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I highly recommend watching this testimony from Aliya Rahman, the disabled woman who was dragged out of her car and kidnapped by ICE on her way to a doctor appointment in Minneapolis a few weeks ago.
Truly my worst nightmare.
Transcript of Aliya Rahman's speech:
Thank you members, for taking the time to be here today, and thank you staff for making this happen.
My name is Aliya Rahman, and I am a resident of South Minneapolis. I am a Bangladeshi American born in Northern Wisconsin. And Iām a disabled person with autism and a traumatic brain injury.
Not all autistic brains do this, but mine fixates on sounds, numbers, and patterns. And while what the world saw happen to me exactly three weeks ago today on video was a terrible violation it is still nothing compared to the horrific practices I saw inside the Whipple center.
So I am here today with a duty to the people who have not had the privilege of coming home, and I offer this data because these practices must end now.
On January 13th on the way to my 39th appointment at Hennepin Countyās traumatic brain injury center, I encountered a traffic jam caused by ICE vehicles and no signs indicating how to get around it. I had not wanted to pull in to a blocked, chaotic intersection, but verbally agreed to do so and rolled down my window after an agent yelled, āMove! I will break your f-ing window!ā
His first instruction.
Agents on all sides of my vehicle yelled conflicting threats and instructions that I could not process while watching for pedestrians.
Then, the glass of the passenger side window flew across my face.
I yelled, āIām disabled!ā at the hands grabbing at me and an agent said, āToo late.ā
I felt immersed in a pattern, and I thought of Jenoah Donald, an autistic black man killed by the police during a traffic stop in 2021.
I remembered mister Silverio Villegas GonzƔlez, who was killed by ICE in his vehicle last year.
An agent pulled a large combat knife in front of my face, which I thought was for cutting me, and later learned was used to cut off my seat belt. Shooting pain went through my head, neck, and wrists when I hit the ground face first and people leaned on my back.
I felt the pattern, and I thought of mister George Floyd, who was killed four blocks away.
I was carried face down through the street by my cuffed arms and legs while yelling that I had a brain injury and was disabled. I now cannot lift my arms normally.
I was never asked for ID.
Never told I was under arrest.
Never read my rights.
And never charged with a crime.
Approaching the Whipple center, I saw black and brown bodies shackled together, chained together, being marched by yelling agents outdoors. I continued to hear the word ābodiesā, because that is how agents referred to us:
āWeāre bringing in a body.ā
āTheyāre bringing in bodies 7, 8 at a time, where do I put āem?ā
āWe canāt use that room, thereās already a body in there.ā
You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if youāre already being called a body.
Agents repeatedly had to stop and ask how to do tasks. I received no medical screening, phone call, or access to a lawyer. I was denied a communication navigator when my speech began to slur. Agents laughed as I tried to immobilize my own neck. I asked for my cane and was told no, pulled up by my arms and prodded forward in leg irons by agents laughing and saying, āWalk! You can do it, walk.ā
Agents did not know if the facility had a wheelchair.
When I was finally placed in one to be taken to interrogation an agent taunted, āYou were driving, right? So your legs do work.ā
I pleaded for emergency medical care for over an hour after my vision had become blurry, my heart rate went through the roof, and the pain in my neck and head became unbearable.
It was denied.
When I became unable to speak my cellmate pleaded for me.
The last sounds I remember before I blacked out on the cell floor were my cellmate banging on the door, pleading for a medic, and a voice outside saying, āWe donāt wanna step on ICEās toes.ā
When I opened my eyes at Hennepin Countyās emergency room, I learned I was brought there to be treated for assault.
The impacts of DHS detention on my physical, mental and financial well-being and safety have been very severe, but I do not deserve more humane treatment than anyone else, US citizen or not. And I am here today with a strong spirit and a duty to the many people who havenāt had the privilege to tell their stories or see their loved ones come home. I am extremely distressed by the pattern that violence from law enforcement has been happening to black and indigenous communities for centuries, and to DHS survivors for over 20 years.
We call ourselves a civilized nation, but we lack rules and accountability around what a person claiming to be law enforcement is permitted to do to another human being.
I am not afraid, and Iām not afraid to keep working on this problem even after ICE is gone. Thank you for your time.
oh,
oh this is absolutely beautiful
I saw some James Webb Telescope scientists give a talk and one of them said this was her favorite image because she had waited and worked 25 years to see this.
