intergalactic-ashkenazi:

intergalactic-ashkenazi:

intergalactic-ashkenazi:

yall hear about fucking hb2796

NO I’M FUCKING SERIOUS HAVE Y’ALL HEARD ABOUT FUCKING HB2796 WHICH LITERALLY FUCKING EXCLUDES TRANS PEOPLE FROM CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION

I’m going to keep fucking reblogging this

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)
Status: Introduced on June 7 2017 – 25% progression
Action: 2017-07-12 – Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
Pending:
House Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice Committee
Text:
Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Civil Rights Uniformity Act of 2017 This bill prohibits the word “sex” or “gender” from being interpreted to mean “gender identity,” and requires “man” or “woman” to be interpreted to refer exclusively to a person’s genetic sex, for purposes determining the meaning of federal civil rights laws or related federal administrative agency regulations or guidance. No federal civil rights law shall be interpreted to treat gender identity or transgender status as a protected class, unless it expressly designates “gender identity” or “transgender status” as a protected class.

element-of-change:

shisno:

fuckyeahasexual:

Beautiful

it’s legit

AAAAAAAAAH

I’ve created a useful resource for English teachers.

blackmattersus:

Michael Moore to White People: ‘You Have a Responsibility to Reject Racism’

stand-up-gifs:

And always remember that Clinton won the popular vote by 1.7% points. Several presidents have won the White House with a much narrower margin.

hillary clinton won more votes than any other presidential candidate except barack obama (whose popularity was strikingly unusual); hillary clinton was a more popular candidate than any white male in the nation’s history

i too am enraged that sixty million people chose that troll, i am never going to stop being enraged about that and i am never going to forgive the people who made that choice, but for my own sake i need to remember the other side of it too

It’s Thanksgiving which means tables decorated with tiny porcelain figures of Native Americans sharing corn with pilgrims. It’s a holiday about being grateful, coming together, and being at peace but while we use caricatures of a great people, mainstream media ignores their cries for help. While we set tables with servings of food that are far too large, the original inhabitants of this great nation struggle to fight for clean drinking water and respect for their ancestors.

I’m not great at words but this issue is very dear to my heart so here’s some art.

Jill Stein eying recount in three states?

herbologymajor:

vaspider:

assemble-the-fangirls:

autismserenity:

salarta:

liberalshill:

Former Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein may be eyeing a recount in three states.

Political observers on Wednesday noticed Stein had launched a fundraising page on her website for a recount.

“After
seeing compelling evidence of voting anomalies, the Stein/Baraka Green
Party Campaign is launching an effort to ensure the integrity of our
elections. With your help, are raising money to demand recounts in
Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania– three states where the data
suggests significant discrepancies in vote totals,” the page reads.

It goes on to say the group needs to raise “over $2 million by this Friday, 4pm central,” to ensure a recount.

This has to be for Hillary Clinton since there’s no way she’d call for an audit herself. Jill Stein knows good and well she didn’t win any states.

From CNN: “The computer scientists believe they have found evidence that vote
totals in the three states (Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan) could have been manipulated or hacked and
presented their findings to top Clinton aides on a call last Thursday.”

You can donate here, if you’d like.

Reblogging here to get word out as fast as possible. Donations to the fund for a recount are needed by THIS FRIDAY by 4 PM CT.

Even if you feel in any way uncertain about this, isn’t it better to donate the money and it go to nothing, than to not donate and find out something that could’ve been done wasn’t due to lack of funds?

So the deal as I understand it is:

* If Clinton were to call for a recount in any state, and the recount in that state did NOT turn out to elect her in that state instead, she would be required to pay the cost of the recount in that state.

* They do that to keep people from just vengefully, constantly demanding recounts for no reason.

* There’s plenty of reason to check those states out, although the CNN article may not have the correct info; the details, from the election security experts who have been trying to get Clinton’s team to ask for a recount, are right here.

* When it says Wednesday here, it means today. As I write this. November 23rd. (Awww, it’s also the 53rd anniversary of the first episode of Doctor Who! ANYWAY)

* When I first saw the call for donations, it was at $45,000 out of their $2,500,000 goal. An hour or two later, it was at $80,000.

* It’s been less than 12 hours and they’re now up to $1.3 MILLION, more than halfway to their goal.

* They’re actually going to pull this off.

* I am not going to look it up for each state (you can google “who can ask for a recount in Wisconsin” or wherever but WI has a whole book about it and no thanks), but it looks like yes, Jill Stein can in fact ask for a recount. In Michigan, you have to be one of the people who ran, and lost, to ask for a recount. That seems to be standard practice.

* If Jill Stein calls for a recount, she DEFINITELY has to be the one to pay for it, since there is no fucking way it’s going to be like “Hey, guys, Jill Stein actually won!”

* I honestly think this is amazing. Even if it doesn’t work.

