Abolish ICE (she/they)

Anyway remeber when everyone instantly stoped caring about kids in cages when biden won?

I thought ’Why do they put itch power in these medication patches you wear for a week?’ Then I realized it’s because I’m allergic to adhesives. 🤦‍♀️

Immigration agents are increasingly detaining & deporting survivors of domestic violence after they call 911 for help. An emergency call should never risk immigration detention. Everyone should be able to seek safety without fear—regardless of immigration status. https://bit.ly/4hPDOqG

"It's the Constitution, my guy." This man is very good at this. I really hope he wins and shows other Democrats that you don't need to toss trans people under the bus in order to win an election.

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

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Today is indigenous peoples day. It is crucial to remember and talk about how there is still an active genocide against the tribal nations that were here for eons before this country colonized their land. Broken treaties and needless cruelty STILL HAPPEN. Sacred sites are under attack right now.

Public executions don’t make us like North Korea or the Taliban or whatever other scary non white people you think of. It makes us like the US. Police killings every day are public executions and if we’re talking about planned ones lynchings were considered a place to bring a picnic.

FYI

"When someone is gang-raped, there appears to be something to defend, and it’s not bodily autonomy; there appears to be something to protect, and it’s not the victim." Life in this predator's paradise and the problem of shameless people. www.the-reframe.com/the-good-guys/

“In America—and, therefore in the rest of the world—unless you are a special case, consent isn’t on the menu.” One of the most concise distillations I’ve read yet about the Cornell rape case and its relationship to privilege in America today.

What is democratic backsliding?

Cartoon: Sugar skull butterfly :)

The beginning of the internet was wild. You could go to thespark.com and there would be quizzes like ‘what percentage prawn are you?’ And then I think they started doing book summaries for students who didn’t want to read the assigned book.

One of the reasons public opinion on trans health care is where it is is because a lot of cis people will never ever believe just how corrupt the professional medical class running our health care really is.

Shut it all down. We should be in the streets.

Incandescent is a great word. Came into the English language from Latin in the 16th century. I’ve been incandescent for awhile now. I’m worried about burning up.

Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it. n.pr/4y2SrM3

Senator Dan Laughlin from Pennsylvania has a son named Spencer. Spencer posted this. PA, do your thing.

Why is Home Depot selling a Mumford and Sons skeleton

The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.

the utter futility of appealing to the same system that demanded it must execute Christa Pike, asking it to produce justice for Jane Doe in the Cornell case…

I haven’t had much time to read the news or be on social media but what little time I have I saw a lot about the death penalty. I thought I’m against it. Then found out why and GOD IT NEEDS TO END YESTERDAY!

"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

Mostly of my adopted city’s (Philadelphia) food is too greasy for me and makes my stomach cramp but a soft pretzel with mustard is <chef’s kiss>. This post brought to you by my coworker having a pretzel and me not. 😕

There's always a backlash against progress for marginalized communities unless it's too small to matter So no MeToo didn't go too far BLM didn't go too far The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not go too far The Voting Rights Act did not go too far The backlash is against progress, not excess

Btw if you read this and immediately thought “well not all men”… pause for a second. The men I trust are the ones who read what I just wrote and choose to listen, to empathize, to ask questions to better understand. They know they are not the men I am angry about and they don’t need say so.

Happy birthday to bell hooks. She would've been 74 today. #ReadMorebellhooks