How clearly does the point need to be made that "police officer" is just a fucking job, one with minimal training and minimal monitoring. It is NOT some kind of promise of honesty, truth, or heroism. It is a bunch of assistant managers with extremely powerful weapons. IF you can understand "pedophiles choose to be priests and teachers so they can get to children", IF you understand "arsonists choose to be firefighters so they can be present at their own crimes" - then you can ALSO understand "people who are bigoted, violent, and power-hungry choose to be cops for the opportunities the job presents" and you can ALSO understand "any occupational culture that chooses fraternity over justice - and the allowance of violence in the name of a unified front - is therefore siding with their worst representatives"

by the way. the average time to train to be a police officer? 19 weeks. A little over 4 months. many states only require a high school diploma and no further education. there is often no requirement of any form of previous experience - no interning or observations. it took me 3 years of experience and a master's degree for me to get my job in writing. hell: in my state, it takes at least 6 months with a permit before people are allowed to drive a car.

being a police officer is an entry-level job, and we are handing them weapons. nothing about their occupation automatically makes them smarter, quicker, braver, or in any way elite. there is very little in their onboarding process that would allegedly "weed out" the worst of the applicants - and once they are part of the fraternity, they're not gonna leave.

we have been taught to respect, honor, and worship them by virtue of a job title they barely even had to try for. they sign no contract, swear no vow, and make no promise to the general public. it is a community that is extolled above others and given virtually no oversight. think about the kind of people who would be attracted to that opportunity. the adage: power corrupts. absolute power corrupts absolutely.

circling this back around to say FUCK ICE, and fuck you if you willingly support them just because they're "a federal agent" and therefore "deserve respect".

ICE officers are a fucking privatized militia they do not have authority over united states citizens and none of their so-called "purpose" requires live rounds and weapons. It is entirely made up of fascist racist dickbags with no fucking training. they are lower than scum. they're police-school dropouts with no fucking spine. there is no honor in their position. they accomplish nothing but terrorizing communities they don't even fucking live in.

Any!! occupation or government !! that chooses fraternity over justice - and the allowance of violence in the name of a unified front - is therefore siding with their worst representatives.

The discussions around the murder of Renee Good are such a clear case study for the need for intersectional frameworks. There are lots of claims that she is the “first US citizen killed by ICE” which not only is not true, she is not even the first of 2026. There is both a massive erasure of the victims before her, and an erasure of Renee’s own identity and connections that made her a more acceptable target for both murder and smearing.

Everyone MUST contend with:

1. US citizens are falsely labeled as non-citizens or had their citizenship “stripped” and are deported and then sometimes killed elsewhere

2. US citizens, Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs), are “deported” to places they have never lived and are at the mercy of new countries, sometimes those that will kill them or imprison them again

3. Lawful Permanent Residents are killed in custody

4. US citizens are disappeared from their homes and record of them is lost

5. Native Americans born and raised on these lands with US documents are placed into legal limbo and killed and imprisoned and sometimes deported to places they have never visited let alone lived in

6. US citizens killed on US soil or abroad taking peaceful action against an armed oppressor if not attacked going about their days, are routinely distanced from their citizenship, when it serves the narrative

7. Renee was a queer woman with a masc wife and her identity is being used as justification for her murder and proof of her “corruption” when it isnt completely omitted outright

8. Renee’s wife’s identity and attitude is also being used to justify Renee’s murder

9. Renee was politically vocal and is being held up as proof of “left-wing extremism”

Say_Qis discussing queer identity at play in the killing

10. Renee is being labeled a domestic terrorist using language, ordinances, and memos that have been coming out for a long while

Yesterqueers dive into The Palmer Raids

The Right Is Lying About Left-Wing Violence

Global Anti-Anarchism: The Origins of ideological Deportation and the Suppression of Expression

Documenting Red Scare Deportees

Renee is the latest in a long line of murders and violence that will continue on, and it is crucial to understand that no this is not new, yes it is just as important to care about nonwhite citizens and non-citizens of all races, yes your legal status and loyalty will be called into question once you are dead and it helps no one to make excuses for why the murder is legal, yes “it could happen to (you)” but understand why it hasn’t—what makes you different—and as the differences get smaller and smaller, recognize when is the time to do something about it

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Preserving @corrodedbisexual 's tags:

@anyonghalimaw

SCRUBS 2.14 • My Brother, My Keeper

SCRUBS 2.17 • My Own Private Practice Guy (Deleted Scene)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2 (2025) dir. Emma Tammi

But does Dustin know that Erica saw a picture of him with Mr. Clarke that inspired her to come up with a way to save his life?

Does Dustin know that she spent hours working on a way to get back in contact with him? Dealing with fucking Murray and you know she hates his bald ass.

Does Dustin know that Erica talks about how smart he is when he isn't around?

Did they have a moment after she went into the Upside Down to find him? Did he ask what Mr. Clarke was doing there and Erica told him that she got him to build a telemetry tracker so they could locate and contact him and that she got that idea because she saw Dustin's picture on the wall????

Did they hug or at least high five? Duffers!!!!

WHY HAVE DUSTIN AND ERICA HAD NO SCENES THEY HAVE ONE OF THE BEST DYNAMICS ON THE SHOW?

Post credits scenes I pinky promise

Dimension 20: Gladlands | Episode One: Welcome to the Wastes

[attempting to flirt] if i was stuck in a timeloop id desperately explain my situation to you every single reset

Ever since reading my first time loop-based book as a preteen, I’ve had a Secret Time Loop Code Word. It’s been the same word all these years. I’ve never written it down anywhere or told anyone what it is, just kept it tucked away in my brain. That way, if someone I know ever confided in me that they were stuck in a time loop, I would have a way to confirm it: I would tell them the time loop code word and instruct them to find and talk to me again on the next loop. Of course, if it’s a time loop, I wouldn’t remember telling them the code word. But they’d remember it. So if someone ever came to me and said “I’m stuck in a time loop, and the time loop code word is [X],” and it was indeed the word I’ve secretly held onto for most of my life, I would know that we had had this conversation in a previous loop and that they were telling the truth.

Will this ever be useful? Almost certainly not. But hey, there’s nothing wrong with having a completely absurd contingency plan. In case of time loops.

Have you ever heard of a shell-less turtle that can grow up to 6 ft (1.8 m) long? Meet the Asian giant softshell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii). Unlike many of its relatives, it has no exterior shell—just a layer of thick rubbery skin covering wide-spanning, fused ribs that protect its internal organs. Its frog-like face adds to its unusual appearance. This reptile can be found in freshwater habitats where it burrows beneath the sand with only its snout poking out. Unfortunately, the species is threatened by loss of its riverine and coastal habitats, as well as by being hunted for its meat and eggs.

Photo: Alimohamed0, CC0 1.0, Wikimedia Commons

The ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, is "what the fuck is 6 7"

The computer, sadly, misinterpreted the space as multiplication.

Truly the best possible outcome this post could've had

A thing I love about the Knives Out "Wastons" is how all of them in some way or another fucked up during the mystery solving. Marta secretly destroyed the tape to cover her tracks and kept lying by omission. Helen got drunk and almost blew her cover several times. Jud was riddled with so much guilt that he kept trying to confess to crimes he didn't commit.

And Blanc never gave up on any of them because he knows what happens when someone hits an emotional rock bottom and didn't let those moment define who these people are in the long run. He just sees someone who needs a friend to hold their hand while they go through the worst week of their lives so they could get shit together and solve the mystery on their own terms and by god, he is fucking right.