Trip Kirkpatrick
Trying to stop being the wrong kinds of annoying and to start being the right kinds of annoying.
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- The carilloneureuse just played "Mary Had a Little Lamb", and I'm not sure if it's a clever senior signing off or tutorial mode for a newb/tourist/nibling.
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- Nudged first by the excerpts posted here and then by bsky.app/profile/jack..., I remembered wanting to mention what I call "productive naïveté". It can be so communitarian and helpful to ask questions nobody else will/can.
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- TODAY! RIGHT NOW!
- 4 days to gather in New Haven to ask a second time, Who Owns Black Data? This year's theme is "The Past in Danger." Carla Hayden, the most qualified person to ever hold the position of chief librarian was just fired yesterday. We don't think we exaggerate when we say the past is in danger. #wobd2025
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- This is what the papacy is all about, meeting directly with the sinners of the world.
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- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickWell, I said some pointed things today about JD Vance and hiss reading of Catholicism on NPR's On Point. Catch it today if you can.
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- And @bakerdphd.bsky.social said CT had no culture. 😂
- #NutmegSky If you lost federal funding recently, Connecticut would like to know. Report confirmed issues at www.appsvcs.opm.ct.gov/FedImpact My gloss is that you should report issues even if they are covered by an ongoing civil suit or other judicial process, just don't report hearsay.
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- The text on yet another petition pithily encapsulates the bewilderment at a feckless opposition: "Trump has crossed another dangerous line" Yep, and?
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- 100 people vs -, –, and —
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- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickI've shared so many concrete examples including trainings, toolkits etc... of ICE WATCH, ICE Rapid Response Networks etc... I would honestly be surprised if anyone who has come across the resources has followed up on them. The gap between "outrage" and action is the size of the Grand Canyon.
- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickI hope it is very clear what antisemitism looks like, and I'll tell you what, it's not an op-ed condemning genocide. Consider that while Rumeysa Öztürk spent 6 weeks in prison for her constitutionally protected speech, the president's friend wouldn't dream of worrying about such a thing.
- A better world is possible.
- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickFYI I only post gfm accounts for victims of the war in Gaza that are verified. If you come into my mentions accusing the people I post of running scams I will block you. Their lives are at stake.
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- It's like the wuxia scenes of the protagonist fighting of an impossible number of attackers.
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- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickThis is a good interview and not because of the shout out (although thank you!). It accurately points out how anti-science tech has become. The thermodynamics point alone is worth the read. Because it’s become a folk theory among AI shills but their science is wrong!
- @adambecker.bsky.social I didn't know who you were when I woke up today, but an author quoting @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and Ursula LeGuin in an article about why, among other things, colonizing Mars is a delusional fantasy hits every checkbox I need to go buy your book.
- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickJoin NYCPLAN.org for the NYC Public Library People’s Assembly next Saturday, May 17th from 1:30–5:30pm at Greenpoint Reformed Church in Brooklyn. We’ll have lunch available starting at 1:00pm! NYCLibraryAssembly.eventbrite.com
- Reposted by Trip Kirkpatrick1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier
- It's always time to take strong political action AND Students are gone, graduation is on the 19th, reunions the weekend after that. I worry these students are going to get defeated by a highly motivated administration when there's hardly anyone around to bear witness.
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- Especially men.
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- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickCould not agree more! My book, Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War, traces exactly this transatlantic connection between apartheid and the American right from 1980 to 1994. Out with Columbia University Press late 2025/early 2026!
- When you can get 10K people for a multi-day illegal rave and also big turnouts for political actions, you might have structural differences from places that aren't opposing fascism in the streets.
- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickI can't make the protest tomorrow, so I finally sat down and wrote my argument for the #TeslaTakedown: it's not just a way to express anger, but a unique opportunity to take down a seemingly untouchable oligarch, who is in fact extremely vulnerable. niedermeyer.online/2025/05/09/t...
- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickLots of #TeslaTakedown happening Saturday, May 10. In DC-MD-VA area at Tyson’s, Rockville, Georgetown at 11 am. At Arlington at 2 pm. Springfield and Baltimore happening, too. Use this map and your Zip code to find one near you. actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickAGAIN FROM THE TIPPY TIPPY TOP If you really want to fight ICE on an interpersonal level Learn how to keep your mouth shut. notice when someone is asking over personal questions about another person Be explicit about outside of actual violence and abuse There’s no reason to expose info
- “ICE can't claim to be protecting the privacy of immigrants while kicking down doors and smashing car windows,” she said. “And ICE is quick to reveal personal data when it suits their interest.” www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickThe cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickToday is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
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- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickGoing after libraries under the guise of “protecting children” will result in censorship of ALL library materials and services; vilification of librarians, resulting in us being targeted and attacked; and further defunding and even closure of libraries to “protect” the community. Fascism 101.
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- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickOld person here to say that ICE did not exist before 2003 We opened this door after 9/11 and can close it again
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- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickMayor Baraka from Newark, NJ holds a press conference detailing how GEO Group has opened an ICE detention facility without permits or inspections. They can’t even verify if there are detainees inside because GEO Group is refusing to allow city officials inside.
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- Edtechie here. Your email client likely has a way to schedule sending that email, so howsabout you do that instead? (It will be its own problem when people come in to eighty-twelve hundred emails on Monday mornings, so maybe think about other aspects of the problem, too?)
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- Good morning. Today's "Portraits in Blue" archival recording was about Wynonie Harris, who was new to me by name, though his "Good Rocking Tonight" was not. Some of his work was the R&B my people were afraid of their children hearing. www.wbgo.org/show/portrai... (today's might not be listed yet)
- Astonishingly good and foundational thread.
- Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired! www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
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- Reposted by Trip Kirkpatrick“The controversial 1,000-bed facility is owned by the private prison company GEO Group, which entered into a 15-year, $1 billion contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February.” $1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company. www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...
- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickICE opened their detention center in Newark WITHOUT permission from the city, and in violation of state law. Mayor Ras Baraka has been fighting to close it down. RT this to THANK Mayor Baraka!
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- Reposted by Trip KirkpatrickIn this interview, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman explains the sequence of events. She says the entire ICE leadership in NJ was inside the facility. Yet, they were on the phone talking to someone. Finally, the Members of Congress heard them assenting to arrest Mayor Baraka.
