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Cruelty is a choice.
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@SenateDems It has to stop. Any measure that does not address this kind of behavior is empty. They have to stop terrorizing communities.
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
Today has been a lot of stories about horrible, disgusting, inhuman, piece of shit, ice agents, abusing and terrorizing children. Also adults but at least three stories about them abusing children. How are we going to stop this?
ABOLISH ICE. NOW
I'm about to finish my ninth!
we don't have very much but we can strip anybody who works for ICE of any social niceties whatsoever. you find out somebody is with them? they don't get to be ANYTHING to you anymore. and tell them WHY. it SUCKS to be ostracized and stigmatized. please use it on somebody who's earned it for once
The local police should intervene. What ICE is doing is unlawful.
Photos of Seattle vigil for Renee Good
Photos of Seattle vigil for Renee Good Sign reads: What would you have done in 1935 Germany? You are doing it now.
Photos of Seattle vigil for Renee Good
Photos of Seattle vigil for Renee Good
Seattle Vigil for Renee Good
800+ strong
I may have already finished reading the most important book I'll read this year.
Limitatianism by @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social
This should be required reading. Once for most of us and once per million for the others.
I'm working on a project at the moment where I need to speak to people who have been affected by celebrity romance fraud - either as the victim who sent money or the friends/family of someone who did
DM me if you have an experience you can share
Please RT this to get more reach
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”
here's the thing: you are not reaching any real voters by posting on twitter at this point
none of them are on the platform, and if they are, they're sure not voting for you
twitter posting is exclusively for the audience of reporters who live over there, and you can reach them elsewhere
I will say that ableism is directly addressed quite well, it's just this little byproduct that remains. Hard to avoid.
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It's a natural progression, as this is generally the very next thing we default to, but I do hate that we do so. And while I totally relate with Lem's having felt unmoored before having found a calling onboard the teapot, I'm afraid that's my internalized ableism it's speaking to.
I adore Starship Teapot by Si Clarke. It's so lovely and inclusive. The only thing that doesn't quite sit right with me is that as a side effect of the name/pronoun convention (which I really dig otherwise) sentient beings tend to introduce themselves using their job titles.
10,000 mortgages left unpaid like open bar tabs.
Tilt by @emmapattee.bsky.social
This novel is beautifully tragic
Marked safe from….whatever the fuck Jane Orrick was talking about.
Jesus fucking Christ. Be sure to tell your children they can be anything they want to be, even if they’re as dumb as a rock.
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
"Dressed in their red suits and fake beards, they rang their bells like they were going for dog-spit gold at the Pavlov Olympics."
It isn't really Christmas until I've cracked open The Stupidest Angel by @theauthorguy.bsky.social.
Bari's going to come back hard with "we need to see both sides of torture to be fair."
Actually, the Warden in the 60 Minutes piece sort of had the "pro torture" point of view covered.
