Sample contextual 🧊 epithets, for you to freely use and share : • Failed mall cop • Coward • Thumb • Traitor • Baby • G.I. Joker • Clown (see also: assclown) • Buffoon • Tweedle Dee, particularly together with his brother Tweedle Dum • Assface (see also: fuckface) • Shithead • Nutsack • Paul Blart

And even if the agency is dismantled, because there are so many opponents to that, those people will be writing in policies that delegate most of its functions to other agencies within DHS. No one wants to hear all of this because people don't care about details.

This is an appreciation post for Duluth Trading gear. Flexpedition pants dried quickly when I got my legs wet helping someone who got pepper-sprayed. Lined Firehose pants help me stand around in the cold without freezing, lots of pockets for whistles.

This FWIW is a good example of what I am talking about. I don’t think Dan Goldman is ever going to say the words “abolish ICE” and activists should work to replace him with someone who will. But also, Goldman speaking in these terms isn’t a bad thing. It is, like I said, a good start.

you can also use the link to a graphic in your media library as part of a csv that you can use to bulk upload & schedule posts. we do that a fair bit during Romancing the Vote!

my occasional pitch for using fedica for people who do a lot of promotional/graphical posting: they let you upload graphics to a media library and then assign them alt text, so that any time you want to use them in a post the alt text is right there. they added this after we asked for it!!!

Disable your location on your smartphones.

I feel like people are already being primed to accept “reform ICE” as a platform when anything less than abolishment should be unacceptable to literally everyone. Yeah we should primary all Democrats who want to “reform ICE.” That’s what primaries are for. I’m not fucking doing this again.

Jonathan Ross, who shot Renee Good in the face, is local. Derek Chauvin, who knelt on George Floyd's neck, is local.

Basically Jack Reacher has sex with The Law Enforcement Officer Du Livre as a break for the author exhausted by choreographing constant violence. Whereas a Regency duke has a full bare-knuckle boxing scene as a break for the author who really cannot think of one more synonym for penis.

Every Black adult in this country knows that you are lying. And not just from hearing stories or watching social media. Most Black adults have a personal experience of how police treat Black people. This is tens of millions of people. I've been getting "ICE raided" by cops my entire adult life.

Apparently “Entry of the Gladiators” was written as a military march, and after circuses adopted it it became so strongly associated with clowns that the military started finding it embarrassing and stopped playing it I feel like there’s a metaphor in this somewhere

Has anyone tried following ICE around playing this yet

If you also are sick of Microsoft office trying to push AI and changing subscription prices you can buy a lifetime license on sale for $99 here bsky.app/profile/simo...

I am about to list a truly obscene amount of sterling silver rings I sourced at a cost that is fair and does not reflect the 80 dollars an ounce sterling is right now. If you like jewelry, maybe follow @peculiarityshop.bsky.social

ohhhhh so none of them know yet that they’re not getting $50K after tax withholding, do they

Now I know that both the writer and Mother Jones know that the crackdown did not start with pro-Palestinian protestors. So as a Black person, I'm wondering why both the writer and Mother Jones would try to convince you that it did. Not a rhetorical question. Why do you think they are saying this?

I don’t know who that is but I like when people grow and are humble about it

Putting Heated Rivalry in the same camp as Gus Van Sant is almost as bad as that writer who compared it to Inside Out 2

Let's be clear (and I'm not being cute): this is DHS trying to get ahead of the inevitable moment when they shoot a baby.

When someone tells you they like your work say “thank you” and *believe* them.

Please read this whole, wonderful thread

kaiju wisdom 🙇

Rowling: now in my mental sschema of the geopolitical world Rowling: it'ss important to remember that the rissing tide of the global far right is like dumbledore'ss army Poe: King: Barker: Koontz: Lovecraft: yeah Lovecraft: yeah i'm kinda following the logic Lovecraft: this makes sense!