200k notes is insane who the hell are u people
All four of my grandparents spoke Yiddish as their native language before coming to the US after the Holocaust, and I honestly hate this narrative so much. Yeah, speaking Yiddish in Israel was discouraged because they wanted to make the shift to speaking Hebrew. But there's a reason I was never taught Yiddish when living in the US, and it's not Zionism.
Can't repeat this enough for the anti-Zionist Yiddishists:
Some Yiddish speakers (coughmyfamilycough) fundamentally viewed Yiddish as a slave language and therefore REFUSED to pass it to their children while in the US. They favored Hebrew as an emancipated Jewish language.
You do not get to take this away from my family and the families of others just because it doesn't suit your political narrative.
^^^ ESPECIALLY in the U.S., and prewar jews considered yiddish a slave language. Assimilation to the golden place of USA was critical, this is why my family on both sides never passed down yiddish. And don't think they weren't zionists--my grandmothers ran their local ORT and Hadasssah chapters.
Myth: Israel's commitment to Hebrew helped wipe out Yiddish culture.
Fact: The Nazis murdered the majority of native Yiddish speakers and left the remainder so horribly traumatized that a lot of them didn't WANT to preserve it.
even before i lived in a place with a massive population of feral cats decimating the wildlife i had read the studies and knew the data said that TNR did not work and we need to be trapping and euthanizing feral cats but now that iāve lived in a place where there are an enormous number of feral cats itās like, inconceivable to me that anyone supports TNR, not just for the health of the world but for the sake of the fucking cats
nobody will even acknowledge it not even in most conservation circles. We have a solution to a massive, massive problem that is more humane, cheaper, easier, takes less time, prevents animal suffering, and saves valuable members of our disappearing ecosystem. And nobody is even willing to theoretically acknowledge that it exists outside of a few very small circles.
it works. It works. It is better for the cats. Itās better for the cats. Living in a place where you cannot drive 10 minutes without seeing a new roadkill cat almost every single day really makes you think about how much suffering could have been prevented if we just dealt with the problem we have created. Itās not a pleasant way to go, being hit by a car. Or being ripped apart by a predator, or eating a poison, or starving to death, of dying of an infection, or an illness, or any of the hundred thousand ways an animal in the wild passes without human intervention. Euthanasia is simply falling asleep. It is fucking wild to me that saying you think we should take responsibility for our mistakes and ensure that cats fall asleep peacefully instead of capturing them and then hurling them back out into the world SPECIFICALLY in order to allow them to die in agony makes people treat you like a fucking serial killer.
And if you donāt care about cats dying in agony do you care about the world around you? Thereās a species of bird we only know ever existed because someoneās cat brought home our only example. Thatās horrific. Weāve lost so much biodiversity because we simply wonāt listen to the research, which again, has proven that TNR is not effective.
a peaceful death is not the worst thing that could happen to an animal.
@cathartidae sources for ya!
Sources:
https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/UW468 āHow Effective and Humane Is Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) for Feral Cats?āĀ
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6523511/ āA Case of Letting the Cat out of The BagāWhy Trap-Neuter-Return Is Not an Ethical Solution for Stray Cat (Felis catus) Managementā (also has a thousand references attached that are handy)
Not a reference so much as the human society actively admitting that TNR does nothing to decrease population, actively contributes to harming wildlife, and doesnāt actually help the cats in any way, just reduces some of the nuisance behavior that people complain about: https://www.animalhumanesociety.org/resource/real-impacts-trap-neuter-return
Unscientific from here on out as i donāt feel like trying to find the studies i read in like January of last year:
https://hahf.org/awake/the-trouble-with-trap-vaccinate-neuter-return/ āThe Trouble With Trap-Neuter-ReĀ (Abandon!) from the hillsborough animal health foundation, articles also link to studies
https://abcbirds.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-Evidence-Against-TNR.pdf from the american bird conservancy, has scientific articles quoted.Ā
Even More Sources on TNR being non-viable and ways that cats are impacting the world from birds to *hawaiāiās monk seals*
Animal Emergency and Referral Center of Minnesota. (2022, October 26).Ā Indoor cats vs. outdoor cats. Animal Emergency & Referral Center of Minnesota. https://aercmn.com/indoor-cats-vs-outdoor-cats/
Campbell, V. (2017, January 25).Ā The Obituary of the Stephens Island Wren. All About Birds. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/the-obituary-of-the-stephens-island-wren/
Castillo, D., & Clarke, A. L. (2003). Trap/neuter/release methods ineffective in controlling domestic cat ācoloniesā on public lands.Ā Natural Areas Journal,Ā 23(3).
