^^^ This. The COMBINED population of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) is only about 2.6 million. That's not small town numbers, sure, but compared to NYC (20.1 million in the metropolitan area)? LA? (12.9 million "")?

Minneapolis is being made an example of because they're the most bitesized target, and if you're doing a shock and awe campaign like this you need to not choke on national tv.

(And they're still having to fight for it. Minneapolis isn't taking this laying down, and more power to them for their courage.)

Just as a side note, ICE raids are currently also happening in Columbus OH- which is double the size of Minneapolis but still much smaller than Chicago or LA.

whats also funny abt the deadnaming situation is before they removed my ability to manually report spam I put an automated script into Outlook to auto-flag all emails w “Hi, [deadname]” as spam bc they kept sending me more and more of those (and they were literally never important it was shit like “we have new merch!” and “here’s our undergrad events this month!”) n I’m lazy so I didn’t wanna keep manually doing it & they apparently either cant deactivate those or havent caught on yet. so. til i legally changed my name the uni was still sending emails that got automatically reported as spam <3 fuck y'all i still wonnnnnn

HI PLEASE HELP ;W;

Why would you hide this in the comments

Very explicitly, in the video, the regular police straight up lie to the couple, telling them they will go to jail for harboring a fugitive if they dont hand the doordasher over, and that it doesnt matter if ice has a warrant for her arrest. NEITHER OF THESE THINGS ARE TRUE. You CANNOT be harboring a fugitive if the person you are haboring doesnt have a warrant out for their arrest! The warrant is what makes them a fugitive!

If ice wants access to someone on your property, do NOT hand them over unless you are shown a warrant signed by a judge! Make as much noise as you can to attract bystanders - it was the fact that a crowd gathered and started yelling at them that made ice leave in the video. And DO NOT expect the regular police to help you - they are just another arm of the state and will only do or say whatever they think is necessary to make you comply.

And make sure you film everything so you have evidence of what really happened if ice tries to enter your property illegally.

maybe if you see south and southeast asians dying in the heat and latin americans dying in floods and all you think of is imagining a reality where YOU are affected, then you should rethink how you see people of color. if you cannot see climate change as a real disaster until it is other americans dying in the heat and the floods and not just black and brown people, then don’t talk about climate change until you can acknowledge the grim reality of climate change for everyone.

theres a whole album of song titles you can make just from the words of this tweet

check out my next stoner metal ep, featuring such classics as:

• Marijuanification
• Complete Derangement
• Stoned Sex Drive
• Derangement Manifests a Literal Sex Demon
• Monstrum Incarnate
• Narcotic Parody of Sex

this makes smoking weed sound so much cooler than it is

I think the issue is honestly that

1. bi and ace activism and sources have been prevalent even during the online discourse, and the support systems were there already prior to tumblr's hate campaigns against them (I remember hearing about AVEN in 2010). they're more robustly able to combat misinformation and disinformation due to both sheer numbers and better social infrastructure to combat it.

2. bi and ace discourse often involved creating brand new narratives in order to discount bi and ace identities. there wasn't the convenient cut-and-paste formula that TRFs have access to. it's a lot easier for TRFs to get buy-in from mainstream feminism because their narrative makes more intuitive sense solely due to familiarity; "women oppressed by men" is a narrative that is already well known and established in pericis feminism.

asking people to apply it wholesale to trans people is an easier "ask" than asking those same people to dismantle their entire ideas of manhood and womanhood and gender as a whole to account for the fact that there are some men who are, in fact, capable of being oppressed by (pericis) women.

additionally, while there are some people who certainly do have negative attitudes or jealousy towards trans women, it's frankly less of a blow to one's ego to allow trans women into the feminist fold, as it doesn't immediately register that they are capable of oppressing trans women. they just see it as letting another woman into the group. it isn't until trans women point out transmisogyny etc., that these pericis feminists must then grapple with the fact that they are capable of being oppressors to trans people. but if they're oppressors only to trans women, then that still salvages enough of their ego to prevent total collapse of the entire gender system. it threatens it enough, and many will not handle it, but many will allow it because it doesn't quite cross their personal threshold for identity disruption.

a lot of pericis women place their identity in womanhood on their oppression, even if they aren't TERFs. when you shake the ground underneath them, they often don't like it. only some of those will lash out. people react differently. this is why they also will try to recategorize some nonbinary transmascs into the "woman lite" category; it is them attempting to avoid confronting the inaccuracies of their gendered system in the first place. they're doing something very mentally similar in regards to trans women, people just see it as more noticable when it's nonbinary people who aren't women because it ends up turning into misgendering of a sorts.

but, when it comes to trans men (& more masc presenting trans people, including some transfems), the semantic "woman" is no longer available to offload the cognitive dissonance into, and therefore they immediately confront what it must mean to their identity if a man (or masculine person) can be oppressed by a woman (or feminine person). they are forced to confront their identity and the oppression dynamics instantly, in a way that they can kinda conveniently avoid doing if they hang onto semantic labels. that's why you see so much avoidance-based behavior and ignoring-type behavior from them. you are a walking representation of their fears that they don't want to confront. you represent the unknown aspects of their own ego that they don't like, as they feel insecure suddenly when realizing they are capable of being an oppressor as well. and, to be fair, they exhibit this same behavior towards trans women to varying degrees. it's just not often an immediate realization. it comes out later, as I said before. the ego complex of victim gets dismantled and that's incredibly uncomfortable, so they do everything to avoid that discomfort.

bi and ace discourse has elements of this, but there's no convenient pre-determined narrative to latch onto based on semantic connections. TRFs can appeal to the desire to not confront one's own cognitive dissonance about oppression much more readily because the words match up. that's literally it. it's a small difference but we are not particularly grand creatures with uber-rational minds, and those small subtlies can literally be the difference between social movements that do well and that don't, regardless of how we feel like people should act and behave.