Notices by Diligence Jones (deliachristina@sfba.social), page 3

People: Your signs are cute but what's your plan?????? What are you going to doooooo?

BIPOC Communities: We're organizing, mobilizing, and getting ready.

People: But I don't see you doing it. What are you *doinngggggg*? What's your plan?

This is what a lot of snooty fucking lefty bros/people sound like. Like, bro, wtf are YOU doing?

Folks demanding a plan like they want to copy someone else's homework.

Fuck, *do your own homework.*

Yesterday, I listened to a tiny trabajadora describe in Spanish the work she and the other trabajadores are doing to protect each other while ICE kidnaps them and decimates their families. She asked for people to join them and help them.

THAT'S THE FUCKING PLAN.

FUCK.
Ypipo, man.

FUCK! What are you looking for? Some Project 2025-like outline for a radically different social order? No one has time for that! FUCK.

Happy Sunday.

This is one of the slides from the big Bay Get Ready community NonCooperation training some friends went to a couple weekends ago.

I would posit that this looks like A Plan. It's not the only Plan but it looks good for right now.

I would also posit that it's a hard plan. It's not a technical plan like Project 2025. It's a difficult adaptive challenge. And that's why folks will be like, This isn't a plan; this isn't going to work. They're looking for technical rubrics. Sorry, dude. Shit is hard.

That fucking thread fucking annoyed me, man.

Later in the presentation they talk about the role of marches/rallies/vigils = these are symbolic actions that *by themselves* won't trigger a u-turn. The energy and solidarity of these moments need to be built on with alternative infrastructures of taking care of one another AND mass noncooperation in many different forms.

I get the frustration folks have with costumery and drumming. I was that person, too. Like, in June I was that person.

But seeing it as ONE tool in a toolbelt helps me see a broader context.

I think some folks legit struggle with how to be a neighbor. They don't have a model for it.

My model was my dad. He talked with everyone on our block: the racist dude, the drug dealers, the drop outs, the single moms, the snooty bougie folks, the old ladies and uncles.

He mowed the lawns of the shut in; he dropped off extra turkey packages for families; he showed up in court to keep someone's sons out of jail.

When the first immigrant family moved in on the block and everyone was grumbling my dad was the FIRST person to loudly hang out on his porch and yell hello to the Mexican family next door.

Sure; my dad was a pastor, and that practice of caring for a congregation was his ethical foundation. But he was also like this before he had a church.

There was NEVER a drive by on our street. Not a single gang flare up.

Because my dad neighbored the fuvk out of that block.

Shit is bonkers in the world right now.

Someone asked: What can I do?

Maybe because it's a gorgeous Sunday and I woke up singing This Is The Day (a praise song from my youth) but I suddenly thought: Be a good neighbor.

Just....Be a good neighbor, dude.

It's wild when a state AG has to sue a local police dept to STOP breaking the law and STOP snitching on private residents by sharing license plate data with out of state depts.

Once that data leaves CA there is NO control over how it's used.

SFPD shares this info as well.

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-sues-el-cajon-illegally-sharing-license-plate-data-out

One thing I'm really aware of (as I struggle to process the Chicago raid(s) AND the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank):

The 'technology' of control (and I'm using that word, technology, in the Foucauldian sense) has been perfected over centuries, and the oppressor deploys it in very similar ways against the oppressed:
- surveillance
- controlling movement + travel
- economic suppression
- medicalization/pathologization
- hyper contact with law enforcement/militarized interactions
- extra legal violence
- apartheid/racial profiling/racial categorization
- separate legal processes
- state-sponsored violence and incarceration

Right now, these technologies are touching BIPOC, the disabled, the poor, and trans people the most *often* and the most consistently -- with devastating impact.

Just a warning that that won't always be the case.

Fucking 🧊 just rounded up a bunch of regular Black folks on the south side of Chicago. FOR NO REASON.

Article here: https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/

Tik tok here: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM65EY5P/

Additionally, the White House is absolutely going to go after all the large foundations and philanthropies (which leverage private monies -- not government) as 'terrorist' orgs.

Does the Trump DOJ have legal standing to do so? Absolutely not. Are there actual grounds? Nope.

But that won't stop him, and appealing to the rule of law won't stop him, either.

I can't wait to see which foundations rush to suck his 🍆 first. (Looking straight at F_ord...)

Remember that knee-slapping thread I had about Gavin Newsom and how folks needed to look *deeply within* and interrogate their politics?

WTF.

Let's celebrate Nepalese youth burning down their Parliament and chasing their Premiere into a river in his chonies.

#ThisIsTheWay

we really need to do something about gun control.

TBF, the US has almost always labeled Others as terrorists without due process or evidence.

I mean, Guantanamo. Hello.

The US also literally invaded Irag a couple times because it accused them of 'terror' and 'weapons of mass destruction.' We all know how that turned out.

Like, every time folks react to shit happening now with HORROR, it's like you guys don't even know your own history. Like, ANY of it.

Let me be clear: It is not ONLY that this iteration of America is fascist, rabidly white nationalist, misogynist, and hyper capitalist, but it is that it has finally figured out how to EXPLICITLY ALIGN every lever of government and the body politic to its TRUE nature and intent.

I don't say this to be a downer.

But a Black Woman On the Sidelines Reclaiming Her Time kind of warning.

Because if you say you want to 'get rid of Trump,' then what the fuck do you want to put in his place?

What we had 'before'?

Because that's not 'getting rid of Trump'.

That's putting the mask back on.

ok; i'll say it.

MY life is more important than a fetus'.

i don't know why we tiptoe around saying this explicitly when this is what we (the folks who believe in not being forced to be pregnant) mean.

anyway, that's what popped into my head when i read this.

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-legislature-bounty-hunter-ban-abortion-pills/

Everyone gushing about Newsom's Xitter and TikTok feed 'sticking it to Trump' realllllly must interrogate their politics a little more closely.

He hates the unhoused, the poor, the indigent, the mentally ill, and the disabled as much as Trump and RFK. And it shows in his policies.

He is about to DOGE CA govt and he wants to be the Dem candidate for President.

Do y'all *actually* want a world that exists for everyone or do you want American fascism with better hair and more charm?

#BensonUpdate

My very very high Schmoopie, back from the vet where he had a battery of tests+scans that cost more than my rent. 😑

Um....I'm watching a Murder, She Wrote I have *never* seen.

Jessica Fletcher is in VA doing research on a distant Aunt of hers and she meets a professor (Phylicia Rashad) whose distant grandfather Samuel was lynched -- and was enslaved by Jessica's distant aunt!! Well, these two decide to solve the mystery of his killing.

And thus ensues a MASSIVE FLASHBACK TO THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH.

Y'all. Omg they actually said the n-word.

Where did this come from?!?

It's a 90 min movie!!

Someone: You should ask Person for input.

Me: Nah, I don't need their input.

Someone: Some of their feedback will be useful.

Me: Certain folks are *overrepresented* when it comes to opinions.