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Feb. 8th, 2017 12:00 pm
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  • Tue, 18:14: RT @fanniesroom: Literally no woman familiar with watching incompetent men consistently rise to the top is stunned by this. https://t.co/AR…
  • Tue, 18:15: RT @popeguilty: Republican opposition to Trump is a scam. He's doing nothing they haven't dreamed of for decades.
  • Tue, 18:17: RT @FilmCritHULK: DEAR MEMBERS OF TRUMP ADMIN. STUDY THE HISTORY OF THOSE UNDER STALIN. THIS WONT GO WELL FOR YOU.
  • Tue, 18:19: RT @LeemanKessler: When the pres. brags about how wrong polls were, remember he's bragging that Midwesterners were too ashamed to admit the…
  • Tue, 18:19: RT @BASEDCA: Retweet if you APPROVE of Martellus Bennett who will not go to the White House in protest of a racist, sexist, homophobic pres…
  • Tue, 18:21: RT @AbbyMartin: Remember Blackwater's genocidal founder Erik Prince, who thinks America is in a holy war against Islam? BETSY DEVOS IS HIS…
  • Tue, 18:21: RT @pixelatedboat: Betsy DeVos: My plan is to burn down the public schools for the insurance money Trump (not listening, imagining a race c…
  • Tue, 18:23: RT @CaraCompass: it is so nice to just be having jokes get popular again and not a political statement or comment on fascism https://t.co/k…
  • Tue, 18:28: RT @Quinnae_Moon: Good thread. I agree completely. MRA/Nazi/'alt-right' echo chambers ratchet up hate and produce these terrorists. https:/…
  • Tue, 18:33: RT @alexandraerin: And many, many more--hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions--who are not looking for anyone to save us, but rolling up…
  • Tue, 18:55: RT @spnbmb: if interviewer uses self-aggrandizement, nonstop “gotcha questions” to make subject feel unsteady, & put downs they’re probably…
  • Tue, 18:55: RT @spnbmb: large institutions are toxic to even the most “well-adjusted” individuals with good coping skills. for trauma survivors, they’r…
  • Tue, 18:55: RT @spnbmb: if interviewer ‘jokingly’ replies with “where there’s a whip, there’s a way” when asked about work environment, they’re probabl…
  • Tue, 18:56: RT @spnbmb: one time i was told that they “go out to the back patio and beat the shit out of each other”. this was a tech startup staffed 9…
  • Tue, 18:56: RT @spnbmb: when i brushed off this ~joke~ & probed further, things got weird and hostile. was told there’s little/no conflict & team is “l…
  • Tue, 18:56: RT @spnbmb: oftentimes work team dynamics mirror toxic family dynamics. there’s usually a hierarchy of abuse, scapegoats, & faultless “gold…
  • Tue, 18:56: RT @spnbmb: now the phrase “we’re like a family” is itself a red flag. whose family? what does a typical family dynamic look like to this p…
  • Tue, 18:56: RT @spnbmb: as a baseline, workers are *always* subject to some level of abuse within capitalism. so when someone says their workplace is l…
  • Tue, 18:56: RT @spnbmb: realizing now that my employment history has mirrored abusive relationship dynamics: too crushed to keep going, too scared to l…
  • Tue, 18:56: RT @spnbmb: looking for a new job is like looking for a new abusive partner. fear comes from uncertainty of whether i can cope with their s…
  • Tue, 20:41: RT @Limerick1914: This sick worldview where refugees (millions of people fleeing war/seeking shelter) are presented as being more being dan…
  • Tue, 20:42: RT @Karoli: Oh, the snowflakes in the Senate are offended by Sen. Warren’s quotation of Coretta Scott King’s words re: Sessions
  • Tue, 20:43: RT @matthaig1: Books. Cling to books. The times are getting stupid. They will come for books. Never let them take them. Fight for words, tr…
  • Tue, 20:45: RT @DerekCressman: House Republicans Just Voted to Eliminate the Only Federal Agency That Makes Sure Voting Machines Can’t Be Hacked https:…
  • Tue, 20:46: RT @horizontalpoet: @KC75531072 I went to a public Magnet primary school for the gifted. Plagiarizing DeVos is like those who copied my ans…
  • Tue, 20:47: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 1. The more I read Trump supporters on recent executive orders, the more I realize how little they understand how the…
  • Tue, 20:47: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 2. I’ve done quite a bit of research on this in a past life (but by no means an expert), so let’s see if I can clear s…
  • Tue, 20:47: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 3. First, there is no such thing as an “illegal” refugee. The 1951 Convention on Refugees and the 1967 Protocol says E…
  • Tue, 20:47: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 4. declare asylum and stay in these countries until their claim is assessed. There is also no “right” way to travel to
  • Tue, 20:47: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 5. a country of first asylum (boat, plane, walk, etc). There is also nothing that says a refugee with money or nice cl…
  • Tue, 20:47: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 6. (I even saw someone tweet a picture of a refugee with big muscles and say this means he’s not eligible *eye roll).