Coe, S. T., Elmore, J. A., Elizondo, E. C., & Loss, S. R. (2021). Free-ranging domestic cat abundance and sterilization percentage following five years of a trapāneuterāreturn program.Ā Wildlife Biology,Ā 2021(1). https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00799
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N., Kirwan, G. M., & Sharpe, C. J. (2022, October 25).Ā Guadalupe storm-petrel (Hydrobates Macrodactylus), version 1.2. Birds of the World. https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/guspet/cur/introduction
Dickman, C. R., & Newsome, T. M. (2015). Individual hunting behaviour and prey specialisation in the house cat Felis catus: Implications for conservation and management.Ā Applied Animal Behaviour Science,Ā 173, 76ā87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2014.09.021
Edge. (2019, June 19).Ā Guadalupe storm-petrel. EDGE of Existence. https://www.edgeofexistence.org/species/guadalupe-storm-petrel/
Galbreath, R., & Brown, D. (2004). The tale of the lighthouse-keeperās cat: Discovery and extinction of the Stephens Island wren (Traversia lyalli).Ā Notornis,Ā 51(4).
Hawaiāi Department of Land and Natural Resources. (2025).Ā Feral cats. Feral Cats. https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/hisc/info/invasive-species-profiles/feral-cats/#:~:text=Feral%20cats%20on%20islands%20have,kill%20approximately%202.4%20billion%20birds.
Loss, S. R., Will, T., & Marra, P. P. (2013). The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States.Ā Nature Communications,Ā 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2380
McGregor, H., Legge, S., Jones, M. E., & Johnson, C. N. (2015). Feral cats are better killers in open habitats, revealed by animal-borne video.Ā PLOS ONE,Ā 10(8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133915
Medina, F. M., Bonnaud, E., Vidal, E., Tershy, B. R., Zavaleta, E. S., Josh Donlan, C., Keitt, B. S., Corre, M., Horwath, S. V., & Nogales, M. (2011). A global review of the impacts of invasive cats on Island Endangered Vertebrates.Ā Global Change Biology,Ā 17(11), 3503ā3510. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02464.x
National Research Council. (1992, January 1).Ā Scientific Bases for the Preservation of the Hawaiian Crow. U.S. National Library of Medicine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235935/
NOAA. (2024, August 29). Toxoplasmosis and its effects on Hawaiʻi Marine Wildlife. NOAA Fisheries. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/endangered-species-conservation/toxoplasmosis-and-its-effects-hawaii-marine
Read, J. L., Dickman, C. R., Boardman, W. S., & Lepczyk, C. A. (2020). Reply to Wolf et al.: Why trap-neuter-return (TNR) is not an ethical solution for Stray Cat Management.Ā Animals,Ā 10(9), 1525. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10091525
Reed, L. (2022). The effects of free-roaming cats on native wildlife populations.Ā Wildlife Rehabilitation Bulletin,Ā 40(1), 17ā21. https://doi.org/10.53607/wrb.v40.250
Salano, E. (2024, October 5).Ā Eliciting the effect free roaming cats have on Native Hawaiian wildlife using stable isotope analysis. UKnowledge. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/biology_etds/103/Ā
Steele, J. H., Thorpe, S. A., & Turekian, K. K. (2009).Ā Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences. Academic Press.Ā
science says itās long past time to stop prolonging the suffering of feral cats, for the sake of the people, the native wildlife, and the goddamn cats themselves.
I was at a friend's house to check on carcasses I had macerating in his yard. A little grey cat ran up to me, yelling her head off in friendliness and wanting nothing more than to be pet. I had nothing to give her but let my friend know he should catch her since she was so friendly. I am ashamed to admit I didn't give her much thought beyond that, finishing my work and giving her a last pet before going home.
My friend told me how he'd seen her before but she always vanished before he could catch her. He works far too many hours and is always tired so he couldn't prioritize catching this cat.
