by Megan Reynolds on The Slot, shared by Megan Reynolds to Jezebel
Over the long weekend, headstones at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society cemetery outside of St. Louis were vandalized—just another part of the quiet wave of anti-Semitism sweeping the nation, emboldened by the Trump administration. Now, two American Muslim activists have started a fundraising campaign to pay for the damage.
Me: Okay brain, let's try and get a few items off the to-do list done, okay?
Brain: ISOSCELES BUTTHOLE!
Me: GODDAMMIT BRAIN that's.... actually funny BUT NOT RELEVANT AND WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?
Seventy-five years after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which forced more than 120,000 Japanese Americans and legal residents into U.S. prison camps, actor and activist George Takei recalled being removed at gunpoint from his home and growing up in internment. See the full conversation with George Takei ⟶
The moment 24-year-old Phoebe Gill saw a picture of Stitch, the one eyed bald kitty, she knew she had to adopt her. “She had an injury to her eye, which would have been cured with medication but her breeder didn’t take her to a vets,” the rescuer writes. “When it got worse, the breeder gave her up and the vet took her in and did the surgery to remove the eye as it was too late to be saved.” Still, this didn’t stop the woman from seeing beauty in her: “[I] fell in love at first sight, and brought her home.” There was only one concern: how the kitty would get along with the lady’s dog…
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Turns out, there was nothing to worry about. Stitch made herself at home straight away, and, apparently, the adorable duo became inseparable: “It used to be that Alaska (my dog) would follow me everywhere, toilet and shower included. Now, there are two,” the woman said. “They eat together, sleep together, play together and I’m pretty sure if Stitch was allowed outside they would also poop together,” Phoebe told Bored Panda.
“I haven’t had Stitch long, but she’s brought so much love with her.”
So for the longest time black feminists and members of the LGBT community have been presenting WELL DOCUMENTED and extensive arguments about how trash, problematic & harmful M*lo is.
Not only is his “free speech” that everyone loves to defend racism, anti-semantic, misogynist, & white supremacist - he has actually outted and doxxed folks, putting vulnerable and powerless in LITERAL/PHYSICAL danger.
But these assholes couldn’t see past the unbearable whiteness and hegemonic male privilege, and gave him platforms, book deals and all the benefit of the doubt in this sick, sad world.
Despite marginalized folks screaming for years and years about his racism, transphobia, and violence, today people are realizing that he just might be an actual problem.
Great job at waiting until we are 500 miles past “too late”
YOU GOTTA FIGHT
*DUN DUN*
FOR YOUR RIGHT
*DUN DUN*
To have basic control over your body and reproductive system holy shit this should not still be a debate
[Note: When J. Elliot refers to her being classed as one of ‘your people’ in relation to black people of color, it’s based on her reputation of being an outspoken, anti-racism ally].
White people get deeply offended hearing black people speak this truth, so maybe hearing Jane Elliot say it will cut through the white fragility: White people’s default setting is racism. Because America’s default setting is racism. That doesn’t mean they cannot unlearn it, but anti-Blackness is so ubiquitous in Western culture that unlearning racism is not something that just magically happens because you think you’re a good person. It’s not something you attain and then forget about. It’s a perishable skill.
Nobody becomes “not racist” by repeatedly declaring “But hey, I’M not racist” on social media. Becoming “not racist” is defined by conscious choice, coupled with actions—like listening to black people, calling out racism, and not saying or doing racist things—that prove you aren’t racist. Being “not racist” is something that needs to be worked on CONSTANTLY.
It’s hard to improve on an onion ring, but I dare say the folks at Tastemade have done just that. Instead of dipping the allium loops in a batter and then frying them, they’ve gone low-carb (and high-taste) by wrapping them in strips of tasty bacon and baking them.
by Prachi Gupta on The Slot, shared by Gabrielle Bluestone to Jezebel
Juhel Miah is not from any of the seven countries listed in Donald Trump’s immigration ban. But he is Muslim. Miah was denied entry to the US last week, saying he was “made to feel like a criminal,” and now Welsh officials are demanding an explanation for what appears to be anti-Muslim discrimination from the US…
You swerve to avoid a squirrel. Unknown to you, the squirrel pledges a life debt to you. In your darkest hour, the squirrel arrives.
