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Individual action matters, but it does not exist in isolation. Every person depends on systems and other people whether they acknowledge it or not. Food, shelter, safety, education, and healthcare are not maintained by individuals acting alone. They exist because people organize, contribute, and take responsibility beyond themselves.

Leviathan represents that structure. It is the idea that protection and stability come from collective effort. When people act with the group in mind, systems become stronger and more reliable. When people act only for themselves, those systems weaken and eventually fail.

Acting for the collective means recognizing that your decisions affect others. It means contributing to systems that keep people housed, fed, and safe. It means stepping in when something is failing instead of assuming someone else will handle it. It also means holding systems accountable when they stop serving the people they are supposed to protect.

A functioning collective does not happen automatically. It requires participation, awareness, and consistent effort. The result is a structure where people are less likely to fall through the cracks because others are actively reinforcing the system around them.

The goal is not individual survival at any cost. The goal is a system where more people make it through because fewer are left unsupported.

Boundaries are not merely restrictions. They define what is allowed into your life, your body, your time, and your identity. Without boundaries, access is uncontrolled, and control shifts away from you.

Lilith represents the assertion of that control. She is the refusal to accept roles, expectations, or access that were never chosen. She is the point at which a person decides that consent is required, not assumed.

Boundaries are how autonomy is enforced in practice. They are maintained through action, reinforced through consistency, and defended when challenged. When access is taken without permission, it is exploitation.

Define your boundaries. Enforce them.

The 1% have spent a lot of time and money convincing us to fight among ourselves instead of recognizing them as our common enemy. Do not fall for their trap. Stand together!

Added a defiant Lucifer image. Much preferred to the sad or defeated images of Lucifer I've found elsewhere. Hail Lucifer! Hail Satan!

This is about Colorado specifically but No Concentration Camps in CO’s GitHub repository shows holding room statistics nationwide.

Datasets acquired by the Deportation Data Project via the Freedom of Information Act exposed 9 previously unknown detention facilities in Colorado, first reported by Colorado Times Recorder. These facilities are labeled as "Hold Room" which has been described in the ICE National Detention Standards since 2011 in the following way:

"Hold rooms may be used for the temporary detention of individuals awaiting removal, transfer, Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) immigration court hearings, medical treatment, intra-facility movement, or other processing into or out of the facility."

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"Bunks, cots, beds, and other sleeping apparatus are not permitted inside hold rooms" ... "A detainee may not be held in a hold room for more than 12 hours."

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"Unaccompanied minors (under 18 years), persons over the age of 70 years, females with children, and family groups will not be placed in hold rooms, unless they have shown or threatened violent behavior, have criminal convictions involving violence, or have given staff articulable grounds to expect an escape attempt."

ICE does not publicly report the locations or statistics of detentions inside of hold rooms, as they are not meant to be used for anything more than temporary detention during transfer for under 12 hours.

No Concentration Camps in CO has taken the datasets acquired by the Deportation Data Project and developed a lightweight, portable data warehouse called coldCounter to normalize, aggregate, and analyze that data.

No Concentration Camps in CO has published coldCounter to GitHub under the MIT open source license. The data warehouse is free to download, use, and build. The GitHub repository also contains a portable, no install, no SQL necessary data exploration tool for browsing the data and performing your own analytics.

The fact_hold_rooms table in coldCounter aggregates hold room stays by facility and flags/counts any violations of National Detention Standards policy that can be identified in the data set. Here is a comprehensive list of ICE's hold rooms along with counts of violations of policy exported from coldCounter.

Some sample statistics from the data:

- Total hold rooms: 170

- States/Territories with hold room: 52

- Total violations of 12 hour stay restriction: 32,749

- Total violations of >70 w/o history of violence restriction: 331

- Total children detained in hold rooms: 7378

- Total overnight stays (without a bed): 33,341

- Longest holdroom stay in dataset: 6 years, 7 months, 23 days, 8 hours - SND District Hold Room - California

If you're a Fort Collins resident and a registered voter, come find us at Oak Street Plaza Friday April 3rd from 5-9 P.M.!

We will be gathering signatures to put a vote on the ballot that allows Fort Collins residents to establish a framework to restrict the use of surveillance technology growing in our city.

Want to help us with future locations and getting more signatures? Connect with us in person or reach out to our email on our website! We will also be putting future signing locations on our calendar!

The only way we can combat mass surveillance is standing against it. Let's fight mass surveillance together!

To occupy the body fully is to reject disconnection, coercion, and control imposed from outside. It is awareness, agency, and ownership of self without negotiation.

This is Lilith as embodiment: not abstraction, not obedience, but lived autonomy.

Where the body is controlled, the self is diminished.
Where the body is claimed, the self becomes real.

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility!

To our transgender members, we are so proud of you all for continuing to be yourselves, identifying with who you are, even as several governments around the world are actively trying to change that. It takes guts to simply be yourself in this kind of world, and you should be proud of yourselves and your bravery.

The simple act of being true to yourself is fundamentally opposing tyrannical oppression in an act of rebellion for the self that we as Satanists hold very close to our hearts. And we are incredibly proud of your efforts to find your own happiness.

Even if you are closeted, you still deserve to be proud for continuing to discover who you are, while preserving your safety and comfort. You are all valid and deserve unconditional love. Keep being yourselves wherever you feel most comfortable doing so!

Hail thyself, Ave Satanas!

Truth survives repeated testing.

Testing is not a threat to truth. It is the process through which truth is identified. A claim gains strength through examination, revision, and continued pressure over time. Beliefs that depend on silence, authority, or repetition instead of examination cannot survive contact with reality.

Lucifer represents the refusal to accept something as true simply because it is given. Knowledge is not inherited. It is tested, broken, refined, and tested again. Ideas are subjected to questioning, evidence, and analysis until their structure is clear and their limits are known.

If a claim cannot endure questioning, it does not deserve to endure at all.

https://crimethinc.com/NoKingsHandbills

I’ve spent the last month or so editing and slightly modernizing the text of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment as well as adding a Glossary, Annotations, and Analyses and Interpretation through the Triumvirate lens. The last step is formatting the epub for maximum accessibility. This is the first of the Dostoevsky Collection and the first Accessibility Commons text. I’ll post more on availability soon.

Alt Text: A black and white comic the first panel reads "the works of mercy" the next panel shows a pot on a counter the panel says "feed the hungry". The next panel has a few gallons of water on a counter with fruit the panel says give water to the thirsty. An outfit layed out the panel says "clothes the naked". The next panel is someone carrying in a pile of blankets to someone else sitting on a couch the panel says "shelter the homeless". The next panel has two people sitting on a couch next to each other the panel says "visit the sick". The next panel has a two people talking through a phone with bars between them the panel says "visit the imprisoned". The last panel has two people in a garden filling a hole in the panel says "bury the dead."

One place this quote feels very real to me is outside women’s health clinics where are always people trying to pressure or shame strangers about their medical decisions. But there are also volunteers who show up simply to make sure patients can get through the door safely.

Some counter-protest. Some serve as clinic escorts and quietly walk patients inside so they don’t have to face harassment alone. It’s not dramatic work. Most of the time it’s just standing nearby, offering a calm presence, and making sure people know someone is on their side.

That kind of action is what “refusing to kneel” looks like in practice to me. It’s choosing to stand upright when someone else is being pushed down, and protecting a person’s right to control their own body.

Has anyone here done clinic escort work or counter-protested outside a clinic before? I’m curious what that experience was like for you.