Exactly #AOC
Republicans love their morons and disrespect opposing smart people as inferior. Melania cheated to get an Einstein Visa. She earned nothing. But to a Republican, Jill Biden is worse. Because that's how having no beliefs works.
Seth Cardinal Dodginghorse from the Tsuut’ina First Nation cuts off his braided hair in response to Calgary’s Ring Road being built which has required his home be destroyed (the home has been in the family for 5 generations).
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Tagging: @politicsofcanada
This is important context:
What does cutting the hair signify?
Many tribes cut their hair when there is a death in the immediate family as an outward symbol of the deep sadness and a physical reminder of the loss. The cut hair represents the time with their loved one, which is over and gone, and the new growth is the life after.
The cutting of hair can also signify separating from past actions or thoughts. When a Native American cuts their hair, the hair is often treated with respect. It can be placed into a flowing river, buried, or burned.
feraldogqueer-deactivated202012
More than 1/8th of the White Mountain Apache Tribe has tested positive for Covid-19.
They have been hit EXTREMELY hard and I have seen no posts going around talking about it. It is one of the hardest hit places in ARIZONA, a state that already has horribly high case numbers.
They have a Covid relief gofundme. Please donate if you can and spread this if you can't.
they’re currently at less than a tenth of their goal.
Original date of post: July 9th, 2020
Reblogging October 3rd, 2020
$164,677 raised of $1,000,000 goal
Not to get dark or anything, but 9/11 is coming up in the USA
Or, let me rephrase that: an annual day where Muslims in the USA are scared to leave their homes. If you have Muslim friends or neighbors - watch their backs. Check up on them. Without fail, every year, there's always an attack. Every year someone I know or someone I know by extension becomes a victim.
One year I had to go pick up my roommate from the library because she was too scared to leave. Some grown ass men had followed her there throwing rocks and yelling threats.
Another year I got a knife threat slipped into my mailbox.
Another year someone shot up the side of our mosque while we prayed for peace inside.
Check up on your neighbors and call out racist and islamophobic behavior where you see it. This year, with all the unrest and elections coming up, it's bound to be bad and everyone I know is already on edge and taking precautions.
Stay vigilant and stay woke ✌️
milliusprime-inactive
this is so important
to reiterate:
Check!! In!! On!! Your!! Muslim!! Friends!! And!! Neighbours!!
and yes, this is applicable everywhere, not just America. don't leave it because you're from the UK or Canada or France or anywhere else.
Also important!!
The majority of Muslims in the USA aren't even immigrants or Pakistani, or Indonesian or anything else - the highest percentage is actually African American.
Given the political climate and recent surge in violence - protect your neighbors, and protect black Muslims especially!!!!!
Consider calling a local mosque and asking if they need someone to stand outside while they pray.
Entire Georgia county claims no mail-in ballots.
How does Brian Kemp explain his incompetence? How does he explain suppressing votes from certain counties?
Just in case anyone missed this the last 2 or 3 times I reblogged it.
I cannot believe… they let chris rock get away with this
afrikangyal
he ain’t lie
He really didn’t
The real power move here is that the witness gave a very specific and useful description that the police could use to conduct their search. Yes, the suspect was black but he also offered height, weight, what he was wearing and non-racial identifying features. it was THE COPS who took all this useful information and decided to weaponize it against a kid.
This isn’t just an accurate depiction of how racism works. It’s a specific call-out about racist cops and the negative effect of racism on police work.
On “Cancel Culture”
People who are actively “cancelled” don’t get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets.
Kentucky cutting number of polling places for Tuesday’s primary from 3700 to 200.
There will be one polling place for 616,000 registered voters in Louisville’s Jefferson County, where half state’s black voters live.
Mitch McConnell is blocking legislation passed by House Dems to:
-restore Voting Rights Act.
-implement nationwide automatic voter registration, early voting & end to voter purging.
-expand vote by mail & give $3.6 billion in much needed election aid to states.
More people need to understand what we mean when we say that "Brooklyn 99 is pro-cop propaganda"
Are there worse tv shows, that depict more police brutality? Yes, obviously. But there’s a big difference between shows meant to rile up existing pro-cop sentiments, and shows meant to subtly convince people who are against police abuses that some police abuses are actually ok, and that cops can be just and good. NCIS and Blue Bloods might be worse, but Brooklyn 99 is more dangerous, precisely because Brooklyn 99 is so much more palatable to people who feel gross watching cops beat unarmed black men.
Despite its claims of demonstrating good policing and idealized behavior, Brooklyn 99 regularly shows cops violating people’s constitutional rights. But whereas other more right-leaning shows highlight violations and are explicitly in favor of them, Brooklyn 99 glosses over them. And it does so to such a degree that a lot of people don’t even realize that what they are watching, despite being about “good” cops, still contains a ton of systemic police abuses of power in it.
Take the seventh episode of the very first season as an example.
In this episode, the main character arrests a man with no evidence whatsoever and detains him for 48 hours while his colleagues go on a mad hunt to find evidence of a crime.
Here’s the thing with that depiction:
- The episode treats the main character’s behavior as though the problem is that he made work for his coworkers, not that he violated a suspect’s constitutional rights. It’s made very clear that his coworker’s date night is more important than a wrongfully arrested man being confined in a jail cell for two full days.
