Like a full 30% of the current US was Mexican territory until the mid-nineteenth century, that culture and heritage and language didn’t up and vanish after the Alamo or whatever, acting like Spanish isn’t a huge part of the American tapestry is super short-sighted and ahistorical

Me and @lysapenrose.bsky.social collabed and made a 💖 Valenzine ✨ and it made me very happy

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

I think about this post a lot.

"Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong: The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions." By Adam Serwer Read on archive.is: archive.is/TRsdI Damn. DAMN:

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

Coverage for Gaza has died down recently, so I wanted to remind folks that lots of people are still struggling. The Gaza Soup Kitchen opened its 14th location recently, and they are accepting donations. If you have some money to spare, please consider sending some spare funds their way.

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

Question: if I opened up PDF commissions, would folks be interested? How much would you pay for that? You provide the bio text, the stuff you wanna include, and the tell me the vibe and I go dive into photoshop and make you a cohesive PDF you can share with your DM and fellow party members

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

On day 8 of our Administration, @governor.ny.gov and I announced the beginning of universal childcare in NYC. No longer will New Yorkers be forced to choose between starting a family and continuing to live in the city they love. This only happened because of you.

Important context to "more/better training" arguments: the murder of Renée Good was a product of that training by someone who has trained others. (I've seen same in civil rights cases; by moving where he did, he was intentionally generating a pretext to shoot her without genuine risk to himself.)

This is unsustainable and is an explicit threat of civil war against blue states.

Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting

So, it's been a while but I'm pretty sure of this, Goebbels remarked in his diary that their regime didn't need to go out of their way to manipulate the press. They'd show up to the briefings and dutifully repeat whatever they said. Anyway.

Several people have died in ICE custody and because of ICE detention. Renee Goode’s murder is a crime everyone could plainly see but make no mistake, there are many families who will never see their father, mother, sibling, or parent again because of ICE.

School has been cancelled tomorrow and Friday across the city of Minneapolis, because our federal government has made it unsafe for children here.

600+ people still showed up for Legal Observers training in Minneapolis tonight. In addition to those currently on patrol. This minute. While the vigil is happening in South Mpls.

Make it viral.

ICE funding expires January 30. Call Congress to say whether you think it should be continued. US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

My best recommendation to you is to keep Tetris or a similar game on your phone and if you or someone near you see or experience something traumatic, open that app and play a few levels

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.

A year ago today was the start of violent, terrorizing raids in California’s rural Central Valley. Violent federal agents were hunting down farm workers like animals. Today, they’re in the streets of Minneapolis. Our communities should not be enduring this. None of us are safe until all of us are.

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

“in america, you deserve to be murdered by the state if you have gender pronouns in bio”

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

Hell yes, shut it all down. Call your representatives and tell them to actually do the only thing they can to halt this madness.

I do not believe that anyone, by virtue of their profession, should be allowed to kill

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

Every detail somehow becomes more horrifying.

"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot."

Minneapolis.

These people just watched their neighbor get murdered in cold blood and immediately flooded the streets. Every single time you feel helpless I need you to remember that there are more of us than there are of them. The only way we lose is if we fail to come together to stop them.

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

Birds are Pokémon

Thanks for all the shenanigans, @robowieland.bsky.social. 🕯️

When Dan heard that two of his favorite things were getting smashed together in Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons, he had to find out more. Luckily, @lysapenrose.bsky.social and Mark Mulvihill were happy to chat. Check out the interview now! www.thefandomentals.com/horrified-du...

Update to this chart that I share a lot. Not breaking news: Game design teams are still OVERWHELMINGLY all men. About 7% of the top 500 games have a woman or non-binary person credited as a designer. A 🧵of related charts: (1/6) 🎲✂️

#KPopDemonHunters really proves that every time this industry underestimates teenage girls, it leaves a billion dollars on the table.

10 days until Protospiel Online August 2025! 🎲✂️ Get your badge and add your prototype to the listing to get featured in the Prototype Showcase livestream Aug 21 @ 8:30pm EDT! Online convention doors open Friday Aug 22 at noon US Eastern for 60 solid hours of playtesting on the virtual tabletop.

これは貸しです。 Introducing Kashi 貸し, a guide to why "Ghibli-inspired" media without Japanese creatives is harmful. It includes links to learn more about Orientalism, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, and Japanese culture. Learn. Share. Change. kashi-info.carrd.co

I am still haunted by this poem, "The Myth Was Never The Unicorn," written by one of the teens who participated in the creative writing program at the museum this summer. A reminder that girls are always aware. Read the full piece and listen to the author recite it: journey75.org/2025/the-myt...

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

Badge sales for Protospiel Online August 22-24 2025 are open! 3 days of digital playtesting with 24 hour moderator support. Early bird pricing is available through Mon Aug 11, 2025 at 11:59pm EDT. 🎲✂️ protospiel.online/badges/

Today is International Owl Awareness Day and I had a hoot putting together this thread of international owl phrases, starting with this one… A colloquial way of telling someone to mind their own business in Punjabi is apna ooloo sidha rukh. It means “keep your own owl straight.”

“i bet a solo play of this TIME TO PANIC game would be a nice cozy way to wind down” 😖