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Hello!
Going to start with thoughts of people dressing in the iconography of the July holiday, the printer whose copies helped spread the Declaration of Independence, the celebration of the holiday the first year after the declaration, and an official celebration of the July holiday in Denmark.
A caricature of the early United States resident, before Uncle Sam took over as the national tough guy.
Pay attention to the narrative you receive - the same story may have different interpretations depending on where it takes place. So while you might get small pieces about the remarkably cheesed-off people who are now engaging in local and state politics, it might take significant events before anyone notices what's going on.
Some people are doing the work of educating others about themselves in the places that seem outwardly okay but then do things like vote for racists. There should be more people doing the education who aren't the marginalized people trying to make you see them as people. That includes journalists, who have hopefully abandoned the commitment to objectivity and recommitted themselves to truth.
White people routinely kill more in a single week than immigrants or refugees do in years. And that's when they're not inciting riots that will end up killing many more people of color.
People who migrate toward the United States are more often than not running a gamut of gangs, traffickers, and governments that aren't interested in them as humans, but as parts and roles and pieces in their own operations. Brazil had an opportunity to be more welcoming to migrants, but the President vetoed out important parts of the passed legislation.
Countries that don't use prison as a first resort for criminals can get better results, and especially if they commit to things like rehabilitating and giving criminals reasons not to reoffend. Because visiting a person in prison in the Unites States is getting an experience of what prison is like.
The War on (Some) Drugs kills civillians that happen to be in the wrong place when someone decides they're a terrorist...or drug dealer. Immigration crackdowns prevent effective crime reporting.
Being a disabled child in the school system often means being treated like a criminal. Being disabled is much more likely to get you killed in a police interaction.
Scientists are looking at data to see whether or not body cameras change behaviors, both of police officers and the policed.
The way you look at disability is often disabling to the people who are disabled. I can only hope that I'm following the maxim of when you know better, do better and not doing too much to perpetuate bad views and responses. (That's not fishing for compliments. That's hoping that I'm doing right and that even if I never see the effects, that I do right.)
Residents of Flint, Michigan, have no reason to trust anyone in the government, at any level above the locality, because there's still nobody that's fixing everything, taking responsibility, and working to make Flint into a livable city for its residents. And will continue not to do so even after the water is actually safe again.
A National Rifle Association advertisement wants you to believe that liberals are civilization-destroying, freedom-hating people who must be opposed with guns.
The reason you need more than just testimony to convict someone of murder is that people can be convinced they committed murders they did not.
And in other cases, it's because people commit war crimes and worse because they have no interest in the humanity of their opponents, except perhaps as trophies and body counts. This can be in support of attempting to criminalize entire categories of speech and behavior, or trying to eliminate certain groups of people.
The courts have said that juveniles held in life without parole situations have to be reconsidered. How states are going about that is its own potential mess.
Most people getting supplemental nutirition assistance are already working - often in the food service industry, with wages that aren't actually sufficient to live on. Even more especially with kids. Not to mention that food service is often one of the few places that people who have been incarcerated can go to get work after leaving prison.
Ms. Trump is attempting, we are told, to help workers stay employed and well-waged, even while her father thoroughly believes workers should not be helped in any way. Not that Ms. Trump is any sort of person with authority to talk about improving workers' lives.
If you ask people in rural settings, they feel like the economy has gone awfully for them. It might not actually be truly worse, but the trick is it's much more personal.There's a difference between "oh, the corner store closed" and "the only factory in town just shut down", even if in the macro, the effect is about the same.
The richest are richer than we know, because we do not know the full extent of their tax dodging.
It's possible for someone who denied climate change to accept it as a possiblility. Given that 84 percent of people surveyed in several countries think of climate change as a severe risk, there's plenty that politicians could be doing that would have popular support. Some cities are already banding together to work on terms defined by the Paris Accord, while other cities are completely moving themselves as the cost-effective solution to rising coastal waters and scientists are having to deal with diseases and pathogens in places they would not have expected, due to warmer climates allowing for easier and farther transmission of them.
