chimesofthesea

Saudi Arabia is such a funny name. it's like if the UK was called "Windsor Britain"

Tennessee is considering a bill (SB1868/HB2526) that would lock up foster kids indefinitely, even if they haven’t been charged with a crime. You can help kill this bill today. Here's what happens when kids are locked up without a crime: Hillary Transue was a teen in Pennsylvania. She made a MySpace page mocking her high school’s strict vice principal. At the end she wrote, "When you find this I hope you have a sense of humor." He didn’t. Instead of detention or a meeting with parents, Hillary was taken to juvenile court before Judge Mark Ciavarella. Her hearing lasted about 60 seconds. She was handcuffed right there and locked up. Her mother was horrified as Hillary who had never been in serious trouble, was treated like a dangerous criminal. Years later it was revealed Ciavarella was taking millions in kickbacks from private detention centers to lock up thousands of kids in the now-infamous Kids for Cash scandal. Fortunately for Hillary, she had a loving family and "only" spent about a month locked up. SB1868/HB2526 would allow Tennessee to detain foster kids, potentially until they are adults, without a charge even being filed, based on predictions about their behavior. We’re going to protect these kids from ever being put through that. I’ll explain how you can help in this thread.

One more for last night!

I would genuinely like to understand how Israel has arrived at such a debased, brutal culture.

Knew a guy in high school whose parents told him once he graduated, he was on his own. Sure enough, after the ceremony, he goes home & they tell him he needs to be out that night. He couch surfed while working at a roofing company. Pretty sure he died of an overdose during Covid.

The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president . The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship’s presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind. The US has ignored India’s sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India’s invitation. We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack. Our“responsibility” is at a moral and human plane. A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.

Who had the scariest prime? 🤔

Nas eleições de 1932, a distribuição demográfica dos votos no Partido Nazista foi praticamente inversa à das regiões de maioria católica. De modo geral, os católicos simplesmente não votaram em Adolf Hitler e nos nazistas. Based