i dry brushed my hair just to feel alive and, related, have a new theory about sasquatch
update: now going to do jail support for @itsa_talia who got unjustly arrested while covering a protest (talia hive assemble) so its in a bun
a lovely, lively crowd of folks twerking and hanging outside the 7th precinct. no word about when talia & other arrestees might get out/bail funds. brought some dunkies and water to supplement the pizza.
a supply drop isnt much but its as much as my agoraphobic ass can do, god bless that wonderful crew (around 2 dozen i think, maybe 30?) blasting music, dancing, and waiting to help arrestees
watching "The Fall" to go with my general feeling of grey angst. its good
the gillian anderson/jamie dornan belfast murder show
beyond the inherent misogyny of the spectacle of the dead beautiful murdered nude woman (and throw in a seductive underage girl for good measure!) its gorgeously shot and pretty well written
if you are a white christian male reporter who decided that this week is a great time to get interested in far right extremism for the first time maybe.... don't
the impact of bad/minimizing/romantic coverage of this stuff is enormous, and diving in headfirst makes you enormously likely to a) process violent liars uncritically and b) have no consciousness of the historical roots of this stuff and c) not examine your own biases
and i mention identity here not bc identity implies foreknowledge, but bc having skin in the game- being one of their targets - can countermand the tendency to approach the far right as a morally neutral or salacious subject, rather than...hate movements premised on violence
Banned from the Telegram chat where Parler refugees are being welcomed with open arms by neo-Nazis simply for posting the script of Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie 😔😔