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

Just for the heck of it, I looked up US+regime change+history, and the Wikipedia summary is just blowing my mind.

Is there ANY country we have not fucked with??

#USImperialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change

Love, ✊🏾Blackness✊🏾, Community, and revolutionary fist bumps to you in the New Year!

Here's also hoping the Death Star implodes and a certain deputy chief of staff with the forehead of a misshapen moon publicly chokes on a chicken bone in Q1.

Make it so, Lord Jesus!
Hallelujah!
[Insert holy dance IYKYK]

Xoxo

#2026
#BlackFedi
#BlackMastodon

As per usual Benson took the opportunity of torrential downpours to insist on visiting his favorite shop and extend what should have been a short pee+poo into a An Epic Struggle to Walk the Fck Home.

#BensonUpdate

Today felt like Monday .

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/115559260956688871

Beavers are amazing.

Re: the Trump+Clinton blowie (allegedly):

Y'all, a dude giving another dude a consensual blowie is not a scandal here.

Like, I don't care if they're both bazillionnaires intent on crashing the economy. A blowie between assholes is just a blowie.

I'm not gonna clutch my pearls about that.

Their contributions to the destruction of our body politic, yes. I will clutch my pearls and get all umbraged out over THAT.

#Perspective

I love how dog brains work.
Especially Benson's dog brain.

Me: You must SIT on this mat OUTSIDE the kitchen during meal prep until I say GO.

Benson: I will sit on this little mat until Go.

Also Benson: I will slowly scoot off this mat -- but still sitting!-- until I'm IN the kitchen.

Benson: I am *still sitting* while I scootch closer to Mommy.

Benson: I shall recline directly behind Mommy.

Benson: OK, too far! I will sit on this *other* little mat but IN the kitchen.

Benson: I will lay partially on the mat so my front half is mere steps from my bowl. Technically, this is correct.

#BensonUpdate

Love his energy. He said 'there is nothing I want there.'

The US is becoming a stinky fart cloud.

#uspol

US revokes visa for Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka https://share.google/eInzXzNn7awKeHLl9

*Gov Shutdown Call to Action: Support Your Local Food Bank*

"I work in human services, specifically on programs that help our most vulnerable neighbors.

One of the programs my agency administers is CalFresh, or food stamps. This program is funded by the fed and administered by states.

The current Administration has decided to not allow USDA to use its contingency funds to continue funding food stamps in November through the shutdown; this means that California will not have the money to feed 55 million people throughout California.

It also means that food banks will see unprecedented need.

I am reaching out to encourage everyone to donate to our local food banks in November to help those families who will be seeking food because their food stamps have been cut off.

While it can be helpful to donate food, the most helpful thing is to donate money if you can- the food banks can use that to purchase large quantities of bulk items and what they purchase will go a lot farther than donated food."

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.