Home, by Warsan Shire (British-Somali poet)

no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark.

you only run for the border
when you see the whole city
running as well.

your neighbours running faster
than you, the boy you went to school with
who kissed you dizzy behind
the old tin factory is
holding a gun bigger than his body,
you only leave home
when home won't let you stay.

no one would leave home unless home
chased you, fire under feet,
hot blood in your belly.

it's not something you ever thought about
doing, and so when you did -
you carried the anthem under your breath,
waiting until the airport toilet
to tear up the passport and swallow,
each mouthful of paper making it clear that
you would not be going back.

you have to understand,
no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land.

who would choose to spend days
and nights in the stomach of a truck
unless the miles travelled
meant something more than journey.

no one would choose to crawl under fences,
be beaten until your shadow leaves you,
raped, then drowned, forced to the bottom of
the boat because you are darker, be sold,
starved, shot at the border like a sick animal,
be pitied, lose your name, lose your family,
make a refugee camp a home for a year or two or ten,
stripped and searched, find prison everywhere
and if you survive and you are greeted on the other side
with go home blacks, refugees
dirty immigrants, asylum seekers
sucking our country dry of milk,
dark, with their hands out
smell strange, savage -
look what they've done to their own countries,
what will they do to ours?

the dirty looks in the street
softer than a limb torn off,
the indignity of everyday life
more tender than fourteen men who
look like your father, between
your legs, insults easier to swallow
than rubble, than your child's body
in pieces - for now, forget about pride
your survival is more important.

i want to go home, but home is the mouth of a shark
home is the barrel of the gun
and no one would leave home
unless home chased you to the shore
unless home tells you to
leave what you could not behind,
even if it was human.

no one leaves home until home
is a damp voice in your ear saying
leave, run now, i don't know what
i've become.

but i know that anywhere is safer than here. (Painting: Holy Family Icon by Kelly Latimore)

I am liberal. I do not support 'wide open borders'. I do not know anyone that does.

You do know that most of the problems in central america are US caused. In Hondouras we helped with the coup that created the current shitty government, high murder rate and poor conditions. We push the war on drugs that only enriches cartels in these countries.

As to illegal immigrants. it is capitalists here that provide the opportunity. They are economically unwilling or unable to hire Americans and pay them a higher wage and taxes and instead hire illegals. Who should be punished in this scenario? The person looking for abetter life, or the businessman, farmer, construction company that exploits their labor to the detriment of citizens?

Also, this caravan - if it comes to a border point - this is legal asylum seeking. The office of refugee resettlement spends about half a billion per year resettling asylum seekers. Trumps camps cost 2 billion in just a few months. Sometimes it is cheaper just being a decent person.

This country has PLENTY. The only reason it does not feel like that to most is the artificial scarcity imposed by the oligarchy. This is the capitalism so many her slavishly and uncritically adore.

"And nothing of value was lost"

Well that goes without saying - but our reps have long since sold out. I don't think anything will change that short of collapse or revolution.

In the US - the gvmnt cannot negotiate the price of drugs - even for medicare/medicaid. Given that these programs are one of the biggest purchasers of drugs in the USA - this is a golden teat that pharmaceutical companies will continue to exploit - by raising prices all around. Why not, their biggest customer is guaranteed to pay any price.

Hey dick. I was in prison for over a decade and had to submit to searches like that.

I still do not agree with TSA search/scans even if much milder. We are using fear to control the population, and wasting treasure (money). Our 'leaders' loving having that fear to wield as a cudgel, and the real terrorists are laughing as our society turns in on itself in fear and waste.

I think this may have been a more general DDOS (seemingly on DNS infrstructure). I use comcast at work with google DNS and major sites were down all over. downdetector and digital attack map showed evidence of a massive DDOS too.

I hate comcast but maybe this one is not on them (or just them).

Pump and dump - it's not just for hookers anymore.

Thinking about it some more, having it have multiple steps would help. Perhaps the dead-man trigger would not wipe the device but put it into an 'alert' state such that any attempt at data connection through USB or failed 'real' unlock attempt would wipe the device.

What you are promoting is a dead-man-switch. Technically easy to implement, but not done by any device manufacturer currently. Probably because they do not want the piles of support calls for accidental phone wipes.

It should be named Facebook Universal CryptoKoin or FUCK on the exchanges.

It is the cement production that releases CO2. Concrete is an aggregate of cement and sand, stone etc. - so yeah, cement is the proper term here.

FIVE PERCENT of global CO2 emissions for cement production. Reinforced is one of the most useful, versatile, and inexpensive construction materials we have devised. I wish to reduce co2 emissions - targeting something that far down the stack seems stupid to me given its utility. Much better gains in CO2 reduction can be made elsewhere (power generation and transportation).

I am not knocking hemp - we should use it more. But, please - try to build a skyscraper or bridge out of hemp. Get back to me on that when you figure it out.

Something similar can be said about any non-union employee working in an at-will employment state. No contractual guarantee....