- It is in fact illegal to go on a fishing expedition like the one depicted after detaining a suspect. The “you have 48 hours” rule is meant to give the courts time to hold the required probable cause hearing even when there is a court backlog, not to give the cops a chance to gather evidence. In fact, the SCOTUS case which created the 48 hour hold rule even explicitly says: “This is not to say that the probable cause determination in a particular case passes constitutional muster simply because it is provided within 48 hours. Such a hearing may nonetheless violate Gerstein if the arrested individual can prove that his or her probable cause determination was delayed unreasonably. Examples of unreasonable delay are delays for the purpose of gathering additional evidence to justify the arrest, a delay motivated by ill will against the arrested individual, or delay for delay’s sake.” The main characters are breaking the law, and it’s clear that the policy within their precinct is to break the law.
- When the suspect gets a lawyer who starts arguing for a civil suit on the basis of his unlawful detainment, this is treated as a horrible thing and the suspect is portrayed as smug and immoral for doing it. This is despite the fact that he is completely legally justified because the police have clearly violated his constitutional rights.
- The suspect is eventually revealed to have committed the crime in question, by route of a plan which the main character admits to having not even considered when he arrested him. Police hunches are glorified; the assumption that former criminals are guilty is reinforced.
- Ultimately, the suspect is unable to sue for the violation of his rights and his unlawful detention because there is evidence that he committed the underlying crime. In fact, this would have no bearing whatsoever on his standing to sue. Guilty people still have constitutional rights, and by the text of the episode, the precinct violated his rights regardless of his guilt or innocence. The show glosses over this, and strongly implies that guilty people (and he is treated as guilty despite not yet having been tried) are unable to legally take actions against police abuses.
Putting it all together, from it’s outset, Brooklyn 99 has justified non-violent but extremely illegal police abuses, eroded people’s belief that our constitutional rights are inalienable and apply even to the guilty, camouflaged the fact that people are legally allowed to sue over police abuses, and demonized the lawyers and suspects who try to go after those sorts of civil rights cases. I’m sorry, but that’s propaganda no matter how you slice it.
Police violence is not always physical brutality. Brooklyn 99 might not show cops beating Rodney King in the street, but it gleefully showcases violations which selectively target the disenfranchised in other ways, and then couches those violations as “what a good police station would be like, in an ideal world”.
The cops in Brooklyn 99? They’re bad cops, end of story. They all routinely commit this-should-be-an-instant-firing level of offenses against helpless individuals, and it’s portrayed as normal. And the fact that people will endlessly parrot the idea that Brooklyn 99 shows the way that police stations could be if they were manned by good police officers shows that not only is it propaganda, but it’s working. And that should terrify us all.
[insert garfield meme here]
The white people crying over the Colston statue never gave it a second thought until it got dunked. It’s not like they worshipped it, or spent time admiring it, thinking “wow what a cool monument to capitalism.”
Chances are a great many had no idea it even existed.
There is exactly ONE Colston heir remaining and he’s been first in line to piss on the damned thing.
It’s not about the statue. It’s never about the statue.
Can u LITERALLY imagine dying and having ur body donated and instead of being used for research or organ donation some tumblr yahoo with a url like “cummy-kitten” buys your skeleton and takes selfies with it and unknowlingly youre at the center of tumblr drama but youre fucking dead
maxiesatanofficial
What a wild hypothetical that, for the sake of my fragile emotional well-being, I will assume is not based in some hellish recent event I have yet to hear about!
Another fucking bone thief?
touchtheowl
AAAAHHHHHHH!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
THATS THE TOE NECKLACE PERSON AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
girlfriendluvr
this is genuinely so fucking disgusting and horrifying. let her rest in peace and stop being a racist piece of shit with a CHILD’S REMAINS
doubleplusunlucky
Chiming in as a professional osteologist: this is wildly unethical and unfortunately extremely common. Big shock, but most bone hoarders are entirely ignorant of history and/or racist shit heads who powertrip off the opportunity to own somebody else’s remains. Most are unspeakably boring people who feel the need to pretend to be a witch / cultist / scientist / curator so that someone will think they are edgy and cool, and either don’t know/ don’t care that many older medical specimens were obtained before consent and professional codes of ethics were a thing. Inevitably, academic institutions clean up the messes that these idiots leave behind, and this behavior isn’t victim free. There is a huge difference between donated medical specimens, and whatever the fuck this situation is. Nobody ever consented to be shown off like a trophy by some empty-headed scene kid whose grasp of human decency is even shittier than her dye job.
If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you
A note:
I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:
Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.
Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.
And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.
Very good very important addition
appropriately-inappropriate
Essentially, this is the civil society version of a work-to-rule strike.
Don’t do more than is expressly asked of you, and do what you are asked with such an intense attention to protocol that not asking you at all becomes more effective than even bothering.
In this case:
“Have you seen an illegal immigrant?”
“Could you describe an illegal immigrant, officer?”
*officer describes a person who is in the country without appropriate paperwork, or who has crossed the border illegally*
“No, sir, I haven’t seen any illegal immigrant.”
And this is correct. You have NOT seen an illegal immigrant, because you have no way of knowing if Jose Fulano is here legally or not. And since you can’t see his paperwork (or lack thereof), and did not personally see him cross the border illegally, you are only answering precisely the question asked.