Twittervism, #KeepFamiliesTogether Edition
My current big essay requires a fair amount of editing. By the unfinished point it had reached, I had already contradicted the first sentence or two. I also have had a a few insights and revelations that have altered the course of it. Hopefully I'll find time tonight and over the next few days to get it published for Friday. Trump just said he wishes American people would "sit up and listen" to him the way Kim Jong-un’s people do. Kim Jong-un’s people “sit up and listen” to him because their lives literally depend on it. Now replace Kim’s name with Hitler’s. Scared yet, idiots who voted for him? Though I've also read that Bezos could also do a lot to improve work conditions at Amazon, too. https://t.co/kl11bcjOre @jeffbezos, literacy, book distribution to younger people, & encouraging people to find enjoyment in reading fiction & poetry is an obvious place to donate money. It will help your bottom line while also improving empathy in the public. https://t.co/xZtv7Q9H7w @jeffbezos, another data point to show that fiction & poetry help the world. Add to my previous suggestion: prison education and put more fiction & poetry into prisons. https://t.co/iHXKmOR1nh Sarah Sanders stands at the White House podium and repeats Trump's lie that there is a law requiring children to be taken from their parents at the border. Nepotism is an illness and @EPAScottPruitt caught it from the Trump Foundation. RT if you don't want your tax dollars spent like this. https://t.co/t4kV331hGQ If I were the only person that [45] hadn't hired, whether for a personal, corporate, or government position, I wouldn't accept a job offer from him, no matter how much it paid. Paul Ryan: I'm not comfortable with Trump separating children from their mothers. This week, I sent a letter urging @AjitPaiFCC to wait on the courts before the FCC moves forward w/ #SinclairTribuneMerger. Following @SpeakerRyan’s comments that he hasn’t “paid that close attention” to @EPAScottPruitt’s very well documented scandals, I sent him a letter today to educate him a little. Read my letter here: https://t.co/6uiwhab751 Trump praises a dictator who uses death camps, summary executions, torture, and forced mass starvation to repress millions and says this dictator did what he had to do--and *not one* aide or appointee in Trump's regime resigns. It's a deplorable administration. Good episode w/ someone arguing that politicians/economists/businesspeople forgot that morals & caring matter. This finger pointing also includes communists & socialists. People are at the center.https://t.co/QmbMxwp0nZ Points to @today_explained for providing the following option for race/ethnicity: "Caucasian / European descent" on their podcast suvey. AMC Silences Chris Hardwick Talk Show & Comic-Con Panels After Abuse Claims – Deadline https://t.co/7PilVQ5Ok3 if you think stealing someone’s baby is a reasonable response to them crossing an imaginary line on the ground you are either brainwashed or a horrible person Need more nuanced politicians: liberal here, radical there, progressive here but not there, etc. Sounds like she got the people of San Francisco to listen & showed she listened enough to adapt where needed to make clear where in platform she wouldn't bend. https://t.co/hZfyI4JsTC How digital nomads/workplaces are affecting society & governments (tax base, benefit distribution, etc). No answers but interesting conversation starter. Mostly brings up anecdotal situations. Been thinking lately need to figure out. https://t.co/wqEzaXTg6l [Actually hadn't known about the Fairness Doctrine that was withdrawn under Reagan. Withdrawal of Net Neutrality is reminiscent. One commentator stated that FDR pushed for Fairness Doctrime to prevent Hitler. Time to consider again?] Law officers should need "necessary" standard, not "reasonable" std. They need training to de-escalate & to keep cool head. If can't meet "necessary" standard, they don't get proper training and screening to determine their suitability to benefit society. https://t.co/CtcflcB6fV Chicagoans! Help some kids change the name of Douglas Park to Douglass Park, from a slaveholder IL Senator to Frederick Douglass, the freed slave who fought for social reform and abolitionism. https://t.co/8brCngvuxd Per this book, https://t.co/V9IBozlh3S, the rate that soldiers pulled the trigger from WWII to Vietnam increased by A LOT! So alternate hypothesis for police shooting is it's not quantity of training, but type of training. People need conditioning to kill. Cops trained too well? It's funny, I haven't seen any outcry from "pro-life" organizations about the treatment of children at the border. Almost as if they don't give a shit about actual babies. Are Democrats responsible for DHS separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border? Pritzker isn't necessarily my first pick for Illinois governor, but I can agree with his words about the atrocities [45] is inflicting on asylum seekers; https://t.co/ecsXYdrgO5 Can Congress, no matter who wins in 2018, PLEASE impeach [45]? He's committing atrocities to asylum seekers. How many people have died in World War II & other discord & wars b/c America turned asylum seekers away? How many more have to die for American White Supremacy? "We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period," Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said. @SenDuckworth @SenatorDurbin @RepMikeQuigley I live in zip 60657. You're my representation in the US government. Something must be done about this maniac. His admin wants you to make a solution. How about this: Get rid if the maniac causing thw problem? https://t.co/VYSYQY9ZJy America ripping apart families, BUT HEY! SPACE FORCE! WTF?! How about w3 resolve issues on Earth before waging war in space? Oh wait, it's he's going to escape with the 1%. I would also say another difference is that barring disability, most people move their bodies and muscles everyday as a normal course of order. On other hand, there isn't that natural course of order for the creative parts of our minds. I wish joy, love, happiness, & empathy, & sadness that comes from destroying these things were spread like a disease because we could really use some way to get through to the heartless pigheads that are at lead many governments in the world. .