AxoBoy

An album that works again for the times.

YouTube video by ProPublica A Year in Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign

Year 1 of Trump’s immigration crackdown:

- U.S. citizens were held against their will.
- ICE placed at least 600 immigrant kids in federal shelters.
- Student activists became a target.

That’s not all. Our year in review:

All for crossing a river

Yep! I grew up just past the 'Third Ring Suburbs' too. PBS was the only TV Mom let us watch (and it usually came in the clearest)
Mister Rogers was great, but some of those puppets in Make Believe Land were horrific!

That F*CKING HAT 🤠

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NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed

Hi Gay, I'm Axo

Some of the Darkest GenX humor I've found yet. It's like distilled from all other forms of Social Media and formed in BlueSky. We loathe to laugh, but when we do, its sharp wit.

Thank you! May I have another?

Cute AND curse-wordive!

#handsoff2025 Saint Paul MN

Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave Monday morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

Ol'Melvile would be ashamed.
www.npr.org/2025/03/31/n...

Unless you really blow!

Vulgar Display of Power Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity. About what it means to be a human, about how to care for one another and the world […]

OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power.

https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

Had the same upbringing, but the milk was fresh, like we consumed it w/in 12 hours. No one driving to a farm and back home, will consume it w/in the same time line. Unpasteurized Bug colonies will grow in that time period..

Share the media.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.

Private Prison Companies Call Trump’s Deportation Plans ‘Unprecedented Opportunity’ Private prison executives imagined tracking “millions” of people electronically, transporting hundreds of thousands by plane, and expanding detention centers.

On Wednesday, GEO Group was “the single biggest winner in the U.S. stock market — among companies of any size,” according to the investment news site Sherwood News.

From the Spokane community on Reddit: This video has been taken down from Instagram but I think it needs to be seen by everyone here. Explore this post and more from the Spokane community

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Sold my shares of their stock yesterday. I don't care that they will probably prosper, I don't like how they make the money nowadays..

Where U @ ? Get i+while you got i+!

Just walking the edge of the cavernous abyss!

It's has to be a fucking rite of passage to have to self-lasso this horror...

Stay naive my friend ..for you cannot UNsee certain things...this is a warning

I've switched to a dumb phone. I'm tired of carrying a little focus vampire in my pocket.

So far, I'm surprised at how often I want to ask the internet a question. Instead I write them in the notebook for later.

I'm calling friends a lot more. #dumbphone #lowtech

Dear GovTimW, if you ever need a reassuring hug from one of your proud citizens, as proof to yourself that you are on the right track, Ive got one saved up for you! You are one of the strongest backbones politically in this country ATM! Stay Strong, we've got your back!!

In my self-defense classes I focus on how most people are socially conditioned to follow the norms of a civilized, polite society — and there is a MENTAL SHIFT required to use violence to defend from violence.

I'm reminded of this while watching our elected officials dithering and delaying. 1/