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| The US government is abusing children – we can't stop being urgently ashamed | The US government is abusing children – we can't stop being urgently ashamed |
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| The Week in Patriarchy is a weekly roundup of what’s happening in the world of feminism and sexism. If you’re not already receiving it by email, make sure to subscribe. | The Week in Patriarchy is a weekly roundup of what’s happening in the world of feminism and sexism. If you’re not already receiving it by email, make sure to subscribe. |
| During a time when news feels like a constant deluge, there is one story – one tweet, really – that I can’t get out of my mind. PBS reported that after being separated from his parents, a 14-month-old boy was returned covered in lice and without having been bathed in 85 days. That’s nearly three months. Three months without giving a baby a bath. If a parent didn’t bathe a child for that long, they’d be arrested for child abuse – and this is what our government is doing to children who aren’t even old enough to talk. | During a time when news feels like a constant deluge, there is one story – one tweet, really – that I can’t get out of my mind. PBS reported that after being separated from his parents, a 14-month-old boy was returned covered in lice and without having been bathed in 85 days. That’s nearly three months. Three months without giving a baby a bath. If a parent didn’t bathe a child for that long, they’d be arrested for child abuse – and this is what our government is doing to children who aren’t even old enough to talk. |
| I’m terrified that because of Trump’s fake executive order, the media will lose sight of the torture these children and families are being put through – that we’ll think the worst is over. Because the truth is that nothing has really changed – we are still in the midst of a humanitarian crisis perpetrated by the Trump administration. These are people who didn’t even bother to keep records or make a plan for how they were going to reunite these children with their parents – now we’re told they’re going to rely on DNA. | |
| A baby wasn’t bathed for three months. In our country, thanks to our government. We cannot stop being urgently ashamed – maybe not ever. | A baby wasn’t bathed for three months. In our country, thanks to our government. We cannot stop being urgently ashamed – maybe not ever. |
| Glass half-full | Glass half-full |
| My new hero Therese Patricia Okoumou – who scaled the Statue of Liberty in protest of the Trump administration’s internment of immigrant children – said something that had me in tears: “Michelle Obama, our beloved First Lady that I care about so much, said when they go low, we go high. And I went as high as I could.” | My new hero Therese Patricia Okoumou – who scaled the Statue of Liberty in protest of the Trump administration’s internment of immigrant children – said something that had me in tears: “Michelle Obama, our beloved First Lady that I care about so much, said when they go low, we go high. And I went as high as I could.” |
| That there are people like this in our country give me much-needed hope. | That there are people like this in our country give me much-needed hope. |
| What I’m RTing | What I’m RTing |
| Trump on media: "they are so damn dishonest." "They're fake.""These are really bad people.And he's still going. So there's your answer to the question of whether Trump's rhetoric would change after 5 journalists were gunned down in Annapolis. | Trump on media: "they are so damn dishonest." "They're fake.""These are really bad people.And he's still going. So there's your answer to the question of whether Trump's rhetoric would change after 5 journalists were gunned down in Annapolis. |
| 14 month old boy separated from immigrant parents at the border, was returned after 85 days, covered with lice, had apparently not been bathed - part of lawsuits filed by states against Trump administration @LisaDNews reports @NewsHour tonight | 14 month old boy separated from immigrant parents at the border, was returned after 85 days, covered with lice, had apparently not been bathed - part of lawsuits filed by states against Trump administration @LisaDNews reports @NewsHour tonight |
| Trump wants to meet with Putin alone, with no other aides present on either side, in Helsinki this month. That means no note-takers, witnesses, or official record. https://t.co/nUepSFAUNP | Trump wants to meet with Putin alone, with no other aides present on either side, in Helsinki this month. That means no note-takers, witnesses, or official record. https://t.co/nUepSFAUNP |
| Before she and two others were shot dead in Alabama on Sunday, Debra Ann Rivera twice had asked a judge to order her ex-husband to surrender his guns because of alleged abuse.The request was denied both times by the same judge. https://t.co/LkZVNNEv5w | Before she and two others were shot dead in Alabama on Sunday, Debra Ann Rivera twice had asked a judge to order her ex-husband to surrender his guns because of alleged abuse.The request was denied both times by the same judge. https://t.co/LkZVNNEv5w |
| Who I’m reading | Who I’m reading |
| Jamelle Bouie on Trump’s move to denaturalize citizens and to “preserve a shrinking white majority”; Michelle Garcia on how the end of Roe is already here for some states; and Michelle Goldberg on how women might save America. | Jamelle Bouie on Trump’s move to denaturalize citizens and to “preserve a shrinking white majority”; Michelle Garcia on how the end of Roe is already here for some states; and Michelle Goldberg on how women might save America. |
| What I’m listening to | What I’m listening to |
| This brutally important episode of The Daily following one family’s reunification process. | This brutally important episode of The Daily following one family’s reunification process. |
| How outraged I am | How outraged I am |
| At a Montana rally, Trump made a #MeToo joke, mocking rape and harassment victims. That’s outrageous enough on its own, but what really has me at a 10 out of 10 is just how damn used to it we all are. | At a Montana rally, Trump made a #MeToo joke, mocking rape and harassment victims. That’s outrageous enough on its own, but what really has me at a 10 out of 10 is just how damn used to it we all are. |
| Trump suggests he would like to test Elizabeth Warren for Native American heritage, "but we have to do it gently because we're in the MeToo generation." pic.twitter.com/kgQ54Lxqbo | Trump suggests he would like to test Elizabeth Warren for Native American heritage, "but we have to do it gently because we're in the MeToo generation." pic.twitter.com/kgQ54Lxqbo |
| How I’m making it through this week | How I’m making it through this week |
| I don’t know why, but this had me in tears. | I don’t know why, but this had me in tears. |
| the world: [at the edge of apocalypse]me: [oblivious, headphones on] pic.twitter.com/6YwYotstzG | the world: [at the edge of apocalypse]me: [oblivious, headphones on] pic.twitter.com/6YwYotstzG |
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