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[m🤠 (they/them) @aries3_3]

Please I can’t take the corporate hellscape anymore I just want to work at a quaint tobacco/herbs/oils store in the mountains where I sell cigarettes to cottage witches and old mountain men and yes the trio doesn’t make sense but I think it will sell

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Bc if ppl know the extensive bodily harm a single COVID infection causes (yes even if ur fully vaxxed bc our vaccines don't prevent transmission) they'd demand the govt do something. Instead they ignore it so they can work themselves to the bone and pretend things are normal

[m🤠 (they/them) @aries3_3]

moving off this little hellsite, goodbye twitter! And for the record, I never updated this damn app. So it still says tweet for me. I will go down like that lol

[Jonathan Louis Dent @jonathanldent]

I hope that whatever Uranus has in store for us brings us closer to the liberation we all so deeply crave.
May we be freed from the self-limiting beliefs that keep us small.
May we, as a collective, break the chains of imperialism and extractive power.
And may the technological and intellectual breakthroughs to come teach us how to love one another more fiercely, more honestly, and more freely.

Àṣẹ.

Let the revolution be radiant.

[III @Cerebrone]

As someone who almost destroyed himself by trying to live up to a brutal standard he set for himself, I do not recommend.

Forget whatever potential you saw in yourself as a teenager. Real life doesn’t work that way. Let go of all that pressure. Give yourself grace. Slow down.

[Rami Ghayadh 𓂆 🇵🇸 @ramipalestine1]

Friends, today marks the second day without bread due to the outrageous price hike caused by the war and aggression. The price of a bag is 1500 dollars. Please help or share.

https://t.co/jFUkPb2tgY
https://t.co/GIiwXX4sX2

[AshleyStevens @The_Acumen]

As a student of History and observer of people, a lot of you seem to only view violence in the physical form. That way of thinking is dangerous. It allows you to forget poverty is violence. That denying you healthcare is violence. That polluting your water and air is violence.

[Jonathan Louis Dent @jonathanldent]

As Jupiter enters Cancer today, may it rejuvenate and expand our capacity to defend this planet that we call our home. Jupiter’s exaltation in Cancer reminds us that Cancer not only governs our individual homes, but it deepens our emotional intelligence and connects us more profoundly to the ancestral lands we call home. May we continue to resist ICE. May we continue to see innumerable versions of the Madleen embark on sacred voyages to reclaim and protect this planet from the virus of indifference and fascism. May our collective hope be rooted in action and not just idealism.

Àṣẹ

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

Trump administration planning major increase of Guantánamo deportations, including citizens of Britain, France and other allies https://t.co/6478oo62zV

[🔻Richard Estes, "From the River to the Sea" 🍉 @oshima9]

For anyone questioning the efficacy of the LA protests

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.

[Sam Witwer @SamWitwer]

I live here. This is true.

[Nani 🏹 @lenubienne]

It took me 2 attempts, 4 years of being undocumented after 9/11, and $30k (now closer to $40k, with inflation) to get my US citizenship. And that was with the privilege of access to attorneys and non-marital sponsorship. Please shut the entire fuck up about how “easy” it is.

[John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd]

Pop Crave covering this with more journalistic integrity than any Australian outlet…

[raggedy ann @kmsselena]

and would yall boo me if i said that’s the point of getting women into religion. it makes them vulnerable and stupid which benefits the patriarchy

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

I debated whether to share my story on here, but I guess I will.

I think there's an idea out there that millions of violent criminals are pouring across the border, carrying machetes and drugs, looking to harm Americans. Certainly, while some people fall into that category, the vast majority of undocumented immigrants don't.

My family escaped Vietnam after the Tet Offensive and went through an arduous journey that eventually landed them in the Canada. My father worked there for a time as a janitor; my mother, a secretary. When work fell through, my dad was offered to work with his sister in the United States, so he went, as our family needed money. He ended up staying in the US longer than he was supposed to — not knowing immigration laws — and asked my mom to come be with him. Of course, she went and carried me over the border while I was still a baby.

