising response, but I will repeat it yet again: we—DC residents—are unified in stating that we want federal agents and the National Guard out of our city, and they do not keep us safer. This has always been about control, not public safety.
fintwitter.bsky.social FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d
US Defence Secretary Hegseth: Trump has asked for 500 additional troops to be deployed to Washington, DC, after two National Guard members were shot.
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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psfrench.bsky.social
After 30 years in prison and 25 years on Louisiana's death row, Chris Duncan walked out of Angola today a free man.

"I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
sml47.bsky.social
Policing in the United States is an irretrievably fascist project and we won’t get out of our current tangle with brutal autocracy until that is generally recognized and there are multiple efforts to adequately address it.
cingraham.bsky.social Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 2d
From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
MNSPJ condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists strongly condemns attacks on journalists by law enforcement on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, during a federal operation in St. Paul. At least three local photojournalists were injured by less-lethal munitions deployed by St. Paul police officers while covering the story. One was transported to the hospital in an ambulance. All three journalists were clearly identified as press with badges and/or vests, in addition to having cameras in hand, clearly at work. All three photojournalists and multiple other local journalists on scene were also injured by chemical irritants. Kerem Yücel, with MPR News, was hit by a less-lethal munition in the shoulder and was transported to a hospital by ambulance. He has since been released and is recovering. Tim Evans, a freelance photojournalist with Reuters, was struck in the stomach with a pepper ball round. Aaron Nesheim, a photojournalist with Sahan Journal, was struck in the head with a pepper ball round. Evans and Nesheim did not require hospitalization. The three journalists hit by munitions shared with MNSPJ that they believe they were targeted by law enforcement for doing their jobs. Photojournalists are on the frontlines of documenting history and it is imperative that they are kept safe and their First Amendment rights are protected. Attacking journalists sends a message to both journalists and everyday citizens that their First Amendment rights will not be respected. The First Amendment protects the rights of journalists to report on their communities and provide information that communities need — information that, on Tuesday, was not transparently available from any law enforcement agency. We demand answers from St. Paul city leadership about why the city’s police department attacked our colleagues and a commitment to seeing that this will never happen again.
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
sml47.bsky.social
As a teacher and researcher, generative LLMs have significantly decreased my productivity in daily tasks (made them worse/harder), and I think that’s true for most people in those very common fields.
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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grubstreetwomen.bsky.social
I am in awe of everyone who can create and produce right now when simply existing in *gestures around* is so hard. Enjoying those creations had made my day to day better 💖

(Meanwhile, I am hoping one day I'll get my spark back; it could happen!)
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
sml47.bsky.social
About 95% of household pet dogs would benefit from this and it’s super easy!

Here’s a good explanation, a simple version in a free app, and a link to the original veterinary protocol by Karen Overall.

www.scottsschoolfordogs.com/tips/relaxat...
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
sml47.bsky.social
What a lovely essay, full of hard-won wisdom. I wish those of us in academia spent a larger portion of our time thinking and talking about this kind of stuff, in this clear and earnest manner, both with each other and with our students.
It was easy to compare the university to the state's mountains: a site of extraction, a public good that had been plundered by the wealthy and left as a shell. All of this is true, but it's not the only truth. Because several times a week I walked into classrooms of students. Nothing there was missing: my classes were full in every way. Where everything else everywhere else felt exhausted, the classroom was overflowing, plentiful. It was a space for analytic thinking, longform attention, clear expression, cooperative conversation- democratic society and a richer life. All we needed was a poem, a few hours each week, and trust in what we could do, in what we did do, together. All arguments work, at a basic level, in the same way. There is the evidence we all agree on (even if just for the sake of argument), and there is a claim about that evidence; that claim must be able to sustain reasonable counterarguments— it's not obviously the case, or it wouldn't be a claim. And a claim has stakes: implications that follow from the claim, the difference the argument makes. The arguments my students wrote on Renaissance poetry might seem like they worked differently than the arguments made by students who faced down the Board of Governors. But the difference is only superficial. The evidence was different, the claims were different, the stakes were different, but the moves my students made as they argued were not. In both cases, the arguments that students made first required believing that they had the authority to make them. When offered a poem, and time, and attention, and good faith, my students offered their own arguments back as if they had been waiting their whole lives for the chance; they reciprocated my trust many times over. I don't recognize college as written about in the New York Times, where higher education outside of a handful of Ivies scarcely seems to exist, and the misery of ChatGPT-written essays is primarily a story of austerity: the looting of the treasure house of public higher education and the resulting impossible teaching and learning conditions for real humans.
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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ufw.bsky.social
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.

Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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This sucks for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that Brett Ratner (a serial sex pest) fucking sucks at directing Jackie Chan action scenes youtu.be/Z1PCtIaM_GQ
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Can you imagine a US President setting up this kind of focused, participatory, public transition rather than outsourcing everything to the usual party hacks and “think tanks” and expecting people to treat their inauguration like an employee-appreciation pizza party?
ruha9.bsky.social Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 3d
Sooo many folks I’m excited to work with on Mamdani’s technology transition committee. All hands on deck to bring the Affordability Agenda to life: childcare, housing, transportation.

While its easy to get swept up in personality, this is a group focused on peoples real needs. LETS KEEP THE FOCUS.
Committee on Technology Sarah Aoun Ruha Benjamin, Ida B Wells Just Data Lab at Princeton Myaisha Hayes, MediaJustice Noel Hidalgo, BetaNYC Sam Jacobs, Food Fight Lab Katherine Jin, Democratic Socialists of America Amba Kak, AI Now Institute Huge Ma, Turbovax Matt Mitchell ReNika Moore, ACLU Alondra Nelson, Institute for Advanced Study Martha Norrick, Backbone Strategies Julie Samuels, Tech NYC Garfield Swaby, New York Public Library Julie Swoope Democratic Socialists of America Haley Van Dyck Elyse Voegeli, 18F Maia Woluchem, Data & Society The Mamdani administration’s 17 transition committees: Housing Youth & Education Transportation, Climate & Infrastructure Arts & Culture Community Organizing Community Safety Economic Development & Workforce Development Emergency Response Government Operations Health Immigrant Justice Criminal Legal System Legal Affairs Small Businesses & MWBEs Social Services Technology Worker Justice Photo of a colorful keffiyeh with a name tag on it that says “Ruha Benjamin, Technology, A NEW ERA for New York City”
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
sml47.bsky.social
Abolish Marvel Studios and transfer control of their full budget over to Alex Cox, Charles Burnett, and Lizzie Borden to do with as they please.
benjaminkabak.com Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 3d
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
sml47.bsky.social
This dude is straight out of Generation Kill.
Captain Dave McGraw from HBO series Generation Kill, derisively referred to as “Captain America”
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM