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See that picture above? That’s a close up of my great grandmother’s immigration papers when she first came to the US back in the early 20th century. But my great grandma’s information isn’t the important part here. The important part is that line in the middle there about how they arrived in the country.

And how ‘stowaway’ is a legitimate, valid option to select.

So yeah. They absolutely just showed up, and that part of immigration history needs to be talked about a lot more.

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REMINDER THAT TRAVEL VISAS AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY WERE INVENTED IN THE 1930S TO KEEP JEWISH REFUGEES OUT OF COUNTRIES THAT DID NOT WANT AN ‘INFLUX’ OF THEM, THEREBY FACILITATING THEIR GENOCIDE :)))))

read What is A Refugee for more history. Educate yourselves.

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I Feel Sorry for Jesus

People won’t leave Him alone. I know He said, wherever two or more are gathered in my name… but I’ll bet some days He regrets it.

Cozily they tell you what He wants and doesn’t want as if they just got an e-mail. Remember ‘Telephone’, that pass-it-on game

where the message changed dramatically by the time it rounded the circle? Well. People blame terrible pieties on Jesus.

They want to be his special pet. Jesus deserves better. I think He’s been exhausted for a very long time.

He went into the desert, friends. He didn’t go into the pomp. He didn’t go into the golden chandeliers

and say, the truth tastes better here. See? I’m talking like I know. It’s dangerous talking for Jesus. You get carried away almost immediately.

I stood in the spot where He was born. I closed my eyes where He died and didn’t die. Every twist of the Via Dolorosa was written on my skin.

And that makes me feel like being silent for Him, you know? A secret pouch of listening. You won’t hear me mention this again.

From You & Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye; originally published 2005

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I am Not Your Negro dir Raoul Peck (2016)

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Eat Clean

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the most important question in the average life is how to avoid full-time employment. the most effective life extension technology we have is avoiding full-time employment. any time you spend employed is time that you are dead

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“Some people aren’t loyal to you. They’re loyal to their need of you then, once their need changes, so does their loyalty.”

— Unknown

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If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

(L. Frank Baum)

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“Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn’t the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain…Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That’s the hard thing.”

— Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever