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Here’s my Ko-Fi!!

If you cant commission me i’d appreciate a rt!!

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✨Luminary of the Stars✨

A request from @princeasimdiya12

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the media refuses to cover this because they don’t want laborers to understand the power a union holds.

longshoremen have shut down 29 ports in solidarity with BLM, in honor of George Floyd and Juneteenth

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ay3xm/one-of-americas-most-powerful-unions-will-shut-down-29-ports-on-juneteenth

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/dockworkers-union-shutdown-george-floyd/

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Port-of-Oakland-shut-down-by-dockworkers-in-15352644.php

we have to spread the word because the mainstream media won’t; there is power in a union!

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evictions will begin again in NYC in about a month, and this will leave many people and families homeless, which in the heart of this country's epidemic could be a death sentence. shelters are already overcrowded as it is.

please donate to the NYC Eviction Fund started by Esteban Martinez here:

many cities are also about to be facing a mass eviction crisis. one way to help is donate to or start mutual aid funds like this specifically for eviction prevention in your city. housing is a human right!

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Video Transcription from user @/lelegenevieve on TikTok: “If you’ve been supporting the Black Lives Matter movement or are looking for ways to support, please stop scrolling and signal boost this video. I’ve been coding—pretty tirelessly—everyday for my website pb-resources.com. It’s an education tool and resource I’ve been using to compile information to fight police brutality and white supremacy. There are calls to action, educational tools, and different places to donate. Today I added this section that allows you to input your information and send automated emails; and everything is filled out for you. It was also really important that for me to adds way to support the Black trans community. And in a few days, the website will be generating ad revenue and 100% of the proceeds will be donated; so all you have to do is visit the site to support BLM. Lastly, I’ve been asking you guys to follow me on Instagram (@/alexisdenisew) so I can hit 10k and get the swipe up update and I’m almost there. So if you haven’t already, go follow.”

If anyone with experience with audio transcription formatting would like to repost this with a better transcript, please do, my experience is limited.

As of today, June 16th, 2020, Alexis is at 11K followers on Instagram and has the swipe up feature, but please continue to share this website!

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masterpost of fuckwild emails i’ve gotten from donald trump’s campaign team

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If I see one more person say most cops are bastards but paw patrol is exempt I'm going to lose my mind I swear to god

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made a quiz, tell me what greek deity favours you!!

https://uquiz.com/N17OGW

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the human rights campaign is suing the trump administration over their decision to do what they’re doing to section 1557 of the affordable care act, allowing medical care providers to refuse service to trans people.  if you can donate, please do.  i’m going to try and figure out literally any way i can make extra money so that i can donate as well in my current situation.

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hey I dont know why I've not seen anybody else pointing this out when it comes to the trump reversal of lgbt healthcare protections but I have seen many articles describe this similarly to how the linked NPR article words it: "It is one of many rules and regulations put forward by the Trump administration that defines "sex discrimination" as only applying when someone faces discrimination for being female or male, and does not protect people from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity"

Now that's of course a horrifying & dangerous precedent in general BUT scotus has still not decided on the 3 cases that are abt to set a prescedent for whether lgbt ppl are covered under title vii for work discrimination -- the main argument for considering lgbt ppl protected under title vii is that lgbt discrimination falls under sex discrimination (a trans person is being discriminated against for presenting in a way that does not align with their sex would count as sex discrimination, a lgb+ person would be discriminated against due to their sex + their partner's sex would count with this argument as well).

So trump p much said "no, discrimination based on sex is not the same or related to discrimination based on gender ID and/or sexuality" - fighting the arguments that claim that lgbt ppl are protected under title vii under the category of sex discrimination.

I dont think it's an accident that the healthcare changes happened during such a socially/culturally busy time (covid + blm, we've all got a lot on our minds), but I also dont think it's a coincidence this happened so close to when the scotus is expected to rule on these cases

Anyway, I know a lot is going on, but I havent heard (m)any major news sources or social media posts connecting the dots between title vii & these healthcare protections.. but the dots are there.... and they should be connected.

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More people need to understand what we mean when we say that "Brooklyn 99 is pro-cop propaganda"

Are there worse tv shows, that depict more police brutality? Yes, obviously. But there’s a big difference between shows meant to rile up existing pro-cop sentiments, and shows meant to subtly convince people who are against police abuses that some police abuses are actually ok, and that cops can be just and good. NCIS and Blue Bloods might be worse, but Brooklyn 99 is more dangerous, precisely because Brooklyn 99 is so much more palatable to people who feel gross watching cops beat unarmed black men.

Despite its claims of demonstrating good policing and idealized behavior, Brooklyn 99 regularly shows cops violating people’s constitutional rights. But whereas other more right-leaning shows highlight violations and are explicitly in favor of them, Brooklyn 99 glosses over them. And it does so to such a degree that a lot of people don’t even realize that what they are watching, despite being about “good” cops, still contains a ton of systemic police abuses of power in it.

Take the seventh episode of the very first season as an example.

In this episode, the main character arrests a man with no evidence whatsoever and detains him for 48 hours while his colleagues go on a mad hunt to find evidence of a crime.

