HopefulCanadian

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. - Hubert Humphrey. No space for apathy here. BA, MA, SSW.

[HopefulCanadian @HpfulCanadian]

Oh, it matters. You unbelievable misogynistic jackass, you have no idea how much what you did matters. To whom, and how. I felt like puking when I saw that display, and still do - the least presidential thing thus far. You beast. #ChristineBlaseyFord #Trump

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Told that it seems like he's calling Blasey Ford a liar, Trump says, "I'm not going to get into it because we won. It doesn't matter. We won."

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

18-year-old U.S. citizen dying from cancer begs to see parents one last time—ICE is keeping them detained.

Parents were denied humanitarian visa—so forced to cross border illegally.

Son is in hospice care—only wish is to hug mom and dad before he dies.

Willing to self-deport and sign any paperwork voluntarily just to be released from the detention center before it's too late.

"It’s very difficult because the processes are very slow," said their lawyer.

Meanwhile, Kevin faces the possibility of dying in just a matter of days far away from his parents.

"Please help me fulfill my last wish."

[𝓓𝓸𝓬_𝔃𝓮𝓮 ✧ @doc_zee7]

Airlines sending me "we're in this together" emails. When my suitcase was 52 pounds I was on my own.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

When I was a few weeks postpartum with my second child, I bundled us both up and waddled into the Fairfax County Circuit Court to testify against a man who had accosted my then-toddler daughter and I in a public bathroom while I was heavily pregnant.

When I arrived I was brought into a room with his other victims and found out he had assaulted a woman in the same bathroom. I suddenly felt I had been lucky.

The arresting officer who had also interviewed me weeks prior was clearly eager to do everything right to keep this guy off the street—he found additional witnesses, pulled surveillance footage, followed every step to the letter.

It was physically painful and difficult for me to even be there—trying to discreetly feed and soothe my two week-old for 6 hours on hard benches when we should both be home in bed. It was also terrifying discreetly breastfeeding in the same room as this monster.

When I finally took the stand, the attorney for the Commonwealth asked me if the man who was in the bathroom that day was in the room.

I paused, confused—because I knew what was going to happen next.

The courtroom had been packed all day but as case after case was handled, ours was the last one—now it was just the judge, court reporter, bailiff, the defendant, his lawyer, the Commonwealth attorney, and I.

The arresting officer wasn't in the room. The other victim and her husband had been given a new court date and sent home.

I adjusted my baby against my chest and looked at her as she repeated the question: Do you see the man you reported to police in this room today?

Why was she doing this? What was she doing?

I was sweating in my oversized cashmere nursing sweater and I felt prickles down my back. Everyone was staring at me. I'm not a lawyer. She asked me a question... and she was “on my side” so I should answer it, right?

I adjusted my baby again to give myself a free hand—and I pointed to him.

And just as I expected, his lawyer immediately pointed out there was nobody else present in the courtroom who it could be and therefore we had violated his constitutional right to due process.

The judge agreed. Hell, *I* agreed—but then I asked WHY hadn't the Commonwealth given me a photo array to choose from? Why did she ASK that?

Too late. It didn't matter that he was on surveillance footage entering the bathroom before us and pushing past us as we fled.

He was set free.

As I walked out of the court room the arresting officer spotted me from down the hall and ran over to me “Is it back in this courtroom? Is it starting?”

No, I told him, it's already over. He had been sent to another courtroom “by mistake.” He didn't even get a chance to testify. He looked horrified.

The Commonwealth attorney and “victims advocate” that morning assured us they were going to fight for us. They were SO SORRY this had happened to us. They were SO GRATEFUL that I had come to testify in my condition.

Instead they seemingly intentionally let the monster walk free.

It's been two years.

Yesterday he was released on bail for yet another crime—one of at least THIRTEEN he's committed since that day in court—including sexual abuse of a child under 15.

His arrest record from just the last 5 years spans four pages on the Virginia court website.

Look at how many women—and CHILDREN—he's victimized since that day.

Look how many times his victims have gone to court just as I did only to see him set free again and again and again.

This is NOT happening by accident.

This is deliberate.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Wait so Kristi Noem’s podium at DHS is just a straight up Nazi slogan now?

"One of ours, all of yours" was a Nazi policy made when an SS officer was killed in a Czech Village and then the Nazis killed every single resident of that village in response…..but don’t you dare call them Nazis!

[HopefulCanadian @HpfulCanadian]

@TTChelps Here we are, once again, right outside of Kipling station, just sitting here for minutes on end. I try to build in the time but it is hard not to get frustrated with delays EVERYDAY, and some quite long.

[HopefulCanadian @HpfulCanadian]

It should literally take 10 minutes, we're at over half an hour.

[HopefulCanadian @HpfulCanadian]

@TTChelps I take the subway from Keele to Kipling to go to Humber College, and EVERY DAY there is a delay, EVERY DAMN DAY, I leave more and more time and it doesn't matter, I am late, it is a short, simple ride, I don't understand.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Eric Trump: I got 112 subpoenas. The most subpoenas in American history for any one person.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Los Angeles County has just declared a STATE OF EMERGENCY over the federal ICE raids.

Think about that. The county is literally declaring an emergency over what the federal government is doing.

This is Trump‘s America.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Donald Trump's logic:

Argentina undercuts American farmers by helping China embargo our soybeans?

It gets $20 billion U.S. taxpayer dollars and a White House visit.

American citizens struggle as health care costs double?

The Trump Administration has nothing for you.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

[Addison Dick @addisondick0]

BREAKING: @EliseStefanik's top allies praised Hitler, called to put opponents in gas chambers, and repeatedly used racist and antisemitic hate speech in leaked chats.

Stefanik called them the "backbone" of the NY GOP two months ago.

https://t.co/LSrNjwBgSX

[Richard Angwin @RichardAngwin]

Be like Sally Kornbluth

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Meta has removed a Facebook page used to track the presence of immigration agents at the request of the Department of Justice, the company confirmed. https://t.co/38Mqz5I5Wf

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

"During the second Trump administration, George has continued criticizing the president and figures of his administration, including Stephen Miller (during her appearance on The Katie Miller Podcast, Kellyanne described the Millers as some of her 'best friends' in the current administration)."

https://t.co/toZLlLfFDU

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Prolonged AI use may make it harder to think critically and creatively, recent research suggests. But there are ways to keep the brain fit https://t.co/YGnqCeKoaK

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

MEMENTO was released 24 years ago today. Acclaimed by experts as one of cinema's greatest explorations of memory, and the film that catapulted the career of Christopher Nolan, the making of story is one you won't forget…

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[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Murphy: "If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone. I don't think we have a year to save American democracy. I think the way the president is acting ... puts out democracy at immediate risk."

[Face The Nation @FaceTheNation]

When asked about President Trump’s targeting of prominent law firms, including pulling the security clearances of attorneys who were involved in representing special counsel Jack Smith on Trump's federal 2020 election interference case, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) responded, "Jack Smith was politically motivated."

"People who engage in trying to destroy President Trump, I don't mind him going after them in a lawful way," Graham adds.