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Brian Walter

@bdwlecteur.bsky.social
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Reedie '88. I don't take naps; they take me. www.filminquiry.com/author/brian-wa…

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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
16 months ago: Never forget how it started.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"The left does not need to pursue its own exoneration in this moment. There is no reason to indulge the fantasy that we governed the nation during these recent, disastrous years, or that our country's brief flirtation with racial justice was an unthinkable disaster with countless innocent victims."
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Woke What? Let's Be Fucking Serious
Our politics are not the politics that have detached this country from reality, or normalized increasingly inhuman policies.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I remember when many of us hypothesized this during the MOOC IP grab. It sounded insane. Now:
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Y’all the Feds monitor Bluesky. So many of the topics of conversation on here have been classified as domestic terrorism. Think before you post. It’s not worth it. Especially if it’s a random joke or offhanded remark.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I talked with @gilduran.com about the bizarre fixations and political fantasies of tech billionaires like Peter Thiel, and how those ideas are being translated into real-world governance. We also discussed Silicon Valley’s Christian cosplay and the corporate fiefdoms tech moguls hope to build.
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Silicon Valley’s Billionaire Cults Are Coming for Democracy
“We can have billionaires or we can have democracy. We cannot have both,” says Gil Durán.
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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"We need projects that help people experience themselves and each other differently—to build trust, meet needs, and become less afraid of one another." Highly and gratefully recommended!
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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Ivory Tower lifer here who will be retiring early in 2027. This article from @truthout.org nails the reasons. "Higher ed is on the verge of collapsing because it has lost its soul." truthout.org/articles/neo...
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Neoliberal Policy Hollowed Out Universities. Now They Are Collapsing.
Administrators treat their universities like businesses — that’s why they’re failing.
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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"The drones are capable of following a single vehicle across an entire city, capturing footage through apartment windows, and generally recording daily life from the sky without being noticed." From @truthout.org. truthout.org/articles/fir...
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First Came the Flock Cameras. Now Local Cops Want Autonomous Drones.
Hundreds of local police departments have received waivers to fly surveillance drones that navigate with AI.
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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
My latest contribution to @filminquiry.bsky.social: a review of the trailer for The Uprising, due out on Sep. 11 from @focusfeatures.bsky.social. www.filminquiry.com/the-uprising...
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The Uprising Trailer: Tyranny vs. Human Rights - Film Inquiry
The Uprising trailer's goal is to inspire viewers to come and see a movie that will stoke righteous wrath at tyrants.
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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Angela Davis *and* John Ehrlichman in People the year Dicky Nixon resigned over Watergate? Imagine that . . . 😅
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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
An Animal Found in Spain, January 27th 1775 (1881) by D. A. Rovinskii, from D. A. Rovinskii’s Collection of Russian Lubki. Source: @nypl.bsky.social Available to buy as a print. pdimagearchive.org/images/590e1add-… #russia #monsters #lubki #art #publicdomain
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
MICHIGAN — “Stevens, who voted against the amendment to cut aid to 🇮🇱, is receiving support from some of the Republican Party’s biggest donors.” Republican billionaires & AIPAC-backed “United Democracy Project” back Stevens over @abdulelsayed.bsky.social 🤔 responsiblestatecraft.org/aipac-stevens/
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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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NPR @npr.org · 18/07/2026
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn
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ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
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disgruntled lesbian of Minneapolis @phoenix-rights.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours
climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe
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Philip K. Allan - Author @philipkallan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The wreck of the cruise ship MS World Discoverer, slowly being taken over by nature. She struck an uncharted reef in the Solomon Islands in 2000 and has remained there ever since. #Cruiseships #Shipwrecks #Pacific
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 17/07/2026
Be safe out there people. Happy Friday.
Oregon Trail graphic but it says 
"You have died of diarrhea and wildfire smoke."
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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A pretext for 47-ist purges. 🫥
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
So this parasite situation …what CAN we eat???? I just threw out a salad because I’m scared.
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Michigan says diarrhea outbreak may be linked to lettuce, salad greens as cases rise above 3,000 | CNN
An outbreak of diarrhea caused by the parasite cyclospora has risen to more than 3,000 cases in Michigan and Ohio, and the ongoing investigation suggests lettuce or salad greens may be the source.
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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
From @andreapitzer.bsky.social. "These camps also represent a threat to democracy at home, much as current ICE facilities do. Yet the overseas network would be much more conducive to letting human beings rot in detention settings with little or no oversight." Urgently recommended!
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Little Gitmos everywhere
The White House explores entrenching U.S. concentration camps worldwide.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is my oldest art instruction book, a deliciously bitchy work from 1918. I have a Mid-Century reprint but I liked the jacket
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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxyc...
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American Dreams
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
‘Death sentence’: Trump’s EPA to open habitats of endangered species to logging and mining www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Deplorable.
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‘Death sentence’: Trump’s EPA to open habitats of endangered species to logging and mining
Habitat destruction strongest driver of species loss, with legislation keeping 99% of listed species from going extinct
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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Let’s go ahead and call it witness tampering here too
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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
More excellent work from @truthout.org. Highly and gratefully recommended!
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A Group of Organizers Is Building an Anti-ICE Movement Rooted in Jewish Values
Never Again Action is connecting Trump’s assault on immigrant communities to experiences from American Jewish history.
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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/t...
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How to Prevent Meta From Using Your Instagram Images in A.I.
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Darren and Poley @darrenandpoley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Just talked to my old friend Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes.
Haley joel osmont speaking to bruce willis in the sixth sense
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE is not about immigration. ICE is not about the southern border. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets. It cannot be reformed. It cannot be retrained. ICE must be abolished.
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ᙎOᗫᙓᙎOᖇᙏ🔻 @wodeworm.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Hungry Ghosts
Neck needle-thin, belly distended with bloat, arms withered and rancid. These figures are the karmic reincarnations of those whose desires subsumed their life's aspects; such a profound mountain of misdeeds warps you into this karmic anguish. Many see them as populating different realms or even haunting ours, totally unnoticed by the universe around them, desperately seeking out any form of relief ; it is not an unending torment, but until these beings can break from their cycle, they continue to fester in the parts of their mind filled with desires that will never satiate them.
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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
There’s a scene in the dystopian sci-fi movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character is riding in an autonomous vehicle that gets remotely commandeered by the police to bring him into custody. The audience is supposed to see this as flagrant disregard for privacy and due process.
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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Hark ye yet again--the little lower layer." 🥺
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 08/07/2026
This morning. Yes, my city is STILL occupied by roving military fireteams, for no reason whatsoever. The fact that the president has personally ordered this occupation to continue indefinitely/permanently, and self-styled Conservatives say nothing, makes it more of a poisonous outrage—not less.
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I think America will find that electing a serial liar who reinvents reality to suit his needs several times a day is a bad choice to make "deals" with...too late in the day.
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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Perspective. "Every minute spent fighting other women is a minute not spent challenging the structures that benefit from that fight. The competition is rigged, no one wins it except the patriarchy that set it up in the first place." Highly recommended!
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
BREAKING: Donald Trump executed 3,642 securities transactions during the first quarter, averaging nearly 58 trades for every U.S. trading day. This translates to roughly nine trades every hour or about one trade every seven minutes during market hours, per YF
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ᙎOᗫᙓᙎOᖇᙏ🔻 @wodeworm.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
End of Kaijune double feature monster mash ! Mechagodzilla vs Hedorah grand collaboration with @rapidpunches.itch.io #kaijune
mechanical menacing fake godzillic beast towers above the destroyed  ruins of man, standing apposed but ever t destructive the massive heaving combination of the worst pollutants and sludge the world could offer vile smog monstrosity, Godzilla's distant anguished bellows as it bares witness to the end of the earth.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
So this is the sort of thing that having a robust counterdisinformation team can swiftly prevent from getting into policy - but we needed the backing of institutions and we had all just been defunded when this happened. This is what we had been putting a stop to previously
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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Highly and gratefully recommended!
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Brian Walter @bdwlecteur.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Excellent essay by @professormeredith.bsky.social, particularly on some misleading elements of "choice feminism," a term I'd never heard before. Highly and gratefully recommended! substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Feminism Didn’t Steal Your Glass Slipper
A historian takes on choice feminism, anti-feminist nostalgia, and the claim that women’s freedom ruined women’s lives.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 25/06/2026
TikTok's latest illegal 'life hack' seems to be 'dispute credit card transactions for free stuff' and legality aside I am here to beg you: Do not do this to small businesses. It really fucks them over in ways you may not be aware of beyond stealing from them (which is, to be clear, what this is).🧵
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Jorge Rodríguez @jorgertg98.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Wondy
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This isn’t just oddly inappropriate. It suggests that the ongoing Middle East negotiations are intertwined with private profit-making opportunities for the Trump family.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Meanwhile in real life: “Great Britain has paid at least six times the normal price for imported power as millions turn on air conditioning”
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Europe’s heatwave drives electricity prices to new highs as demand soars
Great Britain has paid at least six times the normal price for imported power as millions turn on air conditioning and windfarm output sags
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Brian Baughan @brianbaughan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I had the honor of copyediting Stacey Patton's "Strung Up" from @beaconpress.bsky.social, to be published in October. This is a great promo for it. Looking forward to the conversation about this excellent book and the devastating history it uncovers.
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Dr Stacey Patton (@drstaceypatton1865)
Check out the promo video for my forthcoming book, Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children. https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/my-editor-calls-publishing-my-new?r=ps5eh&ut...
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This week's comic now up on @dailykos.com - www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Tom the Dancing Bug: Elon Musk and DOGE pals in ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’
A cartoon by Ruben Bolling.
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