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but how could you live and have no story to tell? ✍️ 🦋 Storytelling enthusiast, Christian existentialist, + mom to a snarky pom + sassy cat. She/her.

[🌹cute friendly sea otter🥀 @hamlietello]

"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious....In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump’s ICE goons raid a polling place ON ELECTION DAY and force a woman to delete a social media post about the ICE agent who killed Renee Good!

This is really scary…

Paigelynne Gonyea was working at a poll worker in Syracuse, New York, on the day that primaries were being held across the state.

Two federal agents rolled in and threatened her prosecution unless she deleted an Instagram post in which she named the killer of Renee Good, ICE agent Jonathan Ross.

They accused her of “doxxing” him even though this was publicly available information that was widely reported by the media.

They gave her a document which said they were investigating “threats” against ICE agents. It read “This notice officially informs you that it is unlawful to threaten to assault, kidnap, and/or murder a federal official or that federal official’s immediate family member with the intent to impede, intimidate, and/or interfere with the federal official’s duties or retaliate against a federal official due to the performance of their duties,” the document said.

All her post said was “I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted.”

This is insane. Nothing about this constitutes any threat or “doxxing” in any way – the Trump administration is just so paranoid about any kind of blowback that it’s wasting public funds going after individuals who name and shame the perpetrators of heinous crimes.

And that means they know what they’re doing is wrong – they just don’t care.

More than that, ICE is sending a message by just strolling into a polling place on election day. Congress needs to pass a law keeping these thugs out of our polls IMMEDIATELY.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

A chilling incident in Syracuse, New York is slowly gaining national attention, and it should terrify all of us.

Yesterday, @syracusedotcom reported that two ICE agents showed up at a polling place to harass an election worker.

Her supposed “crime”? Back in January, PaigeLynne Gonyea shared an Instagram post citing a Minnesota Star Tribune article that identified Jonathan Ross as the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good.

Gonyea didn’t leak any private information; by the time she posted it, Ross’s name was already public knowledge and circulating widely across national media.

Gonyea told the outlet that the agents tried to lure her outside the building to “talk.” Fearing what would happen to her in the shadows, she instead invited them inside.

“I’ve seen the news, especially in Minnesota, and I didn’t want anything to happen to me at all,” she admitted.

Sit with that for a moment.

Democracy has eroded so severely that Americans are a) fearful being alone with immigration officials and b) are being harassed by the government for sharing something that was in the newspaper.

The agents provided Gonyea with a form letter, which she later shared.

Per the outlet, it read in part: “This notice officially informs you that it is unlawful to threaten to assault, kidnap, and/or murder a federal official or that federal official’s immediate family member with the intent to impede, intimidate, and/or interfere with the federal official’s duties...”

Gonyea has maintained her position, refusing to delete the post.

“For ICE to come to me over a social media post just feels very 1984 to me,” she remarked. “[ICE] definitely should have known better to not go into a polling place, even if I said it was OK.”

The incident has sparked a broader debate about the potential for federal agencies to be used in ways that might intimidate or obstruct the voting process.

Trump surrogates like Steve Bannon have repeatedly floated the idea of using ICE to intimidate voters to avoid jail.

Moreover, Bannon and other cronies know that a loss in the midterm elections will lead to prosecutions for many of them, himself included.

“And I will tell you right now, as God is my witness, if we lose the midterms, if we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison — myself included,” Bannon confessed in November.

All of this is lunacy — these people are not terrified of losing an election; they are fully aware that in a functional democracy, they'd be behind bars.

Bannon's remarks were far from the first time a Trump crony has confessed to knowing they ought to be jailed.

Elon Musk famously told Tucker Carlson on the eve of the 2024 election that he NEEDED Trump to win to avoid prison.

This is a dangerous level of desperation, and yesterday, Trump tanked his own party's bipartisan housing relief legislation during a press conference, holding it hostage and demanding the GOP ram through a voter suppression bill.

We are almost at the finish line and November is coming fast.

It is critically important to stay on top of these issues, and crucially, we cannot allow this coterie of whiny bullies to fully destroy our democracy.

Are you going to let them scare you out of exercising your rights, or are you going to vote?

[Images: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz, PaigeLynne Gonyea/Instagram]

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

ICE agents threaten a woman with prosecution for a post that simply called for Jonathan Ross to be indicted for killing Renee Good. This administration regularly acts as if the 1st Amendment does not exist.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

This is Jonathan Ross. He's the ICE agent who shot and murdered Renee Good in cold blood 170 days ago. He has yet to be arrested and indicted for his crime.

[Project Liberal @ProjectLiberal]

"The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!"

Thats apparently illegal to say in America.

[🌹cute friendly sea otter🥀 @hamlietello]

Dostoyevsky knew what he was talking about when he wrote "The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."

[J!REH 🏆 @jirehpc]

People can’t read anymore so they just think everything means whatever they want it to mean lol

[🌹cute friendly sea otter🥀 @hamlietello]

Ecuador beating Germany brings life to my cold, cold heart.

[🌹cute friendly sea otter🥀 @hamlietello]

The Epley maneuver for the win again.

[🌹cute friendly sea otter🥀 @hamlietello]

fuck cancer

[🌹cute friendly sea otter🥀 @hamlietello]

@mercyandmagic @akusigh Mercy and I growing up with a dear mother who has never been on time in her life: indeed.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[🌹cute friendly sea otter🥀 @hamlietello]

@akusigh For fucking real lol. I'm sorry but ppl saying this ish are not serious people. Said as someone who has lived in time-centric and non-time centric cultures.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Dear writers, we need your imagination, your narrative creativity and your lively thinking. We need these to create spaces of freedom and authenticity, within which divine grace can make the promise of consolation and peace resound. https://t.co/FEmCrdQ392

[癒される動物 @cutest_animal1]

お魚くわえたカワウソがかわいい

[Thar (Comms Open) @thecinnaminion]

Bharatanatyam turnaround 🌸✨

[tim. 🥩🩸 @sukunaglxzer]

yes!!! that’s why a lot of you should watch this video!!!

[eli✨🪼 @egg_seabutter]

Queer representation it’s not made so homophobic people can accept you, it’s so queer people feel seen

[Malala Yousafzai @Malala]

The EU has invited Taliban officials to Brussels to discuss a migration deal — and today I am shaken and deeply disturbed by this.

This is the same Taliban that banned girls from secondary schools and forced them into marriage. The same Taliban that, earlier this month, arrested dozens of women in Herat for how they were dressed. The same Taliban that detains, beats and executes women who dare to speak out or break their rules.

Through its system of gender apartheid, the Taliban have erased women and girls from public life. Europe must not legitimise a regime responsible for one of the worst human rights crises in the world.

Any engagement with the Taliban must begin and end with the rights of Afghan women and girls.

[🌹cute friendly sea otter🥀 @hamlietello]

It’s her first show and it shows that. 🤷‍♀️

[🌹cute friendly sea otter🥀 @hamlietello]

Me being grumpy about tads discourse because like. On the one hand Jax isn’t bad representation because she does bad things. On the other, Jax is a badly written character with very little thematic consistency that has nothing to do with her identity.

[🌹cute friendly sea otter🥀 @hamlietello]

I don’t really wanna get into arguments about this but tadc had a ton of potential and the writer is clearly very talented. I’m excited for what she does next. That said she did not have a clear plan for tadc or its characters and it shows. The last 3 eps were a narrative mess