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Guess who is now in charge of “meme Mondays” for my job’s social media?
I work at a university writing consultation center so
Since you guys actually liked this post (sorry for the super-low quality)
Here have my trash
Having worked at a university's writing center for over half my college career, these are the actual best. Especially the Spiderman one. That happened all day, every day
"The Fake News Media is out to get us" - Take the Mainstream Media Accountability Survey
Trump released the Mainstream Media Accountability Survey to whip his supporters into a frenzy against the media (and Planned Parenthood, liberals, Democratic politicians, minorities, etc.) and garner support from them (in the form of money). The questions are so undeniably biased it makes me want to cry. Please take the survey to help balance the results to something resembaling human decency so Trump and his administration can't use the "data" to "prove" he's right!
I screenshot the entire survey, including the page you're taken to at the end, where it states "The Fale News Media is out to get us."
"The Fake News Media is out to get us" - Take the Mainstream Media Accountability Survey
Trump released the Mainstream Media Accountability Survey to whip his supporters into a frenzy against the media (and Planned Parenthood, liberals, Democratic politicians, minorities, etc.) and garner support from them (in the form of money). The questions are so undeniably biased it makes me want to cry. Please take the survey to help balance the results to something resembaling human decency so Trump and his administration can't use the "data" to "prove" he's right!
I screenshot the entire survey, including the page you're taken to at the end, where it states "The Fale News Media is out to get us."
“The Fake News Media is out to get us” - Take the Mainstream Media Accountability Survey
Trump released the Mainstream Media Accountability Survey to whip his supporters into a frenzy against the media (and Planned Parenthood, liberals, Democratic politicians, minorities, etc.) and garner support from them (in the form of money). The questions are so undeniably biased it makes me want to cry. Please take the survey to help balance the results to something resembaling human decency so Trump and his administration can’t use the “data” to “prove” he’s right!
I screenshot the entire survey, including the page you’re taken to at the end, where it states “The Fale News Media is out to get us.”
Here are the rest of the screenshots.
"The Fake News Media is out to get us" - Take the Mainstream Media Accountability Survey
Trump released the Mainstream Media Accountability Survey to whip his supporters into a frenzy against the media (and Planned Parenthood, liberals, Democratic politicians, minorities, etc.) and garner support from them (in the form of money). The questions are so undeniably biased it makes me want to cry. Please take the survey to help balance the results to something resembaling human decency so Trump and his administration can't use the "data" to "prove" he's right!
I screenshot the entire survey, including the page you're taken to at the end, where it states "The Fale News Media is out to get us."
Those articles also blame millennial and gen z kids for not know but bitch who is running the curriculum in schools? Who is making the text books?
Always remember
Who's making the curriculum? Who's writing the textbooks? Maybe some older millenials, but certainly not Gen Z. And who's making the legal decisions regarding education and curricula? Probably not millenials, and definitely not Gen Z.
10 July 2018
Reminder: Do not buy from Amazon or even open the website on 10 July 2018, in solidarity with the transnational strike.
Amazon workers in Spain have called for a transnational strike because Amazon has been avoiding accountability for its labour rights violations by merely shifting the work (and the human rights abuses Amazon inflicts on their workers) to non-striking countries, each time a strike occurs. If there is widespread striking transnationally, Amazon will have no choice but to recognize the strikers’ demands in order to keep their facilities functioning.
Our job as allies is to support the strike by avoiding using the Amazon website or purchasing anything from Amazon for as long as the strike continues. A mass boycott of the site, coinciding with the strike, will strengthen the workers’ bargaining position and could be crucial to Amazon workers gaining back basic rights in a variety of countries.
Please remember this includes subsidiaries like Twitch and Audible.
This is tomorrow!
Please do not shop on Amazon tomorrow.
Please do not stream Amazon music or video tomorrow
Please do not order from sites using Amazon Payments tomorrow.
For one day, please, avoid it.
