Month: August 2017

Tell House Republicans: Don’t cut disaster funding!

whatshouldicallabout:

Houston is still underwater and recovery from Hurricane Harvey will likely take years. But while people are still escaping their flooded homes, House Republicans are looking to cut nearly $1 BILLION from disaster relief funding to pay for Trump’s idiotic and immoral border wall.

House Republicans have done a lot of stupid, tone-deaf things, but this has to be one of the worst. Call your members of Congress and tell them: Don’t cut funding for disaster relief! 

Here’s your script: “Hi, my name is [Your Name] and I’m a constituent from [Your Town]. I’m calling because I’m very concerned about the Houses’ proposed omnibus spending bill, which cuts nearly a billion dollars from disaster aid. With so many people displaced by Hurricane Harvey, we shouldn’t be taking away money to help them recover. I hope [Representative So-and-so] will vote against any bill that reduces disaster funding. Thank you.” 

All The Swastikas And Broken Glass Since Charlottesville | HuffPost

jewish-privilege:

jewish-privilege:

In the two weeks since white supremacists marched on Charlottesville, more than two dozen anti-Semitic incidents have occurred across the U.S.

The anti-Semitic aims of the rally — which the Anti-Defamation League has called the largest of its kind in over a decade — were apparent the day before it started, when organizer and white nationalist leader Richard Spencer published his “Charlottesville statement.” This malevolent manifesto described Jews as an “ethno-religious people distinct from Europeans” who are resistant to assimilation and are hostile to non-Jews.

Now, the Anti-Defamation League is concerned that the large display of hatred in Charlottesville “could inspire copycat incidents or acts of hate against Jews or Jewish institutions in other parts of the country,” the group said in a statement.

The ADL provided a lengthy list to HuffPost of anti-Semitic incidents over the past two weeks. A spokesman for the group says the number of incidents is “higher than usual” when compared with other recent two-week periods. [The following is not a complete list.]

On Aug. 13, a man made an obscene gesture to a security camera outside a Philadelphia synagogue. He then urinated on the synagogue.

On Aug. 13, someone drew a swastika on the door of a woman’s home in Manistee County, Michigan.

…On Aug. 15, the anti-Semitic slur “KIKE” was spray-painted on a building in Washington, D.C.

…On Aug. 15 or 16, someone spray-painted swastikas on the driveway of a home in Lakewood, Ohio. Earlier that week, someone smashed in the windows of that family’s car.

…On Aug. 20, a family in Westerville, Ohio, discovered the word “Jew” written in shaving cream near their driveway. Their neighbors also found Nazi flyers in their front lawns.

…On Aug. 21, a swastika was painted on a sidewalk near an elementary school in Las Vegas.

On Aug. 21, swastikas and a bomb threat were discovered carved into the walls of a Washington State University dormitory in Pullman, Washington, prompting an evacuation.

…Still, the past two weeks have brought rising American anti-Semitism into focus. The ADL says anti-Semitic incidents surged by 34 percent in 2016 compared with the previous year. In the first quarter of 2017, the number of incidents jumped 86 percent compared with the same period in 2016.

All The Swastikas And Broken Glass Since Charlottesville | HuffPost

strange-grace:

flyingblueyoshi:

strange-grace:

hi guys so guess what when you frame food allergies/special diets as a Luxury For Rich People (and/or any food-sans-allergens as a gentrification-esque Assault By Rich People On Normal People Food) you’ve progressive’d so hard you’ve looped back around to “back in my day we just suffered and it built character.”

it’s true that a lot of annoying trends have co-opted “gluten-free” in particular and used it as a marketing buzzword aimed at people who actually have no fucking idea what gluten is and just see “______-free” and assume it’s better for you. (i’ve spoken to several people who just thought “gluten” was another word for “carbs” and insisted that potatoes weren’t gluten-free.)

but the problem with that is that it equates some people’s lives with luxuries. and it feels like the Popular Discourse is going more towards ceding the language of dietary needs to the people who’ve stolen and warped it to sell six-dollar hamburger buns rather than collectively saying “nope, this is too important to let you fuck it up, and there’s no actual reason this shit needs to cost this much.”

idk man.

Also it forces people to disclose medical information to not have you put their life at risk and even then people still do it

Someone shouldn’t have to disclose that they have diabetes when ordering a coffee or soda out so that you actually give them diet or sugar free. Someone shouldn’t have to say they have a gluten allergy or celiacs disease to get the gluten free option

The environment becomes “snobby/entitled until proved disabled”, and that just becomes further a situation where we have to choose between having our privacy respected or our needs accommodated

Most abled people would flip their shit if they had to make that gamble or choice themselves. (Not that they can’t have their privacy invaded, but it doesn’t become the price they pay for having the right accommodations)

Also it shows where people forget disabled people exist yet again or completely don’t care enough to include us. It’s the snuggie, fidget spinner infomercial issue all over again. People get a good laugh at “rich” or “lazy” people not considering that the products are even made to accommodate certain needs. How many abled people would know that the snuggie was designed for wheelchair users to make wearing a coat easier? Zero.

And do you think they would help with the price gouging of these products? No. Because it’s seen as “frivolous”

Fuck poor disabled people essentially. It’s the same “poor people can’t drink Starbucks/eat out/have nice wine they should only exist on rice and beans and maybe one vegetable a week” argument just directed specifically at disabled poor people.

It just all over shows how little disabled people matter in sj spaces imo

The environment becomes “snobby/entitled until proved disabled”

beltsquid:

brainstatic:

Not sure what’s funnier, thinking Obama was president in 2005 or not realizing that’s a picture of Condoleezza Rice.

Deflecting criticism of the Trump administration by blaming the Obama administration for a disaster that happened under the George W. Bush administration AND the inability to tell two black women apart is like, the entire GOP brand in one shit diamond of a hot take

Source: brainstatic