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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

80-year-old program shuttering, while everyone discusses whether "woke 1.0" was craaazy thepurplewire.beehiiv.com/p/scoop-nort...

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SCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I love that this is happening but Katseye followed by Bikini Kill is hilarious

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Congratulations and solidarity to the young people of India. Many questions about what comes next, and many people that need to be protected from retribution, but this is the first hint of democratic accountability in years, and they made it happen.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

'Modi might cut his losses and ask Pradhan to step down. The question is: will that douse the fire? Perhaps the youth protestors, feeling victorious, will go home. But Modi’s profound disconnect with the youth, once exposed, cannot be covered up.'

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What if Dharmendra Pradhan resigns?

Would that spell an end to Modi’s troubles?

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

One of the really interesting tactical developments from these protests is the growing use of effective de-arrest tactics. I've seen a number of these videos now, and they are worth studying/internalizing. www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...

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Pedestrian opens latch, detained students escape from police van in Mumbai

A viral video shows a man freeing detained student protesters from a police van during a demonstration in Mumbai.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

There's a moment in The Invite where Olivia Wilde delivers the line "namaste" that absolutely killed in our Mumbai theatre. Whole crowd hooting and hollering. 📽️

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

just had a sudden insight that I think will end, once and for all, the debate over whether Delhi or Mumbai is more like NYC... Mumbai (as others have said) represents a combination of NYC and LA. Delhi, for better or worse, combines aspects of Boston and Washington, DC

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Read the article, there is no "fix," no new idea, just Google committing in a blog post to being transparent and looking for alternative water sources. No enforcement mechanisms, no consequences.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

sadly I am among the Obsession dislikers, the film simply isn't coherent enough to land the incel critique that is its raison d'être 📽️ boxd.it/eD4xA3

Lore aside, all of this means that for most of the movie we're left watching a man interact with an entity with no motivation, no backstory, and no characterization beyond "what bit would be scary or funny right now?" Inde Navarrette almost holds those bits together witha sharp physical performance, but this is just not a dramatically interesting scenario. Much of the film is a two-hander with one hand tied behind its back. There's nothing to learn about either "character," there's no potential for growth, just a haunted house amusement park ride with dating-themed jump scares. The most objectionable thing about Obsession is also what makes it sufficiently palatable to mass audiences to be a box office hit: we barely meet the real Nikki, and audiences aren't forced to grapple in any way with the subjectivity of the woman being tortured for our entertainment.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Even if Trump had been an exemplary president thus far, this statement alone would demand massive protests & condemnation, his immediate removal by Congress, & his arrest on war crime charges. That none of these show any sign of happening really makes clear that the US has become a moral wasteland.

Trump: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regimne Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?
We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, willfinally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The US, never close to a paragon, is in an accelerating moral decline. We're murdering & funding the murder of civilians, many children, in multiple countries. Now people discuss nuclear strikes with more dark exhilaration than outrage. Morbid & possibly terminal symptoms.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Just to say it clearly: no war with Iran! Hands off Iran!

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Usually when people say "history will judge you" I fear they are coping rather than making an accurate assessment, but I genuinely think Wim Wenders has deservedly done long term-damage to his reputation with this cowardly, hypocritical statement about politics and film. 📽️

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 27/01/2026

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

No one has full answers but two immediate paths forward in my mind: 1. Do everything possible across the country to build on the solidarity and momentum from the Minneapolis general strike. 2. Maximum pressure on Senate Dems not to vote to fund ICE.

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

7 House Democrats voted to fund an agency that murders people in the streets and then disappears witnesses.

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Aditya M @almostinfamous.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The killing of Akhlaq by a gang of far right men on the mere suspicion of having beef was enough to be front page news in 2015. Now these attacks are just another entry in the crime section, with hardly a reaction let alone outrage.

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T @tpqrs.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Witnesses are being taken to Whipple. From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Tim Walz just isn't up to the moment. He's the governor of the state. He could be using the state police to arrest the murderers, deploying the national guard to push out ICE. Anything other than just begging on X.

Governor Tim Walz
@GovTimWalz
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Bubbles is tiny and a bit scared of the crows that hang out near our window, but she does enjoy getting up close and personal with a game of Wingspan.

A calico cat nestled in the box cover for the board game wingspan, with a bird feeder-shaped dice roller in the foreground.

A table covered with pieces for the game Wingspan (player mats, bird cards, eggs, etc), with a cat in a box in the background.

A calico cat asleep in the box cover for the game Wingspan.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I knew about some of the problems and chicanery with specific "nature vs nurture" separated twin IQ studies, but this is a good layperson's summary laying out that the entire approach is a useless dead end. davidbessis.substack.com/p/twins-rear...

