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squiditty:

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

Important twitter thread.

Source: https://twitter.com/jduffyrice/status/1000927903759110144?s=21

[Caption; A series of tweets by josie duffy rice/ @jduffyrice

Now that we’re all on twitter because of this game, I am making a public service announcement: PLEASE STOP SHARING THAT STORY ABOUT 1500 KIDS MISSING.  The outrage I’ve seen is the result of a total misinterpretation and could SERIOUSLY threaten the children you want to save.

Before I get to it, I’ll answer the question that 99 million ppl will inevitably ask: I know this because I’m a lawyer, i works on criminal justice issues (sometimes incl immigration), and 4 of my closest friends are immigration attorneys dealing with this EXACT THING.

There are two things going on.  1) HHS doesn’t know where 1500 unaccompanied minors are.  2) we are separating parents and children at the border. 

These are different.  The kids in 1) were not separated from their parents at the border.  They crossed the border alone* or arrived here without a parent.

That’s not really the point I want to make, though it is important. 

These kids were dealt with by ORR, the office of refugee resettlement.  They were released into the care of people that almost always fit within one of these three categories:

1) immediate family  2) extended family  3) other people that the child has a pre-existing relationship with.  If none of these categories apply, then the kids normally stay in a shelter.

(After a number of children were trafficked in 2014, these restrictions got tighter.)

So those kids are released and then they are no longer ORRs responsibility or problem.  THIS IS A GOOD THING.

One analogy I heard from my dear friend who I won’t tag without her permission, is that ORR is basically a jailer.  Do you want the jail keeping track of where every former inmate is?

Now I have more to say about that but before we do that, let’s talk about the word missing.  Basically by all accounts HHS did a cursory reach out to check on these kids, and couldn’t find out where they were exactly. 

When I say cursory I mean cursory.  We’re talking about phone calls.  Phone calls! Like, no door knocks.  No checking school records.  They called.  They didn’t find answers. 

There are so many reasons why people wouldn’t answer.  Maybe these kids are living with someone undocumented.  Maybe they aren’t but their sponsor is (legitimately) completely scared of immigration authorities in trumps America.

They aren’t missing!  They are almost certainly living with family members who almost certainly don’t want to interact with the government and WE SHOULDN’T ASK THEM TO

ORR’s job is NOT to track and monitor these kids, and it shouldn’t be.  As my friend said, if there were an issue- abuse, or other wrongdoing- it should go through the appropriate agency: children’s services or what have you.  It SHOULDN’T GO THROUGH HHS/ORR or DHS/ICE

When your school loans provider can’t reach you, are you missing?  No.  When your boss can’t find you on a Friday night, are you missing?  No.  They aren’t missing.  Some unanswered phone calls does not a missing child make.

Now, I started out identifying two things that were happening.  The second- the separation of children and their parents at the border- is goddamn unconscionable and sickening. 

But DO NOT confuse the two.  The potential for it backfiring is real.  What we’re demanding is that ORR, which works hand in hand with ICE, “keep better track” of kids they basically would like to deport if giving the chance.  We don’t want that!!!

You’re asking immigration authorities IN TRUMP’S AMERICA to BETTER MONITOR UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES.  You don’t want this.  I promise you don’t.

I get it.  It sounds awful.  But at WORST it’s benign.  At best, it’s a GOOD thing that ORR doesn’t know where these kids are.  There’s a reason.  We actually now have pretty strict requirements before we release these kids.  They aren’t all being trafficked.  They aren’t dead.

It doesn’t mean life is easy, but life won’t be easier if ORR starts tracking them.  Trust me.  And trust my brilliant friends who know about this shit and have warned me and are now warning you.  DONT conflate the two things.

AND because some people are obviously taking this as an opportunity to exonerate the president- NO.  Trumps immigration policy is disgusting.  His separation of kids and parents at the border is SICKENING.  He’s a tyrant.  Just don’t conflate them.

Man oh man I forget that at least 50 percent of people on twitter refuse to learn basic reading comprehension.  Tonight should be fun!

] *[Also it says “alien” up there where it should say “alone”, cool, autocorrect.]

