David Mason

Did you know Memphis library workers are not classified as civil service employees? That diminishes their voice & means less job protection. I’m running for Congress to fight all workers 🚨But here in Memphis, we can make a change now! Memphis voters, vote YES on 5966!

The Trump admin has decimated American science budgets, taking away life saving opportunities, and the potential for groundbreaking discoveries. This is how you destroy American innovation. apnews.com/article/trum...

🚨 IMMIGRANT PANTRY EMERGENCY FUNDING UPDATE 🚨 We are stretched to the snapping point. After last week’s storms left more than 100,000 people across the Memphis area without power, we went into crisis mode. Our own requests for food assistance increased, while we also began 1/ #momsky#sheshed

Have you ever wanted to make a classic WinAmp skin? It can be pretty labor intensive. I wanted to make one a few months ago and I got carried away making a new format for winamp skins that streamlines the design process. Check it out! www.bamp.skin github.com/dp-mason/bamp

What do you call people who starve kids and their parents in a nation in perpetual food surplus? Evil. Evil will do.

MEMPHIS’ @repcohen — who voted not to cut funding to Israel — says he left the progressive caucus over 🇮🇱, calls the progressive caucus “the socialist caucus”, and claims (without evidence) “antisemitism” was involved Criticism of 🇮🇱 is not antisemitism www.cnn.com/2026/07/18/p...

BREAKING NYT: The Trump admin just issued subpoenas to several journalists for The New York Times, after the outlet reported on security concerns involving Trump's Qatari-gifted Air Force One. The subpoenas seek to force the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury on Wednesday.

BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms. The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment.

Looking for an external GPU to use with Blender, the 3D modeling software. Really funny AI generated article: thehandymanhaven.com/best-egpu-fo...

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Local fox nashville running a poll about @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn and the @TNGOP stripping representation from Memphis: fox17.com/question/pol...

why dont all libraries install adblocking filters on their internet traffic? genuine question. is that considered censorship or something? it would improve access to information.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

The state’s legislation could provide a blueprint for others considering moratoriums, amid growing pushback across the country to the rapid rollout of infrastructure underpinning the build-out of AI. ft.trib.al/bb7koE6

Endorsement Alert!‼️ #sheshed

"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating." www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Who knew that Blender could help us study the stars? 🌌 In this new User Story, Ph.D student @jamshidi3d.bsky.social explains how he used Geometry Nodes for his research in cosmology. www.blender.org/user-stories... #b3d #geonodes #cosmology #research #userstory

Minnesota's top investigative agency says federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Memphis ice storm satellite imagery from 2026/29/01

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

Don't forget the Supreme Court's role facilitating ICE's brutality and racism in Minneapolis. SCOTUS lifted an injunction that limited racial profiling in immigration enforcement on Sept. 8. The federal assault on Chicago began the next day. Then came the Twin Cities. SCOTUS greenlit these horrors.

ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage. Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.

“The agent, Tracee Mergen, left her job as a supervisor in the F.B.I.’s Minneapolis field office after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the immigration officer, Jonathan Ross…”

Not like us

Just got an email from my kid’s basketball coach outlining the safety precautions the host school has put in place, including when and how they’ll go into lockdown if the federal secret police show up. Again, schools making plans to protect children from their own government.

Judge Kacsmaryk writes to say that the First Amendment only protects "public discourse necessary to self-government," as he slurs drag and holds it not protected.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

“They chased him, he got home and when we closed the door they shot him.” MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...