from chthonic, dwelling beneath the surface of the earth. pronounced "kthoh-sis".
from the dictionary of obscure sorrows by john koenig
i've gotten more new followers in the past 14 hours than i usually get in a few months as a result of my dykeblogging, so this is an about me post now.
you can call me michael, e, or my irl name if you know it. he/they pronouns. i'm in my early 20's, white, from the us, and a vaguely transmasc nonbinary lesbian. also queer.
i have memory issues, and this blog is primarily a space for me to do whatever i want, so i only really tag reblogs for my own purposes. i try my best to tag my original posts, but if you need something tagged that i'm reblogging it's probably best that you unfollow/don't follow or block me if you can't filter it out without my involvement.
i tend to rapidly cycle through hyperfixations/interests, so if you follow me for one thing i may or may not post about it often.
i'm currently getting a bachelor's in sociology, something i'd like to discuss on here more.
my posts are tagged 'jeg snakker' (jeg er ikke flytende, men jeg har lært norsk for tre år siden. jeg vil ha flere venner som snakker norsk. han eller hen på norsk, takk.)
no specific dni, i'm not here to police identities, baring that i am uncomfortable with binary men identifying as lesbians, and the people i don't want interacting aren't the sort to respect dni's. i do block for everything ranging from bigotry and right wing ideology to fandom opinions i disagree with.
previously general-gaya (unsure on spelling that was years ago), gardenerformygrave, and comrade--orpheus
In case you didn't already here, 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was executed in Minneapolis today
The National and non-MN news have unfortunately not been fully covering how awful ICE has been in MN so I wanted to share some details for anyone who is not from or familiar with the Twin Cities, as someone in the Twin Cities who is decently connected with legal observers around the area:
Prior to being publicly executed, Alex Pretti was taking part in legally observing ICE and was assisting another legal observer who had fallen trying to distance themselves from ICE.
ICE has been viciously attacking legal observers. They are pepper spraying observers mere inches away from their eyes. They are using chemical weapons and carcinogenic gases. They are intentionally trying to take phones from people recording them.
Alex Pretti was killed at East 36th St and Nicollet Ave, almost right in front of a popular donut shop. This area of Nicollet Ave is lined with local restaurants and small businesses, many of whom have been struggling while ICE conducts an occupation of the Twin Cities and in particular had lost business by participating in the general strike yesterday. Therefore, Minnesotans wanted to go out in droves this weekend to make up for the lost income yesterday. This is all to say, ICE deciding to patrol and enact violence on this area of Minneapolis was vengeful and intentional. They were looking for protestors, observers, and people who are resisting ICE.
If you would like a non-exhaustive list of how you can help Minneapolis and help resist ICE, here is a place to start. Fuck ICE. Abolish ICE.
FUCK ICE. there's so much more to say, but i'm struggling to find the right words.
Rest in peace Genry Ruiz Guillén, who died in a hospital in Hialeah, Florida.
Rest in peace Serawit Gezahegn Dejene, who died at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona.
Rest in peace Maksym Chernyak, who died of a stroke at a hospital in Miami.
Rest in peace Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez, who died at the Centro Medico hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Rest in peace Brayan Garzón-Rayo, who died at the Phelps county jail in Rolla, Missouri.
Rest in peace Nhon Ngoc Nguyen, who died at a hospital in El Paso, Texas.
Rest in peace Marie Ange Blaise, who died at the Broward transitional center in Pompano Beach, Florida.
Rest in peace Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado, who died while in transit from a local jail to a federal detention center
Rest in peace Jesus Molina-Veya, who died at the Stewart detention center in Lumpkin, Georgia.
Rest in peace Johnny Noviello who was found unresponsive at the Bureau of Prisons’ federal detention center in Miami.
Rest in peace Isidro Pérez, who died at a Florida hospital of undetermined causes.
Rest in peace Tien Xuan Phan, who died at the Methodist hospital north-east in Live Oak, Texas.
Rest in peace Chaofeng Ge, who died four days after entering ICE custody in Pennsylvania.
Rest in peace Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, who died after he was detained at the Central Arizona Florence correctional complex.
Rest in peace Oscar Rascon Duarte, who died at a long-term medical facility while in ICE custody.
Rest in peace Santos Banegas Reyes, who died at the Nassau county correctional center in New York.
Rest in peace Ismael Ayala-Uribe, who died after falling ill at the Adelanto detention center in California.