As a worker-for-rent who’s worked during strikes or demonstrations – PLEASE, if there’s a strike DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THAT COMPANY ON THAT DAY IF THERE’S ANY WAY TO AVOID IT. Not only do folks like me get an easy day, it’s also a powerful act of class solidarity.
Also, if you’re a social media type of person, please tweet and comment at the company that you’re choosing not to use their services, in solidarity of the strike. Make sure they know.
Don't even go to amazon's website July 10, 2018. Don't go to prime now, don't do prime video or music, don't check your orders or send someone a link to that one cool thing you found. Don't read any kindle books, don't listen to audible, avoid create space, and I think even woot or whatever that subsidiary is called. Don't interact with any part of amazon at all.
We need to support human beings, not greedy corporations.
kinda funny when english teachers say stuff like “i can tell if you didnt read the book” or “i can tell when people bs their paper”
no you cant. you can tell when people are bad at bs-ing their paper. i didnt even read the sparknotes and i barely skimmed the wikipedia and you gave me an A. you kneel before my throne unaware that it was born of lies
“YOU KNEEL BEFORE MY THRONE UNAWARE THAT IT WAS BORN OF LIES” IS ONE OF THE GREATEST SENTENCES I’VE EVER READ AND I CAN’T FUCKING BELIEVE IT’S ON A POST ABOUT BULLSHITTING ON ASSIGNMENTS.
listen I’m an english teacher now and I don’t think people understand how bad people are at bullshitting. multiple people per semester will submit the most flagrantly clueless papers I’ve ever seen. one student submitted an “essay” about the book that was literally just rephrasing the chapter titles over and over. another student was supposed to write an essay on local history and turned in a 3 page paper about how she won a cheerleading competition in high school bc she didn’t do any of the research. Both of these students then wrote me angrily because they got Ds. I derailed my class for a full week JUST to teach these people how to bullshit because I thought everyone on earth knew how to use sparknotes, skim stuff, and fake their way thru an essay. it turns out that 50% of the class literally did not know you can and should get summaries, essay topics, and relevant research info online, OR how to fuckin skim a chapter. It was called Bullshit Week and it was the most valuable lesson I taught. people contacted me about it after and said it was their favorite english unit ever. when english teachers say “i can tell if u didn’t read the book” it’s because we expect you to SEEM like you read the book since “reading the book” is like the sole point of the class. If you’re gonna try to con me I at least expect to be dazzled. dazzle is how I got my job.
Maybe if high school teachers actually called it research and taught you how to do it, instead of calling it bullshitting, the students would actually understand it.
Instead, like me, they flounder and fail because they think it is cheating, and get in over their heads because they’re doing way too much work that didn’t have to be done.
That shit is on the teachers for not teaching it right, not on any of the students.
Slightly different concept but one of the best pieces of advice I ever received about writing scientific papers was, from my lecturer himself: “never read the whole paper. skim it. find the important bits. don’t waste your time”
"Slightly different concept but one of the best pieces of advice I ever recieved about writing scientific papers was, from my lecturer himself: "never read the whole paper. skim it. find the important bits. don't waste your time"."
Really useful quote that applies to any sort of research!
i feel kinda fucked up that im living in a country with a nazi regime and not being able to do anything about it and nothing is working. we need to take to the streets in droves and riot. gather thousands of people. throw rocks at the white house. sprinkle sugar on the campgrounds where the tents are gonna be built (2 lbs of sugar can ruin up to one ton of unset concrete). or throw hydrogen peroxide filled water balloons at the exposed steel to corrode it faster because theyre literally building concentration camps in 106°F texas heat for children who cannot regulate their body temperature like adults
nobody in power is listening so we have to do it ourselves
more info on the location and science on how to destroy the building site
children count and weather source
and remember
just. fight back. please…dont just stand by. do whatever you can, spreading info is something everyone can do
The U.S. Supreme Court has made the decision that states can charge sales tax to businesses that aren't physically located there, but sell to people in their state. It seems fair on the surface. After all, if you're doing business in a state that has sales tax, you should be paying that tax. But for online small businesses, the cost of compliance in each state, especially ones with lots of extra fees, was already staggering before this decision. Now states can, essentially, legally kill online small businesses with tax compliance fees, even if they won't be paying any taxes because they aren't making any money. Read the article. It's actually pretty clear, and explains the situation way better than I can. I know it's hard to be outraged at everything all the time constantly, indefinitely, so some things will just be missed. The damage caused by this administration and its supporters will have devastating, long-lasting effects.
