The Life Of Someone Who Is Trying

This is about growth.

[sprmint-bkgsoda]

Just like I said. Illegal adoption.

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/immigrant-mom-loses-effort-regain-son-us-parents/story?id=16803067

[stephanemiroux]

Here are the thieves btw:

[waluwadjet2-deactivated20180727]

im actually physically ill

[dontwantthenextcommanderiwantyou]

Keep this post alive so that when CARLOS is old enough he’ll know these KIDNAPPERS stole him from his MOTHER!

[dopeluminarydreamer-blog]

Guatemalan mom: “Please help me my son was taken from me”

Those two assholes: “Lol finders keepers bitch lmao”

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Carlos was taken from his mom, Encarnacion Bail Romero after she was arrested during a work raid. Her words, “Nobody could help me because I don’t speak English,” are still resonating deeply within me. This child was kidnapped from a loving mother, and she went to hell and backwards trying to get him back, and a judge literally told her she had no rights to her own child.

https://twitter.com/evanchill/status/1010399759088193536

Completely unfit parents can get their children back like it’s nothing and this poor woman who loves her child and just wants him with her again cannot? How is this not human trafficking/kidnapping? 

Also:

The judge said the biological mother had no rights to even see her child, according to the mother’s lawyer.

Asked if the Mosers would allow Bail Romero to see the child, the Mosers’ attorney, Joseph Hensley, said the couple was “not willing to comment on that at this time.” source

[rock-fish-deactivated20201231]

reminder that many children are funneled specifically to Christian families and communities for the same reasons they always have: destroy culture, stack votes, add bodies to communities that otherwise wouldn’t hold majorities. it is literal, actual trafficking.

[trashmouse]

This is a part of genocide.  Removing the children from their parents, who generally desperately love and want to raise them, and placing them with white American families is a way to erase their culture from existence without the ugliness of directly killing children.  But it’s still ugly, and it cares nothing for the actual welfare of the child.

[scottishwobbly]

when are y’all going to fucking tear down the detention centers?

[brunhiddensmusings]

anyone who supports this has no business calling themselves a christian, saying they have any moral authority, or pretending that nothing wrong happened any person with a functioning moral compass should be sickened by this

[lightning-crown]

I hope Carlos and other kids like him see this post and know they were not fucking adopted. they were kidnapped.

[sprmint-bkgsoda]

http://hill.cm/uQlpkcB

AP: Migrant children may be adopted after parents are deported

Holes in immigration laws are allowing state court judges to grant custody of migrant children to American families without notifying their

That happened a few years ago. But this is just from last October.

[fireeater06]

REBLOG EVERY SINGLE TIME. How can these people live with themselves???!

[rumple-buttercup-bananas]

SIGNAL BOOST THIS. I DONT CARE IF IT DOESNT FIT YOUR THEME. WHEN CARLOS IS OLD ENOUGH HE HAS TO REALIZE WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM. SHARE SHARE SHARE

[mudaship39]

Remember when settler colonizers did this to Indigenous peoples when they committed cultural genocide against us

[selectivegeekwithstandards]

This shit has never stopped happening and it’s disgusting, like it happened in Australia too and it’s still happening. By the way for fellow White Aussies - this kind of thing is why you’re meant to say ‘Stolen Generations’. Because it never stopped happening, it just happened under a different name. This isn’t something that’s unique to the US, this kind of thing is happening here as well.

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

Noirbnb….like Airbnb, minus the racism.

Black people inspire me everyday, the world gives us shit and we take it and turn it in to something beautiful.

[its-a-different-world]

Yooooooooooooo!!! I will be using! Lit!

[goodluckrob-deactivated20221110]

Support my bro Stef and Noirbnb. For real. Not even saying that because he’s my homie. That’s a legit business and it’s for us!

[organically-indigo]

FYI: They changed the name to Innclusive.

…If this post is gonna continue floating around and people really wanna support them, they should know that most likely they will not find noirbnb but they definitely WILL find Innclusive.

[tryingtoglow-up]

It’s hard to face the fact that sometimes we can’t let overthinking control us. All it leads to is paranoia, fear, stress and sometimes saying things we don’t truly mean. I’ve had to face this when I realized I can’t trust everyone with all my feelings. I know I can’t control my overthinking but I can set myself straight. It’s not easy and some people won’t be able to do it so confide. Face the thoughts and tell them no. Im going to start journaling so I don’t overload my emotions during these difficult time but I hope this works.

