Dalassa
@dalassa.bsky.social
Accidental Pharisee defender. Thinks hedgehogs are cute.
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Dalassa
@dalassa.bsky.social
· Apr 6
I am making a thread of the beginnings of all the chapters of the Pharisee’s Wife so it’s easier to find.
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One of the things I’m really struggling with about what’s going on in Minnesota is that if you describe what’s going on in plain, factual ways to someone who’s not paying close attention you sound completely, bugfuck crazy
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 1:03 AM
One of the things I’m really struggling with about what’s going on in Minnesota is that if you describe what’s going on in plain, factual ways to someone who’s not paying close attention you sound completely, bugfuck crazy
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Sharing this report of ICE depravity from Facebook at the request of community member. This is from a suburb north of ICE-occupied Minneapolis.
The text is from her post on Facebook.
The text is from her post on Facebook.
January 21, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Sharing this report of ICE depravity from Facebook at the request of community member. This is from a suburb north of ICE-occupied Minneapolis.
The text is from her post on Facebook.
The text is from her post on Facebook.
This was posted about Nashville, TN
Tennessee is not the Deep South, I promise.
There are plenty of Jews in Nashville, it’s like a joke to other southern Jews about how status conscious the Nashville community is.
Tennessee is not the Deep South, I promise.
There are plenty of Jews in Nashville, it’s like a joke to other southern Jews about how status conscious the Nashville community is.
January 21, 2026 at 10:34 PM
This was posted about Nashville, TN
Tennessee is not the Deep South, I promise.
There are plenty of Jews in Nashville, it’s like a joke to other southern Jews about how status conscious the Nashville community is.
Tennessee is not the Deep South, I promise.
There are plenty of Jews in Nashville, it’s like a joke to other southern Jews about how status conscious the Nashville community is.
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watching sobbing teenagers getting pulled out of their cars by masked goons glowering at us through tiny slits in their fully-masked uniforms, brandishing weapons at the crowd, and launching huge amounts of teargas into parks and businesses to make their escape
January 21, 2026 at 9:53 PM
watching sobbing teenagers getting pulled out of their cars by masked goons glowering at us through tiny slits in their fully-masked uniforms, brandishing weapons at the crowd, and launching huge amounts of teargas into parks and businesses to make their escape
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BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
bit.ly
January 21, 2026 at 9:32 PM
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
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Laying down my prediction now that if Kamala Harris runs in 2028 all of the Democratic members of the House who are quoted here will call her a far leftist antisemite
Moderate Dems alarmed by Harris team’s grilling of Shapiro over Israel ties
Several moderate House Democrats said they were concerned and frustrated by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s account, which emerged over the weekend, of being questioned by Vice President Kamala Harri...
jewishinsider.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Laying down my prediction now that if Kamala Harris runs in 2028 all of the Democratic members of the House who are quoted here will call her a far leftist antisemite
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Israel killed three Palestinian journalists in Gaza on Wednesday, including a freelance cameraman who contributed to CBS News. The network's president, Tom Cibrowski, let staff know at a meeting this morning, noting that Abdul Raouf Shaat had just been married. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
Israel kills 3 journalists in Gaza, including CBS News contributor
The journalists were killed Wednesday in a strike on their car in central Gaza. Israel’s military said it struck “several suspects” who were operating a drone.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Israel killed three Palestinian journalists in Gaza on Wednesday, including a freelance cameraman who contributed to CBS News. The network's president, Tom Cibrowski, let staff know at a meeting this morning, noting that Abdul Raouf Shaat had just been married. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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I have probably an hour of insane video but it's awful. they're destroying our city, trashing residential neighborhoods, menacing schools. completely out of control. ICE must be ended forever
January 21, 2026 at 9:34 PM
I have probably an hour of insane video but it's awful. they're destroying our city, trashing residential neighborhoods, menacing schools. completely out of control. ICE must be ended forever
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guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.
January 21, 2026 at 9:33 PM
guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.
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i miss the old ways americans used to be weird about greenland, like getting iced in on ships off its coast trying to find the north pole. or inventing a fictional continent north of it for book sales. or getting poisoned by their crew for being a maniac and everyone fucks off back to greenland
January 21, 2026 at 8:07 PM
i miss the old ways americans used to be weird about greenland, like getting iced in on ships off its coast trying to find the north pole. or inventing a fictional continent north of it for book sales. or getting poisoned by their crew for being a maniac and everyone fucks off back to greenland
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this feels at least a LITTLE like a somewhat more grown-up version of the online eschatology of "once we Defeat Capitalism the world will be flowers and rainbows"
It also kind of assumes a triumphant victory of the People if you just Throw The Bastards Out, which kind of ignores the part where a large chunk of the American public will capitalize on Democratic weakness to elect Republicans.
January 21, 2026 at 8:29 PM
this feels at least a LITTLE like a somewhat more grown-up version of the online eschatology of "once we Defeat Capitalism the world will be flowers and rainbows"
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Seems like “stand up to bullies” is the clearer takeaway, the demented diaper-filler-in-chief folded like a cheap suit when they just told him to fuck off verbatim
January 21, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Seems like “stand up to bullies” is the clearer takeaway, the demented diaper-filler-in-chief folded like a cheap suit when they just told him to fuck off verbatim
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I love all the quote posts trying to dunk on this and dismiss Adam Serwer as a "bald white guy."
It’s not personal. But this is Americans’ responsibility, collectively, even though tens of millions of us made a different choice.
January 21, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I love all the quote posts trying to dunk on this and dismiss Adam Serwer as a "bald white guy."
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It’s not personal. But this is Americans’ responsibility, collectively, even though tens of millions of us made a different choice.
January 21, 2026 at 2:11 PM
It’s not personal. But this is Americans’ responsibility, collectively, even though tens of millions of us made a different choice.
Continuing to prove that there is exactly one marble statue pfp account that isn’t a Nazi
January 21, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Continuing to prove that there is exactly one marble statue pfp account that isn’t a Nazi
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this is what much of the American media sounds like when they report on Trump
News reports
"Henry II says he won't personally kill Becket"
"Henry II says he won't personally kill Becket"
January 21, 2026 at 7:20 PM
this is what much of the American media sounds like when they report on Trump
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Last big ice storm i watched a majestic pine tree snap in half, majestically.
January 21, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Last big ice storm i watched a majestic pine tree snap in half, majestically.
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I have a rule of reading contemporary fiction which is "if you make a mistake that five minutes' research on Wikipedia would have resolved, I'm going to need a really compelling reason to dedicate any more of my time to your book"
January 21, 2026 at 6:18 PM
I have a rule of reading contemporary fiction which is "if you make a mistake that five minutes' research on Wikipedia would have resolved, I'm going to need a really compelling reason to dedicate any more of my time to your book"
Ice storms are the default for where I am in the South. Freezing rain is the WORST
I just looked at what our local weather guys are saying and realized that a lot of the South is supposed to get ice.
Guys, take this very, very seriously. You do not mess around with ice and you absolutely do not leave the house during or after an ice storm if it isn't an emergency.
Guys, take this very, very seriously. You do not mess around with ice and you absolutely do not leave the house during or after an ice storm if it isn't an emergency.
January 21, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Ice storms are the default for where I am in the South. Freezing rain is the WORST
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ICE does not break us
But we can not brake upon ice
But we can not brake upon ice
January 21, 2026 at 6:36 PM
ICE does not break us
But we can not brake upon ice
But we can not brake upon ice
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If Google Maps renames Greenland to New Mississippi, I am becoming a communist.
He’s going to order it changed on the maps, just like he did for the Gulf of Mexico
January 21, 2026 at 5:46 PM
If Google Maps renames Greenland to New Mississippi, I am becoming a communist.
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I really do think we underestimate the odds of Trump tweeting I DECLARE ANNEXATION and the rest of NATO going "nuh-uh" and then nobody having the slightest clue what to do after that.
SOF, especially US SOF with their vast array of enablers succeed dramatically because of those enablers, and their heightened training and equipment when relative to their usual third-world adversaries exacerbates the advantage in their given mission profile.
January 21, 2026 at 5:41 PM
I really do think we underestimate the odds of Trump tweeting I DECLARE ANNEXATION and the rest of NATO going "nuh-uh" and then nobody having the slightest clue what to do after that.
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3. ICE’s failure to pay its bills for months has caused some medical providers to deny services to ICE detainees, an administration source told Popular Information. In other cases, detainees have allegedly been denied essential medical care by ICE.
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM
3. ICE’s failure to pay its bills for months has caused some medical providers to deny services to ICE detainees, an administration source told Popular Information. In other cases, detainees have allegedly been denied essential medical care by ICE.
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One of my coworkers had no idea France had colonized Southeast Asia. She just thought their incorporation of French pastry was a culinary tribute, or related to Julia Child. Her entire concept of colonialism was limited to the Americas.
January 21, 2026 at 5:19 PM
One of my coworkers had no idea France had colonized Southeast Asia. She just thought their incorporation of French pastry was a culinary tribute, or related to Julia Child. Her entire concept of colonialism was limited to the Americas.