it’s gotten so bad I’m posting singing clips on my private stories

The kids are not, in fact, alright

the sheer wrath of iPad kids never fails to astound me

so bad I’m rage running

The New America: Federal (ICE) Agents Boarding Trains? By Judith Roberts * As an attorney I’m deeply alarmed by an incident that occurred just this week and feel compelled to share it—to raise aw...

A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.

watching a raven bounce around a cove, feeling curious, whimsy, a little mischievous in his company

YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore SCOOP: The Canadian tie to Trump's El Salvador mass deportations

SCOOP: THE CANADIAN TIE TO TRUMP'S EL SALVADOR MASS DEPORTATIONS

As it turns out, someone with significant ties to Canada — to our biggest museum, our 150th anniversary celebration, and more — is a top dog at the company behind the El Salvador deportation planes.
youtu.be/O8El6gbYHx0

VicPD Use of Force, 2023 Guns: VicPD threatened to shoot 127 people (one person every 3 days) VicPD threatened to shoot at least 25 people they believed were in mental health distress ‘Extended range impact weapons’: VicPD threatened 30 people with 'extended range impact weapons' VicPD shot 14 more people with those weapons B.C. no longer releases data on how many of those people VicPD believed were in mental health distress VicPD killed Lisa Rauch with ARWEN rounds in 2019

VicPD Use of Force, 2023 Tasers: VicPD threatened to tase 62 people VicPD tased 22 more people, including at least 14 people they believed were in mental health distress VicPD injured 11 people by tasing them Pepper spray: VicPD pepper sprayed 18 people B.C. no longer releases data on how many of those people VicPD believed were in mental health distress

VicPD Use of Force, 2023 Police dogs: VicPD and Saanich PD threatened 44 people with police dogs as part of a combined unit VicPD and Saanich PD had police dogs bite 6 people VicPD and Saanich PD police dogs also bit 1 bystander Batons: VicPD threatened to beat 2 people with batons VicPD beat 2 more people with batons B.C. no longer releases data on how many of those people VicPD believed were in mental health distress

New data shows VicPD threatened to shoot someone every three days in 2023. VicPD uses force, or threatens to use force against someone, at least 1.8 times a day, based on 656 cases in government reporting. 🧵 #yyj www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/...

Guys, I made a poster version of the Boggs comrade card to put on the fence — with actions items, QR codes, & movable clock hands!

(w/ thanks to folks making lists of things people can *do* — @vickyacab.bsky.social, @mommunism.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social, @joekatz45.bsky.social & more!

Doesn't feel like the "descent into fascism" anymore, just feels like in-the-thick-of-it fascism 😬

Socially, it appears, that avoidance is in

Say all this to say, now that we know they don’t know what the heck they’re doing, and we’re seeing multiple fault lines and factions among the capitalist class we have to be smart about understanding what’s happening, find the wedges to drive change, & communicate to people they *must* take charge.

Another free idea for library friends: organize a historical walking tour of your neighborhood. You can include the history of your library system and how it was founded/funded in the walk. Collect donations from attendees and end at a cafe/bar that donates $1 for each drink sold to the library.

Coachella during an authoritarian takeover is very on brand for the U.S.

deleting instagram and writing a love note to my dedicated followers to let them know that love isn’t going anywhere ❤️‍🩹

horrifying, and heartbreaking, my heart and prayers are with everyone forcibly detaine, jailed, and deported right now.

meow meow meow meow meow

nine years ago tomorrow, unregulated drug deaths were declared a public health emergency in British Columbia

the government will announce theyre doing everything they can, theyre heartbroken

and the tenth year of their killing spree will begin

be angry

they can choose to stop the deaths

Marginalized People Were Detained Unlawfully, Report Says | The Tyee The Adult Guardianship Act has been used to hold 300 people in the last five years.

B.C. has been illegally detaining some of the province’s most marginalized people using a law that doesn’t actually permit that practice, says British Columbia Humans Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender.

@michellegamage.bsky.social reports.

The existence of definitive empirical studies showing that the nativist narrative is dead wrong hasn’t slowed the spread of the lies… but erasing the studies themselves is another step toward full fascism

Students removed for using political voice or being associated with protests — These are the most visible and obviously political cases, raising troubling issues about free speech. This includes Mahmoud Khalil, a former student who was a visible figure in protests in Columbia, Badar Khan Suri, an Indian scholar at Georgetown University whose studies peacebuilding, and or Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish PhD student at Tufts co-wrote an op-ed in a student newspaper opposing the war in Gaza. Students removed for minor infractions with the law — This is likely the majority of cases, but Rubio does not mention them. Here, students removed not for political voice, but for low-level engagements with law enforcement. Dozens of students reported that their visas were revoked for traffic violations, such as speeding. One immigration lawyer said: “This is totally unprecedented…A brush with law enforcement that didn’t necessarily result in an arrest or a conviction is all it took.” Her client had a DUI from a decade ago, which he disclosed when applying for a new visa, which was approved. But now that visa has been revoked. Another immigration lawyer spoke to a woman who had been arrested when a man assaulted her; police subsequently acknowledged she was the victim, but her visa was terminated anyway.

There are basically two groups of students being deported:
a) those who have engaged in political speech, which has gotten the most attention;
b) those who have had minor infractions with the law like a speeding ticket, which is likely the larger group.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

This story hasn’t gotten nearly enough attention. It is openly fraudulent what they’re doing.

First we'll kill all the subversives. Then we'll kill the collaborators. Then the sympathizers. Then the undecided. And finally, we'll kill the indifferent.

~ attributed to Argentinian General Iberico Saint-Jean after the US-backed coup in 1976.

BREAKING: US judge rules pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported aje.io/yo2efi

United States is no longer a safe destination for international students Abductions, deportations and fear define campus life for many foreign students in Trump’s America.

"A precedent has been set. Every international student in America today must accept that they may be abducted, detained and deported for attending a protest or expressing a view that upsets the White House or its allies."

— #AJOpinion by @somdeepsen.bsky.social ⤵️

So weird to see colleges promoting their USNWR grad school rankings today like grad students aren’t being disappeared by their government.

Recession thoughts: Why cant humans eat dog chews !!!! Like theres collagen dog chews, beef sticks, which is essentially vitamins and beer jerky #ifthisiswrongidkwhatsright

Y’all gotta go read books. There’s no way around it.

Read books.
Form your own opinions.
LEARN THINGS.

READ BOOKS WHILE LIBRARIES ARE STILL AROUND

"Because that’s what strategic voting does: it pressures average people into believing that their votes matter and that they matter so much that you should not vote for your favoured candidate, but instead, for who the chorus as decided is the less worst"