If there's a federal dollar to be shipped off to the private sector, the current administration seems poised to try and do it, including in cital infrastructure like roads. But if you ask them exactly how they plan on doing the budget, nobody is providing enough details for anyone to have a real go at whether it accomplishes its claims.
The travel ban implemented by the Current Administrator affects those people who have won the visa lotteries the State Department offers to those looking to come to the United States from countries with significant harships.
Africa could be a lot wealthier than it is, if other nations would stop taking its wealth elsewhere, which seems to be one of the running themes of how the "wealthy" colonial powers got and maintatin their wealth and power.
One of the biggest foes of the Communist East Germany was the possibility that Western music might corrupt the youth of the country. So, essentially, one of the common complaints leveled against rock and roll since it started.
It may be legal to be gay in Indonesia, but the police and the governors of several areas of Indonesia are more than happy to try and shame the LGBT community into staying closeted. And, because state power is scary, it seems to be working just fine.
The official media of Russia don't see anything going on that would be a substantive criticism of Vladimir Putin. The Internet disagrees. Assuming that you can see it, of course - the censors employed by Facebook and others will often privilege the speech of white men over minorities, because white men are a protected class in their rules.
The indigineous people of Virginia who helped the colonists are still yet unrecognized by the federal government.
Women in Afghanistan are doing journalism and defying the threats that aim to intimidate or kill them. Women in South Sudan, however, are being sold as brides so that their families can gather enough cattle to survive - or marry their sons. Healing has to happen for the women taken by the Islamic State and sold into slavery.
Collaboration with indigineous people is a much better way of learning about a region than trying to "discover" it.
Last around, history is always being subjected to demands that its violence disappear. Even though history is essentially full of violence, often considered politically necessary violence. The celebration of independence is often a celebration of violence. Revolution almost always carries violence with it, even if it doesn't seem to change anything in the end.
Hello!
Going to start with thoughts of people dressing in the iconography of the July holiday, the printer whose copies helped spread the Declaration of Independence, the celebration of the holiday the first year after the declaration, and an official celebration of the July holiday in Denmark.
A caricature of the early United States resident, before Uncle Sam took over as the national tough guy.
Pay attention to the narrative you receive - the same story may have different interpretations depending on where it takes place. So while you might get small pieces about the remarkably cheesed-off people who are now engaging in local and state politics, it might take significant events before anyone notices what's going on.
Some people are doing the work of educating others about themselves in the places that seem outwardly okay but then do things like vote for racists. There should be more people doing the education who aren't the marginalized people trying to make you see them as people. That includes journalists, who have hopefully abandoned the commitment to objectivity and recommitted themselves to truth.
White people routinely kill more in a single week than immigrants or refugees do in years. And that's when they're not inciting riots that will end up killing many more people of color.
People who migrate toward the United States are more often than not running a gamut of gangs, traffickers, and governments that aren't interested in them as humans, but as parts and roles and pieces in their own operations. Brazil had an opportunity to be more welcoming to migrants, but the President vetoed out important parts of the passed legislation.
Countries that don't use prison as a first resort for criminals can get better results, and especially if they commit to things like rehabilitating and giving criminals reasons not to reoffend. Because visiting a person in prison in the Unites States is getting an experience of what prison is like.
The War on (Some) Drugs kills civillians that happen to be in the wrong place when someone decides they're a terrorist...or drug dealer. Immigration crackdowns prevent effective crime reporting.
Being a disabled child in the school system often means being treated like a criminal. Being disabled is much more likely to get you killed in a police interaction.
Scientists are looking at data to see whether or not body cameras change behaviors, both of police officers and the policed.
The way you look at disability is often disabling to the people who are disabled. I can only hope that I'm following the maxim of when you know better, do better and not doing too much to perpetuate bad views and responses. (That's not fishing for compliments. That's hoping that I'm doing right and that even if I never see the effects, that I do right.)
