This is undeniably true the longer Dems drag their feet. It's gonna get worse every day. And I don't think Dem officials realize when it does get to that point they're gonna have to contend with both Trump's goons and their own constituents armed at their doorstep asking for answers

Every single time 😭 I’m like reverse Tolkien, I swear

Scientific research of gender transition has been stuck on "should these people be allowed to transition" for 50 years, so we don't know shit about how transitioning actually works.

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

They should be terrified of the country falling into tyranny. They should be terrified for the lives and hopes of their constituents. They should be terrified for the fate of the nation.

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That is an ICE agent pepper spraying a restrained victim in the face at close quarters; it's an unquestionable and indefensibly abusive use of excessive force that should (but won't) be criminally prosecuted as assault

You know what law was intended to prevent state legal regimes from racially profiling families and abducting children who might be caught without a parent? The Civil Rights Act of 1866. You know, the law to dismantle the Black Codes.

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

im awake again what a shame. gonna annoy others about it

I was STUPID and worried about my drawings being too sexual and tried to cut back on it, but all it ended up doing was making me less productive and sad. Wanting approval is such a trap

the major difference between trump and most presidents is less how evil they are and more how much they care about looking the part and being good at PR most politicians care about being respectable and do a lot to be formal and collected and trump is like a toddler who wants everyone's stuff

Hurt/comfort yaoi followed by toxic selfcest yuri

Sometimes I think about everything I could do, all that I’d be capable of, if I wasn’t stressed at a bone-deep level about absolutely everything 100% of the time.

This is what you do when you’re running death camps

We cannot normalize this federal occupation of Minneapolis. It is not normal to watch people abducted in front of our eyes—dragged from car windows, pulled from their homes, and children left without parents. This is not about immigration. It’s about unchecked cruelty.

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

People really seem to be catching on that rape is the core value, the core practice, the ethos of conservatism, and I hope it's soon enough to matter

adding the important things to the kitchen whiteboard #art #furry #furryart #trans

essential lesbian needs: - a wife - revolution - basic human rights

sorry not sorry but ring cameras/similar have always been the most suburban-ass true crime brainwormed thing, they were always gonna be tools of the state i fucking hate these cult of paranoia dipshit objects

We are NOT helpless in the face of this. (And importantly neither were the Jews and queers and Romani of 1930s Germany.) We can and should organize. We should also understand exactly what we are organizing against. They are posting ethnic cleansing memes on their official accounts. BELIEVE. THEM.

This historical context is important when we consider our assumptions about who has mobility today and who will have it tomorrow. bsky.app/profile/chan...

I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white

updating a fairly older design i made

Basically every time someone in jail dies, the initial report is "medical episode" even when the person has been literally beaten to death. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

A third immigrant detainee at facility in El Paso has died, ICE says.

It was inevitable.

A non-zero-sum worldview is, in my mind, the core of what it means to be "on the left." You believe that through cooperation & solidarity, we can *all* benefit. Indeed, if you look back through history, you find that non-zero-sum cooperation is the root of pretty much every human advance!

Swelling rage

they’re going to need to impose consequences that are felt in a personal way by the people in charge ruining Trump’s big sports show, travel bans for the GOP (or, hell, all of congress), travel bans for rich Trump allies, sanctions on the Trump family they feel invincible, change their minds

Black children seeking the integration of Texas schools after Brown v Board? Paid agitators.

Just so everyone understands, this was a Republican op

Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.

NO TERFS AND NO TURFS (brought to you by the pro-trans and anti-golf association)

For decades, I've heard that "writing is lonely business" and sitting here, poking on my upcoming novel I'm struck by a thought. Writing - at least for me - is very much a social activity. Working closely with beta readers, having chats with fellow writers, editors, etc. It's a group effort.

ICE agents. are putting. stuffed animals. on dashboards. to fool children. into thinking. they won't be kidnapped.

I think this is how we get a Nazi Lost Cause for the rest of our lives - at a minimum - as all the people who supported fascism just hand it down to their kids and grandkids because there were no repercussions. This is how America continues to fight the Civil War and WWII for yet another century.

The vast majority of what’s happening is communal self-defense. It’s not an about agitating or escalating. The whistles, the honking, the yelling — these are efforts by people to warn and protect their neighbors. 2/3

What’s happening is a war of treason being waged by the Republican Party’s paramilitary against the citizens of the United States in support of ethnic cleansing.

bodily autonomy is a fundamental human right & we should treat anyone opposed to it as advocating for slavery because that is the inevitable end result of any ideology that seeks to control humans without consent.

there is no ethical argument for the confederacy & anyone who does so is an enemy of human liberty.

Don’t listen to this political strategist. There are literal families who are starving, people who do not have enough for rent, businesses with eviction letters, and neighbors who are hiding. Help communities out instead and it will actually have an impact.

What you are seeing here from Booker is the most craven and cynical counterinsurgency designed to preserve the key structures while tricking low information liberals into thinking people in power care and are “doing something.”

Houston Texans’ Azeez Al-Shaair has reportedly been fined $11,593 for wearing eye black that contained the message "stop the genocide” The report says he was fined for violating NFL uniform and equipment rules www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

I think Mamdani’s election threw this into the sharpest relief for me. He upset expectations (in part due to some strategizing with Lander), and the Democratic reaction was to continue attacking him in the general, AS THEIR CANDIDATE. No significant censuring of Cuomo for running as a spoiler.

Local reporters understand that what's happening in the Twin Cities doesn't have much of a precedent. It's not a political response (pink hat protest), it's an existential one. It is actual resistance to a violent external threat that is ICE terrorizing neighbors and families.

The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas

No new pictures. Where are you at Mentally?