[Image: Two screencaps of a Facebook post that together read:
“Goy friend: You okay?
Me: No. I am not. Eleven of my tribesman are dead, having been murdered while praying to our God. Not just praying to our God, but killed in front of the Torah which we believe to the literal word of God. We treat the scrolls as if they were kings. We adorn them with crowns and breastplates. A bris was reportedly in progress when the shooting occurred. Eight days birth we conducted a bris. That’s this how we welcome a baby into the community and how we mark him with the sign of the covenant, a ritual that goes back roughly 3,000 years. It was such a Jewish place and time and it was desecrated with hate and violence.
Tonight, I am keenly aware that there are roughly 3 times as many people in the the US’s far right than there are Jewish Americans. The ADL said today was the worst act of violence against Jews in our country’s history. A Jewish friend of mine reminds me that this was not just antisemitism, but this was an anti-American attack. We were the first country to be founded with a specific belief in a secular democracy free of organized religion’s influence with a guarantee of religious freedom for all of its citizens. Not long after the ratification of our Constitution, President Washington sent a now famous letter of good will to the Jews of Providence, RI. (The irony of course being that Jews at the time did not have equal rights under state laws).
Two years after POTUS called Nazis “very fine people,” eleven Jews are dead. Many of friends are shocked, I am not. My grandpa taught me to always expect Jews to be at the receiving end of hate, anger, xenophobia and violence. This is our lot in life. This is why Jews to be at the receiving end of hate, anger, xenophobia and violence. This is our lot in life. This is why Jews must always stand up and speak up. Jews can not afford to forget that we will always be viewed as outsiders by nationalists and nativists.
Today was the natural and logical conclusion of Trump’s embrace of the deplorable. I listened to the President blame the victims saying we should have been armed. Tomorrow, I am going to hear another NRA idiot talk about how if Jews of Europe had been armed my kinsmen would have survived the Shoah. POTUS and later his son called for capital punishment despite that being against the tenets of the victims’ faith.
At nearly the same time I saw members of Britain’s House of Lords blame Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud, and Israel for the violence in Pittsburgh and rise in antisemitism. The left wing of Twitter has had so many horrendous takes that I can’t even talk about it. My leftist friends think today is a good day to debate Israel, it’s not.
Meanwhile CNN is saying nothing of value and Fox News is being particularly vile tonight. I am tired of being used as someone else’s political prop.
I was just on the streets of Philadelphia, people are celebrating Halloween as if nothing happened. Outside of my little bubble the world is still spinning. I am choking back tears. I am reading prayers, psalms and listening to music. I am trying to find comfort and solace. I am embracing my community via the internet. Meanwhile I can hear from my windows the drunken laughter and merriment of Philadelphia’s youth having a good time.
No. I am not okay. My community was attacked. My friends are angry, sad, and afraid. As for me, I am heartbroken. I am trying an failing to reconcile my faith in humanity, the absurdity of this world, and my sorrow regarding today’s events.
Also, idk where this came from. I never fancied myself much of a writer and I certainly didn’t meant to write this much. That is a lot of words.“]
If you’re adopted internationally into the United States, BY adoption LAWS you’re legally a citizen, but you still have to apply for documentation and if it’s not done by the age of 18 you have to pay over $500 and get a judge to reopen your adoption case.
Even More Fun Fact: No one actually tells adoptive families, this so many find out after they’re 18 when their kid needs to get a passport, wants to apply for financial aid, get certain jobs, vote or some other shit that requires proof of citizenship and now it’s too late because they’re 18 or over.
AND EVEN MORE FUN FACT! You can sometimes even be deported because you can be considered foreign-born, non-citizens!
Oh and they won’t accept adoption papers or a birth certificate as proof.
Do it now! Seriously. Even if you think you are safe. Do it.
Many people are finding that even a birth certificate is not valid proof anymore. Texas birth certificates are notorious. So notorious that I have 3 friends who can’t use them to get passports! Don’t think everything is hunky dory. You must nail down your citizenship.
Plus the cost for your citizenship certificate is almost doubling this fall.
SIGNAL BOOST.
Some Naturalization/Citizenship Certificate tips from me, the person who front-end processes these forms for half the country: the passport people are absolute garbage at sending your Naturalization Certificate back to you. Unfortunately, they also require it for you to get a passport. If you don’t get it back, whine at them about it and they will probably cover the cost of the replacement.
Also! It takes up to 12 months to get a replacement certificate. If you urgently need your Natz Cert to visit your dying relative in another country, the word you want to use is ‘Expedite’. Not ‘ASAP’. Not ‘rush’. Expedite. Write a letter explaining why you need it expedited, if you do. Otherwise the USCIS data-entry grunts (me!) aren’t allowed to throw it into the expedite line and it gets relegated to the Backlog Crypts.