@SenTedCruz I hope your emergency legislation provides results of campassion & empathy, but don't think you're fooling us. This is just a cynical attempt to save the GOP from losing in midterms. Provide permanent, COMPASSIONATE reform, not a wall or hate. .@GOP, the more you consider Trump your leader, support him, & stand behind him, the more you become the party of hate, cruelty, atrocity, & dare I say it, evil. Show backbone & decency, abandon Trump & stand up ro him. YOU KNOW BETTER! Power is not worth cost of humanity. Republicans control the Senate by only two votes, so if just two Republicans refused to vote for Trump nominees until the Administration stops separating families, this policy would quickly end. [While on my high horse: WH blaming media & video games for gun violence in the US. Who do you think contributes & assists violent video games & media?] Democrats don’t support child separation It’s time for Secretary Nielsen to resign. The government should be keeping families together, not tearing them apart. Add your name to demand her resignation. I'm already feel sorry for [46], if they're a sane human being. I provide that dependent clause because [46] could very well be Pence or some other demagogue that doesn't fully represent the people of the US. Good summary -- Migrant Children at the Border - The Facts - CBS Chicago https://t.co/7i87quz3xk We're used to the ire, the discrimination, the dismissive behavior... but in this moment in time, it's really beautiful to see so many recognizing this as an issue that transcends citizenship. #KeepFamiliesTogether - even if they weren't born in America. The Nazis never saw themselves as villains. Outraged by family separation? You can do something to help. Tune in to our webinar Thurs June 21 2-3pm CT for info on how to meaningfully support immigrants in your community. Go to https://t.co/lsQDrwA1BT or dial 7732319226. The meeting ID is 1488797885! These families are fleeing violence in their home countries to seek asylum in America -- only to watch in horror as their children are thrown in jail cells. We must #KeepFamiliesTogether. Welcome to the world quite a few of us have been living in and YELLING ABOUT IN WARNING since that bigot opened his presidential bid spewing racist shit about Mexicans that didn't tank his run immediately. WE TOLD Y'ALL BUT Y'ALL LAUGHED THEN AND NOW WE'RE ALL IN THIS HELL. https://t.co/G6VSRMoart This week alone I've been fighting tooth and nail to find some reason why it's worth continuing to work,, create, build the life I have here when it's so depressingly clear I live in a country run by bigots who see me as less than human & where enough of my neighbors AGREE. White men are feeling like others are breaking trust (privilege=status=sense of receiving trust) that was there when the problem is that majority of white men never did the work to build trust with other comnunities in the first place. It's time to do that work. .@SenatorDurbin @SenDuckworth @RepMikeQuigley SERIOUSLY! This maniac MUST BE IMPEACHED & permanent immigration reform be put in place. THIS IS INSANE! Now established Naturalized citizens are at risk? https://t.co/Euf79i0IYM Then get all the Reps in the House to vote for it to make it veto proof. Good luck! That's where the real disagreement is. How we got to NOW with immigration from GOP Congress on 1996 to 9/11 to Bush to Obama to [45] & a little driving into philosophy of executing law. https://t.co/89S23zQ2B3 Important fact about [45] pinning "zero tolerance" on Bill Clinton signing a law in 1996: Clinton might have signed the law, but Congress was controlled by the GOP. We are living in a world drafted by the GOP, Trump is just executing their wording to the logical end. On the bright side: we agree that we need justice. It's better than not considering some people as subhuman. We just need to figure out how to work our justices together into a combined force for good. Gen X & Millennials, we have had to deal with economic promises broken by our elders. Now we have the responsibility to keep promises to Gen Z and the generation after them. We have social promises of equality, equity, & trust to keep. Let's keep promises & build econ trust again [Nothing like a white politician claiming how many great things they've done for marginalized people.] As Governor, Rauner Says, He's Done More for African-Americans than 'anybody' https://t.co/ngS0raXflO Is the GOP talking about Nancy Pelosi so much because they fear her becoming Speaker of the House then Trump then Pence getting impeached? Works for me. If Trump thinks retracting a policy will pacify the resistance, he doesn't know what's coming. Last year, it was Charlottesville & "both sides". This year, it's this BS. Trump needs to be relieved of his position after the 2018 Election. He's destroying America. Chicago Sun Times: U.S. support for brutal Central American dictators led to today’s border crisis https://t.co/9Lvfk5MrEY Tired of politics? I get it. We’re over a year into @realDonaldTrump's presidency, and every day brings another assault on our values, our democracy, and our plain old common sense. But we have to keep fighting back. Are you still with me? Open Future: How to alleviate the refugee crisis https://t.co/hbN0gti64r via @TheEconomist I feel sorry for future historians that will need to dig deep holes for the truth. #Appropriations Democrats are using the end of the State & Foreign operations markup to speak out against Trump’s abhorrent family separation policy. #FamiliesBelongTogether They are in the minority *and they're too irrational/immoral to be convinced by any reasonable argument.