Miki 🦇

@bordersarefake

30. she/her. Leftist. Lesbian. I live in Appalachia and you should too. Here to rant about fictional characters and immigration law. Skeets are not legal advice. Currently at capacity for pro bono, but I’ll put in my bio when that changes!

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Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· 9d

Do I love 60s Batman? Absolutely!! It's fun and wonderful - but it will always always be less true to the origin of the character than something like this ICONIC page from Batman #405 (Batman: Year One)

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· 23d

The judge's clerk seeing the lawsuit over this being put on the docket again

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Jul 8

Oooh I have two

An illustrated protest poster done by Phoebe Wahl. A family of Hispanic immigrants are surrounded by tall, bright flowers that go above their heads. The mother, dressed in an orange shirt and green pants, is on her knees hugging her little girl, who is dressed in a yellow dress with little flowers. The father, dressed in an orange plaid shirt and jeans, is standing and lifting a little baby in a yellow polka dot onesie into the air. They are free, and safe. At the top, orange text reads "No More Detention". At the bottom, orange text reads, "No More Deportations, Abolish ICE".

"The Annunciation", a Renaissance fresco done by Fra Angelico in the early 1440's. Blonde Mary, clothed in royal blue, crosses her arms in humility. What always strikes me about this fresco is the angel Gabriel - dressed in pink, with multicolored wings to emphasize his other-wordliness and Heavenly origin - is actually genuflecting in respect and submission *towards* Mary. Their heads are close, as if in urgent conversation.

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Jul 6

URGENT: There is currently a huge chemical/polymer fire happening in Parkersburg, WV (a city of 30,000 people), and a state of emergency has been declared. Residents are reporting medical symptoms and black particles falling all over the area. I have literally seen nobody outside of WV mention this.

A photo from July 5, 2026 (although the fire is still burning as of July 6). A massive warehouse filled with rubber, polymers, and resin is entirely in flames. An almost staggeringly enormous plume of thick, dark black smoke and ash rise against the backdrop of the lovely, green mountains of Parkersburg, WV.

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Jun 30

Jackson's concurrence is beautifully and powerfully written

From Justice Jackson's concurring opinion in Trump v. Barbara: "So the principal dissent is wrong to complain that the Court “has repurposed the Fourteenth Amendment to protect . . . rights that the Reconstruction Congress never contemplated.” See post, at 91. Delegates to the Colored Conventions drew upon their own experiences to successfully argue for a new Constitution—one that protected fundamental human rights, including an individual’s “‘right to
own his body and mind’” and “the right of personal security
and protection against injuries to our bodies or good
name.”56 Thus, even in cases where the protagonist was not
a Black American, this Court’s Fourteenth Amendment
cases have focused, at bottom, on the same universal liberty
and equality interests that motivated the Fourteenth
Amendment itself. The question is (and always has been):
Does the affected individual or group enjoy equal dignity?
And the correct answer is (and has always been) to heed the
Fourteenth Amendment’s universalist, antisubordination
command. Our Nation did not undergo something as profound and world-shifting as “Reconstruction” for naught."

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Jun 30

A screencap from the movie We're the Millers, showing Will Poulter in a striped rugby shirt . The original line is "You guys are getting paid?" I've taken away that and put a line of text that says "You guys are getting four months of paid sick leave for depression?"

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· May 22

I KNOW THEYRE FUCKING LYING

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Apr 6

He hated pretty much any cover art that was silly or too surreal - he actually said that these covers by Barbara Remington made him feel like he was "shut up in a madhouse", which is just deleriously funny

A series of three covers done by Barbara Remington for the Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers, and Return of the King, respectively. They all have loud, bold colors with pinks and reds, and many fantastical creatures that dont appear in the book.

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Apr 6

He actually designed the cover art for all his books! This is the one he did for the Hobbit

A cover of the Hobbit with Tolkien's original illustration. It's a lovely collection of soft blues and blacks in the snow-capped mountains matched with light greens of grass and trees.

