A poem I found on Facebook
current events
Hannukah
On the first day of Hannukah, 15 people including a child and a Holocaust survivor were killed for being Jewish. A Muslim man intervened to save lives which is good but the situation is still horrible, horrible, horrible.
On the second day of Hannukah Jewish-American film director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were murdered by their own son. More horror. “President” Trump reacted to this with a post so obnoxious, crude, nasty and egocentric it boggles the mind. Nothing will happen, and he will face no consequences.
I had a busy weekend. I gave most of my old Barbie dolls to a child of my acquaintance (kept Mermaid Barbie), saw The Muppet Christmas Carol in a historic building, put the Christmas Tree up. When I was a kid my family used to celebrate Christmas over several consecutive days, which I think was a leftover from the Hannukahs my mum used to have. But who knows?
I actually think Portland absolutely has the right idea with showing up to protest in ways that make violence against them look not only unjustified but absolutely ridiculous. Ah yes, the people line dancing in inflatable animal costumes. Terrifying. Clearly pepper spraying the dancing frog guy was totally justified.
I think we need Gothic Lolita protestors. People in Star Trek uniforms. Slap on a pair of short shorts and a Richard Simmons wig and lead some sweating to the oldies.
It may be intentional, it may just be people have always been people- or a combination of both- but tactical frivolity is a thing that has been around since BCE.
It is 100% protest, but it’s also showing the ridiculousness of the situation, and the People in Charge usually would rather face a warlord unarmed than be made fun of. And it ruins the “violent, unstable” population myth in an undeniable way.
It’s also saying “you may be trying to control us, and our lives have turned to shit because of the things you are doing, but you will never take away our hope and the simple joy of being alive. Even in our darkest hour, we can dance in silly costumes and find our people and become stronger because of it.”
Tactical frivolity! Thank you for the term!
ICE
There is a thread on r/AskReddit right now titled, “People who have had a direct run-in with ICE, or know a friend or family member who has been detained or deported, what is the one thing you want the average American to hear about that experience?”
It is full of very distressing stories about the awful place America is in now. Here’s some of them I screenshotted, because I think they need to be both archived and spread around.
Here’s a headline from the UK today:
What has happened to America? What will happen to my own country?
I live in Chicagoland and have family friends who are brown and undocumented. It’s not good here.
I want to specify that the US government ICE agents rapelled from Blackhawk helicopters to take over an apartment building, breaking open apartment doors in the middle of the night to drag barely-clad residents from their homes and detain everyone in UHaul trucks with the children zip-tied to each other. Regardless of citizenship.
There was too much traffic today, and an ICE agent deployed a tear gas canister in traffic in response.
This is not normal.
From the very bottom of my heart: what the ACTUAL FUCK
It’s not even near me yet, but where I live there’s lots of brown folks so they’ll come.
This is surreal. We’re being attacked by the United States.
“ICE Agents Rappel From Black Hawk Helicopters Into Chicago for Major Raid” – MSN, published October 1st, 2025
Most mainstream media is barely covering it.
I genuinely wish I were surprised by that.
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: ‘I feel defeated’
Spread this far and wide – there’s no paywall.
I am SO invested in the UnitedHealthcare assassination right now
This story has EVERYTHING. An unsympathetic victim, a cryptic message carved into bullets, a hot assassin, a Christmas setting. Better than most of the movies I’ve seen this year. I sense a folk hero in the making, especially if the guy is never caught. People are already selling “deny, defend, depose” t-shirts.
Basically, yeah, really digging this edgier remake of A Christmas Carol where the three ghosts are played by three bullets.
today has been a devastating day for czech people all over the country. 14 people dead and 25 injured, 10 of them seriously, in today’s school shooting at the faculty of arts, charles university, prague. the gunman shot himself half an hour after starting the killing.
this happened nine and a half hours ago. as of right now, there’s no official info about the victims and the people missing. the only pieces of information available come from other students who took on compiling lists of names and the current state of those individuals and sharing those on social media in hopes of being able to help. the news coverage is constant, but poor.
there are many terrifying testimonies and photos from the ones present at the faculty at that time. there are also many disgusting photos and videos of the gunman circulating on social media even after the police department urged not to share those out of respect to the victims and to prevent the rising panic.
there would’ve been way more victims had the police not acted as quickly as they did. still, there were mistakes made and i hope the department will be able to recognize them and act on them.
school shootings and shootings in general are not a thing here, they don’t happen, people often haven’t been given proper instructions on how to act in case of an active shooting in years. i still remember a mass shooting that took place in a hospital in ostrava. that was five years ago, 7 people dead.
this mass shooting is by far the worst one in czech history.
a national day of mourning has been scheduled for tomorrow, december 23rd, 2023. a minute of silence for the victims, the injured and their loved ones at noon, UTC+1 time. flags flying at half-mast. the victims will never go back home for christmas, they’ll never see their loved ones again. this is the crushing reality of massacres like this one.
the endowment fund of charles university has raised almost 3 million kč (over 121 000 EUR/134 000 USD) in nine hours. we are not the largest, nor the most populous country and considering this is the amount raised overnight, the fund starting at 10 pm, i can only guess how much will be there at the end of the day.
thank you for raising awareness, thank you for standing with us, thank you for donating.
