Here’s another one - this time it’s a man. Apparently, he’s been making racist, misogynistic, and transphobic remarks 
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What the actual fuck?
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I’m glad they got fired for this. Now we need to start firing them for killing people.
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Well, given that they were policing Maine, they likely didn’t realize what coon meant when used as a pejorative.
Oh, they know. And despite the fact that they were beating porcupines to death (probably because they’re slow, gentle creatures who are easily caught) and not raccoons, the story did have an unsavory racist feel to it. Like one of them exclaiming, “I got him!” after beating one poor critter to death. Just…so many levels of “fuck today.”
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If they’re going to use cop psychology, they really should keep an eye on these budding serial killers.
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I think it’s part of the recruitment strategy. 
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My cousin and his husband have been having pretty serious substance abuse problems for the last few years, since my uncle died suddenly from cancer.
We don’t know the extent of it, but the husband has had a long history of seizures that the doctors can’t seem to diagnose, but which seem to get better when he has been committed for a few days after his periodic psychotic breaks. You can probably do the math; the rest of the family has. Even my cousin at one point had started having seizures.
Lately, they both were on the mend. Had jobs, less health issues. Managing to hold down those jobs, and seemed to be trending in the right direction.
I got the call about 11 last night that the husband had passed. They were napping before my cousin was going to his night shift job, and he awoke to his husband being gone, speculated to be a seizure where he ended up face-down in a pillow or something.
It’s hard. I tried to help them out, when they couldn’t hold a job I paid one month of their rent based on an honest conversation where my cousin cops to what was going on, and I tell him that we love them and are worried, and they need to get their shit together–but we can’t enable them. They paid back that money and as I said seemed like they were doing better. Now my cousin is shattered–again–and I wonder if I’ll have to say goodbye to him too soon.
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I’m very sorry for your and your cousin’s loss. I truly hope that he will make it through.
eta: looked back and saw a missing “r”
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It’s so damned hard to walk the line between help and enabling. Everyone ends up suffering.
I hope your cousin pulls through. His loss must be devastating. Please also take care of yourself and your other family members too. My sympathies. 
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Prosecute. They will sometimes get fired, but they need to be put on trial for killing people.
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Parents of 545 kids cannot be found and 360 children cannot be located.
Fuck you trump and fuck you too DHS. Everyone who participated in this is a monster and everyone with the political power to stop it who didn’t are also monsters.
I really hope the lost children are safe with people who love them.
We need to win the senate, keep the house, and win the presidency. Then all of us need to harangue our reps to create a law that makes family separation at the border illegal, as well as migrant facilities.
I’ve put an appointment in my calendar. In January I’ll start writing letters and emails and then again every damned month after.
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That might be the most horrifying part of a totally horrifying story. The government rips your children away from you, then loses them. And as a non-citizen, you have virtually no way to pressure them to find them. Nor, honestly, do they have any interest in doing so. Because they are evil assholes. All the way down.
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This is part of why a majority of my charitable giving goes to the ACLU. They stepped up and helped the helpless. Sued over the separations, got the reunifications ordered by courts, and got the courts to appoint NGOs to send actual people to the countries or origin to search for parents and missing children.
ETA: I don’t know if the ACLU managed to get court orders forcing the feds to pay for the location help.
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Given that the DeVos family is part of the adoption industry those kids may well have been sold.
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The amount of public, blatant, monetized cruelty perpetrated by Cult45 is staggering to behold.
As a culture/nation/people, we will see the longlasting effects of this sadistic, psychopathic administration for years to come. And we will pay for it: a lot of karma dependencies fork from Cult45’s timeline on the cosmic Gantt Chart.
We see you, supporters and complicit corporations.
We see you.
And we will remember.
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I think we should keep the migrant facilities, but also seriously revamp them. So many migrants are fleeing violence that our new acts of deportation and making refugees wait on the Mexico side puts them in grave danger. They need our protection as they wait for processing.
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Fuck privatisation.
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