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[wrecksdart]

Trump wants to separate small children from their mothers in immigration detention

“Part of the reason for the proposal is to deter mothers from migrating to the United States with their children, said the officials, who have been briefed on the proposal.” So, the goal is to frighten away refugees from poverty, corrupt governments and drug cartels by threatening to take their children away? "The journey north is a dangerous one with too many situations where children - brought by parents, relatives or smugglers - are often exploited, abused or may even lose their lives. So,…

[anon6955837]

Animated graph shows how USA has become more polarized in last 20 years

You always deliver, like a manure delivery service run by mounties.

I spit my coffee. Beautiful.

[OtherMichael]

Awesome guy with NSFW Tourette syndrome uses a power washer

Thank you. I was about to have my usual whinge about the excessive focus on the sweary aspect [1], but Lewis covers that in his “what is Tourette’s?” video. Remove the coprolalia and replace it with squeaks and screams [2] and you’ve got me on a moderately bad day. [1] Tourette’s and similar conditions are primarily motion disorders. The sweary stuff only appears in a minority of cases [3]. [2] Most of my vocal tics get suppressed into incomprehensibility, but when one does sneak through it’…

[Melizmatic]

Creeps pretending to be feminists

Basically, any person who makes themselves the center of a topic that isn’t based on their experiences (male feminists, white anti-racists, cishet LGBT allies, etc.) send up red flags for me. It happens all the time. It happens in every discussion of topics about non-white not-men on these forums. What these people don’t understand, and the lack of understanding is deep and visceral, is that it is not about them. They have an infantile belief that everything is directed to them and is meant for …

[katherinelives]

Gosh. Thanks!

[Melizmatic]

De nada!

You quite aptly stated what so many of us female mutants were already thinking, but we were simply too exhausted to point out, yet again.

I love true supportive advocates for equality who are legitimately “down for the cause,” but the first step to helping is almost always: listen more, talk less.

And anyone who doesn’t grok that is automatically suspect for having ulterior motives.

[Auld_Lang_Syne]

Creeps pretending to be feminists

Dudes, I feel your pain. I was also lost and confused that feminism wasn’t about me! (Because I transitioned and things changed, but anyway…) Don’t worry, this is what you do: Listen to women Before you offer ‘the male perspective’ consider: have they heard this before? (Spoiler: yes, they have) Amplify the voices of women. Online, this might look like a retweet or a like. Offline, if somebody is ignoring a good point made by Sally, repeat what she just said with attribution. Make sure Sally …

[anon67050589]

Not for of any brilliance in rhetoric, but because it’s one of the more meta posts I’ve ever read here. It’s the sort of thing that makes the BBS come alive for me. We really know each other, and can joke about it.

Trump's 2005 tax returns revealed on Maddow, raise many new questions

I tried that — then he dragged me into an argument about it.

[anon15383236]

laughing gif that didn’t work

[LearnedCoward]

“Black Man Laughing In Boat”, aka The Last King Of Scotland?

[sosumi]

Trump: 'I love to read.'

My observation is that it seems to be thinking of language as a way to convey meaning vs. thinking of language as a way to accomplish goals. Talking to toddlers and young school children, I recognize that they are largely using language like it’s a mysterious control panel: I say X and thing Y happens. Two-year-olds, in my experience, often say “Yes” when they are happy and “No” when they are angry. Over time they refine that use of language to better get what they want. But to get advanced ed…

Trump: 'I love to read.'

I wouldn’t either. He seems really unsophisticated to me. Even after all that stuff I said about speaking to accomplish ends vs. speaking to convey meaning, you can do the former and still speak very well or very poorly. I read what he actually said as an attempt to get people to think he is smart and well-read, but to well-read people it very plainly says he doesn’t read. Trump not only hasn’t had to communicate ideas in his life to get through advanced education, but he also hasn’t had to be …

[ficuswhisperer]

Anne Frank Center wants Trump's in-house avowed Nazi to resign

It is 2017. The sad thing is simply that a group like the Anne Frank Center has to even say this. I hate this administration. I hate that I have family and friends that voted for this abomination. I hate that this is the country I live in right now. I hate that this is the freedom I served to protect. I hate that I have to defend common decency and reason. I hate that I have to have verbal and mental battles over things we should all agree on at this point openly. I hate everything about …

[bibliophile20]

Trump approval rating "in the toilet"

They’ll be as subtle as they think they can afford to be. Disenfranchisement in the USA already has: The gerrymander. Felon disenfranchisement combined with racially-biased mass incarceration. Weekday voting combined with minimal industrial rights, making it functionally impossible for many working class people to vote. Recent additions are: Voter ID laws, deliberately targeted to exclude the poor. The near elimination of postal and early voting across the red states. Racia…

[Kimmo]

Post your Pet or animal Pics (Part 1)

A few photos of Her Highness trying out her hedgiecorn outfit. [image] Mess with the hedgehog, get the hedgiecorn horn. [image] Hedgiecorn gorings are rare, but might increase, perhaps. [image] A happy hedgehog, perhaps the suit will work out. [image] A somewhat concerned hedgehog, perhaps the suit won’t work out. [image] Final verdict: no

[OtherMichael]

"Obamacare is law of the land" as replacement fails in House

Senator Bob Menendez

[bibliophile20]

"Obamacare is law of the land" as replacement fails in House

Here’s my doomsaying narrative: When Turmp accidentally got elected, and realised he had, at a generous estimate, less than zero knowledge of how to be an elected politician, he didn’t have anyone else to call apart from the Republican establishment. Much like how, in your first week of college, you don’t know how to start making friends except by joining lame clubs and hanging out with people from your dorm. Two months in, Turmp has fallen out with his first-week friends for good. But ther…

Axis of Teavil…

[OtherMichael]

United Airlines bars girls in leggings from boarding flight: they're "not properly clothed"

Can people please quit referring to these “perks” as if they are given out of the boundless generosity of the airlines out of the blue, and the employee should be groveling in appreciation at their good fortune? In reality, they are listed as benefits of employment, and are used along with salary, 401K and other inducements to compete for employees. They are expected and implicitly if not explicitly promised as part of accepting a job. I suppose United can put all the restrictions they want l…

[TobinL]

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/united-airlines-bars-girls-in-leggings-from-boarding-flight-theyre-not-properly-clothed/97729/260?u=tobinl

[anon36081309]

I’ll reply here, because the other thread is locked. I heartily concur @FerrisWheeler

On a related note, is it disrespectful to Catholics to say that I would like to adopt David Bowie, Who Art in Heaven, as my own Patron Saint? Right next to Bea Arthur, please.

[anon67050589]

Conservative trolls pretending to be black on Twitter "sad" and "obvious"

Trust me, it really does look weird to see someone defend Twitter to a point (i) way past the original topic of this article (ii) several days past publication, when there are unlikely to be any other readers left in this forum, (iii) using a story that’s TL;DR, (iv) making a very personal and elaborate list of people you follow. It’s like having to read a passionate rebuttal about the I Love Lucy Show, because I dropped a casual bomb on it. Really very awkward. Sorry, but I find myself disa…

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