St. Jude, Patron Saint of Lost Causes @judekyle - Tumblr Blog

Hey, real quick rant:

Don’t be mean to people who ask questions.

I hate it when i see someone asking ‘so wait, if a trans woman like women, is she gay or straight?’ and suddenly a dozen people jump on their ass for being ignorant or transphobic or whatnot- when all they had to do was answer the question. All you had to is go ‘She’s gay!’, and the person would go ‘oh, cool!’ and now they know. They just had a positive interaction with trans folks.

But if you belittle them, now they’ve learned they’re punished for asking. They’re punished for wanting to know, for wanting to learn, and for coming directly to the people who live that life instead of just going to google. And they come away not having learned anything except that those people were dicks to them.

Everyone is clueless at some point. When I was 10, I was homophobic. I was a kid, raised around homophobic parents in a homophobic country. But one day i decided hey, i want to learn, and i found some gay friends and I asked them some questions.

Do you think i’d be here; if they had told me that i was an ignorant fuck, that i should pull my head out of my ass, that I shouldn’t have asked those things?

It was thanks to them that I learned and grew as a person, because even though i was a stupid homophobic kid with some admittedly stupid questions, they answered them, because everybody starts clueless.

It doesnt matter how young or old or who they are either- everyone starts somewhere. And lord knows, I’ve had some people ask me some stupid questions. My government teacher came to me yesterday and asked me that exact question i mentioned above, and I answered it. He’s a 40-something year old dude. He’s trying to learn.

My little brother is 9, and asked me once if being gay meant that I wanted to kiss every girl i met. Was it a stupid question by my standards? yes. Did I answer it like it was any other normal question? Also yes.

Insulting people who are trying to learn is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever encountered. It can literally mean the difference between someone becoming part of the community or trying to take us down. We judge that; we control how we educate.

Do yourself a favor and educate. Everyone starts somewhere, and it’s our job to help them along, not tear them down.

mysharona1987

violaslayvis

judekyle

Yankee logic never changes

fuckyeahanarchistposters

“The politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder”

- Harry Patch, last British veteran of WW1

mostlysignssomeportents

I’m suing the U.S. government for causing the climate change crisis, and I'm 22.

My name is Kelsey Juliana and I’m suing the United States government for causing and accelerating the climate change crisis. I’m 22 years old and I’ve been a climate activist for more than half of my life.

I know that young people like me, and others who have yet to be born, have a right to a safe climate system. The constitution guarantees all Americans the right to life, liberty, and property. But how is anyone supposed to live a life of freedom amid a climate crisis? My own government is violating my constitutional rights by its ongoing and deliberate actions that cause climate change and it’s not right.

I, along with 20 other young people from around the country, filed a lawsuit against the federal government in 2015, called Juliana v. United States.

We’re not asking for money. Instead, we’re asking the court to order the government to develop and implement a National Climate Recovery Plan based on the best available science.

This plan should end the reign of fossil fuels and quickly decarbonize our atmosphere so that we can stabilize our climate system before it’s too late.

The longer we go without climate recovery, the more we risk allowing our climate to spiral completely out of control.

And the climate is spiraling out of control, no matter how many politicians claim we’re experiencing normal fluctuations or, worse, a “hoax.” All of the expert witnesses in our lawsuit say that we are currently—already—in the “danger zone” and an “emergency situation” with only 1°C of planetary heating. Allowing the planet to heat up any more is not safe for our species, as well as so many others. And according to the Trump administration’s most recent environmental impact statement, the planet could heat as much as 7°F before the end of this century. We cannot allow this to happen because we simply will not survive.

We originally filed our lawsuit against the Obama administration. That administration tried to have the case dismissed, but the judge ruled in our favor and found that we should be allowed to go to trial.

In 2017, the Trump administration inherited the lawsuit and it has done everything in its power, employing every conceivable tactic, to deny my fellow plaintiffs and me our right to present our case in court. This administration is so fiercely attempting to silence our voices.

At this point, every level of the federal judiciary—the U.S. District Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court—has denied the Trump administration’s efforts to have the case thrown out. Yet it will not halt its efforts to avoid standard legal procedures and confront us, the nation’s youth, in court.

Our trial is officially scheduled to begin on October 29, 2018 in Eugene, Oregon.

What we’re asking for could change everything.

My fellow plaintiffs and I want you with us as we head into the courtroom to confront the United States government for knowingly violating our constitutional rights. Supporters will hold rallies in every state around the country, so if you can’t be with us in Eugene, find your local rally here.

Get regular updates by following @youthvgov on social media.

You can learn more about this case and get regular trial updates by tuning in to the No Ordinary Lawsuit podcast here.

Lastly, if you have the means, click here to make a donation to Our Children’s Trust, the nonprofit organization that supports our lawsuit and many others like it around the country.

https://boingboing.net/2018/10/23/our-childrens-trust.html

morbidology

A decaying albatross. Its stomach is stuffed with the plastic that ultimately led to its death.

canadian-marxist

Saying that rich people hate poor people misses the point, imo.

It doesn’t matter if the rich hate the poor or if they actually love them deep down. They exploit and profit from the poor. A reserve army of labour is an intrinsic part of capitalism, it scares workers from organizing and fighting for their rights.

If a capitalist saw the error of their ways and decided to treat their workers well and give to the poor that would affect their bottom line and they would be squeezed out of the market by their more ruthless fellow capitalists. Exploitation is literally unavoidable under capitalism.

