Lexa
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Lexa
@secretly-a-dryad.bsky.social
· Jan 22
In the 2015 and onward times, I started saying an observation. I guess I need to bring it back and add to it.
The GOP is fine if you die or suffer.
The Dems are fine with them being like that.
The GOP is fine if you die or suffer.
The Dems are fine with them being like that.
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I wish private equity could buy climate change so it would stop
working
working
July 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I wish private equity could buy climate change so it would stop
working
working
ADHD tax
Somewhere in my belongings I gave, probably, US$40-50 worth of postage stamps in the exact art I like
And yet
I need 1 stamp to mail an OON insurance claim to get paid back about $2500
And I’ll need to buy yet another $0.60 worth of stamps to do so
😩
Somewhere in my belongings I gave, probably, US$40-50 worth of postage stamps in the exact art I like
And yet
I need 1 stamp to mail an OON insurance claim to get paid back about $2500
And I’ll need to buy yet another $0.60 worth of stamps to do so
😩
July 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
ADHD tax
Somewhere in my belongings I gave, probably, US$40-50 worth of postage stamps in the exact art I like
And yet
I need 1 stamp to mail an OON insurance claim to get paid back about $2500
And I’ll need to buy yet another $0.60 worth of stamps to do so
😩
Somewhere in my belongings I gave, probably, US$40-50 worth of postage stamps in the exact art I like
And yet
I need 1 stamp to mail an OON insurance claim to get paid back about $2500
And I’ll need to buy yet another $0.60 worth of stamps to do so
😩
The major news out of the US executive branch and the Supreme Court in the last weeks basically reads to me as,
“Don’t put your hands in my way when I’ve decided to spank you”
And it’s so ridiculous that this level of red-faced petulant reactivity is our national policy.
SMH
“Don’t put your hands in my way when I’ve decided to spank you”
And it’s so ridiculous that this level of red-faced petulant reactivity is our national policy.
SMH
June 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The major news out of the US executive branch and the Supreme Court in the last weeks basically reads to me as,
“Don’t put your hands in my way when I’ve decided to spank you”
And it’s so ridiculous that this level of red-faced petulant reactivity is our national policy.
SMH
“Don’t put your hands in my way when I’ve decided to spank you”
And it’s so ridiculous that this level of red-faced petulant reactivity is our national policy.
SMH
Feels like 1890s
MAGAs: Why won’t Muslims just assimilate to our country!?!
Muslims: [Get elected to office]
MAGAs: …Wait not like that
Muslims: [Get elected to office]
MAGAs: …Wait not like that
June 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Feels like 1890s
It’s difficult to engage with this site because I seem to have set it up as a deluge of the ways the Empire fails and falls
Which is an interest of mine to be sure
But my role in *that* is being a part of building community and connections.
I am having more fun elsewhere, doing other things.
Which is an interest of mine to be sure
But my role in *that* is being a part of building community and connections.
I am having more fun elsewhere, doing other things.
June 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It’s difficult to engage with this site because I seem to have set it up as a deluge of the ways the Empire fails and falls
Which is an interest of mine to be sure
But my role in *that* is being a part of building community and connections.
I am having more fun elsewhere, doing other things.
Which is an interest of mine to be sure
But my role in *that* is being a part of building community and connections.
I am having more fun elsewhere, doing other things.
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irony of course is that what these people are demanding are explicit racial preferences and quotas for themselves
The group is suing on behalf of three white male, heterosexual law professors who submitted articles in the past and were rejected, the suit said.
Michigan Law Review sued for alleged racial, sexual bias. School vows vigorous defense
The group is suing on behalf of three white male, heterosexual law professors who submitted articles in the past and were rejected, the suit said.
bit.ly
June 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
irony of course is that what these people are demanding are explicit racial preferences and quotas for themselves
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It is the siren song of fascists to claim to be in counter revolution to a revolution that never occurred. Any attempts to rebuke the powerless for lashing out simply feeds the opposition's narrative.
Los Angeles is fighting for freedom from this regime of the bullies, for the billionaires.
Los Angeles is fighting for freedom from this regime of the bullies, for the billionaires.
It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
They are in charge.
They are in charge.
June 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
It is the siren song of fascists to claim to be in counter revolution to a revolution that never occurred. Any attempts to rebuke the powerless for lashing out simply feeds the opposition's narrative.
Los Angeles is fighting for freedom from this regime of the bullies, for the billionaires.
Los Angeles is fighting for freedom from this regime of the bullies, for the billionaires.
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This is how.
Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
June 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM
This is how.
Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
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This. Do it all at once, all the time, in whatever form you want. FOIA requests, work stoppages, doxxing masked Gestapo. Every single thing we do requires response time and energy. That's an immigrant they didn't kidnap, a trans kid they didn't pick on, a billionaire who didn't get richer
The protests & slowdowns & leaks & refusals to comply & boycotts & strikes & antifascist art & gumming up the works & sanctuary projects & all the other stuff that we’ve got to run all at once have to feel like that too.
Break their hold bit by bit.
Here, there, & over here too, until - whoosh.
Break their hold bit by bit.
Here, there, & over here too, until - whoosh.
It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
June 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This. Do it all at once, all the time, in whatever form you want. FOIA requests, work stoppages, doxxing masked Gestapo. Every single thing we do requires response time and energy. That's an immigrant they didn't kidnap, a trans kid they didn't pick on, a billionaire who didn't get richer
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“… the closest this nation has come to such a definition of rebellion was when Mr. Trump’s own supporters (whom he incited, then mostly pardoned) sacked the U.S. Capitol in 2021.”
❌👑 Meet us in the streets Saturday. NoKings.org
#50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #NoKings #PeoplesMovement #June14
❌👑 Meet us in the streets Saturday. NoKings.org
#50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #NoKings #PeoplesMovement #June14
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June 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
“… the closest this nation has come to such a definition of rebellion was when Mr. Trump’s own supporters (whom he incited, then mostly pardoned) sacked the U.S. Capitol in 2021.”
❌👑 Meet us in the streets Saturday. NoKings.org
#50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #NoKings #PeoplesMovement #June14
❌👑 Meet us in the streets Saturday. NoKings.org
#50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #NoKings #PeoplesMovement #June14
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We're not lawyers, but we've heard that desertion = intent to abandon permanently, not peacefully refuse to do unconstitutional things. The GI Hotline may be helpful
877-447-4487 or girightshotline.org
Please remind your friends that there's power in numbers. American democracy depends on them
877-447-4487 or girightshotline.org
Please remind your friends that there's power in numbers. American democracy depends on them
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June 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
We're not lawyers, but we've heard that desertion = intent to abandon permanently, not peacefully refuse to do unconstitutional things. The GI Hotline may be helpful
877-447-4487 or girightshotline.org
Please remind your friends that there's power in numbers. American democracy depends on them
877-447-4487 or girightshotline.org
Please remind your friends that there's power in numbers. American democracy depends on them
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This is a key point. Passivity in the face of authoritarian violence actually provokes escalated and intensified cruelty.
Whereas even in the worst case, fierce resistance creates deterrence and changes the calculus going forward.
Whereas even in the worst case, fierce resistance creates deterrence and changes the calculus going forward.
I agree with those who say that by attacking sanctuary cities, the administration was trying to provoke a response they could exploit. But here's the thing: there is no perfect move for a community under siege. Cooperation and the passive absorption of violence are also highly exploitable moves.
June 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is a key point. Passivity in the face of authoritarian violence actually provokes escalated and intensified cruelty.
Whereas even in the worst case, fierce resistance creates deterrence and changes the calculus going forward.
Whereas even in the worst case, fierce resistance creates deterrence and changes the calculus going forward.
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Portland, if you have thoughts/insight on PPB "not helping ICE", but also...this... and how our city can best protect our immigrants...I'm all ears.
Portland police clear blockade of ICE office; chief says it was for safety not immigration enforcement
Weekend protests popped up at the South Portland field office as LA confronts widespread demonstrations.
www.oregonlive.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Portland, if you have thoughts/insight on PPB "not helping ICE", but also...this... and how our city can best protect our immigrants...I'm all ears.
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Today I saw all sorts of media types sitting around doing nothing for long stretches and the second anything close to a skirmish appeared, they'd holler for their camera folks and sprint over to catch it. This is called Manufacturing Consent.
LISTEN UP NEWS RUBES:
The media is going to be calling any act of resistance “riots.”
We need to rebrand this immediately. EVERYTHING IS MESSAGING.
This isn’t a riot -
This is direct action. This is mobilization. This is civil resistance.
Don’t let anyone call this a riot.
The media is going to be calling any act of resistance “riots.”
We need to rebrand this immediately. EVERYTHING IS MESSAGING.
This isn’t a riot -
This is direct action. This is mobilization. This is civil resistance.
Don’t let anyone call this a riot.
June 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Today I saw all sorts of media types sitting around doing nothing for long stretches and the second anything close to a skirmish appeared, they'd holler for their camera folks and sprint over to catch it. This is called Manufacturing Consent.
