Good to be occasionally reminded that Wil Wheaton is a piece of shit.

If you want to know what I want Democrats to do, please look at everything the GOP has done to fuck shit up when it was the minority party and copy and paste those tactics.

I want Democrats to use every lever at their disposal to shut things down. They have the power to obstruct and gum up the works, the only thing stopping them is outdated norms. People are being executed in the streets and if elected Dems aren't prepared to do dramatic things, they can fuck off.

There are a lot of things I wish people from other states knew, and here's one: most of the churches here are VERY MUCH part of the resistance to the occupation.

I went back-and-forth a bit with someone today about demands that Dems don't have the power to fulfill. But here's a thing: Senate Dems DO have the power to deny ICE funding. And they must. Call your senators and tell them that the answer needs to remain "HELL NO."

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

These restrictions on their own are good, even if they're ignored (they will be). But as conditions for funding, they suck, because funding DHS must be a non-starter.

Something I've been trying to impart on people is that the ICE occupation in Minnesota is both an ethnic cleansing and an ideological terror campaign. It's clear that the second part has utterly failed; the community is not terrified. But ICE is now desperately trying to salvage the first part.

Survival in the face of a regime that wants you dead is resistance, so actively working to enable that survival is also resistance.

a reporter asked “is mutual aid a form of resistance?” and i felt my body pulled into of a room of movement elders who have made this seem like a question i don’t have to think about to respond of course of course mutual aid is an expression of love love is an act of resistance

Yes, incrementalism works, but we don't even see Dems doing that. We get a token gesture here and there, some back-patting, and then a bunch of gaslighting about how Dems need more votes when most of the people screaming VOTED FOR DEMOCRATS, and then they go back to voting for Trump appointees.

*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*

The sudden intense uptick in posts claiming Signal is insecure without proof other other than alluding to special knowledge at a time when successful organizing via the app has been critical to success in MN reads as a grift at best, and an op at worst.

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Every once in a while I think I've seen the wildest conspiracy theory shit out there and then the world conspires to absolutely wreck that assumption. The idea that the government has the fucking Weather Dominator and is using it to pacify Jormungandr is definitely a new one.

There are people trying to stop others from using whistles, and next they'll say it's ableism. As your disability advocate friend, I will be the first with serious sensory sensitivity to say that I would rather be in pain than someone get abducted, or shot. Block/mute this argument, it's an op.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Lest anyone mistake this for an endorsement of the Patriots, my sole interest is in the safety of front-porch couches on the Hill in Boulder.

The couches are safe.

Extraordinary how many responses from elected leaders are still so mealy-mouthed and half-assed. This isn't going to stop with reforms or assurances or more oversight. It's abolition, dissolution, prosecution, conviction. May as well get yourself on the record as an early voice.

In place of empty gestures on social media, I recommend calling, writing (on paper), or faxing your members of Congress. You can look up your Senators' and Reps' contact info on their individual Congressional websites, or call the Capitol switchboard and they'll connect you: (202) 224-3121.

This is false. Bluesky does *not*, in fact, notify a user every time a post in which they're tagged is reposted/quote posted as this user is trying to claim, and thank god it doesn't. Can you imagine the harassment?

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

This needs to go down HARD. Like 95-5 against. We know they lied to get people to sign for this. We know Colorado doesn't want this. Let's reject it, loudly.

It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.

i know there are some congressional staffers who follow me on here: your comms people need to turn off scheduled posts NOW

Since it's once again relevant, here's how to keep yourself from accidentally watching a murder video on Bluesky.

Los Angeles is still under siege thelalocal.org/neighborhood...

I sometimes forget I follow some old Avs players on Instagram. One of them being Joonas Donskoi. Saw his Instagram story and it’s him saying Abolish ICE. Real happy to see him on the good side of things

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Tomorrow, the House Rules Committee will consider Republican’s DHS & ICE funding bill. I’ll be voting NO.

Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

My group was able to recover a spent canister from a green smoke grenade in Minneapolis. We now confirm with physical evidence that it was a green signaling grenade. Please don't spread rumors about hexachloroethane or nerve agents. #PublicPreparedness #Minneapolis

Remember when that absolute fool of a politician tried to suggest a bill that ICE wear QR codes instead of name and ID number patches like literally everyone else and I said it would be the work of minutes for them to dummy up their own QR codes to access your phones? I meant this.

If you are: -a leftist -who does not like the DNC -and lives in a red district -that is rural or suburban I encourage you to check out your local Dems and maybe get involved. Red districts are often ignored by national Dems; you may have more influence to push left locally than you think.

Meanwhile, 20 minutes into the journey aboard Air Force One:

“may your grandkids race to change their names” is actually an incredible curse we should all start adding to our repertoire it’s gonna be true of a lot of these people

A complication: Yes, I think Mr. Tomlinson is *wrong* about engagement. But separate from that, there's been a persistent harassment campaign against him for years, and at least one opportunist seems to be trying to recruit off this. Here's an account to report/block: bsky.app/profile/ionl...

Went looking for something and didn't find it, but along the way found out that Patrick Tomlinson is still crashing out about engagement 30 hours later. Like dude, of all the things you can just *log off* about...

NO

What a wonderful way of exploring one of Colorado's most diverse and vibrant communities. (For non-Coloradans, you may have heard the GOP's unfounded attacks on this Denver suburb or some very true stories about its corrupt, brutal police force, but there's so much more going on there.)

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

Folks should know that Colorado Dems are running a bill that would subsidize data centers with a 100% sales and use tax exemption. We’ve defeated bills like this before but I expect this to be a high profile battle this year.

I’m seeking photos and videos of drones used by ICE, like these. Please send any you have my way - trying to better understand the patterns.