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Just an extremely Normal thing to say
Reminder they want to increase the budget for ICE from 3.5 to 45 billion dollars.
Reminder the majority of that will be for building new detention centers.
Reminder ICE are *currently* detaining tourists who can pay for a plane ticket home and people with visa issues that were already resolved, because they have to make quota so Trump can brag about the numbers going up.
Reminder most of these people were already in the immigration system - that's why they were easy to detain.
Reminder this is all at taxpayer expense.
Reminder these are people.
Reminder that these are people
Did you survive a traumatic experience before turning 18?
yes, I survived trauma as a child
yes, I survived trauma as a teenager
yes, I survived multiple traumas or continuous traumatic living conditions
no, I did not experience trauma until adulthood
no, I have never experienced a traumatic life event
maybe, I'm not sure if my experience "counts" as trauma
Nader Al-Anqar is 17 year old. He was studying hard and trying to graduate when his school was bombed and destroyed.
His family has been displaced over ten times. During the short ceasefire they were allowed to return home, but when they arrived they found it bombed and ruined beyond livable conditions. They're now homeless and are trying to survive in desperate conditions, fearing bombs day and night.
His family includes his mom, his dad (who has cancer and needs urgent treatment), his little brother Mohammed (14 years old), his older brother Abdul Salam (26 years old), his sister-in-law Aya Al-Batniji, and his niece Iman (who is only 1 year old). He worries for his father who can't receive cancer treatment because Israel destroyed so much of the healthcare system, infrastructure, and resources. He worries for his baby niece who has been born into genocidal conditions and only knows this level of danger.
He is just a kid. We text over Signal and he is shouldering so much responsibility for the survival of his whole family trying to fund-raise on tumblr.
He and his brother survived an explosion of two planes just last night. I'm sure you've seen other posts discussing the recent bombings.
He just sent me this recording. You can hear the sound of helicopters firing nearby.
Things are really scary, and he is desperate for help. He shouldn't have to do this alone.
You can donate to his campaign here:
GoFundMe | Help Nader Al-Anqar and his family overcome this war in Gaza
You can send him a kind message here: @abdalsalam2000
Please guys, we are in dire need of your help. Our situation is very difficult. Our life is not cheap. We need help. Please donate to us and help us.
Please guys donate to us we need your support please donate
tumblr is such a different animal than other social media platforms for so many reasons obviously but one thing i really find funny about it is how on other sites if i see something that doesn't interest me i don't follow or don't like the post. but on here if someone i follow starts posting exclusively about something really niche that i have no interest in my reaction is never to unfollow. its just part of the natural environment. like oh mutual is now really into pro wrestling? ok i guess ill be seeing these guys around now
one day I woke up and realised all the waiting and yearning was actually me living my life and it’s happening right now and it’s still good even if it’s not perfect and there is no moment when all your dreams get fulfilled and everything makes sense. like… this is it. this is life. you’ll waste away your youth waiting for some imagined future if you don’t love life for what it is now and make the most of it
help a trans woman get a job
hey everyone!
i’ve done this a few times before but since i have over 11,000 followers on here I thought i’d reach out and see if anyone can help me to get a job!
as some of you know, i recently completed a software engineering bootcamp where I made 4 full-stack apps in 12 weeks and am now looking to get a job in the tech industry!
boosting would be greatly appreciated, please help if you can or know anyone!
thanks so much in advance!!!!
You want to call your House rep now and tell them Trump needs to be impeached immediately for defying a Supreme Court order (re: Kilmar Abrego Garcia), which functionally voids our constitution and means no one in America has rights anymore.
I am not exaggerating.
As of now, anybody can be disappeared, no due process, no recourse. Trump is openly disregarding a Supreme Court order and says he’ll send US citizens to El Salvador.
This is not a drill.
Call your House rep and tell them they must impeach. Tell them if they cannot bring themselves to impeach, they must resign. A more open and shut case to impeach is not possible. Trump and his administration are saying openly, in public, that anybody can be kidnapped by ICE, even in error, and disappeared permanently.
Call your senators, too, and tell them to support impeachment (it goes to them once it passes a majority House vote).
"Hello, my name is _______ and I am a constituent from _______. My address is ________.
I am reaching out today to urge Representative ______ to call for the impeachment of President Trump due to his refusal to comply with the Supreme Court's April 10th decision regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was unlawfully deported and has been charged with no crime. As Justice Sotomayor stated, this inaction implies the government's ability to 'deport and incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene.' This precedent is unconstitutional, highly illegal, and grounds for impeachment. Every individual, regardless of immigration status, must be guaranteed a right to due process.
Representative _____, I urge you to stand on the right side of history today by calling for President Trump's impeachment. This administration can not be allowed to continue unilaterally defying the checks and balances that are intrinsic to our government."
You can also find your representative and senators and their phone numbers on https://5calls.org/
Please don't be afraid of calling. Your job would just be to be a data point, not to sound perfect. Here's some info on why calling is effective.

Me, thinking they’re hosing an emaciated child down the stairs: oh jesus…
Me, realizing it is in fact our lord and savior on the cross: oh, Jesus…
so many leftists here are like “but i can be ableist towards these people right? i can be fatphobic as long as its towards a bad person right? i can be transphobic as long as i don’t like the target right? i can be racist towards bad people right? this person is a bigot so i can be a bigot right back.. right?”
billionaire: i think poor people should die
this person: oh yeah? well you’re fat
billionaire: I see now the error of my ways. I apologize for being fascist bourgeois scum. I shall divide my money and give it away to the people in need. Because you called me fat. Thank you for the much needed self reflection.