RawrTigerlily
@rawrtigerlily.bsky.social
Progressive living in Georgia, but always Minnesota Nice until you push me.
I have a kid, a husband, and a cat.
Can we make this a better place?
I'm trying.
I have a kid, a husband, and a cat.
Can we make this a better place?
I'm trying.
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RawrTigerlily
@rawrtigerlily.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hey Molls. Here are a couple of things I read recently, which you may find helpful. I don't think there's an easy playbook of "just do this," but a toolkit of principles:
wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-t...
wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-t...
10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won
The key to taking effective action if Trump wins is to avoid perpetuating his goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.
wagingnonviolence.org
Just reupping this on my main page so I can make it my new pin. For everyone who is ready to move past grief & into the rightful anger that will power us to stand against the worst to come in meaningful ways:
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The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
A short note to Kristi Noem
To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one
robertreich.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:01 PM
The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
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You aren't going to believe what's coming out about this ICE warehouse in Georgia!
February 15, 2026 at 6:34 PM
You aren't going to believe what's coming out about this ICE warehouse in Georgia!
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And it begins - the #EpsteinFiles Analysis.
February 15, 2026 at 6:05 PM
And it begins - the #EpsteinFiles Analysis.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Maybe just for once, we could give the benefit of the doubt to the Cassandras who have been right about everything, rather than the Nazis gaslighters who complained about being called Nazis, while throwing Nazi salutes in public, posting Nazi propaganda, wearing Nazi regalia…
it's absolutely crucial that we do not get ahead of ourselves . the correct time to call a concentration camp a concentration camp is 20 years from now when you exhume the mass graves.
Can’t believe we are still doing this
February 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Maybe just for once, we could give the benefit of the doubt to the Cassandras who have been right about everything, rather than the Nazis gaslighters who complained about being called Nazis, while throwing Nazi salutes in public, posting Nazi propaganda, wearing Nazi regalia…
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It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 3:19 PM
It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.
Knitting 2 things together here. Andrea Pritzer reminding us that Dachau was an ordinary little town before it’s name became synonymous with “Nazi death camp.” Don’t let your town become an American Dachau.
lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...
lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...
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February 15, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Knitting 2 things together here. Andrea Pritzer reminding us that Dachau was an ordinary little town before it’s name became synonymous with “Nazi death camp.” Don’t let your town become an American Dachau.
lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...
lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...
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CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
Started my seeds today. This is a compromise between what the Almanac says is suitable, & what I can psychologically handle when the nighttime temps were still in the 20s last week.
As a Yankee, I don't think I will ever get used to the idea that Spring is only really 2.5 weeks long in Georgia.
As a Yankee, I don't think I will ever get used to the idea that Spring is only really 2.5 weeks long in Georgia.
February 14, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Started my seeds today. This is a compromise between what the Almanac says is suitable, & what I can psychologically handle when the nighttime temps were still in the 20s last week.
As a Yankee, I don't think I will ever get used to the idea that Spring is only really 2.5 weeks long in Georgia.
As a Yankee, I don't think I will ever get used to the idea that Spring is only really 2.5 weeks long in Georgia.
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This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 3:53 PM
This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them
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A reminder this happened earlier this week at Trump’s massive concentration camp in El Paso:
“The cases of tuberculosis and COVID-19, two diseases that spread through the air, have underscored concern about the conditions at Camp East Montana and other immigration detention centers.“
“The cases of tuberculosis and COVID-19, two diseases that spread through the air, have underscored concern about the conditions at Camp East Montana and other immigration detention centers.“
February 11, 2026 at 1:09 PM
A reminder this happened earlier this week at Trump’s massive concentration camp in El Paso:
“The cases of tuberculosis and COVID-19, two diseases that spread through the air, have underscored concern about the conditions at Camp East Montana and other immigration detention centers.“
“The cases of tuberculosis and COVID-19, two diseases that spread through the air, have underscored concern about the conditions at Camp East Montana and other immigration detention centers.“
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Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data.
Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
February 14, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data.
Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
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🚨ICE just got access to one of its biggest private detention center operators last night, thanks to a Navy contract.
The move lets ICE bypass normal contracting processes to tap GEO Group to operate its detention centers as they race to buy detention sites to house 92,000 detainees nationwide.
The move lets ICE bypass normal contracting processes to tap GEO Group to operate its detention centers as they race to buy detention sites to house 92,000 detainees nationwide.
ICE Gains Fast-Track Access to Private Prison Giant as It Plans to Nearly Double Detention Capacity
Navy contract allows immigration agency to bypass normal bidding and hire one of its largest detention operators directly as it plans to add 92,000 beds by November
projectsaltbox.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:19 PM
🚨ICE just got access to one of its biggest private detention center operators last night, thanks to a Navy contract.
The move lets ICE bypass normal contracting processes to tap GEO Group to operate its detention centers as they race to buy detention sites to house 92,000 detainees nationwide.
The move lets ICE bypass normal contracting processes to tap GEO Group to operate its detention centers as they race to buy detention sites to house 92,000 detainees nationwide.
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In other words, the vast majority of the $45 billion in reconciliation funding is going to go to the new system of warehouse detention camps.
The other $6.8 billion will presumably serve mainly to keep the existing system of detention running without any other major changes.
