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Kamala Harris wants to offer states funding to end “money bail” systems that are often discriminatory

In her first signature legislative proposal as a U.S. senator representing California, Democrat Kamala Harris is offering states millions of dollars in grants if they abolish their “money bail” systems.

The bill, introduced Thursday with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), is called “The Pretrial Integrity and Safety Act of 2017.” 

It would authorize a three-year, $10 million grant to states that reform or replace pretrial release processes that lean heavily on arbitrary cash and deposit bonds as a means to ensure defendants return to court for trial. 

If successful, the grants could lead to a reduction in punitive bail practices that studies have shown historically and disproportionally disrupt the livelihoods of black and brown defendants.

“Our justice system was designed with a promise: to treat all people equally,” Harris, who previously served as California attorney general, said in a statement released with the bill. “In our country, whether you stay in jail or not is wholly determined by whether you’re wealthy or not — and that’s wrong.” Read more (7/20/17)

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Ok this blog is not about politics, but somehow it’s about my life. So here I am, living in Russia, the country with beautiful people: talented musicians, artists, dancers, amazing doctors, teachers and all the other professionals who know how to be a good person and how to do things right. But the rest of the world judge us just by one politician. Radical, homophobic, aggressive. The world says - that’s their leader as a representation of the nation. So let me show you what our nation is. Today, on March 26, we had meeting protests against the government throughout the country in 99 (!) cities and towns. People were clamoring against the system and corruption with slogans ‘Russia shall be free’, ‘Russia without Putin’, ‘The criminal has to go to the prison’. In Brazil or South Korea that would end for the government in a fair law court…  But what we got as a feedback? When thousands of unarmed russians went to the street to shout out for justice, thousands of policeman and soldiers started to arrest them. There was no exception for women, children or oldman. I was there, in the heart of Moscow, protesting with others.  And here I want to say that it literally hurts me when I see in social networks like tumblr all the hatred adressed to Russia. When you are afraid of russians, when you think of us as rude homophobic savages who barely know what civilization and human rights is. Please, try to look deeper on what happens here. We are people. And we need your support.  As a bonus, photos from another date in St. Petersburg

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Россия, я с вами

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Okay since tumblr is extremely america-centric we’re only hearing about trump but this post is there for me to freak out about Dutch Trump: 

^^ that guy. Geert Wilders. Far right asshole first class.

The elections are in march 2017 and he is biggest in the polls. Which makes me extremely scared. A few reasons:

He wants to go out of the EU, and get rid of the euro (plain bad idea)

Extremely islamophobic

Wants to ban certain newspapers. Banning ideas: Horrible Sign #1

‘’Do you want more or less morrocans?’’ [crowd chants ‘’less, less, less-’’] (he is being prosecuted for hate speech now, mostly for this and his comments about islam: ‘’cleansing’’ the N of muslims, banning the Koran etc.)

Was literally not let into australia to give his speech. Thats how bad he is.

Anti-refugee

Can other Dutch people add to this list?

[thefisherqueen]

- He publicly endorses Trump - He uses grossly offensive language, calling for example the turkish primier ‘an islamic monkey’, hijabs ‘head rags’ and refugees/migrants ‘a tsunami’ - He once called a journalist who had been kidnapped and raped in Iraq a ‘jihad-sympatisant’ because she didn’t allow her case be used for islaphobic retorics - State he doesn’t hate muslims, but hates islam - He is highly xenophobe towards eastern europeans, constantly crimalizing them and accusing them of stealing jobs - His politic party, ‘party for the freedom’, defends and celebrates ‘black pete’, a blackface figure used in the celebration of a holiday in the Netherlands

[kenderfriend]

This dude is part of a Europe wide trend; a dangerous lurch to the right, flirting with, or outright supporting fascism. These people have become just a little bit more frightening since first BREXIT, then the 🍊’s d dubious election 2016 ‘win’. Unfortunately, we cannot afford dismiss even one if these tin pot fascists as being a mere ‘local’ matter, as opposed to a world wide threat to everything progressive. From Putin to Trump to Farage (UK) and Gerry Wilders, (if he wins) are links in a new ‘Axis of Evil'😱😱😱

[nalyra-dreaming]

We can stop that trend.

It’s important to recognize the connections. The AfD publicly celebrated when Trump won. And now they’re starting to copy nazi symbolism. 

Don’t be fooled and don’t keep quiet now.

That’s why these marches are so important. It’s NOT KEEPING QUIET.

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Also, if you have Dutch nationality but are living abroad, YOU CAN STILL VOTE. You can register to vote up to and until the 1st of Feb. Please check whether you are eligible and how to register at http://www.stemmenvanuithetbuitenland.nl/

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Sad Truth

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Scary truth.

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Posh truth

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sporty truth

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Baby truth

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Ginger

[micdotcom]

More ads like this please (x)

[micdotcom]

In ironic twist, McConnell tells Democrats to “grow up” and confirm Trump’s nominees

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Democrats they should “grow up” and confirm Trump’s cabinet picks — even without the requisite ethics clearances of some of the nominees.

McConnell’s comments came after Walter Shaub, who heads the Office of Government Ethics, sent a letter to Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren saying that the confirmation hearing schedule — which six nominees slated to testify in a two-day period — has “created undue pressure on OGE’s staff and agency ethics officials to rush through these important reviews.” 

McConnell’s demand for Democrats to vote on Trump’s nominees before they are cleared by the OGE is quite hypocritical — given he demanded this of President Obama’s nominees eight years ago. Read more

[wilwheaton]

Go fuck yourself, Mitch. You’re a goddamn evil pile of shit.