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Twins reared apart do not exist

The shaky science of genetic determinism

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 15/01/2026

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Tangential to Ford's latest screw-ups, but I was recently trying to explain to an Indian friend how brand loyalty to Ford vs Chevy (or I guess Dodge) was a major divide in my region of rural America & a load-bearing part of identity/self-conception for a lot of men, & the friend was quite bemused.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I totally get that there is no such thing as an "authentic," unmanipulated photograph. But I think we can just admit it's deceptive to say stuff like this is "on 35mm" when it has clearly been heavily digitally processed.

Twitter post with four landscape shots of Italy, heavily color-graded to bring out lots of warm sienna and rust colors in the buildings, and over-saturated blues in the sky, captioned: "Landscapes from Italy on 35mm 🎞️"

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

While accepting a screenplay award for SINNERS, Ryan Coogler spoke about FRUITVALE STATION, Oscar Grant, and Renee Good 📽️ www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

“I was young and naive, and I thought the movie was going to change the world and make it so you didn’t see people executed by civil service on camera anymore,” Coogler said. “I was proven wrong again and again.

“And it’s tough to be here and not think about Minnesota. I can’t be here and not think about Renee.”

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Three drunk college kids just walked past my place at midnight, loudly singing the Hindi version of "We Shall Overcome" while one of them accompanied (quite deftly) on a harmonium. Good shit.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

So why doesn't Frey instruct the Minneapolis police to arrest the ICE officers involved then?

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David @crookedknight.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This is going to be WILD. No idea how you adapt this to film but if anyone can... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bur...

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Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play - Wikipedia

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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Having marveled at the witty dystopian wildly imaginative worlds of Sorry to Bother You and Mr Burns (in a San Francisco A.C.T. production) I have to say, Boots Riley is the perfect person to adapt Anne Washburn’s play for film

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Yay! Congratulations! @mirzawaheed.bsky.social is a compelling narrator of fiction set in India-Occupied Kashmir. His stories deserve wide audiences.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Cool news! I saw Mr Burns premier in 2012 at Woolly Mammoth in DC, and it was already bracingly original & compelling, despite a loose 2nd act. Haven't read the latest version, but it seems like a great fit for Riley's comic, Brechtian, agitprop approach. 📽️ #TheatreSky

Original tweet from Taylor Hunsberger:
theater twitter: i’m here to let you all know that anne washburn dropped the announcement that mr. burns is being developed into a film by boots riley in her playbill bio for burning cauldron of fiery fire

Quote tweet from Boots Riley:
This is a true thing.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Stumbled on this photo essay from last year about eagle hunters in Kyrgyzstan, and spent a very enjoyable half hour with it. magazine.atavist.com/2025/the-eag...

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The Eagle Hunters of Kyrgyzstan

In the mountains of Central Asia, a small group of outdoorsmen are keeping an ancient tradition alive.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The fact that Deepinder Goyal keeps posting long, AI-written screeds claiming the delivery worker strike was a failure, makes clear that investors are nervous and Zomato/BlinkIt are feeling the pressure. People are realizing their current business model is built on exploitation.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The US attacks on Venezuela that appear to be happening right now are unprovoked, illegal, immoral, and outrageous.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Okay this might be the funniest "dead person taught me it was okay to be weird" post to me personally. (To be clear I don't really care and will be still be enjoying Chappell Roan's music.)

Chappell Roan posted a picture of Brigitte Bardot to instagram with the caption "She was my inspiration for red wine supernova. Rest in peace Ms. Bardot."

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

In news that touches on several small personal obsessions, Jacqueline Rose is apparently working on a novel about Gillian Rose and Edith Stein. www.waterstones.com/book/two-wom...

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Two Women by Jacqueline Rose | Waterstones

Buy Two Women by Jacqueline Rose from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Scroll @scroll.in · 29/12/2025

Vaishnavi Rathore was the first journalist to report from the ground about the contentious project’s environmental and social implications. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10896... #journalismaward

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Glad to see Kochi Biennale tickets are still relatively accessible for most at Rs 200/100 for students & seniors. Meanwhile Art Mumbai was Rs 1,700/707 and India Art Fair is Rs 1,800/800. Or that price gets you exactly one (1) Kusama Infinity Room at the NMACC.

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Justin Nisly @justinnisly.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Please don't cross the picket line during the planned pan-India gig workers strike on New Year's Eve. Delivery workers face horrible working conditions, the demands they are making are incredibly reasonable, and they deserve everyone's solidarity. www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/g...

What are gig workers demanding?
Income security for gig and platform workers, aligned with statutory minimum wages.
A fair and transparent pay structure, including a minimum rate of not less than ₹20 per km for ride-hailing drivers.
An eight-hour working day, with provision for overtime pay beyond fixed hours.
Comprehensive social security benefits, including functional insurance to support workers during accidents, illness or emergencies.
Withdrawal of “10-minute delivery” service models, which workers say encourage unsafe driving and endanger lives, as reported by The Hindu, citing an IFAT official.
Safer working conditions, including restrictions on late-night deliveries during high-risk periods such as winter fog.

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