Summer Link Love

Under new orders from Sessions, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is already separating parents and children at the border, with no clear answer for when they will be reunited: https://t.co/BH0kJ3YWca pic.twitter.com/ErGzpgNCLZ

— Keegan Stephan (@KeeganNYC) May 24, 2018

I couldn’t let this one go, so here’s the 5calls action for it.  Call now and leave a message for them to get on Monday.  Or Fax.  I admit it’s all been too much for me recently and my activism has dropped considerably from the relentless overwhelm of it all (plus weekly activism email I get has been on break and the others I used to get have moved their focus elsewhere or closed up shop entirely), but I know I need to step up again because that means that everybody like me is stepping up again too.  A few weeks from now I’ll probably post a pep-talk for me and everyone else who wants to take this country back.  But right now, I’ll just point out that this one item is really horrific and deserves a call every bit as much as net neutrality or the ACA did.

The Feds LOST 1,475 migrant children

https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhereAreTheKids?src=hashtag_click

Every time the right-wing has accused someone on the left of some crime, it's been a remarkably short time before they were found to be doing it themselves.

And now remember the Pizzagate conspiracy.

— _ (@SotekPrime) May 25, 2018

🚨BRAND NEW COMIC now on @boingboing:
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John Kelly’s “American Tales of Immigration,” revealing the two pillars of humane treatment of immigrant children.
–https://t.co/ZGpZtLA2qX pic.twitter.com/qa3xVPAFle

— Tom the Dancing Bug (@RubenBolling) May 16, 2018

It sucks to be a woman

Women's dating advice: Go to therapy. Go to the gym. Fix your problems. Fix your self-esteem. Learn a new skill. Devote countless hours to becoming the best version of you. No one can love you if you don't love yourself.

Men's dating advice: You were born so you deserve a woman

— Julia Claire (@ohJuliatweets) May 21, 2018

This is a really good frame for what’s going on with the White house.  There is only one scandal– it is all corruption and stealing from the US government.  (That’s of course not quite true– there’s also racism and cruelty and fascism, but corruption explains a lot of the news stories coming across our feeds these past couple years.)

Speaking of corruption:  Trump lawyer paid by Ukraine to arrange White House talks

This just in:  Republicans are racist

The NYT is SO AWFUL these days.

Nice thread explaining my research with @JustinWolfers
The short summary: Women being able to say no-in the case of our research, saying no, I won't stay married to you, saved women's lives. Lots of them.

What needs to be enforced is the right to say no. https://t.co/jJcR291rSa

— Betsey Stevenson (@BetseyStevenson) May 21, 2018

The answer is still feminism

Interesting thread on hierarchies in the animal kingdom

Macro

More women know other stuff

D&PhD, a tabletop in which you have only one very high stat and have to justify how it relates to anything you want to do

— Whodie Whatwater (@larplover69) May 17, 2018

#2 wants to talk about this sometime, I think

Dishing up faith and charity

Mistakes made planning a  year abroad

Revanche is brilliant!

Best full cast audiobooks

What your favorite clothes brand says about you (h/t Xin)

Appreciating nature

“Go away, this doesn’t concern you.” pic.twitter.com/vzIuebYjyf

— ANIMALS R US (@Animal_R_Us) May 21, 2018