Three months pass with no sign of her. I go back with my partner to check on carcasses and this same little grey cat appears. This time, however, a tooth has been snapped off and her tongue is so badly cut that she can't keep it in her mouth. She was thin and dirty and screaming to please be given some food.
This time I couldn't look away. I asked my friend's girlfriend if I could borrow a cat carrier. She loaned me one and a tin of wet food that the grey cat willingly followed into the carrier. She didn't care at all about being put into the carrier - all she wanted was a hand on her. She'd arch up against the top just so my hand would rest on her back for a moment.
We drove through rush hour traffic to the only shelter still open. We knew we couldn't keep her and I couldn't stand the thought of putting her back out on the streets to die slowly.
The shelter couldn't take her. Her ear was clipped so she was a "community cat" and outside their ability to help. They tried desperately to offer alternatives to me as I cried over her carrier, knowing I couldn't take her home but also that if I didn't I couldn't live with the thought of her back on the streets.
I made a Hail Mary call to a local friend who is very connected in our city. They didn't have my number saved but answered all the same to hear me sobbing about a cat I'd found and to please help me find a place for her. Please. If I don't find something then she'll be alone on the streets again to die.
My friend came through. I could keep the cat in their garage overnight and in the morning my friend would be back in the city and could find someone to help the cat.
The shelter folk gave me a crate and some food - their hands were tied but they didn't want to leave me with nothing. They were good people doing the best they could in their own system. Community cats were ones they weren't allowed to "waste" resources on. Ostensibly they'd been dealt with and their fate decided. There was nothing the shelter folks were allowed to do for them.
I took the cat to my friend's garage. She was settled into a crate on towels, happy as a clam to be warm and safe. This was a cat made to be loved and to love, as she immediately began trying to groom one of my friend's roommates. He stayed in the garage with her, giving her food and water and in exchange having no say on whether she was in his lap or not. She was always in his lap.
Nobby Nobbs (so named for the only other character known to man that is as scrungly as she is) was then formally adopted by my friend. Her tongue has healed, her fur remains scrungly, and she's every bit the rabid love bug I suspected her to be when she came to me yelling to be pet.
She's a TNR cat. Someone thought they were doing her a kindness in that and if nothing else she didn't add kittens to the world but that doesn't negate the pain she suffered before I found her - the broken teeth, the lacerated tongue, the ulcerated cheeks, the flea-bald patchiness of her coat.
I say this as someone who adores this cat and has the privilege to see her loved and cherished: I wish she'd never had to suffer what she did. I wish people were alright making the harder call that leads to less misery on the side of the cats.
TNR is a polite fiction, nothing more. Just so the humans can pretend they've done right by the same cats they're letting loose to die miserably somewhere else. As long as the humans don't see it it's fine.
The shelter folks told me she's a community cat and that I could take her home and release her by my house. Then I could feed her myself and keep up with her and know where she was! I could still keep her, after a fashion.
I am not proud of how I snarled back that I would never exchange a quick death for a slow one. I would be giving her a different funeral plot, not giving her a life. Even near me she'd be just as vulnerable to the innumerable predators that find cats quite delicious, let alone cars and poisons and the other cruelties humans practice on stray cats.
She's the second stray cat I've met that when I held them the cat melted in my arms, purring and so desperately wanting to be loved. The first cat I was able to trap and take to a local shelter only to find when I called to check on him a day later that his health had been so terrible, so beyond help, that he'd been put down. All the love in that tiny body lost because the people I lived beside didn't care enough to trap the cats they had.
My partner was asleep. I woke her up to crawl into her arms and sob, my heart breaking for the stupidity of the humans who hadn't cared enough to grant this poor little cat the chance to be either an indoor cat, loved and cared for, or to grant him a quick death long before I met him. I've other stories of the cats they kept around, essentially feeding the poor souls to the predatory birds and wandering dogs that frequented our area.
TNR doesn't work. It is a lie humans tell ourselves so we can pretend we haven't failed these animals on a massive scale. Cats are invasive and cause massive harm in their turn. It is humanity who needs to deal with this crisis, this horror we've made, and I pray one day we look it square in the face and vow to make it right.
sorry
this is a good post, but i wanted to note that animal shelters by and large are culpable in the suffering of TNR cats.
maybe the individual workers boundless-ennui met truly had their hands tied āĀ but the cold hard truth is that "no kill" shelters don't want to muck up their live release rate by doing the right fucking thing.
if that means cats suffering and dying, oh well. they don't care.

