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August 25, 2017
justsomeantifas:
If you haven’t already heard, Trump went on Fox News and announced that he is...
If you haven’t already heard, Trump went on Fox News and announced that he is likely going to pardon Joe Arpaio.
“I might do it right away, maybe early this week. I am seriously thinking about it,” Trump said, according to Fox News. He said Arpaio was a “great American patriot” who had “done a lot in the fight against illegal immigration.”
“Is there anyone in local law enforcement who has done more to crack down on illegal immigration than Sheriff Joe?” Trump said, according to Fox News. “He has protected people from crimes and saved lives. He doesn’t deserve to be treated this way.”
Here’s a casual reminder what this “great patriot” has done:
In 2008 & 2010 a federal judge found that his jailed violated the constitutional rights of inmates when it came to medical care related issues.
He set up tent city, which he loving describes as a “concentration camp.” The jail has been noted for its human rights violations and constitutional rights violations.
Arpaio has been sued for feeding inmates in his jail moldy, expired, and contaminated food and for housing inmates in conditions so hot and overcrowded that it endangered their health.
Arpaio and his sheriff offices have reported faulty criminal investigation statistics to federal authorities in 75% of its cases to boost his performance rating and clearance numbers. This is done by reporting cases as “solved” without investigating them.
Some of those cases that were “solved” without proper investigation include the rape of a 14 year old girl by her classmates and the rape of a 15 year old girl by two men whose case was closed before the DNA testing was even complete.
He failed to have hundreds of other sex crimes investigated and failed to investigate 32 child molestations. To make it worse, almost all the child molestation cases had known suspects and most the victims happened to be children of undocumented immigrants.
The handling of Sabrina Morrison’s sexual assault.
A court has found that he politically abuses his power and he has allegedly abused his power to go after journalists, ACLU attorneys, and AZ politicians.
He has been fined for violating Arizona elections laws.
In 2011 it was found that Arpaio had misspent $100 million in jail funds in just 5 years. For him and his deputies, this includes vacations, trips to Disneyland, expensive meals, and staying in luxury hotels.
Framed an innocent man for an assassination attempt on himself, which almost sent the man to jail for 20 years. A jury later found that it had been an elaborate publicity stunt to boost Arpaio’s reelection bid. Arpaio was sued for wrongful arrest and entrapment by the man which he settled for $1.6 million.
Countless numbers of racial profiling.
So much racial profiling that the Department of Justice investigated him and found that he has “a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against Latinos” that “reaches the highest levels of the agency.” They also concluded that he engages in “unconstitutional policing” and that he committed some of the worst patterns of racial profiling in U.S. history.But yeah he’s such a great guy and totally doesn’t deserve to ever see any punishment whatsoever because he’s a patriot or whatever. Fuck you, Trump.
August 24, 2017
"What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and..."
- Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.
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omnivore-odyssey:
actress4evr:
batmanisagatewaydrug:
batmanisagatewaydrug:
you know what’s...
you know what’s really genuinely unsettling? the degree to which men fucking do not want to sympathize with/be interested in women.
male audiences will happily watch a dozen superhero shows, but then something like Agent Carter or Supergirl turn up and they’re panned from the first trailer and have to struggle for ratings. male audiences will watch countless installments of a franchise as long as it’s about men doing man things but the second a character like Rey or Furiosa or god forbid four entire female Ghostbusters steps up and takes a position of prominence it’s “pandering sjw bullshit”.
it’s not pandering. men just aggressively don’t want to have to be invested in a woman’s narrative and it’s really gross.
anyway re: everyone telling me to “Stop making this a gender thing” or some variation on that
this isn’t like… an opinion I’m pulling out of my ass here? this starts where earlier than tv shows and hollywood blockbusters, when all the kids in a class are reading Harry Potter or Percy Jackson or Eragon o Lord of the Rings or Maze Runner or whatever the hip book is right now. the books like that, the ones that become popular reading, are overwhelmingly about male leads, because male is still considered the default.
there’s a split in YA literature, between books that are “for everyone” and “for girls”, and that’s honestly the entire issue in a tiny little box right there. stories about men are supposed to be accessible for everyone, but stories about girls are seen as 1.) inherently for women and 2.) something that only women will care about.
men grow up in a society that doesn’t make them go out of their way to get into the heads of women and empathize with then. historically it’s been very easy for men to not engage with female-led media if they don’t want to, whereas (like someone else commented on this post) girls and women have had very little choice in the past because everything was about men. we didn’t even question it.
and now the women are arriving in mainstream media in ways that say they’re important and they matter and
small (or sometimes not so small) but loud-enough-to-be-acknowledged groups of men lose. their. shit.
because they think there’s something inherently Not For Them about a woman’s story, and they never learned how to deal with it.
(also once again, because LOT of ya’ll don’t seem to get this here: I’m trying to talk about knee-jerk reactions to female-centered works - often before they even come out. not whether or not you personally thought [x show or movie] was good. ya feel?)
I remember being in like 3rd grade and asking my teacher why almost all of the books were about boys. She told me that girls will read books about boys and girls, but boys only like to read about boys. I was so floored by that. I’d had to read from the perspective of boys my whole life, it was so normal to me. I couldn’t believe people would reject something just because it was from the perspective of another gender.
This is actually why we need more books with female protagonists to be required reading in schools. One of the things that my male friends have told me is that being made and expected to read stories from the perspective of girls/women growing up really helped them see women as people and empathize with them in a way that they might otherwise have struggled to do.
jilkos:
COUP D’ETATMaida Ghide, Ishmil Waterman by Ishmil...
COUP D’ETAT
Maida Ghide, Ishmil Waterman by Ishmil
Fashion by Theodora Bak
Accessories by Angostura.
See full exclu @fgukmagazine
“In a time where inequality is prevalent in all aspects of society, Fashion photographer Ishmil Waterman and Fashion Director Maida Ghide are the advocates speaking out for black art, design and literature. Despite millennia of development and influence, African achievement has been widely understated in a world that wishes to abuse and undermined the marginalized voice . The duo aims to bring power to that voice in a creative overthrow of a supremacist establishment. Not only is this a display of take-over, but in its alluring colour palette and graceful silhouettes, it also serves as an act of coronation. Claiming their place at the Chateau du Versailles, they emit a bold and shaking statement “We are Home”.Golden in both its tones and essence, these two carry a legacy of success that holds true to centuries of ancestors who have struggled in their journey. This self-proclaiming project not only manages to tell the story, but in its creation it captures the magic of what two independent artists can create. The Halo Cult managed to produce the whole spread by capturing each other in the regal story as the King and Queen of a new age of enlightenment.”
archiemcphee:
Today the Department of Phenomenal Papercraft...
Today the Department of Phenomenal Papercraft welcomes its newest member, Toronto-based paper artist Ali Harrison of Light & Paper. Harrison creates these awesomely intricate cutouts of human organs and other internal anatomy, which may be purchased via the lightpaper Etsy shop along with a variety of other exquisite designs.
[via Colossal]
August 23, 2017
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