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tyrone (ty, they, he) martinez-black @teachnexttmb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ok yall. Here comes the push! Less than ten weeks until the Chicago Marathon! Training hard and trying to raise esome funds for Openlands. Please support. fundraisers.hakuapp.com/tymarathonus...

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Openlands

Hey y'all.I'm like the Lorax - I stay running for these trees (and all the other life in the natural and open spaces of northeastern Illinois and the surrounding region).This year for the 2026 Bank of...

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Ty Martinez (they/he) @tymartineztmb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Catching up with Vibe Check Pod @theferocity - “ashy and craggy” democratic establishment has me rolling! open.spotify.com/episode/7iFK...

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Hot Girl (Socialism) Summer

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

10 transgender athletes out of more than half a million on college teams. That’s it. A cadre of hateful, and deeply weird, wealthy people paid to get their bigotry approved by a corrupt conservative Supreme Court.

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Ty Martinez (they/he) @tymartineztmb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Tell me why I’m rolling out on this hot summer night and the forst song on the radio is In The Air Tonight

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T.R. Black @teearrblack.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Struck by the titular poem in this collection. All the Possible Bodies by Iain Haley Pollock

Cover to -All the Possible Bodies, Poems” by Isin Haley Pollock. Title and subtitle are dark and camel brown respectively on white background in top half. Bottom half is grayish with author’s name in white above a photo of a sculpture - a human, right hand, palm up. A bent wire as if a hanging loop extends from the ‘severed’ wrist.

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ALL THE POSSIBLE BODIES
My alcoholic grandfather couldn't hold his money & passed a bad check. Hampton / Virginia / after Brown v. Board but before Selma's Bloody Sunday. After my grandmother died but before he moved the family North / back to the town of his birth. My mother saw her father cuffed & dragged from the house. The next day / by some miracle she never understood / he came home.
Had he looked at the officers wrong / acted wrong / spoken wrong / been too familiar / been a few inches taller / been deeper voiced or darker skinned & for this had he caught a knee that night to the neck & not returned / perhaps my mother / needing to stay home & raise Aunt Joan & Uncle Keith / would have skipped college. Had she skipped college / perhaps she would not have gone for a Ph.D. Had she not gone for a Ph.D. / perhaps she would not have met my father. Had she not met my father / perhaps I would not be here / perhaps the boys sleeping upstairs from me now would not be here.

When you spend 8 minutes & 46 seconds / with your knee / on another man's neck /
you block not just the passage of air / into his body / but block air into all the possible bodies / dependent on that man / & his neck / to breathe / breathe / breathe / breathe / breathe-

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Veronica @veronicaeye.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

My book is now available! I repeat, my book is now available at @bookshop.org - in time for anti-prime day! It had been on backorder for weeks. Fight fascism. Buy banned books. bookshop.org/a/22221/9781...

screen shot of J is for Justice page on. Bookshop indicating that book is available.

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Ty Martinez (they/he) @tymartineztmb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Yo if NY beats San Antonio, prepare for the ApocaKnicks. Mamdani The Liberty The Knicks?! You won’t be able to tell them nothing

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T.R. Black @teearrblack.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

We remain A stain to you Indelible As the welts on our backs Are a cuneiform A hieroglyphics Of a story you cannot Look away From a tale you cannot Remove To a song you cannot

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tyrone (ty, they, he) martinez-black @teachnexttmb.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

#PairedTexts 1) Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now 2) How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope

Flourescent orange cover, black text centered, on word per line

Illustration of abstracted hand reaching uo from the bottom holding a flower in thumb and index finger. The title and editor info is contained in the silhouette. The had issurrounded by silimar style flowers and a single bird in combinations of green red and ochre.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 19/04/2026

YALL. There is a charitable organization in Chicago that donates books to women’s prisons. My boyfriend introduced me to it!!! Yall support!! This is AMAZING. Women’s prisons do NOT get anywhere near the donations men’s do. That’s why my own organization exists. LINK HERE: www.cbwp.org

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Chicago Books to Women in Prison

Chicago Books to Women in Prison is an all-volunteer organization that sends free books to women and trans people in prison nationwide.

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Ty Martinez (they/he) @tymartineztmb.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

It’s a direct display that we have more cars than we need.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 29/03/2026

ai feature implementation strategy is essentially “how annoying can we make the ui” so people accidently hit ai features so these companies can brag about how “highly used” ai features are internally

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Ty Martinez (they/he) @tymartineztmb.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I guess we should really not be expecting companies led by people who want capital to give the users (and in this case improvers) of their products any features those users want.

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Ty Martinez (they/he) @tymartineztmb.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

@samsanders.bsky.social here’s an Oscars fix a là super bowl - break the year into cinematic quarters with two nominal favorites in each category, locked in each quarter. Then, it’s a bracket campaign for the ceremony itself.

