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abolish ICE / prosecute ICE "agents" @faustianorgan.myatproto.social · 27/07/2026

Magnus Hirschfeld was Jewish and gay. By attacking the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, Nazis were specifically targeting the "and gay" of it. Several trans people lived and worked there.

Photo from 1933 when Nazis looted the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and burned the books.

Caption reads "First they came for the queers and you didn't know it because we're not in the poem."

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abolish ICE / prosecute ICE "agents" @faustianorgan.myatproto.social · 22/07/2026

If you find yourself saying, "I don't need to know about it to have an opinion," remember that opinions are like assholes.

to learn anything entails the fact that there is no way to escape learning that you were formerly ignorant, to learn that you were a fool, that you have already lost irretrievable opportunities, that you have made wrong choices, that you were silly and limited. These lessons are not pleasant. The acquisition of knowledge— especially when we are young— again and again includes this experience. Older children tease us for what we don't know. Teachers condescend to us as they instruct us. (Long ago, they beat us for forgetting.) In the school yard we overheard the third graders talking about how dumb the first graders are. When we reach the third grade, we ourselves contribute to such discussions. Thus most people soon actively desire to stay clear of the whole process, because by the time we are seven or eight we know exactly what the repercussions and reactions will be. One moves toward knowledge through a gauntlet of inescapable insults— the most painful among them often self-tendered. The Enlightenment notion (that, indeed, knowledge also brings "enlightenment" — that there is an "upside" to learning as well: that knowledge itself is both happiness and power) tries to suppress that downside. But few people are fooled. Reminders of the downside of the process in stories such as that of Adam and Eve can make us—some of us, some of the time, because we are children of the Enlightenment who have inevitably, successfully, necessarily, been taken in— weep.

We say we are weeping for lost innocence. More truthfully, we are weeping for the lost pleasure of unchallenged ignorance.

from About Writing by Samuel R. Delany

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abolish ICE / prosecute ICE "agents" @faustianorgan.myatproto.social · 03/07/2026

The modern cultic civic religion of the United States is based on carefully edited mythology about its founding events. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

Screencap of a paragraph from the New York Times reads
“Your petitioners apprehend that they have, in common with all other men, a natural and unalienable right to that freedom, which the great parent of the universe hath bestowed equally on all mankind, and which they have never forfeited by any compact or agreement whatsoever, but they were unjustly dragged, by the cruel hand of power, from their dearest friends, and some of them even torn from the embraces of their tender parents,” reads the 1777 petition of “a great number of Negroes who are detained in a state of slavery.” It is signed by Prince Hall — a leading member of Boston’s Black community — Lancaster Hill, Peter Bess and Brister Slenser, among others not listed.

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abolish ICE / prosecute ICE "agents" @faustianorgan.myatproto.social · 11/06/2026

“The government is trying to satisfy an audience of one, the president, while at the same time trying to play this rope-a-dope game with the court so that the court might not rule against them, they might say that a case isn’t ripe yet.” If they're running a con on the judiciary, it's not over.

While Trump and his aides speak publicly about the alleged threat of noncitizen voting, in court the Justice Department seeks to minimize the extent of the actions the federal government has taken to carry out the executive order, Becker indicated.

“So I think this is a case of the government trying to have it both ways,” Becker said. “The government is trying to satisfy an audience of one, the president, while at the same time trying to play this rope-a-dope game with the court so that the court might not rule against them, they might say that a case isn’t ripe yet.”

In response to questions from States Newsroom, Homeland Security said in an unattributed statement that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency within DHS, is “lawfully implementing” the executive order.

“President Trump has been clear: Nothing is more fundamental than the integrity and security of our elections,” the statement said.
Quest for voter rolls

The Trump administration has spent the past year attempting to obtain unredacted state voter rolls to feed into a powerful Homeland Security computer program that can identify potential noncitizen voters. The Justice Department has filed more than 30 lawsuits seeking to force states and the District of Columbia to turn over the information, but so far none have been successful.

Eight states — including heavily Democratic California, Oregon and Washington — have all-mail elections, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. For those states, complying with the executive order would effectively mean turning over the names of all or nearly all their voters to the Postal Service.

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abolish ICE / prosecute ICE "agents" @faustianorgan.myatproto.social · 05/06/2026

www.jpost.com/american-pol... is reporting that Tlaib's bill would have ended the coordination between US and Lebanon government in the fight against Hezbollah.

“There are no US service members involved in combat operations or hostilities in Lebanon,” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, ahead of the vote, according to CBS. "We stand with the Lebanese people, the government of Lebanon and the Lebanese Armed Forces in their efforts to live peacefully and defeat Hezbollah.”

