Notices by Amy Meyers🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦🇺🇸🐸 (amyshark@mastodon.scot)

@inthehands

I’m in Salem, Oregon. We went to Merkley’s town hall last week. Dodge, weave, duck. And he’s one of the few not beholden to AIPAC. He wants to talk kitchen table issues and platitudes and what will happen after the midterms. They are using chemical weapons on his constituents. They are arresting his families for seeking help at ERs. He will not discuss it. He will not be a leader. And he’s clearly not troubled in his conscience by any of it. I’ll keep calling, but…

I saw this on Bluesky this morning. I don’t know who to credit. I’m searching for a NATIONAL LEADER. We can say we need general strikes. MN had a beautiful one Friday. Saturday, #ICE, who is in #MN under a pretext of Somali fraud investigation, murdered a US citizen who was lawfully present in public areas, lawfully carrying a weapon (maybe), lawfully protesting, in cold blood, for no reason and the government is lying about it. What’s next? We need to #unite. #Resist. Together. #pretti #good

@samiamsam @inthehands it’s already been funded via the Big Beautiful Bill. This bill has already passed the House. The Senate is just adding money to what’s already been approved. The ship has long since sailed with full blessings and champagne toasts. They are fully funded. The House approved the cherry on top already. No one is impeaching or dismantling or defunding anything. Dem donors are happy. Do you see a Dem leader emerging to talk opposition? Not happening.

@inthehands here’s the thing: ICE already is funded under the Big Beautiful Bill. The upcoming vote (already passed by the House, by the way) is for MORE funding. Killing that bill doesn’t defund ICE. It puts a small pinch on future budgets. I’m sure this government will find a workaround, if it deems the money necessary. It doesn’t seem to believe that Congress really possesses the power of the purse or that Executive Orders related to agencies operate within federal budgeting.

@xankarn because that would require actual self-reflection and commitment to change, neither of which leadership (air quotes?) or donors are interested in doing? Happy New Year.

@xankarn: https://apple.news/AiNLlL6mhTKCBobEUsaxeuA. If it doesn’t work (after workplaces, I ruin threads) it’s a Vanity Fair piece “Poison Paradise” about the NYT story & podcast. One of the contributors said:

…the question itself is a sort of violence, but also reveals this obsession with denouncing wokeness & placing blame on women for men facing the consequences of the wrong things they do…Woke is bad. Women are bad. Woke ruins the workplace. Women cause woke, so women ruin the workplace.