Good morning! The Supreme Court ruled that its constitutional for crisis pregnancy centers to lie to women, and for Donald Trump to have a Muslim ban. Both were 5-4 decisions.
But remember, voting doesn’t matter.
Me: (cozies into bed at a very reasonable hour, actually excited to get up early to go for a run)
My brain: Psst. PSSSST. Hey. Hey. Hey. HEY. Oh my god hey.
I just held the door open for our VP of Operations and when he said “How are you?” I just responded “Sure!” because my brain was already expecting him to say “Thanks” first and so then I was like “Uhhh good!”
that thing of when you scour through your inbox and archives, with rising panic, sure that you forgot to send an email that you should have sent nearly 3 months ago, because someone has sent a frazzled email asking about information that was contained in said email, and then you finally find that email, which you did in fact send.
I know I’ve said it before, but y’all, I am so thankful for the Guardian writers at times like these:
Donald Trump called on Sunday for the US to abandon its judicial system and summarily deport people who enter the country.
The president attacked the rule of law amid sustained criticism of his administration’s handling of immigration at the southern border.
“When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came,” Trump said in a tweet, while being driven to his golf course in Virginia.
The statement amounted to a proposal for the suspension of law by the country’s chief law enforcement officer. […]
The president continued to use the language of the far-right to describe immigrants on Sunday […].
Having created the child separation crisis with a “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, Trump falsely said his administration was merely following a law Democrats in Congress needed to help to change. After saying he could not stop the policy by executive order, he then stopped the policy with an executive order, confirming that he had been lying. […]
My work friend just gave me my new phrase/term to hate: “double-click”. As in, let’s talk more about a topic. As in, “Interesting idea, let’s double-click on that.”
Listen I know that it’s the 2018-way to immediately compare every single American government corruption to the Nazis but uh, you actually don’t need to do an international comparison when trying to show the horrors of separating children from their families and putting them in “camps”.
Turns out America did that too:
(The above are pictures from Japanese Internment Camps in WWII, located right here in America. More info on the subject: x )
In fact, they did it more than once:
(The above are pictures of German-Americans who were also detained in American states. More info: x )
In fact, they did it a lot:
(The above are photos from the American Native-American “boarding schools” which separated Native American children from their families so that they could be brainwashed into embracing the white “Christian” American way. More info: x )
So when you see these appalling images in the news:
don’t start comparing America to WWII Germany.
Start comparing America to America.
Because we’ve always done this and, as long as we can get away with it, we always will.
I have several colleagues who don’t double-return between their paragraphs in emails. I know in Word you can set paragraph spacing so that you just have to return once, but I don’t think you can do that in Outlook?? Or is that what they think they’re doing but because that’s not how MY Outlook is set up, it doesn’t show up correctly?
“Republican Rep. Raúl Labrador told BuzzFeed News that at a meeting with members on Wednesday, Nielsen said the administration recognized that detaining families together now would violate the Flores settlement agreement, and that the Justice Department’s request to change the agreement would fail. But Nielsen said the goal of the order was to buy Congress time to pass legislation.”
This article is a pretty good explanation of the ass-covering executive order signed today that basically doesn’t fix anything (now they want to detain families indefinitely).
An immigration lawyer friend also explained this in so many words - that this was always a trap.