Jeffries reportedly added that they would support an alternative proposal that would maintain US and Lebanese coordination against Hezbollah.

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abolish ICE / prosecute ICE "agents" @faustianorgan.myatproto.social · 07/02/2026

Happy #caturday to all those who know (or don't) that Freddie Mercury's cat inspired "Delilah"

Freddie Mercury, in a shirt printed with polo players on horseback, looks right into the camera, his mouth pursed below his famous mustache. On his chest rests his epically beautiful lilac point Himalayan cat, Delilah. She's looking down and to the right with an expression of fierce concentration.

It's serving "don't speak to me or my child ever again"

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abolish ICE / prosecute ICE "agents" @faustianorgan.myatproto.social · 05/02/2026

Who do I call to explain to INDIVISIBLE that the centrist position is ABOLISH ICE, which makes them a right-wing organization calling for restriction and reform? Incrementalism is for zoning, not murders and human rights abuses. indivisible.org/actions/ice-...

Screencap of a page from the Indivisible website showing the banner at the top and their call to action with bullet points

"Right now, we are demanding that senators withhold their votes from any bill unless it meets these minimum conditions:

Ensures there is not one penny more for ICE or CBP
Pulls ICE and Border Patrol out of Minneapolis and the rest of our communities
Prevents ICE or Border Patrol enforcement at designated ‘sensitive locations’ such as houses of worship, day cares, and hospitals
Restricts ICE and Border Patrol’s ability to target people based on their race, language or accent, place of employment, or location at the time of the apprehension
Ends the administration’s unlawful practice of warrantless home entry and arrests

We know that’s a little in the weeds, so we’ve simplified the message in the call script below. Please fill out the form and we’ll connect you to your Senator. Tell them they must act now to rein in ICE."

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abolish ICE / prosecute ICE "agents" @faustianorgan.myatproto.social · 02/01/2026

There are two internets: the free, open source country of Wiki and LibreOffice and Linux; and the ghost mall that is Facebook and Twitter. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

Facebook was a huge, free platform, much like Instagram, that offered fast and easy access to everybody you knew. It acquired Instagram in 2012 to kill off a likely competitor, and over time would start making both products worse — clickbait notifications, a mandatory algorithmic feed that deliberately emotionally manipulated people and stoked political division, eventually becoming full of AI slop and videos, all so that Meta could continue to sell billions of dollars of ads a quarter. Per Kyle Chayka of the New Yorker, “Facebook’s feed, now choked with A.I.-generated garbage and short-form videos, is well into the third act of enshittification.”

In November 2025, Reuters revealed that Meta projected in late 2024 that 10% of its annual revenue ($16 billion) would come from advertisements for scams or banned goods, mere weeks after Meta announced a ridiculous $27 billion data center debt package, one that used deep accountancy magic to keep it off of its balance sheet despite Meta guaranteeing the entirety of the loan.

One would think this would horrify investors for two reasons:

Meta’s business is both supporting and profiting from organized crime, and at 10% of its revenue, it’s also kind of dependent on it.
Meta is using deliberate and insidious accounting tricks to act like a data center that it is paying to build and will be the sole tenant of is somehow an “off balance sheet” operation.

One would be wrong. Morgan Stanley said a few weeks ago that it is “one of the handful of companies that can leverage its leading data, distribution and investments in AI,” and raised its target to $750, with a $1000-a-share bull case. Wedbush raised Meta’s price to $920, and Bank of America staunchly held firm at…$810. I can find no analyst commentary on Meta making sixteen billion dollars on fraud, because it doesn’t matter to them, because this is the Rot Economy, and all that matters is number go up.

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abolish ICE / prosecute ICE "agents" @faustianorgan.myatproto.social · 24/09/2025

Even if it caused autism, **which it doesn't** so what? Anxious parents act like autism is a fate worse than death. It isn't.

Slam poem by user janelcomeau

I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that's bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

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abolish ICE / prosecute ICE "agents" @faustianorgan.myatproto.social · 19/09/2025

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie... Reminder that the first Nazi book-burning targeted Magnus Hirschfeld

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abolish ICE / prosecute ICE "agents" @faustianorgan.myatproto.social · 17/09/2025

WaPo, dazzled by cheap glitter, is throwing gems in the trash.

