Anyone else having, like, A LOT of trouble sleeping?
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Anyone else having, like, A LOT of trouble sleeping?
Me, every time I read another article about AI.
They spent your tax money on killing children. I think it's worth us spending our tax money prosecuting and punishing them all. No one will argue against it. It is a popular stance. Don't be a pussy. Stand up for those girls who were killed in our name.
A white car with a decal across the entire back window that reads: AM INNOCENT
Literally no one:
Some guy on St. Martin:
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
"Second or third place is dead."
Just want to note that 3am in Washington is like 11:30am in Tehran. The American people are the ones he snuck up on in the dead of night to conduct this illegal attack, not the purported enemy.
Text from Eversource: Blizzard battering the region, causing significant damage and outages. More damage expected today as hazardous conditions continue. Poor visibility and difficult travel will delay our ability to safely respond. Restoration could take 3-5 days.
A man shrugs and says, βGuess Iβll die.β
Power went OUT out at 6am, and I didnβt think to grind more coffee yesterday. That rodent is going to pay.
The groundhog did this.
Fresh, ripe papaya tastes like a chemical weapon.
a trans woman i know is being deported back to the USA due to the Home Office messing up paperwork.
her wife is desperately trying to raise the funds to prevent this. they have 48 hours before sheβs put on a plane and might never be able to return.
please, help if you can. theyβre both terrified.
Turn! These fuckin things! Off!
They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.
Oh, you mean the thing that canβt count to 100?
Wait β this thing?
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Itβs easy to be filled despair by how much need there is for help β but nothing has felt better than knowing weβre helping people pay their rent and get out of detention. You know people who have the money to help, sometimes they just need a nudge.
Thanks to @ziibiing.com for your hard work on this project! One of the most useful organizing tools Iβve ever seen.
Threw a gigantic 5-DJ party in Ptown last night, sending all the proceeds from the door and bar to Minnesota mutual aid to the tune of $5k. We knew where to focus thanks to standwithminnesota.com. Big βjoy is an act of resistanceβ energy. Whatever youβre good at can be used to help other people!
Itβs not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished.
I have neighbors everywhere.
Have never seen someone put this better.
Actually my favorite scene in comedy history.
Would absolutely watch the βMen Experiencing Consequences Olympics.β
Ugh β *in the line of
In my defense, Iβm seething with rage.
Soβ¦ how many ICE/CBP agents have been killed in the of duty as a result of this βunprecedented aggression?β
Yeah, for some reason I donβt think bringing your kids to Child Rape Island is as good of an excuse as you think it is.
The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.
And I mean in every way β sartorially, culinarily, socially β they make better art than you, they write cooler words, even the fucking mobility of their hips just mops the fucking floor with you.
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Demonizing multiculturalism is such a stupid philosophical pratfall because everyone youβre trying to make into the enemy is so much fucking cooler than you.
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation: