Toby
@tobymcf.bsky.social
Clap if you think I should suffer | Chicago | he/they
Communist, writer, tricoteur
Communist, writer, tricoteur
Crush said yes to hanging out 😌
January 26, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Crush said yes to hanging out 😌
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“Hey you guys didn’t vote for a genocider so actually the fascism happening now and our institutions inability to protect from it are actually your fault”
Do you hear yourselves
Do you hear yourselves
January 25, 2026 at 7:10 PM
“Hey you guys didn’t vote for a genocider so actually the fascism happening now and our institutions inability to protect from it are actually your fault”
Do you hear yourselves
Do you hear yourselves
“Trump wants someone to shoot an ICE agent so he can get even crazier” is not the perspective of serious people who are connected to the reality of what’s happening here. These are the doomers you need to be cautious of.
January 26, 2026 at 2:15 PM
“Trump wants someone to shoot an ICE agent so he can get even crazier” is not the perspective of serious people who are connected to the reality of what’s happening here. These are the doomers you need to be cautious of.
If I don’t get a full 8 hours of sleep, uninterrupted by various emergencies, disasters, and calamities, I’ll pass away
January 26, 2026 at 1:44 AM
If I don’t get a full 8 hours of sleep, uninterrupted by various emergencies, disasters, and calamities, I’ll pass away
last night / this morning
January 25, 2026 at 3:45 PM
last night / this morning
Today’s been a day that I’m gonna be unpacking for years
January 25, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Today’s been a day that I’m gonna be unpacking for years
Yesterday, while I was reading Bloodchild for book club, I happened to get a telemarketing call, and I answered it, and I just kept reading Bloodchild aloud to them until they hung up
January 25, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Yesterday, while I was reading Bloodchild for book club, I happened to get a telemarketing call, and I answered it, and I just kept reading Bloodchild aloud to them until they hung up
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I'm sorry for the person who was beat to death and killed. My sincere condolences to their loved ones. ICE is going to continue to kill people because the purpose of a system is what it does. It is not what it says it does or what you hope it does. Maybe USians will finally confront this truth.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I'm sorry for the person who was beat to death and killed. My sincere condolences to their loved ones. ICE is going to continue to kill people because the purpose of a system is what it does. It is not what it says it does or what you hope it does. Maybe USians will finally confront this truth.
Pigs are pigs are pigs
January 24, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Pigs are pigs are pigs
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Black Panthers Chairman Paul Birdsong urges people to "legally arm yourselves and unify or you will die"
January 20, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Black Panthers Chairman Paul Birdsong urges people to "legally arm yourselves and unify or you will die"
How do I make my apartment not smell like smoke in a way that doesn’t involve opening the windows
January 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
How do I make my apartment not smell like smoke in a way that doesn’t involve opening the windows
This has been the most insane 7 hours. I need a cigarette
January 24, 2026 at 2:50 PM
This has been the most insane 7 hours. I need a cigarette
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Also, Cuellar being perennially on the "pro-Trump House D" list is yet another opportunity for me to bang my "he had a serious challenger and Pelosi personally campaigned on his behalf to win a razor-thin primary margin" drum for the thousandth time.
Every time Cuellar is in the news, I have to point that he represents a +13D seat, and Nancy Pelosi personally campaigned for him in a primary against a progressive challenger in '22. He won that primary by 289 votes.
This is the logical endpoint of Pelosi's "protect Centrist incumbents" strategy.
This is the logical endpoint of Pelosi's "protect Centrist incumbents" strategy.
Trump pardoned Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas (an repeated progressive target in Dem primaries, he narrowly survived multiple times) from bribery and conspiracy charges.
Cuellar just thanked him profusely on social; obvious questions as to whether Cuellar switches parties.
Cuellar just thanked him profusely on social; obvious questions as to whether Cuellar switches parties.
January 22, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Also, Cuellar being perennially on the "pro-Trump House D" list is yet another opportunity for me to bang my "he had a serious challenger and Pelosi personally campaigned on his behalf to win a razor-thin primary margin" drum for the thousandth time.
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I think it is very normal for people to be skeptical of US veterans who are getting involved in electoral politics while presenting themselves as a leftist, socialist, anti imperialist etc
January 22, 2026 at 6:22 PM
I think it is very normal for people to be skeptical of US veterans who are getting involved in electoral politics while presenting themselves as a leftist, socialist, anti imperialist etc
Anyone wanna form a deep and unconditional love that transcends words and time?
January 22, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Anyone wanna form a deep and unconditional love that transcends words and time?
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democrats are scared people will think theyre against this
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 22, 2026 at 12:17 PM
democrats are scared people will think theyre against this
I am mere weeks away from living without a car again 😌
January 19, 2026 at 5:28 PM
I am mere weeks away from living without a car again 😌
This site needed private accounts, like, yesterday
January 18, 2026 at 4:30 PM
This site needed private accounts, like, yesterday
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Three years today. The cops are already killing protesters—it's not a line we haven't crossed, it's a thing already happening—but lots of people never heard about or paid attention to this one. So it goes
If you don't remember Tortuguita's story, one place that I think told some of it well was the Bitter Southerner: bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023...
Little Turtle’s War — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
The shooting death of a protestor at the hands of police feels like both an inevitable outcome of this long battle over Atlanta’s South River Forest and a completely preventable tragedy.
bittersoutherner.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Three years today. The cops are already killing protesters—it's not a line we haven't crossed, it's a thing already happening—but lots of people never heard about or paid attention to this one. So it goes
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A big part of the "ICE and Border Patrol guys could never make it in the military or a real police force" rhetoric is just cope that allows folks to keep pretending that cops and military don't have large numbers of violent, sociopathic toolbags themselves. They do.
January 18, 2026 at 1:13 AM
A big part of the "ICE and Border Patrol guys could never make it in the military or a real police force" rhetoric is just cope that allows folks to keep pretending that cops and military don't have large numbers of violent, sociopathic toolbags themselves. They do.
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Riffing on this a bit, the biggest most fundamental failing of the Democrat establishment is that they agree with Republicans on the narrative framing of issues. They agree that illegal immigration is destroying the country, that trans women are men, etc. They just think we should be nicer.
Somebody the other day arguing that [paraphrased] "it's important to agree with the right wing that certain of their concerns are valid, because we're losing the rhetorical battle" —no, if we're losing, it's because so-called friends keep validating fascist concerns. "We" who, motherfucker?
January 18, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Riffing on this a bit, the biggest most fundamental failing of the Democrat establishment is that they agree with Republicans on the narrative framing of issues. They agree that illegal immigration is destroying the country, that trans women are men, etc. They just think we should be nicer.
I love spending my Saturday mornings writing, but when I emerge from that sort of cloistered creative state, I feel disheveled and neurotic like Mr. Robitussin from Princess Dairies
January 17, 2026 at 4:26 PM
I love spending my Saturday mornings writing, but when I emerge from that sort of cloistered creative state, I feel disheveled and neurotic like Mr. Robitussin from Princess Dairies
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I think the democrats who repeatedly funded the organization of her killer (he’d been in ICE for a while) and have advocated for harsher border policy, a militarized police and a lethal military abroad have more responsibility than people whose red line was genocide but your thing is neat too
January 16, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I think the democrats who repeatedly funded the organization of her killer (he’d been in ICE for a while) and have advocated for harsher border policy, a militarized police and a lethal military abroad have more responsibility than people whose red line was genocide but your thing is neat too
Whatever you do, don’t take the bait and throw a stapler at an ICE agent
January 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Whatever you do, don’t take the bait and throw a stapler at an ICE agent
Emerald Fennel is genuinely one of the stupidest people making art currently
January 15, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Emerald Fennel is genuinely one of the stupidest people making art currently