whut?
GOD I wish Iâd thought of that.
ETA: Though a coworker had a clever idea when I mentioned I donât have a sign prepared: carry an empty ice tray.
Iâm sure she wouldnât mind if you copied the idea, as long as you credited her. Itâs being reposted all over Bluesky in all the best places.
That might be interpreted as a weapon.
Maybe a poster of a graphical drawing of a big ice cube, melting. With the caption âFeeling the heat.â
This is a long one! But watch the introduction at the very least, purty please!
Whatâs interesting is that they (believed they) were promised jobs, homes, health care, etc. and got⌠nothing. No support at all, presumably because the Trump administration cut whatever programs existed or laid off whoever administered them, and non-profits arenât feeling particularly charitable about this blatant white supremacist program*.
*According to the article, even Afrikaners in the US werenât feeling particularly sympathetic towards them, and itâs not like the South African government is going to help them.
âEffective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels,â he wrote in the message.
The email explained that investigations involving âhuman trafficking, money laundering, drug smuggling into these industries are OK.â But it said â crucially â that agents were not to make arrests of ânoncriminal collaterals,â a reference to people who are undocumented but who are not known to have committed any crime.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the guidance.
But this administration has been known to lie and vacillate, so who knows whatâs planned for next week?
And if people arenât showing up for work because theyâre afraid of being rounded up, this change in policy (assuming itâs real and lasting) still doesnât necessarily change anything (at least, not until workers start believing it, and if ICE is still grabbing random people in immigrant-heavy areas, it wonât matter if theyâre not grabbing them at work).
Putting aside how much the McMahons and HHH suck as people, using pro wrestling as any sort of basis for âsport, fitness, and nutritionâ is just fucking absurd. Weâre talking about an enterprise that thrives on underpayment, overwork, steroid abuse, drug abuse, forcing work through injury and illness, and where all too many who are involved die early and tragic deaths.
Itâs good to be prepared.
But itâs also true that most of us will be in areas without a national guard presence, without an expectation of violence, with a clear route and area that is discussed with local government, with traffic shutdowns in place since early this morning and plans in place to leave if things turn bad.
Still- Iâll have bail money on me. And 2 different people who are not attending who will check to make sure Iâm safe afterwards or if I need help.
Some of the comments below that video on YT were illuminating. Like how so many young men in the military have grown up with social media and Trump as a perennial public figure, so they may actually believe him and in him.
I also wonder if âthe militaryâ saying ânoâ is going to be that effective in the USA given that it has so, so many assorted armed âlaw enforcementâ branches.
As well as the various branches of the military itself, plus the National Guard, thereâs ICE, ATF, FBI, SS, and no doubt a whole alphabet soup of other armed âlaw enforcementâ ( = âcivilian controlâ) bodies in the US before you even get down to the level of police, sheriffs, marshalls, etc.
I found a search result that said:
There are 65 U.S. federal agencies and 27 offices of inspector general that employ full time personnel authorized to make arrests and carry firearms.
Thatâs an awful lot of sets of âtop brassâ who have to decide to say ânoâ. Perhaps many of them will not have a dog in this fight (will not be asked to act against the populace at large) but even soâŚ
Seems like Grade A professional trolling by Mr Young, there. Excellent!
Article says
a âproposed consent decree would prevent the merged company from boycotting platforms because of their political content by refusing to place their clientsâ advertisements on them, according to two people briefed on the matter.â
But what if their clients instruct them? I wonder just how much advertisersâ agents actually make the decisions these days or how much they make recommendations for their clients to approve (or not).