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If you're in Maine or Philly or wherever the fuck Vance claimed DHS is going next, I BEG you to look at the rapid response and mutual aid networks and how they've been built in Portland, Chicago, and the Twin Cities, and start building your own version NOW.

Download signal if you haven't already. Pick a resistance pseudonym. Make a proton email that has no indicators to your real name. Start buying and printing whistles and whistle zines.

Organize your school patrols and foot patrols NOW. Talk to your community and your mercados and your Hmong and Somali grocery stores, ask them what support they need. Get "ICE are not welcome here" signage for businesses and homes. Familiarize yourself with the difference between an administrative warrant and a judicial warrant.

Learn how to take down a SALUTE report. PRACTICE salute reports. Learn, memorize, and embody radio etiquette for rapid response work.

Pick your lane: rapid response or mutual aid-- you can't do both, because rapid response often puts you in direct contact with ICE. They've been taking down plate numbers and leading responders back to their own homes here in the Twin Cities.

Remember that being under siege is a marathon, not a race. Try to remember that while your neighbors are being kidnapped in their underwear, from their own homes.

Meet your neighbors. Attend your city council meetings and demand separation ordinances NOW. Tell your congress people and representatives not to give ICE more money.

Prepare yourself to see high school children being stopped and harassed. 5 year olds being used as bait for their mothers. Old men being dragged out of their houses in underwear and Crocs simply because all of them are not white.

Be flexible, be ready to pivot on a dime as situations change. Be ready to be paranoid. Be ready to be distrusting of every Texas, New York, California, or Illinois license plate. Be ready to be suspicious of EVERY out of state license plate. Dark sedans and SUVs with extremely illegally tinted windows. Unreadable or missing plates.

No one will save you, save us, or save our neighbors but ourselves. No one is coming to help or protect us but us.

daysanddangerousbits

Signal for Beginners

MN Community Response Resources

ICE Are Not Welcome Here sign

Private Property Sign

Know Your Rights Sign

Judicial Warrant vs Administrative Warrant

SALUTE Report Graphic Rapid Response Patrol Handbook

Legal Observer Basics MSP Whistle Hub

Whistle 3D printing File

Talking to children about ICE actions

OG Whistle Zine in ENGLIGH || SPANISH

MSP whistles which also have zines in Somali, Amharic, Oromo and Mandrin

Hmong Whistle Zine

Karen Whistle Zine

kawaiiabetic

Hey, Angeleno here to add: look for or start mutual aid groups that buy out your vendors, jardineros, tradespeople, helping support the most vulnerable members of your community from making the choice to stay home and safe or provide for family. We’re still doing this here and it helps.

“ICE NOT WELCOME” signs are great for solidarity and breaking morale, but please make and help pass out signs stating a home or business is private property. Make sure your business has an area explicitly for employees only. What we’ve seen in the last week makes all this seem like sticking a post-it on a viper and none of us know where we’re headed now, but it’s easy to do and could make a difference. It’s made a difference here.

Stay safe and take care of each other 🫡

what-even-is-thiss

I just had an argument with someone who was like “why would we settle for food stamps when we could have universal basic income?”

And it’s just like. People need food right now you know.

what-even-is-thiss

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Hippie church moms donating quinoa chips to my local food bank have done more for me materially than any internet idealist ever has.

what-even-is-thiss

People get pissed at me for being a pragmatist in my political ideals but I’ve been in the position where I was out of food right now.

And who helped me with that? Not people calling for some nebulous revolution. Not people telling me that the system was useless. Not people preaching at me to grow my own food. It was a church food bank partially funded by the state of Texas that some southern hippies donated a bunch of Whole Foods nonsense to.

And you know what? I’m sick and tired of defeatism. What can we get done right now, huh? Are you gonna accept something a bit better to help people right now or are you waiting for your perfect utopia to come to you?

