ice is absolutely fucking evil but like … if y’all could fucking stop comparing them to the gestapo and auschwitz that’d be great. not because they aren’t like them, but because y’all need to sit back and think about how it might feel to jewish people, most of who suffer intergenerational trauma, seeing their feeds and dashes filled with the fucking yellow star, photos of ghettos, photos of concentration camps, the words “gestapo” and “holocaust” and “auschwitz” everywhere we turn just for shock value bc apparently goyim have difficulty caring about anything unless it’s compared to our genocide (ironic since a lot of y’all then go on to say we deserved it or are milking it for sympathy points but that’s neither here nor there)
like, you can figure out another way to say something is horrible without equating it to the holocaust. i guarantee you it’s possible and on behalf of the rest of my people i am asking y’all to please fucking do so lol
I understand why people want to liken things happening in American to the most well-known fascist disaster of the 20th Century, but JFC y’all it’s fucking triggering to Jewish and Romani people.
to be completely honest it’s also incredibly telling + disheartening that americans have no concept of this having happened to latinos/latine immigrants (and non-latino immigrants) before, and thus can’t compare it to the ongoing history of abuses against immigrants in the US.
people could be talking about the “Gre-ser Act” or Operation W-tback, the bracero program, forced mexican repatriation…. but they don’t. there’s never any implication that they have any idea of the history there of the border, and so they reach for the holocaust as if it’s a catch-all analogy. hell, for gd’s sake, mention american internment camps, because at least that speaks to american policy and the american treatment of non-white people under various administrations.
3. Documents obtained by the ACLU show massive horrific abuse of children in ICE custody, including kicking a child in the ribs, running over a 17 year old with a patrol car, sexually assaulting a 16 year old girl in a search, and detaining a 4 pound premature baby and her mother in an overcrowded and dirty cell full of sick people. (More here: https://www.aclusandiego.org/civil-rights-civil-liberties/)
ICE was only created in 2003, as part of the US’s post-9/11 hyper-militarized, xenophobic frenzy. We didn’t have this department 16 years ago, we do not need it, and we should abolish it immediately. I do not say this lightly: ICE is America’s gestapo and we should treat them with that level of serious resistance.
Update: the Senate has voted to keep #NetNeutrality
rules! We have an update on District Dispatch, but this fight isn’t
over. Now we move to the House – give your Reps a call this week!
You can use the ALA Action Center to send your Representatives an email today and ask them to support net neutrality.
Just a reminder – now that the Senate has voted to keep net neutrality, the House will need to vote as well! Call your Representative today and ask them to support net neutrality.
Last December, the FCC voted to to kill net neutrality. If we do not take action, this will kill the free and open internet as we know it. The internet needs you—all of you—to make sure your voices are heard NOW.
We need all hands on deck for this one. It may be our last chance. If you’re feeling under-informed and overwhelmed about why net neutrality is so incredibly important, we have this handy guide just for you.
Here’s what you can do to save the internet:
In mid-May, the Senate will vote on a resolution to overrule the FCC using the Congressional Review Act (CRA). We only need one more vote in the Senate to win.Write or call your Senators or Representatives. You can also text BATTLE to 384-387 to get more information on how to write to your reps. You can do this, Tumblr.
Join us and dozens of your other favorite companies like Etsy, Vimeo, Reddit, and GitHub to raise awareness with the Red Alert campaign being run by Battle for the Net. Just add this small widget to your Tumblr to let your followers know how they can contact their reps. It’s as easy as copying and pasting the small line of code right into the customize theme page on the web.
This is important. This matters. It’s up to you to help.
Text “RESIST” to 50409 to send an email to your Senators/Representatives! Tell them to vote for the CRA and give them details to persuade them on why Net Neutrality is so important and why it should be preserved. You can also call at 202-224-3121.
Script for phone calls:
Now get to it!! We only have until April 23rd to keep our Internet freedom otherwise.
The following is a caption of the image above:
[Call Your Senators about Markey’s Net Neutrality Petition
(2/26):
You: Hello, my name is [insert name here]. I am calling from
[zip code].
