Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 12hSome of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years. 231561503
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Why do the gay men on this season of the traitors keep referring to themselves as dolls? Is this latest co-opt from trans women? It is genuinely difficult to watch them. 000
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026People that refer to me as Tristan on an email chain.....😤 001
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A monograph on the queer performance of dancing around and picking vegetables from my home garden in the rain with temperatures under 60. Is that anything?! 100
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026just learned this today 6868353716
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026“When Ramparts broke the story in 1967, Steinem confirmed her role to The New York Times without apology, describing the CIA as “liberal, nonviolent and honorable” and stating she would do it again.” medium.com/collapsenews...medium.comFeminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing…Declassified Cold War Ties Show How U.S. Intelligence Shaped Feminism’s Focus On Gender Over Class. 26929
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻minor compositions @minorcompositions.bsky.social · 02/09/2026What if defending study didn’t mean defending the university as it currently exists? Abolitionist University Studies asks us to put the institution itself back into question – and to separate study from the university’s claim to own it. Build the impossible. abolition.university/invitation/abolition.universityAbolitionist University Studies: An Invitation - Abolition UniversityAbolition offers the occasion for thinking about the university in ways that the institution itself might otherwise render impossible. 086
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻the hot dog guy @quesoquesoqueso.bsky.social · 31/08/2026iceland's prison population is even smaller by comparison. 140 people or so, about 36 per 100k in iceland vs.. maryland at 475 per 100k and some parts of baltimore at over 3k per 100k they replaced prisons with social prorgrams and this is the effect 0186
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026U.S. military power has poisoned Guam’s waters, controlled its politics, and prevented its people from determining their own future. www.currentaffairs.org/news/america...currentaffairs.orgAmerican Colonialism Lives on in GuamU.S. military power has poisoned Guam’s waters, controlled its politics, and prevented its people from determining their own future. 0166
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I read this thread verbatim to each of my classes this week when going over the syllabus and our relationship to generative AI and technofascism in the classroom. It sparked wonderful conversation. Making the mundane visible is a great tool for helping folks to think about this more critically!! 152
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026happy first day of school! teaching college does not get easier. below are some resources for solidarity, courage, inspiration, collaboration first: assignment ideas, syllabus language, memes and more for the pro-learning classroom against-a-i.comagainst-a-i.comAGAINST AI - 522880
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Sharing a toolkit on jury nullification for no reason except it’s beautifully illustrated beyondcourts.org/en/act/votin...beyondcourts.orgVoting "Not Guilty": A Toolkit on Jury NullificationJury nullification is a term used to describe a situation when jurors decide to acquit a person of criminal charges even though the person on trial could technically be convicted based on the evidence... 08759
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Starting a new term tomorrow? Don't forget your ethos: teach to dismantle the institution rather than promote it, use the classroom as a space to organize, deconstruct fascist ideologies--don't let them dictate what you teach, complying in advance will not save you/students/us. 000
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 22/08/2026As I’ve been saying for almost two decades now, a majority of academics are either conservative or solidly centrist. The myth of the Marxist professors is one of the most successful propaganda campaigns in modern history. 21910
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 22/08/2026What is so hellish about this is how mundane it all is. Sigh. It also provides mundane opportunities to de-tech yourself. Literally start by asking yourself, what can I do differently each day. And then keep asking. 010
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻amulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this. 10999314
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026To say I have the academic calendar equivalent to the sunday scaries is both accurate and understated. 010
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Rod Ferguson on the dangers of the Vanderbilt report and its collaborators.criticalnoise.orgTragedy at Vanderbilt – History of the Present 164
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I've returned from vacation with the following question: is anyone writing around the very niche intersection of race, masculinity, and swimwear with or without underwear usage? 000
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 31/07/2026Some days running a radical space is just unnecessarily hard. Help us keep it going by becoming a monthly sustainer: donorbox.org/red-emmas-2026 14123
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026www.thecrimson.com/article/2026... 1110254
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This week's post is about how the Red Scare is a big enough tent for all of us. With an explainer about socialism vs anarchism vs communism, complete with a diagram. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/a-red-scar...margaretkilljoy.substack.comA Red Scare Big Enough For All of Usor: you don't even have to be a red to scare the fascists 7380106
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 20/07/2026Just like this. Refuse to comply. Our organizations are made of us. If we don't participate when they choose hate? They adjust or they are replaced. 734881090
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Ok but who is going to take me clubbing in Berlin during the winter of 1990 this summer??? 000
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 15/07/2026We have reached the point in July where I have to listen to wintery music to remind myself that, one day, I will feel cold again 😭 000
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 04/07/2026What is so important about this image is it opens transparency of the norm here. Nazis may not always dress like this but the image captures the material and affective reality of living in the US. 000
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 04/07/2026July 4th is nothing to celebrate. 20% of all book sales today, in the store and online, will be donated to the legal support funds for the Prairieland defendants and the Minneapolis 15. Bookstore and cafe open until 4pm today, come through if you are feeling unpatriotic! 4298113
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I know therapy works because is over 100 today and my body hasn’t reverted back to desiring to die like everyday of the 5 years I spent in Phoenix. 000
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 02/07/2026Here's our list of 250 books on why America's 250th birthday is nothing to celebrate: bookshop.org/lists/250-bo... 15615
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Today we are all Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 And if for some reason you needed more rationale to root for them, this masterpiece released right before the world cup is 🤌youtube.comDubioza Kolektiv - I Am from Bosnia - Take Me to America (Official video)YouTube video by Dubioza kolektiv 000
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Trans women are women, trans women will always be women, end of story 14312
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Once again screaming for the dc metro to connect to Baltimore city 🗣️🗣️🗣️ 100
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Apparently I have lost all my ability to flirt with femmes and I feel very strongly that I gotta get it back. 000
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 18/06/2026just logged in today and a bunch of bots followed me??? 000
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Truthout @truthout.org · 14/06/2026Queer New Yorkers are fighting for Riis Beach as a developer with Israeli government ties plans a private beach club.buff.lyNew York’s Iconic Queer Beach Faces Looming Privatization SchemeQueer New Yorkers are fighting for Riis Beach as a developer with Israeli government ties plans a private beach club. 35627
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 12/06/202610. To the ones we loved in Orlando and to the ones still dancing. 020
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Good morning. Your periodic reminder that this city is queer af and it’s free to read all about it. 16227
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026🐷🙅♀️🤝🫂 303693669
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Greater Baltimore DSA @baltimoredsa.org · 04/06/2026MD’s public pension system divested ~85% of the Israeli sovereign bonds it held last year. That's >$62 MILLION divested from Israeli bonds. But the work is not over. Join our rally on 6/13 at McKeldin Plaza to demand FULL divestment and read the full press release here: www.cair.com/press_releas... 0279
Reposted by Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 07/06/2026America 250 events have officially kicked off in DC. We’ve put together a guide on what it is, how it will impact folks in DC — especially our unhoused neighbors — & what you can do to help them! 🧵1/9 510361
Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 02/06/2026A tattoo artist whose books I've tried to get on for a decade (???) responded positively to my latest submission. And Pokemon go has released new showcases in my neighborhood. Best Tuesday ever!?! 120