* Yes, focus on people with some damn sense. https://t.co/cFZKZUjlL4 One the main Dem refrains in 2016 was "When they go low, we go high." Apparently we're not going high enough because we still need to get [45] in the nose or some other vital spot. I spent 20% of the last year listening to podcasts. I almost asked if that's sad or not. Then I realized that's time spent bike riding, walking, & doing random chores around the house. Also since I got a waterproof speaker, other things. Averaged out, that's 5 hours a day! Please don’t relax, everyone. Putting families together...under arrest in camps run by the military...is not exactly much of an improvement, and in the meantime there are still a few thousand kids without their parents out there. What will happen to them? In addition, the prosperity of America has been built on destroying non-white families, ripping them away from their culture, dehumanizing them, and commodifying them into property or bargaining chips. This isn't new. Conservatives want America to have a shared story/narrative. Lets make it a story of redemption, learning, and empathy, not one of continued hate, continued bigotry, and continued atrocity. My new Marshall Project piece is up... https://t.co/4WSD4LskGa In the 20 years of working on my project about utopianism, I focused a lot on how someone develops a sense of "ownership" of their community. Now I'm realizing I should have equally or moreso focused on how the community makes a member feel trusted. Look at that! Despite all the bad press Chicago gets about violent crime & even police brutality, the frequency per per 1K/1M per people is a lot more favorable compared to a lot of other cities. https://t.co/AlstEhHMR6 You will never hear this on @foxnews because immigration is a wedge issue to get people to vote for republicans so business interests can get their tax cuts and have no regulations. They don’t want you to know this. They lie to make people support them. It’s a scam https://t.co/5nNLRdutAX Reaching impression Obama had success in elections because he had a consistent narrative & came from below, an everyperson. [45] came from the top, but he has a consistent narrative & was able to "relate" with his chip on the shoulder. Dems need good, consistent, everypeople. This crisis is not over. Don’t be fooled. If you carefully read this executive order, there is no guarantee children can't be separated from their families. This crisis is far from over. https://t.co/Kx9Wlzcuqd This crap will bite the US in the ass with lawsuits (why are taxes going up? Why the inflation?) then probably in 10-17+ years when these kids become teens/adults & angry about their trauma. . .. https://t.co/WTk5xhEygA Government. . .meaning us Americans will pay for it. There are currently private prisons and private immigrant detention centers that have established massive political action committees (PACs). We should end all three. But from an interview he did with @samsanders on @NPRItsBeenAMin, I can see @BetoORourke focusing on his Senate duties if he gets there. . .which is all the more reason that I'd love to see him as head guy, his dedication. The interview: https://t.co/FOj9dDMPIv
As consolation, bear witness to my Twittervism from this crazy and politically traumatic week thus far (seriously, the last three days were probably the most depressed and scared I felt in 2018, and I'm a white guy of European Descent!). It might actually provide a preview to the big essay since I've already started using some of the concepts from it.
This is a lie, and they know it.
There is no law, it is Trump's policy. He started this, and he could stop it at any time.
Also Paul Ryan: I'm also not going to confront Trump about it.
RT if you agree that no action should be taken before US Circuit Court of Appeals rules on Free Press v. FCC—a ruling that could make the merger illegal.
FCC fairness doctrine https://t.co/vhtahaOaMg
Fact check: The policy was enacted by the Trump administration. https://t.co/hO29tdrUWU
The Trump administration does have a policy of separating families at the border. https://t.co/YspmnCxd9k
Space Force and Air Force will be 'separate but equal,' Trump says - CNNPolitics https://t.co/IQlnh1ogKN
Are video games just propaganda and training tools for the military? | Games | The Guardian https://t.co/zA9bAT2ADg
Democrats aren’t enforcing child separation
Democrats want to dismantle child separation
So Trump blames it...on the Democrats?
C’mon. Is anyone that stupid?
You look at the horrible atrocities they committed and you think they MUST have known they were the monsters.
But they didn't.
Instead, the Nazis thought they themselves were the VICTIMS.
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Thousands of families are still separated with no plan to reunite them.
“Zero tolerance” is still official U.S. policy.
Trump’s new order seeks to indefinitely detain children & families.
Your voices are still needed. RT to spread the word.
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