Just so we’re clear, the reason a lot of people protest climate change isn’t because they like trees and hiking. It’s because we’re making the Earth unlivable for all humans, and that humans in the poorest countries are the ones worst hit.
Protesting climate change ain’t a white privilege thing. The people protesting climate change the hardest are Indigenous people, Island nation people, and poor people in hot countries. They’re terrified.
People are dying because of climate change. Climate change isn’t just killing our planet, it’s killing people, and it’s those who live in poverty stricken areas that are dying first. More than 2,300 people died in India during their heatwave last year, and it’s only getting worse.
Temperatures in some areas in North Africa and the Middle East are reaching as high as 140 F/ 60 C during the summer. Scientists are projecting that by the end of the century, unless we take drastic measures, these parts of the world will be entirely uninhabitable. We will actually have refugees from these areas fleeing their homes because they physically cannot survive in that environment.
Something obvious that is inexplicably missing from a lot of the immigration debate: ‘law and order’ does not imply ‘deport people in the country illegally whenever you get a chance’.
Because if the more than ten million immigrants that applies to know that you’re going to do that, they will never report crimes that are committed against them, they will never be able to come forward about crimes that they know are ongoing, and everyone else will know that they can commit crimes against that segment of the population and expect them not to go to the police.
If you are genuinely concerned with law and order, creating an enormous population of people who cannot ever interact with law enforcement at all without being deported will be absolutely catastrophic. You’ll damage the capacity of your detectives to solve crimes, you’ll make it less likely crimes are even reported in the first place, and you’ll make it possible for people to, say, violently abuse a partner and get away with it by threatening to report them to ICE if they leave or complain.
A government that was genuinely concerned with law and order would shelter these people from deportation. More than that, it would loudly and openly commit to continuing to shelter them from deportation. As long as it’s obvious that this concern isn’t a priority to the administration and that they don’t really care very much about it, the silencing effect already happens, because someone can’t risk coming forward now and then being tracked down for it in a year once the law has changed. This is a serious and very steep cost of an anti-immigration president that was imposed as soon as it seemed like he might win, got worse when he does win, and could only be rectified by a clear and open commitment to preventing it, which we will never get.
So, I know Suicide Squad won best makeup, but can we just take a moment to appreciate the makeup in Star Trek Beyond anyway? I mean, just look at these:
First off, Kalara. The color gradient and the ridges are just gorgeous.
For Natalia, who only even in this one scene, they had to create super-light prostheses, AND they used a new iridescent, color-shifting pigmentthat had never been used in makeup before.
Those lights on Krall? They’re not CG. They imbedded fiber optics into the prosthesis.
And Jaylah. Wonderful Jaylah, they made a “bulletproof” makeup formula that won’t bleed at all and then APPLIED ALL OF THOSE LINES BY HAND.
samtaims ai vonder if inglis spiiking piipöl aar eiböl tu riölais thät ai äm äksöli vraiting in inglish rait nau bat tsast vith veri finnish spelling
sou if juu spiik inglish bat not finnish kän juu pliis reblog änd liiv ö komment on tis post tänk juu veri mats
Sammteims ei wonda iff inglisch schbieking pipel ahr ebel tu rieleis set ei ehm ecktschuli reiting in inglisch reit nauh batt schast wiss währi tschörmen schbelling
So iff ju schbiek inglisch batt nott tschörmen kenn ju plies riplock end lief eh kommänt on dies pust senk ju wäri matsch
tänk juu for joor tsörman kontribjuusson, ai äpprishieit it veri mats. änd it oolsou helps mii tu gräsp tö essens of tsörman äksent
Samtajms aj vonder if ingliš spíking pípl ár ejbl tu rielajz det aj em ekšuely rajting in ingliš rajt náv bat džast vit veri slovak speling. Sou if jú spík ingliš bat not slovak ken jú plís riblog end lív en koment on tiz poust tenk jú veri mač
Самтаймз ай вондр иф иньглиш спикинь пийпль ар эйбль ту риэлайз дзят ай эм экшуалий райтинь ин иньглиш райт нау бат джаст виць вейрий рашин спеллинь. Со иф ю спик иньглиш бат нот рашин кэн ю плиз риблог энд лив э комент ан дзис пост цянк ю вейрий мач
Samtæms æ wonda if ínglis spíking pípl ar eybel tú ríalæs ðet æ em ektsuali ræting in ínglis ræt ná bat dsast við veri æslendik speling
so if jú spík ínglis bat nott æslendik ken jú plís ríblog end líf a komment on ðis post þenk jú veri mats
Samtaims ai uonder if inglisc spiching pipol ar eibol tu rialais det i em acscualli raiting in inglisc rait nau bat dez uid veri italian spelling. sou if iu spic inglisc bat not italian chen iu plis riblog end liv a comment on dis post tenk iu veri macc’.