* Because this means that there were like… unless there are other third-party candidates that were on all three states’ ballots, there were probably only three people on this earth who had the ability to call for a recount. Two people with the interest. And one who is actually doing it.

* And for the first time in history, there is actually a way for everyone who wants this to immediately find out that it’s possible and throw money into the pot.

* Everything Trump is already doing is so fucking horrible, and the only saving grace is how incredibly hard people are organizing around every. freaking. single. thing. Again, we’ve never simultaneously had an election like this here, and an organizing tool like the internet, and it’s just.

I have multiple friends who are spontaneously posting to Facebook with shit like, “I am horrified that it has taken this kind of election for me to finally
start hearing through my white privileged ears. I was not in action. I
was complacent. No more.” (actual quote from a middle aged, upper-middle-class, straight cis white woman in Minnesota)

People who were already radical are now even more radical. There’s a powerful shift happening, and powerful communities being built.

I’m seeing people come together to support projects and nonprofits and communities and issues that were already SUPER necessary, that they are finally realizing desperately need support. Doing things that were always needed, that now they perceive as an emergency and want to do anything to fix.

Everything is so horrifying, but this gives me so much hope in the middle of it.

Like, earlier today I was crying because Trump announced he was going to eliminate funding for NASA to study climate change because he thinks it’s “politicized” science.

Now I’m crying because I’m so moved by all of these people giving whatever they can to make sure there is a recount in the most important states. By the visible evidence that we’re a real force now; that people aren’t just committed at a “tweeting/reblogging about it” level, people are like, NO. WE FUCKING STOP THIS NOW.

* And in the time it took me to write this, they’re now at more than $1.4 million.

@vaspider

I put my two cents in the kitty to help with a recount in my state. I never thought I’d say this but:

Good for Jill Stein.

Reblogging again. I just donated a dollar. It’s very easy, and there is no lower limit to the amount you can donate. It adds up, so if you can comfortably afford to donate anything, even if it’s 25 cents, please do so. If you can’t please spread the word anyway. The total is a little over $1.9 million now.

I would like to donate but I’m neither an US citizen nor do I own a credit card. Can some of my US mutuals help me out? I will gladly send u my Euros via PayPal or anything

Jill Stein eying recount in three states?

canonicalmomentum:

abbiehollowdays:

(Tweet from @nycsouthpaw) Kris Kobach should learn to use folders and cover sheets.

[image] Department of Homeland Security Kobach Strategic Plan for first 365 Days.

——————

Can someone caption this when you get a chance? I’m on mobile.

Transcript of the bits of the document we can see in the tweets here and here:

Department of Homeland Security

Kobach plan for the first 365 days

I. Bar the entry of potential terrorists

1. Update and reintroduce the NSEERS screening and tracking system (National Security Entry-Exit Registration System) that was in place from 2002-2005. All aliens from high-risk areas are tracked.

2. Add extreme vetting questions for high-risk aliens: question them regarding support for Sharia law, jihad, equality of men and women, the United States Constitution.

3. Reduce intake of Syrian refugees to zero, using authority under the 1980 Refugee Act.

[covered ending in ‘t’, presumably ‘Deport’] Record Number of Criminal Aliens in the First Year

[covered] 193,000 criminal removal cases dropped by the Obama Administration.

[covered ending in ‘ll’, presumably something like ‘Cancel all’ or ‘Recall’] ICE guidance memoranda issued by the Obama Administration; issue new guidance

[covered] criminal alien” as any alien arrested for any crime, and any gang member

[covered] to repatriate their citizens who have committed crimes in the United States

[covered] expedited 287(g) agreements with at least 70 cities an counties to enlist state and [covered] alien criminals.

[covered ending in ‘y’]

[covered] in addition to the 386 miles of existing actual wall within [covered ending in ‘ve’] entire 1,989 miles planned for rapid build.

[covered] under the PATRIOT act to prevent illegal aliens [covered]

[covered] immediately to forestall future lawsuits.

[large covered section]

V. Sto[covered]

21. Issue regi[covered] voter rolls. Direct [covered]

22. Direct the Department of Jus[covered]

23. Draft amendments to National Voter [covered]

froborr:

room-where-it-happens:

On the list of “things that should never EVER be put on television, ever”, this is pretty damn near the top of the list. And this, by the way, is why on hate speech I take the Jeremy Waldron “Dignity and Defamation: The Visibility of Hate” approach of not giving them a platform, period.

Because guess what? You now just signaled to anti-Semitics everywhere that “are Jews people” is a matter of debate. And that’s about a million types of fucked up.

What the ever-loving fuck CNN.

How the actual fuck is this even allowed to be a thought that oozed into the world, coalesced in a legible form, and then broadcast so the rest of us had to observe it with our own eyeballs.

How is this even a question being raised, how is this A LEGIT DISCUSSION POINT, how is it that CNN isn’t a person with a face that I can spit in and punch.

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