You: I am calling to let [SENATOR] know I want them to vote
in favor of Senator Markey’s resolution to repeal the FFC’s December decision
to unwind Net Neutrality via the Congressional Review Act.
You: Polling Suggests 60-80% of Americans do not support the
rollback of Net Neutrality, and voting in support of this bipartisan resolution
will help ensure this issue isn’t singlehandedly decided by five people.
For GOP Senators: If
[SENATOR] doesn’t support Markey’s resolution, we will make this an issue every
single time [SENATOR] is up for reelection.
I’m praying the success of the vote in California will embolden other states supporting NN (like my own) to follow suit.
According to battleforthenetonly one vote is needed to ensure the FFC repeal of Net Neutrality is knocked down in the Senate, so calling the Senators who have not voted on the issue of Net Neutrality is crucial.
Additionally, battleforthenet states that 218 votes are needed to sway the House (of Representatives). As of now, 161 is the current tally, with only 57 votes needed to turn things around.
As of April 17, 2018, there are six days left before April 23, 2018.
I know many of you are saying “how many times are we gonna have to do this”
once more.
Once more.
This is the last chance to preserve Net Neutrality on the federal level.
Not enough people seem to want to bother with “Battle For The Net, even though it’s super duper easy to use Battle For The Net because they made it easy for you, and it’s so quick to use because of how fast the internet is right now since the FCC haven’t destroyed the internet yet.
If you have a cellphone, they will text you and tell you what to do. They will give you a number to call and tell you what to do. The script basically is
“I Support strong Net Neutrality rules. Could you use the Congressional Review Act to overturn the FCC’s appeal?“
Can’t get texts? Worried that you’ll miss the phone number in the email? No problem! It’s (202) 930-9322 and you should be updated fairly regularly on both email and text. (Provided you have either one.)
This takes maybe ten minutes at most. Five at least.
You can also “share” this on Twitter and Facebook without having to worry about what to say- it will provide exactly what you need to say for you.
Scroll down a bit and insert the state where you live and you’ll see
All you have to do is click on their faces and it will automatically send you to Twitter with a Tweet ready for them.
(It’s different for people who are voting for it.)
Again, this should take maybeee… Thirty seconds at most?
“A federal judge late Friday barred the federal government from implementing President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender members of the military, finding that the ban had to be subject to a careful court review before implementation because of the history of discrimination against transgender individuals.
U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman of the Western District of Washington ruled that transgender people were a protected class and that the injunctions against the implementation of the ban that had been issued in December should remain in place. She wrote that there was a “long and well-recognized” history of discrimination and systemic oppression against transgender people, that discrimination against transgender people was clearly “unrelated to their ability to perform and contribute to society,” that transgender people have immutable characteristics and that they lacked relative political power.
“Transgender people have long been forced to live in silence, or to come out and face the threat of overwhelming discrimination,” Pechman wrote.
“The Court also rules that, because transgender people have long been subjected to systemic oppression and forced to live in silence, they are a protected class. Therefore, any attempt to exclude them from military service will be looked at with the highest level of care, and will be subject to the Court’s ‘strict scrutiny.’ This means that before Defendants can implement the Ban, they must show that it was sincerely motivated by compelling interests, rather than by prejudice or stereotype, and that it is narrowly tailored to achieve those interests,” Pechman wrote.
While Trump had tweeted that he consulted generals and military experts about the ban, Pechman wrote that the government had “failed to identify even one General or military expert he consulted, despite having been ordered to do so repeatedly.”
THIS IS HUGE NEWS and can have major implications for trans rights moving forward in the US, as it establishes a precedent for legal treatment of trans people as a protected class due to ongoing persecution. This means it would be illegal to fire someone, to refuse them a job, or a home/apartment rental, because the person is trans.
Folks, even if you’re a pacifist / anti-military, remember:
THE TRANS BAN DOES NOTHING TO STOP MILITARISM, AND EVERYTHING TO LEGALIZE & NORMALIZE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE TRANS COMMUNITY.
💖TRANS PEOPLE ARE A PROTECTED CLASS 💖
This declaration of Trans people as a protected class is important beyond the military because it has effects on laws that would seek to implement discriminatory practices towards trans people in other areas of US law.
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