OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Doesn't, does it? And yet men hate women beyond all reason and will fall into lockstep in defense of men's rights to subjugate and exploit women
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view profile on Bluesky OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Doesn't, does it? And yet men hate women beyond all reason and will fall into lockstep in defense of men's rights to subjugate and exploit women
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social)
Get out there and surround them
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 (@blackamazon.bsky.social) reposted
I would also add that Gawker while constantly mourned as a victim, was publishing that Black journalists who commented on this were just “touchy” for years Also this phenomenon is why Sinners resonates with us all
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Being told those things exist is all it takes
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Assuming the Atlantic is hiring.
Peter (@notalawyer.bsky.social) reposted
another thing McBride points out is that historically successful civil rights movements were willing to compromise. which is very true! but we’re not being offered a trade, we’re just being told to cede ground.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
AOC: Being taken is wrong, it is illegal, it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, it is an affront to every American, and we will not allow—and will continue to resist—the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
- no, the objective is to void the legitimacy of the state's monopoly on force, at least temporarily, in the collective consciousness.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
What people engaging would need to start with is body armor, including plate carriers - helmets, etc. The overall threat model is basically the mob vs Akku Yadav, but in the US, we should expect folks engaging to be armed. That's half the idea. It's not about actually doing violence to anyone -
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
I spent the last almost ten years building drones that stop bullets. In the words of Napolean, God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
This is horrifying
KSlatteryResist (@kslatteryresist.bsky.social) reposted
Reminder: Afghan interpreters helped US troops, some were executed. For their invaluable services, they were given Special Immigrant Visas and invited to live in the USA. Now Trump’s DHS is threatening to deport them. Does the USA keep our promises anymore? amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/07/...
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
If yall wanted to threaten them, yall would be carrying a flip flop in one hand instead of a phone, lol.
Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! (@malena.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
100% Immigrants need to know that we are #OnYourSide
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Folks Yall could, without injuring anyone, pick those vehicles up and turn them upside down. Gently. But, so they rest on their hoods. There's more than enough of yall
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
People listened, hooray! And it worked- ofc lol
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social)
And when they came in their own unmarked vehicles with no plates, wearing masks and body armor and carrying long arms with patches and insignia that also said ICE, and started rounding up other ICE and stuffing them in unmarked vehicles, I said SO LONG, SUCKERS 😂
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Lets skip that and just legitimatize ourselves The state's monopoly on force only exists as long as we grant it And we can take it back whenever we want
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
We can authorize our way in there with a bulldozer Just saying
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
No. It'll be fucking brilliant. WE, THE PEOPLE. Lets give ourselves badges and name tags. We have the authority to do that
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Impersonation of fake law enforcement
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Ive been saying this for weeks Turnabout is fair play Let's get em
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
For a while and yeah The crux is to exercise your rights with other like-minded rights-doers.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
We dont even have to do that tbh - they'll do it for us lol
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social)
youtu.be/LUYbu5DJA1U?...
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
I TOLD YALL IT WOULD WORK
derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) reposted
just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Fucking finally I told yall it would work
Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt.bsky.social) reposted
Your smile of the day.
Lisa Reyna Loe (@lisaloe.bsky.social) reposted
This is 18yo Lavora Vincent and she speaks for me! ✊🏽 “This Capitol building? People are supposed to come here and represent us AND THEY WON’T!” Listen to the entire clip. 👇🏽 Goose pimples!
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Looks like a whole lotta We, The People
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
STORY TIME: ICE rolled up. The city of Bell, California said, “Not today!”
NPR (@npr.org) reposted
Francisco Urizar, 64, was detained by ICE while on his work route delivering tortillas. His daughter Nancy is trying to find out what happened to him.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social)
73 years of Black excellence
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
I am glad that today the governor signed a new law repealing New York's ban on providing food and water to people waiting in line to vote. However, it should be clearly noted that this was the result of successful litigation brought by the Brooklyn NAACP -- which the state fought and lost in court.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Adorbs yall enjoy
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
The week before Trump was inflicted on us a second time, ICE broke up a big trafficking ring and rescued a bunch of children. That's their *actual* job. Not... this.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Because Trumps favorite strategy for dodging accountability is nonstop catastrophic fuckups flying at us faster than we can catch them
Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) reposted
Why did folks stop talking about grocery prices? I just left the store and OMFG…
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
That ambiguity is why you're within your rights to just shoot them
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
There's no way of knowing which is why if you encounter them probably strongly consider just opening fire
Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
New footage just dropped of ICE agents in Bell running through an intersection and driving erratically — in private vehicles (with no lights or sirens), causing a traffic accident after which they jumped out of their pickup truck with machine guns drawn. This is what set everything off in Bell.
Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social) reposted
Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident. He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Not difficult.