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not gonna lie, this actually looks like a good idea.
I was camping this weekend and someone pulled out THREE snackleboxes and lemme tell you, absolute game changer
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A new study published online today, April 25, in the scientific journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is nat
From the article:
āIf you look only at the trend of species declines, it would be easy to think that weāre failing to protect biodiversity, but you would not be looking at the full picture,ā said Penny Langhammer, lead author of the study and Executive Vice President of Re:wild. āWhat we show with this paper is that conservation is, in fact, working to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. It is clear that conservation must be prioritized and receive significant additional resources and political support globally, while we simultaneously address the systemic drivers of biodiversity loss, such as unsustainable consumption and production.ā
This massive meta analysis (for those not familiar, a study analyzing the results of many studies on similar topics) found that the vast majority of conservation efforts show much much better results than doing nothing. In many cases, biodiversity loss was not only stopped but reversed.
This shows that conservation efforts really work and money invested is put to very good use. Legally protecting endangered species really works, restoring habitat really works, removing invasive species really works, returning land to Indigenous communities works. All of the blood, sweat, and tears being poured into protecting the natural world has been making a real, big, tangible, difference on a global scale.
We fixed it. We did fix it and we can fix it and we are fixing it and we WILL fix it!!!
Forty years ago there were zero condors in the wild.
There are over 300 condors now, free and wild and breeding by themselves without our help.
We did that. We did. Lots of people said "that's stupid, you won't succeed" but people made condor puppets and they said "fuck you we're gonna try anyway" and they fed the babies and raised them up wild and did their best with their big human brains and human cooperation and WE FIXED IT!!!!
YOU ARE NOT THE FIRST GENERATION TO CARE.
YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO CARES.
IT IS NOT HOPELESS.
WE CAN FIX IT!!!!
I just googled this and⦠yes, itās absolutely real.
And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.
So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.
The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.
Thank God someone bothered to check.
>I just googled this and⦠yes, itās absolutely real.
Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.
Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A
https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138
Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll
Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (itās a pdf)
Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic āfalse positivesā per each square-millimeter un
Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesnāt mean microplastics arenāt a problem, though
That should be enough
āWow, that neo Nazi congresswoman who loved Trump and gave speeches about how she loved him because he was going to stop the evil Jewish cabal that controls the world suddenly turned on Trump and is now saying she hates him because heās too subservient to Israel. I guess this means sheās a #based leftist ally now who we should embraceā
You dumb motherfuckers. Sheās still a fucking Nazi. She hates Trump because she thinks he works for Da Jooz. She also still hates immigrants and trans people, by the way. She is not your friend. She is not your ally. Sheās a fascist who hates Trump because she thinks he is insufficiently loyal to the cause of fascism
Everyone who thinks Marjorie Taylor Green is an ally talking sense rather than part of an enemy civil war has earned themselves a place on the list of targets for the Jewish Space Laser that she totally didn't make up

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ok sorry to double reblog BUT I just looked him up and he does these fantastic videos where he breaks down HOW he actually mimics the other artistsā styles. Like for ed Sheeran, he explains how he brings his voice forward in the mouth, while Adam Levine sings in the back of the mouth, stuff like that. Itās SO COOL, I donāt think Iāve ever seen anyone actually break down how to do this sort of thing, as a skill, instead of just treating it like a neat trick they just happen to be good at. https://www.tiktok.com/@justinjmooremusic
Check him out heās so cool
Also on age verification: I have been on this website since 2011. Unless you think I started blogging at age 2, you KNOW I'm an adult.
#the fact that 'can prove access to an online account at least 12 years old' or even 'account to be verified is itself fully 18 years old'#AREN'T accepted methods of age verification is such a telling sign of what the real purpose of age-gating laws is:#data harvesting and deanonymization and the buildout of state-controllable ways to restrict both content and internet access itself en masse (via @shinelikethunder )
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I think we all should.
