ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.

Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.

Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.

ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Ah fuck, my first thought after seeing "FPS" was "first person shooter" as in, maybe a new insult for dudes who played call of duty and decided to gear up and be ice Nazis 🙃 I feel dumb

Alex Pretti’s dad: “He cared about people deeply & was very upset with what was happening...He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests” apnews.com/article/immi...

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

Ah, you can't help being from Alberta just like I can't help being from the US 😆 I only learned about the rat thing maybe a year ago, i think it's such a funny province-wide thing! Also, in my part of MN I *never* see rats in the wild or indoors, we mostly just fight with chipmunks and mice here

YouTube video by STRANGE ÆONS The Great Canadian Rat War

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMOM...

I love rats, big rat fan over here -- do you know about the thing where Alberta makes this huge deal about being "completely rat-free"? it's a whole thing, they're obsessive about it. rats are great though!

Bu... buddy... you do not want what the US has got. You wanna die early bc you can't afford healthcare? You wanna get shot at the grocery store? You want all your schools defunded?

Come down here and say it to my face, you little dipshits, I will hand-deliver rats to all your farms you thick fucks

The government is literally lying to us to create propaganda to advance a white supremacist agenda, and we still have elected Dems who think they can work with these people and vote for their agenda. I am so angry all the time now.

We'll be okay ♥️ we're kept warm with pure Midwestern spite

Screenshot from a Minnesota weather authority forecast showing wind chill temperatures for tomorrow all across the state, with numbers ranging from negative 45 degrees fahrenheit to negative 63 degrees fahrenheit

Lol the ICE dipshits aren't ready for this like we are

This post reminded to make my new appointment (thx)

"get rid of these baby-snatchimg freaks" is so simple and so universally appealing, and our ossified so-called representatives can't even bring themselves to say it

I like to do one pair of socks, then a hot hands on each set of toes, top it off with a second pair of socks. ✨ Indulgent ✨

Tina's not running for re-election so she probably doesn't care about midterms-- but that's all the more reason she should be calling to abolish and prosecute ICE

So you should be calling for the abolishment of ICE. But you're not, all you talk about is "reform" when there's no reforming an entity designed to racially profile and kidnap human beings.
FFS, pull your socks up and do your job goddamn it.

Part of a daily ritual lately! I wonder how many senate staffers are haunted by the sound of my voice at this point. These people have no idea how much experience I have being an annoying shitheel but they're gonna find out

That's gotta be extremely frustrating. Similar to my congressman, who is whole-hog down for anything this admin does to us-- I've shown up at his office, called a ton, he just ignores the public and never holds in-person town halls. I get you!

If these senators insist on being fucking toothless while our cities and towns are rampaged by federal goons, give them no peace, ever, keep calling. Don't be cruel to the staff, but GIVE THEIR OFFICES NO BREAK. They can screen and ignore a few repeat callers, but they can't ignore the legion of us.

The staff I spoke to in Amy's office told me to keep calling (I'm sure they want her to do her fucking job as much as we do) so the pressure is *worth keeping on and increasing*.
Smith's staffmember made excuses, saying she's called for reform and defunding: NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
Call every. single. day.

MN friends -- calling both Smith and Klobuchar's offices and demanding they call for the *Abolishment* of ICE (not reform, not defunding, ABOLISHMENT) is a great thing you can do every single day!
Sen. Smith: (202)224-5641
Sen. Klobuchar: (202)224-3244

www.newsweek.com/democratic-m...

I was telling my partner the other day, Akane-Banashi feels like a sports manga with how competitive every single character is. I love it -- is this how it feels to be into football?

ooooooh, I bet I could get it through an inter-library loan! 😯 thank you for the rec!!

it's so good!! I came in with zero knowledge of what rakugo is, I love how in-depth the story goes into its history, plus the art is so gorgeous. really excited to see the anime when it comes out!

Screenshot from the "Akane Banashi" manga about Rokugo performers, in which a character named Shomei (very dignified man in a 3-piece suit with slicked-back hair) is shown pushing up his glasses and saying "At times, I like to be a little scamp."

If you enjoy slice-of-life manga about people being completely possessed by the feverish pursuit of art, I'm so happy to report that Akane Banashi is very very good

Digitally-drawn comic panel in tones of blue, showing a map of southern Minnesota with several cities marked: St. Cloud, Willmar, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, Mankato and Albert Lea. Boxed captions say "We're an hour south of MPLS, a blue dot in the MN valley with a large immigrant population."

Digitally drawn comic panel in blue hues, showing an angry crowd of city residents in the foreground, silhouetted, a police officer sitting at a table and shrugging in the midground in medium blue, and a semi-circle table of council members sitting in front of 3 limp flags in light blue in the background. Captions say "After ice pepper-sprayed civilians in old town last week, we packed a 3.5 hour city countil meeting, begging the head of police to use their $2M budget to stop kidnappings."

Panel showing a person looking around on a street while removing a paper grocery bag from the back seat of a sedan, with captions saying "It basically feels like we're on our own. But we're tenacious. People are taking part in mutual aid and filling needs as they arise, regardless of weather."

Panel in various blue hues, showing the view from the driver seat of my car with my gloved hand resting on the bottom of the open window; an elderly person has reached out and placed one mittened hand over mine while the other holds a whistle. The elderly person has a speech bubble saying "You're here to help?" My speech bubble says "yeah" and theirs responds "me too." The captions say "I ran into myn neighbor, who I rarely see, when several of us were keeping watch at our local elementary school. Things feel scary, but not lonely."

My contribution (a little late) to the #ICEOUT #ICEOUTMPLS comic posts. My experience with ICE in my city so far, keeping the language as vague as possible to protect the groups on the ground helping people here.

My favorite is when MN GOP representatives just... didn't read the bills that were in front of them and then "oops all edibles are legal now" and I found a can of pop with 50mg of THC in it at the local smoke shop

This made me ugly cry

Absolutely nothington!