#ResistTrump today by Standing with Standing Rock

I’m sure Hillary would have done the same thing (if you asked a Berniebro.)

Man, this is just so terrifying/depressing. All these orders in less than one week. I can’t imagine how helpless the people who are actually effected by these orders must feel. What is the United States, and indeed the entire world, going to look like in 4 – 8 years?

I really do feel as if the entire planet has been taken hostage by America’s collective Midwestern population sometimes these days.

@Abars01

I really do feel as if the entire planet has been taken hostage by America’s collective Midwestern population sometimes these days.

I think about that a lot too. Just 80,000 people in three states — Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania (although Pennsylvania is actually part of the Northeast Rust Belt, not the Midwest, which it borders) — made Trump the president.

Donald Trump will be president thanks to 80,000 people in three states

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/01/donald-trump-will-be-president-thanks-to-80000-people-in-three-states/?utm_term

I’m a one-issue voter: I want to see all forms of life continue to thrive on this planet.

@Rhuu – I think I found what you’re looking for? It was a list of contacts for members of parliament (posted here by Scildfreja):

Federal MP contacts are here:

http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members

And Albertan MLAs are here:

https://www.assembly.ab.ca/net/index.aspx?p=mla_home

In terms of donations, the Stand With Standing Rock group isn’t a US government org and doesn’t have restrictions on international donations, as far as I know (someone please correct me if I’m wrong).

@Vucodlak
From what I’ve read, no. Manning hasn’t been pardoned. Her sentence has been commuted. She’s still serving her full time, except that time has been shortened by a few decades. Trump can’t ‘undo’ the commutation. The President can overrule any judge’s sentencing decisions. Problem is (or, rather, fortune is) there’s no rules for overruling the President’s sentencing decisions

So, I guess Trump could try, but that creates a constitutional crisis. Then, the Supreme Court gets involved. And, as pro Trump as his bench will likely end up, he’ll hafta get past Kagan, Sotomayor, and any traditionalists from the ‘conservative’ side. Even they’d probably (hopefully?) think this is bridge too far

Beyond that, I just doubt Trump (or the people telling him what to do) would actually go for it. But who even knows with these ambulatory slimes. Anyway, corrections welcomed 🙂

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Kat:

Trump Aides Keep Leaking Embarrassing Stories About How He Can’t Handle Embarrassment

He’s a child. The world’s biggest superpower has elected a petulant child to its top job. Terrifying.

Hi there, Heil:

Without doing any research at all, I can assure you that every single one of the marchers has done what Donna Hylton did. We’re all torturer-murderers, and the Women’s March organizers had to do some very fancy picking and choosing to narrow down its list of speakers.

Okay, now I’ll take a second and do some research.

Oops! Cancel my first remark. I now recall that I’m not a torturer-murderer and that the nice people who marched alongside me didn’t seem to be torturer-murderers. Of course, the mileage of a person named Heil Dworkin will surely vary significantly from mine.

Anyway, here’s what I found after an extremely brief search (Heil, were you using a computer in your search?):

From Imprisonment to Empowerment

My name is Donna Hylton but for twenty-seven years I was known as Inmate #86G0206.

In 1986 I was sentenced to 25 years-to-life for kidnapping and second-degree murder. I served the time at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the only maximum-security prison for women in New York State, and was released in 2012.

My lifelong journey is one of many emotional and physical prisons; I went from abused child to repeated rape victim to desperate teen mother to solitary confinement where the boundary of my world was a 6’x10” cinder block room. It’s a story of tremendous pain and suffering, but it’s also a love story about freedom, hope, survival, sisterhood, redemption, and forgiveness. It’s about learning to love myself and fight for myself and for others.

Since my first day of freedom, I’ve been talking to politicians, to violent abusers, to teenagers, to prison officials, to victims, and to students to tell my story and the thousands of stories belonging to women not free to speak because they are silenced, behind bars, or dead.

I speak to make sure the voices of my sisters still behind bars are heard and to let the world know that although they made tragic choices and mistakes, they are not those choices and mistakes forever and neither am I. People can learn and grow and change in the unlikeliest of places and we must acknowledge that. As one of my fellow college students at Bedford said after graduation—“I was able to bloom in a very dark place.

I know and believe in my heart that my prison sentence was a part of a bigger plan; it was a place for me to survive, heal, and find my calling—to help others.

So I do what I do today because my life is the universal story of so many women—and my hope, survival and a happy ending can be theirs, too.

http://www.donnahylton.com/donna-hylton

Heil Dworkin, do you believe that a prisoner who has served her time and paid her debt to society should never have be allowed to speak in public? Is there no such thing as a second chance? Because that is surely not the American way — or at least the idealized form of it.

PS: You’ll be horrified to learn this:

Nationwide, over 150 cities and counties have adopted what is widely known as “ban the box” so that employers consider a job candidate’s qualifications first, without the stigma of a criminal record. Born out of the work of All of Us or None, these initiatives provide applicants a fair chance by removing the conviction history question on the job application and delaying the background check inquiry until later in the hiring.

http://www.nelp.org/publication/ban-the-box-fair-chance-hiring-state-and-local-guide/

Heil, next time you do your research, use a computer. You’re just embarrassing yourself with your request for help. You can always use a computer at the public library (an arguably socialist institution and a mainstay of our democracy).

@Kat: Would you believe that I’m not actually trolling and that I honestly need the help? I post mostly in the TBP-subreddit under the name bluepillbaby, and I’m currently under fire for coming out in defense of Donna Hylton. TRP is spreading this crap about her, and I’m trying to find some article to counter it. There’s no way anything coming directly from Donna Hylton herself is going to work. (Yes, I know, nothing is going to work. I’m still going to try.)

And I chose the name Heil Dworkin, because I hate the word feminazi SO MUCH. I wanted a way to… I don’t know, cunter-act it, I suppose? It’s what I write in response when I get called a feminazi on Reddit. I could change it back to “Frigid Virgin (Hey! I’m trying to stop global warming here! What’s your excuse?)”, if you’d prefer? (The reason I changed my ‘nym is because I changed my e-mail. I’ve got a throwaway one, now.)

Pretty sure I’ve seen Dworkin above post other totally normal comments before, too. Def. don’t think she’s a troll.

Here I am with my old ‘nym. I’m not trolling. I stopped posting immediately after Trump won, because I needed a break. I’m kind of back now. Kind of. I swear to you, Kat, I’m NOT trolling.

@Kat: Thank you! The problem is that the Women’s March had her as a speaker. That combined with the talk about maybe making a movie about her, makes them think feminists are glorifying a violent criminal. They DON’T believe in second chances. I was just hoping for some kind of, I don’t know, more down-to-earth article that wasn’t in anyway glorifying what she’s done, but also not gratuitous gorn. When the first thing people read about Donna Hylton is the picture I linked, it’s kind of hard to argue about compassion and second chances. That picture is damned well made to paint her in the worst possible light!

And, just for clarification purposes, I’m a FIRM believer in second chances. I believe that if you pay your debt to society and then spend the rest of your time being a productive member of society, that you absolutely deserve a second chance. People CAN change!

@ kat & heil dworkin

We’ve had quite a few discussions in the past about redemption and rehabilitation; I won’t reiterate the points previously made. One thing that did interest me when I read some of the links about this case, was that the judge who sentenced her was Edwin Torres. He’s the guy who wrote ‘Carlito’s Way’. That’s sort of relevant because his books generally are about people being drawn into crime through circumstances and then trying to go straight after sentence. That’s possibly because of his professional background. Before he was a judge he specialised in gang cases. He was from ‘the streets’ himself so it was a world he was pretty familiar with.