Two things can happen at once and can have your attention. Otherwise you can end in an endless cycle of which thing is distracting from what. What if this is distracting from the ICE raids? What if the Epstein Files are distracting us from a possible war? What if a war is distracting us, etc

1) Please stop replying with the refusal to follow unlawful orders thing. I know, and I promise you troops deployed in the Caribbean are not seeing your reply to me on Bluesky. 2) This buildup isn't out of nowhere, this isn't a sudden "distraction." Navy has been amassing forces since August.

Paywalls are flawed, but reporting and editing and photography are full time jobs. Unless you have another monetization scheme in mind that works for the service newspapers provide, there isn’t a conversation

Other trans journalists can speak to this better than I can:

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The framing and headline causes nothing but fear about something that is unlikely to happen in order to drive up subscriptions.

The cops are the problem here who escalate these situations and in this case, arrest members of the clergy. The focus should be on the brutality of the police and not the anger of the people protesting outside of a concentration camp. Cops regularly lie about being injured or hurt.

“I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny” - MLK Jr

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The outside agitators are often the cops, who rarely live in the cities they police.

Saying there were “out of town” protesters is the same as saying “busload of antifa showed up.”

Pay me again and I’ll add half a star.

It’s a good sign when I dog ear a few stories. I’ll revisit them from time to time like the ones from Creature Wanting Form.