I showed this to my 5 year old nephew and said ‘what do you think this brave squirrel’s name is?’ and he replied ‘Sir Nuts-a-lot’ and my mom has been laughing for about 5 solid minutes
A good take on why Trumpkins don’t hear what the rest of us hear when President Trump spews incoherent word salad.
Also why I have limited interest in, or energy for, trying to persuade them through rational debate.
I have been baffled by this all along - I could not for the life of me imagine what his supporters were hearing when they listened to him babble incoherently. He’s like a political Rorschach’s test.
I feel like I’ve had the curtain drawn back.
I realized I do this to him too. I’m always trying to figure out WHAT THE FUCK HE MEANS. Only because I don’t like him and what he stands for, I’m actually trying to parse reality from it, so it strikes me as insane.
But if I was predisposed to him, my mind would decide on something that filled out my preconceived expectation.
Humans Brains are so fucking weak and wrong.
If you’ve paid attention to the way racist/generally bigoted white people have talked literally since the dawn of time, this wouldn’t be a surprise to you, but I like the way OT phrased it.
But really people often talk like this when they want to say horrible things about other human beings they know they shouldn’t be saying, it’s just with Trump it suddenly matters can’t he’s flushing our country down the toilet.
See: the way white people have always talked about the mysterious inner city and the infamous black on black crime. Or just black women in general. There are always unfinished sentences about black people/POC and ya’ll never have trouble completely them in your own heads.
It’s like their very own “auto-complete” for searches they know have already been done by their supporters time and time again.
By the way, Fox News has been doing a similar version of this for years. A local columnist pointed out that they often ask absolutely ridiculous questions, but because they ask it in question form, they get wiggle room.
“Does Obama want to kill your grandparents when they go to the doctor?”
Now, the question in itself is open ended, but obviously, you’re set up to believe that, yes, your grandparents will die because of Obama. The onus is on the station to disprove a question like this, but instead they throw a vague, twisted statement out and have two opposing people argue as if both sides of the conversation are equal in value and truth. The subject of the question then the non-clear rebuttal makes the answer seem obvious that Obama is killing your sweet granny and grandpa when they go for a flu shot.
I say all this because this network has been grooming their followers to fill in the blanks from vagueness this entire time. Trump just knows how to fill in just enough words to start the thought process down that way. He’s taken what Fox News started and perfected it.
I couldn’t remember how I had arrived at that dark place. The last thing I recalled was going to a student’s house, a nubile young thing whose beauty stoked the fires of my aging passion.
“How did I get here?” I said quietly, distantly to myself. This dank cave was no place for an esteemed professor of English literature, the most glorious and noble of all the Earth’s tongues.
There was a pool of water, and I washed my face in it. Staring at my reflection, I noticed a cast to my eyes, as if some great thing were floating upon their surface like a person could float upon the Dead Sea.
Suddenly, there she was. My student. The soft, ivory tone of her flesh still stirred something within me.
“You are here,” she said cryptically. Something was wrong. Her… curves were in all the wrong places. There, in the darkness, it was as if the contours of her youthful body did not conform to the Euclidean laws of the universe, bending and twisting in ways out of the corners of my eyes. Her head tilted to the side and that mouth opened, revealing teeth and eyes far within…
She wasn’t like other girls, I thought, screaming.
(Also, this means he can honestly say “I never said that” when people he doesn’t like fill in his blanks with the nasty things to which he’s alluding.)
I know it sounds like it’s going to be bad and in some ways it is but I promise you that it is also good (if you like Fiona Apple; I’m not sure if you do).
Fiona Apple has a Christmas song already, remember? Oh. I’m just noticing this now: she has more than one. She has two! The one I was thinking of was this one, “Frosty the Snowman”:
She also does a live cover of “Please Come Home for Christmas.” Here’s a recording of that, at the beginning of which she says “Happy Hanukkah” because she “always feels so weird about just, like, Christmas.” Haha. I love her!
