Jane Lavina

She's a Blue Dog Democrat i.e. conservative.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Future you will probably appreciate you doing the latter.

Need to fix my sleep, my nervous system is a wreck

What they do with that doesn't matter.

I'll be looking forward to watching the sunset with my cat, while the Cascadian anthem plays on a record player made way back in the 2030s.

With a bag of pine nuts by my side. Because, at that age, pinecones are too much hassle. 2/2

I'll say I ate a pinecone everyday.

They won't believe me.

I'll clarify it's how I got so old.

"But that makes no sense," they'll tell me.

I'll explain eating a pinecone everyday is how I avoided being killed by fascists.

When they firebombed my apartment, I was out looking for pinecones. 1/2

I arrived here from thinking the funding DHS received makes sense if ICE were to be repurposed, and also that it is likely far easier than reforming the FBI to the extent the regime requires.

NSPM-7 is a signal, but I think constantly framing ICE as regular law enforcement is more telling.

To expand on this, calls to "punish" Minneapolis by withdrawing ICE forces bump up very close to the fact that ICE was not wanted to begin with.

If their mission is rhetorically expanded to "combat domestic terrorism", pretext doesn't matter and murdering citizens becomes permanently justifiable.

Since July, I have speculated that rhetorically, at some point the scope of ICE's mission will be dramatically expanded.

The only change here is that I think this is likely to happen much sooner than I originally thought.

I think more than anything though, we're seeing further erosion of the illusion of political consent on the right.

If we are, this comes with very dangerous knock-on effects.

We're seeing the real-time erosion of the illusion of political consent.

I hope the rest of the country is learning from MN, because along with this erosion comes the evaporation of restraint.

Mood in minneapolis right now

Now more than ever you must believe your own eyes.

CW: lawless execution of a restrained civilian at pointblank range

people need to figure out who this tuque wearing murderer is, have them TARRED and FEATHERED (at minimum); this was an EXECUTION of a RESTRAINED victim

"Abolish ICE" isn't going far enough, @governorwalz.mn.gov

Death squads.

Yeah, a lot of people from the outside don't realize this isn't old-Twitter etiquette, Bluesky has its own culture.

People who've chosen Threads or Mastodon don't tend to believe me on this lol

As a false antagonist.

The real antagonist was the symptoms we made along the way.

Yeah that's really hard, just staring at the page all day itself can feel awful. You're definitely not alone in this. Stepping away sounds healthy here. Sometimes I try writing something completely unrelated, I'm constantly juggling my own risk of losing the habit

It's the overall habit, for my ADHD brain missing a day is dangerous 😅

Observing ICE agents is 'a de-escalation tactic,' sociologist says The federal government has accused ICE watchers of breaking the law. Sociologist Nicole Bedera said ICE watchers have science behind them. She spoke with MPR News host Clay Masters.

"Research would tell us that most ICE agents entered into these jobs in part because they want approval, and they want to affirm their masculinity in public," said sociologist Nicole Bedera. "An ICE watch works by surrounding these people ... with disapproval."

Omg oh yeah that's todayyy

Same, this is how close I like to sit to the space heater

Ugh that's awful. Whether you end up applying for TANF I hope you get through soon.

If it's like WA's other services, I needed to call first thing when they opened and still waited around 45 minutes.

Have you seen the Minnesota general strike? We need that nationwide.

I expected most Dems to take the reactionary position, glad to be wrong

When ChatGPT got updated to be less sycophantic, people were upset.

This doesn't bode well.

Oooh this is interesting

Unless you're specifically trying to meet genre expectations, I don't think that's a flaw. Of course reading can help you write better, and absolutely do if you want to, but it's not required to tell a good story

This was a very useful prompt, because I haven't given much thought to it.

Doing some digging, The Windup Girl or Leviathan Wakes might be a better structural comp, but I haven't read either, so I'm sticking with Elantris for now 2/2