First, they drove her out of a Mexican restaurant, now people are protesting against Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at her Virginia home by blasting out audio of crying immigrant children on her street. HuffPost editor Philip Lewis tweeted video from the scene, saying: “Protestors are outside of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s Alexandria townhouse, playing audio of the detained children. She appears to be still be home.”
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Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
I can't believe the Weekly World News predicted @maple in 1995
Poverty reduces brainpower needed for navigating other areas of life https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/08/29/poor-concentration-poverty-reduces-brainpower-needed-navigating-other-areas-life
social scientist does social experiement undermining white imperialism, and the older white anthropologists' feelings were hurt :(
Quite obvious for me, but it seems that a scientific proof was needed for some people?
Poor concentration: Poverty reduces brainpower needed for navigating other areas of life
Research based at Princeton University found that poverty and all its related concerns require so much mental energy that the poor have less remaining brainpower to devote to other areas of life.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/08/29/poor-concentration-poverty-reduces-brainpower-needed-navigating-other-areas-life
Mortals can sell their soul to a demon for great power, fame, or wealth. What most people don't know is that you can also just rent it to a demon for small favors.
#writingprompts #writing
US Rep Ted Lieu, who played the crying children in the US House:
"2300 kids were ripped away from parents with no real plan to reunite them. I can't play the @ProPublica audio of their cries for help because of "decorum"? F*ck decorum. @realDonaldTrump engaged in the functional equivalent of kidnapping. The American people need to hear this."
Trump’s grandfather was born in Germany; his mother was born in Britain; his wife was born in Slovenia. Gwenda Blair, author of The Trumps: Three Generations that Built an Empire, said: “The moment he got aligned with the birther thing and saw the reaction, that was it. It had so many dog whistles rolled into one. Not Christian, dark skinned, the capital O ‘other’: he’s been riding on the notion of us and them, winners and losers, a binary version of the world.
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When life gives you lions, form Voltron
Last week we were confronted with one of the saddest examples of this immoral and profoundly wrong policy in action: a 5-month-old baby who was taken from his mother, and is held in immigration detention with three of his siblings. Their mother, escaping serious threats of violence, is held in a detention center several states away.
This is what an anti-immigrant policy looks like when brought to life.
Like most dictators, Trump can easily weather broad sanctions on the US economy. But sanctions targeting his own companies and wealth will sting in a way that he cannot ignore.
And that is exactly what Europe should do: don’t sanction or impose tariffs on Minnesotan companies that share no responsibility for Trump’s policies. Sanction Trump’s own companies and bar them from the EU market.
Twitter buys Smyte, a trust and safety SaaS that other sites was using, and shuts it down for everyone else immediately. As in, only half an hours notice.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/
So much for contracts, huh? You can't trust any of these companies to exist when you need them!
The hell is this bullshit, MIT?
Even experts are having trouble figuring out what the Trump administration has done with some of these kids.The Times described consular officials from Central America in “crisis mode” as they search for “children as young as 9 months old who did not appear to have been carefully tracked by the federal authorities...” incredulous judge: “If someone at the jail takes your wallet, they give you a receipt. They take your kids, and you get nothing? Not even a slip of paper?”
Once Trump establishes that the Federal government can hold people who have been accused of no crime, even toddlers, in internment camps on military bases by executive order for an indefinite time, how long do you think it will be before you or someone in your family is taken there?
We'll meet again... in the "Freedom Camps" for dissidents and journalists.
Never give up, never give in.