Focus on happy 🙃.

[cerencia]

one very important advice i want to give you is to stop suppressing your emotions. this will literally kill you, i’ve experienced it myself to the point where it got so bad that my body reacted with physical pain. and by letting out your emotions i don’t mean crying on public transport (even though this is also valid!) but don’t say it’s fine when it’s not. everyone is telling us to be positive and to not get upset over little things but if little things upset you please be upset. because the goal is not to SAY that everything is fine but to BE at a state where everything is fine which you can only achieve by letting out what needs to get out.

[tryingtoglow-up]

I’m finding it difficult to not blame myself for everything in existence that goes wrong. I know I can’t do that but everything is upside down.

I hear y’all out there. This quarantine is a terrifying thing. Don’t let it tear down the work you’ve done in your life! You can still move forward even though everything is moving backwards.

[tryingtoglow-up]

I was told today that I’m admired because I don’t settle. Why would I? I know my worth. I’m not giving away a dimond for the price of gold. :) I’m loving myself and I’ll only be with someone who can love and support me like I do.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Trump will deliver killing blow to the USPS

The USPS is about to declare bankruptcy. It’s at the center of the longstanding plans for disaster recover and has been since the Cold War. It’s the only institution that could (for example) deliver covid meds to every home in America in one day.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/25/national-emergency-library/#going-postal

But Congress has decided not to bail out the postal service, despite Art 1, Sec 8 of the US Constitution: “To establish Post Offices and post Roads.”

Maybe it’s because without a USPS we couldn’t have a postal vote in 2020?

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/27/just-asking-questions/#save-usps

The proximate cause of the post office’s bankruptcy is the pandemic, but that is merely the finishing blow. The USPS was murdered in 2006, when Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/04/will-the-united-states-post-office-become-a-victim-of-covid19.html

The Act gave the USPS a mere 10 years to “prefund its future health care benefit payments to retirees for the next 75 years.” That is, to set aside cash to pay medical bills for future employees who hadn’t been born yet.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6407

The Act gave the USPS a mere 10 years to “prefund its future health care benefit payments to retirees for the next 75 years.” That is, to set aside cash to pay medical bills for future employees who hadn’t been born yet.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6407

The USPS’s murder is straight out of the neoliberal playbook: “1 Defund, 2 claim crisis, 3 call for privatizatization, 4 profit!”

As Lambert Strether points out, it was a bipartisan act of murder, cosponored by the “centrist” Democrat Henry Waxman.

Killing the USPS looms large in the Trump admin’s (nonmetaphorical, actual) privatization playbook, “Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century Reform Plan and Reorganization Recommendations”:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Government-Reform-and-Reorg-Plan.pdf

The proposals are for USPS to become a Wework clone or franchisee, but not to become a publicly owned bank - a common line of business for other nations’ postal services, natural based on the amounts of cash they handle.

The USPS is the nation’s second largest employer of veterans, with 630,000 employees. Trump is about to allow it to collapse so that UPS, Fedex and other private firms can skim off the most profitable parts of its business and leave rural Americans totally isolated.

The loss of the USPS would mean the loss of the last truly universal federal program in America and would unduly hammer the people whom Trump claims to love – veterans and rural voters.

https://twitter.com/lildipshit3/status/1248741868440940544

[wilwheaton]

I read a diary at Daily Kos which suggested that if half the households in America bought 2 sheets of Forever Stamps, for about 16 bucks, it would provide enough funding to keep the USPS alive. How fucked up is this? We’re trying to save the fucking Postal Service, which is in the fucking CONSTITUTION, from Republican sabatoge. There is no such thing as a moderate, or patriotic, Republican. They are anti-American Fascists.

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

don’t miss the fact that this is coinciding exactly with the push to increase mail-in voting, which would seriously jeopardize Trump’s reelection. you can’t have mail-in ballots if there’s no postal service, right?

Americans, please text USPS to 50409 and ResistBot will send a message to your senators and congressperson telling them to save the Post Office.

i did it yesterday and it couldn’t have been easier. my senators are both pieces of shit, but that doesn’t mean i’m not going to give them an earful about this.

