fandomsandfeminism:

So, the Supreme Court

5-4 in favor of Gerrymandering

5-4 in favor of the Muslim Ban

5-4 in favor of Anti Choice Pregnancy Centers

This is why they refused to let Obama appoint a justice when he was fully entitled to.

I know there’s a big push to flip the house, but another important way to stop things like this from happening is to A) Defend vulnerable Senate seats plus B) Flip two in November. If the Senate is flipped, that stymies the ability to get people like Gorsuch and other judges confirmed. 

And that’s going to be needed if one of the Dem supreme judges dies or retires. 

https://www.roadto2018.com has more info but the gist is – donate, volunteer, follow and support these guys on social media (even if you’re not from their states) and, if you live in these states, talk to your friends and family about why and see if you can get them to vote. 

deplorabation:

sensicalabsurdities:

sheabutterlovin:

sapphiredoves:

If I mispronounce your name because it is foreign to my tongue, correct me.

I don’t purposefully allow the accents of your name to fall flat on my tongue like the European English demands or the language to sound chopped and misheard.

If I don’t say your name correctly, don’t shrug and say it’s ok because people have been doing it all your life. Your mother worked hard to name you that name, with all its syllables and apostrophes and hyphens and inflection.

I don’t want to disrespect your heritage, your culture, your great grandmother or grandfather and their struggle.

If I mispronounce your name, forgive me, but don’t let it happen again. Make sure everyone knows your name.

This

this also goes for chosen names

yes!!!! please correct me!!!!

Seriously, even if it takes a while (because learning new phonemes doesn’t always come easily to me) correct me. I am trying and will continue to until I get it right.

trans-cynical:

theradicalgardener:

property-is-theft:

Attention! Attention!

A NAZI RALLY HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR AUGUST 11th AND 12th IN DC!

THIS IS ORGANIZED BY THE SAME SHITHEADS WHO ORGANIZED CHARLOTTESVILLE!

THEY ARE SUING CHARLOTTESVILLE (WHICH HAS FOR NOW DENIED THEIR APPLICATION) TO RALLY THERE AGAIN! IF THEY WIN THEYLL HOLD ANOTHER RALLY THERE ON AUGUST 12th!

YOU NOW KNOW!

Here’s a source: https://www.inquisitr.com/4951774/a-white-civil-rights-rally-is-planned-for-the-anniversary-of-the-deadly-charlottesville-protests/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+google%2FyDYq+%28The+Inquisitr+-+News%29

for folks who wont be able to make it that far to counter: a fuckload of the fascists in charlottesville were NOT from there and traveled from all over the country to get there. assume your local fash are going and make sure they dont. dc especially is NOT a pretty place for a protracted street battle (which they WILL make it) and cville organizers are tough as fucking nails, but also EXTREMELY traumatized, and shouldnt have to go through this again.

antifamutant:

nicolayoon:

via Today.com (How to Help Immigrant Children)

• Together Rising Love Flash Mob. Organized by best-selling author and blogger Glennon Doyle through her non-profit organization, the fundraising effort will go to provide bilingual legal and advocacy assistance for 60 children, aged 12 months to 10 years, currently separated from their parents in an Arizona detention center. Their first priority will be to establish and maintain contact between children and their parents, with the ultimate goal of reunification and safety and rehabilitation for the children.
• The Florence Project and Refugee Rights Project. This organization provides legal assistance and social services to detained immigrants in Arizona.
• The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. This organization works for the rights of children in immigration proceedings.
• Kids In Need Of Defense (KIND). This organization works to ensure that no child appears in immigration court alone without representation.
• Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project. They work to prevent the deportation of asylum-seeking families fleeing violence.

via slate.com (How you can fight family separation)

• The ACLU is litigating this policy in California.

• If you’re an immigration lawyer, the American Immigration Lawyers Association will be sending around a volunteer list for you to help represent the women and men with their asylum screening, bond hearings, ongoing asylum representation, etc. Please sign up.

• Al Otro Lado is a binational organization that works to offer legal services to deportees and migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, including deportee parents whose children remain in the U.S.

• CARA—a consortium of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, the American Immigration Council, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association—provides legal services at family detention centers.

• The Florence Project is an Arizona project offering free legal services to men, women, and unaccompanied children in immigration custody.

• Human Rights First is a national organization with roots in Houston that needs help from lawyers too.

• Kids in Need of Defense works to ensure that kids do not appear in immigration court without representation, and to lobby for policies that advocate for children’s legal interests. Donate here.

• The Legal Aid Justice Center is a Virginia-based center providing unaccompanied minors legal services and representation.

• Pueblo Sin Fronteras is an organization that provides humanitarian aid and shelter to migrants on their way to the U.S.

• RAICES is the largest immigration nonprofit in Texas offering free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children and families. Donate here and sign up as a volunteer here.

• The Texas Civil Rights Project is seeking “volunteers who speak Spanish, Mam, Q’eqchi’ or K’iche’ and have paralegal or legal assistant experience.”

• Together Rising is another Virginia-based organization that’s helping provide legal assistance for 60 migrant children who were separated from their parents and are currently detained in Arizona.

• The Urban Justice Center’s Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project is working to keep families together.

• Women’s Refugee Commission advocates for the rights and protection of women, children, and youth fleeing violence and persecution.

• Finally, ActBlue has aggregated many of these groups under a single button.

This list isn’t comprehensive, so let us know what else is happening. And please call your elected officials, stay tuned for demonstrations, hug your children, and be grateful if you are not currently dependent on the basic humanity of U.S. policy.

If you won’t or can’t storm the ICE centers and the concentration camps, at least reblog this. At least do this.

plastic-red:

ego-protection-squad:

roskiiart:

xxozzyfozzyxx:

MAJOR WARNING TO DISCORD USERS!!!! PLEASE REBLOG AND PASS THIS ALONG!!

Do not accept a friend request from Chrisopeer Davies and Jessica Davies. They are hackers. Tell everyone on your friends list because if somebody on your list adds one of them, they’ll be on your list too. They will figure out your personal computer’s IP and address, so copy & paste this message wherever you can

Heads Up: Also look out for a Discord user by the name of “KeirStarmer” or often just “Keir”. He is going around sending friend requests to random Discord users, and those who accept his friend requests will have their accounts DDoSed and their IP Addresses revealed to him.

Spread the word and send this to as many discord servers as you can. If you see this user, DO NOT accept his friend request and immediately block him.

Please be warned there is a user going around called “KurtStarmer” or just “Kurt” who is mass spamming terribly graphic gore and of such(he is also a hacker). Please spread the word of this to your other servers

I don’t have discord but I know some of my friends do.

Be safe

I know a lot of y’all do have Discord, so watch out for these people!

PSA. Be safe out there kids. 🙂

obstinatecurator:

Kyle: I can fit the whole world in my hands.

Jean-Paul: No you can’t that’s physically impossible

Kyle: *cups JP’s face in his hands*

Jean-Paul: I have a reputation