It’s not the morals of capitalists that need to be fought, it’s capitalism itself.

bushlesbian-deactivated20190425

it’s the whole contradictory “ethical capitalism” people spurt that makes me laugh. why even try to revamp something so brutally harmful? Rich capitalists can’t exist without the poor, so making big companies/businesses *ethical* is actually impossible. this is where libs fail, when they bandaid everything like cowards instead of fighting to actually change the system

cubisms

kirknspock

truecrimeresearch

ok so it’s obvious that romanticizing and glamorizing mass murderers is wrong and hurtful. but demonizing them has negative consequences too. both dehumanizes them which is shit.

look, i get it. you are angry (which is completely justified). dehumanizing others makes you feel better. you love that sweet moral superiority. you love acting like some people are just horrible monsters. it makes you feel like it’s not your problem. it can’t be prevented right? we can just give up now. let’s mindlessly hate this shooter, then this shooter, then this shooter…

i’m tired of all the shootings. so i put my feelings aside. i look at it in a more rational way. what caused these people to do such terrible things? what can we do to prevent them?

also fuck, stop yelling that killers aren’t mentally ill. it’s not about making excuses. it’s about figuring out warning signs and finding constructive solutions. what can we do to help a person in such intense mental distress?

it’s about reasons, not excuses. it’s about prevention, not justification.

feeling hate is easy. dehumanizing others is easy. thinking takes effort. let’s put all our effort into solving this shit.

coffee-khaleesi-deactivated2020

When I was training to be a battered women’s advocate, my supervisor said something that really blew my mind:

“You can always assume one thing about your clients; and that is that they are doing their best. Always assume everyone is doing their best. And if they’re having a day where their best just isn’t that great, or their best doesn’t look like your best, you have to be okay with that.”

Any now whenever anyone in my life, either a friend or a client, frustrates me, disappoints me, or pisses me off, I just tell myself They are doing their best. Their best isn’t that great today, but I have days where my best isn’t that great either.

rlbookreviews

judekyle

He’s doing a bang up job, isn’t he?

ithelpstodream

yourbigsisnissi

Defense attorney co sign.

You make your attorneys job harder when you speak to the cops.

piscesintherain

So, credit where due, this is a screen grab from the Twitter account @BeattyLaw, an actual defense attorney, so it’s doubly attorney-endorsed.

(Link to the original tweet)

He also has a few more (I will not speak for @yourbigsisnissi and can’t say whether she also endorses these:

(link on twitter)

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I don’t know this guy, I just follow him on Twitter, but I’ll encourage you, if you’re on Twitter, maybe go and hit that retweet on these too - folks there need this advice as much as we do here.

priceofliberty

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!

oldtumblhurgoyf

This stuff’s important enough that everyone should see it. I know this applies to Americans at least.

noctumsolis

I know that the laws are very different here in the UK (e.g. the official caution is very different to Miranda rights).

But for all my Americans: take heed.

today-in-wwi

Bolsheviks Kill the Czar and His Family

The site of the execution. Most of the damage to the wall was done by investigators after the Whites took Ekaterinburg later in the month.

July 17 1918, Ekaterinburg–After his abdication, the Czar and his family remained at his palace at Tsarskoye Selo, under what amounted to lavish house arrest, while the Provisional Government figured out what to do with him. They had no particular interest in charging him for any crimes, and really just wanted him out of the country. However, he was unpopular abroad as well, and both France and Britain refused to take him in. In August 1917, the Romanovs were transferred to Tobolsk in Siberia, with the eventual hope of moving them to Japan. What luxuries they had were forfeit after the Bolsheviks took power; they no longer had any servants, were put on reduced rations, and, at the end of April 1918, were moved to a modest house in Ekaterinburg.

After the Romanovs’ arrival in Ekaterinburg, however, the Bolsheviks’ fortunes in Siberia took a turn for the worse. The first fighting between the Czechs and the Bolsheviks began in mid-May in Chelyabinsk, just over 100 miles to the south. By July, they had linked up with the Czechs across the Urals in Samara, and were advancing north towards Ekaterinburg to prevent the Bolsheviks from making any move on the Trans-Siberian Railway. The local Bolsheviks believed the Czechs were on their way to liberate the Czar and help to reinstall him on his throne, and decided to execute the Romanovs to prevent this. How much involvement the Bolsheviks in Moscow had with this decision is unclear; official Soviet history held that it was a local decision, but Trotsky and others held that it was decided in Moscow. If it was Lenin’s decision, he was very careful to make sure no paper trail was left.

In the wee hours of July 17, the Romanovs were woken by their doctor and summoned down to the basement of the house, on the pretext that they were to be moved out of Ekaterinburg. At around 2AM, the commandant of the house, Yakov Yurovsky, entered with a Cheka squad and read their sentence: “Nikolai Alexandrovich, in view of the fact that your relatives are continuing their attack on Soviet Russia, the Ural Executive Committee has decided to execute you.” After repeating the order, the firing began. Most of the men aimed at Nicholas or Alexandra, and the children were protected from incidental fire by the large number of gems sewn into their clothing. The guns did not use smokeless powder and it soon became too smoky to continue in the confined space, so they soon turned to bayonets to kill the children, then pistol shots to the head when that failed.

The bodies were disposed of two days later, and the execution of the Czar was publicly announced. The fate of the rest of the family was not discussed openly, but the Whites were able to piece together what happened after they captured Ekaterinburg a week later. They were unable to find the bodies, however, so wild speculation continued until glasnost.

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