the ketameaning of life

borderline pixie dream girl (she/her)

[𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎 @hellspatisserie]

I was there. 2010s sex positive feminism was a direct reaction against, not a surrender to, 2000s bro culture and saying otherwise is total ahistorical revisionism.

[Shelton Boyd-Griffith @flyrebel]

I think about this Balenciaga Couture FW 2021 editorial from the Arthur Jafa guest edited The Darker Issue, no. 365, Winter 2021 quite often.

[Images by Rafael Pavarotti]

[the ketameaning of life @puthymonthter]

@CHRlSTITTIES the critique you’re making is partly what the piece is about! read it, it’s short and fun and surprisingly poignant

[the ketameaning of life @puthymonthter]

@ayebooggie Does this kinda family friendly hip hop still exist? I was rapping along to songs about like, soup and lip gloss. Meanwhile my lil cousin is bumpin the same violent shit I currently listen to 🫠

[Polly Pocketknife🌸🔪 @polypocketknife]

forcing an art school twink to watch this clockwork orange style in an attempt to recreate my chemical romance from first principles

[Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes_]

cat logs into online game after years, but there is no one else on the server

[the ketameaning of life @puthymonthter]

@anc4578 @clashreport @grok i am begging you to please use your brain.

[Talia Jane @taliaotg]

NYPD is making arrests and confiscating goods on Canal Street (per another photog present as of 17 minutes ago). Says no federal agents around.

Seems NYPD has resumed their “quality of life” sweeps targeting this decades-old cultural staple of NYC.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE accidentally published a government watch list of immigration lawyers… because nothing says “healthy democracy” like federal agencies quietly cataloging the attorneys who challenge them.

Yes, really.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement posted what appears to be a covert roster of immigration attorneys on its own website. No announcement. No explanation. Just buried there until attorney Arlene Amarante stumbled across it while using the site and realized her own name was on the list. Casual. Normal. Totally fine.

The list has since been taken down, which is usually what happens when something is completely legitimate and not deeply alarming.

Immigration advocacy group Al Otro Lado has now filed a FOIA request demanding answers. Who created this list? Why did it exist? And why was ICE cataloging lawyers at all?

Then the situation got even more disturbing.

Amarante noticed a clear pattern, telling WGNO that a large number of the attorneys on the list were people of color. At that point, this stops being bureaucratic incompetence and starts looking like targeting.

Her question cuts to the heart of it. Why does this list exist? Whether it was an “innocent incursion” or something intentional and nefarious, we need to know. Especially when this administration keeps pushing the idea that helping immigrants is itself the harm, and this list seems to reflect that mindset.

And let’s be honest, this didn’t come out of nowhere.

In March 2025, the White House issued a memo titled “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court,” openly attacking immigration lawyers, accusing them of “unscrupulous” behavior, and directing the Attorney General to take action against lawyers and firms that cross the Trump administration.

So when ICE gets caught maintaining a quiet database of immigration attorneys, the context matters.

Al Otro Lado didn’t sugarcoat it, warning that the list raises “grave concerns of political targeting and professional intimidation” while the administration escalates its attacks on immigrant advocates.

Staff attorney Andrew Fels said what everyone is thinking. There is no obvious legitimate reason for ICE to be compiling a covert roster of immigration lawyers. The group is now demanding ICE publicly explain the list’s purpose and release the policies governing who was included.

Legal director Cassandra Lopez issued a warning that should make every lawyer uneasy. History may be repeating itself. Lawyers are appearing on government watch lists simply for doing their jobs, defending asylum seekers, and holding the government accountable in court.

Since the start of Trump’s second term, lawyers haven’t been treated as officers of the court. They’ve been treated as enemies. This watch list looks like the next step, where adversarial legal representation itself becomes suspicious behavior.

That’s not law enforcement. That’s authoritarianism.

And when the government starts monitoring the lawyers tasked with challenging it, the rule of law isn’t being protected… it’s being dismantled.

[Chris Sommerfeldt @C_Sommerfeldt]

New: Under Brad Lander's management, NYC's public pension funds have seen windfalls from investing in Elbit, the Israeli military's primary arms producer. The second biggest pension fund even bought new Elbit shares in the past year, as the Gaza war raged. https://t.co/m9TCRiCU9x

[the ketameaning of life @puthymonthter]

@bgctea2020 @madblackfag now why would amiyah deign to do such a thing lmfao

[the ketameaning of life @puthymonthter]

happy international brick squad day to all who celebrate ❤️

[the ketameaning of life @puthymonthter]

@KerryBurgess Within a year?? ICE is doing this literally right now.

[the ketameaning of life @puthymonthter]

am I just old or does slang move too fast these days. are we still saying girlypop? that one was cute

[the ketameaning of life @puthymonthter]

using a juul in 2025 to invoke a “not like other girls” vibe

[brooks sterritt @brksstrrtt]

asking the Buffalo Wild Wings waitress to turn all the TVs to Al Jazeera

[the ketameaning of life @puthymonthter]

@2025summer so peculiar. buttons are usually round! european noses are usually not round!

[the ketameaning of life @puthymonthter]

@ClarkeDdmthe1st love how all the black ppl jumped back when he started swinging 😭😭

[the ketameaning of life @puthymonthter]

girl. have some shame.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Beyoncé stuns in new Fourth of July photo.

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

They speak now of a ceasefire.
A ceasefire.
As if death could be paused.
As if blood could be bargained with.
As if the heavens would take notice of papers signed in rooms far from the stench of burned flesh.

I wait.
We all wait.
Two million of us, sitting in the antechamber of death, waiting for a stranger's signature.

They are not like us, these strangers.
They do not know the weight of silence after an explosion.
They have never searched through rubble for a familiar hand, a lock of hair, a child's shoe.

I have stopped believing in the war’s end.
Or perhaps I no longer remember what its ending would even mean.
It has been here longer than memory, longer than childhood.
I think I was born with it.
I think war is my country, my father, my god.
It has taught me how to pray without faith, how to sleep with one ear open, how to smile with a corpse in the next room.

And still, I ask:
What if it ends?
What becomes of us, the ghosts who didn’t die?

Will we walk again in the streets like men?
Or will we crawl, like animals who survived fire and forgot their shape?

Will I taste coffee and not blood?
Will music no longer be mistaken for sirens?
Will we hear laughter and not look up?

Will we ever sit on a plane again, not to flee, but to return?
Will the sky be blue again, or will it always carry the shadow of steel and smoke?

And the weddings, will they dance again?
Or will the dead be invited too, sitting silent at the table?

I have not wept properly.
There are no proper tears in a land where grief must be quick and quiet.
We bury and run.
We mourn between alerts.
Even sorrow is rationed here.

I fear what we have become.
No. I fear what we are becoming, that we may survive this and never be whole again.

I speak now not to men, not even to God.
I speak to the void, because it has been more faithful than justice.

Let the killing stop.
Not for victory. Not for glory.
But so we may have a moment to understand what we have become.
So we may fall on our knees and sob, for the children, for the land, for ourselves.
So we may learn again to be human. Or at least pretend.

That would be miracle enough.

#GazaGenocide‌