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thinking about a news clip I saw of a pro-Palestine protest and the man being interviewed said that if you went to a funeral every day it would take around 30 years to go to all the funerals of the Palestinians killed in Gaza and the West Bank since October. I'm 29, which means it would take me my whole lifetime and probably a little more to mourn the growing dead. I am so sorry. I wish I knew what else to say, but there aren't words. The amount of loss is so huge. With my whole heavy heart I have to believe that, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
okay belift what the actual fuck. fate plus literally JUST ended and you're making them go back on tour a month later? they're HUMANS and they got their limits. there's already been some health concerns and it's very VERY evident that those boys need rest. we've been saying this for so long but it's not going to their heads. LET ENHYPEN REST. PLEASE. engenes aren't going to leave them if they don't go on this tour. and not to mention they're already working on another album. they haven't had a proper break basically since debut. i genuinely worry about their well-being especially since multiple members have spoken up about their hardships throughout the tour. belift do better and treat your artists like humans. they're not your robots.
okay belift what the actual fuck. fate plus literally JUST ended and you're making them go back on tour a month later? they're HUMANS and they got their limits. there's already been some health concerns and it's very VERY evident that those boys need rest. we've been saying this for so long but it's not going to their heads. LET ENHYPEN REST. PLEASE. engenes aren't going to leave them if they don't go on this tour. and not to mention they're already working on another album. they haven't had a proper break basically since debut. i genuinely worry about their well-being especially since multiple members have spoken up about their hardships throughout the tour. belift do better and treat your artists like humans. they're not your robots.
whenever i remember joel miller is 56 in the first game i go insane this not normal hold on let me do the math first 38 YEAR DIFFERENCE WHAT
i love when a fellow masc follows me bc ofc im gonna stalk you and fantasize about us
IS ANYONE DEAD??? IM ACTUALLY SO WORRIED
Yall i think i have a problem 😞
i have 7,000 edits of cod men saved on tiktok 😶
I need help.
So here’s the deal
Current Situation: President-Elect rotted pumpkin Trump has been pretty busy the last week. He’s been trying to appoint multiple racists, sexists, and xenophobes to Cabinet positions. He settled out of court in his Trump University case. He’s using his businesses to gain monetarily from his position. He’s refusing to put his businesses in a blind trust which will cause a conflict of interest.
And that’s not even everything.
And that’s just in the last week. It’s about to get a whole lot worse.
Current Plan of Action: There’s this great link to a Google Doc going around (and, if you haven’t seen it yet, here it is) that has scripts to follow and phone numbers to call about all the current issues. It’s absolutely fantastic and I encourage everyone to set it as their homepage because it’s extremely useful and very effective.
Current Problem: It’s literally too effective (if there is such a thing which honestly I don’t believe). All of the voicemail boxes of these assholes are full and I guarantee you they have no desire to empty them to allow the floodgates to open again. Because so many of us are calling to air their grievances, we’ve literally flooded them to a stopping point.
The Solution: They can’t stop letters.
Paul Ryan: Washington DC Office 1233 Longworth HOB Washington, D.C. 20515
Mitch McConnell: Washington DC Office 317 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510
Write to them. I want their offices to look like the end of Miracle on 34th Street. It doesn’t even have to be a particularly well worded letter. Here’s all you need to say:
I’m writing to you today because I am in strong opposition to the appointments of Steve Bannon, Jeff Sessions, And General Flynn.
I also believe that President-elect Trump is working within a conflict of interest by not releasing his financial records and continuing his business through his family instead of entrusting it in a blink trust. The fact that foreign leaders are already being pressured to stay at Trump branded hotels when they visit on official business also worries me greatly.
I would also like to implore you to keep the Affordable Care Act, as I and many others that I know rely on the laws that were put into effect for our continuing health coverage.
That’s it. That’s all you need to say. I don’t care if you have to scrawl it on a napkin in crayon or send it in on a potato, all I care about is that you write the letter and send it in.
