Reposted by Beka BryerMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque. 5146041229
Reposted by Beka BryerMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread) 91562612
Reposted by Beka BryerLizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Anyway you should read Steve Kandell’s beautiful piece www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stev...buzzfeednews.comThe Worst Day Of My Life Is Now New York’s Hottest Tourist AttractionNearly 13 years after my sister’s death, a reluctant Sunday visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum, where public spectacle and private grief have a permanent home together. 514263
Reposted by Beka BryerNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 25/08/2026It’s fine, you can’t change the name of anything referenced in “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, it’s a legal document 1630108
Reposted by Beka Bryerlighthouse prince @historiancole.bsky.social · 23/05/2026tim curry keeping up the bit twenty years after the fact by writing in his memoir that he and miss piggy had an affair during the filming of muppet treasure island is just so good and funny 1564871318
Reposted by Beka Bryerkate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT 88204206221
Reposted by Beka BryerSteve Ammidown @stegan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026She Come By It Natural by Sarah Smarsh is a really excellent reflection on Dolly’s life and the women she represented. www.simonandschuster.com/books/She-Co...simonandschuster.comShe Come By It NaturalIn this Time Top 100 Book of the Year, the National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Heartland “analyzes how Dolly Par... 0205
Reposted by Beka BryerAlex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The right to vote isn’t all that real if you can’t actually access it. Incarcerated organizers in Maine have had to fight over many years to win their rightful access—but even today plenty of gaps remain. My latest in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/maine-prison...boltsmag.orgMaine Prisoners Organize to Protect Their Rare Right to Vote - BoltsMaine is one of the only places in the country where prisoners keep their right to vote. But logistical barriers to voting still contribute to their larger exclusion from the political process. 017343
Reposted by Beka BryerGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships. 1841921800
Reposted by Beka BryerTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I don’t talk about real life on Main but my comment requires credentialing: i was at food banks 4x times last month, trying to support etc. Food insecurity is off the charts & I just don’t see anything on the horizon to help people. It’s terrifying. I just come home and sulk and cry and dissociate. 201384360
Reposted by Beka BryerJeff "First Place Enjoyer" Krisko @jeffkrisko.bsky.social · 19/07/2026[Odysseus confronts Penelope's suitors] WHATS UP DICKWIPES 766184
Reposted by Beka BryerAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026congratulations to Spain on (confused scrolling) winning the most Democratic delegates in Maine 61076120
Reposted by Beka Bryermady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️ @mady.cat · 16/07/2026they're basically banning international PhD students lol 26625
Reposted by Beka Bryerunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13/07/2026You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you. 2347161191
Reposted by Beka BryerMaine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Read our full statement on the ICE shooting in Biddeford: maineimmigrantrights.org/maines-immig... 38974
Reposted by Beka BryerChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/07/2026ICE and/or police murdered someone this morning in Biddeford, Maine. From the statements I’ve seen from local activists, I *think* the victim was a young Black man. You may already know Black immigrants are the largest non-white immigrant demo in Maine. A protest is already under way.pressherald.comWitness says Biddeford shooting victim told police ‘I tried to stop’One resident says he heard the shots and saw as agents pulled the man out of the vehicle. 12819366
Reposted by Beka BryerMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/07/2026i appreciate the @pressherald.com granting free access to their crucial live updates on the ICE shooting of a person in biddeford, maine this morning:pressherald.comLive updates: ICE agents involved in deadly shooting in BiddefordWitnesses described seeing one person being shot in the head. 14951335
Reposted by Beka Bryerlizard @lizzzard.bsky.social · 13/07/2026ICE shot someone in the fucking face in Biddeford, Maine this morning fuck ICE forever my heart goes out to their friends and family. maine is like a big small town and i’m from that area. there’s a nonzero chance that someone i know was affected by this. i’m just so mad. ACAB and FUCK ICEnewscentermaine.com 291796630
Reposted by Beka BryerClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/07/2026when I was doing my ICE deaths tracker during Lent there were I think at least two other cases of people who died in custody that literally just got scooped up when ICE was actually looking for someone else. adds an entirely new level of rage to see how half-assed and cavalier they are 1617171
Reposted by Beka BryerMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026ICE is reportedly pressuring the three witnesses to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's murder—his brother and workers—to self-deport. In other words, get the only people who could contradict ICE's version of events out of the country.newrepublic.comTexas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-DeportThere were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A representative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport... 271168498
Reposted by Beka BryerPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Folks, no one has a RIGHT to higher office. OK? You aren't "canceling" anyone when you decide NOT TO SUPPORT THEIR QUEST FOR MORE POWER. Please let's be SERIOUS. This is not what is meant by "no one is disposable." I'm begging people to focus and use your brains. That man can still make a LIVING. 443951875