Rest in peace Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, who was killed when a gunman opened fire at the ICE field office where he was being held.
Rest in peace Miguel Ángel García Medina, who was killed outside an ICE field office in Dallas.
Rest in peace Huabing Xie, who died at El Centro regional medical center in Calexico, California.
Rest in peace Leo Cruz-Silva, a 34-year-old man from Mexico, who died while detained by ICE at the Ste Genevieve county jail in Missouri.
Rest in peace Hasan Ali Moh’D Saleh, who died after being detained at the Krome detention center in south-west Miami-Dade county.
Rest in peace Josué Castro Rivera, a 25-year-old man from Honduras, was killed while trying to flee ICE agents in Virginia.
Rest in peace Gabriel Garcia Aviles, a 54-year-old from Mexico who had been living in the US for 30 years, died about a week after being detained by immigration agents.
Rest in peace Kai Yin Wong, who died at a hospital in San Antonio, Texas.
Rest in peace Francisco Gaspar-Andrés, who died at an El Paso hospital due to suspected kidney and liver failure, according to ICE
Rest in peace Pete Sumalo Montejo, who died at the Valley Baptist medical center in Harlingen.
Rest in peace Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani, who died at a hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.
Rest in peace Jean Wilson Brutus, who died at the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, one day after he was taken into custody.
Rest in peace Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, who died of “medical distress”, according to the agency.
Rest in peace Delvin Francisco Rodriguez, who died after months of detention at the Adams county correctional center in New Orleans.
Rest in peace Nenko Stanev Gantchev, who was born in Bulgaria and died at the North Lake processing center in Baldwin, Michigan.
Rest in peace Renee Good, who was shot and murdered, whos murderer (Jonathan Ross) called her a "fucking bitch" after he killed her.
Rest in peace for Alex Pretti, a man ICE murdered AFTER taking his firearm (which he was legally allowed to carry) when he was calm and not resisting.
read all of this. read every single name. let it sink in how many people ICE has murdered.
The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people
here's the link i used to find these names. it has more information, and everyone should read it.
As some of you may have seen on the news, our city has been occupied by federal ICE agents for many weeks now; estimates hover around 3,000+ ICE agents. Agents have been waging a 24/7 campaign of terror against Minnesota communities, with a major emphasis on Minneapolis. They have committed mass abductions of our BIPOC and immigrant neighbors; they have subjected women and trans community members to gender-based violence; they have murdered two Minneapolis residents. They have detained children as young as 2 years old. Toddlers. They used a 5-year-old child as bait to lure his family from his home to be detained.
Whatever you think it's like in Minnesota right now from wherever you live, it's worse. It's far worse than you're imagining.
On January 7, ICE agents murdered Renee Nicole Good, 37, a queer woman, poet, mother, and wife. They shot her 4 times as she tried to drive away from them. They refused offers from observers to provide her medical care. As she lay dying, a male ICE agent called her a f-cking b-tch.
Today, on January 24, they murdered Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse. Several agents - at least 7 - beat Alex repeatedly in the head, tear gassed him, restrained him, and repeatedly shot him at point blank range. Before they murdered him, Alex had stepped in to help a woman whom the agents pushed to the ground.
If you do not live in Minnesota, Stand with Minnesota is a very helpful website filled with places to donate, mutual aid information, scripts for contacting your elected officials, calls to action, and more.
Please help us. https://www.standwithminnesota.com/
Please do not read this and turn away. Please share this with anyone and everyone you know.
And if you support ICE, unfollow me. You are not welcome on my page, ever.
(this list is mainly ways non-locals can donate but by extension offers a lot of resources and places to volunteer in the Twin Cities + there are specific ways to donate time under the cut which can be adjusted to your local neighborhood)
full credit to cataloo from r/minnesota [x]
🩵Immigrant support
Immigrant Defense Network – coalition of 90+ groups organizing rapid response and collecting evidence.
Immigrant Law Center of MN – free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees.
COPAL – advocacy, organizing, phone hotline. Focus on Latine community.
Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) – education and protest organizing.
Interfaith Coalition on Immigration – advocacy, aid, events.
Monarca MN – training and phone hotline.
Unidos MN – education, protests, advocacy.
Center for Victims of Torture – advocacy and mental health services for immigrants and refugees.
International Institute of Minnesota – refugee resettlement group that provides support and legal help to vulnerable new-to-country families.
