Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Your driver license doesn't prove citizenship. Your Real ID doesn't prove citizenship. They'll claim your birth certificate, passport, and social security card are fake or stolen. It is impossible to "prove" citizenship to people who only want to detain you because you're not white enough.

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SpongeBob was important benchmark in the development of civilizations in the world of this dream

The other night I dreamed that there was something like the Kardashev scale to see how advanced a civilization was but instead of measuring how much energy they had harnessed it was whether or not they had yet created SpongeBob

i wonder what order 'seizure of greenland' and 'seizure in Trump' will happen in

/2 Anyway, America was never about everyone loving liberty; America was always about enough people loving liberty and being willing to defend it to keep down the people with totalitarian souls.

directly affecting my workplace probably, in one way or another eventually. coolcoolcool.

It is actually pretty easy to explain some of the shit going on in the country to a child right now, which is part of what makes it so frustrating: it really is that simple. No, it's not kind. Yes, they should just stop. We take care of each other.

A pedophile tyrant is sending thousands of masked barbarians to murder and kidnap his own citizens as a show of force and you’re expected to keep going to work and do nothing about it as if it will magically go away.

(not because this is bad. this is good. and maybe he'd be doing it without Lander breathing down his neck. but he's definitely doing it with Lander breathing down his neck.)

coming around to this "primary everyone" perspective

preview says 3, as of now the headline is updated to 6

This poll shows that 74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting getting rid of the agency. Any elected Democrat who wants ICE to exist is outside the mainstream of their party and the people they purport to represent.

sort of an obvious trade-off here: people who are firmly in the "abolish ICE" camp won't know your intentions for sure, but in exchange you don't spook the status quo moderates. i'm not some politics genius, just sort of floating my gut instinct.

one lesson of trump's success is the power of taking what's basically an untenable, pandering position ("we'll only deport the bad guys") and then just doing what you want when you enter office

i think the public-facing message re: ICE needs to be something like “let’s pump the brakes and investigate these bad apples” and then you take power and wipe the whole thing out

the days I tried this and it worked were exhilarating, the days I tried this and got either passive apathy or cussed out/fistfights/stuff thrown at me were awful, and colleagues + admin never really had or tried a solution with me beyond "it's weird you do this, do it less" I miss it / I hate it

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

Rugrats is about how a child world is a Kafkaesque labyrinth of wonder to get lost in and Rocko’s Modern Life is about how the adult world is a Kafkaesque labyrinth of pain to get trapped in. Both have a good episode thats set at a movie theater.

it's incredible how if you put this entire dialog into the Left Behind series, it would basically work, but instead it's just IRL MN

This reminds me of my dream anthology project, where I find out who every DC creative’s least favorite character is and make them do a story about them. It’s called DC COMICS RESENTS

hold on now, let him cook

this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.

I have a deep admiration for any art willing to embarrass itself because it feels too much.

“I got soul but I’m not a soldier” is objectively maybe the worst lyric in any song in history and simultaneously the single best thing anyone has ever written including Shakespeare

REPORTER: My question is for Dr. Shephard. Was the Grink there? [a moment of tense hesitation. Sayid flashes Jack a questioning look] JACK: No. The Grink was absolutely not there. Next question.

Please understand this is happening in literally dozens of locations around the city simultaneously. If an ICE vehicle stops, community members materialize in seconds and do everything they can to stop the kidnappings. We are under siege and using every tool to fight back.

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

the things they are doing, these paramilitary squads, there's absolutely no reason for any of it. just spectacle. just a fusillade fired at you. you've been invaded. you have been declared the enemy. there's no reason for this other than that. you and yours are now the enemy. "all of yours"

they've declared war on us. we aren't part of the plan any longer. in their telling this is no longer your country

they literally want to destroy our "way of life" - the basic notions of voting in your leaders, deliberation over policy choices, schools for your children, home ownership - they cannot abide it any longer. even the sitting vice president is expressly anti american and wants the experiment ended now

there's a desperation to slam the lid shut on our teetering democratic system. theres an urgency because they fear, probably correctly, that their existence has become such that a society of free people can no longer tolerate them. it's their pile of money or us, and they're choosing their money

no longer content to just take your money, a handful of oligarchs, many of them immigrants to these shores, are now taking whats left of your freedom and political power. the very idea that you might have a say in your local government or sit unmolested in your home is offensive to them

"Outback Steakhouse: No Rules, Just Right" replaced an earlier slogan, "Outback Steakhouse: Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

I lost the second grade spelling bee on the word chrysanthemum and, in a fit of pique, broke my pinky surreptitiously, so as to draw attention and love away from the rightful winner. I would do the same again today.

At a church in Minneapolis that is hosting an anti-ICE singing vigil, which will later process through the neighborhood. They sing: “This is for our neighbors who are locked inside, together we will abolish ICE.”

Community pushed them out.

ICE at Midway Target and seem to possible be leaving. Lots of community members here

Still singing: “we grieve together, stop the deportations.”

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

Talbot's House - 1926 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104510

The worst sin that the leftists of my lifetime have committed is honestly making a whole bunch of LGBT kids feel like their identity is frivolous and tertiary at best to things that are Actually Important. It started the second gay marriage was legalized.

the fact that same sex marriage is seen as the most milquetoast shitlib occurrence by a huge part of younger generations on the left nowadays is both proof of our progress as a country and extremely frustrating to watch

thinking about this tweet thread and filling with endless rage again. powerpuff girls PRINTED MONEY in the 90s and 2000s and its creator has no traction in modern hollywood animation. what hope is there for new ideas for newcomers?

when I was a kid in a fundamentalist church literally everything about heaven sounded awful (spending eternity with the people at my church) but the only thing that was cool to imagine was being able to like. look up in a book what actually happened to the Marie Celeste

Concept art by Mark Whiting for The Iron Giant (1999), dir. Brad Bird, Warner Bros. Feature Animation