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OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Only downsides are how much a long game that is, and the fact that biologically, pregnancy only *requires* male buy-in. The female can be in a coma for all the difference it makes :(
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
We could absolutely do this. A few nerds and some folks with marketing chops
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
A general strike is our best bet before we get ugly.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social)
Watching NTs strike the fuck out yet again. I'd ask if the researcher ever considered just asking us but I can guess the answer to that (even though this study concludes I'm not supposed to be able to do that.) NT arrogance and entitlement ffs. www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/peo... #disability
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social)
been saying it for years, Texas is only Republican because Republican gerrymandering forces it to be
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social)
Truism
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Those weak corrupt careerists have been in office in many cases since before I was born. The party was already taken over as soon as the baby boomers came into power They've had it in a stranglehold ever since
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
What actually happened - open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
MS Kohut (@mskohut.bsky.social) reposted
In 150 days we have had 5 Democratic lawmakers arrested by ICE. WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING??? God this is MADDENING. We have NO ONE in office ready to lead mass movements to overthrow tyranny. FUCK THEM ALL.
Megan (she/her) (@americanmegalo.bsky.social) reposted
With everything LA has gone through in the last few months (and couple of years), let's celebrate the hatching of: TEN CALIFORNIA CONDORS!!!!!!!!! Congrats to the team at the Los Angeles Zoo!!!
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Perpetuating the myth that Dems are helpless and flat-footed in the face of right-wing violence is demoralizing for people in places where it takes a lot more effort and more time to get armed. Being reminded there's a very large contingent already armed is comforting to a lot of those folks.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Other than your unnecessarily shitty reply?
Dave R, photographer (@daverphotog.bsky.social) reposted
This drum circle is a sacred honor in memory of slain MN State Legislator Melissa Hortman, at the candlelight vigil
Chasten Glezman Buttigieg (@chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social) reposted
They've got enough money to throw us into another war, but not enough money to fund the suicide prevention hotline. Very "pro-life." Very "pro-family." So "GREAT."
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. With the understanding that the drones are expected to be destroyed in the process. The objective is to slow a shooter down long enough to be stopped.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Thats a really in depth question. Linked the white papers. They are armored. They get in the way of the first gun in the first hand they identify. They are indiscriminate. Incapable of discerning friend from foe. So any hand, any gun. They work in groups. Also great for stopping mass shootings
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/860...
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
I never believe LEOs. Nobody starts it with law enforcement.
Tim Price (@timprice.bsky.social) reposted
The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.
Seriously? (@trump-tracker.bsky.social) reposted
None of this would be happening if Kamala were president.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Police shot so many people I founded a startup building drones that stop bullets in 2015 because engineering has a better chance at succeeding than expecting anybody to act right
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Chopping wood, carrying water
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
...okay, you don't just occupy the moral high ground, you were born on it. Just fyi, in Texas, Democrats equal or outnumber Republicans. A combination of intense apathy and severe gerrymandering make this irrelevant. But Texas Democrats are still Texan
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
It is in Texas
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
They are law enforcement, technically, although these specific stooges appear to be more vigilantes
Rep. Judy Chu (@chu.house.gov) reposted
As you can see, these ICE agents are pointing guns at innocent individuals, no warrants, no explanations, just fear & intimidation. These raids in my district are absolutely vile. This is not law enforcement it’s a gross abuse of power. Video Credit: ausiime, footage from this morning in Pasadena.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Duckworth to Hegseth: "You are blowing through money like my fellow cadets and I did in our first liberty after basic camp. Luckily I didn't end up with a questionable tattoo ... you're just an unqualified yes man who can't tell the president how to keep Americans safe."
Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) reposted
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, they just said that. Thats pretty much their mo. Conservative bullshit is very easy to boil down with catchy sloganeering
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, we all know that men are acutely aware of the hypocrisy baked into that shit - the hypocrisy is half the point
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
😮 Holy crapoly
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
To be fair, we should have considered that before we decided to be born female.
Shannon Carey (@scmaestra.bsky.social) reposted
Setting aside the abhorent humanitarian crimes for a moment -- has Iraq been so memory holed that people in power seriously forget what a freaking disaster it was for *the US*?? Does no asshat pol remember the farce of "Mission Accomplished" and then the endless stream of US casualties and amputees?
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
In short Its not
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Not a lawyer, however. You can always demand certain things from anyone who expects to interfere with your liberty, especially your liberty of movement, starting with proving they have the authority to do so. You only have to comply with those who have the authority, and this must apply to you
Political polls (@politicalpolls.bsky.social) reposted
🚨 BREAKING: Early reports say NYC Comptroller and mayor candidate Brad Lander has been arrested by ICE.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
What are you working on?
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
FUCKING. FINALLY.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course they did. Consider the source
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
It looks exactly like a generic trafficking operation, doesn't it
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
If you dont want a gun, get a dog. I have firearms but I understand people who don't. A gun can be turned on you. A dog can't.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Kill them. There's more of us than there are of them and we're just as heavily armed.
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
Seriously tho, literally, being an actual peace officer require a license. That license requires passing a certain test and that test requires a degree
OpenSorceress (@opensorceress.bsky.social) reply parent
They started it. Don't start none, won't be none.
Christian Petersen (@iwantyoustudio.bsky.social) reposted reply parent