This thread. Fuck.

This is spot on.

just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now

This fucking lying cunt

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

The KARE coverage is real, effective local news

The Minnesotans interviewed on the Status Coup live stream are just normal people showing up for their community. May all Americans be so caring for their neighbors.

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

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

They're just lobbing tear gas at normal people.

He was a nurse.

Hey if you have a problem with the White House sharing A.I. generated photos of their political enemies great reminder to not also do that

Last night, we watched One ton One: John & Yoko and it seems so timely. The early '70s were a wild time in the United States, but it was so sad to see people mobilizing in the streets without fear of having chemical weapons deployed against them. (And had LESS of a chance of being beaten or shot.)

The economy is shit. Kids are dying of measles. We're being kidnapped and murdered by federal goons to let white supremacists live their fever dream. We're taking the international order and shredding it to enrich a handful of people. And nobody with power has the courage to be like, "we could not"

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

We do not get out of fascism by saving ourselves and turning our backs on others. We get out through solidarity with everyone—especially the most vulnerable.

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.

A reminder that ICE’s budget, $28 billion, is larger than the annual budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons combined. (Via Bernie Sanders)

i hate that we talk about "the union army" in the civil war. it was the army of the united states of america against an evil and illegal pro-slavery band of terrorists. the confederacy was illegitimate from top to bottom.

This thread!

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The hot hockey show making me cry.

Someone needs to have the consent talk.

Like there’s a ton of individual issues but the broader problem is that there’s an assault on giving a shit about anyone besides yourself, nihilism that tells people the only way to prevent getting hurt is to hurt enough other people and that sickness is filtering into the bones of everything.

Uprising Survival Guide This short guide covers street safety and other important factors to consider in the midst of the resistance to ICE and Donald Trump's attempt to impose fascism via military occupation. crimethinc.com/survivalguid...

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"Fuck" is the language of the people. Act like it.

man the video is circulating so settings > content & media > uncheck auto-play video & gifs

Like, there's so much terrible shit and calling congresspersons to plead for them to Just Do Something feels hopeless.

It's a fucking dystopia.

A Provost at Texas A&M hasn't actually read Plato.

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Government restrictions on speech, even “harmful” and “dangerous” speech, always turns out to be more dangerous and harmful than the speech itself.

Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.

In 1981, George Lucas sold the radio rights of Star Wars to NPR for $1. The network made a radio drama and it was SO GOOD! You can buy a copy, and I highly recommend it. www.npr.org/2015/12/18/4...

Ya know, maybe we just call gender affirming care "bio hacking" like the tech bros call it when they do it.

I did a little science experiment this afternoon. Baked two loaves of bread, one in a cold Dutch oven, the other in a preheated Dutch oven. Same batch of dough, same timing, same preheated oven temperature of 450. But you can tell which is which.

Ditto for the alleged Department of War (see, e.g., 10 USC 111) and the alleged Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace (see 22 USC 4603).

WANT

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Americans online talk like being American is a disability. Americans can't use the car less often. Americans can't live in walkup apartments. American families can only prosper in suburbia. It's really "damn bro can you do anything whatsoever"

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My most fundamental belief is that we do not have to live like this.

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you fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye

The Pantone color of the year thing is a joke, right? It feels like, I dunno, a little icky in context of What Is Happening.