An evening well spent

See…the thing about blueberries is the store bought ones are often terrible. But find a nice patch of wild ones along a mountain trail? Those are tasty.

So…no one knows what’s really going on, or what to expect. And leadership on this is completely lacking

When you’re standing in the TSA line at the airport, everyone frustrated, stressed, wondering if they’ll make it through in time. And you’re looking around, asking who is responsible for this mess. And then you see that large photo of Noem, looking down at all of us the way she looks at her puppy.

There’s a conversation on the Boston Reddit where someone posted a listing of cities with the worst drivers, and Boston was only listed at 34. And somehow the Bostonians are insulted that they aren’t higher on the list.

Auto correct has been doing this weird thing where, if I add punctuation after a word, it sometimes removes the last letter of that word.

I’m getting a “spam suspected” call coming through a work number. It’s coming through 2 hour and 2 minute intervals. It’s the 2 minutes that gets me.

Me: trying to write a work email, maintaining a professional tone. Google: express yourself with emojis! 😄😍😝🥳 Sigh…

Every time I read about DHS sending subpoenas to get the names of people who criticize ICE, it reminds again to say, loundly Abolish ICE

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

Kristi Noem and ICE aren’t escaping the fascist accusations anytime soon.

A walk into the woods, and a small squirrel on a mushroom

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

A thing to remember about these people is they're *both* violent authoritarians *and* incredibly bad at basic stuff. It can be very hard to tell these apart, especially on the fly.

Do not forget Minnesota

This is about as good a summary as I’ve seen

So… Oops?

This is ominous

This should be less understood as "white immigrants are in equal danger" and more "a machine that eats misery will eat everything in its path"

What I think of whenever I read about Ring cameras and Flock

That’s some amazing marketing.

Oh, nothing good can come of this

"The Massachusetts Department of Correction... formally partners with ICE to transfer people who have finished their sentences." Healey's office has also not responded to my calls about this (and why would they) BUT maybe if a lot more of us call and keep calling, they'll get the drift. 617-725-4005

What’s the first song you’re gonna blast when it happens

ICE is focused. Their focus is to destabilize our communities, and to keep our people afraid. They do not need training. ICE need to be abolished. Salt the earth it rose from.

Bigger and bigger cars and trucks. More distractions while driving (phones and iPads and touch screen consoles). A political atmosphere that celebrates being our worst selves, and mocks empathy. Things were getting worse before Covid. But it went over a cliff post covid.

The muppets, back in their more wholesome days, singing about cigarettes and whisky and wild wild women

Can‘t say I disagree I actually unsubscribed a few years ago. Adobe has taken the fun out of photography.

This is a much happier result compared to that ruptured tank of molasses in Boston

Known as “The Stranger’s Case,” this monologue is inspired by a real speech delivered in 1517 by Thomas More, then the under-sheriff of London, who was trying to calm a riotous anti-immigrant mob incensed by the presence of foreign workers. The riots went down in history as Evil May Day.

How’s your Monday going?

This is who runs this account

These two…

I just waded into a Boston snow parking discussion on Reddit. Pray for me.

Federal immigration agents detained a man in Shoreline, leaving his 2-year-old son sitting alone in the back seat for about 40 minutes. Here's what the activists saw: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Lemon has one of the nation’s best lawyers and a national profile. I’m worried about the other reporter and two activists arrested with him.

This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.

Career prosecutors refuse to be involved. Charges rejected by two (or is it three?) judges. They said they got a grand jury indictment? Pam Bondi saying she directed this arrest?

Jesus Christ. The "pivot" lasted about 15 minutes. Arresting a black journalist under the Ku Klux Klan Act for covering a pro-immigration protest at a Christian nationalist church led by an ICE officer is the perfect encapsulation of this administration's authoritarianism, racism, and trolling.

Rotten to the core. And that he still has any support suggests a deep rot that exists in this country.

"Democrats can't abolish ICE right now so don't ask for it." Republicans spent decades screaming "End abortion." Then, when they had the power to do it, they basically did! Repeating out loud what you want to happen even though it can't right now is good politics!

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Sending ICE to provide security at the Olympics just makes no sense. Even in normal times, it’s not what they are trained for. They are the most undisciplined, untrained, out of control force, and are more likely to cause problems. It seems calculated to cause further rifts with our allies

Rotations. In theater. They are using the language of troops in a war zone. And then complaining that people aren’t nice to them. Abolish ICE

“in theater” is a crazy way to describe minneapolis

All of these senators pushing "reforms" need to explain how they will enforce them given the fact that ICE is a lawless band of Klansmen that breaks the law constantly.

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

second sitting black congressperson to be assaulted in the past week. all the violence seems to be coming from one side, and it ain’t ours

so…they targeted him?

Close to where I live. More families broken up by ICE