Moira Donegan

They're killing those who see and document them because they're ashamed of themselves and what they are doing, and they know that they're going to pay for it.

I know this is difficult but everybody has to accept that women can have insight, even when those women are annoying.

The didactic feminists were right tbh

Masked government thugs snuffed out Alex Pretti’s life in broad daylight | Moira Donegan If they’re trying to eliminate witnesses, they cannot eliminate us all

"If they’re trying to eliminate witnesses, they cannot eliminate us all," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social.

True heroism from the people.

Continually impressed by the courage, scale, and beauty of what people in Minnesota are doing.

It is of course well known by now that ICE agents do not want to be seen. They cover their faces; they drive unmarked cars; they have been told by their own leadership not to wear insignia stating that they work for any of the deportation agencies when they are off the clock. The gangs of masked, armed men committing anonymous violence in the streets of Minneapolis of course evoke past instances of racial terror in America – like the masked men of the Ku Klux Klan, who also did their best to eradicate racial undesirables from American communities. Any path back to political stability in the United States must involve a reckoning with what ICE is doing Perhaps ICE’s homicidal rage at the Americans who film them represents this same refusal to countenance being seen, being witnessed, being documented doing what they are doing to innocent people. In that sense, perhaps their actions towards observers like Good and Pretti exhibit a sense of shame. Some, like Tom Nolan, a former Boston police commander and criminology professor who once advised the DHS on civil rights issues, are calling Pretti’s death at ICE’s hands a stone cold murder. You could also call it the elimination of a witness.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Masked government thugs snuffed out Alex Pretti’s life in broad daylight | Moira Donegan If they’re trying to eliminate witnesses, they cannot eliminate us all

I write about Alex Pretti and the power of witness as ICE targets legal observers. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Masked government thugs snuffed out Alex Pretti’s life in broad daylight | Moira Donegan If they’re trying to eliminate witnesses, they cannot eliminate us all

Masked government thugs snuffed out Alex Pretti’s life in broad daylight | Moira Donegan

Jokes aside I do think that what these people are doing is the kind of trespass that removes them from the human community.

Separate the art from the artist? Fun fact: when the artist is an ICE agent, the art is always and inevitably sucky and corrupt.

Interviews with ICE agents’ mothers who all shake their heads and say “No, actually we found that we couldn’t love them, either.”

Scientists will spend decades studying how technically-human creatures could be so vacant and devoid of worth.

Crazy how no one who works for ICE has ever created anything of beauty or value in their whole lives.

The taking of Liam Ramos reveals the sheer sadism of ICE | Moira Donegan It has become difficult to feel shock at the actions of the Trump administration. But this useless cruelty is shameless

The taking of Liam Ramos reveals the sheer sadism of ICE | Moira Donegan

Outside abortion clinics, pro-choice escorts who are there to help patients get inside safely often wear reflective vests to distinguish themselves from anti-choice protestors. In response, anti-choice protestors often buy and start wearing identical vests.

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

Definitely not something I’m encountering from most or even many people with autism.

Pro-autist eugenicists

Weird tangent here but there is a substrain of the very online MAGA techno-fascist crowd that cites symptoms of autism as signs of genetic supremacy.

What you can’t say is that our era has produced no comedy.

Remembering the queer “feminist” who was like “describing the Trump administration as sadistic stigmatizes the real victims: BDSM tops.”

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

If you want to be a big man defending the innocent in a heroic battle between good and evil, this is the time. But they’d rather sit around on Twitter or rewatch The Sopranos again.

One thing that’s really striking to me is how all the MAGA supporters I know in real life have these elaborate fantasies of masculine heroism—going after bad guys and bullies, protecting their neighborhoods, etc—and all are agreed that Alex Pretti deserved to die.

Who is the is bozo? He screenshots me all the time but I can’t tell if he has, like, a job?

Bleeding Minnesota

thinking a lot about the ibwtr ep where Adrian Daub explains Heinrich Manns essay on hatred: "there is this kind of hatred i that i didn't know my neighbors were capable of....and then there is this hatred that i feel about them"

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

In the wake of another fatal shooting in Minneapolis.
AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including:
"Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"