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Joe Payne

@politicalpayne

Award-winning journalist and writer, musician, husband, MA in History at Cal Poly SLO focusing on Indigenous resistance in California’s Missions, socialist. Political Payne on YouTube https://youtube.com/@politicalpayne2480 #LeftIsBest

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This is eugenics

02.03.2026 22:54 👍 193 🔁 94 💬 6 📌 0
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Trump just started ANOTHER illegal and immoral war.
#fdt #iran #unitedstates #trump #fyp

28.02.2026 08:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ICE Agents assaulted an 80-year-old defense attorney in Santa Barbara on February 20, 2026, after he tried to help a man ICE arrested after accusing him of slashing the tires of their vehicle outside of the Santa Barbara Probation Office.
#fyp #santabarbara #california #centralcoast #immigration

21.02.2026 09:12 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Congress kinda wild lately…

#fyp #congress #pambondi #politics #epstein

13.02.2026 07:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A On the payroll. A new "pro-growth" centrist Democrat dark money group — pushing for, you guessed it, deregulation — has turned up on Capitol Hill, and it's being led by a former lawmaker-turned-lobbyist for OpenAI, the Big Tech behemoth behind ChatGPT. In 2025, former Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-III.) also lobbied on behalf of Oracle, the computing giant led by MAGA megadonor Larry Ellison, and the Solana Policy Institute, a cryptocurrency advocacy group.
• Bustos will now serve as president of Next American Era, a nonprofit aligned with the anti-progressive Abundance movement to "[make] it easier to build and to generate opportunity" by cutting so-called red tape.

A On the payroll. A new "pro-growth" centrist Democrat dark money group — pushing for, you guessed it, deregulation — has turned up on Capitol Hill, and it's being led by a former lawmaker-turned-lobbyist for OpenAI, the Big Tech behemoth behind ChatGPT. In 2025, former Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-III.) also lobbied on behalf of Oracle, the computing giant led by MAGA megadonor Larry Ellison, and the Solana Policy Institute, a cryptocurrency advocacy group. • Bustos will now serve as president of Next American Era, a nonprofit aligned with the anti-progressive Abundance movement to "[make] it easier to build and to generate opportunity" by cutting so-called red tape.

Shocked. Shocked, I say, to find that Abundance is, in fact, a smuggle for tech fascism.

Courtesy @levernews.com

09.02.2026 18:19 👍 262 🔁 90 💬 8 📌 7
Santa Maria CA Stands in Solidarity with Victims of ICE/DHS Violence #santamaria #california
Santa Maria CA Stands in Solidarity with Victims of ICE/DHS Violence #santamaria #california YouTube video by Political Payne

SANTA MARIA, CA
@politicalpayne.bsky.social
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03.02.2026 21:50 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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More than 250 people showed up to downtown Santa Maria, CA on Feb. 1, 2026 to stand in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis and all the lives lost to ICE and DHS agents deployed by the Trump Administration’s tyrannical mass deportation. #fyp #santamariacalifornia #805 #santamariavalley #iceout

03.02.2026 20:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for sharing my work! I’m also trying to upload these here to Bsky as well. Appreciate you!

bsky.app/profile/poli...

02.02.2026 22:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Interview with Ricardo Valencia at ICE Out of 805 protest in Santa Maria, CA 2-1-2026
Interview with Ricardo Valencia at ICE Out of 805 protest in Santa Maria, CA 2-1-2026 YouTube video by Political Payne

Santa Maria, CA
ICE OUT OF 805!
@politicalpayne.bsky.social

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02.02.2026 21:48 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Interview with Ricardo Valencia, candidate for fifth district Santa Barbara County supervisor, at the ICE Out of 805 protest in downtown Santa Maria, California on February 1, 2026.

#fyp #santamariavalley #santabarbaracounty #santamariacalifornia #805

02.02.2026 20:29 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Interview with US Veteran whose father was detained by ICE and the Trump administration. Downtown Santa Maria, California, February 1, 2026.
#fyp #santamariacalifornia #santamariavalley #fdt #politics

02.02.2026 06:58 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Interview with Dustin at the ICE Out of 805 protest in downtown Santa Maria, CA, 2/1/2026.

#fyp #santamariacalifornia #santamariavalley #805 #fdt

02.02.2026 06:49 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is

01.02.2026 01:13 👍 7940 🔁 1751 💬 45 📌 41

The elite pedophile ringleaders are expanding concentration camps and attempting to normalize roving deathsquads across the country. Human traffickers and serial killers trying to take their sick fetish nationwide.

