time is a flat circle🍻hawkins

Ensign on a Ship of Idiots 💜 (they/she) 💀
Over half of all COVID cases are asymptomatic; Masks work.
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[time is a flat circle🍻hawkins @mikamala]

Regardless of context: if you are destroying food specifically to prevent hungry people from eating, you are the bad guy.

[Jenny Nicholson @JennyENicholson]

It's honestly so embarrassing to see real actors weighing in on this at all. It's like if one day I tweeted "I'm gonna buy the moon lol" and NASA released an official statement like "this is an outrage"

[time is a flat circle🍻hawkins @mikamala]

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[Friends of Bear Cat Rescue @feederofcats]

📍 SF Bay Area

Doesn't anybody want a weird little freak of a cat?

This is Dingy! She's lanky and slippery and has huge eyes and her head can turn more than I feel like it should be able to and I think she can see things we can't. but she's perfectly healthy and really nice

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

If you’re calling for civility in a time when fascism is overtaking the country then you are on the side of the fascists

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

my grandmother worked in a nylon factory to buy her children hairspray that ate a hole clean through the ozone layer

[Lauren 🍉🎗️ @OkieRezKid]

Handmade indigenous made beadwork!

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[time is a flat circle🍻hawkins @mikamala]

Well. It's been an eventful week for the Hawkins household...

Please welcome the gremlins that showed up on my patio and invited themselves inside on Friday: Crow and CatServo

[Markayla @MkWhess]

I'll post better pictures tomorrow, but look at how cute it came out! 💛

[Mehmet @afgmeh]

What’s on Iranian state tv at this hour? Hank Green teaching about the cardiovascular system.

[shayma @roundthefurr]

the border closed on my dad and he’s been alone in gaza ever since. this is the only source of money that reaches him. hes sick and needs food and medicine, i appreciate your help 🩷 https://t.co/Zk7VxVJi6P

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

ICE raided a downtown LA garment warehouse, arresting fourteen garment workers. Many of those detained were the primary breadwinner for young children and elderly relatives. Would you consider donating to help these families? Money is going to food, rent, childcare, and medicine.

[time is a flat circle🍻hawkins @mikamala]

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[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.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

seems like the skyrocketing costs associated with deporting a handful of non-violent undocumented immigrants could be spent on something better, such a healthcare or housing