Teanynene

[teanynene]

So I’ll plan the end. My kids don’t need me. The partner has found his niche. I tried. For 13 years.

See ya later

[wilwheaton]

“Democrats should now realize that it does not matter whom they run against Trump. He will seek to discredit any opponent not through campaigning, but through the corrupt abuse of his official powers. The fact that Justice Department prosecutors saw no “thing of value” being exchanged with Ukraine that could provide a predicate for criminal prosecution, that it helped suppress the whistle-blower report, and that Barr—at least in the president’s mind—would be a party to a corrupt scheme to damage a political opponent suggests that federal law enforcement will not stand in the way when the time comes.”

— In a republic, the people are sovereign. The president used his authority to criminalize or suppress his political rivals, in violation of the people’s right to choose their leadership.

[apoemaday]

It Is Not Your Job

by Caitlyn Siehl

when your little girl asks you if she’s pretty your heart will drop like a wineglass on the hardwood floor part of you will want to say of course you are, don’t ever question it and the other part the part that is clawing at you will want to grab her by her shoulders look straight into the wells of her eyes until they echo back to you and say you do not have to be if you don’t want to it is not your job both will feel right one will feel better she will only understand the first when she wants to cut her hair off or wear her brother’s clothes you will feel the words in your mouth like marbles you do not have to be pretty if you don’t want to it is not your job

[prepstersinpearls]

“I hope there are days when your coffee tastes like magic, your playlist makes you dance, strangers make you smile and the night sky touches your soul. I hope you fall in love with being alive again.”

-because you are worth it

[teanynene]

Absolutely!

[chloroscythe]

in my head theres a little mouse wearing a little apron and she makes all my emotions

[bishounen-curious-deactivated20]

she needs to read a fuckin recipe this bitch is just making a MESS

[chloroscythe]

shes doing her best… maybe shed do better if you were nicer to her

[bishounen-curious-deactivated20]

making serotonin is the cooking equivalent to scrambling an egg and she can’t even do that right smh

[catifex]

Hi I’m Catifex and I want you to make your mouse’s work easier!

- This is a step by step on getting a therapist

- Need to find a therapist by location? Psychologytoday lets you search by city or zip code in the USA, Canada, or UK. 

- Can’t afford therapy? No insurance? Need low cost options? Here is a great list of ways to get help when money or insurance is an issue..

[goodmorningvelma]

Reblogging this in the hopes that the image of a sweet little mouse doing her best to make my emotions will help me remember to be kinder to myself.

[blackwoolncrown]

Definitely reblogging for the much more helpful concept of a helpful mouse doing her best for the sake of people who regularly hate on their brain then wonder why that’s not working so well.

[wonky-bees-knees]

This just shocked me so much I started crying. As soon as you put it like that I realize how often I talk so horribly to myself. I’m sorry mouse lady we can do better.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

#5yrsago Scalia may have opened path for Quakers to abstain from taxes

The controversial Hobby Lobby decision elevated religious belief over legal compliance – this may be good news for Quakers, Amish, Mennonites and others who’ve historically faced punishing reprisals for withholding some of their tax to avoid funding the military.

In particular, Justice Scalia’s dicta sets out a logic for conscientious objection to compliance with US law where the issue is related to religious faith. Sarah Ruden, a Quaker, writes in Salon about her belief that she will now be able to field a legal challenge to full tax-payments on the basis of Scalia’s argument.

https://boingboing.net/2014/07/14/scalia-may-have-opened-path-fo.html

[apoemaday]

Still I Rise

by Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries? Does my haughtiness offend you? Don’t you take it awful hard ’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines Diggin’ in my own backyard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.             

[wilwheaton]

The post-Democratic debate polling was unequivocal . Sen. Kamala Harris got the biggest boost from her commanding performance last week while former Vice President Joe Biden lost ground in nearly ...

Both of the top two men have run for president before, neither won, and yet, it’s the women who keep confronting that nagging question: Are you electable? It’s nothing more than a vestigial remnant of the sexism that has dominated the ages and still has a toehold in a millennium that is now crying out for female leadership, particularly in post-Trump America. Last month, a national Ipsos/Daily Beast poll found that while 74 of respondents said they were “personally comfortable” with having a female president, only a third thought their neighbors would be comfortable with a woman running the country. That’s internalized sexism.

LOUDER.

[partywithponies]

Me, refusing to leave tumblr: sir, this is my emotional support hellsite

[astrodidact]

[ikkimikki]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[wilwheaton]

Rage Against the Machine tried to tell you.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Americans are too poor to survive whether or not they're working

A new study from the United Way claims that 43% of American households are in a status called “asset limited, income constrained, employed” (ALICE), which denotes employed people who can’t afford housing, food, childcare, healthcare, transportation, and a cellphone – the basics of modern living.

Umair Haque (previously) connects this to the idea of America as the world’s first poor rich country, a country that is awash in wealth, yet so unequal that nearly half its residents sink deeper into debt every month – and most Americans die in debt.

