I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Woke up last night over and over thinking about this. Remembering the first time as a baby social worker that a middle schooler told me about watching his cousin get arrested by ICE and how his world broke. These kids will never forget the feel of those ties, or trust freely, or feel half as safe.

more commissions finished. My surgery is coming up in just a couple days. and I'm trying to raise funds to live off of while I'm unable to draw. If anyone has any spare funds and the desire to help me out while I heal up I have a link to my Kofi. I would be forever grateful <3 ko-fi.com/lostpaw

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.

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An Andrew Tate and Charlie Kirk fan just murdered two teenage girls. In a livestream now taken down he claimed they had made fun of Charlie Kirk's death. This is the real world consequences of the hate and misogyny the right promotes while claiming the left is violent.

"Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels … that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up." -J. Edgar Hoover

The real point of the FBI is to prevent people from ever organizing enough to be a real threat to the government. They are a counterintelligence agency with a law enforcement component.

“War-ravaged” Portland only exists in Trump’s head. Check out my video in Mother Jones to learn about the federal crackdown nobody asked for.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

I am so jealous of little animals who can curl up into a little circle. That's gotta be the best nap you can take.

“All of this feels ridiculous because that’s exactly what it is. But the larger goal is to inure you to the strangeness of it all so that when these products — be they movies, shows, or TikToks — finally come to market, your reaction is ‘Sure, why not?’”

this is why lD verification is the wrong move, to be resisted at every turn: the stewards of that data are not savvy or sophisticated enough to keep it secure. business guys can't protect shit

Shame on you, Columbia. Do you stand for anything?

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news *The corporate owner took down the story and edited it *The journalists resigned This feels like more and more of our media now. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Attn Black people, stop scrolling. This is not a drill: Chicago

not as good but you should see this

Probably one of the best pictures ever made

MY ANCESTORS ARE SMILING AT ME, IMPERIAL. CAN YOU SAY THE SAME?

This is… probably a cat :3

Let's be clear: this is the result of deliberate political choices to make accessing trans healthcare substantially impossible. It's what Streeting and his ilk want.

tbh the stark reality is that for nonbinary gender existence to gain much stronger mass traction among the public, it's basically imperative that people also 'allow the body to be nonbinary' i.e. question sexing of the body itself. there's basically no way binary sex & nonbinary gender can coexist

Once again, Bluesky has deleted my friend Sama'a's account. www.gofundme.com/f/help-baha-...

"just upload a scanned image of your drivers license no big deal"

Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

Just witnessed Chicagoans following this undercover ICE vehicle (Black pick-up truck) heading south on Ashland honking their horns incessantly and alerting everyone that ICE was coming.

I was married to the guy and I read her post and had some weird body memory reaction and was like, did he possess her? Why are we repeating history?

if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting

It's too long a story to explain how I know this, but I once found out that the FBI made challenge coins about how they tried to force Apple to break iPhone encryption. Challenge coins celebrating shitty behavior is deeply a part of FBI culture.

its so endearing to me that birch trees have eyes

bloodborne

i think people often make the mistake of thinking that rightwingers meltdown at different things like netflix not because they want the approval of mass culture, but they actually just want total top down control of the flow of information

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza. Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military. They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

Broadview, Illinois today— A dizzying array of federal and local police quashed an anti-deportation protest outside the Chicago ICE "processing" facility. Border Patrol agents once again violently attacked protesters, with arrest and crowd control support from IL state troopers.

bluesky devs wanting to make twitter-reddit linkedin but getting mad about getting e621 and deviantart instead will never stop being funny to me shoutout unmarketable queers and kink artists keep doing good work

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That the king is actually unaware of what his bad boyars are doing is one of the funnier world historic turnarounds

So is disney/marvel cool with the punisher skull being fully co-opted as a fascist symbol or do they only save litigation for people painting Winnie the pooh on the sides of daycares

“we heard tale of expanding the tent”

Taps the sign

The fact is, the conversation around trans rights _isn't_ healthy discourse - a fight for the right to exist cannot _be_ a healthy discourse. Fights over rights cannot healthy discourse in any society. Modern framing of rights fights as something to be debated has broken society irreparably.

i think the disconnect with the bluesky team and the userbase is that the userbase, the people who occupy this place, think of bluesky as purely a twitter alternative and the bluesky team thinks of it as purely a coding foundation for others build off of

what they actually have to sell here is twitter but without the bigots and obnoxious CEO, & they seem determined to piss all that away as fast as they can

i just think it's kinda hollow to keep reemphasizing that atproto is decentralized as if most people even had a way to use it without being dependent on services operated by bluesky, you know just as well as i do that you control the vast majority of this "network"

Bat Uni returns this year! :3