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota – offers services to refugees, including legal aid to non-citizens.
🩵Food support
If local, food donations are welcome, otherwise monetary donations help these types of orgs source what is most needed
VEAP
Second Harvest Heartland
Every Meal
The Food Group
Meals on Wheels MN
Find a local food shelf
🩵Mutual aid funds & community support
Community Aid Network
Twin Cities Trans Mutual Aid
Leo's Tow (Venmo @leostowingmn) is towing cars back to families if a car is stranded when someone is detained.
🩵More links
MN50501 Mutual Aid Linktree – well-organized list of various Twin Cities groups.
Mplsmutualaid Linktree – many neighborhood and individual GoFundMes listed here.
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.
Stand with Minnesota – extensive list of organizations, mutual aid, and crowdfunding campaigns.
🩵Donate blood
Memorial Blood Center declared a blood emergency on Tuesday, Jan 13. MBC is the blood supplier for both tier 1 trauma hospitals in the metro area (Hennepin County Medical Center and North Memorial Health).
American Red Cross
🩵Donate food or other goods
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.
Volunteer your time (under the cut)
🩵Mutual aid
Reach out to your neighbors – especially if you know they are staying home right now – and ask if they need groceries or toiletry items. Offer to pick up prescriptions, give rides, or shovel their driveway. If you know them well, bring them a treat that you know they'll enjoy. Or just ask them how they're doing and let them know you are there to support.
Connect with any of the orgs above and see if they are looking for volunteers.
Connect with a church or mosque in your area. From u/MuddieMaeSuggins: "I know a lot of regular Redditors are not religious (myself included) but like it or not this is a where a lot of community organizing happens, especially in immigrant communities."
Connect with your local school's admin office and/or their PTA. It's ok to reach out even if you don't have kids at the school. PTAs are organizing mutual aid for school families, safe rides, school observers.
🩵Activism
Find an official protest or other event via Indivisible, 50501, FREE AMERICA, or MIRAC. Students at many high schools are staging walk-outs; if your local school is doing this, reach out to school leadership or the PTA and ask how you can support as a community member.
Join the effort to stop Hilton from housing ICE by booking hotel rooms and then cancelling at the last minute. This action can be done from home! The effort is being organized by Sunrise Movement, who are telling activists to target specific hotels one-by-one. More info: SHUT DOWN HILTON
Find people in your area who are actively monitoring ICE and/or stationing themselves in high-traffic areas and ask how you can help. Check for local FB events where people are organizing and just show up.
At minimum, read the COPAL Handbook before you go out to observe. The DFL, Monarca, and other orgs have been hosting online trainings for constitutional observers (though these fill up quickly).
When you see ICE in action, start recording. Be as loud and as disruptive as possible: honk your horn, set off your car alarm, blow your whistle. Let people know that ICE is in the area. If you see someone being detained, try to get their name and a phone number to call their emergency contact.
If you do not feel comfortable observing ICE in person, there are ways you can support from home. Just ask the people who are organizing in your area. I have social anxiety, and I had never participated in any kind of political action before this past Saturday. If I can do it, you can!
Local organizers are requesting that people who help monitor ICE DO NOT participate in 1-to-1 mutual aid efforts, as these can put the families you are helping at risk.
If you have friends/acquaintances who are sympathetic but not politically active, reach out to them. Show them that they're not alone in feeling helpless. Pick a few low-commitment actions from this list and do them together.
"Maybe I'll kill that reporter who does all your interviews. Maybe I'll kill Clark Kent."
This is the most important line in the movie. I'm 100% serious. It tells you everything you need to know about Lex Luthor's character. It shows the audience that, despite being almost omnicognizant from the get-go, Luthor clearly has no fucking idea who Superman is, only what he does.
I've never seen anyone go from All-Knowing Evil to Absolute Fucking Loser so fast. In fifteen words he went from unstoppable criminal powerhouse to flailing manchild moron. He gave his Evil Dictator demonstration and then turned around, dropped his pants and showed his entire ass. He proclaimed his manifesto of unrelenting ego, turned around, slipped on a banana peel and landed on a whoopie cushion.
And he was so mired in his own sense of superiority that he never even knew it.
Melshi (who has been on base a whole five minutes, looking at the frankenstein mess happening across the hanger): who would be stupid enough to reanimate a KX droid?!?!
Melshi:...
Melshi: holy fucking shit its my boy Keef From Prison
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