Man, almost like Gavin Newsom is full of shit and fully made up that 80% of Americans are agaisnt due process and used that as a way to try to push the party further to the right, because he's proven over the past few months he is a right-winger.
He pulled the same shit with trans rights, saying it's an "80/20" issue against, when in reality it was only 80/20 when you exclusively poll not just Republicans, but Republicans who have never met a trans person (for Republicans who have, about 35% support trans rights which is still alarmingly low)
It's all bullshit. We need to stop listening to people with some of the worst instincts and intentions in the party.
Our first victory against trump!
Time to start celebrating ALL the small wins, because EVERY win means a lot, and every win helps us fight for the next one!
In Case you have to deal with bad faith whining about Garcia Abrego's knuckle tattoos. (oh scary he has tattoos on his hand).
Lets review the timeline real quick in regards to the tattoos. Detailed timeline available here -
https://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-wrongful-deportation-kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador/story?id=120803843
3/15 Kilmar Garcia Abrego is detained by ICE. Sent to an El Salvador prison, CECOT without due process.
4/1 Media and a legal defense raise public interest. ICE and the federal admin make excuses, 'detained in error, but declared a gang member' etc, after the Trump admin 5 or 6 years prior had ruled he was in the country legally.
4/17 A photo op is arranged to show Abrego is alive, meets with Senator Van Hollen.
4/18 Trump holds up his photoshopped 'translation' of the cartoonish knuckle tattoos, a picture first published from El Salvador Dictator and sketchy cartel affiliate/bitcoin bro Nayib Bukele.
So Let's see- they detain a guy, the case goes to the highest court, and then almost a month later they say 'whelp look at these weird prison tattoos sideways and its totally just like all the members of MS-13 who have MS-13 on their body spelled with the four characters M and S and 1 and 3 the only difference being these tattoos aren't those characters. Bro we knew he was in the gang. And now that he's in our complete control, we didn't tie him down and tattoo some random shit on his knuckles, trust us bro, who would do something like that? Just tattooing markings on a prisoner who was denied legal recourse based on ethnic assumptions? We're not like the last people who famously did that at all- trust us bro. We just waited until the case had been in the highest courts before showing you this totally reliable photo.
Also if you look at his staged photo with the Senator? He's hiding his hands under the table- probably because they just held him down and randomly tattooed him? Regardless if this is just a theory or not- he had been processed and found innocent several times, and this is just some half baked "Fuck the Constitution, America has a King now, and we can hurt whoever we want, yeehaw racism is amazing again" motherfuckery. But for my money that photo op is a picture of a guy forced to dress like a fucking tourist and experiencing body horror after having been marked up by fucking monsters, all because he wanted to send at least one last message to his wife and child.
And if you think any of that benefits America in any positive way, I hope you fucking drink bleach, and chase it down with horse wormer, and I hope you get every cruel perverted nonsensical whimsy the Mad King can cook up. You people are a minority in America and your hate movement is on borrowed time.
A reminder to the "the American government wouldn't..." crowd. They have. They have made their own internment camps before. They have rounded up innocent citizens and immigrants before. The victims of which are still alive to this day and trying to share their stories with the world, they have been trying to warn us for a long time. George Takei (as seen above) is a famous example of this. He has written about his experiences time and time again, even publishing a book talking about his time in these camps. He may be famous now, but at the time he was just another kid forced from his home. To this day he still firmly dedicates himself to trying to educate and inform people, trying to spread awareness with his platform. The American Government can and will do terrible things. Do not let anyone convince you otherwise.
Also- if its 'extra important' even if only to a select few- torrents are a possibility. But yeah- private archives are important and precious and the only real possibility of owning media or having information in a space not controlled by capricious actors that control the cloud.
i encourage people to start archiving. whatever amount you can do. get a physical hard drive.
documentation of political events (both sides)
resources & information that you access online (don't bank on it staying up forever)
your important documents, photos, etc.
moments of humanity (ex: just saw a video of a nyc subway wall covered in hopeful sticky notes after the election)
culture you want to preserve (ex: like how ppl saved vines back in the day to make vine compilations when it went away!)
your medical records
what will you NEED access to if it's no longer available online?
what will you WANT to show future generations from this historic time period?
this was always important with the fragility of the internet but especially now 💕
News hadlines from this past week 3/30/2025
Reminder: you can always just stop hating and being an asshole. You'll probably even feel better about yourself.