I have had that feeling before where in the middle of an action you feel how tangibly another world is possible, but this time I feel it across an entire city. So many here are seeing what life could be like if it were organized around different principles, if the rhythm were completely different

These people cannot imagine being such a part of a community that the bicycle shop mourns you. It's as alien to them as a language they don't speak.

My heart is broken, so many times it seems impossible. But to have a heart still capable of breaking is to be in the fight, to know of a life lived otherwise. We will grant them no rest; we will know no greater joy and pleasure. Freedom is ours, we just need to take it

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

they are very small and they're having an urgent meeting about it

While no definitive proof, certainly suggestive that DHS -- of which TSA is part along with ICE/CBP -- is using facial recognition and license plates to revoke PreCheck etc for some protestors

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

Nazism has once again taken the technologies of violence practiced on indigenous people and Black people in the US, and re-applied it for the purpose of mass killings. Cops have done starlight tours since they got cars. The right time to stop this has been every time. It is right to stop it now.

all i see is a sundowning narcissist delegated immense power by two absentee branches of government, influenced by a fractious cabal of grifters and christian nationalists

International Pariah State Speedrun [any%/glitchless]

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.

What's happening in this city is unacceptable. We clearly need to increase their funding so they can get better training. And by the way, I hate the monster you turn into when you're drunk. So I've hired someone to teach you Judo

this is me if you even care

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

“Homeland Security officers who blinded a young protester by shooting a less-lethal projectile at close range in Santa Ana apparently shot a second man in the face that night, blinding him too.” #Pinks #MomSky #ProudBlue www.latimes.com/california/s...

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods

Reminder that I'm not just pretty and fucked up - I also wrote some weirdo queer fantasy books you'll like

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

Scott Adams dying at 68 rather than 69 is the perfect capstone to a life of being almost — but not quite — funny

Some of this is grifting, but a bunch of it is pure fascist resentment: if I like or approve of something, this implies a liberal/judeo-bolshevik conspiracy to suppress it. The existence of such a conspiracy requires no evidence, it simply must be.

In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet. youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto

chat what does it mean if your whole economy functions this way

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

You must understand this if you want to understand what we're up against: they leaked the video for *recruitment purposes*

the ICE employee pretty blantantly murdered Good to "get back" at Good's wife for being snippy. Homophobia, lesbophobia, queermisia, whatever you want to call it. That was an impassioned, pyschosexually bigoted murder that the state leaked video of for further libidinal reasons

Basically impossible to overstate the extent to which public masturbation over the idea of getting to kill people has been the dominant mode of communication from the right-wing media and intellectual sphere for years now.

In the Loop (Iannucci, 2009)

One thing I don't think people realize is just how much of the free app economy is funded by companies that collect this data App makers can get paid to ship all kinds of data And yeah, of course law enforcement will use it

if I could make one change to ancient history it’s to give Plotinus and Porphyry estradiol

and the fact that it wasn’t pulled immediately after the grok CSAM incident says everything you need to know about the way “protecting children” is used as a justification for anything else. it’s never really about that at all. it’s all just power & capital.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

i am going to run this in my Estrid aura tokens deck and you will tremble at my go-wide shenanigans should you play me

repeating "Bant Kithkin Legendary Creature" like a mantra ahead of #mtglorwyn previews so I can stop trying to shoehorn my pet card Mirrorweave into like all my other commander decks & finally build around it specifically

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

what can you even say that won't get you NSPM-7'd? this is a reprehensible. a reprehensible empire, gloating

ax-age, sword-age-- shields are cloven -- wind-age, outlaw-age, before the world collapses (skeggolf, skámold-- skildir ru klofnir -- vindold, vargold, áðr verold steypisk) Voluspá 44

the correct way to end the year, especially this year, is the ritual burning of xmas trees in the street in south philly. every time one finished burning, the crowd gleefully chanted, “ONE MORE TREE! ONE MORE TREE!” until, as if summoned, someone else came , parting the crowd & dragging another tree

Blockbuster interview about institutional transphobia at the New York Times that names names of the bigots responsible: A.G. Sulzberger, Joe Kahn, Carolyn Ryan at the top, plus Pamela Paul, Jeremy Peters, Azeen Ghorayshi, Katie J.M. Baker, & an entire anti-trans pro-mgmt splinter group in the union

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Until we reckon with the fact that trans women's lives and bodies and experiences actually matter, that they actually tell us something about how violence happens on a SYSTEMIC level and is erased and offloaded on a SYSTEMIC level, then we will never get rid of intimate and family violence at all

Something I almost never talk about bc it seems like no one other than trans women care is that when we talk about being survivors of CSA, abuse, IPV, all the violences...people don't care. Or they think it's funny. Or we're like, "exaggerating." It's not REAL abuse. Like if a REAL woman was abused

News stories about the concentration camps we run in foreign countries have to be smuggled to a third country in order to be seen.

a '28 Democrat party platform that doesn't unequivocally promise to reverse today's HHS overreach on eliminating healthcare for trans youth is a nonstarter, obviously. But since the Dems are trying to gut section 230 & pass KOSA, we figure they won't make that promise even with fingers crossed

As I posted on the other site back in 2022: the question of "is there actually such a thing as a trans child or a gay child?" is so unimportant compared to the question of "why are we violently disciplining children against certain ways of relating?"