Rob Coyner
@tobuildafire.bsky.social
Growing up, I wanted nothing more than to help people. For a brief time at USAID, I was able to do that.
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This has aged well: “There’s no surprises….What happened last night was blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming.”
Can’t wait to hear this morning’s spin.
Can’t wait to hear this morning’s spin.
February 1, 2026 at 3:28 PM
This has aged well: “There’s no surprises….What happened last night was blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming.”
Can’t wait to hear this morning’s spin.
Can’t wait to hear this morning’s spin.
“You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin, the Dispossessed
-Ursula K. Le Guin, the Dispossessed
January 26, 2026 at 4:01 AM
“You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin, the Dispossessed
-Ursula K. Le Guin, the Dispossessed
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Kash Patel today: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want."
Really?
Really?
January 25, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Kash Patel today: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want."
Really?
Really?
Lack of training is not the issue.
How ICE is using far-right subculture to recruit
YouTube video by CBC News: The National
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January 25, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Lack of training is not the issue.
“The end of the world isn’t as quick as everyone imagines; there’s time to learn. Yet there are no instructions.”
-Victoria Amelina
-Victoria Amelina
January 25, 2026 at 4:31 AM
“The end of the world isn’t as quick as everyone imagines; there’s time to learn. Yet there are no instructions.”
-Victoria Amelina
-Victoria Amelina
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We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
January 24, 2026 at 9:35 PM
We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
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“I'll show you light now. It burns bright forever. No more blue tomorrows. You on high now, love.”
December 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
“I'll show you light now. It burns bright forever. No more blue tomorrows. You on high now, love.”
Even if they are somewhat repetitive, I have to own up to how I have given myself over to the fully realized world James Cameron has created in Avatar. Would that the architects of AI could learn from him how to use technology to imagine new worlds rather than reduce our own to a set of algorithms.
December 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Even if they are somewhat repetitive, I have to own up to how I have given myself over to the fully realized world James Cameron has created in Avatar. Would that the architects of AI could learn from him how to use technology to imagine new worlds rather than reduce our own to a set of algorithms.
Is the point of Axios to credulously regurgitate bank and tech executive groupthink without even the most basic level of skeptical analysis? It feels like little more than a PR firm for entrenched interests at this point. Or, worse, a pass through for their quotes and press releases.
December 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Is the point of Axios to credulously regurgitate bank and tech executive groupthink without even the most basic level of skeptical analysis? It feels like little more than a PR firm for entrenched interests at this point. Or, worse, a pass through for their quotes and press releases.
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Sounds legit...(ish)
🧪Meme
🧪Meme
March 22, 2024 at 6:21 AM
Sounds legit...(ish)
🧪Meme
🧪Meme
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‘Sweet Smell of Success’ is “a bleak and unsparing depiction of obeisance before power in a morally bankrupt culture,” @splicedpersonality.bsky.social writes: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
‘Sweet Smell of Success’ is “a bleak and unsparing depiction of obeisance before power in a morally bankrupt culture,” @splicedpersonality.bsky.social writes: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...
“I don’t think this government will stop…Violating due process this time means they will violate it again and again and again.”
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Inside ICE Detention: Stripped, Shackled, Starved
YouTube video by New York Times Opinion
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November 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
“I don’t think this government will stop…Violating due process this time means they will violate it again and again and again.”
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“One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” Omar El Akkad’s forceful rebuke to those who cynically preach patience and good intentions while doing nothing but look away and make excuses, has deservedly won the Nat’l Book Award. W/o a doubt it is the hard shove I needed in this moment.
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” Omar El Akkad’s forceful rebuke to those who cynically preach patience and good intentions while doing nothing but look away and make excuses, has deservedly won the Nat’l Book Award. W/o a doubt it is the hard shove I needed in this moment.
Was lucky enough to attend an advance screening of Hamnet and in a year of standout lead actress performances, Jessie Buckley is in a league of her own. She won and broke our hearts with the love, joy, and grief she brought to this film.
November 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Was lucky enough to attend an advance screening of Hamnet and in a year of standout lead actress performances, Jessie Buckley is in a league of her own. She won and broke our hearts with the love, joy, and grief she brought to this film.
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"The international community, in particular the US and other western governments, allowed all of this to happen. This is what genocide looks like in the 21st century: not only in scale or method, but in how it’s normalized. " www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US | Yuli Novak
The international community allowed all of this to happen. We must not look away or move on
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"The international community, in particular the US and other western governments, allowed all of this to happen. This is what genocide looks like in the 21st century: not only in scale or method, but in how it’s normalized. " www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Each of Lynne Ramsay’s films has been an expressionistic gift, bringing out the best of actors—in this case with Jennifer Lawrence’s shattering performance—to show the inner turmoil of characters that words alone so often fail to convey.
In her five distinctive films, Lynne Ramsay seeks out poetry, catharsis, and even humor in the darkest moments of human life.
Lynne Ramsay makes traumatic films you can reach out and touch
Die My Love filmmaker Lynne Ramsay has made a career of finding sensory poetry in the darkest moments of life.
www.avclub.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Each of Lynne Ramsay’s films has been an expressionistic gift, bringing out the best of actors—in this case with Jennifer Lawrence’s shattering performance—to show the inner turmoil of characters that words alone so often fail to convey.
Of course the Republicans would be worse. What the mainstream Democrat seems incapable of accepting is that for an even remotely functioning conscience, there exists a point beyond which relative harm can no longer offset absolute evil.
-Omar El Akkad
-Omar El Akkad
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Of course the Republicans would be worse. What the mainstream Democrat seems incapable of accepting is that for an even remotely functioning conscience, there exists a point beyond which relative harm can no longer offset absolute evil.
-Omar El Akkad
-Omar El Akkad
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Is Schumer still the minority leader? Is Durbin still the whip? Is Cortes-Masto still a vice chair? Good Democrats -- rank and file, those committed to restoring party --must tell Act Blue and every candidate with hands out for the coming midterms -- that there's no cash coming without new leaders.
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Is Schumer still the minority leader? Is Durbin still the whip? Is Cortes-Masto still a vice chair? Good Democrats -- rank and file, those committed to restoring party --must tell Act Blue and every candidate with hands out for the coming midterms -- that there's no cash coming without new leaders.
Truly grateful for access to AFI Silver Spring, where they have had several screenings of Seven Samurai this week. While my younger self recognized it as one of the great all-time action epics, the class consciousness of Kurosawa is much more visible to me as I age.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Truly grateful for access to AFI Silver Spring, where they have had several screenings of Seven Samurai this week. While my younger self recognized it as one of the great all-time action epics, the class consciousness of Kurosawa is much more visible to me as I age.
A significant difference between 2025 and 2017 is that the mask is finally all the way off of those who claimed solidarity for so long. There’s barely even lip service anymore that claims of protecting rights and livelihoods are anything more than broken promises in waiting.
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A significant difference between 2025 and 2017 is that the mask is finally all the way off of those who claimed solidarity for so long. There’s barely even lip service anymore that claims of protecting rights and livelihoods are anything more than broken promises in waiting.