a (nervous) wreck

wethinkwedream: wethinkwedream: ok universe, i’m ready to feel good things. make me feel good...

Sat, 02 Jun 2018 11:45:34 -0700

wethinkwedream:

ok universe, i’m ready to feel good things. make me feel good things.

whenever i post this it works
reblog if u want to feel good things & the universe will bring u something sweet

tatterdemalionamberite: squiditty: ruffboijuliaburnsides: Imp...

Tue, 29 May 2018 10:01:13 -0700

tatterdemalionamberite:

squiditty:

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

Important twitter thread.

Source: https://twitter.com/jduffyrice/status/1000927903759110144?s=21

[Caption; A series of tweets by josie duffy rice/ @jduffyrice

Now that we’re all on twitter because of this game, I am making a public service announcement: PLEASE STOP SHARING THAT STORY ABOUT 1500 KIDS MISSING. The outrage I’ve seen is the result of a total misinterpretation and could SERIOUSLY threaten the children you want to save.

Before I get to it, I’ll answer the question that 99 million ppl will inevitably ask: I know this because I’m a lawyer, i works on criminal justice issues (sometimes incl immigration), and 4 of my closest friends are immigration attorneys dealing with this EXACT THING.

There are two things going on. 1) HHS doesn’t know where 1500 unaccompanied minors are. 2) we are separating parents and children at the border.

These are different. The kids in 1) were not separated from their parents at the border. They crossed the border alone* or arrived here without a parent.

That’s not really the point I want to make, though it is important.

These kids were dealt with by ORR, the office of refugee resettlement. They were released into the care of people that almost always fit within one of these three categories:

1) immediate family 2) extended family 3) other people that the child has a pre-existing relationship with. If none of these categories apply, then the kids normally stay in a shelter.

(After a number of children were trafficked in 2014, these restrictions got tighter.)

So those kids are released and then they are no longer ORRs responsibility or problem. THIS IS A GOOD THING.

One analogy I heard from my dear friend who I won’t tag without her permission, is that ORR is basically a jailer. Do you want the jail keeping track of where every former inmate is?

Now I have more to say about that but before we do that, let’s talk about the word missing. Basically by all accounts HHS did a cursory reach out to check on these kids, and couldn’t find out where they were exactly.

When I say cursory I mean cursory. We’re talking about phone calls. Phone calls! Like, no door knocks. No checking school records. They called. They didn’t find answers.

There are so many reasons why people wouldn’t answer. Maybe these kids are living with someone undocumented. Maybe they aren’t but their sponsor is (legitimately) completely scared of immigration authorities in trumps America.

They aren’t missing! They are almost certainly living with family members who almost certainly don’t want to interact with the government and WE SHOULDN’T ASK THEM TO

ORR’s job is NOT to track and monitor these kids, and it shouldn’t be. As my friend said, if there were an issue- abuse, or other wrongdoing- it should go through the appropriate agency: children’s services or what have you. It SHOULDN’T GO THROUGH HHS/ORR or DHS/ICE

When your school loans provider can’t reach you, are you missing? No. When your boss can’t find you on a Friday night, are you missing? No. They aren’t missing. Some unanswered phone calls does not a missing child make.

Now, I started out identifying two things that were happening. The second- the separation of children and their parents at the border- is goddamn unconscionable and sickening.

But DO NOT confuse the two. The potential for it backfiring is real. What we’re demanding is that ORR, which works hand in hand with ICE, “keep better track” of kids they basically would like to deport if giving the chance. We don’t want that!!!

You’re asking immigration authorities IN TRUMP’S AMERICA to BETTER MONITOR UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES. You don’t want this. I promise you don’t.

I get it. It sounds awful. But at WORST it’s benign. At best, it’s a GOOD thing that ORR doesn’t know where these kids are. There’s a reason. We actually now have pretty strict requirements before we release these kids. They aren’t all being trafficked. They aren’t dead.

It doesn’t mean life is easy, but life won’t be easier if ORR starts tracking them. Trust me. And trust my brilliant friends who know about this shit and have warned me and are now warning you. DONT conflate the two things.

AND because some people are obviously taking this as an opportunity to exonerate the president- NO. Trumps immigration policy is disgusting. His separation of kids and parents at the border is SICKENING. He’s a tyrant. Just don’t conflate them.

Man oh man I forget that at least 50 percent of people on twitter refuse to learn basic reading comprehension. Tonight should be fun!

] *[Also it says “alien” up there where it should say “alone”, cool, autocorrect.]

*corrected autocorrect/typo in my transcription for the sake of being less confusing, especially for anyone listening to the text rather than reading it visually.

Since I reblogged a post about this issue, here is a correction.

welcometonegrotown:

Tue, 29 May 2018 10:00:09 -0700

welcometonegrotown:

cloudfreed: imabloodymartian: chickenfarmersan: ICONIC. GOD...

Mon, 28 May 2018 23:12:29 -0700

cloudfreed:

imabloodymartian:

chickenfarmersan:

ICONIC.