[lukeimyourpapi]

[slavery]

Why

[nightvalemeteorologist]

She had a dream and she realized it.

[brain-confetti]

Hey wait but sit down

This is Megumi Igarashi

She’s a Japanese artist

Japan, the country with some of the most fucked up pornography and the penis festival

Where the vagina is basically illegal to talk about 

So she did a bunch of art featuring 3D sculptures of her vagina, including this kayak, and was put in jail for it

She was indicted again in December on obscenity charges for selling vagina art to crowdfund for the kayak and could spend two years in prison

In Japan, women’s vaginas are treated as though they are men’s property. The trains here usually display pornographic advertisements. As a woman, I find that blatant objectification to be humiliating. I’m disgusted by it. My body belongs to me. So, with this project I wanted to release the vagina from the standard Japanese paradigm. Japan is lenient towards expressions of male sexuality and arousal, but not so for women. When a woman uses her body in artistic expression, her work gets ignored, and people treat her as if she’s some sex-crazed idiot. It all comes back to misogyny. And the vagina is at the heart of it. The vagina is ridiculed. It’s lusted after. Men don’t see women as equals—to them, women are just vaginas. Then they call my vagina-themed work “obscene,” and judge me according to laws written by and for men. [x]

She plans to turn her trial in to a manga comic. She seems pretty sure she’s not going to do any jail time but if you’d like to help her pay for her inevitable fine and court fees, you can check out her online store. There are little glow in the dark vagina characters.

[princesseblade]

Wow I’ve seen this reblogged a ton of times without seeing the whole going to jail part.

[dorkaelskunkworks]

Here’s a recent article about her from July of 2017.  It looks like she did some brief time in jail, and is currently still working on this artistic effort, as well as trying to raise awareness about a new terrorism law and the jail/prison system in Japan. 

[fuckyeahyonicsymbols]

Reblogging again for the updates!

[tooiconic]

I went from “wow why” to “YES GIRL” in 2 min.

[tryingtoglow-up]

This is by @themayfairgroup from their instagram♥️

I thought it was a great message

Feel free to messages me!

[anxietyproblem]

This is a reminder to drink more water! Including myself! 

[chibiredfox]

Drink dat water kids! And teens! And adults. Even the elderly.

Drink your water

[notnutnutting]

Okay but like this actually helped

[thatoneguythatonetime]

Not only does dehydration lead to anxiety, it can cause you to be more easily confused, and don’t even talk to me about the discomfort of you let it get bad. Drink plenty of fluids friends

[tryingtoglow-up]

So honestly Anna’s song in Frozen 2 got me in tears. Sometimes everything crumbles around us and you can’t do it anymore. Sometimes the future is too stressful to think about so just stop, breath and focus on your next step. Your next right thing.

I made a group chat too! Wanna join? It’s called I need Friends.

[tryingtoglow-up]

Today we are working towards not waiting for other people. I’m going to go on with my life and hopefully I end up somewhere good! But I’m not a lapdog that waits until you are ready to have me in your life.

I made a group chat too, it’s called I need friends, why not join it?

[tryingtoglow-up]

I realized my favorite thing to hear is “I want you”

It doesn’t have to be romantic but as an example

“I want you to join us tomorrow for lunch”

“I want you to come with me while I run this errand”

None of that “if you want” stuff! Let me know you want me there so I don’t feel like a BURDEN!

[tryingtoglow-up]

I’ve tried this new thing where, whenever I start jumping to conclusions I ask the person if what I’m feelings is true. It’s saved me a lot of dread that I was created all on my own. It took a few weeks to get it right but I’m trying to not let my low self esteem trip up my progression!

Don’t forget I have a group chat! It’s called I-Need-Friends! Please join to support each other!

[tryingtoglow-up]

So I made a group chat, it’s called I need friends.

Please spread the word!

[tryingtoglow-up]

So today I kinda started feeling bad again and everything was draining my energy. I decided to take a step back and breath. I looked at myself, my situation, and my emotions. Then I smiled, because I wouldn’t let this defeat me.

[tryingtoglow-up]

I’m going to make this about my journey of self confidence too. I hope everyone gets something out of this.

I recently went through a break up that set me back years. I feel small and fragile and I’m not waiting for someone to come around and push me over. I’ll need support from myself and that’s difficult.

Join me through this?

-Thanks <3