uh huh, honey

Selena

[minardil]

[okayy-chubb-deactivated20220812]

sometimes we have to disconnect to reconnect

[anxietyproblem]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[crownvic]

Basically

[curlyfreaksword]

To all the people who believe property is more important than 600 hundred years of slavery and oppression of Black people.  

[queer-leftism]

Spread this like wildfire. This shows would a doubt that cops are damaging their own vehicles in attempts to make the protesters look even worse. It should be pretty obvious that if they willing to do this, they're willing to send plain clothes cops to start the looting and fires (which is what happened and keeps happening).

(posted on 30/05/2020)

[proud-homosexual-woman-deactiva]

The really scary thing is hearing the fake excuses broadcast on the news. Heard one on the radio this morning where they claimed footage of police officers breaking windows into a department store was because they needed “safe and easy“ access into the building to arrest looters who are already in the building. Bullshit. what a fucking big load of hot steaming bullshit

[thetrippytrip]

We should be more pro-active or we’ll see more of such sad fates of honest people.

[fluffmugger]

And the utterly ironic thing is I’ve seen repeated tumblr posts of that iconic photo absolutely slagging the shit out of Peter Norman as “lol white guy so uncomfortable”   “Why the fuck isn’t he supporting them”, etc etc.

[aqueercreative]

As an Australian this post surprised me. I knew none of the above.

[themerrywriter-deactivated20200]

People need to learn this shit so they can emulate it - this is what it means to stand in solidarity with people; it tends to be a difficult, quiet thing that costs you, and yet it’s the right thing to do. 

[whitepeopletwitter]

[noyougofuckyourself]

I’ve barely seen anything on tumblr about the blackout in Washington DC

There’s been radio silence from the city since 1am local time, tweets about it are being deleting and suppressed

[edit to add: there’s now reports coming out that the blackout was fake, I can’t confirm either way, be vigilant]

[jescache]

they're being hacked

[transingthebourgeoisie]

Not only are people being hacked, the message is literally copy/pasted for every account. It’s so incredibly transparent.

[windswepthelios-deactivated2023]

So I looked into this as much as I could find before coming across the BlackLivesMatter DC Twitter account, which is debunking the rumour that there was a blackout in DC. 

People are spreading images from a TV show, claiming that it’s actually the real DC. Others are saying that this rumour has spread--along with these copy/pasted tweets in order to scare protesters from continuing to come out and protest. 

I’m not sure how that works, and with the way things are, it’s very difficult to root out misinformation and find out what’s really happening, so if anyone has any more information to support or refute this, that would be a great help.

[wilwheaton]

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[vixxey]

No joke, some of them had to wear garbage bags to make up for the lack of PPE. That’s usually something you only see in veterinary medicine.

[condimentfather]

let’s not forget when a medical fetish wear company had to step in and donate PPE because the shortage was that bad

[3rd-world-elite]

[tellyjpg]

i really wish everyone had good hearts and good intentions for others. honestly.

[givemearmstopraywith]

marsha p. johnson and sylvia rivera, founders of STAR and the first pride parades, in 1989

happy pride month! the stonewall uprising was a riot started by trans women of colour against police brutality. support black lives. support trans lives. love fiercely. throw bricks. acab.

[feministism]

[angelsaxis]

YOURE TELLING ME THIS IS WHAT THEY'VE BEEN SHOOTING PROTESTERS WITH????

[katjohnadams]

YEP! These are meant to be skipped into the ground and then spin into people's legs and dissuade people from advancing or move them away. FIRING THEM AT PEOPLE'S HEADS IS 100% AGAINST THE PROPER USE. AND THEY ARE SHOOTING THESE AT MEDICS. DOCTORS, EMTS, AND NURSES. AT CLOSE RANGE. THESE CAN BREAK YOUR SKULL. THEY ARE NOT A JOKE. THIS IS LESS LETHAL LIKE A BASEBALL BAT IS LESS LETHAL THAN A SWORD. BOTH STILL CAN KILL.

[scottishwobbly]

I only found out today they’re meant to be fired at the ground to bounce back at protesters... I don’t think  I’ve ever seen the cops use them that way

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

They're also often actually metal with a thin coating of rubber.

[ms-demeanor]

Hi.

Your buddy from the ammo industry here.

1) these are absolutely not supposed to be fired directly at people, they are supposed to be fired indirectly.

2) they can kill and seriously injure people

3) this type of "rubber bullet" (often called a "foam baton" or "rubber baton" round) is a lightweight projectile that will nonetheless fuck you up. I've loaded and worked with foam batons and rubber shot for a long time and in all the time I've worked with people who were loading and firing rubber bullets with police departments I've never encountered any version of a 37 or 40mm baton round that has a "thin layer of rubber over a metal core," which is a description I've seen a lot of in the last few days and wanted to correct.

[nevercure]

And yet...

[ms-demeanor]

Yep, ACAB.

What I will say, and I know it's cold comfort, is that everyone in photos like these has an incredible case against these PDs because the rounds they're firing say right on the casing that they're not to be fired except by properly trained users in appropriate ways so either this is a trained person who ignored the training and can be held liable or this is an untrained person whose department should be held liable

They 100% know this is not how these are supposed to be used and they are intentionally misusing them in ways they are aware make the weapons more lethal and will later claim they didn't know better. They're lying, and everyone should know they're lying.

[odddior-deactivated20200814]

i know there’s a lot going on but ICE are now one step closer to literally creating gas chambers. they are spraying a chemical called HDQ neutral roughly 100 times a day, every 15 minutes at the adelanto detention center (one of the biggest in the country). people are getting rashes, headaches, their insides are bleeding, etc. the guards are wearing gloves and masks but the detainees have NOTHING. and here’s a quick reminder - america inspired the nazis to create gas chambers when they gassed latino people during the 1917 bath riots. 

here’s a petition to sign. it’s close to it’s goal. if there’s anything else we can do to help i’ll update this post.

[your-url-is-problematic]

I don’t have the words to properly explain how horrifying this is. In April, the advocacy group Freedom For Immigrants published a report about unsanitary conditions at the detention center, where the immigrants were made to clean the facilities with only water, or shampoo. According to their report, there were sick detainees there - possibly with COVID-19, but it’s unclear since they weren’t being tested - and the conditions could easily lead to a situation in which the virus exploded among those there.

The guards are spraying this disinfectant in retaliation for the report. To be clear - HDQ is an industrial-strength disinfectant, which according to the manufacturer is “harmful if inhaled” and “causes severe skin burns and serious eye damage.” The guards are spraying it on everything every 15-30 minutes, according to sources, and immigrants in the center have already experienced severe symptoms including blisters, rashes, bleeding, fainting, breathing difficulties, headaches, stomach pain, and nausea.

And let’s be real - ICE doesn’t give a shit, either about protecting these people or about preventing a COVID outbreak. ICE, according to their own reports, currently has 25,911 people in custody, of which only 2,670 have been tested. 1,392 of those were positive. In simple terms - less than 10% of detainees have been tested. Of those, more than half are positive. We cannot estimate how many sick people ICE is currently holding, or how many more will get sick without any kind of prevention or care.

ICE is killing people through neglect, and when they dared complain - they started gassing them.

Unfortunately, with Trump in the white house, petitions aren’t doing much. What we can do, however, is donate to the advocacy group that is bringing these things to light, allowing them to continue their work and hopefully free more immigrants. Their donation page is here. Please spread this.

[1moneychaserworld-deactivated20]

Giving a woman the world has nothing to do with money