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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Hit me with a subscribe, push back, tell me what you’d add. Will do my best to post regularly 🫡 ultrasonicspleen.substack.com

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This one is an attempt to parse out the logic underpinning sanctuary policies that increase police dependency—who woulda thought they’re just re-iterating the same policies they’ve used all along to dig us into a deeper hole.

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Unleashed from my notes app, I bring you … my Substack. I’ll be using this to write about abolition (with an emphasis on the carceral tissue of local policymaking), and probably music/books/pedagogy from time to time. First piece linked here. ultrasonicspleen.substack.com/p/police-in-...

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Police In, ICE Out?

Police appropriation, law-enforcement loops, and the contradiction of police dependency in "sanctuary" cities.

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Watching Mad Men for the first time and can’t get over the *days* these people have yet they always seem to be in bed by like 9:30.

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Teaching Chapter Ones in fiction workshop today and not sure it gets better than this.

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Yo! Thanks to @bruisermag for publishing this lil flash fiction about first loves, fast music, and belonging (among other things).

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 11/03/2026

🚨NEW: Last year, the number of people incarcerated in the U.S. increased again. The driving factor? President Trump’s deportation agenda. Our annual report, The Whole Pie, gives the big picture of mass incarceration. Here are some key takeaways 🧵

Pie chart showing that nearly 2 million people are incarcerated in the U.S.

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Thanks @danhoyt.bsky.social for inviting me to read! AWP was a blast and reminder I can post more On Here.

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

In our latest, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social & Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how to understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police www.patreon.com/posts/152641...

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Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (03/09/26) | The Death Panel

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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The bill is set for the 13th Annual Rock and Roll Reading at 6 p.m. March 4, Wednesday, @metrobaltimore.bsky.social. Fourteen writers from across the country will read work about or inspired by Rock and Roll (or any of its precursors or offshoots), each for just the length of a song. #AWP #AWP26

Flyer for the 13th Annual Rock and Roll Reading

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Like if you put KISS Alive and Voodoo in a blender, you basically get my music taste.

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

D’Angelo and Ace Frehley in the same week feels like a cruel fucking joke. 😢 😢 😢 RIP my legends

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

From a writerly standpoint, feels like PTA’s laziest movie, and I’m afraid it reinforces very unhelpful myths about the root of our current political situation and what can be done about.

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

*ducks* One Battle After Another flattens and even disappears its most complex characters, who are also the ones most capable of answering the movie’s central questions.

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I hate that we have to do this again but y’all realize they pick the ones who might be dangerous and give them the Super Bowl to neutralize them, right?

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

She’s popping off! It’s like a decade of little observations she now has the chops to express

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

My 11 year old kid asked if she could read me a story she was working on and folks I was not prepared for these sentences like wtfff 😳 😍

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 25/09/2025

Tenants across four states are joining forces to take on private equity landlord Capital Realty Group. From New Haven to Detroit, Louisville, and Kansas City, hundreds of renters are organizing through the Tenant Union Federation to demand collective bargaining.

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Have Private Equity Landlords Met Their Match?

A new campaign from the Tenant Union Federation is uniting hundreds of tenants in four states to take on the mega-corporation that owns their homes.

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Yes! Left Behind: The Kids is a regular topic in therapy

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

What’s wild about this rapture thing is if you actually READ the Left Behind series it’s obvious who the antichrist is

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

What age is appropriate to introduce your kids to Memphis underground rap from the 1990s? This is a part of parenting I’m really looking forward to but I’ve gotten conflicting feedback.

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Kansas Citians: Get your holiday book shopping done and support Liberation Lit at the same time 😎. Dec 14 at Turnsol Books

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hell yes! Lucky to have them.

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

In KC now tho we have Astringent Press, run by the kindest human being, that has basically become a community print hub for all the organizers artists and weirdos.

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I get a real rush from this. Figuring out office patterns so you know when you can be alone with the printer. Mapping out which copiers have color ink or auto staple.

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Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

“A constructive politics would … focus on building and rebuilding rooms, not regulating traffic within and between them.” - @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social I know everyone is reading and re-reading this rn but this little blip from the intro never leaves my mind — stop. regulating. traffic.

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