talent upon the talented, freedom upon the free

I don’t have time to drop everything atm but. Family friend is looking for a family member possibly kidnapped by ice in Washington state. Does anyone have any resources or connections I could reach out to help her look?

Internet archive links to books I've started to recommend if you care about indigenous people and anti-colonialism.

“For example, if you’re trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didn’t see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldn’t make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT — even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to “this is important, so do WHATEVER I SAY”; they want to be convinced that what you’re proposing will work.”

Also from above:

Somewhat related, my favorite comic strip of all time:

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This is from a couple nights ago, the state police have since been dispelled by the mayor of Newark and protests outside Delaney have quieted significantly.