As Haque says, if you work hard all your life and die with no assets, no savings, and debt, that’s not employment, it’s serfdom. America’s former middle class have now hit the limits of their ability to survive with stagnating wages by taking on debt secured by their meager assets – the family home, pensions and so on. Now, Americans are both kinds of poor: asset-poor and wage-poor. Americans aren’t poor because they don’t work hard enough: they’re poor no matter how hard they work.

And unlike poor people in countries like Pakistan or Nigeria, American poor people live in a country where things like childcare, medicine, rent and food are very, very expensive. American poor people are poorer than the poor people in poor countries.

https://boingboing.net/2019/06/10/asset-stripped-working-stiffs.html

[teanynene]

I have been saying this for years. And it’s only getting worse.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

#1yrago ICE hacked its algorithmic risk-assessment tool so it recommended detention for everyone

One of the more fascinating and horrible details in Reuters’ thoroughly fascinating and horrible long-form report on Trump’s cruel border policies is this nugget: ICE hacked the risk-assessment tool it used to decide whom to imprison so that it recommended that everyone should be detained.

This gave ICE a kind of empirical facewash for its racist and inhumane policies: they could claim that the computer forced them to imprison people by identifying them as high-risk. The policy let ICE triple its detention rate, imprisoning 43,000 people.

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/26/software-formalities.html

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Government moving 300 migrant children out of Texas Border Patrol station after AP reveals horrific conditions

Most kids moved to another Border Patrol station, a “temporary site with roll-out mattresses, showers, medical facilities and air conditioning.”

The federal government today says it is relocating most of the 300 separated migrant children who  were being housed at a Texas Border Patrol station in very dangerous conditions that amounted to child abuse.

The decision to move the child detainees follows an Associated Press report on the abusive conditions under which they were held.  

Thirty children remain at the facility, AP reports.

https://boingboing.net/2019/06/24/feds-move-300-migrant-kids-out.html

[wilwheaton]

This changes nothing. These children will be moved from one unaccountable concentration camp to another unaccountable concentration camp.

All of these #TrumpConcentrationCamps need to be closed immediately, and the people responsible for running them need to be put on trial for crimes against humanity. “I was just following orders” is not a defense or an excuse.

[babybear]

so you’ve probably seen the post going around detailing the horrific human rights abuses in what are, undeniably, concentration camps in the US…. accompanied by the suggestion that the only thing you can do is call your senators.

it’s unfathomable to me that someone would see we have actual nazi death camps in our country, and think the solution is writing to the politicians who allowed it to happen.

i have yet to see a post on any social media that has meaningfully helpful suggestions for how to get involved, so:

this article offers a number of suggestions including getting involved with your local chapter of Sanctuary Not Deportation, which connects faith groups to offer sanctuary to immigrants fleeing ICE. it also has a comprehensive list of immigrant-lead organizations to get involved with or donate to, as well as a link to crowdfund for detainee’s phone bills, which allows them to contact their families, legal counsel, and inform the outside world of the realities they are facing in detention.

here is a link for finding detention centers near you. there are many rallies directly outside of these camps you can participate in, and physically going to them is crucial in liberation efforts.

posting bond for detained immigrants is still one of the best ways to get people out of the death camps, even though ICE is increasingly unwilling to participate. the linked article has a list of both federal and state-by-state bail funds/organizations.

host a refugee if you have the room. Room For Refugees is still trying to build a network in the US. keeping people out of ICE’s grip and preventing detention in the first place is the best thong we can do because these camps are becoming more and more impenetrable.

help the legal organizations helping immigrants near you; if you’re anywhere close to NYC the New Sanctuary Coalition needs volunteers/donations, and if you’re on the border get involved with Texas Civil Rights Project.

on top of free legal aid, the NSC specifically also organizes rapid responses to ICE raids, which is one of the most importang things you can do – there are many local networks already in place, but here is how to organize a rapid response network if your city doesn’t have one.

one of the easiest things we can all do is learn the rights of immigrants in this country, and how to react to ICE raids. spread this information to everyone you know and keep the toolkit in easy access on your phone.

the only government policy that can make an immediate and tangible impact is municipal policy; push your local politicians to support or build sanctuary city initiatives – here is a toolkit for local political action.

finally, get involved with local antifa and leftist orgs! follow their social media to get updates on calls to action and protests happening near you. i cannot stress enough how important it is to be aware of efforts in your own city. antifa international’s tumblr is one page you can follow, but please research the orgs specifically in your area that are fighting the rise of fascism. the torch network has a list of chapters in several cities around the US, but again this is just a place to start.

i encourage everyone to find at least ONE thing from this list you can do, beyond donating. i know we are all stressed and have our time/energy zapped by capitalism, but if we do nothing, nothing will change. and please share these links wherever you can – copy and paste this post or at least share the first article i linked.

fascism is here, NOW, and we need to step up, because no one is going to invade us to free the camps this time.

[girlbossjodiarias]

These are local to Grand Rapids MI, but the Kent County I-Bond fund raises funds for those incarcerated on immigration charges: https://www.gofundme.com/kent-county-ibond-fund 

Grand Rapids Rapid Response to ICE assists in intervening in ICE raids and provides mutual aid to families affected by ICE violence: https://www.facebook.com/RapidResponseGR/

[teanynene]

I wish I had some ice cream

[teanynene]

My day today. 💗

[breakthecitysky]