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Mari | 22 | She/They |

[hayaomiyazaki]

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris 1970 – directed by Terence Dixon

[santapau]

New Secret Knots comic, "The River". I hope you like it!

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This new layout 🤢🤢🤢

[havingapoemwithyou]

Want by Joan Larkin

[orcboxer]

Fun facts about immigration in the US you might want to share with friends and relatives for no particular reason

The United States actually had open borders until 1924

The Immigration Act of 1924 had an overall negative impact on the economy and foreign relations with Asia, but Hitler praised it.

ICE didn't exist until 2003

Illegal immigration is not actually classified as a crime. If it was, cases would be handled by the judicial branch, and defendants would receive the benefits of due process. But because it isn't, it is handled by the executive branch, and defendants do not get due process. That means no lawyers, no jury, and no real judge.

Immigration "court" processes about 30 people at a time, including children, and the "judges," who are not required to have any experience or education in law, face no consequences for wrongful deportation, they are only evaluated based on how many people they process.

Before 2025 there were an estimated 20,000 wrongful deportations, with many confirmed and several reported on in mainstream media. That number skyrocketed in 2025.

There were more deaths in ICE concentration camps in 2025 than any year prior. If nothing is done about it, that number will increase in 2026.

[orcboxer]

Sources

The US had open borders before 1924. (which is not to say everyone was permitted, they excluded people based on race and disability, but 1924 is when the US was first considered to have closed borders)

Negative economic impact from the 1924 Immigration Act (fewer patents) (economic harm to US-born workers)

Department of Homeland Security, formed in 2002, created ICE in 2003

Hitler praised it, because it was openly just eugenics.

Wrongful deportations (sources within sources)

2025 deaths in ICE custody

[rpfwb]

draymond is a terrible person but he’s especially horrible towards kat and that nyk essentially cosigns his harassment is soooooo

[rpfwb]

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[sinnerism]

FUCK i love lewis so much

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Do you recognize this TV theme song? #277

I know this and can name the series

I know this but can't name the series

I might know this

I've never heard this

Voting ended onJan 14

[afloweroutofstone]

The US government's military operation in the Caribbean is supposedly intended to target "narco-terrorists." In my latest article, I explore the history of the term to argue that "narco-terrorism" is mostly a myth— a "political slogan" which does not accurately describe the world. By focusing our attention on foreign suppliers, this myth distracts us from more important factors, including the US government's own history of supporting drug trafficking.

Unpacking the Dangerous Myth of 'Narco-Terrorism' | Common Dreams

Framing “Operation Southern Spear” as a battle against “narco-terrorists” is a desperate attempt to commit new violence using old excuses, o

To say that “narco-terrorism” is a myth is not to deny the obvious violence associated with the black market drug trade, but to acknowledge that the term does more to confuse than to clarify. The idea does not accurately explain the complex dynamics of the global drug trade; instead, it radically oversimplifies the problem. By portraying military intervention as a response to drug trafficking, the “narco-terrorism” myth allows politicians to ignore all of the ways in which military intervention is a cause of drug trafficking... Perhaps the greatest flaw of “narco-terrorism” is that it encourages us to believe that complex human problems have simple military solutions. Sociologist C. Wright Mills once astutely criticized US elites for accepting a “military definition of reality,” a distorted perspective which prevents them from imagining policy solutions that do not involve military intervention. So long as the government insists upon seeing non-military problems through a military lens, they will never be solved.

[afloweroutofstone]

It is important to remember that the US government’s case against Maduro is almost entirely fictional

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Re-Run Friday #13: Do you recognize this TV theme song?

I know this and can name the series

I know this but can't name the series

I might know this

I've never heard this

Voting ended onDec 26, 2025

[manlethotline]

I absolutely want people to continue masking and being generally Covid conscious, but can mask advocates stop implying that when people get Covid it's automatically because they were irresponsible or stupid? I got Covid multiple times while masking consistently because I had coworkers who refuse to mask while sick, and I lived with Covid conscious roommates who had the same problem at their jobs. I know continuing to mask in 2025 is incredibly frustrating but blaming people for getting sick when we've literally been in a years long disinformation campaign about the dangers of Covid feels shortsighted.

[l8tof1]

the respectful thing to do would’ve been to FIRST announce you’re cutting ties with yuki instead of just celebrating all these new line-ups without a single word about him

but yeah, of course the redbull teams will always find a way to not even clear the lowest bar.

[l8tof1]

oh i guess they’re not technically cutting ties with him (which somehow makes it feel even worse lol)

[lethal-ler]

blow the whole team up

[comraderoscoes]

this race perfectly encapsulates why its so completely laughable that lando would ever think 2021 was easier than this because - like everyone else in this sport - he’s wilfully oblivious to everything lewis has had to come up against. he wasn’t just fighting against one driver, he was fighting against an entire institution that didn’t want him to succeed. and he still is

[teamroscoes]

Formula One ‘21: Abu Dhabi grand prix ✨🌸💜

[xxsupergeekxx]

Like what the hell is going on with this absolute farce of a sport????

[xxsupergeekxx]

Just had to lay down and zone out so I could cool off