Diego Millan

so many elected officials have been waiting to put the dog whistles away and just state the racist xenophobic filth outright.

Wish granted!!!

Fund libraries and specifically librarians.

A research librarian at the LOC just helped me with locating a source that's no longer searchable on their site. Collections move/get renamed, etc. and it helps when an actual person can answer questions.

Anyway, the place where I am coming from whenever I write anything, anywhere is: we can live better than this, but that requires the will to change. The universe is too fucking fabulous for us to only know it through capitalism and white supremacy. That's what my posts and books are always about.

Book cover of ‘I Wonder as I Wander’ by Langston Hughes. A snowy park appears in black and white with an image of someone walking in the distance

Happy birthday Langston Hughes

Oh well

It's impossible to express how it feels to repeatedly live through the exact same cycles over and over and over again. The reformers just consistently fucking everyone over.

large text reads "you are not alone" over a halftone image of a bridge over the Mississippi in Minneapolis

hey MN <3

Alex Pretti’s dad: “He cared about people deeply & was very upset with what was happening...He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests” apnews.com/article/immi...

It's also about convincing you that they impose reality and that they are the final arbiters of truth. Hence the importance of continuing to name reality and truth ourselves, at every single turn, with all that is available to us.

“They want violence” no they very explicitly want compliance and acquiescence and if you don’t give it to them they will fucking murder you

After the massive protests against ICE despite freezing temps of course this would be the response.

They have no choice but to try to sell this narrative because the truth is absolutely catastrophic for them, this is a sign of utter weakness

Manipulating markets left and right. Who sold a few days ago and bought in before tariff threats were waves away? It’s not the most important thing happening, but that obfuscation seems to be part of the point.

Jawdropping reporting here from @juddlegum.bsky.social......

Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.

The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose

Typos is how we fight AI, at least that’s what I’m telling myself.

grey, tan, and darker rocks doing several more of the things rocks can do than is normally seen in one place, with a palm tree

tan and greyish rocks in tilted bands and compressed folds in a desert canyon

sharply tilted reddish rocks above greyish granitic rocks interspersed with palm trees in a desert canyon

looking down into a narrow canyon with thick palm trees along the incline of steeply tilted slabs of grey rocks. the other side is reddish more jumbled different rocks.

andreas canyon (thanks to the aqua caliente band of cahuilla indians for making their lands accessible)

I wish my brain contained a local geologist

i did not know what was autoplaying until it was too late. so vile, monstrous.

Some of us have never had to see a video to know what’s wrong.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.

That is called murder when they do that.

Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

Absolutely disgusted. being unable to keep track of it all continues by design.

This is not at all to downplay the severity of whats implied, but over the years with all of these clips you can almost hear when they slide into the pre written sound bite. Here it’s on “fix“ and the shift to listing countries

More humility should be the order of the day. No one really knows how anything will turn out. So you might as well try to do your best and importantly to take constructive action where you can. Nothing else is within your control.

“The left-hand pages swell like dunes in some years”—Dionne Brand

Can report that after years revising the form (done by multiple committee) that this split endures.

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.