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a screenshot of two tumblr posts. the first: aralintheobsessive Jan 16 if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars. iam not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing! (end of post) below it, a response from afroartinc: As a poet, I also want my viewers to take this rather beautiful allegory into account.

what are you doing!

Even earlier. People do it to infants when they look at someone of the opposite sex. It's so weird, but everyone thinks it's funny for some reason.

Petition to change the title of any sitting Senator and Congressperson over the age of 65 Grandma or Grandpa.

Eg. Did you hear Grandpa Senator McConnell is in the hospital for flu-like symptoms?

I bet the judge who expunged it is also a rapist.

Why are tissues so dusty? 😭

Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE.

Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.

I first interpreted it as books that give you chills this way; hot drinks that way. Just snow. Luckily I was able to parse it better on a reread.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

They've bought into the white supremacist rhetoric so hard that they think they're the exception. That if they act like this they can be white by association.

They should take inspiration from when Trump bulldozed the East Wing and just knock it all down now.

1/27/2026 - Minneapolis

ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone

They did not have a warrant

get in kids, we're making folk heroes

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

A cherry tomato plant growing in an aerogarden in a kitchen window.

No seedlings started yet, but he's a photo of my kitchen tomato plant

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.”

The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution.

If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.

Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS.

Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies.

AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS.

Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.

Wild to think that they made us say "With Liberty and Justice for All" every day, but are surprised that so many people believed it.

Replace who/whom with he/him. It makes it much easier to figure out which is correct! (Although sometimes you do need to finagle the sentence a little for it to make sense.)

Post in the Hand Embroidery Group: I don't know what else to do. [Photo of a stitched canvas with the words FUCK ICE]

Post in the Hand Embroidery Group: Let us RESIST this regime with stitches today. [Photo of stitched canvas with words Resist]

Post in the Hand Embroidery Group: [Stitched quote from Anne Frank: "What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it from happening again."]

The crafters are up in arms.

This is mine. My anger and sadness turn into cute hat. Can’t believe ICE kidnapped boy cuter than this hat.

Woman on the right was using her walker to advance into the tear gas

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

#Goals

WSJ says ICE is lying.

Read that again…. The Wall Street Journal is calling out the lies

"some say the Eagles won the last Super Bowl while others push back"

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

The real “domestic terrorists” are in the White House.

The victim, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, was reportedly a law abiding US citizen & an ICU nurse at the VA. He was licensed to carry a firearm.

Trump & Miller are responsible for his killing & are now lying to the American people.

All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.

She was locked up by ICE. Her son died the next day. The family and their community are pushing for the mother’s release so she can mourn her son and attend his funeral.

She was locked up by ICE. Her son died the next day.