The only violence the State is ever concerned with is property damage.
Violence to people’s lives is acceptable and normal to them but HEAVEN FUCKING FORBID billion dollar companies gotta file an insurance claim 🙄🙄🙄
The police chiefs of Hennepin County straight up refused to answer Mary’s phone calls, yet they blame her office for a “breakdown in communication.” Like usual, the police are the cause of every single goddamn problem they complain about.
This is Ava and she’s a nursing student who was attending an event by Conservative Political activist Riley Gaines at the University of Minnesota campus & she told a brown man there recording who was born in the U.S that he’s a Bitch and needs to go back to his Country. 🤬
I was covering Pig's Eye homeless encanpment in St. Paul where they designed barricades to keep cops out. They would haul ass moving barricades when social workers and EMTs arrived. That's what this reminds me of.
There are more opinion pieces analyzing why the media failed to condemn the raid than there are pieces actually condemning it.
"Rather than interrogating the fascistic implications of a president weaponizing federal immigration agencies to threaten political opponents with deportation, major media outlets platformed the administration’s narrative that something fishy must be occurring," Sophia Tesfaye writes. "This is not how the American press normally reacts when armed agents of the federal government knock on the door of a prominent political figure."
“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.”
— Ray Bradbury
one day ppl will start to examine all these old murder cases and start connecting the dots.
"Those who commit the murders write the reports."
-Ida B. Wells
Target is a sponsor of ICE:
"Target is not just funding local law enforcement... it also partners with the FBI, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, DHS, in addition to funding local county prosecutors, probation officers, and city attorneys" https://t.co/eMokkHXhlj
@whatMsKsaid Nah. I’d have voted against a study suggested by a person who’d just suggested that the district was too overwhelmed to do studies [checks video] 19 minutes earlier.😅
There is a particular brand of irked I get when I see a lifelong southsider try to use their new northside address for street cred when they are really just a broke ass gentrifier. 😒
powerful speech & poem from farah habad at the rally in support of ilhan omar in minneapolis. started out calling out the cowardice of leaders who are silent
“there is nothing on this planet that can shake a somali mother. she, african stubbornness, mixed with the resilience of winter people… i mean, it was never a fair fight.”
@whatMsKsaid If asking folks to [checks notes] “mop floors” of a lunchroom as if Bethune doesn’t have a union Engineer isn’t the most white savior “give this African child one penny a day” coded missionary shilling on record? Good riddance to bad rubbish.