If they don’t want to hear our voices anymore, fine. But then they’re going to have to deal with our letters. And while Ryan and McConnell are definitely the big guys to go after, you should still continue to contact your local Senator’s and Representatives through phone lines, and then if they get full go ahead and find the address to their Washington DC office (or local office, whichever you prefer I just think sending a bunch of letters to Washington DC will really send a message) and send them a letter. Send five letters. Send five letters and a potato. I don’t care. Just send them.
Don’t become complacent after only a week. Keep fighting!
This is for people of Israel/anyone who supports Israel/anyone who wants to stay "neutral" about this genocide, remember that this is how your fav "defenders/heroes/government servants are supposed to be responsible" are talking about innocent Palestinians civilians:
If you choose not to speak on this matter, if you choose to not speak up for Palestinians, then be well assured, 100% guaranteed that what's happening in Palestine can (and will if you let Israel get away with MASS MURDER) also just as easily happen to you, and then there will be other people who would stay "neutral" and silent on this matter.
If you think that the reason you're not taking sides is because you don't really know the situation that well, then EDUCATE yourself. It is your responsibility, as a fucking human, to do your research to stop and prevent such atrocities from being committed.
(I know, I FUCKING KNOW I have at least a few dozen followers from Israel/support Israel/ZIONISTS who are reading this and I know that your eyes may be blind, but your hearts aren't. Don't be a hypocrite, and don't be ignorant)
Washington (CNN) – The Trump administration will unveil a new plan Monday to roll back limits on a controversial program that provides local law enforcement agencies with surplus military gear, marking the end of a policy implemented during the Obama administration.
President Barack Obama issued an executive order in 2015 prohibiting the transfer of a host of equipment, including armored vehicles, grenade launchers, high-caliber weapons and camouflage uniforms following controversy over the “militarization” of the police response to unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.
“We’ve seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there’s an occupying force as opposed to a force that’s part of the community that’s protecting them and serving them,” Obama said at the time. "It can alienate and intimidate local residents and send the wrong message.“
President Donald Trump will sign a new executive order Monday rescinding Obama’s directive and Attorney General Jeff Sessions addressed the policy change during a speech at the annual conference of the Fraternal Order of Police in Nashville, Tennessee, where he received multiple standing ovations and appeared touched by the warm welcome.”
(W)e are fighting a multi-front battle: an increase in violent crime, a rise in vicious gangs, an opioid epidemic, threats from terrorism, combined with a culture in which family and discipline seem to be eroding further and a disturbing disrespect for the rule of law,“ Sessions said, as he walked the audience of mostly law enforcement officials through a broad tour of his policy changes at the Justice Department over the past several months.
“The executive order the President will sign today will ensure that you can get the lifesaving gear that you need to do your job and send a strong message that we will not allow criminal activity, violence and lawlessness to become a new normal,” Sessions added.
Trump’s new executive order was first reported by USA Today.
Civil rights groups swiftly blasted the equipment policy shift Monday, saying the Obama-era guidelines were critical to rebuilding trust with communities of color.
“These guidelines were created after Ferguson to ensure that police departments had a guardian, not warrior, mentality,” said Vanita Gupta, former head of DOJ’s civil rights division under Obama and who now leads the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. "Our communities are not the same as armed combatants in a war zone.“
But the National Fraternal Order of Police applauded the news and the group’s president, Chuck Canterbury, explained that the FOP has been working to roll back Obama’s restrictions since the day they were announced.
“The previous administration was more concerned about the image of law enforcement being too ‘militarized’ than they were about our safety,” Canterbury said in a statement. "In an effort to shut down a single program run by the Defense Department, known as the 1033 program, they restricted access to surplus equipment throughout the federal government.“
Congress originally launched the so-called "1033 program” in 1990 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, which allowed the Defense Department to transfer surplus hardware and equipment to state and local law enforcement for use in “counter-drug activities.”
The recycled gear included equipment the agencies would normally be unable to afford and the original program has resulted in the transfer of more than $5.4 billion worth of gear since the 1990s.
Armored vehicles and other military gear were also used by police officers during the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.
A Trump administration document describing the policy shift says that it “sends the message that we care more about public safety than about how a piece of equipment looks, especially when that equipment has been shown to reduce crime, reduce complaints against and assaults on police, and make officers more effective.”
CNN’s Zachary Cohen contributed to this report.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL