accidentally walked in on nita staring intensely (completely still) at a fire pit while sitting in a container of clothes hangers
she's been doing this for 10+ minutes and counting + however long she was before i found her
I'm just so tired and so done being nice. This cat is so stressed. If anyone in the Bay Area is interested in adopting or even fostering, please reach out, he is sweet but NOT ok with other cats and is NOT doing well here. He needs to be in a home.
I think today was an inflection point - maybe small, but real.
The President, having launched a global trade war, feted in the Oval Office a Central American dictator who runs a mega-prison known for starvation and torture - a prison to which our government has, by its own admission, sent at least one person "in error."
They disappeared a man without a single criminal charge who's lived and worked here for 15 years - who was alleged to be a member of a gang based in a state he never lived by one anonymous informant. No other evidence. No trial. No conviction. Nothing but a legal order that he not be deported to El Salvador, where he's now serving a life sentence.
The Supreme Court just ruled, without any noted dissent, that the government must facilitate the man's release.
But Trump and his dictator friend said no. They laughed. They mocked the journalist who asked whether they'd abide by the Court's order. The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the White House Deputy Chief all lied about the facts of the case. Then the President repeated his proposal to send American citizens to the dictator's prison, and asked him to build five more.
The same day we found out that the government knowingly disappeared a PhD student for nothing but an op-ed, a man's 19-year old son who agents admitted was the wrong kid, and a visa-holding Russian scientist at Harvard who forgot to declare frog embryos at the border.
But: it's all breaking through. It's getting more coverage. More people are paying attention. More elected Democrats are speaking up. More conservative pundits and legal scholars are speaking up. Even Joe Rogan thinks it's bullshit.
Now we have to keep pushing. This is much bigger than immigration or deportation policy - this is about whether we live in a free country or a police state. It's the whole ballgame.
This is a bell that cannot be unrung. There will be no hosting of Olympics or World Cups. There will be a massive drop off in tourism. There will be a reverse brain drain because no one will want to risk studying or taking research jobs here. A modern leper colony.
This is the main reason why Elon Musk bought the government. To destroy the agencies that are investigating him. This is DOGE’s true purpose, not to find “fraud and abuse.”
I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: If you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.
Hernandez: Why is there always money to bomb children in Gaza, but not enough to make sure every kid has a safe place to sleep in this country. We don't have a budget crisis. We have a crisis of our values
@Tim450024260589 Cases of civilians posing as ICE agents to detain migrants are on the rise.
A man has been arrested in Florida for impersonating a federal agent after chasing two Latinos who refused to prove their immigration status.
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