It is hard for me to comprehend how anyone can demonize refugees after hearing such stories and seeing their faces. It is possible that someone like Trump just doesn’t care to hear about people like Bana and instead focuses his attention on the ones that are responsible for horrible acts of violence. Or perhaps he…

This just shattered my heart into a million tiny pieces. How could the world fail Bana, her family and all the children trapped in these hellish conditions so terribly?

I think it’s interesting that this video on behalf of the Sandy hook charity is about watching fellow students for signs of mental health issues and “obsessions” with gun violence (like asking teens to police each other on that stuff is simple) when the guy who shot up Sandy Hook didn’t attend the school in the first…

You know....I don’t think I love this. Who is this aimed toward — teachers? Do we think teachers don’t try to intervene with troubled kids? Students? There were students interacting with this kid, and anyway, asking students to police the behavior of “creepy loner weirdos” is how you get bullying. (And I mean, say you…

I wouldn’t say that. She trusted that the principal would help her and he did.

These are kids; telling a trusted adult is not a “wasted step”, and it also allows her some accommodation from the school, so she doesn’t have to ride the same bus with him or whatnot. Give the girl a break- she did nothing wrong. No one can ever be a victim perfectly enough to meet everyone’s standards.

Ugh- your last line. You were doing so well!

“fast girls”

Obama has been a tremendous disappointment all around with this. I mean, it’s not super unexpected or anything but still - it’s pretty depressing.

Obama could put a stop to this right now, but hasn’t.

That’s one of the cardinal sins in America: not being born white.

Don’t cross post this to Gizmodo.

Or the current since this is happening on his watch. End of watch granted but none the less. Pressure should be mounted, more so because Obama could be persuaded to intervene. ETA: I do agree with you. Not trying to split hairs just adding on.

The current POTUS isn’t even touching this.

What a contrast to the Bundy occupation. Maybe if they were armed and white and had absolutely no claim to the land and water, they’d be treated like actual American citizens.

Late on Sunday, protesters at the encampment near the North Dakota Standing Rock Sioux reservation were corralled on a bridge and assaulted by police with water cannons, tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets. The police are characterizing the incident as a “riot.”

Adrienne Keene of Native Appropriations has put up a good list of direct actions you can take. Money, as we head into a bitterly cold winter, would probably help winterize the camps.

You can donate to the camps for provisions. They have an Amazon list of things they need for the winter. http://sacredstonecamp.org/faq/#howtohelp

It’s only going to get worse. We can’t give the future POSOTUS even one inch. Not one inch.

How do we help them?