Writing hopeful post-apocalyptic/dystopian stories about how communities come together when things are bleak is somewhat of a niche of a niche, so it delights me when I find one! The perfect story for this moment. If you haven't read, I highly suggest doing so this morning. 💓

Skin? Flawless Face? Flawless Story? Flawless BLACKS RULE

It's fun because, like, the "all men suck" - obviously stupid, no shit "i cannot tell at a glance which men are not shit" - something that men absolutely *refuse* to fucking grasp 90% of the time, and it drives me mental

Tell your gluten free friends there's gluten free Cheez-Itz now. They already know but it'll give them an opportunity to talk about how they're a light in the darkness in these trying times.

Too many people are trying to differentiate between ICE and police. I will hold your hand as I say this: Police in the US treat marginalized people the way ICE treats everyone. They're far more similar than you want to admit. Defunding the police and abolishing ICE are the same fight.

As i've said many times before: the worst male bully in your highschool became a cop. The worst female bully became a nurse.

Sen Chris Murphy wants to require warrants and ban masks as a requirement for more ICE funding. WHY ARE YOU GIVING THEM FUNDING HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING.

Annoyed that my taxpayer dollars are being used to occupy Minneapolis, steal oil in Venezuela, start a war to take over Greenland, antagonize basically every country in the world, and redact the epstein files.

genuinely fascinating to me that even after an american is executed in the street by the state your instinct is not to condemn and discuss this on its own terms but to use it as fodder for abstraction and discourse policing

What a weird counterfactual statement. State and local law enforcement have very publicly stated that they stand with ICE.

Nobody steals more shit than white girls. Nobody. They do it for fun. It's like a rite of passage. Looks like stores are figuring it out and locking up white hair products and not Black hair products.

People of color > me on this so if they correct me, listen, but Say Her Name is reserved for Black, Brown, and Indigenous women BECAUSE they suffer state violence but will never be remembered the way Renee will. Renee died horribly. Her whiteness will guarantee a legacy women of color DO NOT GET.

and it's why just blocking them over here instead of fighting/quote dunking is the truly meanest & pettiest thing you can do to them. folks act like just blocking is some sort of act of maturity or being above it. SHIT NO, I'M SADISTICALLY TORTURING THEM WITH INVISIBILITY. They hate it SO MUCH.

Books don't tell readers who they personally are or who they are supposed to be. They do show readers a variety of characters. Implicit in that is this: "Here are some ways of being." Kids books aren't altering your kid to be someone new. They are simply showing them parts of humanity.

“The wrong ICE is melting, the wrong Amazon is burning.” (Written on the back of a frozen pizza box)

This lady looks like she rolled a 1 on a dexterity check for putting on pants

Already re-watching The Pitt s2e1, mostly to watch Whittaker and Garcia and the people listening to them chitchat in that first big trauma scene.

Here’s the GoFundMe in English (my mistake!)

So I put my skin color palette from procreate onto CSP. It's free and these are the colors I normally use that don't usually result in "dull" skin tones like we see most times on CSP assets. It's now one palette, and you can use them however you want assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail...

I have verified that Keith Porter Jr’s father created this GoFundMe and is asking to support his grandchildren

I am sad to report that snacking before lunch may no longer be an option for me. Two days in a row I had a small snack, two days in a row I looked up from my laptop at 4pm wondering why I didn't have lunch yet. And this late if a lunch makes dinner so unpredictable! So irritating!

George Mason refused to sign the Constitution unless it called for the abolition of slavery but he also owned over a hundred enslaved people and never freed them in his lifetime or in his will so yeah hypocritical self-righteous monster sounds about right

There might be more blue? I drove cross-country twice (NJ to CA in 1993, CA to NJ in 2022). Not entirely sure about the exact routes!

When writers & artists tell stories drawn from their own experiences, whether nonfiction or fiction, we have the chance for something NEW. Things too embarrassing and brutally honest to say aloud. Or oppressed groups who never got to share their own stories w the wider world. Cherish the new.

There is a group of people that are supposed to be composed in high stress situations, train for them in fact, get paid well for it, and are given very, very broad leeway on how they act, and yet they shit their pants constantly and cry about how scared they are all the time.

One thing I really want people to understand is that the Black Panthers were meticulous in their knowledge of the law and opsec - not because they thought the law was awesome, not because they always followed it and never did civil disobedience (lol),