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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

“The general strike…is the lever which will be used for introducing the social revolution. One fine morning all the workers in every industry in a country, or perhaps in every country, will cease work, and thereby compel the ruling class… to submit” -Engels, 1873

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

New Yorkers gave themselves a good day.

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

“a commercial sigh-painter” (good typo)

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

entering the smuggling era (artworks on yachts, etc.)

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

"This photograph can't now be seen without Jenny Holzer's name being in the same sentence, and I am happy about that. I have looked her up like everyone else and am proud to be associated." www.georginacook.net/visionofsoun...

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Stephen Sweet on his iconic photograph of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain — GEORGINA COOK IS HERE.

“Let me explain what I mean and what was arranged. Apart from photographing the gigs during the week of the New Music Seminar, and the shoots that happened through those days, I knew at the close of t...

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

First time I’ve seen this photo

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

In the many comments on this and in the original, I don’t find a single link to the source. I see a Reddit noting it’s a conversation between Schumer & Bret Stephens but even a direct quote doesn’t easily turn up in a NYT search. It’s this piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

World’s worst parent and it’s a high bar.

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Same. Same. (Catastrophe) bsky.app/profile/haha...

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Amy P. @amyephillips.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

With alt text:

Reddit post from r/fednews by u/ruskiytroll • 12h
IMLS to be completely dismantled tomorrow - 3/19
Edit: Institute of Museum and Library Services 2nd edit:
saveimls.org
Tomorrow morning, Keith Sonderling - Deputy Secretary of Labor and somehow now Acting Director of IMLS - and
DOGE are supposed to show up at IMLS and send all of the employees home. Employees have been told they'll be placed on admin leave, with no word on duration or actual RIF procedures. If someone, anyone in media sees this, please be there. Document how they've illegally put in an Acting Director when the current leadership refused to terminate their employees in an illegal manner - the statue says only the DD for Libraries or the DD for Museums can be Acting Director without confirmation. Document how this administration is shutting down the disbursement of federal formula and discretionary grants to libraries and museums across the country.
IMLS's reauthorization is up in September. Professional associations have been lobbying congress for the last year and they have widely had bipartisan support - and now crickets. The Rs are understandable; they're complicit and/ or terrified to stand up for learning institutions. The Ds? Who the fuck knows. IMLS, VOA/RFE/RFA, the Wilson Center, and the other small agencies whose federal funds don't even add up to $1B were the sacrificial lamb that Schumer for whatever reason agreed to, and now the Ds don't want to see the consequences of their fecklessness.
By the way, anybody who uses Libby or other e-reader programs through their libraries or has ever gotten and inter-library loan... guess where the money for those programs comes from. And basically zero media coverar Stay strong out there, hopefully people will say somethi v when they come for you.
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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

DRIFTS in German is blowing up. So much so that there is a 9 minute TV segment asking renowned literary critic Insa Wilke, why are all the young writers of Leipzig obsessed with this book? www.3sat.de/kultur/kultu...

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Insa Wilke zu "Drift" von Kate Zambreno

Kate Zambrenos Buch "Drift" scheint junge Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller besonders zu inspirieren. Wir haben mit Insa Wilke drüber gesprochen.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent federal agency that supports libraries, archives, and museums in all 50 states and U.S. territories. Trump just gutted the funding.

A Trump signs executive order gutting Institute of museum and library services. By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration executive order is cutting off at the knees, the most beloved, interested American institutions, and the staff and services they offer.

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UAW @uaw.org · 14/03/2025

As the UAW has emphasized, the assault on First Amendment rights being jointly committed by the federal government and Columbia University are an attack on all workers who dare to protest, speak out, or exercise their freedom of association under the US Constitution.

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UAW @uaw.org · 14/03/2025

In the latest assault on First Amendment rights, Columbia University has expelled and fired Grant Miner, President of UAW Local 2710, which represents thousands of Columbia student workers. The firing comes one day before contract negotiations were set to open with the University.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 15/03/2025

“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian & member of the academic freedom committee of the AAUP. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.” apnews.com/article/colu...

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Trump demands unprecedented control at Columbia, alarming scholars and speech groups

The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studi...

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Student union leader expelled on the day @uaw.org was to negotiate with Columbia. Welcome to the new full blown Red Scare, where universities are the first front, & students the appointed cannon fodder. From NYT:

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

He honestly should publicly retract or resign

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Wouldn't be surprised if Columbia University agreed to change its name to Trump University, with the way things are going.

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I reviewed the stand-out Julius Eastman & Glenn Ligon, 52 Walker show for The Critics’ Table. Here’s a peek on the archive in recent exhibitions & the work it’s doing here. SUBSCRIBE www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

What If NYC's Mayor Truly Cared About Tenants? Mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani wants to revive the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants via Hell Gate hellgatenyc.com/zohran-mamda...

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What If NYC's Mayor Truly Cared About Tenants?

Mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani wants to revive the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants (and more stories for your Thursday).

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 20/02/2025

“We are the checks and balances,” says federal worker Chris Dols, who is organizing protests against mass government layoffs. Dols calls on the broader labor movement to get involved in opposition to DOGE’s power grab.

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

So “bookprotectors” isn’t about mylar sleeves to cover dust jackets? (Why is everything so stupid and violent at the same time?)

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Accelerationism but through the worst formula: stupidity x cruelty A prime example: “Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them”

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Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Artists are always saying ‘let’s meet at my show and you can have a look’ but when I say ‘let’s meet at that one place that sells art magazines and you can have a read’ they don’t want to

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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

New Yorkers: I don't care how much you (and so many of us) hate the established Democratic Party. PLEASE REGISTER AS A DEMOCRAT by this Thursday. It's the only way to vote in the mayoral and council primaries, which, as usual in NYC, is basically THE general election (in most of the city).

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

New TCT: Zito Madu's debut @zeets.bsky.social (on American Artist's installation based on Octavia Butler's novel, PARABLE OF THE SOWER), with Whitney Mallett on Camille Henrot at Hauser & Wirth, & @johannafateman.bsky.social on An-My Lê at Marian Goodman. www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

“Israeli police raid Jerusalem bookshops and arrest Palestinian owners” A protester’s sign reads: COWARDS CONFISCATE BOOKS www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Was wondering when we’ll first get reports of someone entering a gov’t agency pretending to be from DOGE (already itself a make-believe “Department”)

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Major demo for trans youth coming up by Act Up, GLM, & Transformative Schools following numerous NYC hospitals preemptively ending gender-affirming care for minors in violation of New York state law, which this past election enshrined trans rights into law. Saturday at 1pm, Union Square.

flyer with a blue background and tidy hand-drawn white text reading “rise up for trans youth.” saturday february 8th, union square - 1pm. a space to uplift and empower trans youth and their families. come listen to speakers and show your support.

flyer includes cartoon hands raised in the air of various skin tones. one holds a trans flag, another hand is in the form of a fist, another holds a sign reading “protect trans kids.” another is sticking upright, and the last hand holds an intersex flag.

organizer logos are tucked in the lower right bottom of the flyer for act up, gender liberation movement, and transformative schools.

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Step away from the reactive outrage and root into a deeper engagement with history, with the possibility of seeding resistance within the institutions often founded & supported by oppressive forces, consider the possibility of making work that burrows deep into the landscape to be discovered later

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stephanie mehnert @stephaniemehnert.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Idee: Ich zeige euch Bücher, die mich in letzter Zeit bewegt haben. Ohne Kommentar, bloß mit dem Cover. Und ich freue mich, wenn ihr eure aktuellen Lektüren in den Kommentaren mit mir teilt

Zu sehen ist das Cover des Buches „Drift“ von Kate Zambreno. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Dorothee Elmiger. Erschienen im Aki Verlag. Das Titelbild sind einander überlagernde Fotografien eines unbekleideten Frauenkörpers in Schwarz-Weiß

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I open this up and just scroll through a highlight reel of dunks on Chuck Schumer.

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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The race for advanced AI is looking a lot like an arms race. Remember, the space race was always an arms race.

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Join DSA, CIR-SEIU, and NY Docs for a rally tomorrow, Monday Feb 3rd @ 6:30PM at St. Vartan Park - East 35th & 2nd Ave to demand NYU-Langone reverse its recent decision to stop providing gender-affirming care to trans patients under 19. RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/prote...

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