“We have to do this to get all the bad guys!”
Uhhh, with no due process and a heap of profiling, almost 3/4ths of the people terrorized/separated/jailed have no convictions. Only 5% are violent. That seems like a highly inefficient way to use 14 billion dollars (in 2025)

Why Don’t They Come Here Legally? YouTube video by Will Westmoreland

“Why don’t they come here legally?”

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Follow Alexis Nicole/Black Forager, Elizabeth Booker Houston, Black Table Talk, Voces de La Frontera, MMIW, Will Westmoreland, Monte Mader, Knitting Cult Lady, CortenFixesEverything/Reasons for Revolution.

Call/write your congressional folks (I know, in many cases, it feeds like we’re writing to walls or clowns with earplugs).

Use empathy to discern is something right or wrong. Just because something is deemed legal right now does not mean it’s right. (I mean, think of those legally “just doing their job” in concentration camps and enforcing white supremacy without due process in the past century…)

How to help:
Inform yourself by consuming a variety of media, especially listening to POC.
Either organize or find groups to get involved with, highlighting your skillset.
If you witness someone’s oppression, speak and act against it.

What’s going on in the US isnothing new, and the words that many (especially white) people are talking about this is upsetting and infuriating to people of color and the indigenous peoples, for they have been struggling with this and telling us this forever.
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I’ll start with two books on cults, because I feel like culty thinking is what got us here in the first. Not everyone will commit to reading and learning, but if more of us did this and then shared that info with others when misinformation comes up, I would hope it would plant some helpful seeds.

I want to encourage thinking critically and understanding the roots of today’s problems stem from not knowing, acknowledging, and working through history and what we (should have) learned from it.

I am having it on bookclubs.com - and I’ll try to post here at times.
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Yeah, it is dismaying how many people and news outlets are still stuck on the messaging on the bullets, thinking he’s some kind of antifa leftist.

You are not safe. YouTube video by Adam Conover

We all should be concerned. One can be taken w/o trial or due process.

This video is not perfect. (That part about the US has never experienced this before - there are thousands of indigenous families missing women and children who would disagree.) But he has a point.

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It’s absolutely disgusting.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

"Screenshot of an article by Erica L. Green, titled 'Federal workers were given 10 days to report on attempts to ‘disguise’ D.E.I. programs.' The article discusses the Trump administration's directive to federal employees to report colleagues who defy orders to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, with warnings of 'adverse consequences' for non-compliance. Employees were given a 10-day deadline to report violations via email without facing disciplinary action."

This is effectively a snitch on women, people of color, and LGBTQ folks policy. White men can just baselessly accuse any minority of being DEI and get them fired. They created a permission structure to bring back segregation as a matter of policy by calling it anti DEI.

To my friends who feel the heaviness of what lies ahead: I am here for you. I understand that everything has been feeling like an uphill battle and that it’s about to get worse. If you need to talk or if you need help, let me know.

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Yaaay!

I’ve taken a pretty big step away from social media, largely because most of my older accounts are cattle calls of everyone in my life and it’s painful to see how ugly and uninformed so many are. I’m going to allow this account to be more of a safe haven and honest, authentic space for me.