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Get behind me Andy!

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Rewatching Alien: Romulus and reminded that I would die for him

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“It doesn’t matter if your skin is brown. It doesn’t matter if you’re white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a veteran or you serve this country. They don’t care. They’re just there to fill a quota.” Those are the words of George Retes, a veteran and U.S. citizen who was detained by federal agents during an ICE raid at a Southern California farm. Despite identifying himself as a citizen multiple times, federal agents pepper sprayed him and dragged him from his vehicle. He was thrown in a cell for three days, where he was not allowed to contact his family or a lawyer. He was forced to remain covered in tear gas and pepper spray, as he was not allowed to shower or change clothes. When he was finally released, agents gave him *no explanation* for why he was arrested and detained. When immigrants don’t receive due process as required by the Constitution, no one does. We are no longer on the path to fascism. Fascism is here. Now more than ever, we must protect each other – especially the most vulnerable among us. Keep speaking out. Keep standing up. Tyranny only wins if we submit to it.

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See what DOGE was about all along?

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i’m not gonna hold your hand when i say this one:

sunrise on the reaping does not recontextualize the rebellion that we see in catching fire and mockingjay. y’all are just too used to “chosen one” hero narratives and don’t understand history.

what SOTR does do is give personal background on some of the specific rebels we meet through Katniss. but it does not all of a sudden tell us that the rebellion existed before Katniss gave Peeta the berries, or before she sang to Rue. too many of y’all thought that and so Suzanne Collins had to shove it in our faces this time.

y’all read too many percy jacksons and harry potters and “here’s a special person destined to save us all!” that’s not how movements work in real life.

the reality is there are many many names involved in rebellions and revolutions that are lost to history. part of that is because they are killed and no one is there to tell their story. part of that is because anonymity was required to be an effective part of the movement. and part of that is because sometimes there are things that are more important than an individual.

MLK Jr and Malcolm X didn’t spark the Civil Rights movement. Nelson Mandela didn’t spark anti-apartheid movements. Susan B Anthony didn’t spark the suffragette movement, Rosa Parks wasn’t the first to be denied seating on the bus, and the list goes on. It’s not that these people didn’t do things for these revolutions or that they were puppets, but my point is they’re the names most people attribute to them.

Katniss is just in the right place at the right time with similar enough ideals and actions for the rebellion to uphold as a symbol.

and think of the war effort we see in Mockingjay. it takes years to train soldiers. it takes years to manufacture that many weapons. it takes years to even get Plutarch where he is in SOTR, let alone as a gamemaker in THG. and of most of the rebels Katniss meets who die for her to protect the cause— they aren’t young kids roped along into it. they’re middle aged and older.

none of it magically happened in the span of a year after the 74th games. nor do revolutions necessarily wait for the right person to come along to bandwagon on. sometimes it happens, like with Katniss. other times it’s planned (off of a real event, just recreated under better conditions i.e. Rosa Parks).

anyways. hope that gives y’all something to think about bc i’m really tired of seeing this take elsewhere

this has been another tea time with hawk ☕️🦅

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If you're in the US military or National Guard, and are given an illegal or unconstitutional order, the GI Rights hotline (1-877-447-4487) is there to help give you the support you need to do the right thing by refusing it. It would be good to think about this now before it becomes a live issue for you and it would be smart of you to memorize that number.

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Capitalism kills.

Republicans deregulating kills.

Anti-prevention reactionary ignorance kills.

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Get out. #Tesla #TSLA

Elon is so leveraged, that if TSLA is worth $120 per share, he is penniless.

The con game is over. The company never evolved. Elon deserves his fate.

Get desperate Musk out of politics.

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Absolutely fantastic turnout of protesters at the Chicago Hands Off! protest!

I love my city!

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the covey haunting the narrative of the hunger games the way natives haunt the narrative of america send tweet

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Fantastic read.

i wrote about how every subsequent Hunger Games book feels like Suzanne Collins grabbing a certain section of readers by the scruff of the neck and shaking them to finally get the fucking point 

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since i’m in a hunger games hyperfixation this week and this came up with my last post:

the main reason movie audiences were upset with Amandla Stenberg being cast as Rue in the first film is because they were forced to confront the visual of a little Black girl being as innocent as little white (or white passing) girl Prim and having the two compared to each other repeatedly.

White society/media has a trend of treating Black children like adults… which is a practice that can be traced back to chattel slavery and slaveholders.

And if you don’t know what I mean about the audience being upset… TLDR there were people saying that because she was Black they no longer felt sad about her death or that they were shocked she was Black when they imagined her otherwise, which… if an author explicitly tells you a character is dark skinned-curly haired and you picture them as white, that’s pretty telling.

this has been tea time with Hawk ☕️🦅

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DOGE is an obvious scam to give Elon Musk access to the 32 INVESTIGATIONS.

11 Federal Agencies were working just fine. No fraud, no waste.

Elon Musk is providing zero evidence. He is sharing nothing with oversight committees.

In essence, Trump created an illegal and unconstitutional fourth branch of government.

End Musk. Save America.

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My gif-making skills are rusty, but I MADE A THING 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