@restlesscourage
Nerdy, queer, neurospicy, nonbinary TTRPG enthusiast, tarot reader, and dabbler in many hobbies. Agnostic animist and spiritual companion. ✨https://restlesscourage.com/home 🎶https://alyxanderjames.bandcamp.com 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ they/them
We've got way more need than donors today and eviction notices are starting to arrive. Can you sign a form to pay a rent directly or can you venmo us so our team of volunteers can pay more rents?!🌻
It’s day 89 of the ICE occupation of MN.
It may seem as if everyone in MN is furiously raising rent for our neighbors, trying to prevent a massive eviction crisis on top of the federal occupation.
That’s because Minnesotans know that we keep each other safe, and no one is coming to save us.
Someone was abducted in St Anthony this morning at 6 AM near 29th Ave & Silver Lake Road. And then at 8 AM we saw at least 5 agents out of their vehicles at 26th & Jackson near Walgreens before they dispersed into the neighborhood.
This isn’t over. We still need people keeping watch & staying safe.
Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them.
Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.
I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.
Here's the thing: fuck the fucking fuckers. We stay alive so we can dance on their fucking graves.
MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.
They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
GO DONATE.
tcpipeline.org
People in a lot of neighborhoods are about to be evicted if @governorwalz.mn.gov doesn’t do an eviction moratorium. Ice still has almost 1000 people here.
Things are definitely not back to normal. This is why mainstream news is propaganda.
New: this app warns you if someone is wearing smart glasses nearby.
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. A 404 Media reader made this app after we showed men filming people w/o their consent, and DHS officials were wearing the glasses www.404media.co/this-app-war...
We once met a wiry haired doggo aptly named Socket. He truly looked like he’d stuck his nose in an electrical outlet.
Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.
“You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth.”
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels, each showing a different scene. In addition, there’s a small “kicker” panel under the fourth panel. PANEL 1 The panel shows a counter at a fast food restaurant. We can see a couple of customers, and a couple of workers. The workers are wearing hats that very vaguely resemble hamburger buns. A sign on the wall shows a smiling hamburger with eyes, below the caption “Soilent Green YUM.” A smaller sign says “SAFETY” in larger letters followed by tiny print, which says “is a word we use a lot so you can’t sue us.” The worker at the cash register is turning to speak directly to the reader. WORKER: To get an official photo I.D., I have to go to the nearest government office, which is 90 miles away, and I don’t have a car, and even if I did my boss won’t give me a weekday off. PANEL 2 We’re in what looks like someone’s back yard. In the foreground is a garden, with some sort of plant being grown in tidy rows. An elderly woman is kneeling on the ground in front of the garden, wearing a floppy straw hat, an apron with a floral patter, and holding a trowel. She speaks directly to the reader. WOMAN: I can’t get I.D. without a birth certificate. But when I was born home births didn’t get birth certificates. PANEL 3 A mover wearing jeans and a black tank top is carrying a sofa as he’s talking to the reader. MOVER: The state charges $60 for a driver’s license…. but first I’d need a copy of my birth certificate, which is $30. I can’t afford 90 dollars to vote! PANEL 4 This panel shows the interior of a coffee shop. A man and a woman sit together at a table. They're both looking at their devices, him annoyed, her dismissive. MAN: Why wouldn’t anyone be able to get an I.D.? Idiots! WOMAN: People like that don’t deserve to vote. SMALL KICKER PANEL UNDER THE BOTTOM OF THE CARTOON The man from panel 4 yelling at Barry MAN: If it’s easy for me it must be easy for everybody! That’s just science!
How Hard Could Getting Voter ID Be?
Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon
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...if you say "vote blue no matter who", yet never say "let's not throw members of our own coalition under the bus", I seriously don't know what's wrong with you.
I'll end by re-upping this. dumping trans ppl is way more likely to hurt (rather than help) Dems:
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
Community is literally the cure.
No, bitch.
Worrying about kids playing a ttrpg with orcs and elves or listening to metal (or hip hop) is moral panic
Raping stolen children is a moral evil.
And it is literally only my long-held beliefs against the death penalty keeping me from burning every one of you at the stake.
This!
I give a wide bit of leeway to people, but don't use this as an excuse to be transphobic.
Basic electoral logistics is that there are persuadable and mobilizable voters. Last election, Dems under-mobilized our base even though Dems and the GOP persuaded about the same number.
Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
For no particular reason, thinking about how the Minneapolis Aquatennial was concocted by business men in 1940 to water down the memory of a 1934 Union victory that happened in spite of violent and deadly opposition
We’re still seeing ICE going in and out of the Whipple building. As long as they’re still here working to separate families, we need to make sure people are out patrolling & keeping watch.
We don’t accept their behavior happening here or anywhere else which is why all of DHS needs to be dismantled
While Operation Metro Surge will allegedly end over the next week, we'll keep on following developments till its confirmed on the ground.
More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/list-of-ice-raids-major-updates-in-minnesota-on-friday-feb-13
If you want to know what we are doing here, contact me.
I made this quote post so anyone can interact. Let me know here and we can move the convo to more secure channels.
Please learn, prepare, and get ready.
ICE detentions across Minnesota are leaving families without income and struggling to cover rent and legal bills. Many are turning to community aid for help.
Written by @ncsscibelli.bsky.social
Believe that they're really ending the surge in Minnesota when people on the ground say it's happened but also *even* if this is nothing but more face saving, it's a huge acknowledgement that they know they're losing and that the people of Minnesota are never going to stop protecting their neighbors
I’ll believe it when I see it. Everything they’ve said about this illegal occupation has been built on a lies.
We need accountability for our neighbors and for this whole corrupt department to be dismantled.
Stay out there, keep your connection to one another, and only believe your eyes.
Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them!
The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.
Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.
Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