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Making the whole thing a street party is exactly the right approach.
Keep the violence and escalation on the side of the state.
Images of repression, undermine governmental legitimacy.
And the more sympathetic that protesters look, the harder it is to paint them as dangerous.
Keep the violence and escalation on the side of the state.
Images of repression, undermine governmental legitimacy.
And the more sympathetic that protesters look, the harder it is to paint them as dangerous.
Completely bizarre to hear tv talk about sending in the military and then you see the actual pics of the protests and people are buying hot dogs and line dancing while the Nat Guard looks on in silent envy.
June 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Making the whole thing a street party is exactly the right approach.
Keep the violence and escalation on the side of the state.
Images of repression, undermine governmental legitimacy.
And the more sympathetic that protesters look, the harder it is to paint them as dangerous.
Keep the violence and escalation on the side of the state.
Images of repression, undermine governmental legitimacy.
And the more sympathetic that protesters look, the harder it is to paint them as dangerous.
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I think this is an excellent response to Trump neglecting our service members who have been sent to LA but are sleeping on concrete floors and lack basic supplies and food.
I was thinking @governor.ca.gov could organize food trucks or something, provide what Trump isn't. Get them on our side, and have them run ICE out of town.
June 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I think this is an excellent response to Trump neglecting our service members who have been sent to LA but are sleeping on concrete floors and lack basic supplies and food.
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Not in some abstracted "we're all in this together" way buy directly and literally. When they come for one of us, and realize it won't happen without a fight, they lose their nerve to come for other people.
June 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Not in some abstracted "we're all in this together" way buy directly and literally. When they come for one of us, and realize it won't happen without a fight, they lose their nerve to come for other people.
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Putting up a fierce fight at the opening of the poem is the way to stop the rest of the poem from coming true.
The fight for migrants and to stop ICE is the same fight as the fight to protect LGBT people (citizens or not), reproductive autonomy, and everyone else the fascists want to fuck with.
The fight for migrants and to stop ICE is the same fight as the fight to protect LGBT people (citizens or not), reproductive autonomy, and everyone else the fascists want to fuck with.
June 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Putting up a fierce fight at the opening of the poem is the way to stop the rest of the poem from coming true.
The fight for migrants and to stop ICE is the same fight as the fight to protect LGBT people (citizens or not), reproductive autonomy, and everyone else the fascists want to fuck with.
The fight for migrants and to stop ICE is the same fight as the fight to protect LGBT people (citizens or not), reproductive autonomy, and everyone else the fascists want to fuck with.
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Fascism is what happens when western supremacism, racism, authoritarian and colonial violence comes home instead of being politely tucked away in a corner.
June 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Fascism is what happens when western supremacism, racism, authoritarian and colonial violence comes home instead of being politely tucked away in a corner.
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The LAPD says they will protect peaceful protesters and will not tolerate violence. Does that mean they will not tolerate the violence of ICE? W will they be protecting Californians from ICE?
So, if the LAPD admits the protests were peaceful, why do we need the Nat'l Guard?
ICE brings violence wherever they go. ICE escalates violence, and brutalizes and terrorizes unarmed decent people in Tr*mp's America.
ICE brings violence wherever they go. ICE escalates violence, and brutalizes and terrorizes unarmed decent people in Tr*mp's America.
June 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The LAPD says they will protect peaceful protesters and will not tolerate violence. Does that mean they will not tolerate the violence of ICE? W will they be protecting Californians from ICE?
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Don’t forget tomorrow is the nationwide May Day protest. 50501 has been doing an incredible job organizing, and a lot of our coalition members will be joining events across the country.
April 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Don’t forget tomorrow is the nationwide May Day protest. 50501 has been doing an incredible job organizing, and a lot of our coalition members will be joining events across the country.
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Also: Every court to have reached the Q over the past weeks has come to the same conclusion: The First Amendment categorically forecloses the government from deporting people solely because of their political viewpoints. Judge Young in AAUP/MESA; Judge Crawford in Mahdawi; Judge Sessions in Ozturk.
Over the past 24 hours, a judge in New Jersey held that he has jurisdiction to consider Mahmoud Khalil's First Amendment challenge; a judge in Vermont ordered ICE to free Mohsin Mahdawi; and a judge in Boston green-lighted AAUP and MESA's challenge to the broader ideological deportation policy.
April 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Also: Every court to have reached the Q over the past weeks has come to the same conclusion: The First Amendment categorically forecloses the government from deporting people solely because of their political viewpoints. Judge Young in AAUP/MESA; Judge Crawford in Mahdawi; Judge Sessions in Ozturk.