[commiebyg]

[thinksquad-deactivated20190405]

[aimmyarrowshigh]

[2/50] pictures of → Nardia Boodoo

[sailorjah]

CALL YOUR SENATORS

If Betsy Devos is appointed as our Secretary of Education she’ll be charged with protecting the most marginalized students in our country.

All children, even the poor Black, Latinx, and Native ones, have the right to a good public education.

She’ll create a system of for-profit schools which will filter our children into the prison system. School-to-prison pipeline targets poor kids, disabled kids, mentally ill kids, Black kids and Latino kids… some of the most vulnerable kids in our society.

We already have schools largely segregated by class and color. If she is allowed to created for-profit charter schools she will make that much worse. The school-to-prison pipeline is even worse in for-profit schools than public ones.

Devos is a billionaire who doesn’t understand what most Americans experience. She’s invested in many for-profit schools from early education to college. If she’s allowed to take over our education system she will destroy what little progress we have made toward creating a truly equitable school system.

Betsy Devos couldn’t even say during her confirmation that we shouldn’t have gun-free schools (in case of grizzlies lmao!) despite all who have lost their lives in schools due to gun violence.

We only need 3 VOTES to get her thrown out! Call your senators if you live in ME, TN, AK, GA, UT, NC, WY, LA, KS, SC, or KY!!! If you don’t know who your senator is check here https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/

We have to do better for the children of America!

[sofarawayy-deactivated20210922]

Yes this is happening. Yes this has been happening. Now can people stop speaking in hypotheticals, “saying we don’t want another *insert historical atrocity here* , and be there to support water protectors experiencing this right now?

[dantydandelion]

[liberalsarecool]

Let’s keep this straight. #immigration

[k-wame]

[sd1d-enthusiast]

THIS

[86thatshit]

This needs a billboard not a screenshot

[yakubgodgave]

Spice Up  Source: https://www.instagram.com/kubaabohdal/

[drankinwatahmelin]

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

via a friend of mine: Hey folks, I just called Mayor Libby Schaaf to demand her support of undocumented immigrants in the city of Oakland.

Yesterday, Mayor Murray of Seattle made a statement saying that the city will be a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants, even if it means losing federal funding. Please call your Mayor’s office and demand similar actions of support. Deetz below.

OAKLAND Mayor Libby Schaaf phone: [phone] message: http://www.oaklandnet.com/contactmayor.asp

PORTLAND Mayor Charlie Hales phone: [phone] message: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/mayor/60975 (email in link) **hey guess what, there’s also a form ^^^ to request an appointment with the mayor

CHICAGO Mayor Rahm Emanuel (i know, just do it) phone: Chicago residents dial 311, or [phone] message: https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/general/contact.html (click link for feedback form)

NEW YORK Mayor Bill de Blasio phone: 311 or 212-NEW-YORK if outside NYC message: http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/contact-the-mayor.page (link at bottom of page)

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-will-remain-sanctuary-city-for-immigrants-despite-trump-presidency-mayor-says/

[youngbadmanbrown-deactivated201]

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[tomwallsart]

Mexico needs you if you don't live in here.

If you are in Tumblr, and don’t live in Mexico, I need you to reblog this until it gets to many countries. The government of my country is taking people away. They are suffering of torture. Physical and psychological. They are spreading terror. Tonight, the 8th of november, we took streets in Mexico City and after we walked peacefully, a strange and anarchist group with masked faces put the main entrance of “Palacio Nacional” on fire. They didn’t came with us. We were walking in peace. Yelling, yes. A lot. But in peace. We are fighting against violence, so it is really, really stupid to claim for peace, with actions like these. This is not new in Mexico. The government always use these payed groups of people to criminalise any social movement. But we are possibly heading to a new era in our country. We are tired of corruption. We are tired of cold assassination. We are tired of the criminals who can walk in peace, and we are tired that both police and military forces protect them. We are so alone right now. We are so unprotected right now. We are not scared. We are terrorised. We need you to focus your attention for the next few days, so they don’t dissappear and kill more of our young people. Government are killing people just because they can, and no one can stop them. We have no weapons, and we don’t want some. We want to make a change after 70 years of corrupcy. They have took everything. They took our faith, our hope, our jobs, our dreams. They are destroying us. My country is one of the most beautiful and interesting countries in the world, and now foreign people are even recommended not to visit this beautiful land because of insecurity. We need you to reblog everything about Mexico these days. Don’t leave us alone. Don’t leave us to get killed. Don’t leave us to get burned, like our missing 43 students. Don’t leave us to be forgotten. Please don’t leave us.

