andyaf

andyaf

@andyaf.bsky.social

Born to be alive 🎹 Musician, writer. Love nature, science, books, documentaries, horror, surrealism, colored vinyl, cycling & 🏀. Loud abt universal healthcare, disability justice, anti-fascism, anti-genocide.

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"Raul" is harvesting oranges in Delano CA. We go up and down ladders with a 70lb bags and filling a 900 lb bin. We get paid $24/bin. If I go really fast, in a 5 hr work day, I managed to fill 5 bins It is very hard to move up and down the ladder with a heavy bag." #WeFeedYou

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If you want to know what is happening right now then a recommended follow is Sarah Kendzior. I’d also say to buy her books and subscribe to her newsletter; these are insightful, incredibly eloquent, and provide a steady, clear voice with much needed context in a time when not much makes sense.

Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social

New interview! On the Israel-US war on Iran, Jeffrey Epstein, and the forces behind both: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zobD...

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Reminder that the FBI is still refusing to let local law enforcement in on the investigation into Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s deaths. This is a cover up in plain sight.

The terrorism inside Alligator Alcatraz continues "..reports of mosquito infestations, flooding, poor medical care, and lackluster food and limited water access.. Most of the detainees are from Latin America, according to the ACLU. Many, as the Miami Herald reported, do not have criminal records."

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

“Week after week, I’ve come here, and I’ve felt stronger. I feel love, I feel empathy, compassion from absolute strangers.” Arianne Betancourt quit her job to fight for her father’s freedom—and for everyone else inside Alligator Alcatraz.

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A UAE firm dropped $187M into Trump's crypto company months before his admin approved the sale of advanced AI chips to the UAE. This jaw dropping conflict of interest degrades our national security. Is Trump conducting policy to advance American interests or his own bottom line?

When I hear tech bros yapping abt computer-humans they all sound like clueless teenage sci-fi dorks. Sure, Jan. Kill the humans, kill the planet, who needs 'em bc the flying robots who don't need air, water, or a desire for life or living things of any kind will be in charge.

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social

I made a deep dive video into the TESCREAL ideology shaping Silicon Valley’s biggest companies and the AI arms race, and how a shocking number of tech billionaires are pro-human extinction

A shockingly large # of Americans embrace a chaotic, terrorized society in to "feel more safe." The nazi playbook on full display in 2026.

Doug Aoki 青木定夫@nantanreikan.bsky.social

Minneapolis, after the murder of Renee Nicole Good.

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Call to Activism- Joe Gallina 🚨A video is going viral showing a sign language interpreter the moment Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey told ICE to “get the f*ck out of Minneapolis.” She understood the assignment. 😎

ICE terrorists murdered her in broad daylight

Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

The US has always been this way, but now with unstable, pedo sociopaths in charge. Watching Pete Hegsworth brag like a douche frat boy abt the illegal bombing and kidnapping is next level sadistic fascism.

Just Jack@just-jack-1.bsky.social

When America abdicates its role as a defender of freedom and becomes the oppressor, it emboldens dictators everywhere. We are about to learn some hard lessons. One being how instrumental we used to be at preventing the world from descending into madness.

He just openly announced "our oil companies are going in to rebuild their infrastructure". KIdnapping, theft and pillaging completely out in the open, vs how the US normally Fs with Latin America.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

These guys have fantasies of living in secure bubbles, only interacting with other billionaire elites. But who will cook their food, clean their houses & landscape the estate? As the wealth gap increases, their paranoia will skyrocket. As it should, if history is any indication.

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All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

60 Minutes@60minutes.bsky.social

An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes

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“The same systems that made sure Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color were last in line for clean air, safe housing, and political power are the same ones making sure we’re also first in line to drown, burn, or be displaced.” - @merirei.com My first for @unicornriot.bsky.social

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U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

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Replying to @brownecfm.bsky.social

So chicken farms have started spending millions of dollars putting in state of the art air filtration and circulation systems - because culling whole flocks to mitigate avian flu is expensive - but we have done zero to improve air quality in schools - because kids are expendable I guess.

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Losing 77 billion dollars making something no one wants and pivoting to another thing that no one wants

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead (via WSJ)

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“Back in 2020, many voices on cable news and in the media openly called for the mass infection of an unvaccinated population, including children, with a brand new SARS virus. Knowing very little about this new virus, they proclaimed that there was nothing more to understand.” #COVID

Pandemic 𓅃. Index@panaccindex.bsky.social

🚨 ANSWERED: Does COVID-19 Harm the Brain? Here is an (organized) mountain of 60 studies detailing COVID-19's impacts on the brain, as well as a useful video by @daniellebeckman.bsky.social & @davidjoffe64.bsky.social 👇 READ, SHARE WIDELY, SUBSCRIBE: www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-d...

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Replying to @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Lessons from the Nuremberg Trials of 1946, when Nazi leaders were tried for their crimes against humanity. “I followed orders” and “I didn’t know” were not accepted. Lest that pattern of government cruelty, crime & corruption repeat here #DefendTheConstitution #HistoryMatters 🇺🇸 youtu.be/RsA6AdCRI-k

youtu.beWhat Happened at the Nuremberg Trials? | HistoryYouTube video by HISTORY

Why is there always only a tiny portion of congress willing to aikido the script of Right Wing media jackasses? Congressman Neguse (CO) appropriately rephrases the Q.

Cory Booker@corybooker.com

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

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To the craven "comedians" who are STILL not speaking up: The manager at the Chicago Laugh Factory was arrested by ICE. They filed no charges, he's a US citizen, and his family doesn't know where he is. They are coming for all of us. Grow a fucking spine and say something while you still can.

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Republicans are taking away health care from 15 million Americans. They are doubling premiums for 20 million. Now, they are illegally withholding emergency SNAP funding that keeps millions of children from going hungry. All so they can give $1 trillion in tax breaks to the 1%.

Mark Cuban graduated from the Reagan school of Trickle Down economics. Over 40 yrs this has decimated the middle class. And. The stock market existed in the 70s when the rich still paid their fare share. Tax loopholes for the rich gave us billionaires. Who still, apparently, don't have enough.

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As long as we continue to allow reckless predatory capitalism to enrich a small global few w more money than God, let alone entire countries, we'll continue to churn out mini Musks & Trumps that want us replaced by AI or working as slaves.