Resources to help child immigrants & fight family separation
via Today.com (How to Help Immigrant Children)
Together Rising Love Flash Mob. Organized by best-selling author and blogger Glennon Doyle through her non-profit organization, the fundraising effort will go to provide bilingual legal and advocacy assistance for 60 children, aged 12 months to 10 years, currently separated from their parents in an Arizona detention center. Their first priority will be to establish and maintain contact between children and their parents, with the ultimate goal of reunification and safety and rehabilitation for the children.
The Florence Project and Refugee Rights Project. This organization provides legal assistance and social services to detained immigrants in Arizona.
The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. This organization works for the rights of children in immigration proceedings.
Kids In Need Of Defense (KIND). This organization works to ensure that no child appears in immigration court alone without representation.
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project. They work to prevent the deportation of asylum-seeking families fleeing violence.
via slate.com (How you can fight family separation)
• The ACLU is litigating this policy in California.
• If you’re an immigration lawyer, the American Immigration Lawyers Association will be sending around a volunteer list for you to help represent the women and men with their asylum screening, bond hearings, ongoing asylum representation, etc. Please sign up.
• Al Otro Lado is a binational organization that works to offer legal services to deportees and migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, including deportee parents whose children remain in the U.S.
• CARA—a consortium of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, the American Immigration Council, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association—provides legal services at family detention centers.
• The Florence Project is an Arizona project offering free legal services to men, women, and unaccompanied children in immigration custody.
• Human Rights First is a national organization with roots in Houston that needs help from lawyers too.
• Kids in Need of Defense works to ensure that kids do not appear in immigration court without representation, and to lobby for policies that advocate for children’s legal interests. Donate here.
• The Legal Aid Justice Center is a Virginia-based center providing unaccompanied minors legal services and representation.
• Pueblo Sin Fronteras is an organization that provides humanitarian aid and shelter to migrants on their way to the U.S.
• RAICES is the largest immigration nonprofit in Texas offering free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children and families. Donate here and sign up as a volunteer here.
• The Texas Civil Rights Project is seeking “volunteers who speak Spanish, Mam, Q’eqchi’ or K’iche’ and have paralegal or legal assistant experience.”
• Together Rising is another Virginia-based organization that’s helping provide legal assistance for 60 migrant children who were separated from their parents and are currently detained in Arizona.
• The Urban Justice Center’s Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project is working to keep families together.
• Women’s Refugee Commission advocates for the rights and protection of women, children, and youth fleeing violence and persecution.
• Finally, ActBlue has aggregated many of these groups under a single button.
This list isn’t comprehensive, so let us know what else is happening. And please call your elected officials, stay tuned for demonstrations, hug your children, and be grateful if you are not currently dependent on the basic humanity of U.S. policy.
also, there are nationwide protests being organized for june 30th.
Border Separation Myths
Dr. Michelle Martin is a researcher and professor at California State University, Fullerton. She has a Masters of Social Work, Masters in Global Policy, and a Ph.D. in Peace Studies (Political Science). She teaches Social Welfare Policy in the Master of Social Work program.
The following is her write-up on the separation of families at the border. She dispells a lot of common myths going around and provides sources which are linked. This might be helpful in your personal debates and discussions.
