Trump’s Signals to White Supremacists Aren’t Dog Whistles. They’re Flares. – Mother Jones

...Not only were extremists excited by Trump’s campaign. Not only were they using it to recruit on a scale they hadn’t imagined before. They felt that the campaign was signaling to them actively and deliberately—and the more we dug, the more we realized they were right... Trump’s Signals to White Supremacists Aren’t Dog Whistles. They’re Flares. – Mother Jones

Refugees, by @judeinlondon

As someone who works primarily with unaccompanied minors let me just smash this continued women & children first myth re: refugees.

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) 23 October 2016

1) women are always at risk in conflict. We tend to pay the highest price. There was an entire summit on this in 2014 by Angelina Jolie & UN

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) 23 October 2016

2) so many refugees & minors happen to be male is largely because they're fleeing conscription into fighting. This isn't rocket science.

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) 23 October 2016

3) there is a long and rich history of young boys & teenagers being roped into fighting wars they neither understand nor want part of.

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) 23 October 2016

Families will send their at risk children away from war to give them a chance of survival. This is the first deployment of women & children.

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) 23 October 2016

So if you live in a constantly under siege town where 14yr old boys are being rounded up to go& fight, you're gonna try to get then out.

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) 23 October 2016

This isn't really groundbreaking information. The use of child soldiers is as old as time. So these young boys & men become the refugees we

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) 23 October 2016

see. And they're just as vulnerable as women & young girls fleeing sexual violence in conflict. But because we have been conditioned to...

— Congolesa Rice (@judeinlondon) 23 October 2016

ZOMG drama! Rand Paul under attack!

I think Eugene Fear-the-Peen has been selling his illegal email spam lists again. Over the past few weeks I’ve been getting increasingly dramatic begging letters from some frantic lunatic calling himself Rand Paul.

Rand Paul, Rand Paul. I’ve heard that name before. Ah, yes, he’s a Tea Party whackjob who, on top of being linked to the extreme anti-gay hate squad (inferred from his use of the same mailing list):

• has described taxation as slavery and wants to sue the Treasury and IRS for passing tax-evasion measures; 
• was involved in the moronic shutdown of 2013, which he doesn’t regret because he hates Obamacare; 
• wants pilots to be armed (just let the idea of someone firing a gun in a pressurised cabin sink in); 
• is anti gun control no matter how many people are massacred; 
• unsurprisingly, also has ties with white supremacists; 
• appears to want the abolition of marriage (because the … 

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