Posts like this make me want to cry. In bleak times, it's so useful to remember that every single day, people commit millions of acts of profound goodness and devotion to others - to sick or recovering children, to scared animals, to struggling elders. Most humans are good.
Its why I never really bought the "guys we cant give him an excuse" shit
Trump will lie to give himself an excuse. Walz and Frey both were decidedly cautionary in their rebuke of the administration and it didn't matter, because the administration wanted to do it anyway.
This reminds me of the Constitutional Law professors who complained that their textbooks no longer made any sense because the Supreme Court was no longer following basic constitutional principles
“Then I grew up” usually means “I stopped asking how the system works and learned how to endure it.” Confusing psychological surrender with maturity is the clearest sign a system has successfully infantilized its subjects.
You're going to see a lot more of this. And a lot more wailing and gnashing of teeth from the far right anytime someone not in a MAGA hat holds a weapon.
You either support the 2nd Amendment for everyone, or you're the kind of person the 2nd was written to protect against.
If you didn’t already know the US is currently in a civil war, a governor calling up the state militia to support his people under attack by the president’s paramilitary forces should make it very clear.
It’s hard to overstate just how high the political temperature is running in Minneapolis. Militarisation of the police. A quasi-militarisation of residents in response, a network of people “on patrol”, standing on street corners, waiting to observe and deter ICE.
@rosekan i’ll have you know this post sent me headfirst back into Finally Actualy Learning wtf the epilogues were and . there’s So Much Going On I’m Scared
Stay aware, alert, and prepared.
https://t.co/UJrCV7AdoB is an informative site where you can see real time witness reports of ICE and their locations: observed, active, and critical.
It is more important than ever to share these resources. Do not ignore what is happening.
Only in Minnesota — people sliding down an icy hill on their way to join thousands of others to stand up for Renee Good’s family and against ICE actions on our streets and in our schools.