GOD I love this pissed off Texan mom

‪americans who are scared of coming to australia bc of the wildlife are fucken wild. like when’s the last time a spider shot up a school lol

Mon, 28 May 2018 22:49:23 -0700

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thefilthymemelord:The “I’m dumb as shit and never know what’s...

Mon, 28 May 2018 18:41:44 -0700

thefilthymemelord:

The “I’m dumb as shit and never know what’s going on” mood board

bitterfuckinglesbian: me showing up at heaven ready to ask god what the fuck all of that was

Mon, 28 May 2018 18:41:33 -0700

bitterfuckinglesbian:

me showing up at heaven ready to ask god what the fuck all of that was

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Mon, 28 May 2018 18:41:23 -0700

the first nut kick

Mon, 28 May 2018 18:41:01 -0700

silverhawk:

thejakelikesonions: A used car, though

Mon, 28 May 2018 18:40:24 -0700

thejakelikesonions:

A used car, though

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Mon, 28 May 2018 18:39:15 -0700

tyleroakley: notreallyscience: cupcakelogic: cupcakelogic: aiofes: so there’s a live feed of...

Mon, 28 May 2018 15:00:50 -0700

tyleroakley:

notreallyscience:

cupcakelogic:

cupcakelogic:

aiofes:

so there’s a live feed of jackson hole town square on youtube and uh???

there are currently 1,400+ people watching
and not a single one of them knows why they’re here
including me

this is what the chat is like

okay so i was on this livestream and

WHO IS THIS HERO

sorry for reblogging again BUT OMG

Important addition

THE SHERIFF DABBED FOR US

every time people walk through the arch the comments are flooded with “yes!! feed the arch!! another human sacrifice for the arch!!” everything about this is unclear

America’s Megalomaniac

Mon, 28 May 2018 14:44:59 -0700

wilwheaton:

robertreich:

I spent last week at a conference in South Korea, during which time Trump went from seeking a meeting with Kim Jong un to cancelling it, then suggesting it might be back on.

“What does Trump want?” South Korean officials at the conference kept asking me. Notably, no one asked what the United States wants. They knew it was all about Trump.

Trump’s goal has nothing to do with peace on the Korean peninsula, or even with making America great again. It’s all about making Trump feel great.

“They are respecting us again,” Trump exulted to graduating cadets at the Naval Academy last Friday. “Winning is such a great feeling, isn’t it? Nothing like winning. You got to win.”

In truth, the United States hasn’t won anything, in Korea or anywhere else. After fifteen months of Trump at the helm, America is far less respected around the world than it was before.

The only thing that’s happened is Trump is now making foreign policy on his own – without America’s allies, without Congress, even without the State Department. Trump may consider this a personal win but it hardly makes America safer.

Some earnest foreign policy experts are seeking to discover some bargaining strategy behind Trump’s moves on North Korea. Hint: There’s no strategy. Only a thin-skinned narcissist needing flattery and fearing ridicule.

Trump got excited about a summit with Kim when he thought it might win him praise, even possibly a Nobel Peace Prize. He got cold feet when he feared Kim might be setting Trump up for humiliating failure. Now he’s back to dreaming about the Prize.

The delicate balance in Trump’s brain between glorification and mortification can tip either way at any moment, depending on his hunches. All international relations become contests of personal dominance.

He rejected the 2015 Iran treaty for no apparent reason other than Obama had entered into it. Trump couldn’t care less that by doing so he has harmed relations with our traditional allies, who pleaded with him to stay in. And he’s undermined America’s future credibility. Why would any nation (including North Korea) enter into a treaty with the United States if it can break it on the whim of a president who wants to one-up his predecessor?

Ditto with the Paris climate accord. Obama got credit for it, so Trump wants credit for unilaterally sinking it.

Trump has demanded that America’s nuclear arsenal be upgraded. Why? Since 1970, the United States has been committed to nuclear nonproliferation. What changed? Trump. A more powerful arsenal makes him feel more powerful – “respected again.”

It’s not about American interests in the world. It’s about Trump’s interests.

Wonder why Trump promised to lift trade sanctions on ZTE, China’s giant telecom company? ZTE has been trading with North Korea and Iran, in violation of American policy. Everyone around Trump advised against lifting the sanctions.

Look no further than Trump’s personal needs. ZTE is important to China, and China recently pledged a half-billion-dollar loan to Trump’s family business.

While we’re on the subject of high tech, why has Trump pushed the Postal Service to double the shipping rate it charges Amazon? I mean, isn’t Amazon important to America’s high-tech race with the rest of the world?

The most likely explanation is that the CEO of Amazon is Jeff Bezos, who’s also far richer than Trump. Bezos also owns The Washington Post, and the Post has been critical of Trump.

As you may have noticed, the man doesn’t like to be criticized. As Trump recently explained to Leslie Stahl of “60 Minutes,” his aim is “to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.”

Any halfway responsible president of the United States would be worried about Russian meddling in U.S. elections. Protecting American democracy is just about the most important thing a president does.