01.02.2026 06:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
~ Hannah Arendt

02.11.2025 07:21 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Fuck

31.10.2025 17:04 👍 43 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 1
The Telegraph Headline: New Covid virus found in wild Brazilian bats


Subhed: The discovery of a ‘furin cleavage site’ suggests the mutation which helps the virus adapt to humans is naturally occurring

The Telegraph Headline: New Covid virus found in wild Brazilian bats Subhed: The discovery of a ‘furin cleavage site’ suggests the mutation which helps the virus adapt to humans is naturally occurring

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories.

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

31.10.2025 15:51 👍 4356 🔁 1378 💬 135 📌 91

Forcing down throats: Billy gets time out instead of recess because he called Timmy a bundle of sticks.

Not forcing down our throats: The literal armed forces occupying our cities.

30.10.2025 20:40 👍 97 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 0
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This is several days old. But amidst so much else id missed it. That’s a stunning number. No wonder they about-faced. Reminder of the power of consumers in oligarch era, not subject to the same kind of targeting.

26.10.2025 00:38 👍 7772 🔁 1769 💬 236 📌 147

Imagine if in another country the president’s masked army racially profiled in opposition areas as he enriches himself (even raiding the treasury), oligarchs renovated a massive ballroom for him, and his unofficial top advisor said he won’t leave.

Is this how democracies end?

24.10.2025 02:39 👍 4609 🔁 1413 💬 301 📌 85
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ICE agents can be arrested over unlawful actions, Chicago judge rules A federal judge says ICE broke the law with warrantless arrests—and officers who do it again could face charges.

A federal judge has ruled ICE repeatedly violated the law — illegally detaining people without warrants in the Midwest. Now, ICE must retrain agents, report all warrantless arrests, and document the facts behind each one. Even federal agents must follow the law!

23.10.2025 20:11 👍 133 🔁 38 💬 5 📌 3
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Chumash Revolution Thesis Published! After four years of undergraduate and graduate study in History at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, I am proud to share that my Masters Thesis about the largest Indigenous revolution against the Californi…

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Want to learn about the largest mass Indigenous resistance against the California Missions? Check out my website post and recently published thesis about the revolutionary Chumash in 1824:

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #IndigenousResistance

politicalpayne.com/2025/10/12/c...

14.10.2025 05:34 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And the left gets accused of a circular firing squad. I know of federal prison guards who supported MAGA and have been disrespected by ICE agents coming into their facility and now just had their union broken up. They never think it will come for them.

13.10.2025 15:54 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Masters Thesis about the largest Indigenous uprising against the California Mission system is published! Check out my examination of the revolutionary actions of the Chumash in 1824 at the three missions in current day Santa Barbara County:
digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcont...

01.10.2025 16:21 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

Trump has admitted USA doesn’t need Camp Pendleton.

Let’s give it back to the indigenous population in a manner of their choosing.

02.10.2025 10:12 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Indigenous Uprising in the California Missions ft. Joe Payne YouTube video by THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast

And thanks to Jason Myles for having me on This is Revolution to discuss as well: www.youtube.com/live/cipSwKB...

01.10.2025 16:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Varn Vlog:  Joe Payne on the Chumash War, History, and Journalism
Varn Vlog: Joe Payne on the Chumash War, History, and Journalism YouTube video by C. Derick Varn

I’ve also talked about my scholarship on a few podcasts including on Varn Vlog @varnvlog.bsky.social

youtu.be/2ioXMrRBgsM?...

01.10.2025 16:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Chumash Revolution of 1824 against the California Missions with Marianne Parra, Chumash descendant
Chumash Revolution of 1824 against the California Missions with Marianne Parra, Chumash descendant YouTube video by Political Payne

If you want to get familiar with the subject (but with less reading) check out this interview I did with Chumash Elder Marianne Parra, which I cited in the thesis.

youtu.be/wGgwVm3fw14?...

01.10.2025 16:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My Masters Thesis about the largest Indigenous uprising against the California Mission system is published! Check out my examination of the revolutionary actions of the Chumash in 1824 at the three missions in current day Santa Barbara County:
digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcont...

01.10.2025 16:21 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

You in the starter packs homie ✌️

01.10.2025 15:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0