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madmayday.bsky.social
I draw and make paintings, and write about gardening, long covid, watching civilization's last fingers slip from a cliff, and living under the great Texas hell dome.
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ICE crossed a line in LA

submitted 2 days ago • 816 comments

Thinking a lot about this meme today.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

This literally goes back to the French Revolution. The Right insisted that all unrest was fomented by elite actors, and were still insisting that was the truth, right through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was still a dominant narrative when George Rudé wrote to counter it in the 1950s.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

To be fair it's easy to be vindicated when your commitment is "the border Gestapo are evil and should not exist" Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

There's a person on Twitter who for years ended every single tweet, easily thousands of them, with "Moreover, lCE must be abolished" and I've never seen someone so vindicated in their commitment

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.

submitted 3 days ago • 238 comments

how I learned to stop worrying about black helicopters peeking in my bathroom window and love the all-seeing Eye of Sauron

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Texas lawmakers are ordering all sheriff's offices to seek federal collaboration agreements with ICE. Those agreements may be limited to jailhouses—or they may convert deputies into roving immigration agents. 🧵 texasobserver.org/legislature-... w/ @gusbova.bsky.social

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BREAKING: Texas lawmakers passed S.B. 37, which dramatically increases state control of public universities. Allowing politically appointed bureaucrats to police curricula and override faculty expertise is a direct threat to academic freedom in Texas.

submitted 9 days ago • 117 comments

😢SB37 is heading to the Governor’s desk. We fought hard against this bill, which dramatically increases state control over Texas public universities. It’s slightly improved, but don’t believe the bill’s supporters when they say it won’t lead to a brain drain. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/24/t...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Reggie Watts addresses Thom Yorke’s statement on Palestine and it’s good

submitted 10 days ago • 68 comments

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The Austin storm was bad. Just took a walk. Not a screen spared in the whole block. Most plants gone. The wind knocked down small trees and broke big ones. Saw three wooden fences down. Lost count of busted windows. All mine survived. Hope y’all are safe!

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

A fascinating view of a isolated supercell racing across Texas yesterday evening. The storm brought damaging winds and large hail to the city of Austin.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

It's a hail storm summer in Austin. It was 100 degrees just a few days ago. I'm sure this has nothing to do with global warming.

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submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

Whatever you do, do it with the confidence of a terrible idea moving inexorably through the Texas Legislature.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

OMG THERE'S VIDEO MY HEART 🥰🥰 www.wfla.com/top-videos/w...

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

get in losers! we're driving this fireball through space!

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

the first conspiracy.

submitted 18 days ago • 87 comments

Am I crazy or did we just have a convo about how we can't fund cancer research?

submitted 18 days ago • 1084 comments

11:51PM update: The Texas Senate education committee is just now resuming testimony on bills. There are students who've been waiting +12 hours to testify on legislation that directly affects them. Others have had to leave without testifying because they don't have a half-day of "sitting around" time

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments