vonni lee

personally I love my dumb brain

Indigenous Activists Occupy Land Near Fort Snelling, Plan to Stay Until 'Land Back' - UNICORN RIOT Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling, establishing an occupation. Organizers demand land back in the form of "returning Fort Snelling" to the Dakota pe...

NEW: Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling and near the Whipple Federal Building -- headquarters of ICE's Operation Metro Surge -- establishing an occupation demanding 'land back' in the form of “returning Fort Snelling” to the Dakota people. [Video]

this woman loved Oberyn Martell and watches the Last of Us (a show I've never seen) and doesn't know Pedro by name 😭 she actually loves celebrities but doesn't remember one of the consistently not shitty ones who is also in EVERYTHING the Internet is just Facebook and Amazon to some folks

I told my mom that Cardi B and Pedro Pascal were in the halftime show and her reaction was, "OMG WHERE WAS SHE? I don't know Pedro?"

on one hand my mom does not know what chatgpt is which feels like a blessing, but on the other hand she does not know who Pedro Pascal is by name

the fact that it is controversial to the ruling class of this country that an American man performed at the most watched event in the US speaking his first colonizer language and referencing objective US history is really all you need to know about how fixated the USA is on white supremacy.

Graphic by Trung Le Ngyuen featuring a drawing of Liam Ramos with his bunny hat and Spidey backpack and a small smile. Text reads: "Comics 4 Liam / WE're asking artists to draw pictures for Liam Ramos that you think might make this particular boy feel happy and cared for. / Maybe drawings of things he might love; maybe pictures of Liam himself as you think he might like to be seen. / Please post your art with the hashtag #Comics4Liam and a link to comics4liam.com, which lists fundraisers for Liam and others victimized by ICE and links to organizations that support immigrants.

A few other guidelines: 1. Please avoid images of Liam in danger or sad. 2. Please avoid images that include violence or would otherwise by inappropriate for a five year old. 3. Please NO "A.i." USE AT ALL. 4. Please DO NOT POST YOUR IMAGE ON X (Twitter). Thank you!

Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!

now I recall that I opened my phone to set a timer to make sure I remember to take a walk before the sun goes down today (imbolc blessings, bitches) so must state in advance I am an android user and my phone does not come with a focus mode built in. taking existing app suggestions if anyone sees

hopefully now I can figure out why I originally opened my phone #ADHD #morelike #yayDHD

need ADHD mode for phone that is just like a button I have to press after entering my password but before unlocking phone. if button is pressed, phone opens to home screen and temporarily hides all existing and incoming notifications. turns off after lock. feel free to steal idea, I will forget it.

I was at the peaceful Union-led protest earlier today in Portland. ICE shot munitions into an apartment window above our heads and glass rained down all around. They also gassed tons of families protesting with their kids, completely unprovoked and without warning.

5-Year-Old Girl Deported to Honduras Despite Being U.S. Citizen A 5-year-old girl and U.S. citizen was deported to Honduras with her mother earlier this month. Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos lived in Austin, Texas, with her mom and family, where she was in ki...

sending 5 year old kids to countries they've never been to and are not citizens of... meanwhile the sitting president of a sovereign nation is sitting in jail in ny bc they fucking kidnapped him... and also the regime loves Bibi who has actively killed thousands of kids. tracks. tinyurl.com/2ma2akcr

the red hat with white text says, "Immigrants make America great"

the pedantic leftist in me still has notes on nationalism but I mostly continually thrilled to know that not everyone from my youth harbored silent hatred for the existence of myself and my family.

like I have known this particular man, his children, and his grandkids for most of my life so this is not surprising to me but I feel like a lot of the ppl I know as a brown queer adult who left the boonies would totally misjudge bob if they saw his Harley and red hat with white text

truly have never seen a rant both use the term "illegals" so much, bring up Obama deportation stats, even mental illness and physical disability by a white cis boomer and yet the rant is completely sympathetic to undocumented, mad, and disabled people and honest about the us deportation machine

I grew up in a predominantly white and rural place in the PNW and knew, am related to, and love a lot of yt rednecks. many rednecks are not bigots, some that seem to be aren't, even.

reminded of this as I just saw my childhood bestie's grandpa call her brother a "conservatard" on FB just now.