*corrected autocorrect/typo in my transcription for the sake of being less confusing, especially for anyone listening to the text rather than reading it visually.

professorsparklepants:

emperorclaudiusofficial:

I feel like people tend to imagine achilles as being big and hairy and muscle-bound but I just want to remind y’all that he apparently spent quite a long time disguised as a girl and nobody could fucking tell?? including Odysseus, who had to trick him into revealing himself, but was apparently not smart enough to figure out which of the beautiful women in front of him was a man in a dress???

so like please consider: petite fine-boned achilles. achilles with killer cheekbones and big dark eyes w long eyelashes. ppl meeting achilles and being all “you’re the one who’s supposed to be a scary warrior?” and then later he he picks up trojans twice his size and flings them across the battlefield and they’re like ‘oh’. achilles being significantly shorter than hector and needing to tilt his head back to yell at him. patroclus being able to sling achilles over his shoulder. patroclus giving achilles piggyback rides. achilles needing patroclus to reach stuff down for him sometimes. achilles being the little spoon. tiny pretty achilles okay

People in Ancient Greece literally used to argue whether Achilles topped or not because some of them thought he was too girly which tells us mainly that Achilles has always been a twink and that yaoi fandom never really changes

sydneykrukowski:

sydneykrukowski:

pretty much if you ever see a picture captioned “le monocle” and it contains a large butch woman with a cleft chin and a smug expression it’s nazi spy violette morris and u should reconsider reblogging it

also this is 100% why i don’t want to hear any of you goyische hoes pretending white gay people had it “just as bad” as jews during the shoah. violette morris was openly butch, openly gender non-conforming, openly sexually involved with women, and she sat at hitler’s right fuckin hand. she was his frequent guest of honor, a respected former athlete turned renowned german spy. being gay didn’t touch her – being a white supremacist was enough.

tinybuggy:

lizardlicks:

susiephone:

since pride month is coming up, that also means we’re getting closer to the month when there’ll be 10000 posts reminding us that all the gay pride merch is just a corporate cash-in, that these corporations don’t care about us, that the world isn’t really any better, that none of the pride merch and ads actually mean anything, that it isn’t really progressive, blah blah blah

let me just say

i know. most people on here know. you are not the sole thinking person in a world of sheep. i promise you that the person you’re making all these points to has heard it 100 times 100 ways from 100 other people. we know, tumblr. we know. 

but dammit, one month a year i get rainbow everything, and that’s a breath of fresh air after eleven months of straight nonsense. i LOVE seeing pride everywhere, even if it is just a corporate cash-grab. and it’s not like i can just opt out of this capitalist society, so fuck it, imma buy all the rainbow, pride-themed, gay merch i can get my hands on.

the world is a capitalist hellhole and there is no escape, so we may as well have what fun we can with it while we try and make things better.

happy pride, folks.

And hey, you know what you can do if you want merch that doesn’t just feed the corporate wallet?  Go on Etsy, Storenvy, Society6, or just about a bazillion other websites where independent artists sell their products,and support your queer/LGBT+ artists!  Directly!  Hand them cold hard cash, there’s no better direct action than that, my dudes!

At least for my city, pride is the biggest fundraising event for the local LGBT center (and is actually organized by said Center).

If you’ve got the financial means, go to Pride and spend some money there.

(or just send the money to your local LGBT org(s). Trust me, they’re running on shoestring budgets)

snarthurt:

legovasavouchi:

ultrafacts:

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Okay so I went to the source article and here’s the paragraph where the guy tells his secret:

First, there was their daily diet: on top of dry commercial cat food, a home-cooked breakfast of eggs, turkey bacon, broccoli, coffee with cream, and—every two days—about an eyedropper full of red wine to “circulate the arteries.” Then there was his effort to ensure the cats were sufficiently stimulated: a garage he’d converted into a home movie theater, with a working reel-to-reel projector and actual movie theater seats, where Perry screens nature documentaries exclusively for the cats (with previews, he added). Last, and perhaps most important, he swore that love and close, personal relationships helped his cats live longer. Perry adored his cats so much, he remembered each of their birthdays.

i love this man