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a series of unfortunate events is really the blueprint for characters doomed by the narrative like i think that series changed my brain chemistry forever⦠the title tells you how the story will end and the author repeatedly tries to warn you away but still you pick up the book. the first sentence is that itās a tragedy and you keep reading anyway.. you read through the whole story and itās terrible and tragic and unfortunate and then after youāve stayed up late reading it under your covers with a flashlight, you go to your school library as soon as class is over and check out the next book in the series because you need to know what happens even though really, you already know. the end is right there in the title, itās there in every page .. before the story even begins you know itās a tragedy and you read it anyway andā
THIS!!!!
The ever-relevant People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn:
āThink about what we expect from the endings of stories. We expect the good guys to be āsavedā. If that doesnāt happen, we at least expect the main character to have an āepiphanyā. And if that doesnāt happen, then least the author ought to give us a āmoment of graceā. All three are Christian terms. So many of our expectations of literature are based on Christianityā and not just Christianity, but the precise points at which Christianity and Judaism diverge. And then I noticed something else: the canonical works by authors in Jewish languages almost never give their readers any of those things. In fact, I saw that many of the canonical stories and novels in modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature actually didnāt have endings at all.ā
^^^
Dara Horn goes on to say to contrast fiddler on the roof with the original Tevye the Dairyman which does not have a happy ending. Horn says and forgive me for not wanting to look up the quote right now that for Jews the act of persistence is the ending. We persist and sometimes we don't. Sometimes we die but we lived and we persist still.
And so A Series of Unfortunate Events is not happy. It's awful and traumatic and a story you never recover from but they lived and persisted and died and that (all of that) matters so deeply that you never recover from it. And unfortunately (ha) people often only care about the death and not about the life of persistence and that distancing allows them to make dead Jews into these perfect things to be ignored instead of deeply valuing the complexity of life so as to be changed by the persistence of it.

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I watched some videos by that guy who set up a fake ICE hotline to get people to snitch on members of their community. Not only is this very real and useful praxis- he's preventing these ghouls from reaching the real ICE- he also handles the calls in a really amazing way.
For the most part, he doesn't make accusations or insults people, he just repeats back the appalling shit they're telling him. And they get fucking furious. The example that went viral was him fielding a call from a kindergarten teacher who wanted to report one of her student's parents.
This absolutely disgusting piece of shit thought that the parents were "illegals" who were "taking up resources" because they weren't born in the US. The child was a US citizen because he was born here, but she wanted the "ICE" agent to "look into it."
So this dude just starts repeating stuff back like "so you want me to load the parents of the 5-year-old child you teach into a van and deport them, right?" and this bitch has the gall to say "you make it sound terrible š " in a self-conscious way. And then when he finally makes a more direct insult by nonchalantly saying that the 5-year-old "must be a major threat to national security," she demands to speak to his supervisor (which he agrees to and then makes no effort to change his voice for lmao).
This is far from the only call where the whole "repeat their rhetoric back to them" tactic pisses the caller off, too. As rotten, immoral, and disgusting as these ghouls are, I believe there's a tiny part of them that is aware of how fucked up their beliefs and behavior are. Being forced to confront that leads to painful cognitive dissonance and they'd rather lash out at the person who criticized them than look inward and do some self-reflection. Forcing people to confront their own cognitive dissonance of "I'm a good person" clashing with "I have objectively gross and harmful beliefs" is useful, even if it will never go anywhere.
Something that also got me was how the teacher kept looking for OP to soothe and assuage her ego/conscience and got progressively more agitated when he wouldnāt. This is someone who desperately needs to think sheās a good person who is doing good things when what sheās doing is objectively heinous.
She thought she was in the right because she was trying to tear apart this family in a āpoliteā and indirect way. Sheās not the one holding a gun and herding people into an unmarked van, after all. The fact that her call would have directly led to that outcome doesnāt register as culpability to her until OP makes her connect the dots. THATāS why she got upset, because she was forced to acknowledge the blood on her hands.
The core conceit of Lord of the Rings is pretty funny. You are a twenty three year old in a suburb of Maine. The little bracelet in your grandpaās attic has an inscription on it that is the password to the worldās entire nuclear arsenal. It is up to you to walk to the only hydraulic press in the world, located in Arizona, before the FBI finds the bracelet, kills you, and enslaves the suburb of Maine you currently live in
#the bracelet is also radioactive