“What if we simply ignored both the racism and the violence against women” is a very popular approach to a lot of things, and I think one has to wonder both why that appeals so strongly and also, once that desire is fulfilled, what’s left.
Nah, Elder Kearon isn’t the senior apostle in the darkest timeline. And it could be darker! It could have been Tad Callister…
We’ve been rolling doubles the last decade or so (Kearon?? Causse?? Gong?? Renlund??)—it was only a matter of time before we got sent to jail!
Very grateful Elder Gilbert gave me his personal email the last time we spoke in person!
It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag
If a groundhog gets a day to predict the future, New Yorkers deserve a city that plans for one.
Affordable housing, good transit, real public space — all year long.
Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room
I write about Alex Pretti and the power of witness as ICE targets legal observers. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport
Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
Feels like ICE is trying to use Ye Old 20th Century Death Squad techniques, except they totally failed to account for the fact that social media is ubiquitous now and the regime still has basically 0 effective control over "bystanders posting constant video online of death squad movements."
It can get lower!
Continually impressed by the courage, scale, and beauty of what people in Minnesota are doing.
an administration that understood it needed at least *some* public opinion on its side would dump bovino immediately
Pretty much everyone on IG who has been carefully quiet about politics is speaking out.
It’s. Weird.
I’m not on there all that much, but I think people have finally been given social permission to say the uncomfortable thing.
I think they realize not speaking up will be read as acceptance.
No. They are not planning to ever relinquish power.
It's the Putinisation of America.
"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
We had to put up with school shootings because "the 2nd Amendment"
But watch ICE eliminate the right to bear arms by executing anyone they find with a gun and to hell with the 2nd Amendment.
ICE will soon be killing citizens in their own homes because they're scared there might be a gun inside.
So.
To date, I have seen ONE Dem Rep in Congress call for ICE to be abolished. Ilhan Omar.
Not defunded. Not trained and restrained.
ABOLISHED.
Are there any others? If so, post them and let's get a count on the number of Dems in Congress.
I’d vote machine guns because they are made out of pure, glossy, hardened evil. That still should not stop us. I’m damn near 67 years old and have lived a great life for the most part. If getting shot in the street is the last thing I do it’s worth it if it saves our republic.
i honestly don't know what this administration would do if confronted with a national mass movement
would they get scared and back down? would they pull out machine guns?
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
I cannot stress enough that you SHOULD NOT DO THIS. Stop peace policing. Kill the cop in your head. They have already killed multiple people ON CAMERA. They don’t need an “excuse.” Don’t be a snitch.
Minneapolis, MN -
A view from the inside entrance to the lobby of the hotel where the noise demonstration against ICE is happening.
"behind the violence in Minneapolis—captured in so many chilling photographs in recent weeks—is a different reality: a meticulous urban choreography of civic protest."
from Robert worth, @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
You have lived long enough to see a French anti-fascist organisation (a traditionally very anti-US milieu) organise a ‘rally in solidarity with the American people’.
Screenshot of the poem "Like Gardening" by Jay Hulme https://jayhulme.com/blog/plague-poems
Looking through my phone at saved poems, searching for one appropriate to these hard days
Found this one, but without attribution. Thankfully Google reminded me that it's one from
@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
Oh. Yes. Plague Poems.
of course 💔
If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.
part of why we are driving ICE absolutely mad is that we are using tactics that do not really permit them to legally arrest us. they cannot operate the way they want to operate when we have eyes on them.
they want to be a secret police and we simply will not let them be secret
