Aaron - General Strike

HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of a HUGE CROWD peacefully demonstrating in L.A. to protest the Trump administration and lCE

📍Los Angeles, California

#NationalStrike

momentary exception to not posting to amplify how beautiful & powerful this Providence protest is #ICEout

Oh, I should've put Old English on there, too, along with The Canterbury Tales

Waging Peace
The Israel Palestine Conflict (2000)
20th Century Lit.
Creative Writing
History of Knowledge

...asked of a marine...

MQotD-

"'Do you give a shit?' First question asked of marine recruit."

-The God is Not Willing

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.

But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants https://theonion.com/democrats-condemn-ice-for-murdering-without-proper-warrants/

Such a great intro to an amazing short story. I used to perform it to my 8th graders on Halloween. It got to the point where I had memorized much of the beginning of the tale.

Noah and Mother help me to understand. I feel like he lost the touch a decade or more ago.

Still, Requiem, Pi, and The Fountain are all bangers.

MQotD-

"You resent the Malazans because they stripped people like you of your power to oppress. Your freedom to oppress, that is."

-No Life Forsaken

Also, he's taller, and Trump cares about stuff like that.

When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?

Let's see how long I can do this for. Malazan Quote of the Day (MQotD) #1

"There will always be innocent victims in the pursuit of evil." - Crack'd Pot Trail

an actual demand would include at minimum miller out, noem out, all the evidence ICE stole turned over to local authorities to facilitate prosecutions of rene goode’s and alex pretti’s murders, to say nothing of oversight of detention centers.

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

lol he gave sworn testimony that he doesn’t run it

Definitely, they should have any firearms in their possession removed if found guilty of a crime, as well, they should be banned from military service or from any other governmental job.

ICE is just Jack's gang in The Lord of Flies, aren't they? When the organization ends or is neutered, they're going to try to go back to being normal people like what happened in the book, and that should not be allowed.

1/2

Swalwell: "The masks has to come off. These guys, the don't just wear these masks for their own anonymity. They wear it for moral cover. They hide their identities from us and their humanity from themselves. So their masks have to come off. Period."

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“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

a lot of folks going “of course we knew they were full of shit” and we did

but there are plenty of people out there who take their sanctimonious bullshit about gun rights at face value and it is important to shove this in their faces and go, no, they don’t mean a single word they say

DOJ lies.
DHS lies.
ICE lies.

That has been established. Do not repeat their claims as fact. Their claims are arguments or, often, misleading propaganda — when not outright lies.

They are seeking to make a case for their lawlessness (and to please Trump), not seeking to inform.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

We had 50K people downtown yesterday, no ICE and zero incidents. ICE is the fucking problem.

In a just world, the fact that *multiple agents* have their guns drawn at all in this scenario would be automatic grounds for a homicide conviction.

I was expecting to see something like this. Bravo to Garmany in this instance (even if it's just publicly acknowledging how toxic the USA is currently).

Them, but also more directly: 285 people out of 535 could end all this (218 + 67). That fact should not be treated as an "oh they'll never do it" shrug, as if they don't have agency. They should be hammered constantly as traitors and cowards every day they don't.