cuterpillar:

this shit is currently my jam

I know allllll the words, still.

mccormcorp:

These are shitty things you do, A LOT, which bother me, quite a bit:

- Post pictures of some really rich meal you’re eating and add captions like “this is why I’m fat” or “#fatass”. Fat people don’t eat like that all the time, if we did we wouldn’t maintain a steady weight - we’d always be…

WOW! I’m not a big-collar fan but this just changed my mind. Altogether great.

(via sleepydumpling)

Soundgarden at The Riv - Night 1

Noice shots!

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se-smith:

I’m working on a piece for AlterNet about the use of police in US schools, and I would really like to talk to teachers, students, and parents, particularly students who have been harassed/sent to court by police and their parents. If that’s you or someone you know, email me! 

sesmithwrites at gmail dot com

(via therotund)

A message from Xavier Danae Davis

Some of you know me as Danae, Dane, and or Xavier. I am grateful to say you know me, and that you have been among those who have poured inspiration, encouragement, laughter, and support into my life no matter how you called my name at the time.  Over the past 5 years, along with my name, my mind and body have been changing as I take the steps I feel are needed as a Transgendered person to feel fully present and connected to my body and the people around me. In September, my amazing partner Fresh and I will be traveling to Florida for gender confirming top surgery. I am reaching out to you as friends and family to support us in making the last $3,000 we need to cover medical fees, travel, and housing while recovering during the doctor’s required week long stay in FL. 

    As many of you know I have spent the majority of my life working in the nonprofit world often getting paid little to do very important and challenging work that is vital to the  people most of society overlooks and abuses.  My commitment to social justice has led me to do this work on numerous fronts.  I’ve met and worked with many of you at community events, organizing meetings, union halls, along campaign trails, rallies and protests. So you know firsthand how much of a struggle it is to do social justice work, eat, and keep up with bills, let alone save.  In this economy most people are struggling twice as hard to stay above water and get ahead. This is the main reason why it’s taking us so long to save the funds needed for this procedure.

karnythia:

• Watch “The New Jim Crow Museum” Video
  
  
• Online Giving Form for an Expanded Jim Crow Museum

The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia is a international leader in the fight against racism. The Museum was founded on the idea that everyday racist items can be used to teach visitors how to recognize and confront racism. Thousands of Jim Crow era artifacts that belittle African-Americans are housed in the Museum.

Since 1996, the Museum has been housed in a single small room at Ferris State University. Our goal is to raise $1.2 million to give more people — including school children, scholars and college students — an opportunity to learn about racism through a major expansion of the displays in a new location. The $1.2 million will fund the expansion of floor space in a new location from a mere 500 square feet to 2,100 square feet.

The newly designed and expanded space will allow for larger groups and individual walk-in visits, which currently are not possible. Walk-in hours will make it feasible for faculty members to use the Museum as a teaching resource and open the door for visitors from across Michigan and the Midwest.

The new Museum’s exhibits will tell six important stories:

• Origins of Jim Crow
• Jim Crow and Violence
• Jim Crow and Anti-Black Imagery
• Battling Jim Crow Imagery
• Attacking Jim Crow Segregation
• Moving Beyond Jim Crow

These stories will provide a powerful experience of what it was like to be a Black American under Jim Crow segregation and how racism lingers — subtly and not so subtly — today. The new Museum will feature a learning center, reference materials, and a forum for collaborative work with high schools, universities, government agencies and human right organizations.

How You Can Help

The Jim Crow Museum is the largest publicly accessible collection of racist artifacts in the country. With expanded space and greatly enhanced multi-media displays, the Museum will promote racial tolerance by helping people understand the historical and contemporary expressions of intolerance. You can help us turn that dream into a reality.

• Online Giving Form for an Expanded Jim Crow Museum

buttahlove:

dollface-galactica:

SUPER SIDE-EYE OF THE DAY!!!!

Flipping through a recent campaign and I stumbled across this…Really AVON? I can’t tell the difference! Light, Medium, and DARK..what?! EYES? have a SEAT! _/  >_> smh.. *puts pennies back in coinpurse*

See!!!! This shit right chea…. *smh*

Gag, barf, awful. Eff you, makeup. Really eff you. And an extra, specific eff you to whoever saw this final ad copy and gave it a thumbs-up.

inothernews:

1980: Ronald Reagan runs for president, promising a balanced budget

1981 - 1989: With support from congressional Republicans, Reagan runs enormous deficits, adds $2 trillion to the debt.

1993: Bill Clinton passes economic plan that lowers deficit, gets zero votes from congressional Republicans.

1998: U.S. deficit disappears for the first time in three decades. Debt clock is unplugged.

2000: George W. Bush runs for president, promising to maintain a balanced budget.

2001: CBO shows the United States is on track to pay off the entirety of its national debt within a decade.

2001 - 2009: With support from congressional Republicans, Bush runs enormous deficits, adds nearly $5 trillion to the debt.

2002: Dick Cheney declares, “Deficits don’t matter.” Congressional Republicans agree, approving tax cuts, two wars, and Medicare expansion without even trying to pay for them.

2009: Barack Obama inherits $1.3 trillion deficit from Bush; Republicans immediately condemn Obama’s fiscal irresponsibility.

2009: Congressional Democrats unveil several domestic policy initiatives — including health care reform, cap and trade, DREAM Act — which would lower the deficit. GOP opposes all of them, while continuing to push for deficit reduction.

September 2010: In Obama’s first fiscal year, the deficit shrinks by $122 billion. Republicans again condemn Obama’s fiscal irresponsibility.

2011:  Tea Party, Republicans upset that Tumblr is smearing Ronald Reagan’s good name.

This isn’t a perfect timeline, so pick at it if you must, but LOOK AT IT. JUST LOOK AT IT.

(Source: azspot, via karnythia)