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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Monstrous.

Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This was published on Axios this morning: www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e... And let’s not forget Schmitt’s speech openly embracing white/christian nationalism from last year: newrepublic.com/post/199933/...

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Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028

Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Crucial reporting. To better understand how we got here, check out recent book “Beneath the Wage” by @anniemcc.bsky.social www.zonebooks.org/books/293-be...

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Beneath The Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work - Zone Books

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trying to finish my dissertation as my discipline, industrial sector, society, and planet burns is crazy-making in ways I am unable to process.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Encampments planned all across the Spanish state as the campaign against the capitalist housing crisis grows!

This is a list in Spanish of locations across the country where encampments are planned.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026

Brilliant @amyremeikis.bsky.social piece here - absolutely gut-wrenching that Nepal PM's speech got buried under the nonsense of AI doom-hype. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

“We have built a world with flawless logistics for war, and broken logistics for food, and this is not Nepal’s private misfortune. Ask Bangladesh, ask Bhutan, ask India, ask the Maldives, ask Pakistan, ask Sri Lanka, ask any other country in our region, and you’ll hear the same account.

“Hit by the climate, we did not warm, and again hit by the wars, we did not start.”

Shah is right. Nepal contributes less than 0.1 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. It does not have the institutional or global power to force change, even as its people are swamped by the consequences of inaction.

“Our glaciers are retreating, our mountain slopes are becoming unstable, our rivers are becoming less predictable and every major disaster threatens to erase years of development,” he told the UN.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026

It's just after 1pm on another picture perfect fall day in Chicago. So far today, masked federal agents have taken people from Brighton Park and suburban Aurora. ~1 year after the "Blitz" began, the alerts haven't subsided. ICE is still breaking windows and destroying worlds.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Purpose of a System is What It Does

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My whole adult life has been watching this overtake whatever opportunities we had for avoiding the nine planetary boundaries and cultivating basic, everyday well-being.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New website and publication for 'In Contempt,' a roundup of news and analysis around state repression and political prisoners. A bad ass project! incontempt.ftp.sh/in-contempt-...

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A reminder that Kanopy is available though your public library (or academic institution), costs you nothing, and is ad free. www.kanopy.com

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20/09/2026

Exactly. I’ve been saying this since I started the tracker last year, and it’s why I don’t call them deportations. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...

I am using the term "third-country removals" instead of "third-country deportations" here, because the latter is a legal process in which a migrant is resettled in a safe third country. What is actually happening, in nearly all cases, more closely resembles chain refoulement, rendition, or kidnapping - and may violate U.S. and

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Exhausted of the Earth, rise up!

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I talked to Gillian Brockell about the DHS Inspector General’s report on the use of “the box” at Alligator Alcatraz, why detainees’ descriptions of its size and use are likely more accurate than those in the report, and how “the box” has a long history in concentration camps around the world.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There are lots of good reasons to hate on Hot Topic, but wearing this T-Shirt constantly in middle school and high school made a profound and lasting contribution to my moral and historical consciousness and it's kind of hilarious that it was mass-produced and purchased at a suburban mall.

Red T-Shirt

Front says "Rage Against the Machine" over a portrait of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata.

Back of shirt has printed text reading:
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees"
- Emiliano Zapata

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sometimes terrible people make great art. And sometimes moral people (a rarer type than great people) make mediocre art. I’m still glad he’s out there, doing what he’s doing.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happy 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)

A black-and-white photograph of artist & writer David Wojnarowicz, with added elements including red and yellow flames along the right side of his body, and maps over his face and neck

A photo of artist David Wojnarowicz wearing a jacket; on the back is a pink triangle and the legend, "If I die of AIDS-forget burial-just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A."

