🧞‍♀️SuzanEraslan🏴=❤️ @SuzanEraslan@anticapitalist.party

Every time I see a post thanking the cops for how they acted during a “political protest,” it makes me fucking ill.

The best days, the days where it felt like people had to listen, were when we took the highways, when we shut down 5th Ave., when we blocked the bridges and tunnels.

They were also the days when I was most scared, when I experienced first hand that cops are NOT your friends and will intimidate, physically threaten, and rush you en masse to then arrest you for running from a weapon wielding threat of violence.

We never marched through the Upper East Side, for example, which I always thought was a mistake. By the end, we were just marching among like minded people, again. Here we go through the Village and NYU students; here we go through Times Square where there’s already a million people, anyway; here we go through the liberal Upper West Side to Columbia U to Harlem.

And people were PISSED. Even rich liberals were up in arms yelling about how they couldn’t get across town (boo hoo). The marches weren’t there to put pictures on social media— they were there to disrupt people’s daily experience. The problem was that they kept to the same routes, to the point where it became expected. We let the cops guide us too much by the later days and the tactic lost effectiveness. It got cold.

I went to the first Women’s March in NYC, and all I could think was how ludicrous it was that we had a pre-assigned path with street closures announced in advance, and yesterday’s march was no different. I kept comparing it to when we marched, organically, after the Mike Brown murder verdict, after the Eric Garner murder verdict. We took over streets. We shut down parts of Manhattan, tunnels and roads in and out of the city.

Cops are there to make sure you stick to a predefined route. The whole spectacle is allowed to go on because they know you’ll blow off steam, pat yourself and your friends on the back for it, post the best signs to social media, and that the state machine will continue to toss people into the mill and grind us down. They don’t bring about change. They don’t even really inconvenience anyone.

I don’t go to them, anymore. I’ve watched so many of them happen since that ass clown got elected, and like I guess cool that people now care enough to march, but the entire thing rubs me the wrong way.

These marches have permits handed down by the same state apparatus that creates the context for the march. A protest with a permit isn’t a protest— it’s a parade.

Woke up with this in my head: “Not a Rebel (Margaret Thatcher)” by Mexican Institute of Sound https://youtu.be/Vpgb_bhmKYE

JFC, I hate these people so much.

It’s like these fuckers have a hat with every non-white ethnicity and the secretaries just draw out of a hat to see which department gets to fuck over which people. What’s the next fresh hell they’re going to introduce? The Department of Energy going after Southeast Asians?

DeVos urged to probe Chinese spying at U.S. universities

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/20/betsy-devos-huawei-technologies-655592

Let’s just lay it out: we’re imprisoning Latinx people in concentration camps even with valid green cards; we’re upholding the Muslim travel ban; Sessions is renewing the War on Drugs to throw Black and brown people in for profit prisons; and now we’re going after Chinese college students?

Also, the way I discovered this was when I found one of my partner XR capsules on the floor, obviously chewed up, so don’t take for granted that they won’t go for your capsules because the sweet stuff is inside.

(It was a 10 mg, and our kitty was eventually OK, if entirely messed up for 18 hours... I, on the other hand, was an absolute wreck of worry for her. Thank god it was one of his and not one of my 20 mg ones!)

Did you know that cats LOVE the taste of Adderall and that it is potentially deadly to them? As little as 20 mg can be fatal to your kitty. Most cats don’t enjoy the taste of other medications because they are bitter, but the sweet taste of amphetamine salts is their jam. Make sure to store your meds away from them in secure containers and don’t leave dropped pills on the floor for more than a second.

I know that as soon as I do she will go ballistic with the biting and scratching my hand, but when my cat does this, I just want to scrumble her tummy.