Today, coming from Pitchfork, she released a new Christmas song. I’ll ask you not to judge it too harshly from the title. I admit that I clicked on the link to the Pitchfork post because I read the title and thought “I hate this” and I was curious to see how much I was going to hate it. I know you’re going to read the title and think “I hate this,” and that’s fine. We can’t help how we feel about anything, let alone song titles. It’s called “Trump’s Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire.” And it sounds beautiful!
Trump’s nuts roasting on an open fire as he keeps nipping at his foes. You’ll cry creepy uncle every time he arrives, for he keeps clawing at your clothes. Everybody knows some money and entitlement can help to make the season white. Mothers of color with their kids out of sight will find it hard to sleep at night.
They know that Trump is on his way. he’s got black boys in hoodies locked up on his sleigh. And every working man is going to cry when they learn that letch don’t care how you live or if you die.
So I’m offering this simple phrase to kids from 1 to 92. Although it’s been said many times, many ways Merry Christmas to you Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas Donald Trump, fuck you!
i don’t intend to die anytime soon but just in case, here’s my will:
all my money goes to the dude at my funeral who tells the best story about me, as voted by other funeral attendees. any genre is acceptable but paranormal erotica is highly encouraged.
the runner-up gets my corpse.
oh man, it is so hard to deliberately win second place
Last year, as everything seemed to catch on fire all around us, it was clear that K.C. Green’s iconic “This is fine” dog was the animal totem of 2016. Now, we are already in desperate need of a new icon that can help us navigate the swift-moving, danger-filled reality of 2017, and I know what it is: Lying Cat.
Several people said they would have liked to see more coverage of a measure that Trump signed Thursday that rolled back a last-minute Obama regulation that would have restricted coal mines from dumping debris in nearby streams. At the signing, Trump was joined by coal miners in hard hats.
“If he hadn’t gotten into office, 70,000 miners would have been put out of work,” Patricia Nana, a 42-year-old naturalized citizen from Cameroon. “I saw the ceremony where he signed that bill, giving them their jobs back, and he had miners with their hard hats and everything — you could see how happy they were.”
The regulation actually would have cost relatively few mining jobs and would have created nearly as many new jobs on the regulatory side, according to a government report — an example of the frequent distance between Trump’s rhetoric, which many of his supporters wholeheartedly believe, and verifiable facts.
Melani, for example, gets most of her news from talk radio — “I listen to Herman Cain on my way into work, I have Sean [Hannity] on my way home,” she said — and Fox News.
You know, with all this "sponsored protest" garbage that's being tossed about, I'm suddenly remembering the completely unhinged "town hall events" to discuss the ACA back when it was being put together... Good to know that the Republicans are following Trumps lead and accusing the left of doing things that they've already done. Let's get all that shit out in the open.
Never mind that the Senate telephone system was broken by Americans calling in to oppose her nomination and never mind that—for the first time in history—the vice president had to break a tie to get her confirmed, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says the opposition to her isn't real. It's those paid operatives that have suddenly come out of the woodwork by the millions.
In interviews with two online news organizations, Ms. DeVos began laying the groundwork for her approach. “It would be fine with me to have myself worked out of a job,” she told Axios, adding that she expects there will be more public charter schools, private schools and virtual schools under her leadership. She told Townhall, a conservative outlet, that she doubted the validity of the demonstrations against her and that her critics and protesters wanted to make her life “a living hell.”
“I don’t think most of those are spontaneous, genuine protests,” she said. “I think they’re all being sponsored and very carefully planned.”
She thinks her life is a living hell now? Well boo-fucking-hoo. Wait until she starts really trying to dismantle public education. She'll see some very genuine protest. If she's having this much of a problem the first week into her brand-new job—being paid by all of us "sponsored" protesters—maybe she ought to be considering an early exit. Keep the pressure up, folks.
