Maggie Vail

This is what I meant when I said it's up to us now. So keep up the good work everybody!!!

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Melania documentary struggles in UK cinemas as Vue admits sales are ‘soft’ Only one ticket sold for premiere of film about US first lady at Vue’s flagship London branch as insiders question launch strategy

I CANAE BREATHE!!!

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL:

When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

That should be blue city crackdowns aren’t over. They just sacrificed a pawn, a high ranking one, but still a pawn, to protect Trump and Miller. That’s it, that’s all they’ve done.

I am currently trying to write a timeline entry on his death and was trying to hold back the tears and this just unleashed them.

[watching through military binoculars as orange slices are handed out to kids between halves at pee wee soccer]

This is PROFESSIONAL grade logistics. Look at the matching uniforms. Look at the coordination. Someone is BANKROLLING this operation.

[retreats using a series of elaborate rolls]

Goddamn it, now I’m going to have to call my moron rep again.

I booked and went on tours before email and cell phones (to say nothing of smart phones).There was a whole network of us worldwide ready to help each other out.

Facebook memory screenshot Maggie Vail November 1, 2012 at 9:03 AM • 8: overheard at dinner last night, "I'm happy he's dead. can I have a diet coke with salt in it please." by a lady dressed as a princess. ... overheard in my dream last night, "He started hell and went to high school with the guy who founded Twitter."

A screenshot of WhatsApp: Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question. Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know Ash: Are jaguar soft? Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

I just exclaimed "ooooh" at the bottom left one. that face scratches something in my brain just right.

with everything else, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that police in the US shot and killed someone while you slept last night, and have already killed again today.

by dinner, there will be one more, and they'll likely kill another by the time you go to sleep.

this cycle runs daily.

There are about 100 protesters outside Schumer’s building in the middle of the blizzard urging him to whip Dem votes against any more ICE/CBP funding.

the portals scene from Endgame but it's literally just the newspaper actually doing journalism

Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.

I would LOVE snow, the ice was not welcome though.

I expect things to be a little dicey driving tomorrow but thankfully school is cancelled, Jon and I work from home, and we have all the supplies we need for the foreseeable.

the trees looked like glass around midnight last night and I did not like it.

our big ice storm, thankfully, turned into rain at about 2am last night. so now it's flooding and it will hard freeze as another cold snap moves in tonight. this is much, MUCH preferable to the alternative.

Ferguson never ended. The War on Terror abuses never ended. The fight against global fascism never ended. The Civil War never ended.

We are all still caught in history’s storm

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

yes, it was indeed bad.

we had to watch tron ares over here tonight.

jaderemedy • 4h ago And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like. Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is "well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it. This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order. And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny. You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely. "Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military:

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Waiting for a whistleblower to leak that memo

"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.

I found this bit, by a journalist who has written about CBP and ICE for many years, to be really instructive on how shockingly and persistently lawless those agencies, and especially CBP, have been for their entire existence, for more or less the same reason. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...

really I’ve been waiting for this for so long

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.