Meeting genuine adults that think legal = good, illegal = bad is so bizarre, like bro not even the law itself agrees that that is a good ethical framework
Looking at what national news outlets are up to right now, one might not realize a whole major US metropolitan area is, you know, sort of under attack by paramilitary forces. Wild.
im sorry the What is being What now???
While it’s not going unreported entirely, what’s been happening in Minnesota and in Minneapolis–Saint Paul in particular since Renee Good was murdered is not getting the attention it should be.
There are already 2000 gangsters from DHS deployed, and “hundreds” or “1000” more are on the way, depending on which Trumpland person you ask. As a point of reference, the Twin Cities’ actual police total just under 1200 (600 in Minneapolis and 590 in Saint Paul according to the depts’ sites).
The feds there are more or less attacking people at random. They’ve gone door-to-door for “citizenship checks” (completely illegal). They’ve knocked doors down when residents haven’t complied (obviously also completely illegal). In addition to abducting and brutalizing the immigrants they come across during their rampages, they’ve done the same to US citizens of color and are also harassing, stalking and physically attacking observers.
Below are some videos from observers. I’m linking to Bluesky because that’s where I saw them, though many are originally from/also available elsewhere. I apologize for the rancid formatting below but it was the best I could do quickly-ish. The images are previews; click the links in the timestamps to watch.
Dumb Meg (@dmbmeg.bsky.social) Jan 11, 2026 at 6:10 PM(You need to be logged in to see this—while it’s unclear what happened to the victim in this one, there’s no reported death so far; CW for heightened violence)
Dom Ervolina (@dominicervolina.com) Jan 11, 2026 at 8:42 PM(You need to be logged in to see this)
i’m just saying i watched jeff davis force dylan o'brien and tyler hoechlin to spoon on a sailboat so they could beg for teen choice award votes so you’ll have to excuse me if my bar for queerbait is a little high
Yes they do. It’s just that their morals are rooted in “protect the people and things closest to me at all costs”. Their values are extreme tribalism. They also believe those outside the group are constantly threatening the safety and prosperity of the in-group.
This is why so much of what they do seems contradictory and hypocritical. Yes, they want prosperity for those they consider “like them”, but they are also willing to do things that harm themselves if it harms the “enemy” more. And, they blame the enemy for that harm, not themselves.
It’s literally “this is why we can’t have nice things”. It’s your fault.
A conservative may think, “welfare might be nice, and it’s true all my neighbors depend on it, but those welfare queens are stealing it, so we can’t have it. Public pools might be nice, and they provide a safe place for my children to play, but people I consider unclean might use them, so we can’t have them.”
This is how a conservative woman can justify an abortion for herself, but not for others, even though anti-abortion laws make it harder for her to get that abortion in the first place.
What needs to be done will morph and change, external influences will change what they think are important values for the inside group to have to some degree, but at the core it’s always about protecting their own.
When I was in highschool, I had a conversation that truly made me understand how conservatives think on a fundamental level. I was discussing with a conservative family friend an essay I was writing that was arguing for the decriminalization of sex work and I spent a while laying out my various arguments and why this issue was important and at the end she said to me “okay, but I don’t want my daughter to think that is an acceptable thing to do”.
I (being a teenager) was confused by this because this issue is so much larger than just her daughter. So I tried again to explain how many people are harmed by sex work criminalization and how decriminalization would decrease sex trafficking and she repeated again, with a smile on her face: “I don’t want my daughter to do that and decriminalization would signal that that is an acceptable thing for her to do”.
I was struck with a moment of realization that the way I see the world is the exact opposite of this woman. She fundamentally saw the world as centered on her and her loved ones as individuals, and was completely unconcerned with how it would affect society on a larger level. To her, the material harm that was caused to thousands of people is completely inconsequential when compared to the imagined possibility of it signaling something to her family that she personally disagrees with. That is, at it’s core the conservative mindset.
there was a bit of a tone in a line in the gq article that bugged me a little bit merely because it compounds onto the increasing narrative that i’ve seen a minor amount of heated rivalry fans espouse, where they talk generally about how there’s no way the sex scenes are 100% choreographed, they feel so real or things with a similar sentiment.
this on its own isn’t a big deal but the “at the risk of ruining the fantasy” quote and it being insinuated that the interviewer maybe was implying or inquiring about the “realness” of their sex scenes wouldn’t be a huge deal, but seeing this alongside the increasing dismissal by wealthy actors and actresses of the importance of intimacy coordinators e.g. mikey madison (anora), julia roberts (after the hunt), jennifer lawrence (die my love), gwenyth paltrow and timothee chalamet (marty supreme) is so fundamentally problematic.
i don’t know when it became normal to almost brag about not “needing an intimacy coordinators” because wealthy actors started believing that by having one it was almost a diss to their acting abilities, to their and their costars “chemistry” but i hope more than anything, that normal people, young royals, heated rivalry, bridgerton, all of these shows keep on highlighting what sensuality and beauty can be achieved when intimacy coordinators are brought in. while it’s great and important that actors and actresses bond and can form life-long connections, sets are a PROFESSIONAL WORKPLACE. it would be a work place VIOLATION for people to just be fucking out of passion. it’s fucking weird to assume that some decisions in sex scenes are “real” and it’s weirder to be like “oh it’s hotter cuz its real”. it is a TESTAMENT to the work of the cast and the crew, it is more impressive to achieve the technical feat of following a choreographed sex scene and that should be far more talked about rather than speculation on how 2 costars MUST BE TOGETHER because of how they must have improvised a hand grab or a longer kiss. make no mistake, agreeing prior to the coordination of the intimacy coordinator what people are comfortable with, allows space for “improvised” movements, etc. but this is all part of the work!! the importance of this is espoused later in this article but also has been repeated by jonathan bailey, aimee and connor swindell on the set of sex education (who were at the time a real couple) and so many more.
not only does this trend feel like a massive spit in the face to the #MeToo movement for enshrining intimacy coordinators as a necessity on sets but it also dilutes the necessity of them for actors and extras WHO ARE NOT WEALTHY HOLLYWOOD ELITES. if something happens on set that julia roberts, for example, thinks “hey that’s a violation of my autonomy and i was uncomfortable” you have in possession a fat bank account, a fleet of lawyers to helm an attack and protection that poor, broke extras and other actors do not have!!
the line being touted that intimacy coordinators are “optional” and that “we didn’t need one” is incredibly dangerous. they are mandatory and it is not just for actors but also for the crew!
THE BEST SEX SCENES YOU’VE SEEN ALL HAVE INTIMACY COORDINATORS!!!!!
and the intimacy coordinator behind young royals, one of my favourite and i would say leading the forefront of how intimacy coordinators TRANSFORM for the better sex scenes did an incredible interview talking about it all!!
I’ve read articles about actresses who would shake, cry and even vomit after sex scenes in the past because they felt violated. Intimacy coordinators need to be seen as the norm, as the smart thing to do, not the weak thing.
I dont watch movies with sex scenes in them(just havent run into them tbh), but if I did, why would I want to see the actors fuck and not the characters? I dont want the acts to be real.
Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like “I’m not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it.” Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.
I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.
Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won’t let you copy and paste:
they have been beating and tear gassing african immigrants for the crime of being black for the past several days. Emmanuel Sackie is a naturalized citizen from Liberia and they put him in the hospital:
my corner store guy is a 50 year old man who’s my best friend in the world and recently he was like “you’re too pretty to be single I have some nephews you should meet. very handsome!” and I was like “a niece might be more up my alley” and he just got more excited and said “ah even better! I was overselling my nephews but my nieces are very beautiful”
Whenever ppl say that fandoms just don’t give much attention to women and female characters in general because they’re badly written, I think back of Encanto and how SEVEN characters of the main cast were women, with two being the Main focus (The protagonist and The antagonist) and how one of the main conflicts was between two sisters.
And yet the fandom latched onto Bruno and even worse, Camilo who had like two lines, like their lives depended on it. And on top of that they wanted to badly to make Bruno’s arc like a coding for closeted gayness and ignoring the actual complexity of toxic familiar dynamics rooted deeply in latinoamerican families. I don’t have a problem with queerness readings at all (bc i do those all the time too), is just that some ppl really just refused to see what the movie was about and its context.
The movie spoke deeply, deeply to most latinoamericans and then some ppl took that and ran with it like it was your average accepting your gay son conflict like it was Shark Tale.
Also I’m not going to even bring up how Alma was treated like the devil incarnate where a male antagonist in her same position and place would have been taken by fandom 100% as ‘misundertood and misguided :(“
literally everything is unisex if u stop giving a fuck
When I worked at Target, it was during the winter, and this guy comes up to my register with a neutral-colored beanie with a fake fur pompom on top. All embarrassed and cringing, asking me if it was a woman’s hat and if it would be weird for him to get it.
I was like, “It’s just a hat. If you like it and you wear it, it’s not a woman’s hat, it’s just your hat. You don’t need to follow what the tag says if you don’t want to.” And it was like I gave him some kind of awe-inspiring wisdom he’d never considered, and he left with that hat on his head.
More cishets need to hear and internalize this message because so many of them are avoiding things that would make them happy just because of it having a label on it for whatever gender.
whenever i find a good world heritage post i do my best to carefully remove unnecessary “why is this so funny!!” or “i cant believe i found the original” reblog comments. sometimes it takes a bit of work digging back through the reblog graph to accomplish this but fine art restoration is tedious but important work
