T. W. Barber

I can think of exactly one positive use for this, and that's in my line of work in fire/ems. Sometimes I come across an unconscious person with no wallet and it'd be nice to be able to ID them, contact their family, get their med history. But even then, it feels gross.

I'm confused. Should Millennials and zoomers be "financially responsible" and not spend on luxuries, or should we spend 20 bucks on shitty beer?

I was trying to explain to someone how immigration courts are supposed to work and he said "that's nice in theory, but we just don't have the resources!"
Looks like we do, and this is how the right is choosing to use them.

🦐🦐🦐🦐 (prawn stash)

This is important. The head of CBP says here that his agency did NOT provide the assessment that led DHS to label Alex Pretti a terrorist looking to inflict mass casualties.

That appears to contradict Stephen Miller's claim that the initial assessment was based on CBP reports:

They are in fact concentration camps in the original usage of camps for concentrating a civilian population for control or collective punishment or to facilitate deportation or population transfer.

They are not concentration camps as a euphemism for extermination camps.

Your voice does matter! Organized effort got a major corporation to pivot on a major issue.

ICE funding runs out this week…

Let it. 😎✨

YouTube video by Tawny Platis Why All The Millennials Are LGBTQ

For anyone else whose awakening included The MMummy, aka "oh, so that's why I'm into suspenders and librarians", a little good news in these trying times

"Clean, beautiful, American coal."

Gods that is so fucking pathetic. At least the first time fascism rolled around the villains had the goddamn decency to act the part. The n*zis this time are all such dorky chuds I'd laugh at them if they weren't in the midst of murdering us all

Grok might be the purest form of evil on the internet

"Pedo Pam" is right there people!

Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it.

The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.

I’ve had a front row seat.

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Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

My current novel (planned as a trilogy) is entirely about one of the most uncomfortable places I can imagine: how much of a monster are you willing to become in service of the greater good? When is the loss too great to do what you think is right, or the stakes too high not to damn yourself?

Pamela Jo Bondi has seen photos and videos of pedophilia so disturbing that she knew she could never make them public if she wanted to protect the perpetrators. And that was the choice she coldly made.

"We are staying brave while our country is besieged by a hostile foreign power."
- propaganda, apparently

Except the helmets don't even say that. The U.S. flew a tattered flag from the WTC at the 2002 Olympics and that was 1000x more political than this. Fuck off, IOC.

Contact Your MOC

The "Save America Act" is voter suppression dressed up as patriotism. It targets naturalized citizens, trans Americans, tribal citizens, and natural disaster victims with extra barriers. Don't let the name fool you.

#SheShed #Pinks

#StopTheSaveAct social.demcast.com/s/KBSOfod7

Oh, you took him to McDonald's? Well that makes everything better! There's no crippling trauma a happy meal and a McFlurry can't fix!

In all seriousness, this kid will probably never want McDonalds again after this. Fuck ICE

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

More and more, I believe that morality isn't about what your personal actions or beliefs - it's about what you will tolerate being done to strangers. People whose circumstance you don't know, people whose safety and comfort don't effect your own.

5calls.org

HAAAAA WHAT A DIPSHIT

Let us all thank Big Brother for increasing our chocolate rations.

Writers Who Use AI Are Not Real Writers Dorothy Parker famously (but probably not really) said, “I hate to write, but I love having written,” which is a sentiment I don’t largely understand or agree with in the broader …

Read that article about the """writer""" generating 200 books a year with AI and needless to say, I had THOUGHTS

Two cases of tuberculosis detected at El Paso ICE facility — The Texas Tribune Officials said 18 cases of COVID-19 were also identified at the 5,000-bed tent Fort Bliss Army facility, where a Democratic congresswoman said many “chronic issues” persist.

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🦠 Tuberculosis (TB) is infectious.
💀 Untreated, it can be deadly.

Active TB in a U.S.-run concentration camp?
Yeah — that’s a public health nightmare 🚨

Quick TB facts ⬇️

They sang “American Idiot”

Fascism is never popular but their strategy for minority control means it's always a requirement to make it appear that way.

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I'm fascinated by the genius mind that decides that because a building is too ugly the solution is to shutter it and leave it as is so it's still ugly but also doesn't do anything and exists just to be ugly

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch but also don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. We have an opportunity to retake and redeem much of our government, to turn back from this fascist convulsion. Take it. Bc if we blow it, we damn our children and their children.