Daddles

Daddles

@daddle.bsky.social

Just trying to survive the awareness of all my internal contradictions without imploding. Profile pic of my dog. She/her.

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it's pretty f'd up that the Trump administration is trying to deport my duly-elected member of Congress

I learned French when I was 16 (through immersion) and so to this day words that I learned through reading I end up pronouncing as if they were French. The brain is weird.

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

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Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

thenation.comOne Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE DetentionMy husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

I’m not anti-candy corn. I will eat it. But it’s one of those “really only good because it’s seasonal” things. So Candy corn in July??

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🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

Sitting at the airport and an older woman is listening to an audiobook out loud. I was ignoring it but managed to hear enough words like “Your Grace” and “Benedict” and the Duchess” to figure out that it’s Bridgeton, the first book. Really wondering what she does when it gets … uh …. Interesting

Chaos maker unsure about idea of ending chaos. Tonight at 7.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: “I will soon be reviewing the plan that Iran has just sent to us, but can’t imagine that it would be acceptable in that they have not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done to Humanity, and the World, over the last 47 years. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

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COACH SULLY: “Shift your eyes to this monstrosity… one year. One President. Donating his salary is just a headline. It doesn’t offset the BILLIONS Trump is accumulating elsewhere.” 💰

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When the US admits that they killed any “military-aged men” who walked within 3km of a downed pilot they mean any boy lanky enough to be a teenager and any middle-aged man able to walk unaided with a cane got shot in the head for the crime of walking.

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On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

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Trump could not be more explicit about his intention to rig elections this year and in 2028

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"

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Independent journalist Georgia Fort was also arrested by federal agents earlier for reporting on the church protest in Minneapolis. She was live streaming when agents arrived to take her into custody.

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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

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Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.

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I realize that there are so many things about this but I’m tired of the “they’re paid protesters” line because this isn’t about crowd sizes. This is about 1st, 4th,civil, and human rights and no one loses those because they are “paid”.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "In MN, the Troublemakers, Agitators, & Insurrectionists are, in many cases, highly paid professionals. The Governor & Mayor don’t know what to do, have totally lost control, & our currently being rendered, USELESS! If, & when, I am forced to act, it will be solved, QUICKLY and EFFECTIVELY!"

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21-year-old activist injured by ICE: I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.

The paid protesters argument is, while still stupid, about crowd sizes where numbers matter. To apply the paid protesters argument to violations of the First and Fourth amendments, civil rights, and human rights, is to say that if we are being paid to do something, we lose our rights.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"You're seeing a lot of paid protesters" -- Rep. Mike Haridopolos's attempt to defend ICE's tactics in Minneapolis during a CNN panel discussion this morning did not go well. Bad used car salesman vibes.

Regular reminder that no member country pays into NATO. It is a requirement to spend 5% of GDP (new target) on defense spending (aka their own military). So is Fine suggesting we will cut our defense budget here?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

NEWSMAX: If we take Greenland, can we get out of NATO and stop paying $50 billion a year? REP. RANDY FINE: NATO needs the US a lot more than the US needs NATO. Greenland should be part of the United States.

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I think it’s important to point out: ICE does NOT have the same authority as a police officer. They do NOT have the power to enforce laws, only to engage in their specific tasks. IE: they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against

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Someone sent me this video of Trump’s goons in action today in the Twin Cities. The audio is disturbing.

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Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US

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NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.

washingtonpost.comThis lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline.After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...