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

huge rec for Emily Larned's latest. this one discusses the importance of reprinting lost or forgotten work from radical thinkers and those on the margins (which is something she's been doing with her Alder and Franklin press for years)

cover of the zine "why reissue?"At the same time, I would argue that reissuing isn't
necessarily nostalgic. It certainly isn't about imagining
the past was better-rather, quite the opposite: the past's
resemblance to the present is uncanny, both had many
awful aspects-and therefore we can learn from how
people addressed specific problems that still plague us.
That, at least, is a motivation for me in the reissuing of
feminist ephemera.met at an art book fair earlier this year. While wearing a
Whole Earth Catalog3 hat, Eric asked me about my reissu-s
 I explained that I had probably gotten the idea from
music reissues, and, of course, I was a lover of print: of
paper and materials and typefaces and printing, folding
structures, formats, their materiality, and their social
lives: how they are part of our everyday. But, to me, the
most interesting of these print materials are those that
offer overlooked insights-things that may have been
dead-ends at the time, but that, if they had been fol-
lowed to their logical conclusion, perhaps could
have contributed to a more desirable present. In that
sense, these found publications reinforce the arbitrari-
ness of the now: that things could have been otherwise.
He nodded and said, "Sometimes it is right idea, wrong
time. So you are picking up batons dropped in the past,
and carrying them forward to the future." That is exactly
it. Spotting the dropped baton, carrying it to the current
moment, looking for the right person to pass to.showing the hidden pages between each text page