if you’re tired of users telling you to use alt text, JUST FUCKING DO IT. the app automatically detects text on mobile. it’s literally a copy/paste job. communication is a two-way street. some people don’t use their eyes for that. it’s not a big deal. don’t be a dick.

There are approximately 3 million undocumented persons in Texas and Florida, and there are about 100,000 in Minnesota. Ask yourself why ICE has been deployed to MN, but not even close to the same way in FL and TX. This isn't about immigration, it is all about politics and retribution.

Something I want more people to bear in mind about Linda Tirado's injuries in 2020 is how few colleagues in journalism felt moved to aggressively support her in public after she was shot by police. People need to learn from that now as journalists go into danger again, because that hurt her a lot.

The first professional police force in the US began in 1838 in Boston. In 1854 only three cities had police forces: NYC, Philly, and Boston.

Adtech is almost everything you do online. They’re using Adtech to track and investigate. Every little thing you do — shopping, browsing, checking health information, connecting on social, ChatGPT — is on Adtech.

Repeal the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

remember, you can yell scream and curse at the political fundraising texts, but DO NOT reply with an actionable threat because the US attorney’s office considers the volunteer batch sending them to be a live human recipient of that message. it’s not just a bot. those cases can and do get charged.

This is essentially what governments did in the late 1900s and early 2000s with respect to Nazis. Whether you were a lowly concentration camp guard or in Hitler's inner circle, if there was evidence you were a Nazi, it was straight to jail with your walker. It worked.

Let's all thank the man who helped make it possible too. Trump, as usual, refuses to give credit to Biden

They did this to a white male veteran abcnews.go.com/US/army-vet-...

inescapable conclusion is we have no laws, just cops

Does anyone have a whistle hook up in central NC? While everyone is home for the ice storm I want to try and door knock, pass out whistles, and get everyone in the neighborhood into a signal chat.

I just want people who are seeing the crowd pics to know, every single piece of Mpls infrastructure was strained to the limit today to get people there. I’m able bodied and prepared, was outside for 2 hours and still never made it bc our trains downtown were never meant to be packed like they were.

Them, but also more directly: 285 people out of 535 could end all this (218 + 67). That fact should not be treated as an "oh they'll never do it" shrug, as if they don't have agency. They should be hammered constantly as traitors and cowards every day they don't.

also while im here: your brain is a physical thing. it is part of your body. taking care of your body makes things easier on your brain. things like drinking water and getting exercise (if able) are not going to magically fix anything. but they can and typically do make things easier for you

Shoutout to the bipartisan fear mongering and trash research reports that made this dream a reality 😎

I am one of those people and my specific reason was, people were calling for a general strike *without the backing or buy-in of labor unions.* Iirc there were several labor union locals who got on board with this in MN at the earliest stages.

Commit it to memory

Logging on before I even get out of bed to check and see if It Happened.

I am not a Doctor, but I just want to be clear that measles can literally hit the reset button on your entire immune system making you prone to numerous secondary infections and conditions down the line. asm.org/articles/201...

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

People worried about chromium in the smoke from a green colored smoke grenade....the US Army commissioned an exhaustive survey of everything that ends up in the green smoke over 25 years ago.

In the meantime, CS gas is the same from my training thirty years ago. Don't shave a few days prior. Drink lots of water prior (your body will go nuts making mucous). Do not rub your eyes, just squint. When you smell it, stop breathing *DO NOT BREATHE IN* and rapidly leave the area.

Do not cut chili peppers for-- I kid you not-- the next month and a half

Carbon monoxide deaths spike during power outages. Many times, this is due to portable generators being placed too close to people's homes or run indoors. Make sure you have working carbon monoxide alarms. Run your generator outdoors, at least 20ft away from your home.

Flashlights (not candles). Smoke/carbon monoxide alarms. Knowing where the vents to your home are so you can clear them of snow. Do it all. We're being given so much time with this storm.

The grimness of US history should encourage us. Yes, people used to send lynching postcards. And other people saw that, worked towards building a more just society anyway, and succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. There's more work to be done. What's our excuse for choosing despair instead?

From someone on the ground in Lewiston, Maine:

Up to 1/2 inch ice accumulation in my area this weekend. This is going to be apocalyptic.

Lots of great stuff in this thread but there's stuff you can do now before we loose power: -get caught up on laundry/dishes -make a bed nest (check TT) -when it starts fill any thermoses you have with boiling water and add to nest -plan meals that can be eaten cold like potato salad

I know most people don’t spend a lot of time with kids, so they only know what a 5-year-old is in theory. He is still learning his letters,to count to 100, spell his full name, and mom’s phone number. His mom still baths him, and now he’s locked away in a concentration camp without a familiar face.

stop legitimizing the fascist takeover by pretending it's normal

The ICUs at my hospital are completely full, so that and an impending snowstorm will be fun for me to deal with going into tomorrow and this weekend

In the 1870 census, Boise, Idaho was almost 50% Chinese. Just...think about that. Think about Boise, Idaho today and what you think about it racially. What happened after that was, to put it bluntly, repeated violence against the Chinese population in the West.

Call your reps. Let them know that if they vote for ICE funding, you will not vote for them ever again. Representatives need to feel the heat. NO on ICE funding. No excuses.

It’s infuriating how many people claim to care about fictitious “child trafficking” conspiracies about trans people and Wayfair and Democrats but will miss, ignore, and distract from actual government agents kidnapping children in front of their very eyes

22% of the US population voted for Donald Trump. That's it.

This is EVERYWHERE today. Please stop giving people bad advice. If wearing juggalo makeup and putting pebbles in your shoes even worked 10 years ago, they certainly don’t work now

if two people are already restraining someone physically while spraying their face with pepper spray, that is torture, plain and simple. no debate to be had about it

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

I have been told that this undercover ICE agent tried to get observers to scan a QR code “for his website”. The QR code did not resolve to a link. DO NOT SCAN UNKNOWN QR CODES FROM STRANGERS. This is a massive security risk! Bad things can happen to you if you do it! Stay frosty, friends.

Ok but like isn't this the second or third time Air Force One had to turn back during an Atlantic crossing. I know we all want it to be about Trump, but what if they forgot to pack Stephen Miller in the earth of his homeland, and had to turn back before crossing the water?

You know you live with pets when you hear a single rflux and say “oh no!” Chris said “Who was it?” and now the waiting game of who’s about to puke. I think all 3 have puked at least once this week.

The Trump administration's idea of a "mom and pop" investor is a hypothetical couple that owns 5-12 investment properties.

As writer, I would love to not have to keep using the "Everything GOP smacks of rape culture/domestic violence" metaphor, vary it up a bit, but they just keep going to the same well! It is what it is.

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