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There is so much misinformation out there about the Trump administration’s new “zero tolerance” policy that requires criminal prosecution, which then warrants the separating of parents and children at the southern border. Before responding to a post defending this policy, please do your research…As a professor at a local Cal State, I research and write about these issues, so here, I wrote the following to make it easier for you:
Myth: This is not a new policy and was practiced under Obama and Clinton.
FALSE. The policy to separate parents and children is new and was instituted on 4/6/2018. It was the “brainchild” of John Kelly and Stephen Miller to serve as a deterrent for undocumented immigration, and some allege to be used as a bargaining chip. The policy was approved by Trump, and adopted by Sessions. Prior administrations detained migrant families, but didn’t have a practice of forcibly separating parents from their children unless the adults were deemed unfit.
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Myth: This is the only way to deter undocumented immigration.
FALSE. Annual trends show that arrests for undocumented entry are at a 46 year low, and undocumented crossings dropped in 2007, with a net loss (more people leaving than arriving). Deportations have increased steadily though (spiking in 1996 and more recently), because several laws that were passed since 1996 have made it more difficult to gain legal status for people already here, and thus increased their deportations (I address this later under the myth that it’s the Democrats’ fault). What we mostly have now are people crossing the border illegally because they’ve already been hired by a US company, or because they are seeking political asylum. Economic migrants come to this country because our country has kept the demand going. But again, many of these people impacted by Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy appear to be political asylum-seekers.
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Myth: Most of the people coming across the border are just trying to take advantage of our country by taking our jobs.
FALSE. Most of the parents who have been impacted by Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy have presented themselves as political asylum-seekers at a U.S. port-of-entry, from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Rather than processing their claims, according to witness accounts, it appears as though they have been taken into custody on the spot and had their children ripped from their arms. The ACLU alleges that this practice violates the US Asylum Act, and the UN asserts that it violates the UN Treaty on the State of Refugees, one of the few treaties the US has ratified. The ACLU asserts that this policy is an illegal act on the part of the United States government, not to mention morally and ethically reprehensible.
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Myth: We’re a country that respects the Rule of Law, and if people break the law, this is what they get.
FALSE. We are a country that has an above-ground system of immigration and an underground system. Our government (under both parties) has always been aware that US companies recruit workers in the poorest parts of Mexico for cheap labor, and ICE (and its predecessor INS) has looked the other way because this underground economy benefits our country to the tune of billions of dollars annually. Thus, even though many of the people crossing the border now are asylum-seekers, those who are economic migrants (migrant workers) likely have been recruited here to do jobs Americans will not do.
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Myth: The children have to be separated from their parents because the parents must be arrested and it would be cruel to put children in jail with their parents.
FALSE. First, in the case of economic migrants crossing the border illegally, criminal prosecution has not been the legal norm, and families have historically been kept together at all cost. Also, crossing the border without documentation is typically a misdemeanor not requiring arrest, but rather has been handled in a civil proceeding. Additionally, parents who have been detained have historically been detained with their children in ICE “family residential centers,” again, for civil processing. The Trump administration’s shift in policy is for political purposes only, not legal ones.
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Myth: We have rampant fraud in our asylum process, the proof of which is the significant increase we have in the number of people applying for asylum.
FALSE. The increase in asylum seekers is a direct result of the increase in civil conflict and violence across the globe. While some people may believe that we shouldn’t allow any refugees into our country because “it’s not our problem,” neither our current asylum law, nor our ideological foundation as a country support such an isolationist approach. There is very little evidence to support Sessions’ claim that abuse of our asylum-seeking policies is rampant. Also, what Sessions failed to mention is that the majority of asylum seekers are from China, not South of the border.
