drew beck

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

Cc @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social

This train!!

Her (2013)

Miracle earth

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

Something wild about some men finally finding something they'll listen to and it's AI.

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

This is good. These days it’s hard not to Zizek as the critical theory Jordan Peterson — vibes-based political and cultural analysis, validating our intelligence while remaining steadfastly entertaining. He represented perhaps the peak and also the end of critical theory mania.

Seen in Berkeley artist unknown Red Lines Built Your Berkeley Home

#OtD 15 Sep 1983 Michael Stewart, a 25-year-old Black student, was beaten to death by 10 NYPD officers after being caught painting graffiti. The medical examiner then helped them cover up the murder. No officers were convicted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8745...

The remedy ofc isn't his friends voting in primaries – there aren't enough wealthy people to move the needle via voting. No, it's 'civic entrepreneurship' aka lobbying and otherwise spending money to get the people you want elected. Calling it "philanthropy" is how you justify this to yourself.

Bad apples, you know. Cops and klan etc etc

"Why aren't you like me 😡" is pernicious and growing past it is how we survive together.

Hugh Mangum, an photographer, travelled all across the US from the 1890s till his death in 1922s. Possibly ignoring segregation laws in some places he welcomed everybody in front of his camera. The results are fantastic. If only these photos could talk. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Ma...

There's a wonderful book about Hugh and his work; www.amazon.com/Where-Find-O...

Critical theory is back, baby!

The whole point of parties is assembling 50% +1 of the vote by acting in the interests of whomever you need to total up to that. How can anyone blame trans folks (or anyone else) for suggesting their votes are conditional on support from the party?! It’s literally the party’s only job.

BOB DYLAN writing in The New York Times on being 80. We’re so used to Dylan being an enigmatic & elusive trickster that it’s always a delightful surprise when he writes something so personal, heartfelt and wise.

This is such a good series!! Watch them all.

More than 3000 people died of AIDS every year in NYC between 1987 and 1997. Between 1991 and 1996, it was over 6000 per year, peaking at above 8000 in 1994 and 1995. The scale of suffering and loss was magnified by the fear and stigmatization attached to it. Unimaginably tragic.

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Sky of blackness and sorrow Sky of love, sky of tears Sky of glory and sadness Sky of mercy, sky of fear Sky of memory and shadow Your burnin’ wind fills my arms tonight Sky of longing and emptiness Sky of fullness, sky of blessed life

9/11/2003 I think the memorial lights are beautiful and perfect and elegant.

I think we'd see a lot more urgency about regulating AI in Silicon Valley if the AI agents suddenly developed a sense of restorative justice, and instead of them threatening humanity with total extinction, they just wanted to redistribute wealth and reverse power hierarchies.

Indeed! Happy 80th birthday, Freddie Mercury! One of the most masterful frontmen & bridges between his embodiment of the music & the audience in front of him. He seems so present & connected in every second here. #Music #MusicSky #MusicianSky

even now, she's still teaching us

I recently finished a book called "Revenge For the Sixties" by Peter Canellos about Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito. But I wanna focus specifically on the book title here, because that's what I believe is going on here, and it even alludes to it in the article 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...

ok I had to force down a tear with this one reskeeting with alt text

prairie dogs should be called range rovers

Got a ridiculously over the top frame for the @pantspants.bsky.social print

@jonbois.bsky.social watching baseball

Hampshire thread and story 💔💔💔

250 million birds flew across America last night, tracked by radar. Migration season is upon us, and it’s wilder than you could imagine. Birdcast’s live migration maps and forecasts (from Cornell Lab of Ornithology) are brilliant, and you can find them here. birdcast.org/migration-to...

What the fuck