sumtaimes ai wundère eef angliche peepole ar ébl tu rayolize zat i am actualie ritin en angliche rite nau bat dees iz veri french spélling. sau if u speec angliche bat nut french plis cun u reeblog end leev a commant en deez post tank u veri muche
somtajms ai wonde if inglisj spieking piepel ar ebel toe riëlais det ai em eksjelie wraiting in inglisj rait nau but djust wif verrie dutsj spelling
so if joe spiek inglisj but not dutsj ken joe plies rieblok ent lief uh komment on dis poost tenk joe verrie mutsj
Samtajms aj łonder if inglisz spikink pipul ar ejbul tu rielajs dat aj em akczueli rajtink in inglisz rajt nał bat dżast łif weri połlisz spelink
Soł if ju spik inglisz bat not połlisz ken ju plis riblok ent lif a koment on dis połst fenk ju weri macz
somtaghms aigh bhondar iobh iunglois spíocang píopal ár éabal ta ríalaghs dat aigh eim aicsiúlaí raghtuing in iunglois raght nadh bot diost bhot bhéirí aighris spoiling
sómh iobh dhiú spíoc iunglois bot nát aighris cean dhiú plíos ríoblág eand líomh a camoint án dus póst taenc dhiú bhéirí moit
samtaims ai uandăr if ingliș spiking pipăl ar eibăl tu riălaiz zet ai em ecșuali riating in ingliș rait nau băt giast uiz a veri rumeiniăn speling. său if iu spic ingliș băt not rumeiniăn chen iu pliz riblog end liv a coment on zis post senk iu veri maci.
Sometimes I wonder why non English speakers are like this
because it’s a funny harmless joke at the expense of the world’s current lingua franca, whose native speakers often make fun of the ‘weird’ accents and pronounciation of people who very likely speak at least one more language then they do.
^^^^
Bitch👏how👏do👏you👏call👏these👏people👏"“non-english speakers”“👏👏👏👏👏 Literally the only language used in this post is English
‘Set in an alternate present-day where humans, orcs, elves, and fairies have been co-existing since the beginning of time. Bright is genre-bending action movie that follows two cops from very different backgrounds. Ward (Will Smith) and Jakoby (Joel Edgerton), embark on a routine patrol night and encounter a darkness that will ultimately alter the future and their world as they know it.’
YO THIS LOOKS BALLER
MODERN FANTASY
URBAN FANTASY
BLACK PEOPLE IN FANTASY Y’ALL SHOW UP AND SHOW OUT
Fun fact: Tenochtitlan fell in 1521. From 1603 onwards, large numbers of honest-to-god fricking Japanese Samurai came to Mexico from Japan to work as guardsmen and mercenaries.
Ergo, it would be 100% historically accurate to write a story starring a quartet consisting of the child or grandchild of Aztec Noblemen, an escaped African slave, a Spanish Jew fleeing the Inquisition (which was relaxed in Mexico in 1606, for a time) and a Katana-wielding Samurai in Colonial Mexico.
Also a whole bunch of Chinese Characters BECAUSE MEXICO CITY HAD A CHINATOWN WITHIN TEN YEARS OF THE FALL OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE.
I’m a paramedic. My job requires a broad set of skills: interperseonal, medical, and technical skills, as well as the crucial skill of performing under pressure. I often make decisions on my own, in seconds, under chaotic circumstances, that impact people’s health and lives. I make $15/hr.
And these burger flippers think they deserve as much as me?
Good for them.
Look, if any job is going to take up someone’s life, it deserves a living wage. If a job exists and you have to hire someone to do it, they deserve a living wage. End of story. There’s a lot of talk going around my workplace along the lines of, “These guys with no education and no skills think they deserve as much as us? Fuck those guys.” And elsewhere on FB: “I’m a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers.”
And that’s exactly what the bosses want! They want us fighting over who has the bigger pile of crumbs so we don’t realize they made off with almost the whole damn cake. Why are you so angry about fast food workers making two bucks more an hour when your CEO makes four hundred TIMES what you do? It’s in the bosses’ interests to keep your anger directed downward, at the poor people who are just trying to get by, like you, rather than at the rich assholes who consume almost everything we produce and give next to nothing for it.
