ICE Brutally Dragged This Disabled Woman Out of Her Car. What Happened Next Was Just As Chilling. “They laughed at me and told me this wouldn’t have happened if I was a ‘normal’ human being,” Aliya Rahman tells The Nation.

The world was horrified by the footage of Aliya Rahman—an autistic, disabled woman—being dragged out of her car by ICE agents in Minneapolis. As she tells Fatima Khan, what happened next was just as chilling. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

His name is Buddy, asshole.

Jelly Roll performs John Cage’s “4’33’” to raptorous applause - he has never been quiet this long in his whole life and his head pops like a water balloon filled with grape jelly

(extremely @surber.bsky.social Jellyroll voice)
BRUTHER YOU WAN TALK BOUT GLASS I BROKE A NEHI BOTTLE UP WHEN I'S IN SHELBY COUNTY AND STUCK THE BITS IN MY GUMS THEY CALLT ME GLASSULA

Perhaps the family of those who have been shackled on flights, even though no crash happened? I don't know. It's just so scary to picture.

I didn't know that. Is there an organization that would have standing to bring a suit?

I hate that I know exactly which thing.

Today is the 40th anniversary of the first of two horrifying world events that happened when I was in utero.

A millennial is old enough to remember 9/11 but not so old they could drink on the day.

The same is true for gen x but for the Challenger disaster

Concise,clear statement of Admin's purpose:

"Physical violence is just the punctuation at the end of the sentence. What makes life unbearable is that it could happen at any moment. The thrum of expectant fear is what abusers are after. Hypervigilance is the real punishment. It exhausts the will."

When I was being driven around the Cities in lightly falling, fluffy snow, the whole scene was rendered in real-life grayscale. I had a shameful, selfish thought: This is the opposite of a color lead. My editor sent me all the way out here for this? I thought of all the useless video I had taken, and then of the terabytes more of data on a thousand other phones. All the interactions that didn’t escalate, or even turn out to be ICE action. All those videos are evidence of the terror, too—evidence of the wearying watchfulness that an occupation wrests from people. How occupations colonize memory as much as space. The shots of ICE agents leaving a scene, of storefronts that aren’t blasted through, of apartments whose doors remain whole—all of that is abundant but unaccessible proof of what can be accomplished without leadership, just community and will.

My report from Minneapolis, about the things you'll never see. newrepublic.com/article/2057...

things im learning from this tweet:

- everyone on this site was a really annoying kid
- really annoying kids today love newspaper comics too
- there was apparently a generation that preceded millennials, but they've all died out and little is known about them

I think my 4th grade teacher had that taped to the wall of our classroom.

A frequently-repeated refrain around our house: "Is today the day? The day Marmaduke gets euthanized after biting Billy?"

Definitely. My dad had a bunch of those Peanuts books from his 60s childhood. They were yellowed and brittle by the 90s. Meanwhile, my 90s Far Side books are still in great shape.

Bottom line:

We do not need masked, heavily armed wannabe soldiers in full battle gear roaming city streets in unmarked vehicles searching door-to-door for someone who •may• have crossed a border decades ago.

yes. they don't care about the details of what happened, they are just trying to reinforce the belief that certain people deserve to die and certain people deserve the authority to kill them.

“We must not forget that the fascism that killed her is misogynistic to its core. And men like Ross, who will murder the women who dare not to be afraid of them, have seldom been more empowered, more vengeful, or more dangerous.” Powerful piece @katemanne.bsky.social

Among other things, this makes it clear that their target is an American city and not criminal immigrants.

This is murder in broad daylight.

If they do this in public, imagine what they are doing behind closed doors in "detention fscilities" (AKA Trump concentration camps)

It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.

Just checking off boxes on the project 2025 list. And no one is stopping them. Fucking insane. 😡

In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read.

They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.

When u see Calibri instead of Times New Roman.

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In a major win for privacy + reproductive rights, the court ruled these reports must stay confidential—rejecting Indiana AG Rokita’s demand to release them.

Abortion is health care, and health care deserves privacy.

#HoosierSky #ReproRights #Indiana #AbortionIsHealthcare #GoodTroubleCoalition

Yes, apparently not letting someone immediately die of an acute cause is "stealing" from the rest of us. I consider it a gift to all of us human beings.

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

in the pit

This entire weekend

TSA is forwarding names, photos, and flight info to ICE The secret airport deportation program denies victims any semblance of due process.

TSA is forwarding names, photos, and flight info to ICE

A politicised judiciary with jobs for life is literally the dumbest concept anyone ever came up with when inventing a system of government. Amazing it's taken this long to go tits up really.