I’m at ICE HQ

The State Department is actively instructing consular officers NOT to tell applicants they're banned, even as those applicants pay fees and attend interviews.

Again, there is no path forward without consequences and punishment for this.

Conversation I have with myself daily 🧠

Time sensitive: this is the last day to submit comments opposing the Bureau of Land Management's clearcutting of Oregon's ancient forests. This is a tool that educates you on just how diabolical it is, and it helps you submit your comment. morethanjustparks.com/oregon-old-g...

Candy is being crushed at heretofore unseen levels.

Well, that’s a cautionary tale on multiple levels about “surveillance systems can have very unexpected and unwanted consequences.”

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

Heya folks! Tossing out my ko-fi, for folks who feel like helping out. Got some annoying medical bills in my very near future, and any little bit helps! Of course, I am in a position where I can manage a bill somewhat, so don't feel obligated ♥️❤️ ko-fi.com/sammythelab0...

abughazaleh told voters she was 26, but only days after the election, revealed she would be 27 - what does this mean for the progressive left?

unnerving lofi beats to tremble and cower to

if you're travelling and you are a documented citizen (esp if you're white/white-passing), you need to speak up & interrupt any racial profiling you witness. We are absolutely defeated if we allow ICE agents to harass people in the broad light of crowded airports. Don't be a good deputy citizen.

IF YOU LIVE IN CA OR EVEN THE WEST COAST, PLEASE HELP! Possibly the biggest seizure of dogs/cats ever in the US. These animals are mostly going into the municipal system which is already overcrowded. That means MANY animals will be euthanized for space. If you can foster or adopt, NOW IS THE TIME!

Happening now in Evanston, IL's Sherman Plaza: a presser is getting underway with interfaith ministers announcing a campaign in opposition to Chicago real estate firm Highlands REIT contracting w/ the govt over immigration detention in Colorado. Highlands REIT also owns the Sherman Plaza property.

That’s how death camps work and their intended purpose: deniable mass murder

It's a clear and sunny day in Chicago. ICE is out and about, with vehicles sighted across the city and suburbs. Berwyn Cicero Rapid Response just confirmed feds took two people from Cicero shortly after 8am.

This ends Monday the 23rd.

hot take gay people are awesome

It's ELECTION DAY in IL! We can elect two fighters for everyday people — @junaidforus.bsky.social & @katmabu.bsky.social — against $13 million from AIPAC, Crypto & AI in #IL08 & #IL09. They're scared of what two political outsiders can deliver for the working class. Let's win & show them.

START CALLING BOTH COMMITTEES NOW! LGBTQ+ RIGHTS AND DIGITAL RIGHTS ARE IN FUCKING DANGER!

After working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died in the country he spent years of his life helping. The cruelty is endless.

PLEASE y'all, file witness slips in opposition of this ILGA bill that would require OPERATING SYSTEM-LEVEL AGE VERIFICATION. This is a bad bill on privacy and a bad bill on rights and a technical nightmare with terrible implications. There is no implementation of this that would be good.

“[AFA-CWA] said it may be happening now on other airlines without the crew's knowledge. ‘At a very minimum, we believe airlines must demand notice, then must advise crew, and must ensure they are not helping the government violate constitutional rights,’ the union said.”

How do you know that @katmabu.bsky.social has momentum? Because big money interests are panicking and trying to slander her just 3 days before the primary. We can’t let these folks win. Vote Kat.

in a world full of antis be a freak

"Roughly 1 in 87 Americans—or 1.2% of the population—is actively infectious on any given day." Those numbers mean that there are more Americans walking around w/ active Covid infections than there are transgender Americans. And only one group is dangerous. Bigotry makes you fear the wrong things.

This is really important. The FRB is soliciting feedback on a proposal that would require banks to accept any legal transaction. Please leave a comment in support of this. It's simple, takes like a minute and you can do it anonymously. There just needs to be more feedback on this issue.

re: censorship of kinks every inch we give is a mile they’ll take later. not into a given kink? doesn’t matter. an attack on any of us is an attack on all of us. puritan furries: look inward. when you scratch the surface of your shame, you find the ideology that kills us. free yourself of it.

tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse

If you are at all anti-censorship, I am begging you to leave a comment supporting this proposal. This would forbid payment processors from denying transactions because of 'risk.' People getting banned from PayPal, NSFW games delisted from Steam etc would be included in this.

estrogen is magic 🩷

probably normal

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

for me “doom scrolling” is actually just the pathological hunt for the first piece of news that indicates this whole unbearable moment is about to unravel

I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs. This video is lowballing it.

Furry gay dudes, pay the hell attention to this. Women belong in our fandom as much as you do. Treating the fandom as though this is a gay, male only space is not okay, because we’re more inclusive than that. Always have been.

Seconding. Quite sure my anxiety has more to do with the rising fascism and censorship, amidst a burning climate, and the chance of our country killing our welfare system, and so many other things, than anything else. It's almost as if the world sucks a lot right now!!!

It's literally raining oil in Tehran. This is eco-terrorism.

This video shows real smoke over Tehran from Israeli strikes on oil depots & fuel facilities last night—confirmed by NYT, AP, Al Jazeera, Times of Israel. Black clouds from burning hydrocarbons—not normal sunrise.

Sigh. Transferring people and not timely updating the ICE detainee locator or telling family or lawyers where they are has long been a tactic of enforced disappearance used by DHS to hinder the filing of habeas petitions to defend rights. This is just one recent example: apple.news/AhOtuCu2FTby...

USA folk, you need to annoy these assholes as much as you can. this bill is not to protect children. they want to erase transgender people from public life and classify them as degenerate content in the internet. we will not be seen or heard. they want our *existence* to be a sex offense.

FYI—we've watched Dodge County jail transport officers at Broadview before, this is a known connection point for ICE detainees:

Is it like frowned upon globally to just call someone a liar to their face?? Why do people insist on indulging these fuckers????

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happening now: ~200 protesters have gathered off Chicago's Michigan Avenue this afternoon for another demo condemning U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran and Lebanon. Israeli airstrikes killed dozens in Lebanon overnight. Thousands of families have been displaced after widespread evacuation orders.