Yays and nays
Speaking of boycotts, to start off the NAY column, the heir of Estée Lauder is one of the key billionaires in Trump’s ear about Arctic expansion and Greenland in particular. Ya’ll know what time it is.
Over on the YAY side of things, a group of state Attorneys General are mad as hell and trying to make us all stop taking it anymore.
“‘Whenever you’re confronted by a bully like Donald Trump, if you think by keeping your head down and being quiet, being sweet, nice, that he’s not gonna stomp all over you, you are wrong,’ said [Minnesota Attorney General Keith] Ellison. ‘The only solution is to stand up, fight back, and protect your own.’”
In a similarly cheering vein, the Irish have checked in with a few notes.
In the NAY column, Democratic leaders have once again failed to see the harm in sympathizing with the devil, and so are treating very literal crimes against humanity, namely expulsion, as a point of negotiation. We keep the pressure on every day until we primary them out, friends.
Way over in YAY, have you been wanting to help out the legal observers keeping the pressure on in the Twin Cities, despite the very real threat of mortal violence? Here’s a fund to provide them PPE! Or you can put some dollars toward towing for ICE victims, so their cars don’t end up in impound.
In a quick succession of egregious NAYs, a combat veteran was held in detention for 8 hours by ICE for bearing witness to their crimes; it’s now two protestors who’ve been blinded here in California by so-called “less lethal” munitions; and observers in Maine are being threatened by agents showing up at their homes. Indeed, the abuse of facial recognition software and social media monitoring is ironically rampant; the EFF has a searchable database of policing tech in the U.S. making up our newly super-charged surveillance state.
And last night, the Department of “Justice” finally got their way and black journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were arrested. Their crime? Documenting and reporting on the protest at a St. Paul church service where the pastor is also the head of the ICE field office in the area. Congratulations, of course, to all the free speech enthusiasts on this newest flagrant violation of the First Amendment.
With all of these things in mind, we’re YAY-ing these toolkits for engaging in nonviolent protest and demonstrations.
A Quick Guide on Talking to Cops, from your friendly neighborhood foul-mouthed attorneys