I hope that the morale of every ICE/CBP agent is in the toilet. I hope moments like this haunt them in the quiet breaths before sleep takes hold at night.

There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

Does your Dad describe your elementary school principal as an "otter" after he sees said principal at the local aquatic center or is your Dad normal?

I think it is interesting how many conservative legislators are finding their principles right about the time they qualify for a full lifetime Congressional pension.

The French just keep raising the heist bar.

Happy Thanksgiving! Look on my works, ye mighty... and DESPAIR!

Yesterday was the post-CBP invasion call with Siembra NC. It was announced that CBP was coming the Charlotte on Nov. 14th. In the days that followed, 4500 people showed up for online training and in JUST 4 DAYS, 1500 people got in-person verifier training in the Triangle alone. We're going to win.

I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.

we're going to win

The folks here in North Carolina are PISSED. We've got cruel cowards who love what is happening but they're cheering from the comfort of their couches or stupidly oversized trucks. The folks actually in the streets are the ones who are opposed to ICE & CBP. And we outnumber the fuckers. By a lot.

I’m howling.

it is impossible to overstate just how much people fucking hate ICE and ICE raids not sure I've ever seen anything radicalize people more, in terms of normie offline folks who are just spitting mad about this stuff

A good reminder that these fuckfaces are softer than newborn baby shit, the lot of them. They were driven out of Raleigh, Durham, etc. after 2 days of concerted community opposition. And Charlotte will be just as ready for them. abc11.com/post/us-cust...

Durham public schools absolutely *teeming* this morning with parents, grandparents, and community members making students feel welcome and safe and saying Fuck ICE.

The rapid, grassroots response my community demonstrated for our neighbors is why we're going to win. My patrol area was relatively small but there were a couple dozen folks who showed up in the middle of the day on Tuesday to keep others safe.

Here’s a story for every national news outlet: In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property. “Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

Asheville is THE crunchiest hippie city in North Carolina. There was a huge chickenpox outbreak at a local private school in 2019 because 72% of the students were unvaccinated. And the Asheville airport is not a huge regional hub, so this was probably a local calling him this. IN FUCKING ASHEVILLE.

White men: you are never, ever, EVER getting us on board with "we have to all come together to make sure racist white men are comfortable at the expense of everybody else." That dog won't ever hunt.

Charlotte is a boring, gentrified city built around the banking sector that has gotten increasingly more safe as long as I have been alive. It doesn't even have the biggest immigrant population in N.C. But it does have a Black Democrat mayor and congressional representative! What a coincidence.

There is an Indian restaurant just over the county line in Johnston County that does unlimited chaat on Wednesdays from 6pm to 9pm, so don't tell *ME* that life is terrible and not worth living.

Watching libs Beginning to See

Men who treat their women colleagues like normal human beings get most of the benefits of being included in the sisterhood while not really having to give up any of their male privilege. It's like a fucking cheat code and you're still lucky if 20% of the dudes in a given workplace will use it.

What I learned tonight is the future of the Democratic Party is a trans Muslim CIA agent wine mom who wants to eliminate capitalism and barter with people on the free bus.

It's not nice to speak ill of the dead. So be kind when discussing the thousands upon thousands upon thousands of innocent people who died because of Dick Cheney's incompetence and corruption.

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1979: Ku Klux Klansmen and neo-Nazis kill five and wound 10 others during a march by the Communist Workers Party and African American mill workers in the Morningside Homes housing project in Greensboro, N.C. The event became known as the Greensboro massacre. /1

This is why neutral legal language is not necessarily positive. Because the original purpose of the Equal Treatment Rule was to prevent grocery retailers from charging SNAP customers MORE for similar items than they would charge to cash paying customers.

A common theme of Trump II is an utterly cowardly class of elites while everyday regular people have risen to the occasion

My hobby group - quietly and without fanfare - organized to ensure that the elders among us on SNAP are gonna have their groceries covered for however long the shutdown goes on. You will never be able to make me more than temporarily pessimistic because I have seen humanity's beauty.

The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed

When I say "boys will be boys," this is the sort of behavior I am exclusively referring to.

Manicotti is fucking BULLSHIT. Be lasagna or be nothing, you coward.

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

It's also a fucking Totenkopf, which is arguably one of the most famous symbols of Nazism behind the swastika. It's the equivalent of saying you didn't realize burning crosses is associated with the KKK because you are only familiar with the pointy white hoods.

As a White American who grew up in rural North Carolina, I would like to proclaim that Diwali is the perfect holiday. You get fireworks AND copious amounts of Indian food. Also, jalebi beats the shit out of funnel cake.

I 100% agree that protesting alone is not enough but 7 million people showed up on Saturday. In all 50 states. In big cities and small towns. Respectfully, a giant protest march seems like a GREAT place to "find your people and build something real."

🎵 You can't eat at everybody's house!🎵

This billionaire asshole sent his state cops to protect ICE and terrorize people, wtf is happening??!!

When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool

That a politician would be standing up for trans people in this moment is deeply important and meaningful.

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes….Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” —Anne Frank, 1943

Was laid off in Fall 2023 & got called to interview with a tech company that turned out to be based in Tel Aviv. I ghosted the recruiter because who knew what that company was doing for the Israeli govt? This is not me bragging - the baseline should be to care a little who signs your checks.

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Blessings to you all from Princess Priscilla on the bright autumnal Friday. ✨️

Yes some of y'all are mad whiteness is no longer enough to protect you. The denial and exceptionalism that erases the embrace of anti-Black racial terror that got us here in the first place. Gotta block and treat you like the quicksand you are and stay focused on where the REAL solidarity is.

Everyone is (rightly) talking about how insane, antisemitic, anti-scientific, etc. this is but I'm chortling over the fact that Marco Rubio looks like he is full-on disassociating.

I think my fundamental problem with doomerism is not its hopelessness but its laziness. If you believe that the situation is so far gone that it is impossible to emerge victorious, you absolve yourself of having to do anything that might stem the tide. Hope is the most basic act of resistance.