Joran Q. Fox (J-1.01) ~voidwalker~

Ice planning to acquire $38 billion in warehouses to create detention centers all over the U.S.

There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.

Catholic rituals blend with Neapolitan folklore in pilgrimage for queer community MERCOGLIANO, Italy (RNS) — The pews of the Church of the Annunziata in Mercogliano, a town just outside of Naples, were filled with guests wearing lacquered nails, towering wigs and heavy eyelashes.

Updating the tracker and I came across this fascinating story of trans and/or non-binary trans life woven into the Catholic practices of Naples, Italy.

For the photo alone I felt like I had to share it - but it's fascinating throughout. From @apnews.com

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If those who claim the authority of law do not obey the law, and the law does not stop them, then they do not have the authority of law, because there is no longer any law.

Qamaqtuq ᖃᒪᖅᑐᖅ “To call dogs to oneself”

For the Gender Mutual exhibition @ SUM Gallery

Keep it up. Delete ur tiktok accounts. Uninstall the tiktok app. For your own safety

Seeing as the last “couple” art I posted wasn’t exactly… happy. Let’s appreciate @bluehunterart.bsky.social’s wonderful work with Valkantaa and Kuväh.

Even the most stoic of cats aren’t above cracking a smile. Especially not when it’s only their loved one looking. Close friends are still a maybe.

noticed a trend this week where both the right and some liberals have been like "just realized the left actually means what they say about stuff"

Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”

Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”

Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.

So pathetic and weak.

Donald Trump's complete lack of anything resembling respect for the Rule of Law isn't new in the United States either, by the way. Richard Nixon's presidency was replete with examples of his administration ignoring court orders. But even Nixon wasn't the first.

We hadn’t done that in literal years. It was alright. Not great, just alright. The rice wasn’t my best effort; I should’ve used more sugar and vinegar.

It was still tasty though!

It was “protect the children” until it came to immigrant children.

It was “protect the children” until it came to gun violence.

It was “protect the children” until it came to food assistance.

It was “protect the children” until it came to healthcare.

It was never about protecting children.

I’d forgotten how time consuming making sushi is. Sure, a lot of it is prepping the rice and waiting. But that takes quite awhile. I don’t want to cook the fish with hot rice, after all.

At this point, I'm not even willing to grant that "immigration" names a legitimate free-standing political concern or issue. This country's very first immigration legislation was called the "Chinese Exclusion Act". It's never been anything but gutter racist hysteria, sorry.

I just don't ever want to hear it from "conservatives" again. Anything. All the decades of their bellyaching about big government and lectures about family values. Sorry, all our darkest suspicions about these people were 100% correct: they're just racists and fascists. That's it. End of story.

Even still under the lingering effects of post-surgery anesthesia, and in lots of pain, I STILL know an administrative warrant does not give ICE the legal authority to enter your home without your consent and the ICE "policy" to the contrary has exactly zero basis in law.

ICE was posted up at all the Orthodox and spanish-language churches on the East side of St Paul last Sunday. The fucking hypocrisy and gall of this puts me at a state of anger that is difficult to put in words. Something something, False Witness I guess.

Clergy arrests are powerful symbolism and the clergy that deploy that symbolism are usually very conscious of that.

Priests aren't required to wear collars all day every day, it's a deliberate choice when they're in clerical apparel

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

When my family and 120,000 other Japanese American were sent to prison camps in WWII, the government only allowed propaganda photos of things like schools and baseball games to be published. A school in a prison is evidence of evil, none of these people, especially children, should be imprisoned

Worries about vaccination rates in dogs As rabies seems to be spreading more in wildlife, veterinarians are especially worried about vaccine hesitancy spreading among pet owners, a dangerous trend that could lead to more dogs - and their owners- becoming infected. A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in nationally representative sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.

May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies.

May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism.

This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs.

Vaccinate your pets please.

Never forget the most ironclad rule of politics:

Every abuse you justify against another will be weaponized against you in time.

To cheer abuse, violence, or the suspension of others’ rights is to cheer the abuse, violence, and suspension of your own.

once again: ICE is operating as if they have a general warrant, the specific type of warrant the founders were most concerned about when drafting the 4th Amendment

deeply beside the point but i'm livid about the way he refers to good's partner as her friend

"three arrows" anti-fascist emblem, with the arrows replaced by three sidewalk ice choppers

always anti-fascist

always anti-ice

I don't think Walz is likely to deploy NG on ICE officers. That's a fair criticism. But from a practical standpoint it has also injected that idea into the public discourse as something acceptable and necessary for Serious Democrats to consider. This is probably useful.

Anyone proposing even more limits on Section 8 has never been on Section 8.

A local housing authority tried to terminate a client's voucher because they purportedly violated its terms by becoming disabled.

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

Millions of Americans remain at jobs they hate for one reason: the health insurance they receive. That’s absurd.

Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.

Another reason for Medicare for All.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

Yeah, I don’t see the arguments applied to AI-induced psychosis working for anything people go in knowing is fantasy.

ChatGPT presents what it says as TRUE, not fantasy. It convinces people that what it’s saying is true and then they end up with delusions.