My company, as they’re so fond of telling us in boosterist emails, cleared 1.3 billion dollars last year. They expect guys supporting families on 26-27k/year to applaud that. And that’s to say nothing of the techs and janitors and bed pushers who make even less than us, but are as absolutely crucial to making a hospital work as the fucking CEO or the neurosurgeons. Can they pay us more? Absolutely. But why would they? No one’s making them.
The workers in NY *made* them. They fought for and won a living wage. So how incredibly petty and counterproductive is it to fuss that their pile of crumbs is bigger than ours? Put that energy elsewhere. Organize. Fight. Win.]
Here’s your dose of “What the Fuck Is Going On” News (Weekend Edition 2/25/2017 – 2/26/2017)
On Saturday Trump announced that he will not be attending the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on April 29th. White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders explained this decision stating that there’s too much tension between Trump and the press. The last time a president skipped the event was in 1981, however it was because Ronald Reagan was recovering from being shot in an assassination attempt. (source)
The State Department announced that they will finally resume regular news briefings at the beginning of March. The regular press briefings will return after a 6-week hiatus, an unusual break in their responsibilities which is to explain US foreign policy to the country and the world through daily televised news conferences. It’s currently unknown if they will be allowed to report daily, so far the word being used it “regularly,” and there’s no information if these briefings will remain televised. (source)
The U.S. government plans to start awarding the preliminary contracts for the construction of the border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it will accept “concept papers” for the wall’s design and chose the best ones by March 20th, and start granting contracts by mid-April. The total costs of the wall are estimated to be 21.6 billion dollars, despite Trump saying it will cost 12 billion dollars. (source)
Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez was elected chair of the Democratic National Committee beating out Rep. Keith Ellison. The final tally was 235 for Perez and 200 for Ellison. Perez used his first motion as chairman to appoint Ellison as the deputy chair of the DNC. (source)
Formal ethic complaints were filed against Kellyanne Conway, she is accused of “professional misconduct” due to ethics breaches and repeated lies. The complaint concludes that Conway’s “conduct, clearly violative of the rules that regulate her professional status, cries out for sanctioning” by the bar. (source)
Democratic National Committee members voted down a resolution that would have reinstated the ban on corporate political action committee donations to the party. The resolution would have also forbidden “registered, federal corporate lobbyists” from serving as “DNC chair-appointed, at-large members.” The resolution will now go to the DNC’s smaller executive committee for consideration. (source)
Trump proposed that his supporters hold a mass rally in response to the anti-Trump rallies across the country. He tweeted yesterday “Maybe the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN should have their own rally. It would be the biggest of them all!” (source)
Trump took to Twitter to complain that the media “has not reported that the National Debt in my first month went down by $12 billion.” He very obviously parroted what had just aired on Fox News where Hermain Cain literally said that exact statement. Cain was also parroting a recent articles from a pro-Trump blog that regularly posts false information and the statement is taking credit for something Trump had nothing to do with. Trump is still working off last year’s budget so even if there is a real decrease, it has nothing to do with him and his administration. (source)
President Donald Trump’s nominee for Navy secretary, Philip Bilden, withdrew from consideration today. He withdrew because he was unable to untangle his financial investments in the vetting process. A new nominee is expected within the next few days. (source)
Trump’s new national security adviser H.R. McMaster held a meeting of the National Security Council where he spoke out against Trump’s Islamophobic language. McMaster said that Trump’s use of the term “radical Islamic terrorism” is offensive, stating that it doesn’t help to defeat terrorist groups, it hurts relationships with allies, and groups like ISIS represent a perversion of Islam, and aren’t a true representation of Islam. Trump and others in the GOP has often criticized those who don’t use the term. (source)
Press secretary Sean Spicer is cracking down on leaks that are coming out of the White House. There will be increased security measures that include random phones checks of White House staffers which will be overseen by White House attorneys. (source)
In a recent interview on Fox News, they had on a man named Nils Bildt who the channel billed as the “Swedish Defence and National Security Advisor”. Bildt was on to defend Trump’s comments regarding Sweden and immigration. However, the Swedish defense ministry and foreign office know nothing of Bildt or who he is and said they have “no spokesperson of that name.” Bildt says that he never misrepresented himself and Fox News was responsible for giving him the title. (source)
The father of the Navy SEAL who died in the Yemen raid last month wants an investigation into the operation. He lashed out against Trump’s attempt to prevent an investigation by using his son as a prop. Earlier in the month, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that the raid was “highly successful” and that anyone who undermines the success of the raid by requesting an investigation owes an apology to William Owens, the SEAL who died. Owens father says that he wants an investigation and wants the administration to stop using his son in this manner. (source)
A Middleground 