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From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though
A screenshot of a cat litter box from Chewy, featuring a very pretty fluffy white cat sitting in a round automatic litter box and staring into the distance like he's about to boldly go
i am shopping for a new cat litter box and i need to share with y'all this lil poopin' cosmonaut preparing to boldly go
I literally had a dream about it last night 😂 of course it was a stressful dream because of my dumb brain lol I opened the game to find that two of my favorite villagers had randomly been replaced with bad ones 😂
Like apparently the penultimate episode was the lowest-rated episode of ST ever, on par with the GOT finale, which is absolutely wild because the GOT finale was a travesty and ST was perfectly fine and enjoyable???
Binged all of s5 of stranger things with April over the last few days and honestly don't understand all the super dramatic complaints I've been seeing; we had a great time and I think they did a good job of wrapping things up in a way that feels satisfying 🤷🏻♀️
A selfie of a woman with wavy light peachy hair with long brown roots, wearing a black kn95 mask, with a gold chain with old-fashioned Christmas light baubles on it across the front of the mask.
A selfie of a woman with wavy light peachy hair with long brown roots, wearing a black kn95 mask, with a gold chain with old-fashioned Christmas light baubles on it across the front of the mask.
A photo of a clear package holding a gold chain with jingle bells and other baubles spaced out across it. The label says "Trucker Hat Chain" and has a photo of the chain across the bill of a hat.
Cute holiday hack for the #CovidConscious— these "trucker hat chains" from Michael's are perfect for sprucing up your mask! ✨❄️🎄
A selection of art styles with text reading "Which style(s) should I offer for comms?"
We are really struggling to make ends meet right now so I'm going to open some "YCH (your character here)" style comms.
Which style(s) would you be interested in if I offered them? I'm thinking of asking $10-$25 depending on the complexity.
Thx for the help.
A friendly pumpkin sitting in a pumpkin patch.
Some art I did for a Halloween contest ✨
Stop asking me if I'm interested in AI mode. I will never be interested in AI mode.
painting of a black cat inside a jack o lantern they are both looking towards a glowing crescent moon
2 pals stargazing <3
HIIIII COMMUNITY! 👋 Wow. THIS SUNDAY, October 19th from 10AM - 4PM at Washington Park Lake House in Albany is A BIG GAY MARKET! 🌈 This guide includes tips on parking, best ways to get to the market, our full schedule, our most up to date map, and MORE! 🎉
Needing to remember this today
We'll be here in spot 77 (Purple Starlight Art) on Sunday!
Lunacon IV, A Japanese Cultural Festival held at the Luna Cat Cafe in Syracuse, NY, 9/13/25, 11 AM to 8PM. Find Vendors, Food, Gaming, Cosplay, and Cats!
If you're in/around Syracuse, NY tomorrow, come check out @thesimbiote.bsky.social and @bloodofstarsart.bsky.social's booth at #LunaconIV! A Japanese Cultural Festival where you'll find Art Vendors, Gaming, Food, and Cats!
I just really fucking love being queer, actually
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
A screenshot of the top part of my home page on the storygraph app, showing the phone's top bar with notifications, battery, signal, etc over top of the app's search bar and menu icon
I don't know if it was an update in the storygraph app or my phone, but the search bar & menu are both fully behind the notification bar and unable to be interacted with 🙃
I get that the phone wants to have maximum display space, but this happens often enough that I wish it just had a regular bar
The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
www.instagram.com/reel/DJ9pW2W... this is the one I'm thinking of, but I don't know anything about them haha
Have you seen the video with the little girl sticking fairy lights into cicada shells? 😂
A character stretching on their balcony full of flower, surrounded by their ghost cats. The main subject is wearing a witch hat and holding a magic wand.
Stretching. 🧘
This is so cute omg
I don't really know anything about binders, unfortunately!
Selfie of me, a woman with wavy peachy hair, wearing a light purple and pink corset and an Evenstar necklace. There's a Snapchat filter giving me sparkles across my nose and cheeks
Photo of me with April, who's wearing a bright green dress and a neck fan, with a bright leafy background
A photo of me in the same outfit as before, but you can see my green seashell earrings
A full-body photo of me sitting on a large wooden chair with a flower garland on it. I'm wearing a light purple and pink corset, a short, bright pink skirt, and tennis shoes, and am holding a colorful cane.
Faerie Fest yesterday! First time wearing a corset and it did an amazing job at keeping my wiggly bones in place, so I think I need to get more of them 😂 We had fun and got some cool art from the vendors, and amazingly didn't sweat into puddles!
You really can't catch a break 😭
Remember making art and expressing joy is a form of protest. They want you to be overwhelmed and lose sight of the beauty around you. They want to distract you and control your gaze to be locked in fear. Dare to look and gaze on the world around you with joy and wonder.
@clairewillett honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion 6:00 PM • Aug 12, 2020
once again I must tap my own sign
How dare my disability disable me. RUDE.