#amend

[amyleepascal]

Today is Constitution Day

[alefalf]

has someone done this yet

[angelkwill]

Mercy Amends

conscious livingintentional actionsubconscious livinghabitual re-action superconscious livingintuition leadingsupraconscious livingrevelatory seeding surrender to Meit is the wayquiet the mindhear what I say truth is onenessblessed are theywho let go of strifeand embrace each day peace will be foundyour sabbath is comingrest does abounddwell in my loving the wolf and the lambnow live as…

[arno-vision]

The Gödel’s Loophole — Make America Great Autocracy

Gödel's Loophole could exist in Article I/II/V of the Constitution, as well as the Supreme Court amending the Constitution through case decisions, etc. Trump could be surprisingly easy if he seeks dictatorship.

#Constitution #Loophole #dictatorship #amend

[mumblingsage]

I'm wondering if, as a society who cares about vulnerable people, we could stop saying "traumatize" when we truly mean "upset"?

I am sick of hearing sad books or movies "traumatize" their readers. I simply do not believe that happens. A traumatic experience might be adjacent to books (I have vivid memories of books I was reading around certain experiences and even how the contents of those books affected my processing of the experiences). But it's not caused by the book. And, y'know. The weather is Christofascist Censorship Attempts outside.

Meanwhile from the other side I continue to be surprised at just how badly people fail to understand trauma and traumatic experiences in general. Watering down the term isn't helping. Find other hyperbole to express that The Bridge to Terebithia gutted you, chewed on your heartstrings, and made you cry your first pair of contact lenses right out of your preteen eyes.

(ETA here although it's impossible to edit reblogs: over the months since this post really took off, there has been valuable discussion in the comments. I stand by the passion with which I wrote this post and with the general message, but not all the exact wording. I talk more about the way I'd re-write this post in a response here, replying to an addition that added a ton of useful context [other additions touched on similar themes, but that person had it all together in one reblog]. With that said, I am muting this post.)

[nando161mando]

Heartwarming

[existennialmemes]

Nothing in the US is going to get better until we abolish slavery for real. Ubiquitously, with no exceptions. Protecting the rights of prisoners actively protects every person in the country.

If the laws allow for any class of people to be stripped of their rights, then any person could be stripped of their rights. And the State has an active incentive to criminalize its critics (like Briana Boston, who was arrested for terrorism despite never having committed a crime.)

As long as criminality is an excuse to strip anyone of their rights, none of us are safe.

[nationallawreview]

NJDEP Publishes New Climate Change Rule Proposal

Substantial changes to NJDEP’s use Coastal, Flood Hazard, Wetland and Stormwater regulatory programs are coming that will severely impact proposed and existing development. NJDEP published its Protecting Against Climate Threats (PACT) Resilient Environments and Landscapes (REAL) rule in the August 5, 2024 New Jersey Register and has up to a year to adopt the proposed amendments. The proposal is…

[n0body1mportant]

[political-us]

Los Angeles protests for Mahmoud Kahlil

[liberalsarecool]

This is serious.

[sentientsky]

just a friendly reminder that, just because slavery was formally "abolished" in the so-called united states* in 1865, enslavement itself is still ongoing in the form of incarceration, which disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous people

(*i say "so-called" because the US is a settler-colonial construction founded on greed, extraction, and white supremacy) recommended readings/resources:

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

"How the 13th Amendment Kept Slavery Alive: Perspectives From the Prison Where Slavery Never Ended" by Daniele Selby

"So You're Thinking About Becoming an Abolitionist" by Mariame Kaba

"The Case for Prison Abolition: Ruth Wilson Gilmore on COVID-19, Racial Capitalism & Decarceration" from Democracy Now! [VIDEO]

[whenweallvote]

Many of us are taught that slavery came to an end with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but for enslaved people in Texas, freedom didn’t come until June 19, 1865.

Swipe to learn about the history of Juneteenth, and why it’s a celebration of freedom, culture, and progress.

[wolfythewitch]

Started malevolent, on episode 2

- we started not with a bang but with a whimper

- Arthur does not sound like a word anymore

- that demon in his brain needs to take a chill pill

- I need him tranquilized his shouting is scaring ME

[darkwood-sleddog]

Being in the united states right now and having done everything in my personal power as an individual, an elected person, a constitutional scholar, to prevent what is happening from happening feels like being in a car and everybody is refusing to wear their seatbelts, but you are. But that’s not going to save you because the person driving the car is driving the car off a cliff. On purpose.