But Trump has turned the inquiry about the Russians into a “dark state” conspiracy against him. And he’s demanded that the Justice Department investigate the people who are investigating him.

With Trump, there’s no longer American foreign policy. There’s only Trump’s ego.

If peace is truly advanced on the Korean peninsula, the Prize shouldn’t go to Trump. It should go to South Korean president Moon Jae-in, who has tirelessly courted the world’s two most dangerous megalomaniacs.

Some earnest foreign policy experts are seeking to discover some bargaining strategy behind Trump’s moves on North Korea. Hint: There’s no strategy. Only a thin-skinned narcissist needing flattery and fearing ridicule.

Trump is only able to do so much harm because the GOP-controlled congress, headed (certainly not lead) by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, refuses to assert its co-equal status in government.

America is overwhelmingly opposed to Trump and his policies, yet McConnell and Ryan do nothing to slow or stop him. Compare that to President Obama’s policies, which were overwhelmingly popular with the majority of Americans, yet were obstructed without regard for the will of the voters, by McConnell and Ryan at every opportunity.

America must give control of Congress to the Democrats in November, to save our country and the world from Trump.

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Sun, 27 May 2018 23:02:54 -0700

jazzisback: rad-and-i-dont-stop: gluten-free-pussy: How much do you want to bet that the children...

Sun, 27 May 2018 20:15:03 -0700

jazzisback:

rad-and-i-dont-stop:

gluten-free-pussy:

How much do you want to bet that the children that ICE “lost” are going to end up in child sex/human trafficking rings?

They already admitted it

They sure tf did. They abandoned over 1400 kids at ports into the hands of God knows who, just so they wouldn’t be in America (check link 1 for the admission). We have a sick and corrupt government but this is not a new practice for the American Government (check link 2 for a great timeline of how this happened under the Obama administration as well) and happens on a regular basis. The establishment of ICE is for the federal government to participate in human trafficking under the guise of quelling illegal immigration. It affects the most vulnerable people (children) in the worst ways

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/26/politics/hhs-lost-track-1500-immigrant-children/index.html

https://www.propublica.org/article/relatives-of-undocumented-children-caught-up-in-ice-dragnet

notaroadrageracasualtalk: roxilalonde: showing up late to a meeting with an iced drink is a power...

Sun, 27 May 2018 20:14:20 -0700

notaroadrageracasualtalk:

roxilalonde:

showing up late to a meeting with an iced drink is a power move. like with hot drinks the cup is opaque and people cant tell the temperature so they dont know how long ago you got it. maybe its hours old. maybe you just got caught in traffic. who can say. but iced drinks. its clear. they can see the ice. they can see if its still frozen. they look you in the eye and they know you were standing in line fifteen minutes ago and made the conscious, deliberate decision to get a mocha frap instead of being on time. and then you made ANOTHER conscious, deliberate decision to bring it into the meeting with you, informing everyone in attendance that on your list of priorities, each and every one of them ranks firmly below one (1) mocha frappuchino.

This is so powerful. I’m blown away.

spiderinthecupboard: minerva-is-a-robot: *drives up to the...

Sun, 27 May 2018 20:13:07 -0700

spiderinthecupboard:

minerva-is-a-robot:

*drives up to the humane society and yells out my window* YEAH I’D LIKE A MEDIUM PEPSI

“Is pepsi okay?” I SURE HOPE SO

skywalkerstyle: marisatomay: aleesshu: marisatomay: jinxtus: marisatomay: all mosquitoes...

Sun, 27 May 2018 20:11:57 -0700

skywalkerstyle:

marisatomay:

aleesshu:

marisatomay:

jinxtus:

marisatomay:

all mosquitoes deserve to die

Awww, come on dude, don’t be like that. I mean, you know the ecosystem would collapse without them :o

Actually fun fact, mosquitoes are one of the few species that if they went extinct, the ecosystem wouldn’t be affected very much and no real harm would come from removing mosquitoes entirely !

Let The Extermination Begin

positive-memes: A little action can go along way

Sun, 27 May 2018 20:10:39 -0700

positive-memes:

A little action can go along way

tyrannosaurus-rex: remanedur: remanedur: its been almost 2 years since overwatch came out and they...

Sun, 27 May 2018 20:10:24 -0700

tyrannosaurus-rex:

remanedur:

remanedur:

its been almost 2 years since overwatch came out and they still havent explained why hanzo and genji’s ults exist

i literally never needed to know why sniper spidey ladey is fucking blurple or why she has a skimpy ass outfit but these two dudes have entire fucking dragons come out of their arms and shit and there’s 0 explanation

Genji and hanzo have a competition going to see who can go without nutting the longest and at the 5 year mark they had stored up enough raw testicular energy to bring forth the dragons straight from the aether. since genji no longer has a real set of genitals he should have no dragon powers but since mercy keeps one of his balls alive in a jar he still has one and thus guaranteed to win the no nutt contest