I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. According to The Atlantic, they receive 47 days of training — in honor of Trump, the 47th president, naturally. Many of them, also, can barely read or write, apparently. The ones I spent the weekend following around didn’t even have proper uniforms, with some wearing sneakers. In Minnesota. In January. These dipshits are also wearing camo in the snow. They clearly do not have any training when it comes to their own weapons either. Multiple times over the last few days, I watched officers fire pepper spray balls at the feet of protestors barely a few inches away from them. These weapons are basically paintball guns full of concentrated pepper spray. So when they hit a target, they explode into the air. Which meant ICE agents regularly ended up poisoning themselves with their own weapons. I also watched two agents ask each other if a canister they were about to fire at the crowd was tear gas or a stun grenade. (It ended up being a stun grenade that then ignited the tear gas they had already shot at us, which started a fire in the street that a protestor had to help them put out.)
ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis.
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Ohio will come to rue forcing LifeWise into its schools.
A report from rural Ohio:
Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
Happy birthday to the wonderful love of my life @danacas1101.bsky.social Here’s to your next rotation around the sun. May it be filled with laughter, love, great fun, good food, friends and, family. I’m so lucky to get to be by your side for all of it! ❤️
As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is.
Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
NEWS: Major climate misinformation campaign is brewing.
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News Caster: ICE might be using retinal scans to identify people in the future.
Me appalled freaking out: *shouts* DID NOBODY WATCH THE MINORITY REPORT?!? 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
I think you’re taking Mel’s insta post a little too seriously. She was in town for a con.
Happy Anniversary @danacas1101.bsky.social ! Love you!!!
A lot of people will say "it's obviously fake" but that's missing the bigger problem. We're now having to expend more and more mental effort to ensure the media we consume is real. The ultimate effect is that everyone will distrust everything they don't want to believe. It only helps authoritarians.
And remember, the main problem isn't that you can spot it's fake, the real problem is that it will be easier and easier to dismiss reality as fake.
We cannot overstate how dangerous this is. They want to sell off our public lands, harming thousands in the process. Keep shouting from the rooftops. Tell your members to vote NO. www.kpbs.org/news/environ...
To all my fellow SSRI cuties, next week’s weather was not made for us.
Be sure to stay cool and drink a lot of fluids.
1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so.
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Thank you, Morgan. My cousin’s dog Franco passed. I used to dog sit him a lot when I lived in LA. Franco was there with me when I discovered Wynonna. Snoring away on the couch next to me.
Though I haven’t seen him in a few years since I moved, I’m gonna miss this boy so fiercely. He was the goodest weird boy. 💔
ICE has to be disbanded and ICE officials from top to bottom have to be tried. Non-negotiable, this has to happen at the end.
The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets.
These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.
Bluesky uploads are extremely slow on scene, so @melbuer.bsky.social has taken over this account to help share video from a better internet connection.
Brush planted in the street dividers has been caught on fire due to stun grenades thrown by federal authorities in Paramount, CA.
Video from about an hour ago as less than lethal rounds are being used against protesters in Southern California
As you watch the cops tear gas an entire neighborhood as punishment for protesting their extrajudicial arrests, consider that the people who said defund the police/abolish ICE were not, in fact, asking too much!
What's going on in LA should be a real wakeup call for folks who don't already know that a fully liberal government can still wind up a police state and without some major change to the way we talk about the militarization of policing, nothing will get better
The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers.
That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.
It’s easy sometimes — mainly because I’m surrounded by so many Goods — to forget how trash the LGBTQ+ community is when it comes to bisexuals, but then things like the Fletcher discourse start and I’m reminded how awful this community is to people like myself.
Happy Pride, especially to bi folks.
"He/him" lesbians are not new, and they're not going anywhere. There have always been he/him butches. There have always been butches on T, butches who bind. It's a total nontroversy.
HOLY SHIT. The ban on any federal funding gender-affirming care includes stripping ACA plans of covering it as the essential care it is.
I have an ACA plan. I live in a blue state, but I am about to lose access to treatments I need.
We told you this was coming
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