(lau)REN
@inkandpaintdept.bsky.social
they/them. queer, genderless, sentient possum meme. opinionated. annoying. exhausted. cat parent. used to have hobbies like disney parks and drag, but now i’m just broken. auDHD/cPTSD/LongCovid #NEISvoid. masking is solidarity.
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“The first line that a lot of these moms say when they call is, ‘I’ve never asked for help and the only reason why I’m asking for help is because I love my kids,’” In response she’ll tell them in Spanish: Vergüenza robar - no pedir. Or roughly, ”Shame on those who steal, not those who ask for help.”
"In Minneapolis, for every story detailing the fallout of the federal crackdown, there are as many stories of people like Bri. Neighbors are putting their trust in total strangers. Moms are helping children who are not their own, who they’ve never met. "
A mother in Minneapolis was abducted by ICE and sent to a detention center in Texas, leaving behind a 16 year old and a 3-month old baby. The baby was breastfed and hadn't eaten in a over day. Then a superhero arrived with 350 oz of breastmilk, bottles & extra clothes. 19thnews.org/2026/02/minn...
February 3, 2026 at 8:33 PM
“The first line that a lot of these moms say when they call is, ‘I’ve never asked for help and the only reason why I’m asking for help is because I love my kids,’” In response she’ll tell them in Spanish: Vergüenza robar - no pedir. Or roughly, ”Shame on those who steal, not those who ask for help.”
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My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.
February 4, 2026 at 12:02 AM
My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.
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If you combine Eleanor and Jason's origin stories from The Good Place...
February 3, 2026 at 9:32 PM
If you combine Eleanor and Jason's origin stories from The Good Place...
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Hey @schumer.senate.gov please tell me EXACTLY what a body cam is gone do for this baby girl.
Put it in record . Because I want it read at your reckoning
Put it in record . Because I want it read at your reckoning
Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE
Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.
sahanjournal.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Hey @schumer.senate.gov please tell me EXACTLY what a body cam is gone do for this baby girl.
Put it in record . Because I want it read at your reckoning
Put it in record . Because I want it read at your reckoning
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who needs to see an extremely formidable five inch tall cat
February 3, 2026 at 9:34 PM
who needs to see an extremely formidable five inch tall cat
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Updated list!
Food is pretty urgently needed if you have the capacity. The city does not provide anything, this is being organized by library workers who have decided, unsupported by admin, that it's cruel to expect people to sit somewhere for 12 hours without food or something warm to drink.
Food is pretty urgently needed if you have the capacity. The city does not provide anything, this is being organized by library workers who have decided, unsupported by admin, that it's cruel to expect people to sit somewhere for 12 hours without food or something warm to drink.
February 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Updated list!
Food is pretty urgently needed if you have the capacity. The city does not provide anything, this is being organized by library workers who have decided, unsupported by admin, that it's cruel to expect people to sit somewhere for 12 hours without food or something warm to drink.
Food is pretty urgently needed if you have the capacity. The city does not provide anything, this is being organized by library workers who have decided, unsupported by admin, that it's cruel to expect people to sit somewhere for 12 hours without food or something warm to drink.
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Interviewing a 5-year-old about how they're worried because "bad guys are taking mommies and daddies" is not something I ever thought I'd do.
February 3, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Interviewing a 5-year-old about how they're worried because "bad guys are taking mommies and daddies" is not something I ever thought I'd do.
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Deeply disturbing: Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon. In October, a retiree emailed a DHS attorney to urge mercy for an asylum seeker. Then DHS subpoenaed his Google account and sent investigators to his home www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Deeply disturbing: Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon. In October, a retiree emailed a DHS attorney to urge mercy for an asylum seeker. Then DHS subpoenaed his Google account and sent investigators to his home www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
okay, but i really really want the rat coin purse!!
twitter must be dead dead cause someone posted a rat coin purse that would have 2019 twitter losing its collective mind and most of the top comments are bots saying random words or people not nearly amped enough about the rat coin purse
February 3, 2026 at 3:38 PM
okay, but i really really want the rat coin purse!!
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But critiquing it on the basis of legality is deeply misguided.
Especially when fascists construct the very existence of trans people and undocumented people here as crime.
"Legality" as a standard for protest is a trap, and it was set by the enemy.
Especially when fascists construct the very existence of trans people and undocumented people here as crime.
"Legality" as a standard for protest is a trap, and it was set by the enemy.
February 3, 2026 at 2:46 PM
But critiquing it on the basis of legality is deeply misguided.
Especially when fascists construct the very existence of trans people and undocumented people here as crime.
"Legality" as a standard for protest is a trap, and it was set by the enemy.
Especially when fascists construct the very existence of trans people and undocumented people here as crime.
"Legality" as a standard for protest is a trap, and it was set by the enemy.
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Making it make sense: Epstein wasn't a global mastermind. He did not orchestrate a vast conspiracy that led us to today.
He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.
He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.
February 3, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Making it make sense: Epstein wasn't a global mastermind. He did not orchestrate a vast conspiracy that led us to today.
He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.
He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.
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The Paris Prosecutor's office announced they are leaving X by stating they raided their offices.
What a way to leave X.
What a way to leave X.
February 3, 2026 at 12:42 PM
The Paris Prosecutor's office announced they are leaving X by stating they raided their offices.
What a way to leave X.
What a way to leave X.
