such.a.beautifulmess

would you rather be right or would you rather be happy?

my man, #hafiz dropping reminders & revelations from antiquity

#bloomscrolling

the faded sun is perhaps my most reread favorite of all time - i blame it for my getting a kindle after dropping its glorious weight on my face 12 too many times

parable of the sower by octavia butler was recently reclassified from dystopian fiction to dystopian realism 🫤

i’m sorry 😂😂 what did mike say was the most threatening thing he’d seen recently?? 😆😆

so so thankful to all our parents who fought for our ability to join 10s of thousands of people full of pride!!
and thank for those of us who will fight to not go back 🫶

#pride
#sfpride
#notgoingback

a quote by rev. dr. martin luther king, jr. “a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. america, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. there is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war.”

as we continue to double down on america’s ‘spiritual death’, how do YOU light a candle in the dark?

post me pics or tips - i could use ‘em 🫶

‘flood the zone’ is a central tactic in the ‘So You Wanna Be an Fascist?’™️ manual

meant to decapitate public deliberation, exhaust the opposition, shift focus, undermine trust, and achieve long-term power consolidation

‘flooding the zone’ is an essential tool for all budding fascists! do it today!

i’ve been watching for this for months now 🔍🔍🔍

and the very very public sound of a squeaky tank at a birthday party

peace doesn’t pay enough, apparently

but, but he sent the national guard to ‘liberate’ citizens from their democratic governments, didn’t he?
oh well, while there they might as well ‘protect’ peeps from sleeper cells activated by bombing iran
right?
they might have to burn whole neighborhoods, but by golly, they’ll smoke ‘em out!
/s

‘let them mention my squeaky tanks one more time!’

along with cancelling over $70 million in funds for SLATT (State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training) programs that provide training & resources to state, local & tribal law enforcement officers to help them identify, investigate, & prevent acts of terrorism, targeted violence, & hate crimes.

not to mention using the national guard to ‘liberate US cities’ of any threat posed by suspected sleeper cells - i mean he didn’t write that EO for nuthin’

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

time to gas up your car(s)

idk but it will definitely increase the administrations ‘need’ to use the national guard to ‘liberate the city’ from any threat - i mean, he didn’t write that EO for nuthin’

according to AI:

domestic implications: guard deployments & potential overreach…

w/ iran potentially activating sleeper cells, trump may invoke expanding the national guard use domestically.

using the guard to “search out threats” could risk constitutional norms, prompt state pushback…

::chef’s kiss::

deep breath
drop your shoulders

do NOT sit down!!

photograph of eclipse by antonio turok, 1991

i’ve always said that if the fine is less than the profits from the illegal act, it’s not a fine - it’s a bribe

does that include the additional 2,000 national guards and 700 marines that trump deployed monday night? meanwhile the most robust detainment/arrest # i can find are a hair of 200, 19 of which homeland has officially claimed have criminal charges or records… 🫤

let alone their states rights rhetoric or “dragged into the bathroom and drowned in the bathtub" faux populist ideology

Trump sending National Guard to counter anti-ICE protests The White House said it's mobilizing some 2,000 National Guard soldiers to protests in response to Friday's ICE raids.

www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/t... this article lays out the 118 arrests while also quoting HSI (homeland security investigations) saying 5 of those arrest were violent criminals - it appears the vast majority were ‘administrative arrests’ usually indicating non-criminal / civil charges

i’ll see if i can find the link again, but i read 111, only 5 of which had pending criminal cases or any kind of criminal history

a lewdle!! 😂😂