The current administration of the United States is illegitimate. Its actions are immoral and illegal. The United States and Israel have committed multiple war crimes in their attacks on Iran. I am disgusted by my country's actions and wish peace and safety for the people of Iran and others nearby.

My US Representative. : )

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

Never having heard about any of this before, I googled it to find out what it was and learned that it was 1) weird Mardi-Gras shit and 2) racist. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistick...

I do bite my thumb, sir. I bite it so hard.

Post a banger not in English. Weird fave from my time in Korea (my friend Amy always knew what to sing at the noraebang and I miss her sooo) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FxB...

If I understood correctly, the SecReT mEsSaGeS were: "I have a lot of girlfriends. I like you better than my other girlfriends. Live a good life and don't let the haters get you down. New York is really fun. Viva Puerto Rico. Viva America (in the geographically-inclusive Spanish sense)."

Aaaah *shit.* 😖

One man tracking people being deported & deportation flights at the Minneapolis airport. One person creating a record for future inquiries & potential prosecutions. Trevor Paglen's deep surveillance documentation now being done by everyday people. www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

x-files but careless whisper plays every time there is gazing www.tumblr.com/ozzytrustnoo...

CIA ends publication of its popular World Factbook reference tool

This is the strangers' case / and this your mountainish inhumanity

Also, the culture of secrecy and the binding of people is precisely how you create an environment ripe for abuse. So good luck and God speed, current clerks. Remember you don't have to put up with shit.

I want to say something more about this. Way back in 2007, the clerks were in fact counseled on confidentiality and ethical canons. Roberts gave us a little speech and was like "you are bound to not speak about this by all legal ethical canons."

I feel confident in saying that Ponies, like The Mummy and Pirates of the Caribbean, was filmed for the bisexual gaze.

Not so much "a review of 'Cien sonetas de amor'" as "some things I learned about Pablo Neruda while reading that made 'Cien sonetas de amor' much less enjoyable": 0katherine.neocities.org/book_notes/1...

Response is to @timdickinson.bsky.social 's post above: "Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps"

I'm surprised more people aren't into Lenormand. It's like reading an alethiometer. #divination

Wow, CNN, maybe you SHOULDN'T HAVE HELPED HIM GET ELECTED BOTH TIMES.

When Keystone Kash's FBI raided the Georgia election office, they not only took all the ballots and equipment, they also took the back-up images of the ballots. Taking the back-up images means that they can tamper with the ballots without anyone being able to prove they did it.

Homan’s use of “in theater” confirms DHS views this as a war in which they’re occupying hostile territory.

If you're all parking in one spot, leave someone behind to keep an eye on the cars and take pics of anyone surveilling/planting things on them. Keep your phone locked except when necessary - in Pittsboro one of ours had her phone stolen by fash after they hit her in the head with a hockey stick

This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years. These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.

They fired Greg Bovino so that we don’t start demanding the head of Stephen Miller who is without a doubt the brains of this entire fascist operation.

Don’t forget it’s not just Pretti and Good

I honestly keep forgetting this happened. They made less of a fuss over the assassination of a state legislator than they did about the fucking Rose Garden.

One thing that's confusing to me is how few of The Enemy have been doxxed. This administration has been notoriously, consistently terrible with opsec, so how have 22,000 violent jackasses mostly managed to keep their names and deeds out of the news?

Solidarity, particularly across race and class, is Kryptonite for authoritarian regimes. They can only thrive when their us v. them framing is adopted by society at large, and they join as active or passive collaborators with the regime. So the only response they have is to raise the cost of unity

the snap election is one of those boring ass electoral system design elements that turns out to have immense political implications

Who fired the shots? Do we know yet?

💔

Dex doing good and informative work with this thread and also reminding me why I do not live in the upper Midwest

It's going to take so long to recover from this horror show.

I've gotten reports of at least five other instances in the past few months of [most likely] CBP (possibly another agency bc they didn't identify themselves) stopping passengers on the jetway to board and requiring a photo—taken with a small camera or smartphone—with no explanation.

US military has apparently been systematically seizing oil tankers involved in export of Venezuelan oil since December. This was the seventh.

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

"In reality most people in most of Europe during the middle ages married in their 20s. Sometimes earlier, sometimes later, but getting married in your early teens or even younger was very rare. Yes, nobles/royals did it, but mostly for political or inheritance reasons..."

Block instantly.

Finally realized that when the weather gets a little warmer, some of the neighbors turn their heat off and and the building gets much colder. :(

Naaaaaaailed it

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

fellow journalists’ reports from minneapolis are hitting like dispatches from the frontlines of a civil war

Notice how the murder of a woman by an immigrant (with like, one example) is a horrific violation that requires the entirety of ICE to be mobilized to fight this, and then when ICE murders a woman it’s like “that lesbian bitch had it coming for her”?

No official seal on the podium. “One of ours, all of yours” A Nazi slogan indicating to protesting civilians that if you hurt one of ours we will kill all of you and yours. No dog whistles.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin asserts that the EPA has "an important responsibility" to "accelerate economic growth and opportunity." Maybe he doesn't know what the E stands for?

I OBVIOUSLY am someone extremely well aware of what the state will also do to pretty white women if the state feels like it, and I'm clearly not a fan, but let's be fucking serious here about who is collateral damage and who the actual targets of homegrown foundational American state violence are