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s a great time to live in Los Angeles! (push notifications from the much-diminished LA Times over the past few days)

LA Times:

Malibu residents evacuate after massive, expanding sinkhole opens at Nicolas Cage's house

(9/8/26)

LA Times:

Southern California braces for 'very dangerous and unusual heat' plus oppressive
humidity

(9/9/26)

LA Times:

Ocean Way, groundbreaking Santa Monica beach festival, canceled due to hurricane

(9/11/26)

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It was pivotal, and I agree with much of this thread, but it didn’t originate there. Much of what I’m seeing today obscures the continuity of pre- and post-9/11 US jingoism. Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” was 1994. These movies were 1998. The response was locked and loaded, ready to go.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

from Elaine Castillo's 2019 foreword to Carlos Bulosan's "America is in the Heart" phew

...people making community between their own vulnerabilities and the vulnerabilities of others, between their own flaws and mendacities and the flaws and mendacities of others. It's a line that reminds us that real communities aren't formed with only the best and brightest parts of who we are. Community is granular, piecemeal, and daily, fastened together one stolen ring at a time. And like much of the book, the line gives not comfort, but solace—solace in the old roots of the word where it once also meant to reconcile. This is also what critical reading of our histories makes possible: we cannot repair what we cannot reconcile; we cannot truly know what we will not truly see. America Is in the Heart asks nothing less of us than to try to see America, because it knows that only that which really sees us will really free us.

Representation is one of those words that's as inadequate as tolerance, when we're talking about the force that art can have in our lives. We know that no one wants to be simply represented, in the same way that no one wants to be simply tolerated. Representation doesn't come remotely close to describing the viscerally intimate shock of what it feels like when you encounter a book that seems to see you: the language you speak, the people you know, the town you call home. It just makes you feel: real. For people who are used to feeling real, used to always seeing and affirming their own reality—not just depicted, but centered—anywhere from the page to the screen to the echoing halls of government, the force of that feeling might easily be underestimated. But it is a force indeed. Its other name might be called justice, or love. Bulosan knew that force well; his pages radiate with it. It's what I suspect is really in the book's heart.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I really do think a lot of elite impunity and idiocy of the past decade has been eerily reminiscent of 30 Rock, sort of similar to how mainstream headlines are sometimes indistinguishable from The Onion…

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The most consequential flat-earthers...

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Video Paradiso in Claremont, California, connected to amazing record store Rhino Records. I spent so many hours loitering in these two attached stores and asking employees random questions about stuff I’d just discovered. Many of the most cherished finds of my childhood were in these two places.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think grappling with these feelings, this process of coming to terms with Heidegger, is one of my favorite things to work through. When done with rigor and honesty, it feels like slaying a dragon.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

(One of) the first double feature(s) at my movie theater

Starship Troopers (dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1997)

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 28/08/2026

Yes, your government is still kidnapping your neighbors.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just checked with people who sit at Ghent University's board of governors: Fake News. Disciplinary proceedings against Nathan Cofnas are still ongoing. (Make of the other communication what you will)

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That is indeed what peak police performance looks like

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I was today years old when I learned Dolly Parton recorded Woody Guthrie's song "Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)" in 1980. It's a heartbreaking song about immigration and specifically deportation plane that crashed in 1948 killing dozens of Mexican "bracero" workers. Her version is beautiful💔

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Dolly Parton - 04 - Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)

YouTube video by littlesparrow185

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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Name that sample. Always loved how one of the greatest foot-stompers ever written is flipped to drive this track like a freight train.

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YouTube video by Blackalicious - Topic

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

DC got steadily worse as a place to live after the 2016 election. COVID was awful. I finally left in summer 2024, dreading what the aftermath of the fall election might be. It’s been worse than I feared. Solidarity to comrades who continue to fight back and find daily joy.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dependency is the goal.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Something I’ve been saying since 2016 (and others long before that) is that the political economic regimes that sustain our imperial modes of living cannot be effectively administered, expanded, legitimated, or reformed by our actually-existing elites. At some point, these institutions will collapse

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/08/2026

This time last year, the LA City Council presented him with a proclamation honoring his efforts. Federal authorities say Parias is an undocumented immigrant who had previously evaded arrest. But their account does not explain a growing mountain of evidence. interc.pt/4g2dBUX