Civility Is Complacency

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[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

Tutankhamun’s meteoric iron dagger, aprox 1327 BC (1087x725)

SWITCH TO FIREFOX AND ADD UBLOCK ORIGIN

[whitegirlsaintshit]

[trashboat]

why is he sitting like a 14th century monarch

[slab-o-meat]

he is one

[birlinterrupted]

oh so you think it’s unethical for me to wind this hand crank that electrocutes a room full of children? what if I told you that I was doing it because i get free college?? yr lookin p dumb now arent you

[shiftythrifting]

weird solid wood rat statue with three holes in the front for possibly flags? found in a salvation army in halifax, nova scotia 

[awolfinmycity]

WHAT TO DO AT AN ICE CHECKPOINT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE A WHITE CITIZEN

(please, please, please copy, paste, and share widely):

-Border Patrol can verify citizenship within 100 miles of a border or “external boundary.” This includes coastlines so NYC is within the 100-mile zone.

-Border patrol can only ask brief questions about citizenship, and they cannot hold you for an extended time without cause.

-You always have the right to remain silent. You do not need to answer their questions.

-***WITH THAT SAID, IF YOU ARE A BORN CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES AND ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE WHITE, YOU NEED TO SPEAK THE FUCK UP.***

-The most important acts of resistance are the small ones. Make it difficult and uncomfortable for ICE agents to do their jobs. They are counting on citizens to turn a blind eye and allow them to deport undocumented citizens without challenge. Disabuse of that notion.

-If you are on a train, bus, or anything else and ICE or CBP boards, you need to stand up and loudly let everyone know that they have the right to remain silent or only answer questions in the presence of an attorney, no matter their citizenship or immigration status. There have been numerous reports that confronting the agents in this way has caused them to leave without verifying citizenship. THIS CAN SAVE LIVES.

-If you see anyone being held up by immigration, loudly ask if they are being detained and if they are free to go.

-Immigration officers cannot detain anyone without reasonable suspicion, an agent must have specific facts about you that make it reasonable to believe you are committing or committed, a violation of immigration law or federal law.

If an agent detains you, you can ask for their basis for reasonable suspicion, and they should tell you.

-Always say no to a search and let everyone know that they can and should refuse consent to a search.

-They cannot search or arrest anyone without facts about that make it probable that they are committing, or committed, a violation of immigration law or federal law.

-Silence alone meets neither of these standards. Nor does race or ethnicity alone suffice for either probable cause or reasonable suspicion

-As white citizens, we have a level of privilege which protects us from retaliation from ICE for being “rude” and making a scene, which makes it our DUTY to speak up and make sure people without the same privilege know their rights. GET LOUD. YELL. YELL IN SPANISH IF YOU KNOW IT. LET PEOPLE KNOW THEY DON’T HAVE TO SAY SHIT. MAKE ICE UNCOMFORTABLE. THROW SAND IN THE GEARS OF WHITE SUPREMACY.

BONUS INFO:

-It is perfectly legal to record immigration agents as long as you are not on government property or at a port of entry. If your train/bus gets board, pull your phone out and start videotaping immediately.

-If you are detained or see someone getting detained, get the agent’s name, number, and any other identifying information. Get it on tape.

-Contact the ACLU if you see someone’s rights being violated.

[endangered-justice-seeker]

Can anyone explain what’s going on here??????????????????????????????

[hailqueenconquer]

Fuck this world - this is a disgusting use of authority

[hogboom-deactivated20230317]

“Black hole” oil on canvas

[aliewa]

Doctor: How many days out of a month do you feel fatigued?

Me: (stares into the camera like I’m in The Office)

[mattbors]

I made this political cartoon in 2010. Enjoy! http://thenib.com/daily

[kropotkindersurprise]

May 31 2016 - Collin Kennedy, who is a cancer patient, used expanding spray foam to disable a parking meter at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg where he gets his treatment. He says the fees are a tax on the sick. [video]

[sunflower-cane]

Make your pride events wheelchair accessible

[angremlin-deactivated20250312]

if people in wheelchairs have to call ahead or ask for assistance that abled people don’t it is not accessible

[thisiseverydayracism]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/state-department-to-lgbt-married-couples-your-out-of-wedlock-kids-arent-citizens

[thenerdyanthrohistorian]

Watch the white gays start to give a fuck now.

