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Mark London Williams

@tricksterink.bsky.social
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Musings, panics, and such. Columnist. Storyteller. Brow-furrowed watcher of skies and collapsing empires. And graveside-press.com/product/max-ran…, for go-karts, nano-zombies, and still more L.A-set apocalypse.

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itscoachcait @itscoachcait.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Choose the 🐻.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3
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Lux in the Bronx @rlux.nyc · 20/09/2026
Wishing those who fast an easy fast, and to us all a peaceful Yom Kippur. G’mar chatimah tovah.
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Skipping the 2026 vote because of cynicism is a luxury belief. It is the view of those who do not face ICE vans, dying lakes, or surveillance cameras tracking family to clinics. Your apathy is a comfort they cannot afford. #GetReadyToVote #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 19/09/2026
Normally you'd think the first person to condemn Trump kicking CNN out of the White House would be the person trying to buy it. Has anyone heard from David Ellison?
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Trump targets more news outlets, saying he will ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House
President Donald Trump says he is barring CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House due to what he called unfavorable coverage, and threatens that more such prohibitions of media outlets could fol...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/09/2026
It should be illegal to buy a company with debt and then sell it off to a foreign owner, but that fight was lost long ago. Anyway, now the Saudis own a truly distressing portion of American entertainment, from Hollywood to Video Games to Sports. This is not neutral behavior. Anyway.
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FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar
FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remember when Jake Tapper dug in his heels to defend Fox News when Obama dared to move them to the second row of the press room? Well, now that the roles have reversed, I'm sure that Fox News will -- come on, stop laughing, let me finish
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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026
i need to know what happened
sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you're still on the fence about whether AI is good or bad for society, consider this: The fascists desperately want it
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
People will be walking all ~97 miles from Adelanto Detention Center to the Metropolitan Detention Center in DTLA as a call for action to end the deplorable conditions in ICE detention centers and stop cruel immigration policy. To participate or assist: tinyurl.com/mrx3ybnd
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"Sept 29 - Oct 6 Clear the road to freedom! An interfaith pilgrimage of witness and solidarity. A sacred jouney on foot from Adelanto ICE Detention Center to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles to call out the cruel conditions inside detention centers throughout California and the country. Organized by Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), Nefesh LA, and Sacred Resistance, in partnership with No Camps California, Shut Down Adelanto Coalition, and Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, and Matthew 25."
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
17 September 1928 | Polish Jewish boy, Chaim Grosbard, was born in Lublin. He emigrated to France. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Beaune la Rolande on 5 August 1942. He did not survive.
Vintage black-and-white portrait of a smiling young boy wearing a dark turtleneck sweater.
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WhinterQueen @whinterqueen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JFC. the hand soap was distributed to NC, MS, ND, NE, NC, MD, SC, WI, GA, PA, CA, IL, IA, NY, TX, & WA
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Hand soap recalled for potential contamination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Six hand soaps distributed across 15 states have been recalled over possible bacterial contamination. See the brands, lot codes and affected products.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“I’m not voting for anyone because I oppose genocide.” Guess what, no you don’t.
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Neal @nskorpen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Seen in south Minneapolis
Photo of a public mailbox with the words “this machine kills fascists” printed on the front
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
4 September 1923 | A German Jew, Heinz Blut, was born in Breslau (today Wrocław in Poland). In #Auschwitz from 24 October 1941. No. 21937 He perished in the camp on 7 November 1941. --- 📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
4 September 1940 | A French Jewish girl, Jeannine Ojalvo, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 June 1944 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 627 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.
Black and white photo of a smiling girl holding a bouquet of flowers.
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Gabrielle Gozo @gabriellegozo.com · 03/09/2026
CHATGPT AND CLAUDE ARE DOWN!! Teachers, time for an exam
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404 Media @404media.co · 03/09/2026
Flock taught cops how they could surveil the No Kings protests and “small parades” using a mix of Flock’s technology and law enforcement’s own databases in a webinar last year. Here's a short clip from the webinar: @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/flock-taught...
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW ICE wants to build a nationwide database of voters, their voting history and, potentially, their party affiliations too. ....and it's willing to pay someone up to $5M to do it www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
wired.com
ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Apple Maps has now caved to Trump's demand to rename Lake Ontario, another corporate surrender.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/09/2026
rest in peace to Wendell Berry
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts” - Wendell Berry
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CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Wendell Berry
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Ever the antidote. • Wendell Berry •
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It was a big mistake that politicians and civic leaders haven’t been uniformly insistent about prosecuting ICE and others involved in this ethic cleansing campaign. They know what they’re doing is illegal (why else wear masks and scrub tail numbers off planes?) and they’re afraid of consequences.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
extremely curious about exact the degree to which the president is fully encased in a slop-generated alternate reality
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Mark London Williams @tricksterink.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Dolly Parton -- Spinoza-esque panentheist! No wonder the light was so palpable! ;-)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions). Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom. And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ. Remember this.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My dad was a public school teacher; and he always said the toughest parts of the job were: 1. Having to pay for your own classroom chalk, and 2. Performing gender-reassignment surgeries during class hours w/out parents finding out.
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Lady Godiva's Horse @shazamarama.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Trump thinks putting his name on stuff makes him important and powerful, but Mamdani proves that improving the lives of the masses generates limitless power and makes Mamdani essential and unforgettable. People will fight to erase Trump"s ugly stain on our country and planet the second he expires
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Unimaginably horrifying footage. According to the Nepal Tourism Board, contact has been lost with hundreds of people including Nepalese citizens and tourists from the US, UK, India, and multiple other countries.
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Mark London Williams @tricksterink.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wow, the very last Federally-connected entity that's still actually in favor of children's literacy. Dolly really did bring out the best in folks. RIP.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Fucking facts. They are loud and proud about their racism. 🤬
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🎃 Patrick or treat 🖤 @starclusterr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
or maybe youtu.be/4ytX3IaFHGk?...
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Bobby Womack - California Dreaming
YouTube video by A7fr3d
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Berkeleyside @berkeleyside.org · 21/08/2026
Hot stone massages and eucalyptus steams have come to an end as the Claremont Hotel closes its 25-year-old wellness center.
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The Claremont’s luxury spa is no more
Hot stone massages and eucalyptus steams have come to an end as the Claremont Hotel closes its 25-year-old wellness center.
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Mark London Williams @tricksterink.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We've been beyond the outer rims of parody and satire for awhile now -- and yet, this midadministration keeps managing to find *new* outer-outer rims to somehow stumble past...
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
13 August 1931 | An Austrian Jewish boy, Heinz Klipper, was born. Incarcerated in #Theresienstadt Ghetto. On 4 September 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
Black and white vintage photo of a smiling child wearing a patterned outfit.
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Ellie Leonard @redpencilscript.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
No one is talking about this. It’s utterly disappointing @a24movies.bsky.social variety.com/2024/film/ne...
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A24 Raises Funding Round Led by Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital, Valuing Studio at $3.5 Billion
A24 has secured a new round of funding led by Josh Kushner's investment firm Thrive Capital valuing the TV and film studio at $3.5 billion.
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GUWonder @guwonder.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Dem primary candidates for Gov were not sniping at each other in nasty ways. It’s almost exclusively people who don’t vote in Wisconsin for Dems who are trying to make a battle of a primary outcome in the state and declare “stunning loser”, “stunning winner” when it was a primary with a 1% margin.
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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
In 35 seconds, you can understand the lawless, roided-up fascism of ICE. A moron masked agent points a gun at an unarmed woman, threatening to arrest her. When she pushes back and says she has dash-cam video, he fades, fast. This is what happens when you unleash armed storm troopers. #AbolishICE
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
12 August 1941 | A French Jewish girl, Annie Nakache, was born in Constantine (Algeria). She lived in Toulouse. A daughter of a swimmer Alfred Nakache. In January 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her parents. She was murdered in a gas chamber with her mother Paule.
A vintage black and white photo showing a young girl standing and holding a large ball. The child has curly hair and is wearing a light-colored outfit. Only part of an adult, standing next to the child and dressed in a light-colored outfit, is visible on the left side of the frame. The background shows a nondescript, blurry outdoor setting.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Companies like Andreessen Horowitz (major investor in Flock) decided it was a good idea to focus their portfolio on "dystopian fascist crap that makes your life worse and yes you pay for it with your taxes which go right into our pockets" and, surprisingly, it turns out people don't like that!
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
no one clocked Donald Trump as early or accurately as Berkeley Breathed
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/08/2026
This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”
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Mark London Williams @tricksterink.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
So I guess since we're talkin' Wisconsin progressives this evening, no shot left at all for Bob LaFollette, then?
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L_ N___ @sqlhandle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
600,000 total votes in the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary, 85% precincts reporting. Francesca Hong AND David Crowley are neck-and-neck at 39.9% of the vote - but they both have WELL over the 225k votes that Governor Toney Evers won the 2018 primary with! (538,636 total votes in 2018)
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Matt Fiction @mliparota.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
No matter what happens here in Wisconsin at least we know the thinkpieces for the next one to four months are going to be insufferable
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