I was worried about pulling out of a too-tight garage space this morning, so I did this complicated fifteen-point-turn THING, which was way worse? Ridiculous. I considered abandoning the car & starting a new life, but the cats need feeding and my husband likes me. (I did escape. With the car.)

the moomins went folk horror

ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week. Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Trump: widening inequality and the unchecked power of billionaires. There's no "center" anymore between a takeover of the government by oligarchs and true freedom. Dems need to learn this.

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

I kinda forgot about the Superbowl even though I live right smack in Seattle. The first fireworks nearly sent me under the bed with my cats.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Now, more than ever, people must be able to hold those in power accountable and inspire others through the act of protest. Protecting your devices and digital assets before, during, and after a protest is vital. ssd.eff.org/module/atte...

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

My #LastFourFriday of the week -- cranky/awesome Jimmy Stewart, an uneven Shaw Brothers film with fantastic action, a found footage film that unfortunately squandered its cool premise, and a beautiful, melancholy slice of Montana female perspective by the super-talented Kelly Reichardt. 📽️

1988, the Beach Boys, Kokomo. Blah blah Aruba blah blah Jamaica. I hate it so much. (My husband @innocence.com, sitting next to me, points out defiantly that Brian Wilson had nothing to do with Kokomo. My loathing is not eased.)

Article from The Washington Post on a 67-year-old man who got a visit from DHS for sending a simple email: archive.ph/KO5zJ > “It doesn’t take that much to make people look over their shoulder, to think twice before they speak again,” said Nathan Freed Wessler, one of the ACLU attorneys.

It's Fairy Tale February on #FolkHorrorFriday. The lineup: 2/6 THE LURE 2/13 THE HATCHING 2/20 GRETEL AND HANSEL 2/27 THE HALLOW All movies are free to stream on Tubi. We start at 9pm ET every Friday and post using the hashtag.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

Read the whole thread, but I extracted this for emphasis: I don't *care* under whose watch these abuses occur. The abuses need to stop. Full stop, no exceptions, stop.

I do love a string wall! More string, moooore. #folkhorrorfriday

Time for #folkhorrorfriday - mute if my opining is a pox on your feed!

Ah, dammit. This one hurts. RIP Catherine O'Hara

Yesss, I get to watch my first #folkhorrorfriday tonight! Horror mockumentaries are absolute catnip for me. Free on Tubi!

The Democrats are acting like a party that thinks Trump’s unpopularity is enough to get a big win in the midterms, and I really think they should consider that two years of gridlock and a Vance candidacy will cause people to forget why you don’t vote for Republicans.

This is such wonderful news for the film scene in Seattle (which has had some real blows in the last couple of years). So exciting!

The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.

I wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Fellow Washingtonians: waisn.org/event/rapid-...

I'm already a game streamer -- me going live from Twitch in seconds is easy and I know how to do it. No one can take that footage from me by taking my phone. Maybe figure out how to live stream from your phone as well. Better to figure it out now than the moment when it's most needed.

Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.

Downtown Seattle at the federal building today had 250+ people standing in solidarity with Minneapolis. Together we say, ICE OUT FOR GOOD! #federalbuildingfriday #Sea2MinnSolidarity #GeneralStrike #ICEOut

Every time I see a post about this film I have to retweet -- seeing it at Fantasia was a highlight of the whole festival.

I understand the impulse to distance yourself from American history. I do. But the atrocities are the actual normal for many communities. And until we confront them as part of a baseline societal flaw and address why they keep happening, they will not stop. They will just continue to shift targets

Bipartisan negotiators released a DHS funding bill that does not significantly reduce ICE and CBP’s funding nor rein in the agencies’ abuses of power. Make no mistake: Any Democrat who votes for this bill is complicit in Trump’s campaign of terror. Grow a spine and vote no.

It is so hard to remember to love the things I love these days - I really had to force myself out to the movies with my husband (1946’s Canyon Passage). Now that I’m here it feels so good to be surrounded by others about to care about art. www.siff.net/programs-and...

For MLK Day on @letterboxd.social I decided to do a list of essential Civil Rights and Black Liberation movies.

On MLK Day, we’ll hear a lot of quotes from people actively dismantling his legacy, including the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Dr. King’s work was never finished. It was interrupted.

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

I think I’ve seen this movie but I don’t remember anything except mustache? What a recommendation! #horrorwatch

And it’s Dunwich Horror time, thanks to the #horrorwatch crew! Mute the thread if uninterested - otherwise, here we go!

Yes. I have no desire to vote for a walking photo op who is *super* quick to toss categories of vulnerable people under various buses. Snarky anti-Trump posts don't equal decent governance, that's for sure.

I can finally get back to a #horrorwatch, and this one is a hoot. See y’all tonight!

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

For my out-of-state friends wanting to help Minneapolis, Sanctuary Supply Depot is a grassroots mutual aid effort to support unhoused folks here. They take cash as well as in-kind donations: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...

Reposting because cold fingers are bad at typing — Thank you @seattleindivisible.bsky.social and all the organizers at Cal Anderson today. What a fierce and loving call to community and *action.* Onward.

My love language is reading the phrase "love language", looking it up, discovering it's some American Christian thing, saying aloud "who am I, Billy Graham?" and watching the movie "Ronin" (1998, Directed by John Frankenhiemer) instead.