if you’ve seen the breaking news that trump just signed an executive order today to end the family separation policy here’s some quick info to keep things in perspective
this doesn’t end the “zero tolerance” policy of prosecuting anyone who crosses the border “illegally”
the only thing this changes is that going forward, entire families will be detained together while awaiting prosecution
this offers no solution for freeing the thousands of children currently held in ICE child prisons or any path to reuniting them with their families
children will still be detained and treated as criminals
this will likely lead to thousands of families being held in ICE facilities and tent cities that will face the exact same issues of overcrowding, abuse, and inhumane conditions that exist in the child prisons
this is not a victory or a solution. This is the administration trying to cover their asses and avoid any more public outrage. They want people to see this as the end of the news story and go back to their lives. They want people to forget the thousands of children they are still keeping in cages in ICE facilities across the nation. This issue is not over and we cannot stop being outraged until we are given proof that the thousands of kidnapped children are returned to their families, and that the policy of arresting and prosecuting people who cross the border is ended.
no abras la puerta. Estate calmado. Usted tiene derechos.
Si piden entrar, pregunten si tienen una orden firmada por un juez.
Si dicen que lo tienen, piden verlo.
Una orden de administración de ICE (formulario 1-200, 1-205) no les permite entrar a su hogar sin su consentimiento.
Si no tienen una orden firmada por un juez, usted puede negarse a dejarlos entrar
Si se fuerzan, no resistan. Dile a todos en la residencia que permanezcan en silencio.
Si usted es arrestado, permanezca en silencio y no firme nada hasta que hable con un abogado.
Yes, but as a note:
You must DECLARE AFFIRMATIVELY that you are invoking your right to remain silent!! If you just stay silent, you haven’t actually invoked the right. It’s an annoying legal thing, but you have to speak in order to stay silent. All you have to do is say “I am exercising my right to remain silent” (and then DO remain silent after that!).
That last bit is due to a somewhat recent Supreme Court decision.
Translación del segundo parte:
Hay que DECLARAR AFIRMATIVEMENTE que tú estás invocando el derecho a permanecer en silencio! Si sólo permanezcas en silencio, no actualmente invocarás el derecho. Es una cosa estupida del ley, pero hay que hablar para permanecer en silencio. Solo hay que decir “Estoy invocando mi derecho a permanecer en silencio” (y después, permanezca en silencio.)
I mean, it doesn’t pain me at all. They need to do it.
so, after 9/11 U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins (in)famously said it was like the U.S. losing its virginity. (hella problematic on a zillion levels, but- ) 9/11 was this traumatic violation of a national sense of safety and identity and what was and wasn’t possible and that these things didn’t happen to us.
in some ways, Trumpism is the same kind of American trauma. it strikes at the heart of the stories we told ourselves about being a beacon of freedom and justice. that’s why it pains Dr. Gu to admit that we are human rights violators at scale.
now, were those stories always lies? absolutely. but they were nice lies that made us feel good and were things that “we” aspired to be true. but now we’ve discovered just how shaky and incomplete that “we” always was. and for people who weren’t always failed by those lies, it’s painful.
So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)
I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up
If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help
Don’t get scared, don’t get annoyed, follow the dog! If it had been an emergency situation, I could have vomited and choked, I could have hit my head, I could have had so many things happen to me. We’re going to update his training so if the first person doesn’t cooperate, he moves on, but seriously guys. If what’s-his-face could understand that lassie wanted him to go to the well, you can figure out that a dog in a vest proclaiming it a service dog wants you to follow him
Several things wrong with this analysis, though I can’t fault the skepticism
I’m 20. Please. Why does everyone who gets upset at this post call me a teenager?
Yes, he was originally supposed to be a family dog. I had concerns because he was supposed to be a family dog, however that was well over a year ago. Professional obedience training happened a little after. He preformed exceptionally, and the trainer were working with now is helping with the more specific training. It probably wasn’t the best process to get a service dog, but I got lucky. I wouldn’t reccomend anyone else to obtain a SD this way, but like I said, it turned out well.
I’m… Not sure where you got the 2 blocks measurement? It was a quiet grocery store, and he went like, 3 aisles down.
We didn’t train him to stand by me and bark because of my sensory issues. Loud noises are painful for me, especially when I’m already in distress. It was decided that him going to get someone was a better idea than him sending me into sensory overload after I get out of my seizure.
