She/her also personally fought against transwomen in prison seeking gender affirmation surgery…

Here’s an article that gives more details on the story, and what Harris said about it.  The key points:

(*For the record, Harris finished her time as AG and became a Senator shortly after this agreement was reached, so it’s someone else’s job now to enforce it.) 

The thing to keep in mind here is that, as Attorney General, Kamala Harris couldn’t wave her hand and have everything in the entire California Department of Justice go exactly as she wanted it–and she won’t be able to as Vice President, either.  We currently have a president who thinks that’s how it works, and we’re damned lucky he’s wrong.  

She had (and will have to) work with large number of people who hold different views.  (Another article I read said that the California Department of Justice, which she ran as AG, employs about 4,800 people–that’s a lot of different views.)  If she had refused to back the Department of Corrections in their case, she would have alienated people whose cooperation she needed to be able to rely on.  (If she even had the option of not backing them and staying AG–I’m not sure how it works, exactly.)  Even people who agreed with her about the specific matter might have disapproved of her hanging her subordinates out to dry.  (Another thing our current president does constantly–notice how Harris isn’t saying that the person in her office who actually wrote these briefs is a bad guy that she barely knew.)

So here’s what actually happened when Kamala Harris “fought against transwomen in prison seeking gender affirmation surgery”:

If you’ve had a job, you’ve probably been in the position of having to carry out a policy that you don’t agree with.  Your choices are to quit your job in protest or stay and argue that the policy should change.  If you pick option B, you still have to follow the policy while you’re working to change it–again, just about the only person in the world who doesn’t know this is Donald J. Trump, because he’s never had a real job where he answered to anybody.  

What this incident shows is that Kamala Harris is accustomed to working in a system where she doesn’t always get her own way, and that she knows how to lose the battle to win the war.  As VP, she’s going to need those skills–especially if the Republicans keep the Senate, but even if the Democrats sweep everything in November, we’re notoriously bad at all pulling in the same direction.  We’ve had about enough of the “I’m taking my ball and going home” style of leadership.  

This.

I get it, I really do - but Trump has literally stripped away rights from trans kids and fucked the careers of trans people in the military. Pence believes in conversion therapy.

We can remember and discuss these issues, but at the end of the day, Trump/Pence is the greater evil and we need to vote in a unified way to get them out of office because the second term would be so much worse. Don’t vote independent, just suck it up and recognize that we’re not gonna get a perfect candidate ever.

Voting Trump is a face full of glass shards, and a vote for an independent is a vote for Trump. This isn’t complicated.

I had not seen this explanation, and I’m reblogging it because I probably have followers who haven’t either.

the blessings of your moon sign:

⎡MOON IN ARIES ⎦⇁ you are always quick to verbalize how you feel, never hiding anything. that is admirably fearless. bottling it up is no option with you. your message is the most heard.

⎡MOON IN TAURUS ⎦⇁ you will never not be reliable. you think through things instead of rushing in. to the benefit of everyone, you are a 0% annoying person. you neutralize troublemakers.

⎡MOON IN GEMINI ⎦⇁ there won’t be a time where you don’t have something smart to say, even in hard and depressing times. you’re great at expressing your feelings through characters you create.

⎡MOON IN CANCER ⎦⇁ you have a good heart with an ever-adequate mood. you will be rewarded for your sensitivity and caring ways. you have an innate sense for comfort and good taste.

⎡MOON IN LEO ⎦⇁ your smile is bright and everlasting. you’re the purest. entertainment is your utmost talent, there’s nothing you can’t do. standing your ground under pressure is no problem.

⎡MOON IN VIRGO ⎦⇁ never hasty, you aren’t easily manipulated. every detective wishes they had your moon sign. you don’t give abrasive people and trolls fuel by reacting to them.

⎡MOON IN LIBRA ⎦⇁ a true romantic that is hard to find. never unfair and biased in your affection, you are pleasant to be around. you could mend the most shattered, closed-off heart around.

⎡MOON IN SCORPIO ⎦⇁ what a fine-tuned radar. you don’t have to ask how another person feels, you just know already. you don’t embarrass others. you are endlessly enduring and stick to your values. 

⎡MOON IN SAGITTARIUS ⎦⇁ advice for anybody, anywhere, anytime. you simply don’t discriminate and give deserved second chances. improvement over where cancel culture would be inappropriate.

⎡MOON IN CAPRICORN ⎦⇁ blue-eyed you will never be in this world, naivety can’t mess with you. this is a drama-free zone. you have a built-in idiot filter. you know who you can be loyal to.

⎡MOON IN AQUARIUS ⎦⇁ you solve even the most difficult conflicts being one natural step ahead. your wit and presence adds something refreshing to any gathering. you’ll never feel deeply bored.

⎡MOON IN PISCES ⎦⇁ never obtrusive or arrogant, you make an art form out of comforting someone and couldn’t harm a fly. you will be thanked for it. you won’t provoke any bad blood for fun, ever.

traits of libras

reality check for everyone: u are a better person than you realize! you deserve for nice things to happen to you and you are an irreplaceable presence in certain people’s lives. you are liked and appreciated and talented and good! even if u don’t feel that way!

moon in the 2nd, 4th, and 6th houses: wants to respond to a lover’s personal and/or bodily needs; needs a lover who needs them, likes comfort, and isn’t too independent to resent their nurturing style

moon in the 3rd and 11th houses: wants friendship with their lover in order for a relationship to work; needs a lover who can hold their own, is communicative, and is full of love for everything and everyone

moon in the 1st, 7th, 8th, and 12th houses: wants intensity, intimacy, romance, and togetherness in a relationship; needs a lover who will be sensitive yet steadfast enough to deal with their strong emotions with a firm hand

moon in the 5th, 10th and 9th houses: needs action, a good time, and spiritual/mental/financial growth in a relationship; needs an intelligent, powerful, exciting lover they can be proud of and that can take them higher

From the mouth of a One Percenter -

Abigail Disney

!!!!!!!!!!!

