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Something that’s important to remember is that there are many people who are *thrilled* by what this administration is doing. Not a small number of people, a lot of people. The people in your life may be outraged but there are lots of folks feeling even more excited & emboldened.
What this administration continues to illuminate is that there are many people who are willing to actively participate in or actively overlook (which itself is a form of participation) both discourse & policy that are predicated on cruelty & the preservation of white supremacy.
Don’t assume that seeing images of brown children separated from their parents & placed in overcrowded shelters will elicit sympathy or outrage from everyone. For some people, this is exactly what they want to see.
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A reminder that responding to xenophobic rhetoric by saying things like "But Steve Jobs' dad was an immigrant!" or "Albert Einstein was an immigrant!" while well-intentioned, contribute to the idea that immigration should only be understood in transactional, capitalistic terms.
No one should have to justify seeking safety for their family by trying to convince us that they'll invent new technology or cure cancer or make people rich. Market-based ideologies have tried to tell us that these are the metrics we should use, rather than our sense of empathy.
I'm less interested in immigration policy that's trying to find the next Steve Jobs than I am in policies that treat people escaping violence & poverty with dignity & compassion.
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2019 marks the 400th year since enslaved Africans were brought here, before this was even a country. Black people have only had any semblance of full citizenship for about 50 yrs. I don't think the public always grasps the enormity of state-sanctioned oppression on that timeline.
If you kick someone for 350 years, and then stop kicking them (but really just kick them in a different way) for a *seventh* of the amount of time you spent kicking them, it would be completely disingenuous to look at the person and be like, "What's wrong with you? Just get up."
I just think it's worth reflecting on the incessant, intergenerational violence that black folks in this country have experienced, and the sheer amount of time they've experienced it for. All things considered, it's remarkable what our community has done in spite of this history.
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The Americans might be my favorite ever television series.
*ever actually means of the past few years but I was hype when I typed it
What I will say is that Philip Jennings should be considered one the great television characters of our time.
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Every so often I find it fun to try and re-articulate my worldview from scratch, often in the hope that there will be some new or interesting bit to it
1. We are cluelessly born into the middle of a bustling, chaotic story. We are tiny ants on a leaf on a branch on a tree, and everyone around us certainly seems to be in a great hurry
2. We start out as extremely local beings, embedded in our families, our peers, our communities. We inherit their beliefs, their aspirations, their traumas, their flags - most of which they inherited in turn. As children we are onboarded into their rituals and superstitions
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So, I've waded through the Evangelical Alliance's new pastoral "guidelines" for interacting with trans people (ughh, the things I do to expose #transphobic #ciswits to the world), and let's just say it's time to tear this particular sh*t-bag a new hole.

1/n
CW: #Transphobia, #ConversionTherapy, #Zucker, #Religiously #driven #zealotry

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So, straight off the bat, first page of text, the use of #language is . . . well, yeah, see for yourself:

"It is important to remember that transgender is not simply an issue to be debated;" - p5, #Transformed

*sigh*

When such language gets reinforced by insisting...

3/n
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1/ Two years ago from this moment I was blind tired. I had been awake for probably 50 hours by that point.

But I was exhilarated.

Today we were going to elect @HillaryClinton.

I was walking through downtown Chicago and asking my fellow Chicagoans to vote.

#BlackTuesday
2/ I remember taking some time near the Art Institute and sitting down for a moment to think about the previous eighteen months.

So much had happened, and while there were so many moments to hold on to and treasure, most of it had been awful.

God fucking awful.
3/ My mom had died only three months before and I was still turning into a puddle at the mere thought of her.

She'd come to love the campaign as much me and wanted to vote for Clinton so badly

The last real thing she said to me:

"I'm not going to get to vote for our girl."
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Are the Australian Adult Industry Awards rigged?
A thread.
On Wednesday night the Australian Adult Industry Awards were held. A function that claims to recognise the best in our industry. And on Thursday the usual complaints began that the awards are rigged.
Let’s take a look
Full disclosure here.

I was nominated for 4 awards. I didn’t nominate myself for any of these awards although you can nominate yourself. Nominations for Alpha and Industry Ambassador really took me by surprise. I didn’t win.
I’m not bitter in the least.
It’s really true what they say. It’s an honour that someone nominated me. I feel touched that whoever did thought I deserve some recognition. That was very nice of you whoever you are, thank you.
I had fun that night, many people there did.
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1) I will never forget that day. It was Friday, November 3, 2017 and I had taken a break from work to go stay with a friend for the weekend. I had long been aware of corruption and had been researching for years, but something happened that day…
2) I was sitting on her couch and suddenly this wave rushed through me. No, definitely not the “blue wave”. I often get intuitive hits, and this was one of the those moments. I told her, “something is happening”….
3) She asked me, “well what do you think it is?” I said, “I don’t know, but it’s big. It’s worldwide, and whatever it is, it’s powerful. A lot of people involved.” I didn’t want to hop on the internet and start digging, as I was trying to enjoy some time with a friend.
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BREAKING HC NEWS: CVS announced it is buying Aetna. If interest, I will offer some takes later.
I have gotten a lot of questions.

This thread will take me a while. I promised to take my teenage son somewhere tonight-- since I still travel to DC a lot-- so I will post tomorrow in order to get it right.

Apologies.
There are lots of reasons not to read this thread.

To begin with it's long.
Also I'm using 280 and I hate 280.
Also if you're very sophisticated, you may find it too simplistic.

But there are also other, more important reasons not to read this.3/
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