I don’t go alone anywhere. Theres not really a chance for me to be far away from people where Raider would run free and wild and come back to find me gone. If I was in the habit of going out on strolls alone around the neighborhood, this would be a problem, but i don’t. I was only at the store because it’s 5 minutes away, and I really wanted coffee creamer, lmao
He doesn’t paw or jump or bark or anything else everyone has been imagining. He goes up, and noses the person. Then he walks off to my direction, checks if the person is following, and either repeats the nosing or leads them to me. The lady was swatting at him because he was interupting her shopping. She wasn’t scared for her life, she wasn’t canine-phobic, she was annoyed and swatting his nose away
Service dogs aren’t a set in stone thing. They can be trained for personal… Benefit? (not the right word, but close). My needs as an autistic and epileptic individual are different than yours as a wheelchair user. I can get the apprehension, but I don’t see how this post will affect people going up to your dog that’s with you. It’s already gonna happen, I know that much, but they’re not going to start going up to an SD next to a wheelchair user and be like “Show me the way!!!”
… Okay, they might, but that’s more because people are dumb af when they see fur. It’s not going to be because of this.
Ah, a few more things because I’m on mobile and can’t go back and forth between the tweets without risking losing all I type, lmao
He’s on a leash. He’s always on a leash. I never said he was without a leash. The amazing thing about falling is that I /let go of the leash/. In a seizure, my hands completely splay out, meaning I wouldn’t hold onto the leash. A lot of your complaints are you assuming things, and it’s irksome. If someone could point his attention to this reply, I’d appreciate, since I don’t have a Twitter myself.
I appreciate everyone spreading info about antiRomani racism in Europe and everywhere else, but you NEED to stop saying it’s “xenophobia” or just anti-immigrant sentiment because it is VERY SPECIFICALLY antiRomani racism. Romani people have been vilified and oppressed since we left India in 1200 CE or so. This has always been the case and even nations that view themselves as progressive or non-racist still hate Romani people with a passion. They don’t even view it as racism because they quite literally don’t see us as human.
Please call this what it is. It is antiRomani racism.
Additionally, Roma/Romani people aren’t ~from~ Eastern Europe. We aren’t hated because we’re “Eastern Europeans”. As previously mentioned, Romani people are a South Asian diaspora. I understand that our name is similar enough to Romanian that people get confused, but we are NOT the same. Romania is a country that enslaved Romani people for about 500 years. There are Romani people in Romania, but we are not inherently connected to that country. While Western Europe can be quite xenophobic against Eastern Europe, antiRomani racism has nothing to do with that and is its own seperate thing.
I feel like I am way less interested in being an informed person because media + Trump combo had me so burnt out on all of it by the time the 2016 election rolled around. I used to listen to NPR daily and consumed alot of journalism in general, now I can go a week without checking my news app and I never listen to anything except podcasts that are completely unrelated to anything concerning politics or current events. So I’m just kind of dull and apathetic about all of it which is depressing.
I’ve had a couple of tense conversations with some of our European suppliers today.
Swiss CNC MAchine shop here. Prices went up 25% on most of the metal stock we use. Plus side, jobs are pouring in at a record rate.
I work in the electrical supply industry. At least four of the manufacturers we work with raised prices 5-7%, specifically because of the steel and aluminum tariffs.
I’m in the fire sprinkler industry. 2 days after Trump hinted about steel tariffs, Tyco (Grinnell) announced all of their grooved fittings will have a 10% price increase.
I work in mental health and the medicaid budget was totally fucked this year. We have less than half of the medicaid money we would normally get and theyre planning on more cuts next year. We no longer get paid if a MCD client no-shows an appointment and 90% of MCD clients no show consistently. It’s making my job very hard and we are losing more money than ever. But hey I guess the extra $15 on my paycheck from that tax cut was worth it.
I work in mental healthcare in a very blue state. The funding for research has dried up, grad students have lost their grants, and a suicide hotline I volunteer at will most likely be losing half of it’s funding and we’re resorting to things like bake sales to pay the 3 full-time staff. We’re even losing funding for needle exchanges, with Trump pretending to give a damn about the opioid epidemic.
I’ve told this story before, but I used to work at a hospital that began a multi million dollar renovation when Obamacare was seen as established law. After Trump got elected, the hospital cut staffing to the bone to offset future losses from a potential repeal of Obamacare. Patient volume was through the roof and the acuity level was super high. It became a very dangerous place to be a patient. The majority of the existing staff left, myself included, because we were worried about losing our licenses. I moved out of state to find another job, so I miss my friends and family. The people still at the hospital I left say it’s a real nightmare now. Bad for the health care workers, but the patients are the ones who are really suffering.
I work in higher ed. Funding for environmental research was abruptly cut, which eliminated grant money for many of our grad students. It also destroyed several long-term research projects, but that didn’t affect me personally. Also, our university HR determined that it was much less likely to succeed in a request for an H-1B visa, so they are usually unwilling to put in the significant effort required to file and defend the paperwork. This means that it’s a lot harder to hire for certain positions. Some are still unfilled.
While it hasn’t affect me, exactly, some family members who depend on Obamacare are seeing their benefits and options whither away, because the federal government is going back on its commitment to help fund insurers. Not sure whether Trump is the architect of that or just a cheerleader.
Wife works for a renewable energy company. They were growing fast. Doubled their number of employees every year for the past two years.
The solar tariffs fucked things up. For the first time since the company began a decade or so ago, they’ve laid off people. It set them back probably one or two years.
Have a few clients who are in the touring industry. My business is down because their business is down. It’s not due to competition, but rather tourism has declined in general considerably. The general concensus is the same from my clients – that the U.S. doesn’t have it’s enticing charm anymore and not a place travelers associate with the word vacation.
I work at a University with a large percentage of international students. Thanks to the travel ban and general fear of coming here, international enrollment is down. This means we may have to shut down certain graduate programs that rely on these students and their tuition. It also means domestic students won’t receive the funding they normally would. It is incredibly short-sighted not to realize that these things affect our own population as much as the international community.
Here’s an odd, albeit very minor, impact that I’ve noticed. I feel weird wearing patriotic clothing now, specifically a shirt that just has an American flag on it.
I love the shirt, been wearing it out and about for years now, but I’ve noticed in the last year that people kind of look at me funny when I wear it now as if being proud of my country automatically makes me a Trump supporter. I feel like his administration has made a point to demonize criticism and now any dissatisfaction with how things are being run automatically makes you anti-American. So by consequence, the flip side of showing any pride for the country must mean I’m a proud Republican
Much of my family could not attend my wedding due to on again off again visa issues thanks to the “Muslim Ban”. I couldn’t have my parents walk me down the aisle.
On a personal note: my own aunt couldn’t come to see her son graduate from Rutger’s University because of these issues. She’s a well-known Westernized politician in her country, married to a U.S. Citizen, with kids who are also U.S. Citizens.
I’m a Southern Baptist. What upsets me the most isn’t what Trump has done; it is all the support that the people I stand in fellowship with have given him. They call him a good man. They call him a Christian. A believer.
They hate the “left” so much that they ignore truth. They ignore the philandering. The ignore the scams he has run. They ignore the hatred he spews. They ignore the lies he tells. They ignore that he is likely a traitor to the nation. They ignore that he has no idea what being a Christian actually is.
And in doing so, they tarnish the image of church. They dishonor the Name of the Almighty God. They turn people who are hurting away from a place where they are supposed to be loved, and comforted, and supported. Hell, they even kick them on the way out. If you are gay, or an immigrant, or a liberal, they will hate you.
I know that the church has failed. I know it didn’t start with Trump. But for me, this is the worst part of his presidency so far.
Until recently, I worked in criminal prosecution. The vast majority of our victims and lay witnesses come from marginalized communities: inner-city African-Americans and Hispanic people of sometimes questionable immigration status.
Since Trump took office, race relations have taken a nosedive, especially as it relates to law enforcement. Many of our victims and witnesses have been scared to come to court, believing (sometimes with good reason) that ICE will be waiting to take them into custody. My job, which was to prosecute criminals, became much more difficult under Trump.
I didn’t cherry pick. I didn’t go hunting.
I literally just went down the list and picked one response after another, after another, after another.
You didn’t have to cherry pick because this thread was created to be extremely biased towards reddit’s hugely left-leaning userbase (making the tumblr/reddit hate even more confusing).
This thread is full of responses from people who hate Trump. It’s an echo chamber.
reddit’s hugely left-leaning userbase
…riiiiiight
I guess that means all the alt-right, incel, and “trigger-comedy” reddits just vanished?
Wanna see something funny?
The moment that thread hit the front page I found a really cool pattern on the rising thread page!
Yep. And a lot of these accounts were commenting on each other’s posts.
Thanks /r/enoughtrumpspam for showing us whose enjoying the weather in Russia.
And do people seriously think Reddit is left leaning? It’s the definition of brogressive at best, and Alt right for the most part. Sadly even subs like /r/Canada have been totally taken over by altrighters and American trolls.
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