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(He/him). I draw power lines and TVs and do urban landscape photography. Metro-Detroit. Abolish police. Free Palestine. Trans rights. Art store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com Main art website: marcusjmerritt.com Tips: https://ko-fi.com/marcusjmerritt
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I'm excited to partner with Pingree Detroit in debuting this stunning wooden dice tray: Modular design with a recycled seat belt liner and recycled leather for dozens of color combos. Reclaimed wood by local ASW Detroit. A one of a kind piece that's 100% sustainable and 100% Detroit! 1/2

“OMG they’re rioting in L.A.!!” Meanwhile, in the beautiful landscape that is Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles. 💙

Ferndale, Michigan, April 2025

Some cops are going to outright kill some protestors soon, and it will be important to remember it's the way cops and the rich and Trump have funded and stoked collective fantasies of authoritarian murder that will have caused those deaths, not the protestors or any ways of protesting

I did not see this, but since I'm doing belated burning Waymo takes today, I'll just say: sympathizing with technology over humans is a deeply troubling sign of sociopathy. In case it wasn't already obvious, A16Z is a hive of profound and malignant mental illness.

Ferndale, Michigan, November 2024

Ferndale, Michigan, November 2024

Ferndale, Michigan, December 2024

DAY TWO!!!!

Our family is having to deal with this phenomenon too, at least it hasn’t entered very dangerous territory yet. But there are big problems that could be resolved if at least the LLMs stopped being so accommodating to a person’s delusions.

DONNIE DARKO (2001)

Cyrus's new LP is all grown up. Its out! All preorders have been shipped and I have about 30 copies left. Get em while ya can on the Palilalia bandcamp. cyruspireh.bandcamp.com/album/thank-...

Make Americas Gestapo afraid.

make these scared losers even more afraid make the racists AFRAID like the cowards they are

NEW: Following Judge Farbiarz’s ruling on Wednesday, Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers today seek an order that he be released “forthwith.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This should come up every time you load the app.

"I didn't forgive then, and I don't forgive now," Malcolm Graham, whose sister was killed in the 2015 Mother Emanuel shooting, told me. I wrote about the 10 years since the attack — and some families' belief that the focus on forgiveness has cost them justice. capitalbnews.org/mother-emanu...

If you didn’t know I’ve made quite a number of images based on this theme and they are all at @today-maybe.bsky.social. They are all about whatever you want them to be about.

ICYMI! A thread of some of the most powerful passages from Judge Breyer’s opinion ruling against the Trump admin. (The Ninth Circuit has stayed the order for now as it reviews it.)

"Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful." @chenoweth.bsky.social @djpressman.bsky.social (w/ Soha Hammam and Chris Shay)

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

Fifteen seconds of spiraling Ferris wheel lights

“What they are encouraging is for all the officers to violate the law, and now you don't even have to document it."

A few photos from today's march against ICE raids and kidnapppings in Chicago.

Well now... Four detainees unaccounted for. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

My dad has one of these that he stole from England many decades ago. Rare instance of somebody getting one of *their* antiquities

Strangely helpful.

L.A. TACO has confirmed that ICE has detained two taqueros at Jason’s Tacos , a taco truck specializing in al pastor located on Whittier Boulevard and Bradshawe Street in East Los Angeles. @theglutster.bsky.social reporting for L.A. TACO

L.A. TACO has had some of the best coverage

Fifteen seconds of spiraling Ferris wheel lights

Fun fact about Kristi Noem is she’s been barred by tribal governments from setting foot on most tribal land in South Dakota (where she was governor) because she sucks. She’s not even fully assimilated into the society that exists within the borders of the country she longs to expel people from

Delaney Hall is where Baraka was arrested.

Legal question: If Trump's call-up of the National Guard was illegal, then what authority did (and does) the National Guard have on the streets of LA, where they brutalized and injured dozens of protesters.

‼️‼️Report of tear gas being used INSIDE an ICE detention center in NJ

🚨Major development in California.

So now you can be arrested without a warrant for crimes that they have no proof of, and you will be disappeared into a concentration camp outside of the reach of the judicial system… The Republicans are setting up a system of ethnic cleansing and genocide at an industrial scale

Anyone know why there's a cpd helicopter circling Beverly

Yeah, I haven't left my house since last Thursday when I went to DTLA for a blood test, then stopped at Superior to withdraw my rent money & pick up some tamales for Elderly Housemate. My Anglo sounding name and my mixed/Northeast Mexican heritage give me some privilege but even I don't feel safe.

It’s incredibly worrying to see this. W/28k followers, I don’t know if this is part of some disinfo network or a genuinely well meaning, but horrifically misinformed, unexperienced person. But (a) don’t do this. And (b), the “agent provocateur” narratives are harmful w/o info.