It weeps for betrayal, intended or not
Some time ago now, I think, the twenty-four-hour news cycle fast-forwarded through itself and became an ouroboros self-devoured from inception. On the personal scale, I feel I should mention that I made it to my ENT appointment on Friday and received useful news about the state of the inside of my head that made the hassle of the COVID-19 test worth it and in the process had the closest thing to an actual date with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rushthatspeaks that either of us has been able to manage since the late winter and then I spent most of the rest of the day having what I identified after the fact as PTSD. Yesterday was better, except for the news. Today I have just read that the man in the White House has declared antifa to be domestic terrorism, which should perhaps feel more like the gloves have come off than it seems to: the dogwhistles have been ordinary whistles for so long, surely it can't be the first time he has openly acknowledged that the government of the United States is now a fascist regime? What else does it mean to be anti-fascism and designated an enemy of the state? Well, bella ciao. The Minnesota Freedom Fund is now encouraging donations to local, especially Black/BIPOC-led organizations, so here's the Massachusetts Bail Fund and Black Lives Matter, because they still do. Previously this evening I watched a movie I enjoyed very much. How to be a person in a burning world. It's not like I haven't read the literature.
rushthatspeaks that either of us has been able to manage since the late winter and then I spent most of the rest of the day having what I identified after the fact as PTSD. Yesterday was better, except for the news. Today I have just read that the man in the White House has declared antifa to be domestic terrorism, which should perhaps feel more like the gloves have come off than it seems to: the dogwhistles have been ordinary whistles for so long, surely it can't be the first time he has openly acknowledged that the government of the United States is now a fascist regime? What else does it mean to be anti-fascism and designated an enemy of the state? Well, bella ciao. The Minnesota Freedom Fund is now encouraging donations to local, especially Black/BIPOC-led organizations, so here's the Massachusetts Bail Fund and Black Lives Matter, because they still do. Previously this evening I watched a movie I enjoyed very much. How to be a person in a burning world. It's not like I haven't read the literature.
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Some Arlington-based friends of
[edit] Organized by teens, definitely happening again tomorrow and Tuesday night at least. 6 to 7 pm starting in front of First Parish in Arlington and spreading as far down Mass. Ave. as needed to accommodate the number of protesters and maintain distance. Wear a mask, obviously.
(And I'm glad that it doesn't SOUND like the BPD shot anyone during them.)(And yes, I wish that wasn't something I ever had to say.)
(Same.)(Same.)
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Never mind.
I will try to get to the Tuesday night protest. Tonight is going to be freaking out, apartment-searching, and/or bells.
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We started seeing those reports after dark. Including a couple which I have no reason to disbelieve, that the window-smashing was done by young white people who showed up for the fun of wrecking, not activists or allies who had been marching all day. Whee.
I will try to get to the Tuesday night protest. Tonight is going to be freaking out, apartment-searching, and/or bells.
Good luck with all of these things, and I hope at least the bells are fun!