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The frog of democracy is nearly boiled. We can still jump out of the pot

I will never forget and I will never forgive the people who did this to us.

Don’t let the current distraction (opsec signal chat at the time of this writing) make you forget the exile and imprisonment, without due process, of these people, some of whom were seeking asylum.

Not to mention Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident, who was kidnapped by ICE because he exercised his first amendment right to free speech in a way orange man didn’t like, also without due process. While his wife, a citizen, desperately tries to get him released in time to see their baby born.

Also, Badar Khan Suri

And now Rumeysa Ozturk

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As of this post, news outlets are reporting that Ozturk was transferred out of state before the judge issued their order.

If they weren't before, ICE has certainly now become the secret police we demonized in other countries and held as an example of the last step in their descent into authoritarianism.

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The frog of democracy is nearly boiled. We can still jump out of the pot

I will never forget and I will never forgive the people who did this to us.

Don’t let the current distraction (opsec signal chat at the time of this writing) make you forget the exile and imprisonment, without due process, of these people, some of whom were seeking asylum.

Not to mention Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident, who was kidnapped by ICE because he exercised his first amendment right to free speech in a way orange man didn’t like, also without due process. While his wife, a citizen, desperately tries to get him released in time to see their baby born.

Also, Badar Khan Suri

And now Rumeysa Ozturk

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A post shared by Matt Reed (@mattreednews)

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The frog of democracy is nearly boiled. We can still jump out of the pot

I will never forget and I will never forgive the people who did this to us.

Don’t let the current distraction (opsec signal chat at the time of this writing) make you forget the exile and imprisonment, without due process, of these people, some of whom were seeking asylum.

Not to mention Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident, who was kidnapped by ICE because he exercised his first amendment right to free speech in a way orange man didn’t like, also without due process. While his wife, a citizen, desperately tries to get him released in time to see their baby born.

Also, Badar Khan Suri

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The frog of democracy is nearly boiled. We can still jump out of the pot

I will never forget and I will never forgive the people who did this to us.

Don't let the current distraction (opsec signal chat at the time of this writing) make you forget the exile and imprisonment, without due process, of these people, some of whom were seeking asylum.

Not to mention Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident, who was kidnapped by ICE because he exercised his first amendment right to free speech in a way orange man didn't like, also without due process. While his wife, a citizen, desperately tries to get him released in time to see their baby born.

If a girl feels uncomfortable hanging out with you alone, and you get so offended by that, it makes you angry, she probably made the right choice.

I know I’ve reblogged this recently but still so spot the fuck on.

In general if a dude gets angry by you declining an invitation you made the right choice to say no

If they get angry when you say “no” to hanging out with them, what else are they going to get angry about you saying “no” to?

^^ Slight side note: When I was online dating I used to do what so many of us do; set up a safety check with a friend. I used to be really slick about it; take a restroom break or quietly/subtle check and answer a text. Then I realized what a good marker it was to check if I wanted to actually be on this date at all. So at whatever time check in was supposed to be, I would pull out my phone and say “sorry, I just have to let my friend know I’m good”. If someone was vaguely offended, I might stay depending on the convo we had after. If someone was SUPER offended, I said “this is exactly why. Thanks for meeting me, I’ve got to go.”  This happened three times I can remember and the first time my voice was shaking so bad as I said it because, you know. You never know what their response is going to be and he was so aggressively angry I was ending the date “over that”. 

The person I ended up with? “Ah, yay-I’m-not-murdered check. Good plan.” Then when my phone was buzzing later (because we ended up on a five hour date on a Monday night) he goes “you should probably let them know you’re still alive. Do you have to go?” 

 *No woman I was ever on a date with was mad about this. Not one. 

This is just like testing the breaks before driving an unfamiliar car guys, and you do NOT drive a car with no breaks. If they can’t handle “no,” it’s not safe for you to say, “yes,” and you need to gtfo of there so you don’t get run over.

Also, OP I love your url, it is perfect for this post.

There are so many Republican lies about immigration with most coming from Musk and Trump himself. Trump says undocumented migrants are being housed in NYC luxury hotels. Musk says NYC is paying double the going rate to house them there. Both are lies.

Federal funds were legally dispersed by Congress for emergency migrant housing, under a strict set of guidelines. The hotel is a closed dilapidated building that is undergoing refurbishment. NYC is spending twelve dollars and fifty cents per person to house these people in the dead of winter so they won’t be on the streets straining already taxed social services. $12.50 to keep someone alive in a frigid New York winter.

Trump/Musk/DOGE illegally used a government computer system to pull back the money already deposited in a city bank account. Not only was it illegal but they didn’t inform anyone in NYC they were doing it. City auditors and accountants went to work the next morning to find $80 million mysteriously missing and to also find the city liable for tens of thousands in overdraft fees. Once they traced it back to the federal government they contacted their bank who politely waived the overdraft fees when Trump’s illegal action was explained.

Once Congress authorizes money for something it is against the law to use it for other purposes or to withhold it from its intended purpose. NYC will have to join everyone else in federal court to get it back.

The richest man in the world and his orange billionaire puppet won’t spend $12.50 to keep a human being from freezing to death.

I’m so sick of these heartless Republican monsters.

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Nirvana, The Man Who Sold The World, 1993

"A Scottish field once home to mono-crop barley has become a pollinator’s paradise after intervention from a local trust saw bumblebee numbers increase 100-fold.

Entitled Rewilding Denmarkfield, and run by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, the project has also seen a sharp increase in the number of species passing through the rolling meadows after they were reclaimed by dozens of wildflower species.

The area north of Perth is about 90 acres in size, and surveys of bumblebees before the project began rarely recorded more than 50. But by 2023, just two years of letting “nature take the lead” that number has topped 4,000, with the number of different bee species doubling.

“This superb variety of plants attracts thousands of pollinators. Many of these plants, such as spear thistle and smooth hawk’s beard, are sometimes branded as ‘weeds’. But they are all native species that are benefiting native wildlife in different ways,” Ecologist Ellie Corsie, who has been managing the project since it began in 2021, said.

“Due to intensive arable farming, with decades of plowing, herbicide, and pesticide use, biodiversity was incredibly low when we started. Wildlife had largely been sanitized from the fields. Rewilding the site has had a remarkable benefit.”

Similar increases have been recorded in the populations of butterflies, with a tripling in the number of these insects seen on average during a ramble through the field.

The numbers of both insects are now so high that Rewilding Denmarkfield offers bee and butterfly safaris to visitors.

Local residents told the Scotsman that on spring and summer days, the field is awash with color, and hums with the sounds of bees and birds. Even as multiple housing developments expand around the Denmarkfield area, the field is a haven for wildlife."

-via Good News Network, December 2, 2024

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same. 100%.

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— J Ann Selzer Busts Emerson and others for manipulating their polls on tv!

And I didn't know what's worse, that he uses the language of Hitler or that, as he says, he came up with that language on his own, never reading Hitler.

Ok, who else sung this when they saw it?