I've stated this elswhere, but I'm going to repeat myself here, again:
I will not comment on the right or wrong of this. That is obvious to us all, I think. But from a strictly pragmatic point of view, this is a very dangerous course of action. This is how you incubate, and nuture a generation of terrorists and revolutionaries, who will forever hate 'Murica'. These children will remember these days. And, we will see them again in a decade or so. And it will NOT be pretty.

Please help register new voters!

Last April with two other volunteers, we registered 74 high school students to vote during four lunch hours. Wenatchee High School kindly provided tables and chairs. All students have the same lunch hour. Seniors can leave the building. They walked right past our tables.

"Register to vote!" I called loudly, all smiles, dancing and waving my arms. "It takes TWO minutes! Right here at these tables. The media says young people won't vote. Prove them wrong!"

We will do it again in September.

You are not totally helpless in this. Bug the crap out of your elected officials. Donate to the ACLU. And vote.

Anyone capable of compassion can sympathize with parents who want to find a safe home for their children. Anyone with any human decency would understand how despicable it is too threaten desperate people with separation from those they love.

For children the threat is even more terrifying; they've done nothing wrong and to treat children away from their protectors and caregivers when they are most vulnerable and frightened is fucking horrific. I can't even imagine the trauma that these people will have to deal with four decades to come.

Even if you cannot empathize because you are a narcissistic, ignorant piece of shit, you should see that this isn't terribly unlike actions that in the past have created generations of hatred and even terrorism.

I share your revulsion and anger. And every time tRump blames the democrats for the situation, I just want to reach into the TV and put my hands around his wrinkled orange neck and SQUEEZE. And can you believe that yesterday Jeff Sessions provided a bible verse to justify his adherence to this obnoxious policy.

Here's a link to a video of his press conference:
[abcnews.go.com]

And here's a link to verse(s) that are seen as more appropriate.

[theguardian.com]

Also, Stephen Colbert really ripped Sessions in his show last night.

(Here's your video and reading assignments for tonight, in case you needed something to fill your free time.)

Call your senators and ask them to support S.3036 the Keeping Families Together Act.

[congress.gov]

Yesterday, I was planning things out in my head just in case I had to drive down to Texas. I have no idea what I would do, but I'd have to go. Protest or help break down the walls. The news should be covering this 24/7. I see 2 minute snippets of it here and there on MSNBC, but for the most part, nothing.

Am I being hyperbolic, or are the children being held in detention centers in Texas remind you of concentration camps? This is sick.

Vote get everyone you know to vote

yep, some things are just so wrong, this is criminal.

I feel your pain and helplessness! What can I do? I wish I had an answer, I also wondered if showing up, would make a difference? It needs to be a mass demonstration of we ‘Americans do not support this treatment of children!’

I feel the same way. So helpless and powerless and so ashamed of my country.

Call your senator's office. Call your representative's office. Let them know that cruelty is not what the US is all about. This is evil and repugnant and will continue as long as good people do nothing.

AmeriKKKa.

I just signed a protest letter to Sessions’ Methodist church in Al...but I could not put it here, sorry!

This country makes me physically ill from everything it does.

Yes. But then, I've been frustrated with our American politics for a long time.

Yes and that so many people support it. I feel like a jew in 1939 Germany seeing the coming storm.

It's disgusting. Keep speaking out, be vocal and visible. We'll beat this!

When everyone’s done venting about the outrageousness of these acts, all I can say is get out and vote and stop throwing your vote away on extremists and third-party candidates with no hope of winning!

I have a friend who is having a very hard time with this also. Rationalizing what we are able to do, and finding an action to take, no matter how small, is what we were talking about yesterday.

It's disgusting.

I believe the majority of us do.

It is disgusting!

Oh yes. It's unreal. But you know.....Trump.

And yet if you asked most of the people in the Houston area aka republicans and so called Christians they are perfectly fine with what the keebler elf and the orange monster are doing.