Yeah, UBI is better than the quinoa chips. Sure. But right now the quinoa chips are stopping people from going hungry and if all we can do is get the food bank quinoa chips to more people, then I say so be it. That’s something. I’ll almost always take baby steps over nothing.

callese

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

growing-yet-into-magic

Worldcat is my bestie and my one true love!! Not only does it tell you what library a book is at, but it also price compares different used book sites against each other for easy view! It's how I got Tarot For the Master for $10!!

growing-yet-into-magic

Oh, and since I have your attention: z-library (books and textbooks) and sci-hub (gatekept scientific journal articles.) I just ripped a textbook for class off z-library and snatched a required reading from sci-hub. Life is good and education should be accessible at every stage and station of life.

mckitterick

information wants to be free

no-one-offical

@thesightofthestarsmakemesmile

letterbox-sparrow

THERE’S A SEARCH ENGINE FOR THAT

And it’s called SearXNG. It’s a metasearch engine, so it takes information from whatever providers you select and presents it to you as Google might but without ads or tracking, and you can pick which sources it searches, so you could only search Wikipedia and scihub and worldcat and whatnot by default

#tech stuff

renthony

Hey.

Don't post online about what protests you plan to attend.

Be safe. Be smart. Don't fall for the weird pressure to liveblog political actions when we live in a surveillance state.

And for fuck's sake, stop posting unredacted pictures of people at protests. It's not a fucking party. It's a political action and you could get someone killed. I have a personal friend who was doxxed and harassed for MONTHS in 2020 after their photo at a protest got passed around by neonazis. Do not be a part of that happening to someone.

vivid-bun

A reminder to the "the American government wouldn't..." crowd. They have. They have made their own internment camps before. They have rounded up innocent citizens and immigrants before. The victims of which are still alive to this day and trying to share their stories with the world, they have been trying to warn us for a long time. George Takei (as seen above) is a famous example of this. He has written about his experiences time and time again, even publishing a book talking about his time in these camps. He may be famous now, but at the time he was just another kid forced from his home. To this day he still firmly dedicates himself to trying to educate and inform people, trying to spread awareness with his platform. The American Government can and will do terrible things. Do not let anyone convince you otherwise.

depsidase

anarchopuppy

#It is so fucking hard to find content about Keith Porter that's actually about him #instead of playing a game of 'who gets the most attention' between people who were murdered #Keith you deserve to be actually remembered for who you were not just used as a rhetorical tool to make a point

guerrillatech

afronerdism

Eugenics

bearicorn

I just felt these tags were too important not to add @blacksasuke

augustdementhe

The particular segment of medical racism that says ‘Black people are built tougher’ is a great example of why ‘positive’ stereotypes don’t exist.

messiambrandybuck

Adding your tags, prev, cause.. yeah.

prokopetz

"So does it count if" let's stop right there. All systems of classification are fake. We made them up. They are not capable of being correct or incorrect; they are only useful or not useful. The question you should be asking is not "does A technically fit into category B?", but rather, "does it have utility to draw our lines such that A fits into category B?"

ganondorf

they're still arguing about surrogacy on twitter

ganondorf

the reason surrogacy warrants particular scrutiny, aside the fact that its roots are literally chattel slavery lol, is that it is a contractual arrangement premised on the basically total surrender of bodily autonomy. it transforms a human body into a site of continuous, high risk labor with consequences that cannot be paused or meaningfully mitigated

can a surrogate safely "quit" in any real sense? can they safely get an abortion? can they quit after 4 months? can they quit after 9 months? do they get to clock out after 40 hours a week? do they get breaks? do they get a union?

in what world is it a leftist position to defend 24/7 labor

ganondorf

#SmokeBreaksForSurrogates

theweirdwideweb

I think we've lost the plot on ICE a little. The focus has become too much how their presence affects the local citizen population and not enough on the inherent inhumanity of the deportations in the first place.

ellewantsrevenge

this quote from walking shitbag tom homan reiterates this. he is saying "just calm down and we will be able to calm arrest people with minimal unrest. just let us kidnap your neighbors. just let us violate the constitution. just let us kill people who resist. just let us "lose" women and children to the system. just let us have total and complete power"

and this quote by piece of excrement who calls himself president further illustrates that there is no intention of scaling down plans, only demands to enforce citizens to comply to make it "easier"

their success depends on our complacency

we will not remain silent

wavesxy

Every time I see a picture of this 5-year-old little boy with his bunny hat and Spiderman backpack, I get so angry and my heart breaks. Incredible... simply incredibly inhuman. 😤🥺😡

theivorybilledwoodpecker

The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.

