Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer

Seriously what do people see in this guy? He's like a stalk of celery standing in a glass of milk.

*opens hood of campaign bus, releasing giant puff of steam* See, this is yer problem right here 👇

I've seen some folks giving into doomerism by citing the US's history of paramilitary violence shutting down fair elections in the South, and I want to add some historical context to support Jamelle here (as an historian of Reconstruction paramilitary violence)

Telling her to watch her language because there are children around when these fucking monsters just sent four children to the hospital after fucking tear gassing them has filled with me a whole new kind of rage.

Not that we need it anymore, but this is proof positive that this has nothing to do with "legal immigration." It's just about brown and Black people.

when I was working for a crazy person they would wrong-rock me - the whole "bring me a rock. no, not that rock" thing. they'd say "have you planned for this? well what if I suggest something totally nuts happens? have you planned for that?" and there was no satisfying him lot of that right now.

They made an infant stop breathing. With three explosives. In a car full of children. No hell hot enough.

I don't even know what that shit looks like. (Which means I should probably find out so I don't get bamboozled by a screenshot.)

TERFs discovering this post: "let me explain the rationale for my bigotry I believe exonerates me" lol yeah that's what I'm talking about.

I am on the most ridiculous rollercoaster of disappointment/ hope these past two days and I would like to get tf off please. I know, I hate vagueposting too, but sometimes that void begs to be shouted into.

No sleep for ICE ICE hath murdered sleep

Rest in peace and power, Miss Claudette. 🕊️🕊️🕊️

Me to This Fucking Week:

The detail that they sold this kid’s phone blocks away after stealing it when illegally detaining him really underscores the fact that these are bounty hunters out to enrich themselves while causing havoc.

Jury's out on whether I have ADHD, but it just occurred to me reading this that this is literally how I get through life without laying down and waiting for the dust to cover me 🙃

Support queer indie publishers (and authors), if you want queer stories to keep being told Big-brand publishers, like most big corporations, will support us only & ever when it's commercially & politically expedient to do so Historically: it's small presses (and self-pubs) who've held the line

Please, PLEASE. Read this thread.

I GUFFAWED

I will also accept a good cheddar as tribute, as it's become increasingly hard to find over here since Brexit. The sharper the better.

"Obama deported people *quietly*" is not the win you think it is.

This is absolutely true. Watching horrors from afar makes you feel helpless - after all, what can you do for Minneapolis if you're in Tampa, or God forbid, in another country altogether? But there's always shit to take care of right at your doorstep. Find it, and get to work.

Heads up, everybody. I got bombarded with these emails for two days straight.

"Before Trump, the Face-eating Leopards were always so polite. All 'please' and 'thank you,' 'ma'am' and 'sir.' Now they just chow down on your mug without so much as a 'howdy-do.'"

Woop-woop-woop-woop-WOOOOO

The absurdity of (and in) horror matters just as much as the horror of (in) the absurdity. Don't forget to laugh. Or BOB will get you.

Happy to see all you football people enjoying the kicking and running of large men. I don't get it, but it's nice to see everyone just reveling in their chosen fun for a change.

As an American who now lives in Spain, seeing images of Kristi Noem standing behind a podium with a Falangist slogan on it is.... definitely something. But my take on the Trump Administration is that it's only Hitler at the surface, but Franco at its core, so this totally tracks.

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

I dunno, maybe treating professional theatre like some sort of nursery for future Netflix stars is part of the problem.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Added color-coded subtitles so the hearing-impaired can enjoy this absolutely wonderful internet classic

Any white person who has ever been read as "woman" in one point of their life and as "dykey-looking whatsit" at another will remember the first time they realized they'd lost status - that first time a white man stopped treating you like "potential fuck" and started treating you like dead meat.

The new video makes clear that 1) he told her to get out of the car, and ultimately shot her, because he wanted to punish her for making him feel small 2) she made him feel small, not because she was a threat to him or anyone else, but because she was not afraid of him

But even if terrorism is their objective, that doesn't mean they're all-powerful. Part of the spectacle is making them seem bigger & tougher than they are. Recall: they only have 22,000+ ICE agents. While NYPD, alone, has 33,000 officers. The Minneapolis Metro is 3 million. 🧵

I say this as a USian: the whole world, but especially Europe, needs to cut us off like a gangrenous limb. We WILL take you down with us if you don't.

Reading Rachel Cusk makes me want to comment on my own motivations for every tiny thing I do like some kind of nature documentary narrator who in fact hates all animals.

Once again, ICE are claiming that the victims tried to run them over in their car. They've invented a new kind of bullshit, everybody: the more time that goes by, the more it stinks.

Send dumpsters to the houses of every billionaire on the planet. Crews in hazmat suits. Psychologists who sit them down while they sob over the prospect of giving away $1 million. "But what is the hole this million dollars fills? Where is it?" Billionaire, sniveling: In... In m-my... h-h-HEAR-R-RT.

On my hands and knees begging the Blue Crew liberals to understand why my friends and I are so fucking done with the Dem establishment. I hold my nose and vote for these bozos year after year so they can have a job saying "whaddaya expect ME to do? I'm just a smol bean with no power or influence!"

before murdering renee good, the ice goon was frightened for his life, we’re told It’s meant to justify the murder nobody telling us this ever seems to wonder whether the woman who was murdered might have been afraid for her life killing because you’re afraid is only for cops, it seems

My fellow whites are whiting overtime today 🙄 Yes this is a subskeet and no I will not explain it.

Today I met a lovely woman who started out as a maker of bespoke lingerie and moved on to making gender-affirming garments and post-surgical recovery garments for trans people, and I feel ever so slightly better about the world.

Please see the award-winning poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by the US government today in Minneapolis. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

The alt-text on this is fucking brilliant. (Always read the alt-text.)

The GoFundMe for Renee Good's wife and son 💔

Once again, if the leaders of our institutions showed half the bravery of regular people out in their fucking pajamas this shit would be over.

Minnesotans are amazing people. We should all be in awe of them.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.