"... “I’m taking action because I feel desperate,” said U.S. climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who along with several others locked himself to the front door of a JPMorgan Chase building in Los Angeles. A recent report found that the financial giant is the biggest private funder of oil and gas initiatives in the world.
“It’s the 11th hour in terms of Earth breakdown, and I feel terrified for my kids, and terrified for humanity,” Kalmus continued. “World leaders are still expanding the fossil fuel industry as fast as they can, but this is insane. The science clearly indicates that everything we hold dear is at risk, including even civilization itself and the wonderful, beautiful, cosmically precious life on this planet. I actually don’t get how any scientist who understands this could possibly stay on the sidelines at this point.” ..."
this scene from the goes wrong show where they cast two different people as the head and hunky, semi-nude body of the same character during a live theatre production haunts my every waking moment
-there were probably like 10 white women and about 200 incel white men
-a bunch of the dudes made a point to set up right next to the holocaust memorial, as someone pointed out on twitter
-my personal twitter feed today was just bostonians taking pictures of the dumpsters outside their apartments and being like, “look at the straight pride parade, everyone!”
-businesses along their march route prepared by putting up lgbt flags or signs that said “go home alt-right scum”
-the floats were just trump 2020 floats
-milo fucking yiannopoulos showed up and made a speech but there were so many counter-protesters that no one could understand what he was saying
-legit there were counter-protesters flooding the streets. lots of rainbow and trans pride flags out today
-small bands along the route popped up to drown out the white supremacists’ hate with good upbeat tunes
-this dude in a clown suit and his buddy in green face paint drove 8 hours to protest the ban of a legit incel subreddit. yes you heard me. apparently incels are “reclaiming” clowns?
(im not showing a pictures of him or milo or anyone else like them because im not giving them the attention they’re so clearly begging for)
-people legit just flipped off the marchers as they walked by
-then the police decided to start arresting people. apparently there were 34 arrests of counter-protesters in total
-eventually fights broke out
-BPD started punching and driving motorcycles at counter protesters who refused to move out of the way for the straight pride parade
-the police ended up using mace on the counter-protesters towards the end of the parade
-there are reports of tear gas use also though i haven’t seen any photos of it yet
That’s basically where we’re at rn in MA as of about 8pm.
“If you inherently long for something, become it first. If you want gardens, become the gardener. If you want love, embody love. If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation. If you want peace, exude calmness. If you want to fill your world with artists, begin to paint. If you want to be valued, respect your own time. If you want to live ecstatically, find the ecstasy within yourself. This is how to draw it in, day by day, inch by inch.”