mind bugbear

A thing I learned about Legolas is that he’s 2000 years old when Lord of the Rings starts which makes him seem pretty stupid all things considered. Like he learned how a bow and arrow works and that was about it for 1800 years.

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Completely agree with @miawong.bsky.social here. There were multiple videos out of Villegas Gonzalez’s murder the same day he was killed that contradicted ICE’s claims.
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Family of man killed by off-duty ICE agent in LA demands charges: ‘The ache will never go away’ After Renee Good’s killing in Minneapolis, calls grow for accountability in the shooting of Keith Porter Jr on New Year’s Eve

“The shooting of Porter, who leaves behind daughters aged 10 and 20, was not caught on camera”

How convenient for ICE

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

This would go so hard as a mathcore song title

there are cases where opsec is absolutely vital. anything where the liberty of another human being hangs in the balance is one of them.

Bottom line is we need to be honest and thoughtful about the risks we're willing to take and how to best protect ourselves and each other. And maybe dont take advice about opsec from cis white dudes with massive platforms who just started doing this shit a week ago lol

Frankly, if you're writing off the concept of opsec as paranoid cosplay you're naive. People get doxxed, arrested, straight up murdered (thinking of Ferguson activists in particular here). We're don't want to fearmonger but we need to be realistic with people about what could happen

HOWEVER, the proper response to these problems is to try and combat misinformation, build trust, and learn from people who have been doing this shit longer than you have. Not to abandon the concept of security entirely.

Opsec is good, actually. People being well-informed about risks and how to minimize them is an essential part of sustainable collective action. Now it's true that "opsec culture" is in many cases harmful, when people have bad risk assments, focus on the wrong things, share info w/out vetting, Etc 🧵

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

Interesting times, man

Damn I made this account to shitpost and dickride terry pratchet, but circumstances have me reliving trauma and making grandiose political statements on the timeline. fuck

Abolishing ICE is a good step and something we should be advocating for, but it's not enough. The end goal is the abolition of police and prisons entirely.

I'm not talking about this to play trauma Olympics with anyone. The point is that when I say ACAB I mean it literally.

As long as I'm going down this rabbit hole, the arresting officers also
1) gave me a concussion so severe I blacked out for 20 min and had to be hospitalized, then
2) mocked me to my face while I waited for CT scan results to see if my brain was hemorrhaging

I was asked the same thing almost verbatim after being arrested at a protest in 2020. Not by ICE, but by the regular, everyday local PD that dems love so much

Losers enjoy geometric inventory management systems out of a misguided desire for realism

I enjoy them because lining up all my gear in an efficient and aesthetically pleasing way makes my brain release the Good Chemicals

We are not the same

I'm studying accounting and I experience this exact phenomenon at least once a week

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?

Minneapolis uterus havers: if you’re bleeding out of cycle and wondering why, it’s the tear gas. Really, it does that

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Corollary: the reason the vast majority of elected Democrats are not taking a strong stand against murder is that ICE are cops and Dems love cops

People are scared, and rightfully so. And yet they keep showing up for each other. Honor their courage and sacrifice by doing the same.

This is not to dismiss pain and suffering that many are experiencing right now. That shit is real and no joke.

The most powerful people on the planet are spending billions to create the most sophisticated propaganda apparatus the world has ever seen.

And yet. Every day I see examples of love, compassion, and solidarity from the people around me.