They hate them! It’s one of those things that sounds like a conspiracy but is absolutely true. It’s hard to process how much law enforcement can’t deal with reminders of their own violence.

if you are grieving, you are not working to increase the wealth of billionaires if you are grieving, you may be questioning the political system that caused your grief

public grief interferes with ongoing production/consumption and the profits of billionaires and can lead to questioning the political order, so our “leaders” try to limit its expression

they should invent a heartache that ends

thinking a lot lately about our surprise when the victim of state violence is white, a citizen, a priest, a veteran, some category viewed as exempt from that violence. it’s time to understand you aren’t. no one is. whiteness isn’t the color of your skin it is a conditional privilege you can lose.

The right (and I mean this almost across the board, globally) constantly demonstrates how you need to understand the psychology of abusers in order to understand who they are. Nothing enrages them more than believing that they are being mocked. They WILL kill you for it.

Timeline cleanse: Mamdani governing like Fred Rogers (compliment). Notice it’s two of the people in American public life who risked the most to support Palestine who are out here exemplifying kindness and joy and love with kids more than just about any other American politician ever could.

Wilhoit's law: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

the long road ahead

How broken must you be to think this is just?

to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app select the icon in the top left corner go to settings go to content and media make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off

patriarchy

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

slowly but surely indoctrinating my parents with anti-american propaganda

what is it about assassins creed that speaks to me so

Imagined victimhood is a foundational tenet of fascism. Persecution fantasies permeate conservative politics. Their great oppressors include racial diversity, science, drag brunch, children's literature, public education, N-95 masks, electric cars, medicine, the rule of law, empathy, and Ms. Rachel.

Just a reminder that LAST time Mpls was the center of a reckoning around police violence, we ended shoveling more money to police and less to social services. Minneapolis still feels the wounds of the last time, with an even richer police force. This is what we need to guard against, yet again.

Many expected the rule to end when Brady retired, but it's still in effect.

So hey, while Frey is doing soundbytes and spouting off, Sheriff Dawanna Witt and Frey's Police Chief Brian O'Hara's people were at HCMC last night protecting ICE agents, refusing to trespass them from the ER waiting room there despite requests from the hospital, and elected officials.

shit don’t sound like a whisper anymore

New Republic: Avelo Airlines, which saw only short term profit in being the biggest provider of aircraft and crews for deportation flights, failed to consider the irreparable harm to its reputation. Now it is closing bases, canceling flights, laying off employees, and stopped deportation flights.

My hobbies are political anxiety, wilful dissociation, typos, and trying to scream myself to death

Add another one to the great big board of "Urban Planning Debates: Academic Research vs. Some Guy"

My Unrived team is going to be air/gas based. By which I mean it's either Mist or Breeze. I need to watch Mist to be sure, but y'all know how much I love Lan Smith.

Sometimes I need a cigarette, not because I smoke, but like as a literary device.

Tom Homan worked for Obama. Obama gave him an award.

The crows won’t lie to you

iykyk

you can just go ask crows stuff instead of asking chatgpt

Me: why are you up at all hours Also me: that is your mind working to understand and theorize dismantling the authoritarian state Me, again: that makes perfect sense 😭

i am rewarding myself with a beer and starting a new video game if i finish cleaning the kitchen

Ok, I couldn't stop thinking about this. Apologies to the literally dozens of people I've lifted from... I want to do a fully credited version, but I'm sitting here sobbing and, well, maybe you'll feel some release, too.

Violence is numbing in its sameness. Living is beautiful and vibrant.

and now, of all times, it is important to be gayer

Gonna leave this here and go to bed.

"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation." - Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (2004)

im whichever gender makes you the most embarrased to realize you're attracted to me

early math major is taking her first proof based course & has asked me to tutor her for 3mo in preparation. yessss. I am going Corrupt The Youth

These fucking politicians need to STOP CONSTANTLY admonishing protestors to be "peaceful" while they are being brutalized regularly by the gatekeepers of the state. You should be up there telling ICE and Border Patrol to be fucking peaceful.

doing 90’s nostalgia content yearning for life before the department of homeland security

You can tell so much about a leader by who they center in statements like these. Bob Kettle here is centering Bob Kettle.

This is an unacceptable statement from Seattle City Councilmember Bob Kettle, suggesting it’s ICE’s tactics and conduct that’s the problem and not their targeting of immigrants in the first place.

if we’re doing loaded questions i think it’s only fair to ask every republican if it’s okay that the president is a child rapist

“Say her name” isn’t used for white victims of shootings, because 99.9% of the time, their names will be said often and loudly. Rarely is a white victim a hidden victim. They usually aren’t brushed under the media rug. RIP Renee Nicole Good.

outside a dispo in north portland

shit don’t sound like a whisper anymore