Jess Schomberg

Age verification? Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless? Tom was here before the river and trees; Tom remember the first raindrop and the first acorn. He made paths before the Big People, and saw the little People arriving. He was here before the Kings and the graves and the Barrow-wigh

razed to the ground. replaced with a memorial to this latest chapter of ethnic cleansing at this beautiful place where the rivers meet.

see how easy it is when they're not as rich and powerful? now keep going

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

The ‘abolish ICE’ door is cracked open and every one of us needs to push and keep pushing.

“Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said the family was in hiding. He cited a bomb threat at his son’s former elementary school and ICE agents patrolling the Columbia Heights home they no longer live in.”

Trans rights aren’t tanking the Democrats. Julia Serano responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”

“The claim that Republican anti-trans ads and rhetoric are winning over Democratic and independent voters is simply not true. Moreover, the assumption that abandoning trans rights will have no negative ramifications for Democrats is mistaken.” @juliaserano.bsky.social

That plus Faulkner being a Nobel-prize winning author means it will stay.

And now I feel really weird about the whole experience.

At least I didn't pay actual money for this experience, I guess

Anyway I noped out at that point and brought the audiobook back from the library.

But the damage had already been done -- next time that little-used collection is weeded, this will be one of the few with a recent circ

But I could kind of ... like acknowledge it but also ignore it.

And then I got to the next story and... whooboy. Updating one term in that story would not come even close to saving it. It was racist racist, not "people used different words then" racist

Like in ARFE it was uncomfortable, and a vivid reminder about how much the discourse has shifted since the 1980s/1990s.

(I was also reading Delany's Dhalgren during this Faulkner revisit. Language has changed, man!)

Boy howdy, I remembered also hearing about how racist his stories are right quick

(And by first Bush I mean first Bush, not first Shrub term)

Short stories seem ideal for my needs and I vaguely remember really liking A Rose for Emily when I read it in hs (first Bush era)

So I was browsing through my library's physical audiobook collection looking for some non-streaming listening options during my commute, and saw a Faulkner anthology and thought "perfect!"

Check out this list! Based on how much I valued Unkindness of Ghosts, Chain-gang All-stars and No Gods, No Monsters I can not wait to dig into the rest of these titles.

I am learning how to crochet and it is both humbling and encouraging to watch my own progress. You don't get to self-efficacy without frogging an entire project

I really hate the moving goalposts GFM uses. I know their reasoning, but if I see a sm post saying they're trying to raise $15k and by the time I click on it the bar has been raised to $45k? My kneejerk reaction is not positive.

I suppose I could go through and weed some of these, while I'm here.

any mention of lobbying governments or corporations for environmental standards? Vanished. Acknowledgement of Nestlé's role? We don't talk about that publicly.

This is how we got to nonsense straw bans.

You, Jane, you slovenly selfish girl, you must recycle the waste you created by buying that bottle of water. (Pre-TikTok water-Tok was in full effect that decade.)

Meanwhile...

Going through environmentalist children's books from the early 1990s and being reminded of how completely co-opted that movement had become by that time.

again: you can openly pursue a policy of ethnic cleansing and be received as engaging in "racially charged rhetoric" so long as you are not sufficiently rude about it. and yet the present administration cannot manage even this

I knew this was coming as soon as I saw the email from ALA saying that IMLS funding had been approved 😑

Good. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.

(Yes, I know, the horrors, but the horrors will be easier to deal with once I get some of this other stuff dealt with as well.)

In PT for reasons and one of my assignments is to walk regularly, so it was a real delight to be able to go outside for a short walk in the sun this afternoon. I'm ready to shake off seasonal depression and get back to a regular walking routine.

I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵

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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

Suburban observers say ICE has only been more aggressive since Homan: “I think they’re getting angry that we’re winning and the country is rallying around us. We’re so organized and we act with such integrity. They don’t want to admit they feel threatened by us.”
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ICE facility planned for Oklahoma City warehouse will not move forward Plans for a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility at a warehouse in Oklahoma City are not moving forward.

The community reaction to this was swift and loud.

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