Congratulations everyone

One of the goals of totalitarians is to make their presence the sum total of your life, don’t let them.

"To be opened only for purposes of my own healing." It's called containment, & containment isn't repression. It's ok to choose to deal w all this when you're able, & IMO fine if that isn't right now while you're still under occupation. You're doing great, & you have lots of time to go from here ❤️

I told this to a Minneapolis friend & the reaction made me think it might help others: When I had PTSD-specific therapy (husband death stuff), the *first* thing she had me do was visualize a special container all my own & put my traumatic shit in it, close & lock it up, & put on a label saying 1/2

What you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail

@biidaasamose.bsky.social's Theory of Water affirms so many thoughts I've been having as I've been taking steps to change my life in ways that reject capitalism (as much as possible/feasible while actually living in it) that it just proves to me that indigenous wisdom can offer us a way forward 1/?

Map of proposed subway expansion is from NYU Marron Institute's Transit Costs Project

NYC used to consistently build 5-10 new subway stations every single year. Since 1990 we have built 4. Not 4 per year, 4 total over 36 years. We need to get back to building transit on a grand scale. This is what our system could look like:

THIS IS BATSHIT ON TOP OF BATSHIT "In some cases, they must also provide the handles of their young children, spouses, and parents, many of whom are U.S. citizens, green card holders, or are otherwise in the United States legally."

Every year, filing my taxes, and thinking about how I pay more of my income in taxes than Jeff Bezos does of his

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

Alysa’s giving us a clear off ramp from the reign of the “clean girl aesthetic,” the valorization of productivity, and the growing laundry list of beauty products and procedures women are now expected to spend our money on in order to meet a beauty standard focused on thinness and conformity

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault. LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith” In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted DOJ keeps lying and losing:

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

I know I should stick to my own lane about libraries because we’ve got some bullshit going on here but I am just thinking about Mamdani posting about the blizzard hitting NYC and underfunded libraries as warming centers for people who have no place to go because encampments were destroyed

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

Ahead of a panel on why folks should boycott FIFA World Cup, I did some quick data analysis: - Of 42 qualifying countries, migration from 14 is restricted. - Of the 9 from Africa, 7 are restricted & 2 fully banned (Côte d'Ivoire & Senegal). Why anyone would participate in this is beyond me.

so we paid the tariffs and now the corporations that passed the costs on to me and you are the ones that are going to be reimbursed, do i have that correct

just read a story about a little boy in SC who just learned to ride a bike but he was unvaxxed and got measles and got really sick and got a spinal tap and then pumped with medicines and then his brain swelled anyway and now he won't ever walk or eat on his own and he definitely won't ride a bike

This thread was the treat I needed

Um...????? The dystopia is too real

I thought it would be easy to find my "red line" as a federal worker working for a fascist regime. It's not. Change is happening little by little. We "still do good work". None of us wants to be alarmist or defeatist This interview of a professor living through the holocaust is worth a read👇 Night

Holy fuck! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I hope John Roberts signed all his mortgage paperwork correctly

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

there’s a lady across from me in the bus with a notebook and a pen looking outside periodically and writing down with a smile on her face and it’s just. so lovely

Wow.

wake up homie, new culture war just dropped

Hey many people are reading this thread and if those of you with a little cash donated to this GFM we could ensure that a great place right here in my neighborhood outlasts ICE's visit www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-...

This isn't over. It may not be over for a long while yet. But I am 100 percent convinced that we are going to win. (7/7)

They had a silent auction for art with ICE OUT and the rebel loon. When I put in my donation to theie link for families from Minneapolis schools the total was at $39k and change for a goal of $40k. (5/?)

I'm at their second benefit show right now. (They just opened their 3rd set with "American Idiot.) These white suburban parents are wearing t-shirts with slogans like "RADICALIZED BY BASIC HUMAN DECENCY" and "NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND BUILT BY STOLEN HANDS." (4/?)

And these kids decided, on their own, to play a benefit show for families impacted by the surge. At that first show they had hoped to raise a couple thousand dollars. Their families and friends came to Minneapolis and packed the house. They ended up raising over 10 grand. (3/?)

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

video on bsky:

this is the video/account:

these two young white guys on IG go to an NYC restaurant each week to try food from a different country. they posted a video bringing together the owners of their first 12 stops & it made me cry bc it was simple & beautiful. just people from all over the world hanging & being pals. how it should be.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

“She’s not from here.”

ICE point weapon directly at woman peacefully protesting, just inches in front of her face. Goon is pointing a B&T GL06 grenade launcher and shooting someone at point-blank range with this so-called "less than lethal" ammo could be fatal.

Cars keep being delivered to Whipple, they are wearing street clothes and putting ICE out and uber stickers on their cars, it’s getting harder to identify them.

They keep switching plates… taking them off of impounded vehicles, using Minnesota plates…

Sadly, ICE learned what not to do in Minnesota… they have not left… but are spreading out in disguise tricking and nabbing people before we can respond. We need a new plan….

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

this is why i am laser-focused on paying rent for people right now. the second a family is evicted, the costs of everything explode. lives are disrupted, new schools have to be found, people are in physical danger, and then they are so much harder to rehouse with an eviction on their record.

I think I've woken up to them outside the house twice now? I'm okay with it - time wasted trying to scare me is time spent not kidnapping a vulnerable neighbor. Anyway if you go out at fuckass o'clock with your phone in one hand and a whistle ready in the other, they see you and leave lol.

We laugh at the masses of right-wingers who cannot fathom giving a shit and so massively misunderstand us, but far more dangerous is the genre of right-winger who comes to understand with horror that sincere altruism exists in this world and sets their entire life towards frantically destroying it.