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I won't bother to link my post, it was also just an announcement. (I didn't know yours was coming) But over the next few months I'll be writing repeatedly about the 5-4 decisions in which Kennedy joined RBG and the centrists. The damage Trump's nominee will do may very well end up being catastrophic.

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Fuck Anthony Kennedy.

That's all the civility you'll get from me.

freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngul

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

I feel guilty for not writing more refutations of pseudo-scientific attacks on trans* autonomy. There are all sorts of people out there, the Jordan Petersons, the Peter Singals, The Julie Burchills who are harming the discourse in the short run and trans people in the long run.

And yet, even with my background making me well-suited to rebut their bullshit, I can't usually wind myself up to debunk the latest attack.

Why? Well, if you're interested you an read this:

freethoughtblogs.com/pervertju

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

NO KUDOS FOR TRUMP

Dana Bash expressed "kudos" for Trump for having signed the executive order today.

Don't let any reporter, anchor, or commentator get away with congratulating Trump without criticism.

My post on this is currently no longer than this toot, but I'll update it with more info about media congratulating Trump as reports comes in.

Express reasonable criticism at CNN here:
cnn.com/feedback

Pervert Justice here:
freethoughtblogs.com/pervertju

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

I've condensed Yahoo News' story about the corporations profiting from the policy into a handy list of 5 companies with embedded links directly to corporate contact/comment pages.

Access the list here:
freethoughtblogs.com/pervertju

Yahoo story here:
yahoo.com/news/businesses-made

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

That 1988 testimony of NASA scientist James Hansen? The hearing where right-wing science deniers ridiculed the possibility of global climate change including increases in mean surface temp? The one that fossil-fuel enthusiasts somehow delude themselves into thinking was a victory for them?

yeah. That one. It's been exactly 30 years. Guess who turned out to be right.

yaleclimateconnections.org/201

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

Artist Scott Simmons gives us Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's "Child Catcher" character updated for today:

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

Trump has stepped back from his child isolation policy. who will benefit enormously, but the new executive order he will sign today is entirely inadequate.

Read More:
freethoughtblogs.com/pervertju

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

Wonkette has a piece up that tells the story of one 6-year old girl who memorized her aunt's phone number in case she and her mom got separated for any reason.

The girl is being held by ICE and the aunt, in the US legally on an asylum claim, is afraid to take the girl in because of potential impacts on her own asylum case.

There's more, too. Go. Read. Then call your Rep & Sentators.

wonkette.com/maybe-donald-trum

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

My first post is up. Read a bit about the story of a child who was raped and whose undocumented immigrant mother had to decide whether reporting the rape was good for the child in light of the possibility that the child would be taken from her.

These are the impossible choices we inflict on parents with current US policy requiring isolation of children.

freethoughtblogs.com/pervertju

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

No, I never add sugar to my . However, I do find eating skittles and washing them down with an astringent black is quite a lovely way to get through your less-favorite teas.

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

Yesterday I said that US policy isolating immigrant children amounted to torture, backing it up with a reading of the UN Convention Against Torture. But the fun doesn't stop there.

Today we're examining the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, and it turns out that the US might be in breach of that treaty as well. (Spoiler: Yes, the US is in breach. Massively. Blatantly.)

Feel free to read my latest either before or after you call your Rep & Senators

freethoughtblogs.com/pervertju

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

My first post:

"At the touch of his lips it swelled and lengthened..."

read the rest at

freethoughtblogs.com/pervertju

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

Please use the hashtag to share what you know about the families who face separation and the children who face isolation.

If you can't wait until tomorrow to read my post on the 4 year old raped by a sheriff's deputy who got away with it for months or years by threatening the child's undocumented mother with deportation, you can read one report here:

themaven.net/pinacnews/courtro

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

The family at the heart of my first These Are The Children post is one where a Sheriff's deputy repeatedly raped a 4 year old and kept the mother quiet by threatening deportation.

Eventually the mother had to report the rapes and the injury to her child. The sheriff's office wants her to avoid deportation until she can testify, but we don't know if she's being detained or not, nor do we know if this child rape victim is isolated in an ICE tent or cage.

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

Tomorrow I start a new series of posts, These Are The Children which will focus on the stories of children that come to the attention of ICE -and thus risk isolation in camps or cages.

Although I've already written the first post, it's scheduled to drop tomorrow to make sure readers have time to catch up with everything I've been writing on this topic today and yesterday.

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

Juneteenth is almost here.

What will you celebrate?

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

@KthulhuKat

there's so much!

You could start with this:
cah.utexas.edu/news/press_rele

or this:
texasobserver.org/author/molly

or this:
alternet.org/authors/molly-ivi

or just go get one of her books out of your local library.

Trust me, she's worth it, even if the political commentary (much but not all of her work) is dated by now.

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

@KthulhuKat

You really missed out on Molly Ivins, then, didn't you?

Crip Dyke @cripdyke

Is the US treatment of refugee and migrant children torture not merely in the eyes of humanity and common sense, but also in the eyes of the law?

You bet'cha. Get wonky with me and examine how the UN Convention Against Torture defines torture and then look at how it might (spoiler: does) apply to the US today.

Then CALL YOUR FUCKING REP AND SENATORS: yes, wonketry is compatible with both outrage and action.

freethoughtblogs.com/pervertju

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