[frontpagewoman]

Katherine Johnson is 98 years old

[accras]

Bless her

[sauvamente]

So glad she lived to see her story told

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Awww

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The organiser of an armed march against the Jewish population in a small town in Montana has insisted the harassment campaign will go ahead.

The Daily Stormer, an American neo-Nazi website, is planning the march in Whitefish, where the mother of white supremacist Richard Spencer lives.

It will take place in the second week of January, days before president-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated. (source)

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READ THIS

[january-warlock]

@my followers

Please. Likes don’t really do much. People need to see this. Please keep the Jewish people of Montana in your prayers. Please, for the horror that is bound to occur next week, reblog this.

[bogleech]

How are there people still saying that recent nazi discourse is just “hysteria” or some sort of smear campaign by “sore losers,” this is literally exactly what people were most horrified would come out of the Trump movement. In fact, this is worse. Most people thought it would take maybe a couple more years to get this serious if it was going to at all.

Is anyone deluded enough to think that this either isn’t bad enough on its own, or won’t get any worse from here?? This is WELL past the point of “too far” and the country is still sitting on its ass saying “well, let’s wait and see.”

The entire reason we even have a military or police should in theory be to stop this exact kind of thing from happening on our own soil but we all know who they work for.

[mysharona1987]

[insane-insaan]

On December 16th 2014, we vowed to ‪#‎neverforget‬ the incident that shook us all. The Communication Design students of the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture have taken initiative and designed a series of posters that aim to question our indifference and numbness towards violence. A reminder of the brutal attack on APS Peshawar and an eye-opener for us to never forget and to never get used to any kind of violence around us.

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500 DAPL protestors will eat a Thanksgiving meal at Standing Rock — served by Jane Fonda

Actor Jane Fonda will be among a delegation of roughly 50 people from around the country who are traveling to Standing Rock to serve Thanksgiving to roughly 500 activists, indigenous people and their allies who are protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline

Fonda will serve dinner and contribute five butchered Bison and four Mongolian yurts to the Oceti Sakowin camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. 

Judy Wicks, a local food advocate and former owner of White Dog Cafe in Philadelphia, organized the Thanksgiving meal.

Many on Twitter were quick to point out the irony of hosting Thanksgiving during Standing Rock protests

[ink-phoenix]

If you support Trump, you’re racist.

If you support Trump, you’re sexist.

If you support Trump, you’re ableist.

If you support Trump, you’re homophobic.

If you support Trump, you’re transphobic.

If you support Trump, you’re xenophobic.

If you support Trump, you’re Islamophobic.

If you support Trump, you’re fascist.

If you support Trump, you are not a good person.

These are non-debatable. There’s no wriggle room. Loving your children or going to church isn’t going to cut it.

They are not insults. They are statements. They are facts.

There’s no ‘shade of gray’ here. There’s no take backs. 

I don’t care what the Republican party used to stand for, I don’t care what your politics and beliefs and all the other bullshit you tell yourself to go to sleep at night. You vote for Trump, you are a fear mongering, hateful bigot, motivated by fear and anger and ignorance and hatred. Period.

It’s not about ‘different opinions’ or ‘political sides’ anymore. This is real life. Wake the fuck up.

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Also please unfollow me if you passively or directly support him

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White supremacists create fake ‘black person’ accounts to infiltrate Black Twitter

Alt-right website The Daily Stormer announced that it had created 1,000 fake Twitter accounts for black people. Anglin then called on readers to create more such profiles, telling them to make them “indistinguishable” from real profiles of black people.

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agc.

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Let’s see:

1. The Ford Plant was never going to move to mexico, and Trump made that up

meanwhile, Leader of the neo-nazis says Trump’s the real deal

2. The rise of the dollar (or any currency) isn’t necessarily all good, as also evidenced by the fact that Japan’s had a DEFLATION crisis

Meanwhile, Trump literally appoints a white supremacist to his staff.

3. Well, if officials aren’t allowed to lobby once out of office, why is Trump allowed to essentially lobby to himself while in office

Meanwhile, Trump’s VP has some of the longest anti-gay history in America today

4. The stock market being up was after it plunged hard during the election when Trump was continuously pulling lead, it’s incredibly easy to believe that this is a stock market bubble that’s ripe for bursting, and how in the hell does the stock market, played on only by upper-class people, help the whining middle class who thought that somehow one of the biggest corporate moguls - and the biggest failure of a corporate mogul at that - would somehow help them?

Meanwhile, there are perfect comparisons to be made between Trump’s proposed muslim ban and post-9/11 muslim registry

5. Ah yes, that good ol’ assimilation. You know, that thing where you better look like a good ol’ nuclear family or die. And we can try to make you look like us, with conversion therapy! Oh, sorry, with repeated electric shocks and long term emotional abuse! 

And to top it off for this fifth panel, I’ll just refer to AGC’s own Civil Protests in Cartoons, Then and Now.

To sum it all up, Here’s a thread about not putting up with your family’s shit. No, we WON’T be seeing you this Thanksgiving. You don’t want to give us rights to exist, we won’t exist in your life.

[refinery29]

Watch Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shut down a Trump supporter claiming you shouldn’t believe all the racism surrounding Trump’s campaign

Both Adichie and Emmett Tyrrell were discussing the role of racism in the U.S. presidential election, particularly in relation to President-elect Trump’s campaign, when Adichie made a salient point about the conversation around racism that has resonated with viewers, creating a viral clip that’s being shared across the internet.

Gifs: BBC Newsnight

WATCH THE FULL CLIP

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Strongly recommend watching the entire video