@aalecbutler.bsky.social
Award winning playwright and filmmaker, 2S, Transmasc, Mi’Kmaq, performer, activist, novella writer, curator and Orphan Scholar currently writing Master’s thesis called Pink Paradise: Pinkwashing Neo-Colonialism, also working on new film, play and novella.
Kash Patel took over the FBI and all of a sudden shooters started engraving their bullets.
25.09.2025 22:59 — 👍 34 🔁 7 💬 6 📌 0Bike lanes, trails, and crosswalk redesigns were awarded millions under programs like RAISE and Safe Streets for All. These grants vanished in September—swept away by car-centric policy of the Trump administration.
25.09.2025 23:00 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Canada is so much better than America, but we’re gonna end door-to-door postal delivery to save money because you know we elected a neoliberal who’s gonna slash and burn everything LOL
25.09.2025 23:09 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Independent headline University of South Dakota professor can’t be fired for calling Charlie Kirk a ‘Nazi’, judge rules Phillip Michael Hook wrote online that he did not ‘give a flying f***’ about Kirk, and described him as a ‘hate spreading Nazi’ in a post on the afternoon the MAGA activist was killed
🧵Phillip Michael Hook, tenured art professor at the University of South Dakota, can keep his job until at least the temporary injunction hearing on Oct. 8, based upon a federal court ruling.
Hook made comments about Charlie Kirk, which aroused politicians to call for his firing.
A Friendly Reminder....
25.09.2025 23:58 — 👍 40 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 2Scandal-plagued state education chief quits after sucking at his job https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/9/25/2345402/-Scandal-plagued-state-education-chief-quits-after-sucking-at-his-job?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=
25.09.2025 20:20 — 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0Reagan started this culture war 🦇💩 in order to begin the greatest transfer of wealth in world history via the tax code.
It worked.
It always should have been a class war.
Ope
Meanwhile, Trump just told the UN General Assembly that their countries are “going to hell.”
23.09.2025 16:02 — 👍 207 🔁 80 💬 4 📌 650 years after punk’s birth, a sociologist looks back at the heyday of the anarchist-inflected punk scene in Philly in the 1990s and 2000s, and how the political ideology and activism – encouraging opposition to capitalism, government, power and more – is still influential today.
23.09.2025 15:09 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 4A photo of MIT students and community members attending a Palestinian solidarity protest at city hall in Cambridge, Mass., on Dec. 9, 2024, overlaid with the headline, "MIT Professor Cancels Israeli Military Grant After Student Pressure," and the DEK, "“This concession shows that student campaigns do have an influence,” one student said. "These ties cannot survive transparency.""
“Student action is not meaningless.” interc.pt/4nR9Gvf
23.09.2025 15:17 — 👍 107 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 1“If they are willing to do that to a congressional candidate on camera in front of press, imagine what they are willing to do to their detainees behind boarded-up windows.”
23.09.2025 15:25 — 👍 994 🔁 284 💬 19 📌 14Donald Trump attacked the United Nations in a speech to the body's general assembly, saying it is "not living up to its potential" and suggesting it operates in a corrupt manner.
23.09.2025 15:26 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 16 📌 0A video is going viral of French President Emmanuel Macron stepping out of his car to apparently call Donald Trump as the U.S. president's motorcade left the French leader's car stuck in Manhattan gridlock.
23.09.2025 15:30 — 👍 53 🔁 20 💬 6 📌 2The State of Palestine is recognised as a sovereign nation by 157 UN member states, representing 81 percent of members.
23.09.2025 15:30 — 👍 236 🔁 76 💬 5 📌 7The Secret Service said it found over 300 SIM servers, 100,000 SIM cards and other illicit materials in multiple sites surrounding New York City ahead of the U.N. General Assembly.
23.09.2025 15:31 — 👍 237 🔁 59 💬 19 📌 17Hundreds marched on the streets of Halifax protesting Israeli tennis team’s presence in the city
reported by @mmughees.bsky.social