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abolish ICE / prosecute ICE "agents" @faustianorgan.myatproto.social · 25/08/2025

Three of the same image from Kimi Floyd It was the only way to fit all of the alt-text

This is not a minor inconvenience. This is humiliation. This is being treated as a potential threat not because of anything I had done wrong, but because of who I am, and because the system chose to erase my legal name because our government wants to erase me and all of us who do not fit into their narrow checkboxes. And it leaves me asking a very direct question: Has JD Vance, who also had a full legal name change, ever been asked to reveal his testicles to prove he is who he claims to be? Or is this kind of invasive “proof” only demanded of those of us who are Two-Spirit, nonbinary, or transgender?
Alisa Valdés story of being on a plane whose hydraulics failed as it prepared to land at LaGuardia hit me today (thanks Brian Weis for the share). The pilot told the passengers the truth: no wheels, no flaps, no brakes, no steering. They circled Manhattan and out to sea for four hours, burning off fuel before attempting a crash landing. And the cabin was silent. Not because anyone believed they were safe, but because they were suspended in that strange space between knowing and crashing, where hope carries you until the impact comes.
That is where the United States is right now. The hydraulics are gone. The airport has been cleared for our crash. We are circling, burning fuel, waiting. And too many of you are sitting quietly, hoping it will somehow be okay.
Trump now claims he is sending the National Guard into cities because of crime. But crime is down in every single one of those cities. What they are, instead, are the largest centers of resistance to his regime. And what happens when the government occupies the very cities where the most opposition exists? Do you believe that an administration that lied to justify occupation will simply walk away? Or is this the normalization of military control, one city at a time, while we sit in silence and pretend we are still in the air and not already falling?

The guidebooks for this path already exist. We know where this goes. The alarms are blaring. The question is not whether we will keep circling. The question is when we will decide to resist before the crash comes.
I know many of my family and friends out there voted for this man, this administration, and they go to churches each week that tells them this is holy. Well guess what - you are dead wrong, and more and more it is feeling like you are lining the streets and cheering while too many of us are harassed. So what will it take? How many of us will be executed or exiled from this nation before you start paying attention?
Because now that I am home, I can name that I will survive this event, but not without trauma. Because the truth is, heading into that back room to be processed yesterday, I had no phone, according to TSA no legal ID, and I could have been one of the statistics, someone who disappeared into the system and no one could have known. And I name this, I have never felt so relieved at the privileges I carry, my less-melanated skin, my education, and my ability to advocate for myself, and knowing those privileges calls me to speaking out louder and more forcefully against the rising authoritarianism in our nation.

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abolish ICE / prosecute ICE "agents" @faustianorgan.myatproto.social · 06/08/2025

Pandemic and lockdown are not the same thing. Lockdown and measures to prevent the spread of contagious disease have ended, but the pandemic continues. Powerful people just decided to let some folks suffer and die for their convenience. www.wired.com/story/the-pa...

Although brain aging was seen universally among those living through the pandemic, only those infected went on to show measurable cognitive impairment, a symptom of Covid that has been documented in the past. The study found that those in the pandemic group who had Covid between the two scans experienced a drop in performance in mental flexibility and processing speed tests. In contrast, those who were not infected showed no significant cognitive changes, suggesting that structural aging does not always translate into visible functional symptoms.

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abolish ICE / prosecute ICE "agents" @faustianorgan.myatproto.social · 01/08/2025

Script for calls/emails to elected officials about ICE (and their collaborators) as secret police (see alt text)

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abolish ICE / prosecute ICE "agents" @faustianorgan.myatproto.social · 12/07/2025

Script for calls/emails to Congresscritters about ICE impersonators who robbed a man in Delaware, and how secret police created an opportunity for crime (see alt text) democracy.io

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/2025/06/30/men-in-ice-vests-rob-man-in-delaware-what-to-do-if-youre-pulled-over/84422610007/

A man was robbed by two armed, masked men wearing vests labeled "ICE" in Milton, DE on June 28. While traveling on Burton Road, in the area of Sand Hill Road, when a vehicle flashed red and white lights behind him, police said in a news release. The man pulled over and was removed from his vehicle by a person armed with a knife, while a second person pointed a firearm at him, one of whom later punched him and took his wallet, police said. Surveillance video and images are not yet available, but police said the people dressed in ICE vests were men wearing masks and dark-colored clothing.

Secret police who obscure their identities are a threat to everyone, whether they violate human rights directly or create an opportunity for crime. Every car on the road is a potential victim of ICE impersonators.

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abolish ICE / prosecute ICE "agents" @faustianorgan.myatproto.social · 11/07/2025

Do not let them rewrite history. They did *the opposite* of calling it out.

Screencap of twitter post showing ADL defending Musk's Nazi salute, with highlighter over the words "@elon made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute" and Musk's reply "thanks guys <crying laughing emoji>"

I mean they literally defended it and tried to gaslight anyone who saw it. DO NOT LET THE QUISLINGS REWRITE HISTORY.

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