“Unfortunately, Liam’s health is not doing great right now,” said Stenvik. “He’s been ill. I’ve been told he has a fever. So I’m very, very concerned about his well-being in that facility.” His mother is also “incredibly distraught,” she said. Ramos’ mother addressed his deteriorating health earlier this week: “Liam is getting sick because the food they receive is not of good quality,” she told MPR News on Monday. “He has stomach pain, he’s vomiting, he has a fever and he no longer wants to eat.”

andhumanslovedstories

I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought “why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff,” so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It’s alright if you can’t because apparently I fuckin couldn’t either

andhumanslovedstories

Cutting something out of your life because you think you don’t need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like let’s say public health and the social safety net and vaccines

thomrainierskies

I had a liver transplant when I was 14 and like six months later I was chatting with my surgeon and he said “there’s gonna come a time, probably when you’re a teenager, where you’re gonna think, ‘I feel great, why am I still taking all this medication? I haven’t needed it in years.’ and you’re gonna want to stop taking all this medication. Guess what’s gonna happen then? You’re gonna go into rejection and your liver is gonna start failing, and you’re gonna be dying again, and we’re gonna have to find you another liver. So don’t do that.” And I said “why the fuck would anyone do that?” and he said “people are stupid.”

every once in a while when I get annoyed by a pharmacy or don’t wanna get out of bed to do my drugs I think “ugh, this is dumb, why do I do this?” and that conversation slams into me like a truck and I remember that I am, in fact, stupid

zenosanalytic

#you are not immune to the recency bias(via@arrows-for-pens)

morethanonebraincell

Every person on earth needs to read this post. It will make people’s lives a lot better and lessen the crises everyone faces in day-to-day lives.

ziggy-scardust

I reblog this every time I see it because I am not immune to the recency bias

et-in-arkadia

do you ever laugh nervously to keep yourself from screaming

stackslip

folks will reveal out of nowhere how poorly they think of people with cognitive disabilities

stackslip

do you believe that people with cognitive disabilities and/or brain damage have the right to medically transition? to have authority over their own bedtime and what they eat? to not be forcefully restrained or locked up? to have sex? or do you think that someone not be able to type without major errors or struggle to articulate their flow of thought for any reason or who will never be able to learn how to read at a level beyond primary school (if able to read or write at all) or who need things explained to them in very slow, patient and broken down terms, who will never be able to do labour or communicate are inherently living a less human life than you and will never be worthy of having as comrades or seeing as peers, just overgrown children to be carted off for everyone's peace of mind?

spedandwritingtips

This video is about Down Syndrome, but I think it still fits.

If we assume that people can't do things, in the end, they can't do those things, because they never get the opportunity to.

sapphic-stardust-pan

It’s about Down’s syndrome, but you still think it fits? I thought this whole conversation was inclusive of people with Down’s

spedandwritingtips

Hi!

The previous posts were about the autonomy and freedom of choice of people with cognitive impairment. I remembered this video as I read it and thought it was relevant since it talked about the autonomy and freedom of choice of people with Down Syndrome.

Since not everyone with cognitive impairment has Down Syndrome, I wanted to clarify that I "thought" it fits and not that it's entirely the same so as to not derail from the original posts. I also am not cognitively impaired myself, and didn't want to make it sound like I'm in any way an authority in the matter.

Sorry if I'm not being very clear! I tend to be very unsure of how to communicate, but I try my best.

sapphic-stardust-pan

Thanks for clarifying! I had just woken up and did a “so you hate waffles”. I see now you were just broadening the message of the PSA to apply to people with more types of cognitive impairment. Honestly this misinterpretation is on me, you are a good communicator. I have a sibling with downs and their autonomy, freedom of choice, and inclusion is something I’m passionate about. Thanks for caring!!!

derinthescarletpescatarian

The problem with getting all my media info from this site is that I don't know what anything with gay characters is actually about because any plot discussion I see is constantly drowned out by posts talking about how gay they are.

I bet The Black Flag has a fascinating story, but all I know is that they're pirates and gay.

I've seen hints that The Locked Tomb is intricate and fascinating, but all I really know is that they're space necromancers and gay.

I assume this new hockey show is like, a sports story? Or a romance? Maybe interesting plot happens? All I actually know is that they play hockey and are gay.

Yes I could look this stuff up if I was actually interested in consuming the media, I'm not saying this is some kind of major problem with media or anything. Just a random observation that I, someone who doesn't actively go looking for new media, have noticed that I get less fun hooks to motivate me to look for queer media, because the random stuff I see about something like Severance or The Good Place (both of which I did watch and loved) is about fascinating plots and mysteries and interesting philosophical conundrums, whereas all I see about anything with queer main characters is Look How Queer It Is. Which is great for the media landscape in general, it's wonderful that queer media is more and more mainstream, but an entirely neutral factor of any specific individual show and not much of a hook.

werothegreat

to be fair, all you really need to know about The Locked Tomb is that they're necromancers and they're gay

derinthescarletpescatarian

That doesn't sound right because people have told me that tlt is fantastic and "all you need to know is that they're necromancers and they're gay" is a description of the most bland, pointless tokenistic bullshit it's possible to write. So unless the tlt fans are lying about the quality (which I very much doubt), that can't possibly be all you need to know. If somebody advertised The Good Place as "all you need to know is that she's bi and she's dead!" or The Murderbot Diaries as "all you need to know is that it's genderless and a security consultant!" then I would track them down, break into their houses and punch them in the face for their disservices to good media.

derinthescarletpescatarian

#i remember trying to hunt for more stories like murderbot once#stumbled across a list that was like#heres a bunch of books with canon asexuals#turns out it only mentioned murderbot as one that “doesnt count” since mb never like explicitly uses the word#its as if perfectly defined queerness is meant to be its own measure of quality

That's the most exhausting thing I've ever heard.

fozmeadows

Genuinely, I understand why we've ended up in this place when it comes to describing/recommending queer media - for so long, there was so little of it that, when it came to word of mouth, the presence of queerness was itself the primary basis of recommendation. If the work also happened to be good, then so much the better, but the baseline, redacted-for-ease-of-transmission signal boost was simply This Is Gay. And when there wasn't much on offer, that worked! We were desperately trying, not just to see ourselves in stories, but to prove that there was a market for more - that queer audiences would show up for queer content, even if the genre was outside our usual bailiwick. But the more queer works are published, the less useful this rubric becomes - and to further complicate matters, the rise of trope-centered marketing for romance in general and queer romance in particular, which often borrows terminology common to tags on AO3, has trained readers and creatives alike to frame stories predominantly through the lens of character dynamics. Which, to be clear: there's nothing wrong with this in and of itself! If you want to either give or solicit recommendations based on, say, grumpy x sunshine but make it gay, I'm not about to harsh your vibe. And particularly when it comes to romance, where the character dynamics necessarily constitute the backbone of the story, it often makes sense to do so. But there's a very salient difference between romance as genre (where the romance is the story) and romance as device (where the story contains romance) which, particularly when it comes to queer books, is frequently erased by these conventions - which results, as OP rightly points out, in queer stories with other loadbearing themes, philosophies and plots being, if not technically misrepresented, then certainly undersold in terms of all that they're doing. The Locked Tomb series, for instance, is, indeed, about gay necromancers. It's also a purposefully anachronistic science fantasy mindfuck that plays explosively with humour, voice and genre from book to book while still remaining, in essence, a sequence of locked room mysteries. By which I mean: Gideon the Ninth is a locked room mystery where the room is God's laboratory and the mystery is what the fuck he was doing down there; Harrow the Ninth is a locked room mystery where the room is the narrator's body (and also, at times, the space station she's inhabiting) and the mystery is how she ended up that way; and Alecto the Ninth is a locked room mystery where the room is the personality that forms in the absence of memory and the mystery is God's secret past, with the necessary caveat that God here is not meant figuratively, but in fact refers to a literal, actual, walking, talking character who is also just Some Guy. It's about the intransigent nature of bodies, the fuckiness of personhood, the eternally compounding sin of pride, niche millennial humour and the gothic, philosophical splendour of toxic lesbianism (in space). It's got a lot going on! And, sure: it's shorter and simpler to sell it as just gay necromancers, to say nothing of the fact that this description will still hook a lot of people. It's not inaccurate; it just presumes that this is the most important thing anyone could want to know about the book, and that won't always be so! Look at it this way: if you're already shopping in the LGBTQ section of the bookstore and ask an employee for a recommendation, and they pick something off the shelf and tell you, "Buy this, it has two boys kissing!", that's vastly less helpful in context than if you'd walked into a store without an LGBTQ section and asked for a gay book rec. You see what I'm saying? It's a scarcity mindset that we've carried over into (comparative) abundance, and it's no longer serving us well. Gay is not a plot or a genre by itself; it's a component to be explored through the lens of plot and genre - which means that, in order to talk about one, it's also worth discussing the others.

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