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grow up to be a Jedi and a scholar?
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My name is Grogu Mandalorian.

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How does a bastard, orphan,
son of a whore and
a yoda, born
in a forgotten
spot in
the Outer Rim
in poverty and squalor
grow up to be a Jedi and a scholar?
Grogu Mandalorian.
My name is Grogu Mandalorian.
I’m listening to the audio of Juliet Blackwell’s The Last Curtain Call. It’s part of a cozy mystery series and cozies don’t really have a reputation for being progressive. However, this book has a non-binary character and the main character has an interior monologue about learning about gender being non-binary. While this isn’t a huge part of the book, it’s also rare to see such intentional inclusion in cozy mysteries. I hope this is the beginning of change for the genre and not an aberration. Regardless, I support Blackwell’s inclusion and I hope to see more from her in the future.
One of the most important things I learned in my Language and the Law class is that law enforcement will intentionally misinterpret every type of statement asking for a lawyer as not asking for a lawyer. Even directly saying it like this “I will not speak to you without a lawyer” can be taken as a simple statement of fact rather than a request for a lawyer. You literally have to state “I am now invoking my right to a lawyer” and every time they try to proceed with an interrogation you have to answer every question with “I am invoking my right to have a lawyer present”. You can’t just tell them you won’t talk without a lawyer or that you want a lawyer. You have to state that you are invoking your rights. Otherwise they could just say “well they just said they wouldn’t speak without a lawyer present. That’s not invoking their rights to a lawyer. It’s just stating a fact.” even just stating your right to a lawyer doesn’t count!
PLEASE share this addition. I am a lawyer who works in criminal defense, and this is one of the most avoidable things that people consistently get wrong about the Miranda rights.
Here are some more “ambiguous” phrases which courts have found DO NOT invoke your right to a lawyer:
“Maybe I should speak to my lawyer first.”
“I might like a lawyer.”
“I think I should have a lawyer present for this.”
“Could I speak to my lawyer first?”
“How long until my lawyer gets here?”
And perhaps most egregiously – “Get me a lawyer, dawg – ‘cause this is not what’s up.”
Here are the magic phrases which you need to know if you want to invoke your Miranda rights:
1) “Am I free to leave?”
It’s worth asking this even if the answer is obvious. Even if the officer does not let you leave, by forcing them to admit that you are not free to leave, you are creating a record which your attorney can use to prove that you were in custody. Miranda rights only apply if the interrogation is custodial, meaning that police officers will frequently claim that their suspects were “not in custody” to get around their Miranda rights.
2) “I am invoking my right to remain silent.”
Simply staying silent will not invoke your right to remain silent. As absurd as this is, you must explicitly say that you are invoking your right to remain silent in order to invoke that right.
3) “I am invoking my right to an attorney.”
As stated above, you must be not only clear and unambiguous, but clear and legally unambiguous. Don’t get cute. Don’t get sassy. And on the flip side, don’t get intimidated and use verbal ticks to minimize your request. Say the line with those words exactly – say it clearly, and say it once, and then say nothing else.
Because even after you’ve done all this, the police can still try to get you to talk. They’re not supposed to interrogate you, but they’re allowed to make casual conversation, and if that conversation just happens to circle back around to the thing they wanted to question you about, well, that’s really your fault for talking after you said you wouldn’t, isn’t it? Can’t possibly fault the poor officers when you initiated – if you really wanted to have your rights respected, you wouldn’t have talked to them in the first place.
The police know this, and they will mercilessly exploit this loophole. So, once you’ve successfully invoked your Miranda rights, any and all conversation you have with police officers will put those rights back into jeopardy.
Putting it all together:
Ask: “Am I free to leave?”
If they say no, say: “I am invoking my right to remain silent and I am invoking my right to an attorney.”
And then shut up and do not say a single thing to them for any reason whatsoever until you have actually spoken to an attorney. Yes, even if it takes hours. Yes, even if they start talking to you about something else.
Finally, a very important disclaimer:
I may be a lawyer, but I’m not your lawyer, and I cannot guarantee that what I’ve just laid out here will always work for every situation. We didn’t get to this bizarre and absurd place overnight – we built this ridiculous system piecemeal, by deciding on a case-by-case basis that certain phrases were “too ambiguous” or certain types of questioning weren’t actually questioning at all. The law is still in flux, and is still fundamentally out to get you, and willing to bend plain meaning beyond all recognition to do it. Even if you invoke your rights perfectly, exactly as I have specified above, there’s a chance that your invocation of rights will be disqualified on some new technicality that no one’s even thought of yet – and that’s precisely the problem.
