Accountability is up to every individual in every single interaction. So the man who committed SA didn’t go to prison. Are you dating him? Are you buying anything where the profit goes to him? Are you reposting his views? Are you listening to him? The hardest part is individual responsibility.

So I'm an abolitionist & think we should work for a world without jails. When we point out elite impunity, the question is why ARE there jails if you don't have to go to them if you're rich & powerful, & they're just filled with people without resources.

I wish I could say I learned this by the time I was 25…

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Came home from work and painted. I’m feeling super bummed about the lack of value art has right now. Very tired of creating digital things that contribute to capitalism and physical pieces that are “too expensive” for anything that has marks of being handcrafted. Emotions on paper.

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

Year of the Fire Horse reminding use to lead others towards a better future with creativity and grace. Don’t worry about being intimidating, but put effort into being inspirational.

Doctor: Your A1C is elevated. Me: I’m a queer, disabled, chronically ill, divorced person with a uterus raising two kids on part time wages in a red state as capitalism destroys us. Doctor: But you should try to move your body more often and take time to relax. Me: (glucose spiking silently…)

Roses are red Kudzu’s ill-mannered When it finally happens We’re all getting hammered

"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said."

This past weekend I had a wizened, old lady pushing a cart covered in bags wave cheerfully as I was installing a public art piece. She paused but kept walking after. Bag lady, I would rather make 100 pieces that make you cheerful for $0 than earn one cent from AI slop peddled by billionaires.

NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse. Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch." Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

H/t @jollygoodginger.bsky.social, OPERATION DILDO BLITZ IS A GO

Losing herd immunity state by state, county by county. Rural hospitals disappearing. Life expectancy dropping - not because the old die off, no they have 60 or more years of health to rely on. The children will die from whooping cough, measles, the flu, COVID, etc. Infant mortality.

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

A resident named Walter calmly took the mic and recounted an April 9, 1945 newspaper clipping about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp... "And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough." www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...

A reminder that the ruling class created the difference between “professional” and “folk” art so they could profit while disparaging the work of craftspeople who adorned their homes, furniture, clothing, and bodies. The ruling class created a false scarcity of art. Make ALL THE ART & eat the rich.

Poor rapists are getting away with it too. Pretty much all rapists are getting away with it. Ask a survivor.

I think people forget that being a terrible human isn’t going to get anyone arrested. There is no court to hold them accountable. There is only the harsh light of day, over, and over, & over again. There’s only us to rake them across the coals. There’s only painful cultural shifts to make change.

Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist. Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.

Also misogynist. Also ableist. Also transphobic. Also homophobic. And on and on. Just be authentic in your words.

::taps mic:: beyond being an absolutely miserable illness, measles can cause immune amnesia. It wipes out your immune systems memory of how to fight every infection, every vaccine you've ever had.

#witch Friendly reminder to all - this weekend is Imbolc, the most hope-centric of all pagan holidays. It’s about the fires of the forge giving us the tools we need, poetry helping shape our emotions into actions, and planning the foundations of the new world we find ourselves living in. 1/

The state of american politics is that one major party wants to kill you while the other simply wants you to die

I’m going to be shutting my shop down for the day and providing links to places where you can put your money instead. Do what you can, keep pushing

It's not just "stand up to ICE when you see them," it's building many vast networks of support and trust to - create safe spaces - protect schools - get kids TO school - check on neighbors - deliver groceries - help pay the rent - let people know of danger - feed the helpers, too! - and on and on

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Look if Minnesota is the hub then it's a Purple Revolution.

The season between Yule and Imbolc is for Accepting the world as it is, but at Imbolc we light the fires and Plan for this new world. February 1st is the moment to meet with your community and form your resistance. The balance will shift at the Equinox - be prepared to set plans in motion. #witch

"Non-violent tactics that waste a company’s time or money are really effective. For Enterprise, we’ve made and cancelled car reservations, saying the roads are too icy. At Home Depot... people [lined] up to buy ice scrapers and then getting in line to return them, in a way that clogs the lines."

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

There are people trying to stop others from using whistles, and next they'll say it's ableism. As your disability advocate friend, I will be the first with serious sensory sensitivity to say that I would rather be in pain than someone get abducted, or shot. Block/mute this argument, it's an op.

yes.

This *is* a civil war. I’m already clarifying “the American civil war of the 1860s” to differentiate it from now. I live in a Republican held state south of MN & I’m scared we will become a staging ground for an invasion. The Governor is super fascist. She will call up troops for him.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

this is it. this is the level. this is the standard for democratic officials. anything less is intolerable.

This is not the shooting, this is a video of the scene moments before. Watching will give you perspective and you will not see a man murdered.

When people are talking about how it’s good that we have a Republican Governor in this state because that means he won’t be targeting us for a while… that’s how appeasement becomes complicit in the horrors. Instead of being relieved that an elected official isn’t doing anything, be furious.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

BREAKING: The Tribune confirmed on Instagram that the man shot has died, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident. ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

I don’t know why people are treating going no contact with birth families like it’s a new thing - it’s common in white patriarchal culture. Children are threatened with being disowned. Written out of the will. Cut off from the accrued generational wealth in outright and subtle ways as if wealth & 1/

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

I think there is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.

I believe my parents would still support this administration if I was murdered by ICE. Don’t quote them in articles about my death.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

This is The Rapture they spoke of, our neighbors snatched away in an instant. Instead of a loving deity welcoming them home it’s Evangelicals imprisoning and disappearing them. They read the Left Behind series and decided they wanted to have that power. These are acts of genocide-in-waiting.

It’s me! Been at least 5 years since I haven’t had bright colored hair.

I really wish that more of the response to the whole Greenland situation was "Greenland is already colonized and cannot gain anything from its colonial rule being switched from one malevolent racist nation to another." Kalaallit, Inughuit and Tunumiit should be free, autonomous people.