There’s a reason that the Right have all rallied so quickly behind this narrative: it’s happened before, with ICE’s approval.

Renee is the ninth person to have been shot by ICE since last September; and in all of those shootings the victim was in a vehicle and the agents claimed that the vehicle was “a threat”/trying to “run them down.” One other shooting, that of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, was also lethal.

It’s shameful that people have scared you with their words and actions to the point that you need to hide who you are. 

It’s shameful that people are outed against their will by people who they trust. It’s shameful that people are outed by strangers who are just assholes. It’s shameful that people are forced to come out because they’re manipulated by people who can’t respect boundaries. 

The closet is stressful and tiring and can feel suffocating and alienating. I don’t know of a single queer who has enjoyed the experience of being closeted.

But it’s not shameful to protect yourself. it’s not shameful to make the best decisions for you that keep you safe until you can find a better, more open, more joyous place. 

And you can still have joy in the closet. You are as queer in that closet as you are outside of it, and I’d rather you stay safe in it until it’s safe for you outside of it.

the truth is that they don’t care about that, because that doesn’t make them feel like a hero. rehauling sex ed and subsidizing contraception and passing child tax credits is hard work, and it’s boring, and it takes a long time. so-called pro-lifers like the simplicity of passing a law banning abortions and saying, “we did it! we ended abortion! we saved the babies!” and they’ll ignore the pain and death that comes in the wake of those laws, because it doesn’t matter to them, because they saved all those babies, didn’t they? they want to be crusaders of the unborn, and that’s where their engagement ends. anything that requires more effort and empathy than that is too much work for them.

Kitty bed

There’s one for every state.

(From the looks of it, I haven’t looked to see if there’s 50 apps.)

[Edit: nope. There’s not one for every state.]

ACLU Blue is for posting your video to a public forum, not requesting a legal review.

Mobile Justice is for sharing your video “directly with an affiliate’s legal department” and requesting a legal review. You are not requesting to post to a public forum.

However, both apps allow ACLU affiliates to share your videos with whoever they see fit, including the general public. “Like ACLU Blue, videos submitted via the Mobile Justice apps are not privileged.” 

Each app has a selection of additional features that is slightly different from the other app’s additional features.

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