مونيكا تيريذا

in the dream realm you tell me everything

the astrology never lies!

my ex partner chose me outright and that’s the energy i want

all the astrology girlies say i will meet my divine counterpart this month. will it be a virgo? a gemini? a sag? who knows! but no more women with ambiguous relationships with men please.

Left of Black | Rinaldo Walcott on Black Studies and the Long Emancipation YouTube video by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U.

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I return to this conversation.

it's just weird to think someone positions themselves as having good leftist even radical politics and then seeing their work in the atlantic

accidentally started a thing that may become a bigger thing (organizing) and we need more big things

i sent the rain as a love letter

If the United States was founded, then it is a fiction. And if it is a fiction, then its story requires tellers and listeners. And if it requires listeners, a public, an audience, then we can refuse to hear, to heed, its telling.

Texas A&M faculty, students rally against policy they deem censorship A professor says he’s speaking up for others “deathly afraid” of losing their jobs or being targeted by state leadership.

proud of Aggie students and faculty. @tamu-aaup.bsky.social As usual, @aaup.org plays a critical role.

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I heard AWP’s in Baltimore 👀
Hit me up to join your off-site reading because I’m a short train away!

there is no limit to my gay

accepted a spring wedding invite. i havent been to Monterrey since i was 19… what a return.

Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota said three of the four tribal members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week have been transferred to an ICE facility and called for th...

So ICE is holding 3 members of the Oglala Sioux to try to extort a cooperation agreement from them. ICE has no jurisdiction over Natives because we are all automatically citizens of the US. This is just fascist.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

my last x only sent voice notes and now someone i have talking to only sends me photos and videos instead what is this

"Here's what doesn't happen in war: there are no wondrous, climactic battles that leave the good guys standing tall and the bad guys lying in the dirt. Life isn't a World Wrestling Federation Smackdown. Even the people who win a war, who survive and come out the other side with the conviction that they have done something brave and necessary, don't do a lot of celebrating. There's very little chanting of 'we're number one' among people who've personally experienced war. I'm just a writer, and my main goal was always to entertain. But I've never let Animorphs turn into just another painless video game version of war, and I wasn't going to do it at the end. I've spent 60 books telling a strange, fanciful war story, sometimes very seriously, sometimes more tongue-in-cheek. I've written a lot of action and a lot of humor and a lot of sheer nonsense. But I have also, again and again, challenged readers to think about what they were reading. To think about the right and wrong, not just the who-beat-who. And to tell you the truth I'm a little shocked that so many readers seemed to believe I'd wrap it all up with a lot of high-fiving and backslapping. Wars very often end, sad to say, just as ours did: with a nearly seamless transition to another war. So, you don't like the way our little fictional war came out? You don't like Rachel dead and Tobias shattered and Jake guilt-ridden? You don't like that one war simply led to another? Fine. Pretty soon you'll all be of voting age, and of draft age. So when someone proposes a war, remember that even the most necessary wars, even the rare wars where the lines of good and evil are clear and clean, end with a lot of people dead, a lot of people crippled, and a lot of orphans, widows and grieving parents. If you're mad at me because that's what you have to take away from Animorphs, too bad. I couldn't have written it any other way and remained true to the respect I have always felt for Animorphs readers. K.A. Applegate"

"Here's what doesn't happen in war: there are no wondrous, climactic battles that leave the good guys standing tall and the bad guys lying in the dirt. Life isn't a World Wrestling Federation Smackdown."
K.A. Applegate, author of Animorphs, letting 'em know. hiracdelest.com/database/art...

I was learning about lynching at ages when I had a sippy cup & nap time. White people don't know so much about this country's history of terror until late in life. They're not equipped for this moment without the cultural memory. They won't listen to those who have it.

its still very early but chatting with an old friend who i have had romantic moments in the past with is sweet and a good reminder that love is abundant and can look different every time

i hope when i’m dead people will say yes i was stubborn and proud but it was endearing

I've been part of movements calling for the abolition of ICE since 2003, so of course its meaningful when a position that was seemingly fringe is gaining traction and more people are organizing against the tragic and horrific violence of ICE unfolding. And, yet, like most things that gain popular legitimacy, it can mean incomplete or distorted understandings, so three things: 1. ICE is a relatively new enforcement apparatus (2003, post 9/11). It has become the most visible terrorizing arm of immigration enforcement, but the calls to Abolish ICE can't be separated from the calls to end all detentions and all deportations, including at the border where Border Patrol operates. Did you know that over 17,600 !!!) federal, state & other government agencies in the US can have enforcement jurisdiction against migrants?!? It's not just ICE, it's a whole apparatus to be dismantled

2. ICE kidnappings draw from centuries of ongoing anti-Black and anti-Indigenous kidnappings as a method of eliminating Indigenous people and controlling Black people. Some of the earliest border militias in the US swelled their ranks from slave patrols. Calling for the abolition of ICE requires a grounding in the Black abolitionist tradition and understanding that it's impossible to think about the politics of migration outside of especially anti-Black racial carceral logics & settler colonial violence.

3. I am forever dying on this hill: technologies of border violence are increasingly externalized and are out of our sight in the so-called imperial core. ICE violence is horrific (as is CBSA etc, and people should mobilize against these ghouls wherever we are are, *and* also keep in mind that imperial immigration enforcement is actually largely being externalized or outsourced to countries in the periphery. For example, championed through successive US govt agreements especially Obama, Mexico now deports more Central Americans than the US does. Border imperialism and migration agreements are now a cornerstone of all imperial soft power and this is not a solely "domestic immigration" issue. Which is to say that abolish ICE cannot and must not be separated from abolishing all bordering regimes, abolition of all policing, and ending all imperialism.”

From @harshawalia.bsky.social, a must read:

i start therapy next week because damn December did me in.

They are pushing *propaganda*, and if you do not counter it with something equally forceful or stronger, then you're going to keep losing. They manipulate information and data instead of pretending that seeing it “objectively” will change hearts and minds. Please understand this.

Fascists won't be explained away to a public that is heavily conservative, uneducated, and propagandized. Playing by the fake rules of objectivity aids the construction of deeper authoritarianism. They know you'll stay fenced in your self-constructed losing box that they can outmaneuver every time.

Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.

Another way out: You can't just wait for tyranny to go away The Epstein scandal exposes not just individual monsters but a political order built for them to thrive

Tyranny doesn’t do term limits. Fascism will not be waited away. Looking for fantasies that are going to make an extremely upsetting situation easily go away is not the best use of time. It’s good to deal with the reality of where we’re at. prismreports.org/2026/01/07/a...

"we have to over and over again rehearse the future that we want" (Ruth Wilson Gilmore)

thank you you fucking courageous observers and you courageous resisters and you people needing to hide, your NO is the future we want

whenever someone hurts me i do not seek revenge but i will write a devastating poem for everyone to read

The same screenshot of Dean and Castiel sitting in a car from 5.14 of Supernatural repeated. The top text says "where is your hunger, dean?" The bottom text reads "Where is your copy of The Hungering Years, Dean?" with the new words and letters crudely added in pink.

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Colonial → Neo-Colonial → Extra-Colonial — solutionsforpostmodernliving In the colonial era, imperialist war was territorial. In the neocolonial era, imperialist war shifted to regime change. Now a third logic prevails. In the era of extra-colonial competitive control, ev...

In the colonial era, imperialist war was territorial. In the neocolonial era, imperialist war shifted to regime change. In the era of extra-colonial competitive control, even regime change becomes unnecessary—often counterproductive.