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It is great that someone leaked these videos. BUT you have to KNOW NOTHING about how prisons work to be surprised that guards regularly violently punish incarcerated people who complain, file claims, talk to the press, etc. And by "work" I mean that violence is essential to how prisons function.
The videos appear to bolster lawsuits claiming guards used force against California prisoners after they filed sexual harassment claims.
Leaked videos show California prison guards pepper-sprayed incarcerated women who alleged sexual misconduct
The videos appear to bolster lawsuits claiming guards used force against California prisoners after they filed sexual harassment claims.
bit.ly
February 2, 2026 at 5:39 PM
It is great that someone leaked these videos. BUT you have to KNOW NOTHING about how prisons work to be surprised that guards regularly violently punish incarcerated people who complain, file claims, talk to the press, etc. And by "work" I mean that violence is essential to how prisons function.
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Introduced a friend of a friend to someone who needed groceries brought to their home. I thought it would just be once.
Just got a message from that friend of a friend: “I'll keep them fed from here.”
Goddamn, I love you, Minnesota.
Just got a message from that friend of a friend: “I'll keep them fed from here.”
Goddamn, I love you, Minnesota.
February 2, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Introduced a friend of a friend to someone who needed groceries brought to their home. I thought it would just be once.
Just got a message from that friend of a friend: “I'll keep them fed from here.”
Goddamn, I love you, Minnesota.
Just got a message from that friend of a friend: “I'll keep them fed from here.”
Goddamn, I love you, Minnesota.
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"The head of the Nashville Electric System prioritized DEI initiatives" -- Rep. David Kustoff found a way to blame Black people and women for power outages in Tennessee
February 2, 2026 at 10:14 PM
"The head of the Nashville Electric System prioritized DEI initiatives" -- Rep. David Kustoff found a way to blame Black people and women for power outages in Tennessee
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Minneapolis is 2.6mil people.
Springfield is 60,000 with 15,000 of that population under threat of deportation (1/4th of the whole city.)
Springfield is 26 square miles. 1000 ICE agents is 40 agents per mile.
People are terrified. We need all the help we can get.
Springfield is 60,000 with 15,000 of that population under threat of deportation (1/4th of the whole city.)
Springfield is 26 square miles. 1000 ICE agents is 40 agents per mile.
People are terrified. We need all the help we can get.
February 2, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Minneapolis is 2.6mil people.
Springfield is 60,000 with 15,000 of that population under threat of deportation (1/4th of the whole city.)
Springfield is 26 square miles. 1000 ICE agents is 40 agents per mile.
People are terrified. We need all the help we can get.
Springfield is 60,000 with 15,000 of that population under threat of deportation (1/4th of the whole city.)
Springfield is 26 square miles. 1000 ICE agents is 40 agents per mile.
People are terrified. We need all the help we can get.
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Sending compassion to every complex trauma survivor who remains in a freeze state due to the news, the world, the inundation with constant triggering information that your mind and body is trying to navigate. Do what you have to do to respect that response.
February 2, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Sending compassion to every complex trauma survivor who remains in a freeze state due to the news, the world, the inundation with constant triggering information that your mind and body is trying to navigate. Do what you have to do to respect that response.
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fwiw, changing the law often can create cascading changes in opinion.
legalizing gay marriage in some states rapidly convinced everyone that it was not in fact a danger. 1
legalizing gay marriage in some states rapidly convinced everyone that it was not in fact a danger. 1
I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.
February 2, 2026 at 3:57 AM
fwiw, changing the law often can create cascading changes in opinion.
legalizing gay marriage in some states rapidly convinced everyone that it was not in fact a danger. 1
legalizing gay marriage in some states rapidly convinced everyone that it was not in fact a danger. 1
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Folds on the Kennedy Center 3 weeks ago: I was sick to my stomach when I quit because I knew they were going to run it into the ground. No one that they were appointing had any experience in arts administration, but that was never the point. The point was to take that, run over it, and move on.
February 2, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Folds on the Kennedy Center 3 weeks ago: I was sick to my stomach when I quit because I knew they were going to run it into the ground. No one that they were appointing had any experience in arts administration, but that was never the point. The point was to take that, run over it, and move on.
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Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen
ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
February 2, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen
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'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:31 AM
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
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Oh my god digimon adventures Butterfly started playing and im so high what the hell am I gonna do with all these feelings
February 2, 2026 at 7:09 AM
Oh my god digimon adventures Butterfly started playing and im so high what the hell am I gonna do with all these feelings
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"microtransactions in games started by cabal of pedophile elites for the purpose of indoctrinating kids into an economy"
Ok. Well, we all knew it was evil somehow but I really didn't expect Epstein to be responsible for why video games are bad now. That's just not what I would've thought.
Ok. Well, we all knew it was evil somehow but I really didn't expect Epstein to be responsible for why video games are bad now. That's just not what I would've thought.
February 1, 2026 at 12:48 AM
"microtransactions in games started by cabal of pedophile elites for the purpose of indoctrinating kids into an economy"
Ok. Well, we all knew it was evil somehow but I really didn't expect Epstein to be responsible for why video games are bad now. That's just not what I would've thought.
Ok. Well, we all knew it was evil somehow but I really didn't expect Epstein to be responsible for why video games are bad now. That's just not what I would've thought.
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You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.
Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30.
📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
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February 1, 2026 at 1:44 PM
You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.
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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich