I honestly donât think anything could make me more livid than some rich white fucker saying that children shouldnât be given free meals in school because theyâre not creating âresults.â
Fuck you. I donât give one single fuck if food actually helps kids learn. The result I am looking for is that the child is no longer starving. Hunger is a problem in and of itself and you solve hunger with food. End of story. Also go fuck yourself.
It is not a personâs purpose in life to âcreate resultsâ. People should have a high quality if life regardless of how much or how little results they create.
Anyway so Iâm calling Rep. Farenthold later to accept on Sen. Collinâs behalf and Iâm choosing Fists. Can take place in Iowa because if two parties agree to mutual combat, under state law it is totally legal here.
And if he accepts yes I will stream that shit live donât be silly.
And after I beat his ass once for Collins, I will duel him again on Murkowskiâs behalf.
Square up, bitch.
OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU SO MUCH GOD CSPAN BOUT TO BE LIT
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SO I CALLED HIS DC OFFICE AND SAID BASICALLY THE SAME THING I SENT VIA EMAIL.Â
After about 20 seconds of dead silence, the staffer let out kinda a little laugh and said âWell maâm, Iâll be happy to pass on yourâŚâ
âIâm not joking.â
âMaâm?â
âYou think Iâm joking. I am dead serious. You want my address? Or Iâll meet him at the airport. I am absolutely serious about this. Oh, and as the challenged party, I get to pick weapons. I choose fists.â
Another 20 seconds of somehow even deeper silence.
âIâŚIâll pass your challenge on to the congressman.â
âNo. He issued the challenge. Iâm accepting. Unless heâs backing out like the spineless coward he is.â
More silence. âIâŚIâll let Congressman Farenthold know, maâm.â
âYou do that.â
ANYWAY SO HOW DID YOU ALL SPEND YOUR LUNCH BREAK TODAY.
You are my hero
Iâm in south Houston and Iâll be your tap in.
HOUSTON!!!! I WILL FIGHT TOO
Iâm in Los Angeles and I will be there with a bat. Just in case.
sign me up too. I swing a decent hammer, and I have an entire laundry list of unresolved anger issues.
Did anyone share this with the news outlets yet? Because I think more people need to know about this.
Donald Trump Announces Ban on Transgender Troops Including 15,000 Actively Serving
SHAMEFUL. This harms military readiness and puts lives at risk. There are more than 15,000 active serving transgender troops. Threatening 15,000 currently serving troops who put their lives at risk is unpatriotic and dangerous.
This is an outrageous and desperate action. The thousands of transgender service members serving on the front lines for this country deserve better than a commander-in-chief who rejects their basic humanity.
Let us be clear. This has been studied extensively, and the consensus is clear: There are no cost or military readiness drawbacks associated with allowing trans people to fight for their country. The president is trying to score cheap political points on the backs of military personnel who have put their lives on the line for their country.
There is no basis for turning trans people away from our military and the ACLU is examining all of our options on how to fight this. For any trans service member affected by todayâs announcement: Please get in touch with us, because we want to hear from you. [x]
if you want to support trans people serving in the military, please consider donating to the ACLU. as mentioned in their official statement, their examining all options on how to fight this ban.Â
also, to all the people on tumblr today that responded to this blatantly transphobic ban with some snarky edgy response about how denying trans people entry to the military is a âgood thingâ, because ‘the military is bad anywaysâ: fuck you
He is a disgusting, despicable person.
Boosting for the ACLUâs message, as I know peeps who are serving and deserve better.
A new report by human rights organization Amnesty International found that President Donald Trump has, in fewer than 100 days in office, threatened human rights in at least 100 different ways.
The Amnesty report includes a range of threats to human rights both inside the United States and in the rest of the world. It found 35 potential human rights violations in Trumpâs immigration policies alone, including in the ban on U.S. refugee resettlement, the proposed border wall, demonization of refugees as criminals, suspension of the Central American Minors program, detention of asylum-seekers, threats to separate families at the border, and the increased power handed to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Trumpâs immigration orders and 2017 and 2018 fiscal year budget proposals âlay the groundwork for an explosion of immigration detentionâ and could trap 80,000 people in immigration detention, estimates Amnesty.
Foreign policy threats to human rights that Amnesty identifies include downplaying reports of hate-based harassment and violence, emboldening and arming human rights abusers in other countries, giving the U.S. military âtotal authorizationâ to do whatever it wants, leading coalition airstrikes that have killed an astonishing number of civilians, cutting U.S. funding for the United Nations, and supporting torture.
âThese first 100 days show how dangerous Trumpâs agenda is, and theyâre also a roadmap for how to stop it and protect human rights in the U.S. and around the world,â Margaret Huang, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said in a statement. âWhen we sat down to document the first 100 days, it didnât take long to identify 100 ways this administration has tried to violate peopleâs human rights. Whatâs incredible isnât just all the ways the Trump administration has tried to deny people freedom, justice, and equalityâââbut all the ways that the public has pushed back and refused to let it happen.â
The report also identifies threats to criminal justice, the LGBTQ community, indigenous people, reproductiverights, and free speech, as well as âa cabinet full of human rights threatsâ: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt, and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
âWhether itâs closing our borders, turning our backs on refugees, trying to ban Muslims from the U.S., or emboldening human rights abusers worldwide, President Trump seems intent on stoking the fires of conflict outside U.S. borders while closing the door to those fleeing violence,â Huang said.
Still, the Amnesty report offers some hope for the resistance.
âThis briefing is not exhaustive and the Trump administrationâs ongoing threats to human rights remainâââbut so does the resolve to defeat them,â the report concludes. âWhile the Trumpâs first 100 days in office show how dangerous his agenda is for human rights in the U.S. and around the world, it is equally clear that activism, grassroots organizing and political opposition can make a difference.â
Remember in one of the debates when Trump and Clinton were asked to say something nice about the other, and Clinton said Trumpâs children prove his character? It took 10 months for that burn to manifest but the payoff was worth it.
they want to make the internet like tv. with channels and paying to get to specific websites and things. net neutrality = not doing that
This impacts every internet user. Please signal boost the hell out of this and sign the petition if you are American
I do not reblog things like this very often, but this affects me both personally and my business as a freelance artist.
In the economy here; cash is already strapped as it is. You bet your ass companies would suck the ever living life out of misc. art sites.
I donât want it to ever come down to me choosing between groceries or purchasing a new tier package via comcast to be able to access tumblr or DeviantArt (let alone not guaranteeing Iâll even be seen by my customer base since they may not want to pay out their asses either). It doesnât seem important to most, but I do 90% of my business online entirely.
Please sign up, fight for this and share it with your followers/friends/family and urge them to give them hell as well.
Not writing related, but this is incredibly important. While we pay for service via ISPs, the internet has been a relatively free space where everyone, no matter their income level, is able to connect, access a wealth of information, and express themselves. The Internet has become a major part of our culture as human beings and the notion that ISPs might be able to limit what sites I can access unless I pay them more is utterly sickening. A lot of us are cash strapped as is, and Iâd rather not be limited even more by someone elseâs greed. Net Neutrality is essential and I hope you guys will understand why it needs to remain.
-Morgan
P.S. Signal boost this if youâre able.
â limit what sites I can access unless I pay them moreâ
 limit what sites I can access unless I pay them more
 limit what sites I can access unless I pay them more
 limit what sites I can access unless I pay them more
 limit what sites I can access unless I pay them more
DO YOU WANT THIS? NO?? CLICK THE LINK. REBLOG.
As I understand this ruling, it means that businesses now have to pay extra to ISPs to have access to their websites through that ISP provided at a reasonable speed. If you donât pay, usersâ access to your website will be slowed to a crawl – so independent people and small businesses can forget about getting onto that high speed access tier.Â
This means that the American internet is going to be firmly under the control of those who have the most money. Youâll only get to see the content of those who can pay the ISPs to provide access at a reasonable speed. This means that you can expect to see skewed representation of just about everything, with those bigger businesses who can afford to pay ISPs a premium for access deciding what you can and cannot read, view and consume on the internet.
This is not something that we have in the UK. Our ISPs compete with each other to provide higher speeds, better services and lower prices, but because thereâs a monopoly in the US of a few ISPs who provide services, they can afford to do this to you. You canât go anywhere else, after all.
Everyone in the US needs to sign that petition, call their representatives, write angry letters and do whatever you can to tell your government that this ruling is Not Okay.
Maybe you guys are sick of this post but Itâs really important to freelance artists and pretty much everyone who uses the internet, so here it is again. Â o0o/
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