Living in Trump World.

A week after Roseanne Barr’s ABC sitcom closed out a successful comeback season, the outspoken comedian was at the center of a social media storm prompted by her reference on Twitter to “The Planet of the Apes” when mentioning a former top adviser to President Barack Obama who is black.

Early on Tuesday, Ms. Barr posted a comment about Valerie Jarrett, the former adviser to Mr. Obama, that said if “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.”

I’ve never seen her sitcom and I’ve never been able to keep track of all the people named Roseanne we’re supposed to pay attention to. but I know what “ape” jokes are about.

The tweet

Meanwhile, in another part of the Reactionary Forest, the Christianists are plotting to impose their religion on all of us.

The idea behind Project Blitz is to overwhelm state legislatures with bills based on centrally manufactured legislation. “It’s kind of like whack-a-mole for the other side; it’ll drive ‘em crazy that they’ll have to divide their resources out in opposing this,” David Barton, the Christian nationalist historian and one of four members of Project Blitz’s “steering team,” said in a conference call with state legislators from around the country that was later made public.

According to research provided by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, more than 70 bills before state legislatures appear to be based

Now here’s a feel-good story…about an IMMIGRANT, a BLACK immigrant, from AFRICA, from one of those “shithole” countries in AFRICA.

A West African migrant is being praised in France for scaling a building to save a boy hanging from a fourth-floor balcony in Paris. The man, Mamoudou Gassama, will be made a French citizen, the Elysee Palace announced today.

Gassama’s act was caught on video and went viral on social media. The incident happened on Saturday night in the north of Paris, the Malian migrant told French media.

Gassama was in the neighborhood to watch a soccer match in a local restaurant when he heard people screaming and cars honking in the streets.

When he saw the young child

Well, that’s blunt.

Well you've really done the Irish LGBT community a huge disservice. Thanks for making adoption an even more difficult prospect for them.

Oh, and for the straight guys? The Dad's don't get a say??? Well the male suicide rate among heterosexual men will most likely rise.

— ˈhɛnri (@HenryB1992) May 26, 2018

Note the hidden premise in “Well you’ve really done the Irish LGBT community a huge disservice. Thanks for making adoption an even more difficult prospect for them.” The hidden premise is that people’s desire to adopt children is a reason to force women to bear those children against their wills. That’s the issue here: forcibly preventing women from ending their own pregnancies. The hidden premise … Read the rest

What was that about separating children from their parents?

Forcibly separating parents from children has a history; it is our history. pic.twitter.com/1OgxeCLF8V

— Martha S. Jones (@marthasjones_) May 26, 2018

In case you’re not familiar with the history – slave families could be broken up at any time at the pleasure of their “owners.”

Native American children were forcibly taken away to boarding schools at 6 yrs old. Beaten or worse,for not speaking English. I knew old Natives when I was a kid. Some talked with a lysp and had facial burns.

— Explorer David-Neel (@nevergop33) May 26, 2018

The lisp and facial burns were from torture for speaking their own languages at the schools.

A couple of pictures

Speaking of children…

The US government seems to have lost some.

The federal government has placed thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children in the homes of sponsors, but last year it couldn’t account for nearly 1,500 of them.

Steven Wagner, a top official with the Department of Health and Human Services,disclosed the number to a Senate subcommittee last month while discussing the state of the Office of Refugee Resettlement(ORR) that oversees the care of unaccompanied immigrant children.

Wagner is the acting assistant secretary for the Administration for Children and Families, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. ORR is a program of the Administration for Children and Families.

CNN reported earlier this month

More reaction shots.

Official result: Republic of Ireland votes resoundingly to overturn abortion ban with voters backing reform of constitution https://t.co/urPAqRybLz pic.twitter.com/cFFqrxUyik

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) May 26, 2018

Breaking News: Ireland voted to overturn its ban on abortion, the prime minister said, in the country’s latest rebuke to the Catholic church https://t.co/jhdLLnNJ9l

— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 26, 2018

Ireland makes history after an overwhelming majority votes in a national referendum to overturn a 35-year-old abortion ban https://t.co/pKkXDlyjeT pic.twitter.com/IgZSWLZ5gJ

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) May 26, 2018

BREAKING: It's a big Yes: Stunning victory officially confirmed as 66.4pc vote to reform Ireland's restrictive abortion laws https://t.co/wHLtaDZkFr pic.twitter.com/dfBuVeYiR6

— Independent.ie (@Independent_ie) May 26, 2018

Ireland just made

Some Repeal the 8th tweets.

In memory of Savita Halappanavar, never again ☘️♀ #womensart #YesVote #RepealedThe8th pic.twitter.com/06okZJ0tKn

— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) May 26, 2018

No woman should have to die like this in order for draconian & out-dated laws to be changed.

May #SavitaHalappanavar also serve as a stark reminder to Northern Ireland to change its laws. #RepealedThe8th #YesVote https://t.co/nvGInYoVHa

— Dr Lauren Gavaghan (@DancingTheMind) May 26, 2018

https://twitter.com/CaoimheSloan/status/1000323212679483392

Best one:

Crowds at Dublin castle chant only one thing – yes pic.twitter.com/GJ3pmXuB4o

— Jordan Moates (@jordan_utv) May 26, 2018

Updating to add another best; h/t Seth.

Crowds chant 'Savita!' as 1.4m vote to repeal the 8th amendment #8thref #Savita https://t.co/gm60LClUQH pic.twitter.com/t69MPOg5uh

— 98FM (@98FM) May 26, 2018

… Read the rest

RTÉ reports:

The results in the referendum on the Eighth Amendment show the Yes side is ahead by a margin of around 2-to-1.

Most of the 40 constituencies have now finished counting ballot papers and have declared official results.

In what is expected to be the highest Yes vote, 78.4% of voters in Dublin Bay South opted to repeal the Eighth.

On a day described by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar as the “culmination of a quiet revolution”, Galway East was the first constituency to declare a result delivering a decisive Yes vote at 60%.

In the capital all declared constituencies have come in with over 70% for the Yes side.

Donegal looks to be the one constituency that will vote … Read the rest

Fun and games at the office.

A woman who complained of a racist and misogynistic culture in a Scottish government department claims she was taped to a chair and gagged by two male colleagues as a warning to keep quiet.

DeeAnn Fitzpatrick said the restraint took place amid years of bullying and harassment at Marine Scotland’s Scrabster office.

The fisheries officer has taken her case to an employment tribunal.

BBC Scotland has obtained a photo of the restraint incident.

It was taken by one of the men allegedly responsible.

Ms Fitzpatrick, a Canadian national, said it happened in 2010 as a result of her blowing the whistle on a threatening and misogynistic culture at Marine Scotland’s office in Scrabster,