What is filicide? In the past five years, over 548 people with disabilities have been murdered by their parents, relatives or caregivers. T hese acts are horrific enough on their own. But they exist in the context of a larger pattern: 1. A parent kills their disabled child. 2. The media portrays these murders as justifiable and inevitable due to the “burden” of having a disabled person in the family.7 3. If the parent stands trial, they are given sympathy and comparatively lighter sentences, if they are sentenced at all. 4. The victim is disregarded, blamed for their own murder at the hands of the person they should have been able to trust the most, and ultimately forgotten. 5. The media sends a message that if you kill your disabled child, you will receive attention and sympathy. The legal system sends a message that if you kill your disabled child, your punishment will likely be minimal. 6. Parents of kids with disabilities see these messages. 7. A parent kills their disabled child.
From the Anti-Filicide Toolkit:
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(Written by Ash Smith: link in quoted post)
Otis.
Leon.
Say their names.
Again.
Slower.
Otis.
Leon.
Because their stories
were still becoming.
Because there were thoughts,
hopes, fears, desires
denied the chance to be known,
questions not yet asked,
ways of being
only you
would have shown us.
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This is the guy who nerfed Tumblr’s usage with the porn ban btw.
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close up of me in an unzipped black bodysuit focusing on my deep cleavage/big round bazongas
jugs
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Doing my part as the whitest man alive.
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Show this video to every wh*te person that you know.
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Lovely, and heartbreaking. Help out his family if you can: everloved.com/life-of/dan-...
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In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
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NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed
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DHS tweet:
"GOOD MORNING MINNEAPOLIS!"
DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.
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A video documentary where Hayao Miyazaki is saying "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself"
Happy birthday to the one and only, Hayao Miyazaki.
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treating a 13 minute news clip like it's moonshine brewed in billy bob's backhouse in 1927
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A portrait of my torso. I'm pulling my top up almost all the way, but stopping just short of revealing my nipples. My heavy busy hangs out the bottom as you ache to see more.
Just another day being a ditzy bimbo on my OF 😘
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despite living under enormous pressure whales very rarely give up hope
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Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
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really hope he fits in the Uwe Boll encounter somehow if he's going the lowtax route
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If you don't want to be hated for being a member of the secret police black bagging people and dragging them off to concentration camps, there is a very simple solution.
don't become one.
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Trump orders oil tankers blockade in Venezuela, labels Maduro regime a "terrorist" group
The escalation exerts unprecedented pressure on the Maduro regime, threatening to bankrupt Venezuela's already struggling economy.
The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price.
Here we are again.
We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war.
www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...
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candy canes of all sizes and stuffed sacks galore
Santa Claus fetishizes pregnant reindeer vore
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wild how insane people are becoming about zohran mamdani. he has been focusing on the same affordability issues he’s been this whole time and the entire opposition to him has essentially been calling him a terrorist for the last week. god he needs to win, i need these evil losers to feel this
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Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough
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257. The Commission recommends that all Member States:
(a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip;
(b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide;
(c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law;
(d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide;
(e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
(a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants;
(b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.
As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.
End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
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That msnbc guy got fired for saying these words
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This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
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ok sure maybe not THIS one but still BASICALLY all political violence is coming from the left. for example, i was recently frightened by a homeless man
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