“Yes, there is a superyachtinvestor.com. Go look at it and it will make you so angry, you could chew glass.”

we stan class traitors on this blog

Abigail Disney has no control or input on the operations of the corporation, she is a Disney heiress and, in that respect, nothing else. She puts her money towards philanthropy, especially women’s movements around the globe and peace organizations like Peace is Loud and the Global Fund for Women. She is a documentary filmmaker who explores these themes as well.

There are problematic family investments she earns money from that, legally, she cannot divest from. Instead, she donates these profits to charities that counter to those investments.

Reblogging this version because I needed to read this after watching the video

She’s still saying this shit here in 2019 😍

IMPORTANT CONTEXT!!

You know boundaries apply to the internet?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/state-department-to-lgbt-married-couples-your-out-of-wedlock-kids-arent-citizens

Watch the white gays start to give a fuck now.

First it was the Mexicans, legal citizens born here from immigrant parents, that were claimed as non citizens. Now it’s the children of gay parents. Don’t you see what’s happening? Disenfranchisement. Classic fascism. We’re heading towards a totalitarian regime folks. Trump is a white supremacist and him and his administration won’t stop until they’ve recreated Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

Hitler didn’t start as histories greatest monster, or he wouldn’t have gained the power he got. It was only after he became too powerful to be removed that he revealed his true nature. You have to look for the warning signs and there are a lot of them with the Trump administration. Like, big red flags with glowing flares.

The worst thing is that Hitler had to put some effort into gaining his power, while Trump has been waving his red flags as high as possible since the start and no one seems to care…

What. The. Fuck.

SPREAD. THIS. SHIT. NOW. DO. NOT. SCROLL. PAST. DO. NOT. SCROLL. PAST. DO. NOT. SCROLL. PAST. DO. NOT. SCROLL. PAST. LOOK. AT. THIS.  SPREAD. IT.

Ten steps to genocide (we are at number 8 now with the ‘detention centers’ by the way. Next step is literally extermination. Just thought y’all would like to know)

Also see poem “First they came”

I’ve been saying this since 2016. I hope you care now that it might affect you.

1. your suffering can’t end until you stop identifying with it. if your sense of self is tied up in your suffering, anyone or anything that attempts to separate you from it will become the enemy because, whether consciously or subconsciously, you will on some level believe they are trying to take away a part of who you are.

2. read the above again.

yall better be just as outraged about this as you were about notre dame

This is even WORSE.

To elaborate why this is worse: Art and religion are all well and good. But information can be critical. When libraries burn, information can be lost forever. Because we photograph art. We have blueprints of the Cathedral. The Notre Dame cathedral did not burn to the ground, only the wooden structures did. The entire library and everything within is gone here. Another reason this is worse? It was DELIBERATE. It was bombed. Accidents like Notre Dame happen all the time. But bombings don’t have to happen. So yeah, if you cared about Notre Dame, logically you should care about this too,

Yeah… now I’m beyond pissed.

Anonymously tell me your assumpmtions about me and I'll confirm or deny them.

Parents be like that’s my emotional support eldest daughter

Is this about Seattle’s recruitment dropping almost to 0 after the implementation of the living wage? Does anybody have a link?

YES! it is!

"Since the Army is not subject to local minimum wage laws, Seattle pay now outstrips what locals could earn by signing up for the Army. $15 per hour is not only more than the base pay for privates, but corporals and specialists as well."

-Newsweek

Fuck this article for trying to make me sympathize with the military complex tho. Boo-hoo, Sargent Bootlicker won't get Friday off for failing to sign up new recruits

People are deliberately starting fires in the amazon rainforest to illegally deforest indigenous land for cattle ranching and the president of Brazil comes today and says that this is work from NGOs, listen what a indigenous woman have to say, from the tribe Pataxó:

Pataxó woman:

“These assholes came in and burned down [our reservation]... I want all of the media here to see this”

For 2 years we’ve fought to preserve [our reservation] & these assholes came in & burned it down.

They are killing our rivers, our sources of life, & now they have set our reserve on fire. Tomorrow we are closing the roads & I want all the media here to see this.

We need action, we need now, we need to take those ones to justice and take President Jair Bolsonaro to respond to this too, we need people to wake up that being a conservative it's not the same as being a stupid retrograde

Indigenous people, animals and nature are screaming in pain for help

Video and photo original from "Quebrando o Tabu" and Sunrise Movement on Twitter

clingy and annoying doesn’t bother me when it’s from the right person, i literally do not mind if my boyfriend sends me a picture of a car he likes at 3am even if I’m not really into cars, his first thought was ‘i know imma send that to my girlfriend’ and yes i love that shit

The difference between good clingy and bad clingy in giving affection vs demanding it.

“They killed my child to try to shut her up. Well, guess what? You just magnified her.”

-Susan Bro, mother of Heather Heyer (May 29, 1985 - August 12, 2017), murdered by white supremacists two years ago in Charlottesville, North Carolina.

https://www.heatherheyerfoundation.com/