next time i get out of jail i want:
- 3 gray american spirits
- 1 crunchwrap with fire sauce
- a shooter of Jameson
- someone to call my roommates
(pinning this tweet for Hopefully Unnecessary future reference)
a story about the prison pipeline, slave labor, and poverty? cmon y'all. when Caveman teaches Zero how to read, in exchange for Zero digging 2 holes a day, the other kids call Caveman a slave master and ask him where his whip is. fucking incredible.
super fucking traumatizing scene of Zero, after stealing shoes, sprinting down the sidewalk when he hears sirens approaching. holes said fuck 12, we say fuck 12.
also interesting thing i noticed on this rewatch - the kids in the camp are either BIPOC, or neurodivergent white passing children. to louis sachar, that was the juvenile prison population. this fucking narrative, y'all.
update --- i did not expect this to get popular, i stand by these tweets and would like to add that the Yelnats family paid the Zeroni family reparations, both by Caveman carrying Zero up God's Thumb, and by giving Zero and his mom $$.
@petefromdarwin
@clhubes
i applaud the tenacity here but unfortunately since life costs (for people in their 20s and 30s) about 2-3x as much as it did for your generation, if a friend stops by and expects me to wine and dine them i will end up skipping a meal or 2 later that week
if anyone who was present tonight is asked to talk to the police/told they need to give a statement: DM me.
you should have a lawyer present. we will get you a lawyer. NEVER talk to cops without a lawyer.
listen, somebody i love dearly has permanent brain damage and was hospitalized for 7 weeks with COVID. they're not elderly, not immunocompromised, and this still happened.
all i did was point out unsafe practices from press and now it's a Whole Thing.
cw: fertility issues / pregnancy
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so i'm donating my eggs again and i promised months ago that i'd let the protesters with uteruses know how this process went.
as of today i am ~Barely~ capable of having children without heavy fertility treatments. i'm blaming teargas.
here's his gofundme. he has liver cancer.
Glynn Simmons spent 48 years, 5 months and 13 days in prison. Mr. Simmons was in louisiana when this crime occurred in edmond, oklahoma. and our system put him on death row.
burn it all down.
@tristan__isaac
she didn't take the money she stole or anything, truly just went around murdering rich white men because she could. kate buried treasure, didn't cash out on it. kate said ACAB, and Disrespect Your Surroundings.
they cannot require you to give a statement, and cannot interview you, with no notice. you are entitled to an attorney.
if they knock at 4am and say they need to speak with you, they will wait until your attorney is present to do so.
as always: Shut the Fuck Up.
"we ran your plates why were you in X area on X night?"
"i won't speak without my attorney present."
"X person texted you, can you provide context?"
"i wont speak without my attorney present."
"what's your relation to X person?"
"I WONT SPEAK WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY."
@shmekie
@35Dabba
@connor_mctheman
@TeahLhompson
glad you found something that works for your mourning process but some of us don't immediately clean out our contacts when we hear a loved one has died? jesus christ?
you may have heard that
@AlissaAzar
was arrested this week
the charges are ridiculous, and local clown, eli richey, is their star witness. regardless, we need to support Alissa as she deals with this ongoing harassment from the state.
donate! boost!
@tedwheeler
, PPB, DHS, ICE and FPS have made it so that i am unable to have children without rigorous and expensive hormonal injections.
chemical warfare isn't fucking acceptable.
last time i did this donation process in 2019, my egg count was in the high 20s on each ovary. this time it's 13 on the left and 12 on the right. which while hilarious, means that my chemical weapons exposure in 2020 and 2021 has severely impacted my ability to reproduce.
while you're here donate to
@OpticalBlocPDX
, a mutual aid effort that's getting Portland protesters free eye care and glasses. shameless beg, pls contribute to the cause. or any other mutual aid group on this list---
aaaand i'm a silly goose who showered with hot water and has spicy skin
remember kiddos: when the federal government has teargassed you, COLD WASH FIRST
i never wanted my own children. frankly there's plenty of children in need of care that are forced into the adoption and foster care system and i see no point in having a child that looks like me/has the same genetic makeup.
but i am very young, and this isn't fucking okay.
