Lhocke 🔜 Further Confusion

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

and now i need to get back in the climbing gym

it loves to mix those together in ways that are just incredible

arrived

thanks, have a chill weekend!

airport

train

welcome to “what the fuck, is this how other people accomplish things?” it’s a wild place to suddenly land

new meetup idea: Boop and Snoot, a fursuiter meetup just for nose boops

there’s just something about the theater

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I will go further and say that people using the "r"-word are hoping that bringing it back opens the door to bringing back the "n"-word, and is strongly correlated with the people who want to carve off trans rights as a stepping stone to claw back gay rights in general

consistently wearing a smaller pant size now is odd, like for real i pulled out a pair of pants from 15 years ago and went “oh”

it’s not that my work is a particularly bad place, it’s that really frustrating strategic decisions have left us in a place that I warned of 12 months ago but hadn’t yet established myself as The One Who Knows

good news: now they listen to me but oof it’s gonna be a slog

having a lot of thoughts tonight that i’m not going to share here, save one.

do what you can where you are. do not confuse awareness with action, posting with activism, or likes with impact.

This "conflicting accounts" narrative of the BBC's is a much bigger problem than they seem to think.

The huge issue is not false balance - it's that they're NOT reporting the biggest story of today: the fact the US Government is lying about its own forces killing a US citizen.

i just bought new pants and they’re already getting loose

honestly your community is so fast with the art, it’s impressive

today we’re playing a game of “am i sick or is getting old just a nightmare”

forget what captain you are, what Starfleet Engineering Chief are you?

my work computer rebooted within five minutes of startup today, and that’s a mood

ah yes dog paw to the face is a great way to be woken up, thank you teddy

smh big cat photos cancelled because PZ didn’t shower

This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.

just staring at this fucking posting like “this would change things drastically and that’s terrifying”

good answer

but how did this happen?

i am constantly torn between “I have thoughts i wish to express” and “we live in a vindictive police state that monitors everything you say online”

i give up, i can’t even go to safe restaurants anymore without my food getting contaminated with something i’m allergic to