Dialectical Behavioral Trainwreck

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Len | 32 | WNY they/he on T since 2022 doing my best to never get tired! https://www.last.fm/user/lenrave https://www.setlist.fm/user/ravebot

can those of you mad because you think trans whining on microblogs will depress support for dem politicians please imagine for one second how dem politicians spouting transphobia on enormous mainstream platforms depresses support for trans people

so my village has been having a lot of issues. rather than deal with any of them, i grabbed a goat and had all the villagers pile their blame and hate onto the goat. while we were getting ready to drive it into the woods (and absolve ourselves) the goat BIT ME????? RUDE?!?

The carceral system is a traumatic and deadly place — and it's only gotten worse in recent decades. From 2001 to 2019, deaths by suicide increased in state prisons by 85%. Incarceration is a mental health crisis.

Graph showing that suicide rates in prisons have always been higher than the general U.S. population, and the gap is widening. In 2001, it was 14 per 100,000 people vs. 10.4. In 2019, it was 26 vs. 14.2.

“The legacy of 9/11 & everything that has happened since then has created something approximating a surveillance panopticon.” Post-9/11, the surveillance state has widened the “terrorist” profile, derailing the lives of immigrants, activists & seriously chilling dissent, Maurizio Guerrero reports.

Reversing post-9/11 surveillance won’t be easy, advocates say

Twenty-five years after the U.S. government launched the war on terror, the “terrorist” profile is widening

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i’ve wanted to write about this for a while but have found it difficult to articulate. but the parallels of being raised in a high-control religion AND being raised in an environment where the political discourse grew more and more pro-surveillance and “us v them” and overall oppressive was wild.

one of the weirdly sort of positive things about growing up in a very high-control religious group was being instructed not to say the pledge of allegiance as a kid. because i bet you can you guess what that was like to do in school in a post 9/11 world, and what that would’ve taught me!

so glad i got to experience, as a 7 year old, how precarious of a line many people are walking between human decency and grabbing their torches and pitchforks. it taught me how dangerous nationalism is. a lesson that people like you reinforce for me daily!

Senator Elissa Slotkin@slotkin.senate.gov · 5d ago

But that feeling of a shared bond among all Americans in the early weeks after the attack is something I’m so glad I got to experience. Because it’s the thing that I think we’re missing the most today.

BREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · last mo.

BREAKING: in July 2026, *every single one* of the 2,528 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 10,255 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.