Septima P. Snark

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

Michigan Avenue right now.

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

Racism + ableism= “compassion fatigue”. You hate to see suffering but instead of alleviating it, you see it as something to cage and hide because white supremacy has made broken your sense of responsibility and empathy.

If you see a “Sora” logo in a video it’s ai full stop. Sora is Open ai’s new text to video model that turns prompts into video and they look realistic as hell! Educate your gullible friends on how to identify ai from “real” content.

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I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing'

but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.

doomscroll break

Racism + ableism= “compassion fatigue”. You hate to see suffering but instead of alleviating it, you see it as something to cage and hide because white supremacy has made broken your sense of responsibility and empathy.

Rudy talks about the work going on to remediate some of this foolishness; grateful for the work, and it sucks that the Blacksky team has to change it's timetables because of other folks' foolishness. Put some money on their books and help us get a little bit freer

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

Yes. EVERY single CA trans rights bill passed the legislature with a veto-proof majority, considering zero Dems voted no.

So if Newsom vetoes them, the fight isn't over--you can then pressure your CA reps to override them!

The way we are experiencing this is as a genuine "fuck you guys" moment, where the level of "fuck you" increases with your level of transness and POCness

And I'm sure there are folks on the team who don't feel this way about it but this is how the failed comms strategy is working, publicly

Sis. You don’t have imposter syndrome. You have imposters trying to pretend they got the skills you do. But we know they ain’t got nothing on you! Glad you found your center & remembered who you are. 😘

Yes.

Newsom says he’s on the verge of quitting the National Govs Association: “should not be difficult … regardless of partisan affiliation, to agree that politicizing our states’ Natl Guard and deploying… over the objections of the home-state Governor,harms the interests of states”

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

For any Black woman struggling with imposter syndrome, see exhibit 111,033 for why you don’t ever need to feel less than around so many folks who have been handed their positions of power with whiteness being their only credential.

Trump is doing politics the right way.

--By Ezra Klein

Black people in Chicago had their apartment building raided in the middle of the night, were detained for hours, and had their Fourth Amendment rights violated during an ICE operation that had nothing to do with them. Nah, they are not thrilled.

Read more about your rights when interacting with military troops or federal agents at aclu.org/deployment_kyr

Your reminder that credit scores in the US date to 1989. For much of their existence, race and gender were factors.

They were invented bc it had been made illegal to discriminate by race and gender in the US, so financial institutions wanted a facially neutral way to accomplish the same thing.

Project 2025 co-author Russ Vought is leading the charge to weaken Social Security benefits.

Oh, and they’re planning to use AI to determine eligibility.

Republicans want to leave Americans sicker, poorer and struggling to live with dignity.

ok I didn't mention this in my piece on friday but one of the things the judge asked about was whether the guardsmen were going to get paid during the shutdown

the doj was like "idk"

the state of oregon was like "we looked into it and the answer is no"

For any Black woman struggling with imposter syndrome, see exhibit 111,033 for why you don’t ever need to feel less than around so many folks who have been handed their positions of power with whiteness being their only credential.

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?

The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.

At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.