  • Tue, 20:48: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 7. Refugees don’t have to meet some image you have in your head about what they are “supposed to” look like.
  • Tue, 20:48: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 8. Asylum is about persecution, not about how well-off you are or what you look like. You're a refugee if you have a l…
  • Tue, 20:48: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 9. persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership of a social group. Not about you…
  • Tue, 20:48: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 10. I’ve also heard people say “refugees need to get in line”. There is no line for refugees. It’s kind of like an eme…
  • Tue, 20:48: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 12. They wait, sure, and often wait a long time, but it’s different from other forms of immigration. Under the 1951 Co…
  • Tue, 20:48: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 13. the 1967 Protocol, refugees have the right not to be expelled, right to education, right to housing, right to work…
  • Tue, 20:48: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 14. set up to help states that have signed on to do what they signed up to do – to be a asylum accepting country. The…
  • Tue, 20:48: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 15. make sure states are implementing the convention. The 1951 Convention, which defined “refugee”, was partly motivat…
  • Tue, 20:48: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 16. during WWII and the refugees that were born due to the war. The way a refugee was defined, as scholars have argued…
  • Tue, 20:48: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 17. certain values of “us” and “them”, of refugee "accepting countries” and “producing countries”. Stable & unstable c…
  • Tue, 20:48: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 18. After the Holocaust, the US decided that it wanted to be part of the former. Never again, and all that. An entire…
  • Tue, 20:48: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 19. humanitarian infrastructure exists to keep these values going. Trump shortsightedly thought 50 years of work could…
  • Tue, 20:48: RT @AmarAmarasingam: 20/20 with a stroke of a pen. As he found out with the case of the Iraqi man detained in NY, it’s a bit more complicat…
  • Tue, 20:51: RT @endrapeoncampus: White House Education Reform Task Force "hopes to roll back federal regulations on campus sexual assault." https://t.c…
  • Tue, 20:54: RT @Sataniqueer: QUICK REMINDER THAT YOU ARE LOVED AND NOT ALONE!! Keep doin your best out there, pals. You're amazing. Proud of you for m…
  • Tue, 20:55: RT @arkle: New headcanon; Mario & Luigi's parents fled fascist Italy to come to America. https://t.co/gvPqm3cB4R
  • Tue, 20:55: RT @fussybabybitch: "history fanatic" https://t.co/lyrJzsls6J
  • Tue, 20:57: RT @edzitron: revenueless company valued at $1bn?that's fine. Guy who cleans up shit/piss filled underground transport used by millions get…
  • Tue, 21:00: RT @SenWarren: I will not be silent about a nominee for AG who has made derogatory & racist comments that have no place in our justice syst…
  • Tue, 21:00: RT @LabSplice: "If Betsy DeVos can be Education Secretary, then I can certainly do whatever the fuck it is you do here." My cover letter, i…
  • Tue, 21:02: RT @samswey: Republicans traditionally support ending civil asset forfeiture. Trump said he'd "destroy the career" of a senator who propose…
  • Tue, 21:03: RT @samswey: The GOP will pass laws to stop police from taking property but not to stop them from taking life. Trump is saying he won't sto…
  • Tue, 21:03: RT @samswey: Taking advantage of asset forfeiture laws, police steal more from people than all burglaries combined. https://t.co/8oupRLvGKz…
  • Tue, 21:03: RT @samswey: (Note that the chart only includes federal law enforcement. Number would be even higher with state & local police added).
  • Tue, 21:03: RT @Sb51Antinomy: I'll give that sheriff credit: he didn't give Trump the name. Apparently even that creep has his limits at political targ…
  • Tue, 21:06: RT @SenSanders: It's unacceptable that Trump and the Army chose to ignore the law and allow construction to be completed on the Dakota Acce…
  • Tue, 21:07: RT @Claribel_Ortega: So this is what we need to do TONIGHT: rally against the Sessions vote. We have to call, get a hashtag trending, BE L…
  • Tue, 21:08: RT @Claribel_Ortega: It's okay if you need a break. We ALL need breaks, but do not say what's the point, already. It's year ONE of four. Pa…
  • Tue, 21:08: RT @sigridellis: The power of the press! THIS IS WHY HE HATES JOURNALISM. https://t.co/mVWkyyht8e
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