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But I was informed that immigrants are the problem

Protest happening at the Leon County jail where Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, who was born in the U.S. , is being held after his arrest for illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien.”

Expect more of this

Was doing some research on potential niches for my content writing biz...I had been focusing on climate tech but that's probably a bad bet now. Depressing.

Told this story before but decades ago I was cleaning out my car on the street and I heard a car stop right behind me. I turn around and it's a cop. He took one look at me & said, "Oh! I thought you were stealing that car!" and sped off. If I weren't white, that would have gone very differently.

We shouldn't human traffic guilty people to foreign death camps, either, actually.

What it's like for me posting BlueSky right now: HOLY SHIT OUR DEMOCRACY IS TOAST also: what are ramekins for anyway? and here's my cat.

This is a U.S. senator with power and privilege (and who has also helped bring about this situation). Meanwhile trans people, people of color, working people with few resources or protections are out here raising their voices and showing their faces. It's OK to be scared, but she NEEDS TO SPEAK UP.

This seems extremely serious "Memorandum entitled "Guidance Regarding Use of Capital Punishment in Drug-Related Prosecutions" is hereby reinstated [...] applied to [...] aliens who traverse our borders and remain in the United States without legal status." www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...

I've had conversations in the last week with Democrats who love Newsom and Rahm 🤮

I just saw a TikTok yesterday of a Puerto Rican veteran stopped in her car for an “investigation.” Can’t find it, will try to post it later.

🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

Lawmakers, protesters, and other reporters better show up to this courthouse and wherever he’s being held NOW.

Please share! A U.S. born citizen has been arrested in Florida and placed in an ICE hold!! They want to transfer him to immigration detention DESPITE acknowledgment he is a citizen. This is happening in Leon County and we were at his hearing earlier this morning.

saw a TikTok in which a woman said she gives the intrusive thoughts in her head Trump’s voice so they’re a lot easier to ignore. I’ve been trying to do that with my neg self-talk (“you’re never going to find work again” “you’re a failure”) and it’s pretty effective! Partly because it’s so annoying.

When the weather gets warmer I like to meditate on my back deck in the morning, but I’ve had to adjust for my morning snuggle time with Ruckus.

My cousin invited me over for Easter and told me there would be an in-law there who is a Trumper, or at least he used to be. I warned her that if stuff came up I wasn't going to be able to remain calm, and that I could not come if she didn't want me to. She said I should come. So stay tuned I guess.

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

If he were a top member of that gang they would've been crowing about it from the beginning. They know the jig is up.

Maybe Bondi is even higher up in MS-13. She might lead the whole thing. There's just as much evidence

This story is fucking nuts. A vision of an AI-powered police state. It makes Black Mirror look like a rough draft.

So Garcia was rendition to El Salvador against court orders because he was a criminal, but there are no crimes they can credibly accuse him of so they can't extradite him back to face charges for the crimes he allegedly committed. That's one hell of an evil catch 22.

They got Andrew Tate out of jail in Romania. They can get this guy. They choose not to.

"Diversity is discrimination" is literally Orwellian language, like "war is peace, hate is love, slavery is freedom." You can find it at civilrights.justice.gov

I don’t follow sportsball or wear baseball caps usually but this makes me want to buy one.