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Mar 29

Today I made chocolate rolls with cracked sea salt 🥰

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Mar 21

God I fucking love Golden Age comics look at that noodle anatomy

A series of three panels from "Introducing Wonder Woman" (1942). In the first panel, a man in a green car chasing Wonder woman exclaims as she runs 30, 50 miles an hour. In the final panel, H.G Peter has drawn what I can only describe as an antelope wearing the form of a woman. Wonder Woman's legs are fiendishly, comically long and her torso is similarly long and tiny, with her head and neck attached further back on the shoulders than any head and neck have a right to be. It is glorious and I love it.

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Feb 20

Me giving a powerpoint presentation to my wife as to how getting the $150 annual subscription of MLB TV so I can watch baseball is a good financial decision

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Jan 30

This has genuinely become my go to response when anybody is trying to get me to care about any argument people are having online right now

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Jan 12

And whats great is the whole time thats going on he's also writing a huge expose on them for the Daily Planet as Clark Kent. Literally focusing all his energy on fucking with these coal barons!!! He threatens them at the end!!!

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Jan 12

He also does this which is just fiendishly good

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Jan 11

A rich yellow salted Irish butter on a thick sourdough toast

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Dec 19

Every time Mitt Romney is in the news I have the legal and moral obligation to post my favorite photo of him at a gas station days after losing the presidential election looking like hes hired guys to beat him up every day since he lost as a punishment for believing he could win

A picture of Mitt Romney pumping gas at night mere days after losing the 2012 presidential election to Obama. He's in brown wrinkled pants and a light blue wrinkled button up. His hair is a bird's nest and he is looking at the camera with an expression I can only described as if "concussed" and "harrowed" had a child

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Nov 20

"Nvidia had better earnings than expected, the bubble is sturdy!!" The bubble:

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Jun 29

anyways if you’re actually interested in the genuine political makeup of red states and rural areas and the thriving resistance efforts people are running there, you should look into the current activism being done in the Everglades!! It’s really incredible!!

There’s a photo of people protesting along the main corridor through the Everglades in Florida in opposition to the immigration concentration camp, “Alligator Alcatraz”, which the Trump administration is planning to build. In the photo, people are holding up various handmade signs against the camp. Most are wearing hats to protect from the rain, and they seem to be from across all ages. Below the photo, there’s an excerpt from an article originally from Associated Press that reads “A coalition of groups, ranging from environmental activists to Native Americans advocating for their ancestral homelands, converged outside an airstrip in the Florida Everglades Saturday to protest the imminent construction of an immigrant detention center”

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Jun 17

An actual text I sent my wife just now

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Apr 16

Reading the Boasberg opinion and do you know how pissed you have to be to write this many pages

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Jan 21

You think I’m joking here is a bit from Justice John Marshall from literally *1812*

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Jan 21

Also, this is just outright false. There has actually been DECADES OF CASE LAW ON THIS EXACT LEGAL ISSUE WE HAVE FOUGHT ABOUT THIS EXACT THING WITH IMMIGRANTS SO MANY TIMES????

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Jan 21

Like I do actually know what I’m talking about with this one - my specialty is citizenship documents, I file N400s and N600s for my day job, and like - okay so if I can still file N600s then what does “you can’t issue citizenship documents” mean?

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Dec 23

A screenshot from Shrek 3 - an older woman yells “The Chair! Give him the chair!” as she watches a fight, which is a WWE reference

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Dec 1

Adding this to my folder title “times women said things to Bruce that made him cry into his pillow that night”

A panel from Batman #432, which is only a few issues after Jason Todd dies. On the left, Maxine Kelly, a private investigator with short blonde hair angrily says to Batman “The stress of Josh’s disappearance has taken its toll on her health. She no longer has the will to live. I’ll ask you - how could I have turned this case down? Do you have any idea what it feels like to lose your own son?” Batman, who does in fact know this, in the next panel stomps angrily ahead of Max Kelly.

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Nov 22

There were actually a few moments I really loved in the 1995 nightwing but I’m so sorry Dick’s look here will haunt me to my grave

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Nov 14

This looks so much like my cat that I actually did a double take

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Nov 12

I tend to read comics lately to decompress from work and it always works because fundamentally my day is never going worse than Batman’s average Tuesday

Miki 🦇@bordersarefake· Nov 9

She looks upon treasures which remain so out of her reach, and yet she covets them all the same