tim d (he/him)

@doormouse12.bsky.social

competition is boring . my new zine--> https://timdevin.com/gardenzine.html my zine on Italian American mutual aid--> http://timdevin.com/mutuosoccorso.html

a wonderful memory from a few years ago: [scene: a meeting at work] my coworker: did you give a talk at [local high school] recently? me: yup! coworker: did you tell the students about the Lucy Parsons Center [a local leftist bookstore] and encourage them to go? me: ummm

We need to decisively and collectively demand that every single anti-ICE protester be freed and have their charges dropped - from the Minneapolis 15, the Praireland Defendants, pro-Palestine demonstrators in Michigan, the Spokane 3 - everyone.

We've argued since 2014 that state power is a hot potato. In a globalized world, governments can't mitigate the impact of capitalism—so whoever holds power loses popularity. It's good to see Trump losing control. But we'll keep see-sawing back and forth between parties until we make real changes.

A screenshot from the New York Times reading

Live forecast ›
Democrats are on pace to win dozens of House seats

Democrats are also favored to win crucial Senate seats in Republican strongholds like Texas and Kansas.

Control of Senate
Very likely Dem.

>95% chance

Control of House
Very likely Dem.

>95% chance

www.masslive.com/news/2026/11... the City of Lawrence is going after "the homeless church" for not only allowing tents on their private property -- but also for leasing portopotties, setting up outdoor lighting, and doing what they can to give our unhoused neighbors a safe and clean area to stay.

Mass. ‘homeless church’ will dissolve tent community on its own property after order from city

House of Mercy Church in Lawrence was ordered to dismantle a organized tent community it established on private property, displacing roughly 60 homeless residents who had found stability there.

masslive.com

what's fun about the "i'm not a robot" checks when I do a google searche is it just reminds me not to use google as soon as i see them, i think "oh, that's right," and i go over to duckduckgo thanks google!

The MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) has decided to pay tribute to Native people in Massachusetts by posting a photo of Navajo people. 🤡🤡🤡 I guess we must all look alike to them.

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i will never understand the "but he has a family" thing, we all do and yet the people who tear other families apart get to hide behind the fact that they themselves are a part of one

a partial list: First Red Scare, 1917-20 WW2 Office of Censorship, 1939-45 Project Shamrock, 1945-75 House Un-American Activities Committee, 1938-1954 Second Red Scare, 1947-1954 COINTELPRO, 1956-1971 FISA-approved warrantless wiretapping, 1978- Patriot Act's warrantless wiretapping, 2001-2013

ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History

ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.

wired.com

a partial list: First Red Scare, 1917-20 WW2 Office of Censorship, 1939-45 Project Shamrock, 1945-75 House Un-American Activities Committee, 1938-1954 Second Red Scare, 1947-1954 COINTELPRO, 1956-1971 FISA-approved warrantless wiretapping, 1978- Patriot Act's warrantless wiretapping, 2001-2013

ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History

ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.

wired.com

fav part of the somerville community meeting on the new overnight warming shelter: when a grumpy-looking lady stood up and said that her neighborhood "has already been affected by all the section 8 people" and it wasn't fair to throw unhoused people onto her street as well

Bolsonaro, Vucic and Orban out, Flamingo and Cockroach Revolutions, French uprising and Iberian housing movements, Nepal and Bangladesh popular insurrection, Iranian and Serbian movements, these too are heralds of the current moment. We are once again in a time of movement and revolution