if you saw the viral video of this gay marriage proposal, well, he was just beaten up right outside his apartment :(
09.02.2026 16:49 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0@thephatic.bsky.social
Okie anti fascist journo + editor; Hromadske, New Yorker, Baffler, et al π³οΈβππΉ Tulsa / Baltimore / mieszkam w Warszawie Signal: thephatic.39
if you saw the viral video of this gay marriage proposal, well, he was just beaten up right outside his apartment :(
09.02.2026 16:49 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0tim walz is a cop
09.02.2026 16:20 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0a photo of DeSantis, Trump, and Noem looking at new human cages
when I look at a picture of this I sometimes imagine the sounds you would hear, once a place like this is full of human beings
08.02.2026 18:45 β π 122 π 27 π¬ 9 π 8hey guys check it -
09.02.2026 16:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0what happens after Trump is out of office? do they rename the route? there's a reason democratic leaders don't name things after themselves ........,
09.02.2026 15:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0the best words for deals like this are "medievalism" or "feudalism" - the "TRIPP/Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity" is being negotiated sans any other intl agreements, bears Trump's name, and bypasses the State Dept - a business venture of a monarch not the actions of a modern state
09.02.2026 15:32 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Elmo @elmo Β· 1h That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! β€οΈπΆπ° Based Yankee @thebasedyankee You and Bad Bunny should be deported
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
09.02.2026 03:15 β π 38714 π 6833 π¬ 910 π 511the patron saint of Warsaw is a boobs out, sword wielding mermaid named Syrenka who will come out of the water to fight any time the city is in danger
08.02.2026 18:49 β π 241 π 16 π¬ 8 π 1fuck yes we are
09.02.2026 14:57 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"He said he has been locked in the same large, cold and damp room for 4Β½ months with more than 70 men. He said detainees are constantly hungry because meals served at tables in the centre of the room offer only child-sized portions." www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
09.02.2026 14:20 β π 173 π 86 π¬ 5 π 11such a familiar story :(
09.02.2026 14:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0so many people in the US forget that Okies were the last great wave of internal migration and they were treated like shit
09.02.2026 14:20 β π 2 π 3 π¬ 0 π 03 new books I am realllllllly excited about this spring:
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social's
Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship
@letsgomathias.bsky.social's
To Catch a Fascist
@thrasherxy.bsky.social's
THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto
(will thread links to buy these below!)
thank you for writing it!
09.02.2026 09:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0fellow Okie writer and friend @rilla-askew.bsky.social wrote a novel over 10 years ago that you should buy - imagining our way out of this is a big first step:
"With the passing of a new state law, it becomes a felony to harbor an undocumented immigrant in Oklahoma ... "
Swordless but upright in the wake of the Warsaw Uprising:
08.02.2026 20:35 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Our wedding invite was Syrena meets Yemaja, the Yoruba deity of the water.
08.02.2026 20:10 β π 54 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0fellow Okie writer and friend @rilla-askew.bsky.social wrote a novel over 10 years ago that you should buy - imagining our way out of this is a big first step:
"With the passing of a new state law, it becomes a felony to harbor an undocumented immigrant in Oklahoma ... "
the patron saint of Warsaw is a boobs out, sword wielding mermaid named Syrenka who will come out of the water to fight any time the city is in danger
08.02.2026 18:49 β π 241 π 16 π¬ 8 π 1a photo of DeSantis, Trump, and Noem looking at new human cages
when I look at a picture of this I sometimes imagine the sounds you would hear, once a place like this is full of human beings
08.02.2026 18:45 β π 122 π 27 π¬ 9 π 8I really do think the size of the US will make much of it easy to make ungovernable. Even with Palantir etc, these ppl are fools and the geography is against them.
08.02.2026 18:43 β π 12 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration
08.02.2026 17:56 β π 3959 π 741 π¬ 67 π 51"going around fixing kicked-in doors"
08.02.2026 14:49 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"The policy tools exist to minimize the harms and maximize the benefits of a system that provides food, much of it healthy, in abundance. But first we need to stop demonizing industrial food, and instead think about how to make it better."
Gabe & I for @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
it was almost exactly 1 year ago when DOGE laid me off from my position as one of the editors of the Federal Register; I have to say, I am very glad to not be there publishing this -
08.02.2026 14:29 β π 12 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0it explains the grammar in a way that's not normal for apps
08.02.2026 12:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's been over five years since my book Queer Roma was published. I've had a chance to think about some of the concepts emanating from the lived experiences of LGBTIQ Roma through the lens of #privacy and #sensitive #personalinformation. Here's a snapshot.
07.02.2026 21:16 β π 16 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0look, Mayor Frey, Governor Walz, the sheriffs, they are not on the peoples' side - they make noise, they talk tough for Time magazine, but ultimately they are choosing ICE over the people of Minnesota - and we need to reckon with that
07.02.2026 21:45 β π 18 π 8 π¬ 2 π 0live your life in such a way that your work would never get past the Florida censors
07.02.2026 21:34 β π 34 π 13 π¬ 0 π 0have you tried Google AI studio? I really like it for more nuanced translations or ones that need context.
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