Chelli Lona Aphra, PhD⁷

Never let anyone tell you this was unforeseeable. I was a teenager when DHS was created and I remember the memes (though we didn’t call them that yet) about “homeland security” being a Nazi term. Plenty of people knew at the time that DHS was a bad, dangerous, and unamerican idea.

Stating the obvious at this point, but the killings by ICE & CBP aren't isolated incidents; they're the product of a culture of contempt for and casual brutality toward civilians.

It's STFU Friday. Refresh the script 👇

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

How fares the King

I'm seeing lots of people debating if Dems should focus more on ICE, more on affordability, etc. Do this. This message got to my sister, who's not following this stuff closely, and it made her angry

Nothing is real to these people. Life is basically a video game to them.

This is really well done. slate.com/business/202...

Someone please kill me right now.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

If music is your therapy, who is your therapist?

I've done this in an effort to AI-proof assignments (which is essentially impossible to do unless they are entirely in class and by hand). If you ask ChatGPT about anything you actually know about, you'll catch it committing what are often major errors right off the bat. But they'll sound smooth.

i really really hate how many people on the left are responding to good advice on dealing with ICE with "so they don't abide by the law anyway" ignore people who tell you not to take basic safety precautions like knowing your rights. those people aren't your friends

a lot of people think you need a lot of money to buy clothes. now you're right. ok. my bad.

The worst people in the world are like "They must be getting paid to hate me" when in reality everyone is happy to hate them for free

Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.

I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?

I don't know if this is real or not but if it isn't, don't tell me

Hell is too good for Trump and his minions.

How about Cerberus-looking hellhounds against DOGE?

When asked if he was going to visit the crash site he said, ‘what site? The water? You want me to go swimming?’ This is one of the last pics of the young skaters who died. He’s a sociopath. Anyone who voted for this monster should be ashamed at best.

Sloppy. We’ve been told they better prepared & well organized for 2.0 but I’m seeing a lot of cracks in the facade and that’s an opportunity for people who love democracy to protect it.

Can we please just skip to the ending in the bunker?

Billionaires have more money than they could ever need but never enough to fill the holes in their souls. They would send every last one of you into an early grave if it meant paying one cent less in taxes.

I heard that it’s blep day? Little old lady dog was the queen of blep and we miss her very much. 👅💔

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

We’re gonna be watering crops with Brawndo at this rate

I worked with Han Solo. Kind of. I knew Han Solo. Han Solo was... well, I wouldn't say he was a FRIEND, exactly. The kriffing moof milker who posted this is no Han Solo.

The reason the coup attempt in South Korea failed as quickly as it did is because South Koreans immediately rushed to the streets to say “we won’t let you do that” and force the military to decide whether they’d shoot their fellow citizens or not. Important for us remember over the next 4 years.

I wrote about the case against cynicism in @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/k...

I’ve been informed that I don’t post enough dog content. Agent K would say hi, but he’s kinda preoccupied.

Jesus H Christ this is the most beautiful photo of lightning I have ever seen #borahae

somehow ”trump is god emperor and if he wills it it will occur” is a belief that is shared across the political spectrum

You know, I haven't ordered a thing from Amazon since the election and I am surprised to say I don't miss it.

Teen Vogue once again leading the way.

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy but

Everyone go stream my husband’s new video 💜