Here is a very fair and balanced assessment of his statements: [ source ]
Myth: The Democrats caused this, “it’s their law.“
FALSE. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats caused this, the Trump administration did (although the Republicans could fix this today, and have refused). I believe what this myth refers to is the passage of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, which were both passed under Clinton in 1996. These laws essentially made unauthorized entry into the US a crime (typically a misdemeanor for first-time offenders), but under both Republicans and Democrats, these cases were handled through civil deportation proceedings, not a criminal proceeding, which did not require separation. And again, even in cases where detainment was required, families were always kept together in family residential centers, unless the parents were deemed unfit (as mentioned above). Thus, Trump’s assertion that he hates this policy but has no choice but to separate the parents from their children, because the Democrats “gave us this law” is false and nothing more than propaganda designed to compel negotiation on bad policy.
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Myth: The parents and children will be reunited shortly, once the parents’ court cases are finalized.
FALSE. Criminal court is a vastly different beast than civil court proceedings. Also, the children are being processed as unaccompanied minors (“unaccompanied alien children”), which typically means they are in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHS). Under normal circumstances when a child enters the country without his or her parent, ORR attempts to locate a family member within a few weeks, and the child is then released to a family member, or if a family member cannot be located, the child is placed in a residential center (anywhere in the country), or in some cases, foster care. Prior to Trump’s new policy, ORR was operating at 95% capacity, and they simply cannot effectively manage the influx of 2000+ children, some as young as 4 months old. Also, keep in mind, these are not unaccompanied minor children, they have parents. There is great legal ambiguity on how and even whether the parents will get their children back because we are in uncharted territory right now. According to the ACLU lawsuit (see below), there is currently no easy vehicle for reuniting parents with their children. Additionally, according to a May 2018 report, numerous cases of verbal, physical and sexual abuse were found to have occurred in these residential centers.
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Myth: This policy is legal.
LIKELY FALSE. The ACLU filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on 5/6/18, and a recent court ruling denied the government’s motion to dismiss the suit. The judge deciding the case stated that the Trump Administration’s policy is “brutal, offensive, and fails to comport with traditional notions of fair play and decency.” The case is moving forward because it was deemed to have legal merit.
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Here is Michelle’s original Facebook post.
Michelle’s Social Media [ facebook | twitter ]
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.
It’s fucking prison camps holding 1,400 children. that’s fascism.
This is incredibly difficult to look at. I fear this will continue and he will commit even worse crimes against humanity. I believe the UN is sitting on June 27 to discuss the humanitarian aspects of Trumps decisions here.
Glad to see major network coverage of this
So sorry that this isnt snakes but… wow.
They're going to be making children live in tents in 100°+ weather. They won't have to be licensed. Children will literally die because some asshole won't give them enough water, won't let them sit in the shade. There probably won't be enough shade for them anyway.
Fuck Trump. Fuck Sessions. Fuck the American Government.
Tbh we should get rid of the electoral college
Vote NO. Splitting up California into 3 smaller states is STATE-LEVEL GERRYMANDERING and will make it extremely difficult for Democrats to win a presidential election. Notice how no one is talking about splitting up Texas.
(Not that Democrats really deserve to win, considering they blatantly rigged their primaries against Sanders and said they don't need to do what voters want.)
WARNING: THE INCREDIBLES 2 IS NOT EPILEPSY SAFE.
This is not a joke. I was at a premier showing tonight, and my immediate thought was how disasterously unsafe this movie is for my photosensitive epilepic friends. @markingatlightspeed I’m tagging you with this specifically because this would be extremely dangerous for you to watch. There are multiple scenes in this movie with full-screen, black-and-white flashing strobe effects. They all happen without warning, and last anywhere between a few seconds to more than two minutes. In a darkened movie theater, this means the likelihood of a seizure could be VERY HIGH if you are sensitive to these effects. If you have photosensitive epilepsy or another disorder that is triggered by strobe lights, I would highly recommend you DO NOT SEE THE INCREDIBLES 2 IN THEATERS. Wait until the movie’s released on digital/Bluray, and you can watch it in a fully-lit room, with someone with you who will be able to help if the strobe effects do trigger a seizure. Please stay safe.
No, Random Baby Boomer, I will not ask your son if he's "slow"
Me, today, at my retail job, in my head