[heathyr]

My problem with a lot of dudes is the fact that their idea of conversation is automatically “let’s debate” when most of the time I just wanted to share ideas and get to know a person. I feel like they want to somehow “win” the conversation and I’m sitting there just like… I didn’t sign up for this debate class

[im-just-a-reaction]

women actually think that real life is their personal blog lmao.

[heathyr]

yeah lol it’s totally ridiculous to expect to be spoken to like an equal instead of being steamrolled by someone lol i’m so fucking silly aren’t i

[halfangs]

men actually think that real life is their high school debate class lmao

[candiikismet]

Right. That don’t impress me. I love to hear men talk about things that they’re excited about. An idea, a hobby, some passion. Wow me with your enthusiasm, don’t fucking attack me. Like Jesus.

[know-the-self]

Become conscious of being conscious. Say or think “I am”, and add nothing to it. Be aware of the stillness that follows the “I am”. Sense your presence, the naked unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes. It is the spacious womb of all creation, all form.

Ramana Maharshi (via know-the-self)

[ppaction]

Sexual Assault Survivors Are Heartbroken Over Trump’s Victory

"Waking up to a Trump victory today, I have not felt this violated, unvalued, or disrespected since the day of my assault."

Believe survivors. Fight rape culture. We’ll never go back.

[beyonslayed]

I hate the whole “we set the country back 50 years” line going around cause it shows how most liberals believed that this was truly some of post racial utopia

[jawnbaeyega]

I get where this is coming from, but when I say we set the country back 50 years, I’m speaking from an organizing and lawyering perspective. 

The incremental legal changes that folks have been fighting to make since the Civil Rights Act passed are about to get systematically undone. Trump has promised to undo every single one of President Obama’s executive orders. He’s going to attempt to stack the Supreme Court with alt-right Justices (potentially 3-4 new Justices), all of whom will be young and remain on the court for 30-50 years, shaping law for the rest of most of our lives. That’s the rest of my life as a lawyer now spent dealing with shitty precedent and being forced to craft even shittier legal arguments to appeal to the new alt-right Justices in a vain attempt to preserve our rights only for it to ultimately be ignored and shot down. The amicus brief on Fisher II isn’t even cold yet, but you can bet conservative impact litigators everywhere are readying anti-Affirmative Action cases at this very moment. Meanwhile, to mount a challenge to that, we’re going to have to toss all of the carefully crafted & tailored legal argumentation folks spent years on just to sway Justice Kennedy and go in essentially blind to what arguments might appeal to the new extremely conservative Justices. Honestly, all the folks who worked tirelessly to save Affirmative Action, bring us marriage equality, & are fighting to preserve our rights in less well-known cases, were royally fucked by this election result. We basically have to reinvent the wheel for progressive impact litigation lawyering. 

All of this dovetails into “organizing.” People keep saying that “we just need to come together” and “now is the time to organize” without defining what that is or what it looks like in Trump’s America. Whenever folks talked about organizing before it was mostly about changing policies, moving lawmakers & politicians, & changing laws. Well…how are we supposed to change policies, move lawmakers, or change laws, when all the power players are now extremely conservative Republicans with little to no politicalopposition & thus no incentive to listen to the concerns of “losers?” We just elected the people whom we knew didn’t care at all about our issues. These folks think BLM is a terrorist organization, they think trans folks should be banned from public bathrooms, they think we should electrocute the gay away, they think all Muslims & anyone who “looks like a Muslim” is a terrorist, they think all Brown folks are “foreign” and need to be deported. These are not reasonable people. They are not moved by our protests. And they have the power and the tools to make what they believe in policy and to make it legal & constitutional. 

When I say we’ve regressed 50 years, it’s not because I was laboring under the delusion that white people had somehow bettered themselves. I’ve never been that naive. When I say we’ve regressed 50 years, I mean that we’ve handed over to the enemy all the tools we’ve scraped and fought for & forged with our own blood, sweat, tears, and lives. There is no more struggling for progress. We’re struggling for basic survival now, to hold on while so many of the rights we managed to win are stripped from us. When Trump said he was gonna “make America great again,” taking us back to the 50s is what he had in mind. And from a civil rights, constitutional, & policy perspective, that’s exactly where he’s going to take us.  

[thecheshirecass-deactivated2018]

^^^^

I saw a white gay man actually argue today that there was no way Trump would be able to strip marriage equality, and I just boggled at the peak privilege ignorance of that attitude. I’m basically going into the next four years hoping I don’t come out having to use a colored only bathroom, with my OWN marriage put in legal limbo because miscegenation was only fully legalized in 1967.

[selenastaylors]

It hasn’t even been 24 hours since Trump was elected.