remember, kids - you can stock up on these meds and if stored properly they have a pretty long shelf life
BREAKING: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced he has ordered the FDA to consider new nationwide restrictions on medication abortion — and that President Trump, not scientists or doctors, will make the final decision.
1. as terrifying as it was to have ICE rampaging through DC the last week, the victory for our side was that ICE said they hoped to detain 7,000 ppl and the last count was only 189
2. the revamped Killing The Buddha has a dispatch of what that ICE rampage felt like here in DC:
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thanks to
@josie.zone's incredible video about WWE and kayfabe I'm starting to think there's a connection between ritual head shaving in pro wrestling and the Trump admin's showcasing of the ritual head shaving in CECOT in El Salvador
bsky.app/profile/josi...It appears that WWE made a copyright claim on my Dutch TV special, so it's not viewable on U.S. YouTube
Don't tell anyone, but I sneaked a copy onto Vimeo, if you wanna watch
Josie's VPRO Special
Don't share widely! This is a private upload!
will never forget, my first year in Tulsa, I was downtown when the cops shot someone a few blocks away; within *minutes*, maybe 15, they'd cordoned off some 3-4 blocks on all sides with tape and, once the press (v quickly) arrived, the cops set up *klieg lights* and directed them into our eyes-and-
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this was honestly Trump's key insight in 2015 - he saw that some fedl agents, ICE/CBP in particular, were openly jealous of how local cops were allowed to go hog wild and his genius was to convey a clear message that he would ALIGN them and be king of them all
this is why CBP, who had never endorsed a president, endorsed Trump in 2016, this is why cops endorsed Trump, they all understood that Trump was telling them: look, get me elected and I will make you all one mighty force and together we will rule this land - all the fedl oversight, gone - overnight
that was just life in Tulsa though, and I imagine in most smaller mid size cities in the country, the press relies so heavily on the cops for their reports that they only rarely dare to push back and never bother informing the public how openly, nakedly corrupt and insecure the local cops are
anyway, read your
@jesspish.bsky.social, the cops are a baronial class who are regularly in our streets just literally wilding, they get bolder every day and what we're seeing with ICE now is *bottom up* - the Feds have much stronger rules/oversight so this new ICE wilding? they're copying *cops*
the thing I noticed is not only did local press not talk about it or acknowledge it they didn't mention it in their live TV reports? that's how normal this was - here cops were actively preventing us from seeing whoever they shot and nobody in the press thought it was a big deal
and like obviously when the police report came out next day it was going to be written solely by and for the cops with no unfriendly witnesses meaning we have no idea what happened and never will and while I was freaking out every reporter I talked to just shrugged? felt like I was losing my mind
