Toby Bartels
Probably the only anglophone Toby Bartels. They/them. Mathematics instructor at a community college in Nebraska. Tolstoyan ex-Catholic. 🏴🚩🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ mathstodon.xyz/@TobyBartels/
- Reposted by Toby BartelsThe world factbook was an invaluable resource in asylum petitions—a place where the federal government acknowledged in writing that, for example, Tibetans face systematic repression in China. I don’t like to have it vanish.
- Add the CIA World Factbook to the long and growing list of disappearing government datasets: www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
- Reposted by Toby Bartelsas i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.
- Reposted by Toby BartelsSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by Toby BartelsI have FOIAd the CIA World Factbook and the reasons for its removal
- The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- Reposted by Toby BartelsICE has been holding a disabled double amputee named Rodney Taylor in a camp for a year. He’s been in the US since he was two years old. It’s all he knows. When they detained him, they denied him access to new prosthetic legs. His health is declining.
- Reposted by Toby Bartels⛓️CONCENTRATION CAMPS & INCINERATORS—D.H.S. is setting up a huge network of camps. They are converting the U.S. as a region for ‘expeditionary military deployment’ & no-bid no-public-comment contracts to build a “ghost network” of 10,000-person concentration camps. Jesus. Thread 🧵
- Reposted by Toby BartelsNot an @aaup.org member yet? Join today: www.aaup.org/join
- “Faculty are now seeing the AAUP as the only place where their issues, their interests and their jobs are being protected against the legislature and the IU administration.” — David McDonald, AAUP Indiana University President @iubaaup.bsky.social
- Reposted by Toby BartelsNEW: Letitia James, the New York attorney general, announced that her office will deploy "legal observers" to document ICE activity in NY. Her office says the effort is the first of its kind by an AG. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/n...
- Reposted by Toby BartelsFloored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
- Reposted by Toby BartelsThis is unconstitutional — it’s that simple. And it’s what Jack Smith warned us about. Without accountability for Jan 6th and his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, Trump will keep acting to subvert our elections. nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/polit…
- Reposted by Toby BartelsYour genes are not your Self. They're not immortality, not a connection to the future, not the true reality beneath the world of appearances, and not the scorecard in the game of life.
- Reposted by Toby BartelsDoes anyone have a Punchbowl Premium+ Tech subscription? I literally cannot afford to buy one. #section230 punchbowl.news/article/tech...
- Reposted by Toby BartelsYesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
- Reposted by Toby Bartels2026 is going to be a great year to run for office. Filing deadlines are coming up fast -- in most places, it's not too late to get on the ballot. We'll help you get started. runforwhat.net
- Reposted by Toby BartelsA 🧵re protective masks for ICE protesters (in Minneapolis MN and elsewhere). I am not a scientist, but my BF has a PhD in inorganic chemistry and provided this info to me so I could provide it to you. Please share and re-post it widely. It may save someone, esp. from green gas ICE is using (1/x)
- Reposted by Toby BartelsAlt text because you're busy: people in clouds of teargas at the Portland, Oregon ICE jail. A protest sign says FASCISM crossed off by a red bar.
- Reposted by Toby BartelsJust experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
- Reposted by Toby BartelsThey keep trying to remake good movies but theres a lot of bad movies that have good ideas that were just horribly executed that should get that sweet remake money instead