Here’s the thing with that depiction:

The episode treats the main character’s behavior as though the problem is that he made work for his coworkers, not that he violated a suspect’s constitutional rights. It’s made very clear that his coworker’s date night is more important than a wrongfully arrested man being confined in a jail cell for two full days.

It is in fact illegal to go on a fish expedition like the one depicted after detaining a suspect. The “you have 48 hours” rule is meant to give the courts time to hold the required probable cause hearing even when there is a court backlog, not to give the cops a chance to gather evidence. In fact, the SCOTUS case which created the 48 hour hold rule even explicitly says: “This is not to say that the probable cause determination in a particular case passes constitutional muster simply because it is provided within 48 hours. Such a hearing may nonetheless violate Gerstein if the arrested individual can prove that his or her probable cause determination was delayed unreasonably. Examples of unreasonable delay are delays for the purpose of gathering additional evidence to justify the arrest, a delay motivated by ill will against the arrested individual, or delay for delay’s sake.” The main characters are breaking the law, and it’s clear that the policy within their precinct is to break the law.

When the suspect gets a lawyer who starts arguing for a civil suit on the basis of his unlawful detainment, this is treated as a horrible thing and the suspect is portrayed as smug and immoral for doing it. This is despite the fact that he is completely legally justified because the police have clearly violated his constitutional rights.

The suspect is eventually revealed to have committed the crime in question, by route of a plan which the main character admits to having not even considered when he arrested him. Police hunches are glorified; the assumption that former criminals are guilty is reinforced.

Ultimately, the suspect is unable to sue for the violation of his rights and his unlawful detention because there is evidence that he committed the underlying crime. In fact, this would have no bearing whatsoever on his standing to sue. Guilty people still have constitutional rights, and by the text of the episode, the precinct violated his rights regardless of his guilt or innocence. The show glosses over this, and strongly implies that guilty people (and he is treated as guilty despite not yet having been tried) are unable to legally take actions against police abuses.

Putting it all together, from it’s outset, Brooklyn 99 has justified non-violent but extremely illegal police abuses, eroded people’s belief that our constitutional rights are inalienable and apply even to the guilty, camouflaged the fact that people are legally allowed to sue over police abuses, and demonized the lawyers and suspects who try to go after those sorts of civil rights cases. I’m sorry, but that’s propaganda no matter how you slice it.

Police violence is not always physical brutality. Brooklyn 99 might not show cops beating Rodney King in the street, but it gleefully showcases violations which selectively target the disenfranchised in other ways, and then couches those violations as “what a good police station would be like, in an ideal world”.

The cops in Brooklyn 99? They’re bad cops, end of story. They all routinely commit this-should-be-an-instant-firing level of offenses against helpless individuals, and it’s portrayed as normal. And the fact that people will endless parrot the idea that Brooklyn 99 shows the way that police stations could be if they were manned by good police officers shows that not only is it propaganda, but it’s working. And that should terrify us all.

[insert garfield meme here]

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vent art cuz i haven’t been able to draw anything in a minute

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ishimaru had the most realistic reaction to someone dying and everyone else was like dude wtf is wrong w him

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Does the "this is my voice one day on testosterone" thing except instead of being a transphobic trend its me announcing I just took my first T shot

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for the last time y’all cannot “miku made this” harry potter. you cannot separate harry potter from jkr and her bigotry because the text itself is FULL of it. a short list of the bullshit that’s in hp that y’all cannot pretend doesn’t exist within the actual text:

-the goblins who run the banks, which are obvious antisemitic caricatures

-rita skeeter, a transmisogynistic caricature (the books often reference her “masculine features” and she’s portrayed as being predatory and spying on children)

-boys being unable to enter the girls dormitories (innocuous on its own but becomes very sinister when you know her beliefs)

-the fact that there’s maybe 5 canonically black characters in the books (hell i can only think of 3 off the top of my head)

-the house elves just LOVE being slaves and when hermione tries to free them shes viewed as being “weird” and over the top about it

-the horrific treatment of cho chang, who is (to my knowledge) the only canonically east asian character

-the fact that there’s a “pureblood supremacist” house in hogwarts and everyone is just fine with that

-likening lycanthropy to AIDS is troubling on its own but especially considering fenrir greyback’s big goal was to “spread it” is... oof

-the whole WOG gay dumbledore fiasco gets even worse when we remember that he was apparently in love with a fascist. also the fact that she said he “turned asexual” afterwards which is not how asexuality works

-the fact that hermione was 14 and viktor krum was 18 when he took her to whatever that fuckin dance was called and this is just seen as totally fine and not weird at all

and there’s SO much more, this is just all i can remember off the top of my head. like... y’all can’t pretend these flaws in the books don’t exist. the movies are just as bad and in some respects even worse, especially considering the lack of characters of color. you CANNOT ignore this shit when you’re reading or watching harry potter. and this isn’t even getting into the fantastic beasts series and the mess of stuff that comes with that.

jk rowling has BEEN a racist antisemitic transphobic bigot. we KNEW this.

y’all are allowed to like harry potter. nobody’s gonna stop you. i understand that for some people it’s very meaningful to them and i get that. but you have GOT to be critical of it. you can’t just pretend jkr’s voice isn’t there. it is, and it’s a big part of the story. you can like problematic media (theres some problematic media that i enjoy critically) but it’s irresponsible to consume it uncritically and without examining it through that lens.