Watch this video: “Don’t Talk To The Police”
| Anyway, trans rights.
i dont think whites understand how being white makes literally everything easier.
it effects everything.
being trans is easier when youre white.
being gay is easier when youre white.
being disabled is easier when youre white.
being a woman is easier when youre white.
being autistic is easier when youre white.
oppression is eased when you are white, as you get extra privileges, and your whiteness is seen as a positive characteristic that in some ways counter-balances your other forms of being a minority. whiteness controls everything.
you are automatically way more innocent in your own oppression as a gay, trans, disabled person because of your whiteness.
never forget this.
Imma judge any white person who likes this but doesn’t reblog
The thing I don’t think white people understand is. When I came out to my parents as not straight, the first thing my mom said to me was that “I can’t believe you would do this. You’re black and you’re a woman, why would you add another strike.” White people will not have that experience.
New board book at my library! Our Youth Services manager is the best!!!
Could it be? Is that a beautiful plus-sized model on a romance novel cover? Nice to see some variety of body types!
me, finding out The Good Place is ending after Season 4:
Sometimes book displays are informative. Sometimes they’re pretty. And sometimes they’re snarky!
Jameela Jamil has revealed she turned down the role of a deaf woman because she did not want to deprive a disabled actress of a job.
[Jameela Jamil said,] “I said it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to take that role and they should find a brilliant deaf woman to play that role. I think you have to make those choices and not be too greedy and make space rather than take space.”
Jamil added: “I don’t want to be part of erasure.” Her comments come amid the ongoing debate over roles for minority groups in Hollywood.
However Cate Blanchett believes actors should be able to play any role, and said: “I will fight to the death for the right to suspend disbelief and play roles beyond my experience.”
Jamil said a “big change needs to happen” in the industry.
She said: “I think it’s a very tricky one. I can understand where people are coming from when it comes to suspending disbelief but I think the thing we should actually be fighting for is more roles for people with disabilities and more roles for LGBTQ so there aren’t just five a year and then those get taken by big names.”
I love her.
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate Jameela Jamil? She is truly a wonderful person and she’s out there everyday proving we aren’t in the worst timeline.
Tahani is Jameela Jamil’s very first acting role. She’s hosted and modeled before, but this is her first role as an actress. She’s also a woman of color. She has less options than Cate Blanchett for a number of reasons. So for her to turn down a role because she felt it would be inappropriate speaks VOLUMES and should shame every a-list cis white star who’s taken a role that should have gone to a trans person or person of color.
We’ve got people who in theory should just be grateful for every job they get making ethical decisions about the roles they accept while people who never have to worry about when or how much their next job will be, who have secure careers, are saying ridiculous stuff to defend taking a job from marginalized people or roles that encourage the further marginalization of queer folks and poc.
And it’s not just this, Jameela is outspoken about every topic she believes in even when others would put their heads down to be more palatable.
She is straight up putting her reputation and career on the line every time she speaks up and I respect her so hard for it.
I guess woke consumerism has a silver lining?
Not even capitalism wants you, fucknuts.
I can never understand how Snape apologetics can stand up for him when he CANONICALLY does this shit.
I can maybe, maybe, understand those who haven’t read the books standing up for him, because honestly the movies don’t cover all the horrible stuff he does. But those who have read the books and still stick up for him baffle me.
I mean, you don’t see anyone sticking up for the Dursley’s or Umbridge, when they do the same stuff to Harry as Snape. How is Snape any different?
I was extremely disappointed when it was revealed that Snape was actually “a good guy”. The Snape of DH didn’t match the Snape from the beginning of the story in a rather ridiculous way. I remember being one of the only one of my friends that was hoping that Snape would in fact be evil in DH. DH ended up being such a disappointment and I really felt so detached from what had started off as such an incredibly strong story.
i’m gonna refer back to this post every time we get snape discourse
I have a theory that people would have a more appropriate reaction to Snape’s behavior if he had been played by someone like Steve Buscemi (or his English equivalent) rather than Alan Rickman.
This argument goes even more in depth than I usually do as to why Snape was an awful person. He really embodies the concept that someone can be on the right side while also still being a garbage human being.
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i missed it, but i just learned that yesterday was National Polyamory Day in Canada.
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Ravenclaw: I don't have a train of thought, I have 7 trains on 4 tracks that narrowly avoid each other when the paths cross and all the conductors are screaming.
Gryffindor:
Hufflepuff:
Slytherin: ... wtf
My brain. Every. Day.
You pack a lot of heart and grit into that diminutive frame.
I hope people think the same thing about me
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This article made me so excited! And I don’t know when we’re going to get it, but I can’t wait to read Dark Reading Matter!!!!