Reminder they want to increase the budget for ICE from 3.5 to 45 billion dollars.
Reminder the majority of that will be for building new detention centers.
Reminder ICE are *currently* detaining tourists who can pay for a plane ticket home and people with visa issues that were already resolved, because they have to make quota so Trump can brag about the numbers going up.
Reminder most of these people were already in the immigration system - that’s why they were easy to detain.
Are black footed forest cats ever mistaken for strays and brought inside? Like that one post where someone accidentally tried to find a coyote's owners? In every picture I've ever seen they just look like....cats...are they particularly vicious or just not live where there are cat owning people or?
(not advocating for them to be pets of course just curious is anyone ever makes that mistake)
this thing hates you and everything your filthy human kin stand for.
unlike habituated coyotes, black footed cats are shy and avoid humans by nature and habit! you won’t find them near human settlements, and if they hear YOU coming they’ll take off long before you get into visual range of them.
they’re notoriously hard to do a species census for for this reason! they want you to keep your big smelly ape hands to YOURSELF.
I think the best most human thing in the world is strangers doing a silly thing together
Examples:
- guy at work “Yes, and -” ing the bit me and my coworker were doing where we pretended to be owners of a fantasy medieval tavern not minimum wage retail staff
- at the gay club when Die Young by Kesha came on and two hundred people, all dancing and drinking separately, jumped up and down to make the “- beat of the drums *STOMP STOMP*” as loud as possible
- person who watched me stomp round the beach singing a made up song about breakfast foods to name a cat after and suggested more breakfast foods that would be good cat names
- guy who started a dance off with everyone across the road while waiting for the lights to change
- very tiny girl at the pharmacy interviewing everyone in the queue and every single one of us in turn sat down and answered this toddler’s questions like we were on Letterman
The three pillars of humanity, in no particular order, are Joy, Absurdity, and Sharing
conservatives are like “if we let immigrants have rights then whos gonna do the free labor” liberals are like “if we don’t let immigrants have rights then whos gonna do the free labor”
for no reason whatsoever here’s a reminder that if you consider yourself a leftist/punk/abolitionist/anarchist/radical in any sort of way and get called into jury duty, you are to become the most square person on earth during the jury questionnaire!!!
don’t be that guy who says fuck the police in the jury questionnaire! that just gets you sent home! if you want to generate change, interact with the case and use your jury vote for good! ESPECIALLY if it’s a high profile case!
Remember, when you’re on the jury, a good “that cop’s story didn’t add up” will sway a lot more Chads and Karens than “fuck the police.”