Reposted by Beka BryerMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025As I had to point out many times during post #metoo years, no one is owed a big Hollywood contract. No one owed a comedy special. Now: No one is owed a Senate seat. This dude was not murdered & he’s not in jail. He made poor decisions & his actions now are sus & so he doesn’t get the job. The end! 2770150
Reposted by Beka Bryerfoxbrambleme.bsky.social @foxbrambleme.bsky.social · 05/07/2026This isn’t what @thefuzzymaskedman.bsky.social’s ‘Heart of Duckness’ is about, but it’s also not not about that… 053
Reposted by Beka BryerJulia Spencer-Fleming @jspencerfleming.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Happy Little Round Top Day to all my Mainers.static.klipy.comBayonets GettysburgAlt: Jeff Bridges as the immortal Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at the Battle of Little Round Top in the movie Gettysburg. He is shouting "Bayonets!" as the 20th Maine prepares to advance against the Rebels, despite being almost out of ammunition. Despite being dirty and unshaven, his moustaches are a glory to behold. 0102
Reposted by Beka BryerSeth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 30/06/2026waiting until the last decision on the last day to reveal a big consequential outcome like it’s Best Picture instead of existential for real people is bullshit 81330185
Beka Bryer @rmbryer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026One rehearsal down and they’re already crushing it! Come to Maine to see some theatre this August! 010
Reposted by Beka BryerNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 16/06/2026i like that Paul Simon gets big cocky with his theory that there's 50 ways to leave your lover, and then when pressed for answers he's only got like six and one of them is just "get on the bus" 71953251
Reposted by Beka BryerLiz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 19754522131
Reposted by Beka BryerThe Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 10/06/2026This is an anti-immigrant pogrom, egged on and co-organized by the richest man in the world. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...nytimes.comNight of Violence Grips Northern Ireland After Stabbing Attack 1148
Reposted by Beka BryerJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Saidiya Hartman said “critical fabulation” requires “Narrative restraint.” It’s not just “make stuff up.” Right there in “Venus in two acts” — restraint is “a requirement of this method” (p.12). Before you go all fabulating pls re-read the part about it being “critical.” Thx!!! 1739
Beka Bryer @rmbryer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Another paragraph to add to the Statue of Liberty book project I hope to write one day 010
Reposted by Beka BryerCarly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026You have to be really committed to US violence and racism to remove these anodyne panels 28234
Reposted by Beka BryerMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026if you are a man considering weighing in on the latest graham platner story i urge you to take a beat. women who are your peers are watching. 1203522479
Reposted by Beka Bryerwaldokanto.bsky.social @waldokanto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026 45104843379
Reposted by Beka BryerHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 23/05/2026I’d like to add something else to this convo: many of people who qualify for permanent residency in the United States would no longer qualify if they went home — because their existing visa is on the basis of refugee status (fear of home) or a job they’d lose. Like it’s absurd at every level. 6649203
Reposted by Beka Bryerlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/05/2026www.politico.com/live-updates... republicans poisoned the smithsonian women's history museum bill because they're ideologically opposed to women, history, and museums in that order 182363487
Reposted by Beka Bryeremily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 14/05/2026gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months. 444551860
Reposted by Beka BryerRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Cis friends, if the deliberate attacks on trans health, safety, identity and existence don't radicalize you... if you haven't noticed that "deliberately inflicting on [a] group conditions of life calculated to bring abt its physical destruction in whole or part" is a definition of genocide yet... 111232
Reposted by Beka Bryergeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 12/05/2026southern state governments are banning black congressional representation and installing statues of men who waged a war to continue the enslavement of black people in public parks 622237842
Reposted by Beka BryerMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Feels flippant to use the term Streisand Effect here, but that's what happened. Japan ensured a statue very few people would've seen and even fewer would've understood won't be put up, and instead people all over the world are going to read about their system of sexual slavery during WWII.theguardian.comNew Zealand officials reject ‘comfort women’ statue after objections from JapanStatue recognising Japan’s sexual slavery of up to 200,000 women in second world war will no longer be erected in Auckland 11568228
Reposted by Beka BryerErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 09/04/2026In a country that took the humanities seriously, way more of the medievalists you’re seeking out to explain Avignon would have actual academic jobs. 31151227
Reposted by Beka BryerPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship. 56149665271
Reposted by Beka BryerSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history. 182114982743
Reposted by Beka BryerJesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 03/04/2026“The Klan monument is run by slave labor” is a little too on the fucking nose 2033941164