I'm still unsure whether we technically broke an immigration law. The border between Canada and the United States was pretty porous (as it is today, for the most part). But either way, since I came here without legal documentation, I eventually fell into the category of being an undocumented immigrant. Yet, I've been in the United States since I was a baby. My identity and roots are very much based in this country, no different from anyone else.

The lack of legal immigration has totally shaped my life. It has made every interaction with the law much scarier. It has shaped which opportunities I could or could not get. It has taken an emotional toll, as this legal issue hangs over your head like a black cloud.

There are millions of people in my situation — people who were brought here as children, some babies, and were unable to raise their hand during this process and say "maybe we should hire a lawyer." Parents may have crossed the border not knowing about the law, as the law can be pretty confusing and lawyers are expensive. Perhaps, in the end, they should have hired a lawyer; but sometimes life is messy. In the end, they crossed for the same reason many people rise every day: to support their families.

I think it's unreasonable to deport millions of people who have contributed positively to society. It's simply not true that the majority of these people are violent criminals carrying drugs. Many own small businesses; many work as skilled laborers (including garment workers!). The vast majority are good, honest people. For those of us who grew up in the United States, sending us "back" to our "home" country would mean sending someone to a foreign land, as they grew up in the United States. Tearing families apart based on immigration status seems inhumane.

About twenty years ago, I watched with some small measure of hope that the Dream ACT would pass and help a portion of undocumented immigrants. I saw people march angrily in the streets (something I supported). But I was dismayed to see nothing really come about. In fact, when Obama passed DACA, I was skeptical that it would be sensible to give your information to the federal government without a guaranteed path to citizenship. It seems that the Trump administration may use those lists to hunt down immigrants.

I think the ICE sweeps are inhumane. I support and admire the protestors who are putting their bodies on the line for non-violent resistance. Ultimately, I think we need to solve this issue on a systemic level. It's unreasonable to me to expect that the government will deport some 10-20 million people. Even deporting 1 million will cause an insane amount of chaos, not to mention an incredible amount of wasteful government spending. The militarization of law enforcement is over the top and only escalate the situation.

I have seen people march on this issue, only for it to be dropped later and dissolve into quiet grumbles. In the end, nothing is done for immigrants. Time passes until decades later, we have another political crisis like the one we have today. This cycle seems unsustainable. I hope people sustain this energy to solve the immigration issue and put undocumented immigrants — most who are peaceful, skilled, and hard-working citizens — on a path to citizenship. As time continues to go by, many undocumented immigrants are seeing their lives wasted away.

If you care about this issue, I hope you get involved on the long haul: volunteer for pro-immigrant groups, donate to mutual aid, and perhaps pursue career paths that help people in this situation. I was moved to read someone on here say that, when they found their employee was undocumented, they helped them get a green card. The path was difficult, as our immigration system is broken (it took them 11 years). But I can tell you that this is like pulling someone drowning in raging waters.

Ultimately, I hope me sharing this story helps push back against the idea that all undocumented immigrants are MS-13 members. I know many people in my position and they are all like your neighbors.

[m🤠 (they/them) @aries3_3]

And they fucking didn’t. This political system of ours is fucking obsolete and it doesn’t deserve anyone’s participation beyond dismantling it.

[soul khan @soulkhan]

both barack obama and joe biden could have gutted and hobbled ice to render it incapable of all of this btw

[Shabazz @ShabazzArts]

Wars are won with supply chains, resource allocation, logistics, and principled politics.

What's happening in LA is cause and effect. You cannot expect people to write what this city has been doing for years now without expecting violent pushback.

[Shabazz @ShabazzArts]

Battles can be won or lost in a day or in seconds but wars are won in waves not in moments. Wars are won by quartermasters, cooks, medics, engineers, and custodians (by this last part I mean, the people who are willing to do the dirty work no one else is willing to do)

[Mehar Khursheed @curlistani]

Bisan said why was there only one freedom flotilla. why werent there 20? why didn’t boats & ships & yachts join them from every corner of the world? how many could they have arrested or even bombed if different nationalities, official status & celebrity joined them?