#headed to Michigan

[pluralthey]

no head

[thinking-grenades]

☀️

[cognitiveinequality]

I am fully aware that "Avengers" edits are now borderline cringe, having gone out of style at least 2 election cycles ago, but this made me smile.

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

🤨 ”To eat it?”

“Yeah.” ☺️

😨 “To eat it?!”

😄☝️“No no no no no nononononono, silly — to dry it!” 🙂

[doueverwonder]

just found out one of Virginia's state nicknames is 'mother of states' in part because 8 states have come from territory that was claimed by the state of Virginia at one point. and a couple of wttt ideas popped into my head but the one that made me laugh the most was

Massachusetts, talking about Maine: Being a single dad is just so hard

North Carolina, talking about Tennessee: preaching to the choir on that one.

Virginia, thinking about Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, & West Virginia: .............

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

HEAD CULTURE MEETS MOTOR CITY MANIA AT ITS MOST BEST-DRESSED.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1509x1766 -- Spotlight on a group portrait of American rock and roll/ proto-punk band, MC5 [MOTOR CITY 5], photographed by Raeanne Rubenstein, c. 1969.

PIC #2: The photograph was later repurposed for "MC5 Total Assault" (2018 UK/EU limited edition triple LP box set, released to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the world's most dangerous band, comprising the "Kick Out the Jams" [pressed on Red Vinyl], "Back in the USA" [White Vinyl] and "High Time" [Blue Vinyl] albums, issued in picture sleeves replicating the original artwork complete with a double-sided insert containing photos & essay by Jaan Uhelszki of "CREEM" Magazine, housed inside the hype-stickered picture slipcase.

Sources: https://wct.live/app/10789/enter-to-win-a-trip-mc5/sign-out & Rare Vinyl.

[royaltyrules816]

Happy Birthday Royce Da 5'9‼️

[translightyagami]

fine okay i'll admit it: maybe the five uninterrupted days i had to spend with my family this month were bad for my mental health. maybe i'm feeling weird and sensitive right now because i had to talk to my mom and she hurt my feelings. i am not actually over anything i thought i'd finally gotten over. maybe i got out of the washing machine for a little bit before being thrown back in, now sopping wet from the dirty brackish water i let fester in there. whatever. i'm very normal.

[922rifle]

my uncle's basement

[timmurleyart]

Old school Danny Brown. ⚫️🟡🎤🎧(mixed media collage on paper)🥁🎸

[notbecauseofvictories]

I don’t think I’ve ever been this hungover in my life, meanwhile my brother (the reason I am hungover) is cheerful and fine and this is why gen z deserves tiktok.

[johnschneiderblog]

'Headin' Down South to the land of pines ...'

... where I can test my new camera on something other than black-and-white landscapes.

Greenery, for example .... blue water and golden sand... fancy birds ... alligators ....

One week from today we'll be setting up housekeeping on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina in the same condo we always rent for the month of February, an excellent time to be absent from Michigan.

[reasoningdaily]

Some fed-up migrants already heading home: ‘American Dream doesn’t exist anymore’

Some Venezuelan migrants who trekked thousands of miles to the US in search of a better life are so disheartened, they say they’re already heading back home.

Michael Castejon, 39, told the Chicago Tribune he has had enough after he, his wife and teenage stepdaughter spent five months sleeping either in a police precinct or a crowded city shelter in the now-brutally cold Windy City.

He’s also been unable to secure a job permit or enroll his daughter in a local school — two of the main reasons things they thought would bring a better life in the US.

“The American Dream doesn’t exist anymore,” Castejon told the paper on the eve of his family’s departure.

“There’s nothing here for us … We just want to be home,” Castejon told the Tribune of the South American country he earlier fled.

“If we’re going to be sleeping in the streets here, we’d rather be sleeping in the streets over there.”

More than 20,000 migrants have made their way to Chicago since August 2022, when Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began loading them onto buses and shipping them off to sanctuary cities.

Many of them ended up sleeping at O’Hare International Airport, at local police stations or in the streets.

Migrants Michael Castejon and wife Induliz Seville wait for an Uber to the airport to start their journey back to Venezuela.TNS

Fed up with the lack of housing and job opportunities, Castejon eventually followed in the footsteps of other disillusioned asylum seekers and turned to Catholic Charities to obtain plane tickets for his family to travel to Texas.

From there, they will somehow find a way to return to their native Venezuela, he said.

“How many more months of living in the streets will it take? No, no more. It’s better that I leave,” he said.

“At least I have my mother back home,” he said of the South American nation he fled earlier this year.

Yorbelis Molero (second from left), 16, says goodbye to a friend as Molero and her family of five wait to leave a Chicago police station and head to a Greyhound bus station on Nov. 2, 2023. TNS

Castejon and his family were among numerous disheartened asylum seekers who have decided to leave Chicago in recent weeks as the weather in the Windy City has grown colder and wetter, the paper found.

Some suggested they had been drawn to Chicago after being wrongly led to believe that they could be swiftly granted asylum status and a work permit, paving the way for a better life.

“We didn’t know things would be this hard,” Castejon said. “I thought the process was faster.”

Others said they have realized that Chicago’s limited resources have been depleted by waves of migrants that have overwhelmed the Democrat-led sanctuary city over the past 16 months, leaving the latest newcomers with nothing but scraps.

“If we’re going to be sleeping in the streets here, we’d rather be sleeping in the streets over there,” Castejon said.AP

Jose Nauh, 22, also returned to Texas earlier this month after sleeping in a police station in Chicago for more than two weeks.

Nauh said he came to Chicago because he heard there was shelter, food and other resources for asylum seekers, but “that’s not true,” he said.

In a scathing letter to President Biden in October, Illinois’ Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker accused the federal government of failing to provide adequate assistance to Chicago for a migrant crisis that has brought the city to a breaking point.  

“The humanitarian crisis is overwhelming our ability to provide aid to the refugee population,” Pritzker wrote. “Unfortunately, the welcome and aid Illinois has been providing to these asylum seekers has not been matched with support by the federal government.”

Pritzker noted that more than $330 million had already been spent by the state to house and feed the migrants.

[dougielombax]

The Eiffel Tower?

No.

A dilapidated electricity pylon in rural Michigan.

[eternal--returned]

Sufjan Stevens (@s-u-f-j-a-n-s-t-e-v-e-n-s) ֍ Oh Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!) (2003)

From the trembling walls, it’s a great idea! Everything you want, it’s a great idea! From the Renaissance, it’s a great idea! Everything you want, it’s a great idea! Throw them all away, it’s a great idea!

[bizlybebo]

When do you consider people your friends? /genq

anyone can be my friend ^__^ i honestly prefer the term to mutual most of the time cause it just sounds nicer. everyone is friend shaped