[roughstar]

First it was the Mexicans, legal citizens born here from immigrant parents, that were claimed as non citizens. Now it’s the children of gay parents. Don’t you see what’s happening? Disenfranchisement. Classic fascism. We’re heading towards a totalitarian regime folks. Trump is a white supremacist and him and his administration won’t stop until they’ve recreated Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

[bigforeheadgaaal]

This ‘capitalism ting’ has us ALL screwed up  😣 

[diversehighfantasy]

[afloweroutofstone]

The ACLU has a know your rights guide for immigrants available in English, Arabic, Chinese, Creole, Farsi, French, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, and Vietnamese.

[historyandmemes]

IMMIGRATION NEWS THREAD:

Attorneys: Texas border facility is neglecting migrant kids (https://apnews.com/46da2dbe04f54adbb875cfbc06bbc615?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter)

“Lawyers warn that kids are taking care of kids, and there’s inadequate food, water and sanitation for the 250 infants, children and teens at the Border Patrol station.”

“Three girls told attorneys they were trying to take care of the 2-year-old boy, who had wet his pants and had no diaper and was wearing a mucus-smeared shirt when the legal team encountered him.”

Lawyers claim infants, children are in dangerous situation at border detention site (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/lawyers-claim-infants-children-are-dangerous-situation-border-detention-site-n1020016)

Trump Administration Argues Migrant Children Don’t Need Soap (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/safe-sanitary-no-soap-beds-court-migrants-trump-850744/)

Court Video: Justice Department Argues Against Providing Soap, Toothbrushes, Beds To Detained Kids (Feat. Sarah Fabian of the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation) 

‘There Is a Stench’: No Soap and Overcrowding in Detention Centers for Migrant Children (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/migrant-children-border-soap.html)

“A chaotic scene of sickness and filth is unfolding in an overcrowded border station in Clint, Tex., where hundreds of young people who have recently crossed the border are being held, according to lawyers who visited the facility this week. Some of the children have been there for nearly a month.”

“Children as young as 7 and 8, many of them wearing clothes caked with snot and tears, are caring for infants they’ve just met, the lawyers said. Toddlers without diapers are relieving themselves in their pants. Teenage mothers are wearing clothes stained with breast milk.”

“Most of the young detainees have not been able to shower or wash their clothes since they arrived at the facility, those who visited said. They have no access to toothbrushes, toothpaste or soap.”

“In May, the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security warned of “dangerous overcrowding” among adult migrants housed at the border processing center in El Paso, with up to 900 migrants being held at a facility designed for 125. In some cases, cells designed for 35 people were holding 155 people.”

“’Border Patrol agents told us some of the detainees had been held in standing-room-only conditions for days or weeks,” the inspector general’s office said in its report, which noted that some detainees were observed standing on toilets in the cells “to make room and gain breathing space, thus limiting access to the toilets.’”

In El Paso, Border Patrol Is Detaining Migrants in ‘a Human Dog Pound’ (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/border-patrol-outdoor-detention-migrants-el-paso/)

“…migrants who said they’d been held outdoors for weeks as temperatures rose to nearly 100 degrees.”

Nearly 900 migrants found at Texas facility with 125-person capacity: DHS watchdog (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/900-migrants-found-texas-facility-125-person-capacity/story?id=63404988)

Trump administration cancels English classes, soccer, legal aid for detained migrant children (https://www.texastribune.org/2019/06/05/english-classes-soccer-legal-aid-cancelled-detained-migrant-children/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1561047748&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter) 

NO HUMAN BEING DESERVES TO BE TREATED THIS WAY––ESPECIALLY CHILDREN.

[historyandmemes]

“The kids were unresponsive, feverish and vomiting, yet receiving no medical care, according to lawyers.” (src)

THIS IS DESPICABLE

[la-laborista-republiko]

Make sure you're taking care of yourselves.

We've got plenty of martyrs already.

[archae-heart-deactivated2021012]

Some days you just gotta alternate between laying in a meadow of wildflowers and floating down the river.