The Department of Labor has just posted its second Nazi slogan (in the original, "Germany for Germans") in the last two days.
No one believes this is a coincidence.
They are telling America exactly who they are and what they intend.
Just fucking terrifying.
We’ve invaded countries for using chemical weapons on their own people
Given today’s news, I was recently introduced to this piece by Patricia Routledge, and i always found it really moving.
Why is everything in the UK of worth now "unsustainable"?
One reason the revolt on disability benefits is looking so substantial is the line being used to defend it lacks any integrity.
To claim that the purpose of cutting PIP - a non-means tested benefit - is to help people back into work requires saying something untrue.
The photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who passed away last month, at the age of 81, documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never. . . photograph the misery.”
For people without this specific resource available to them, the number of friends and family that will need to spend their time to help someone apply, it’s an insane amount of waste, but that’s not on the government balance sheet, so that’s acceptable. It’s infuriating
I remember considering applying for a benefit when a family member had a severe vision problem. The forms were ludicrous. We didn't apply in the end, as the disability was thankfully only temporary, but I can imagine how soul-destroying it must be for those with intractable problems.
A learning disability lasts a whole life. It's not a condition that can be ‘cured’ and the number of people with a learning disability claiming benefits has not increased significantly in recent years. So, why should they be penalised?
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People living with disability = some of the bravest people I've met; they're also some of the most able, where able = ability to cope with stuff that a large swathe of the population never have to think about. We must do way more as a society to support and learn from those less able than ourselves.
Not one word about how they will improve public transportation to help us get to get to work.
Not one word on how they will allow disabled people time off to attend a hospital appointment due to their disability.
The Times reports people will only be eligible for PIP if they score at least 4 points ***in a single activity*** (and more overall). This specifically discriminates against people with mental illness, who generally score fewer points across multiple areas. It would be an absolute disaster. 1/3
To get ministers to learn what it's like being on disability benefits.
For the next five years, MP wages are to drop down to just £9,100 a year. With constant paperwork, assessments done for any MP expense claims put forward.
I've not read the detail of proposed PIP restrictions, but this just sounds like reducing the points on PIP activities -- again a perverse incentive to present yourself as unable to do things, not a support to independence and agency.
So this (from www.alliance-scotland.org.uk/policy-and-r...) is about access to social care rather than disability payments, but it captures the kind of degrading hoops that disabled people are made to jump through to justify support. We need less, not more, of this bollocks.
The Government is planning “catastrophic” cuts that experts say will force disabled people into poverty. Don’t think that’s right? Add your name now. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-cruel...
The birth of steampunk: the legendary and prophetic science fiction work of French illustrator and author Albert Robida, published in 1885. Wonderfully illustrated, it depicts life in the 20th century. Aerial travel, video communication, floating sky palaces and equal rights for women.
I wonder what the rest of the world is saying about us now. Berlin newspaper.
Important follow-up on my pinned report and my recent post about the takeover at OPM: The Washington Post has confirmed the claims below.
There is indeed a takeover of the federal government happening that is being coordinated by people outside the government who have gotten access to U.S. servers.
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
Pitching one of those post Bake Off competitive crafting shows, this time based around the making of fancy hats. I'm calling it Who Wants to Be a Milliner? ✨...
11-year-old chimney sweep George Brewster was forced up a flue measuring just 12x7.5 inches.
His death, after becoming jammed inside, finally galavanised parliament to act.
Never forget what cruelties would be inflicted by greed were it not for “red tape”.
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"deviant sexual behaviour, including the child sexual abuse of his adolescent daughters, an incestuous relationship with at least one of his sisters, and also sexual experiments with a dog"
Look how long after death Eric Gill's reputation held out. He died in 1940 but revelations of sexual abuse (clearly detailed in his diaries) not made public until 1989.
the shit w neil gaiman makes me so angry because he is so self aware, he fucking knew what he did was wrong and wrote stories ab men like himself, and he STILL fucking did what he did. abhorrent. disgusting. i do not have words.
