And support ICE, and livestream and make contact broadcasting their support, and agitate anti-ICE protesters for engagement on said livestreams.

Every accusation is a confession, don’t ever forget that.

This and falling into a ditch and then spinning your wheels in an effort to get out.

Yeah but what was the movie like?

lol I have movies like that, I feel ya.

Hahahaha I had to reread bc I imagined Donald automatically and never questioned it.

34-time felon :)

It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen it, so I don’t remember! A rewatch is in order.

Hahaha I’m sure I did, because I definitely screamed down that hill while flailing my arms. I also love that movie, I grew up watching it every time I visited my grandma who also loved it.

Yeah if you’ve only really been down the highways and other dense roadways in the area, it absolutely feels more populated. When I lived there, I used to go on drives with the intention of getting lost and finding my way back, only choosing a general direction as my guide (north, south, coast, etc.) and avoiding highways at all costs. This was before smartphones so it was quite easy, and I took the most incredible trips down these tiny side roads in these random rural areas all throughout and around Sonoma County. My favorites: Russian River/Guerneville, Calistoga, Bodega Bay, and Occidental. Also if you ever get the chance, driving from Bodega Bay down to San Francisco (or vice versa) via Highway 1 is divine.

As for your mention of the driving scene in The Birds - it would have to be Highway 1 they were depicting, as it goes right through Bodega Bay and is right up against the coast. It is indeed more remote and smaller feeing (mostly 2 lanes iirc) in that area and the main ‘thruway’ so to speak. Highway 101 is ~30 miles inland and goes right through Santa Rosa. Both highways take you to San Francisco from Sonoma County.

I imagine the area was much less populated and well connected to larger cities inland when the film was made 63 years ago.

However, I also imagine Hitchcock intentionally picked locations that were remote and harder to access to give more of an isolated feel.

I lived between Sebastopol and Bodega Bay in the early 2000’s and definitely saw a lot of farmland and isolated residences in the area, a stark contrast to areas like Santa Rosa and even the Russian River area. I’ve visited since leaving and feel like the area has developed a lot even in the relatively small span of time since I lived there, that’s why I feel confident saying it was much more isolated and quiet at the time of filming.

Fun fact: I’ve ran down the same hill from the schoolhouse like in the scene where the birds are attacking the kids! I’ve been to that school a few times and it was always completely empty.

Ew, why is grandma wearing a vest with the word ‘police’ on it? She’s not a police officer.

And at the very least intimidate them out of voting.

LET THEM OUT!!!

Indeed. Reagan furnished the house so Trump could take a shit in it. The talk radio era I mentioned earlier excavated the ground and laid the underground utilities.

We the people need to raze the structure to the ground and declare the site a radioactive hazard, complete with the creation of an atomic priesthood and ray cats so no one ever builds there again.

More like almost 100 years. Learned that on the It Could Happen Here podcast. Very good and stark background of how talk radio has been dividing this country since the 1930s, using religion as its Trojan horse.

LET THEM GO!!!

Liam’s classmates made a video for him to see during the rep’s visit, and he was unable to because he slept through the visit. The photo of him breaks my heart. He looks very tired and very pale.

5-year olds are typically full of energy and past the age of naps for the most part. The fact that he spends most of his time sleeping is extremely worrying and scary. He’s at the same detention center that the children being held there were protesting at the other day, and it’s 1,200 miles from his home. He should be in school, learning, playing, and growing with his friends…not locked up in a place that treats him and everyone else there worse than actual criminals.

I fucking can’t right now man, this needs to stop.

We don’t negotiate with terrorists, Amy.

My mind went there too, then I remembered the video from the pink scarf lady and feel like there’s no way they figured out/confirmed who he was before tackling him.

I figure it’s much more likely that it was a matter of odds: by all accounts, Alex was a staunch anti-ICE protester and was out protesting frequently, and with each instance of attendance the odds increased towards a successive altercation with agents. This does not mean he deserved to be harmed and eventually killed.

Edit: sounds like it’s likely the agents actually did know who Alex was, due to video evidence showing another altercation with him minutes before they tackled and killed him.

It’s all by design…they know that anyone who is dumb enough to believe that Trump wrote the email himself is also dumb enough to believe its content and donate.

I mean, they’ve already believed everything else they hear from their dear leader, so is this email actually surprising? It’s nothing in the face of nearly a decade’s worth of bullshit they’ve been happily scarfing down and voting in approval of.

Same. Deleted FB in 2013, been off social media completely since 2018. I hated how social media made me feel about myself and my life.

I’ve always felt like I dodged a bullet with the timing of my FB deletion, I can’t imagine how it felt to be there through Trump’s first campaign.

Seriously. Like ok…say your words, THEN DO SOMETHING TO STOP THEM.