The other $6.8 billion will presumably serve mainly to keep the existing system of detention running without any other major changes.
"ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers."
Senate Democrats: Do not appropriate any more funds for ICE.
wapo.st/3OfarSk
Senate Democrats: Do not appropriate any more funds for ICE.
wapo.st/3OfarSk
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
wapo.st
February 13, 2026 at 9:08 PM
In other words, the vast majority of the $45 billion in reconciliation funding is going to go to the new system of warehouse detention camps.
The other $6.8 billion will presumably serve mainly to keep the existing system of detention running without any other major changes.
The other $6.8 billion will presumably serve mainly to keep the existing system of detention running without any other major changes.
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no one ever asked republicans for specific details on how “mass deportations” would work and now here we are
Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data.
Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
February 14, 2026 at 2:15 PM
no one ever asked republicans for specific details on how “mass deportations” would work and now here we are
Someone else's "lost my cat in my own house" post reminded me of the PANIC we went through when our own cat magically disappeared on the day we were scheduled to MOVE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. Everything except what we were taking on the airplane was packed in a moving truck. The house was EMPTY.
February 13, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Someone else's "lost my cat in my own house" post reminded me of the PANIC we went through when our own cat magically disappeared on the day we were scheduled to MOVE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. Everything except what we were taking on the airplane was packed in a moving truck. The house was EMPTY.
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Internal Revenue Service improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals with immigration enforcement officials, according to three people familiar with the situation, appearing to breach a legal fire wall intended to protect taxpayer data.
IRS improperly disclosed confidential immigrant tax data to DHS
The tax agency only recently discovered it improperly disclosed tax information on thousands of the wrong people to immigration enforcement.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Internal Revenue Service improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals with immigration enforcement officials, according to three people familiar with the situation, appearing to breach a legal fire wall intended to protect taxpayer data.
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NEW: SSA has been told to tell ICE the "date and time" when certain people have appointments, likely subjecting those people to ICE enforcement actions when they come in. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, & @leahfeiger.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/social...
Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE
The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.
www.wired.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:17 PM
NEW: SSA has been told to tell ICE the "date and time" when certain people have appointments, likely subjecting those people to ICE enforcement actions when they come in. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, & @leahfeiger.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/social...
Uhh... wtf.
UPDATE: The 21 year old who has been posting “chilling” white supremacist messaging on Trump’s official Department of Labor feeds was finally fired.
JUST KIDDING! DHS hired him.
(P.S. They’ve been doing it too)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
JUST KIDDING! DHS hired him.
(P.S. They’ve been doing it too)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
February 13, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Uhh... wtf.
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I need folks to understand this. The idea that local police forces will intervene at scale against ICE is a utopian fantasy totally disconnected from how policing has always worked
Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by @the74.bsky.social reveals.
February 13, 2026 at 5:12 PM
I need folks to understand this. The idea that local police forces will intervene at scale against ICE is a utopian fantasy totally disconnected from how policing has always worked
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For context, $38 BILLION would cover one full year's extension of the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies that ended Dec 31.
The current administration's priorities are quite clear: jail brown people (many of whom prove to be legally in the U.S.) + leave more Americans without healthcare.
The current administration's priorities are quite clear: jail brown people (many of whom prove to be legally in the U.S.) + leave more Americans without healthcare.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:46 PM
For context, $38 BILLION would cover one full year's extension of the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies that ended Dec 31.
The current administration's priorities are quite clear: jail brown people (many of whom prove to be legally in the U.S.) + leave more Americans without healthcare.
The current administration's priorities are quite clear: jail brown people (many of whom prove to be legally in the U.S.) + leave more Americans without healthcare.
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Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated.
The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...
(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)
The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...
(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)
Seattle’s millionaire tax is a huge success. Here is how grassroots groups beat big money and are now raising tons of money for mixed income, rent stabilized housing. (We call it “social housing.”)
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89WjsvH/
Seattle’s millionaire tax is a wild success. #taxtherich @House Our Neighbors: Yes on 1A @Tech 4 Housing
TikTok video by Ron Davis
www.tiktok.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated.
The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...
(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)
The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...
(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)
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But if you read the Times' journalism, the idea that corruption is directly and documentably responsible for most U.S. dysfunction (health care, climate, guns, enshittification), is largely absent.
Usually the dysfunction is blamed on ambiguous, causation-free "partisan animus" and "tribalism"
Usually the dysfunction is blamed on ambiguous, causation-free "partisan animus" and "tribalism"
I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
February 12, 2026 at 5:48 PM
But if you read the Times' journalism, the idea that corruption is directly and documentably responsible for most U.S. dysfunction (health care, climate, guns, enshittification), is largely absent.
Usually the dysfunction is blamed on ambiguous, causation-free "partisan animus" and "tribalism"
Usually the dysfunction is blamed on ambiguous, causation-free "partisan animus" and "tribalism"
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February 12, 2026 at 3:21 PM
My first procedure is next week! If you got some change to throw around, help me pay the people who are going to kill the bacteria colonies in my gums. gofund.me/e7a482f35
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He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational
Homan: "Operation Metro Surge is ending. In the next week, we're going to deploy the officers here on detail back to their home stations or to other areas of the country where they're needed."
February 12, 2026 at 2:44 PM
He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational