Eloise Fridu

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Coverage dismissing the fact that National Guard are “just patrolling safe tourist areas” is missing the point.

The very nature of a presence patrol — I did hundreds of these in Iraq — is to project strength.

That’s to embolden your allies.

And to threaten your enemies.

🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”

These young people are fighting for their lives & lawful democratic governance. Their #CupOfJoe is full of hope for a liveable future.

You can support their case by making a donation to Our Children’s Trust at www.ourchildrenstrust.org/home.

Pause for three minutes and soak up the grace of this man.

Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

SpaceX just burned up enough dough to pay off all my debt, and the debt of everyone I love, with plenty left over to pay off the debt of people I just kinda like or with whom I try to be amiable.

This 2003 Onion article has stood the test of time.

“Over the course of centuries, capitalist and colonial patriarchy normalized violence against all that is deemed unproductive (in narrowly economic terms) and not (yet) exploitable: the feminine, the ‘wild’, the creative, common, queer, untamable, ‘irrational’, magical, spiritual.” -Dilar Dirik

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

Nazi salutes at CPAC
There is nothing “conservative” about this. These people hate America and want to destroy it.

Democrats, I’m begging you, know your enemy.

UAW is the shit. I wish MY union @ibewinternational.bsky.social quoted the likes of Fred Hampton.

DID ELON MUSK JUST DO THE HITLER GRUß??!!!!

He hit a Roman Salute reminiscing of the Nazi salute from WW2 at the Trump #Inauguration2025
Completely disgusting.

What a juxtaposition of headlines.

All eyes on Rojava.

Is he single?

Welcome to the party, Rudy. Some of us have been here for a while.

Does that make you rock hard?

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Read the essay “Only With You, This Broom Will Fly: Rojava, Magic, and Sweeping Away the State Inside Us” by Dilar Dirik

The clitoris. The ability to orgasm during menses. It’s almost like sex has an adaptive social function, whether conception is part of it or not.

Even though I’m a good dog who doesn’t generally bite, and even though I would have to eat carrion to cleanse myself from having any part of Matt Gaetz in my mouth, I would take one for the team and bite the shit out of this guy’s face.

I’m a dog but my mom reads to me and I get really excited when I hear the words “walk,” “treat,” and “democratic confederalism.”

No, they wanted to clip off the top of my ear but I told them to eat my ass. I did get a cookie though.

I’m spayed.

I sleep 20 hours a day and eat cat poop.

I'm Eloise - "You don't have opposable thumbs and you don't know how to use a toilet."

This was my vibe when election results rolled in.