Residents of Flint, Michigan, have no reason to trust anyone in the government, at any level above the locality, because there's still nobody that's fixing everything, taking responsibility, and working to make Flint into a livable city for its residents. And will continue not to do so even after the water is actually safe again.
A National Rifle Association advertisement wants you to believe that liberals are civilization-destroying, freedom-hating people who must be opposed with guns.
The reason you need more than just testimony to convict someone of murder is that people can be convinced they committed murders they did not.
And in other cases, it's because people commit war crimes and worse because they have no interest in the humanity of their opponents, except perhaps as trophies and body counts. This can be in support of attempting to criminalize entire categories of speech and behavior, or trying to eliminate certain groups of people.
The courts have said that juveniles held in life without parole situations have to be reconsidered. How states are going about that is its own potential mess.
Most people getting supplemental nutirition assistance are already working - often in the food service industry, with wages that aren't actually sufficient to live on. Even more especially with kids. Not to mention that food service is often one of the few places that people who have been incarcerated can go to get work after leaving prison.
Ms. Trump is attempting, we are told, to help workers stay employed and well-waged, even while her father thoroughly believes workers should not be helped in any way. Not that Ms. Trump is any sort of person with authority to talk about improving workers' lives.
If you ask people in rural settings, they feel like the economy has gone awfully for them. It might not actually be truly worse, but the trick is it's much more personal.There's a difference between "oh, the corner store closed" and "the only factory in town just shut down", even if in the macro, the effect is about the same.
The richest are richer than we know, because we do not know the full extent of their tax dodging.
It's possible for someone who denied climate change to accept it as a possiblility. Given that 84 percent of people surveyed in several countries think of climate change as a severe risk, there's plenty that politicians could be doing that would have popular support. Some cities are already banding together to work on terms defined by the Paris Accord, while other cities are completely moving themselves as the cost-effective solution to rising coastal waters and scientists are having to deal with diseases and pathogens in places they would not have expected, due to warmer climates allowing for easier and farther transmission of them.
If there's a federal dollar to be shipped off to the private sector, the current administration seems poised to try and do it, including in cital infrastructure like roads. But if you ask them exactly how they plan on doing the budget, nobody is providing enough details for anyone to have a real go at whether it accomplishes its claims.
The travel ban implemented by the Current Administrator affects those people who have won the visa lotteries the State Department offers to those looking to come to the United States from countries with significant harships.
Africa could be a lot wealthier than it is, if other nations would stop taking its wealth elsewhere, which seems to be one of the running themes of how the "wealthy" colonial powers got and maintatin their wealth and power.
One of the biggest foes of the Communist East Germany was the possibility that Western music might corrupt the youth of the country. So, essentially, one of the common complaints leveled against rock and roll since it started.
It may be legal to be gay in Indonesia, but the police and the governors of several areas of Indonesia are more than happy to try and shame the LGBT community into staying closeted. And, because state power is scary, it seems to be working just fine.
The official media of Russia don't see anything going on that would be a substantive criticism of Vladimir Putin. The Internet disagrees. Assuming that you can see it, of course - the censors employed by Facebook and others will often privilege the speech of white men over minorities, because white men are a protected class in their rules.
The indigineous people of Virginia who helped the colonists are still yet unrecognized by the federal government.
Women in Afghanistan are doing journalism and defying the threats that aim to intimidate or kill them. Women in South Sudan, however, are being sold as brides so that their families can gather enough cattle to survive - or marry their sons. Healing has to happen for the women taken by the Islamic State and sold into slavery.
Collaboration with indigineous people is a much better way of learning about a region than trying to "discover" it.
Last around, history is always being subjected to demands that its violence disappear. Even though history is essentially full of violence, often considered politically necessary violence. The celebration of independence is often a celebration of violence. Revolution almost always carries violence with it, even if it doesn't seem to change anything in the end.