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Ty Martinez (they/he) @tymartineztmb.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Hearing this interview between @samsanders.bsky.social and @niadacosta.bsky.social I really wonder what would be so much better is Marvels had more horror elements. open.spotify.com/episode/2ijw...

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Nia DaCosta: Why is Real Life Scarier Than Horror Films?

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Ty Martinez (they/he) @tymartineztmb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Loved the reference to @victorlavalle.bsky.social’s Destroyer in the convo about Frankensteins and their monsters on this episode #VibeCheckPod spotify.link/UyNdTDRURXb

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Let Them Eat Cake

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Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org · 15/10/2025

What journalists can learn from how we covered the attack on trans rights in Trump's first 100 days. Big takeway: based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of news stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote a single trans person. bit.ly/TJA_visible

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How journalists covered Trump's first 100 days

Trans perspectives were rarely present in articles about the consequences federal actions would have on their lives, according to an analysis conducted by Berkeley Media Studies Group in partnership w...

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tyrone (ty, they, he) martinez-black @teachnexttmb.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I begin at around 8:30. Tune in if you’d like.

Tyrone Martinez-Black’s Chicago Maratjon bib number 72875.

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Ty Martinez (they/he) @tymartineztmb.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

So sad/happy to hear @samsanders.bsky.social departing from @theferocity.bsky.social @zachstafford.bsky.social and Vibe Check. A genuine anchor to my processing of the world. Looking forward to the new future.

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A few years ago, I wrote about why we should understand the Supreme Court as a kind of national defense agency—anticipating the erosion of constitutional rights. Sadly, that argument has only become more urgent. I’m now expanding that analysis into a longer journal article.

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Ty Martinez (they/he) @tymartineztmb.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

We need more public transit not less. Add your voice to this campaign! nwmd.social/s/twitter/4A...

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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

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Ty Martinez (they/he) @tymartineztmb.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Noem: “President Trump is not going to allow this illegal alien, who is an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator to terrorize American citizens any longer.” How many of these is Dunold?

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

“This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of federal policy choices — most immediately, sweeping job cuts across public-sector agencies where Black women have long held the strongest foothold in middle-class employment.”

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300,000 Black women have left the labor force in 3 months. It’s not a coincidence.

For decades, the public sector has been a lifeline for Black women shut out of economic opportunity. It’s no surprise that Trump's federal downsizing targeted them first, explains gender economist Kat...

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Ty Martinez (they/he) @tymartineztmb.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Because I haven’t posted in a while… A thread of lastest art dabbles

Acrylic wash of mostly blue and yellow in an abstract human bust. The person is surrounded by pink and violet glow and black circles outline their frame. In large white letters “WHAT IF I TOLD YOU” is on the upper right margin. Inside their head in yellow/red blended letters “I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY”. A cloud diagram is on their chest enclosing a heart and pi symbol.

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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Before we all get carried away by cool Pope vibes... Washington State just adopted a new law that forces clergy to become mandatory reporters of child sexual abuse, and the Vatican says it will excommunicate priests who obey the law. www.kptv.com/2025/05/09/c...

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Catholic Church to excommunicate priests who follow new Washington state law

The Catholic Church has vowed to excommunicate any priest who follows a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report child abuse to law enforcement.

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Ty Martinez (they/he) @tymartineztmb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Zuck: The average Anerican has three friends

Portrait of characters from The Princess Bride (1987 film) arranged vertically, from top to bottom: Fezzik (André the Giant), Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin) and Vizzini (Wallace Shawn).

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

“Sinners” is returning to IMAX theaters for a limited release due to overwhelming popular demand “Audiences have spoken and we listened”

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'Sinners' Gets Limited IMAX Re-Release Due to Overwhelming Popular Demand

Sinners is coming back to IMAX theaters in 70mm due to overwhelming popular and critical demand. Here's how to get your tickets.

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Ty Martinez (they/he) @tymartineztmb.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Are you ready to heaux up for the how down? @samsanders.bsky.social @zachstafford.bsky.social @theferocity.bsky.social talk Cowboy Carter season. (Feeling attacked as a birthday month girlie) open.spotify.com/episode/74Cu...

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Giddy Up! The Rodeo Is in Town

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

To celebrate Mayday, Haymarket Books is having a huge sale on books about class war. Check it out, can’t recommend Haymarket enough!

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It’s corruption all the way down. If/when we do get through this era, we’ll learn these people essentially hollowed out the planet and stole it all from us.

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Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Ryan Coogler’s ‘SINNERS’ is now on track to become one of the top ten highest grossing R-rated films of all time at the domestic box office.

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