Also! You need to get a new Naturalization Certificate if your name and/or gender legally changes, because a lot of places want your proof of citizenship for things like Social Security and student loans and Medicaid/EBT/welfare benefits and drivers’ licenses.
ALSO ALSO both the N600 ($600) that you use to apply for your Naturalization Certificate in the first place and N565 ($345) that you use to apply for a replacement certificate are eligible for FEE WAIVERS. It’s called an I912. Learn it, love it, use it.
Please for your sake make sure you are using the current version of the form. The most common reason I have to reject an N565 is because someone sent me something that expired in 2013. The current one is seven pages long. Please send the government all seven of them.
a girl i know told me how a guy she knows once moved out from his parents, ate nothing but fries and meatballs for HALF A YEAR, and got scurvy. imagine the doctor’s face when this guy shows up with like his gums bleeding and the doc has to fucking say DUDE…. THATS SCURVY…. in this day and age
this is turning into a “how a person i know got scurvy” thread and im so here for this, please share your scurvy stories if you have any
the other day someone posted pics from the reddit page r/zerocarbs where these fools only ate meat and 0 vegetables or fruits and all the posts were about various symptoms of scurvy. i died when one literally read ‘i don’t want to start the vitamin C debate again but’
THE VITAMIN C DEBATE
My mother told me all about scurvy when I was five and trying to resist eating pumpkin and let me tell you it’s been 35 years and I still get nervous if I go for two days without eating a green vegetable.
I told my own little picky eater about scurvy, rickets etc and now one of her most frequently requested lunch items is baby spinach, closely followed by carrots.
I’m not saying everyone should mildly traumatize their children to make them understand that vegetables are vital to ongoing possession of your teeth and organs, but.. no, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Go for it.
Isn’t there a story about a college kid who literally only ate ramen noodles and got scruvy because of it?
One of my partner’s friends did basically that in college, but eating almost exclusively the cheapest sacks of rice he could find for months on end. He was that poor for a while. Sounds like a great setup for all kinds of interesting deficiencies, but scurvy was at least what became obvious first.
The solution in that case? Start washing the rice down with the cheapest orange juice he could find, at least once a day 😑
2: Disney acknowledges and prepares show creators that their show will, most definitely, become porn.
3: Disney has examples on hand of how said show will, most definitely, become porn.
Pffft!!!!!
Disney doesn’t just have examples of said porn!!
Ok story time. Yeaaaars ago i dated an animator chick. During that short time together we ran around a lot and met a bunch of industry people in our area.
One of them used to work for Disney. So we are hanging out at his apartment and conversation being what it is he kinda says “hold on” and goes off to dig in the closet. He comes back and sets down a couple STACKS (and im talking foot high) of printer paper.
What followed were a couple hours of hysterical laughing as we paged through “a history of Disney animation- porn edition”
See Disney has this weird rule in their artist contracts- everything you create while in their employ is THEIRS. Even in the off time. Its one of the reasons they are reviled in the industry. But the rule was set in place to basically steal good ideas from their staff or force them to ONLY work on Disney ip’s while employed.
The jokes on them though. They didn’t count on most artists being giant perverts (this story is also why i laugh when people tell me drawing smut will ‘ruin your art career’)
So! Disney being bastards ended up earning them smut of everything they’ve ever created. And also per their policies they had to keep it. Every artist knew about the smut vault and our buddy here had photocopied a chunk of it. Yes… 2-3 feet of smut was just a chunk of it.
Snow white? Rescue rangers? Goofy? Minnie? Micky? Beauty and the beast? Aladdin? Yup you name it it was there. Some of it was mild. The topless little mermaid stuff made sense at least. Some was raunchy as hell. ALL OF IT in the animation style of the films and shows.
So yes, not only does Disney know there will be porn, have the porn, but they official porn.
The alternative social media network that was reportedly used by the suspect in the deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue is now down.
Gab.com is a social network that touts itself as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook to give conservatives a platform for free speech. But it has also been criticized for providing a platform for anti-Semitism and white nationalism. The site has come in for increased scrutiny since the shooting.
As of Monday, the site displayed a message saying it had been “systematically no-platformed by App Stores, multiple hosting providers, and several payment processors.”
“We have been smeared by the mainstream media for defending free expression and individual liberty for all people and for working with law enforcement to ensure that justice is served for the horrible atrocity committed at Pittsburgh,” it said.
The platform’s future is newly in doubt because an account linked to Robert Bowers, the 46-year-old Pittsburgh resident charged in the shootings, wrote on Gab Saturday morning: “HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.” HIAS is the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a Jewish nonprofit group that has the goal of helping immigrant refugees.
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