pervocracy:

I want to comment on the news somehow but it’s exhausting.

Hot Take: throwing small children into basically-jail without their parents or any kind of real caregiving is bad.  Like extra bad, like it’s reminiscent of some already-bad things we were doing but this is really awful and I feel horrible and helpless just thinking about it. We elected the silly orange man who was outrageous on TV instead of the boring no-fun lady and now we have Baby’s First Concentration Camp. Follow and reblog for more fuckin’ Hot Takes.

Some things you can do to protest how incredibly awful this is:

– Call your senators, representatives, and governor.  Several state governors have already withdrawn National Guard support from the border in protest.  Has yours?

– Make sure you’re registered to vote, and vote!  (Do not assume that because you’ve registered in the past, that you still are.  States have been purging voter rolls and the Supreme Court has ruled this is allowable.  Check your voter registration status now.)  And vote Democrat.  I don’t care if you like them, you only have to like them more than the guy who’s ranting about how traumatized toddlers are all MS-13 plants here to “infest” our country, and the congresspeople who keep letting him get away with it.

– Protests are planned for June 30th.  There’s a directory of local protests here.