Katie (is still masking up)

(I am no neuroscience expert though, just a fellow disabled person)

I wonder if it might be helpful to frame it more as a skills loss than a potential cognitive loss?

I don’t think our brains are going to atrophy or we’re going to stop thinking, because I don’t think brains work like that. There was a time when most humans weren’t literate at all, of course.

Every strawberry tells a love story. Not the kind sold in candy, but a story rooted in sacrifice. Farmworkers harvest with care, yet they face low wages and fear. Love means respect. Love means justice. Love means standing with farmworkers.
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“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”

Judge Basel, page 34

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Ah. It really was memorable. His performative spluttering was quite impressive.

I still emailed my electeds and asked them to stop fundraising, at least until the local ICE siege was over. I told them seeing them on the ground doing the work would do so much more good for their election numbers than fundraising ever could! (I’m in MN)

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

It is SO frustrating & honestly fills me with rage when I get them.

But it turns out those texts are mostly scams targeted at the elderly 😡 Donations netted fund the administrative machine that generates the texts, and not much even gets to candidates.

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Again? I saw him do this a couple weeks ago in an interview with the Moon Palace Books co-owner.

Yesss, I’ve really been trying to recently and I notice it a lot. Earnestness is good, actually!

We’re doing something right when the centrists are noticing the call to mask and protect each other at events and shops 😊

Community care takes many forms here in Minneapolis!

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How positively wonderful! Community care in action.
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I spent a couple days wondering why Ms. magazine was suddenly doing so much more journalism.

Sill seems like a very odd rebrand!

ICE Unloads Immigration officers speak out: “Fuck this.”

I came across this today: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads

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.

Anyway, if you need whistles:

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The article takes an unfortunate sympathetic tone towards ICE and the Border Patrol, but I appreciated this gem of a quote:

‘“We lost all trust,” a current ICE official added. “I’m not sure I can see how we exist three years from now.”’

Together, we will abolish ICE.

A list of council members who voted for the resolution. Payne Osman Chughtai Wonsley Rainville Vetaw Warren Shaffer Stevenson Chavez Whiting Chowdhury Palmisano MAYOR ACTION Mayor did not sign this action within the time specified by City Charter. This action is valid and effective as if approved by the Mayor. Calling on the State of Minnesota and Governor Walz to enact an eviction moratorium to keep Minneapolis families in their homes and protect them from ICE.

We need an EVICTION MORATORIUM NOW.

Our neighbors risk being separated from their families when they go to work. They also run the risk of being displaced if they don’t.

Sadly, Mayor Frey refused to sign the resolution calling on the Governor to enact this moratorium.

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one of the gofundme campaigns sent to me today is only trying to raise $1,600 and has a horrific story of an experience of a Hmong elder.

they've only raised $10.

between the Dreamhaven guy running through tear gas and the Moon Palace owner standing up to Jake Tapper in a live interview, mpls indie bookstore owners are really showing up.

This was a whole lot of words to say absolutely nothing. Let’s end the era where these corporations control politicians.

look at them. murderers itching to murder again but these people chose to stay, to film, to witness, to risk being next, to risk having their families targeted, their names dragged through the mud before their bodies are even cold. i wish they did not have to be brave but i'm grateful that they are.

If it helps, we sang for those stuck inside at my neighborhood vigil tonight 💜

🎵 we sing for the neighbors stuck inside/together, we will abolish ICE 🎵

... he is leading. He's the leader of the secret police. They're following his direct orders. What the fuck are you saying.

Seeing the NYT switch to active voice feels like watching a seal holding back the apocalypse crack

we should treat the “we keep us safe” vanguard like the prescient people they are.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

I just hope people outside of MN understand that there are thousands of people here in Minneapolis who ICE watch every day. Who show up to the same corners, streets, businesses, etc. in our neighborhoods. Who compile and confirm reports and send alerts. Who have their phones ready and voices loud.

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Guys nothing personal but if you rub your a.i. generated anti-ICE, anti-Trump memes in my face I gotta unfollow and mute you and also you’re dead to me.

It’s the sewage that fascism both shits and eats, it’s like blowing smoke in my face to show me how evil the tobacco companies are.