TEXT: I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. There he trained me to care for the sickest of the sick as an ICU nurse. He taught me how to care for arterial and central lines, the intricacies of managing multiple IVs filled with lifesaving solutions, and how to watch over every heartbeat, every breath, and every flicker of life, ready to act the moment they wavered. Techniques intended to heal. Alex carried patience, compassion and calm as a steady light within him. Even at the very end, that light was there. I recognized his familiar stillness and signature calm composure shining through during those unbearable final moments captured on camera. It does not surprise me that his final words were, “Are you okay?” Caring for people was at the core of who he was. He was incapable of causing harm. He lived a life of healing, and he lived it well. Alex believed strongly in the Second Amendment and in the rights rooted in our Constitution and its amendments. He spoke out for justice and peace whenever he could, not only out of obligation, but out of a belief that we are more connected than divided, and that communication would bring us together.

TEXT: I want his family to know his legacy lives on. I am a better nurse because of the wisdom and skills he instilled in me. I carry his light with me into every room, letting it guide and steady my hands as I heal and care for those in need. Please honor my friend by standing up for peace, preferably with a cup of black coffee in hand and a couple of pieces of candy in your pocket, just as he would. He would remind you that caring for others is hard work, and we must do whatever it takes to get through the long shifts. Step outside with your dog, breathe in the world, hike or bike as he loved to do, and let yourself find peace in the quiet moments within nature. Stand up for justice and speak with those whose views differ from your own. Hold your beliefs with strength, but always extend love outward, even in the face of adversity. Take one step, no matter how small, to help heal our world. Through these acts, carry his light forward in his name. Let his legacy continue to heal.

From a FB post about Alex Pretti:

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

every day I am pulling lint out of my hair and if I don't then it becomes one with my hair and starts to create a tangle, knot, or dread. surely it's also pulling up lint from my hoodies and jackets... shoulder length and longer hair is absolutely Sisyphean

like people like to claim that you can tell if a black-white biracial person has a white mom by how their hair looks... no, my Black mom was tired of trifling with my ass rolling around on the carpet and tangling up my hair. however now at 32 I think it's just my hair picks up the lint from blankets

being raised a Black biracial little girl in a predominantly white area came with a lot of open judgement from everyone including strangers, i had no patience for criticisms at home & largely ignored them. but Mom & Grandma were always on about lint in my hair... adult me gotta agree with that one.

we are all just living through hell day by day but at least salamanders exist

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photograph of a wild type axolotl: an aquatic salamander with six frilly appendages coming from his head. he has a grey underside covered in many little black spots with a dark brown skin on the top of his body including his head. He is posing from on top of a bushy ball of moss in his aquarium looking directly at the camera with his mouth permanently open in a little smile. In fewer words: he is the cutest little critter ever.

on the plus side: I still always get to come home to this little fucker every day

cannot stand this fucking axolotl like HOW ARE YOU REAL FIVE YEARS THIS YEAR AND I CANNOT GET TIRED OF YOUR FACE OR CLEANING YOUR TANK U LITTLE TINY KING

when is this fucker gonna snap and start shooting and will I die with my mom not answering my calls because of a stupid YouTube video

all of creation for this to be reality

I was just watching the cop sitting in their car with their hands below his waist and his eyes darting between the two ppl yelling at him from 15 ft away from his car, they're standing next to me and other onlookers and yelling at the cop for having brutalized the man and I'm like

my mom is giving me the silent treatment because of this situation as of a week ago

earlier this morning ICE executed a man in Minneapolis and 15 min ago in Portland I was walking down the street and witnessed the aftermath of a rough police assault where a small crowd gathered and like...

I attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up

so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder

the dumbest part of all of this is how predictable it was that conservatives would defend ICE executing random people for expressing the 1st and 2nd amendments rights would be

Kyle Rittenhouse was on Infowars the day after the Renee Good shooting saying he had heard on X that Renee was putting cigarettes out on her kids. This wasn't true. This is a government by and for school shooters and their apologists.

What are the people in their lives that I don't know saying? Like is it just an endless positive feedback loop of fascism? how much of it is just complete lies? how many incorrect versions of reality are there on this earth and will there ever be less than there is now?