@GiraffeicsIF
cw death----Zero talks about in the movie, how his mom would leave him at parks when he was houseless. i lived next to a park and when it got below 0 a houseless person froze to death in the slide. i always connected those memories.
i know portland is tired. and i know it's been an impossible, nonstop, exhausting year. and yeah, a lot of us are sick of each other, and this city, and the way it has constantly failed us.
but today is about George Floyd. go to the justice center tonight at 8.
omg
my harley loving, lifelong biker father is having an emotional crisis because he doesn't like bikers anymore
"a bunch of fucking white supremacist assholes, we used to be radical, but christ i'm not these people, i can't even associate with these racist fucks"
all i'm asking is that press take accountability for their actions, and that we ALL work together to make the protest community as safe as possible. that's it. can everyone stop yelling now pls thanks
every donation cycle, i constantly get my estradiol levels tested. we're talking blood work every other day. even with constant hormone injections (2-3 shots per day) i am barely meeting the threshold for viable eggs.
as my activism has evolved, and i've gotten older, one thing that's always really stuck out to me is that Fred Hampton was 21 years old when he was murdered.
place your trust in young revolutionaries.
pro tip:
if someone's name is public and you find their house AND they're under a criminal investigation, just know that cops will be watching that house.
so if anything happens to that house, the people behind it will be found.
be smart.
upon learning that i've been exposed to covid and that's why i'm so sick, my mother offered me a bloody mary because i'm "already sick and that's basically soup"
hey Ted Wheeler, will the city be held responsible for the adverse, long term health effects of CS gas? especially on those of us who have uteruses?
Ted, why did my egg count drop by 50%? why did I menstruate for 6 weeks after Night 100? for 4 weeks after 6/5?
@PDXCityClub
anyway COPS ARE USELESS and if i'm "interrupting a scene" by sitting next to a terrified woman who's clearly fleeing her boyfriend, then i'm eager to interrupt every scene that i possibly can, for the rest of my fucking life. Abolish the fucking police.
i am a wisconsinite. i am livid. when friends back home ask why i am still protesting, because national media skews the
#PortlandProtest
scene into something it isn't, the only sensible answer is: BLACK LIVES MATTER and black people are being targeted by state sponsored violence.
CW: domestic violence
i just got shoved on the ground by cops who clearly had no idea how to handle a domestic violence victim.
i see squads parked outside of my local corner store and stop to see what's going on. houseless dudes in the parking lot tell me the cops got called /
just wondering:
if you took every personal belonging of every politician in portland (much like they've allowed rapid response to do to countless others) and you put it in a giant pile and set it on fire, would the blaze be enough to keep our houseless neighbors warm?
taking one for the team by telling every cop i walk past @ the covid vaccine center to quit their job and then getting followed out of the parking lot by 2 squads
@IwriteOK
even the most impeccable pretrial review with counsel couldn't overshadow the fact that this man Refuses to be played with. he deserves every ounce of credit.
Honolulu police dept is firing officers who refuse to be vaccinated. One was fired who had 24 years on the force was told to turn in his badge and gun. Local news reports there are 18 officers who may be terminated.
shoutout to
@awalmartparking
for dropping a tiktok with a line i cannot stop thinking about:
"when y'all say 'the founding fathers' you just mean ronald reagan, just say that."
🚨🚨🚨Burlingame Fred Meyer off Barbur in SW PDX has an amount of food thats roughly 2/3 of what was found yesterday. people loaded up what they could, managers threatened to call cops, were on the phone. 🚨🚨🚨
CALL FOR CARS + HANDS
if i had a million dollars i just....simply wouldn't have a million dollars.
my comrades would. the camps across PDX would. i truly do not understand hoarding wealth.
damn portland is Unstoppable. you give us:
- an 8 1/2 x 11" sheet of paper for a mayor
- liars on city council
- month long federal invasion
- ICE office
- 150+ days of consecutive protests
- secret arrest warrants
- some of the most violent cops in the country
AND WE SHOW UP.