President Donald Trump’s newly appointed Chief of Staff, General John Kelly, is reportedly trying to plug all the holes in the Oval Office to keep snakes from whispering information in Trump’s ear. From now on, the president will only be receiving very simple, vetted material on which to base his decisions, when he’s…
If you voted for Donald Trump, I get it. Maybe you feel you’ve
been so badly shafted by the system that you didn’t want to go back to politics
as usual, and Trump seemed like he’d topple that corrupt system.
You voted to change our country’s power base – to get rid of
crony capitalism and give our government back to the people who are working,
paying taxes, and spending more just to survive. Lots of Americans agree with
you.
But now, the president is turning his back on that idea and the many
changes he promised.
He did not drain the swamp. After telling voters how he would
take control away from special interests, he has surrounded himself with the
very Wall Street players he decried. Now, those who gamed politicians for tax
loopholes and laws that reward the rich don’t even have to sneak around with
backroom deals.
Steve Mnuchin, Gary Cohn, Dina Powell and others from Wall
Street, as well as corporate lobbyists by the dozens, are now inside the Trump
administration rigging the system for the extremely wealthy from the inside.
They want to make it easier for banks to once again gamble with your money and
repeat our financial crisis. They want to cut health care for millions of you.
They want to lower taxes on corporations and the rich. They want to get rid of
rules that stop corporations from harming your health or safety.
That’s not the
change you were promised.
Make America Great Again? The Trump administration wants to
expand on policies that have kept American wages stagnant for almost four
decades. Huge corporations and billionaires get the breaks, and hard working
Americans once again get left waiting for the crumbs. That’s not the change you
were promised.
Bringing back fiscal responsibility? The Secret Service budget
is skyrocketing to protect his family on international business trips, ski
vacations, and separate New York City living quarters.
At the same time, the
president still refuses to untangle himself from his businesses and prove he’s
not leveraging our government for his financial gain. You’re paying for his
lifestyle while he’s doing nothing to help yours.
And I didn't understand a word of that, but somehow watching it made me realize something I've never articulated before. Feminism means trust. Being able to trust women to make good decisions. To just believe in our ability to be capable.
“Lebanese alternative rock band Mashrou’ Leila very elegantly celebrates their brand of feminism in a music video for the track Roman. The video is helmed by Jessy Moussallem, an emerging female director from Lebanon.
The song begins with singer Hamed Sinno’s tenor, along with harmonies that give the lyrical complexity of betrayal, struggle and conflict an interesting twist. The chorus begins with a prominent bass line, matched by tasteful choreography set to the song’s refrain: “Aleihum!” which translates to “Charge!”.
The video is headlined by an all-woman cast, and the all-male band form only a part of the additional bunch, emphasising the concept of a female gaze. The women don an array of West Asian clothing – kaftans and abayas, headscarves and niqaab. “They are styled to over-articulate their ethnic background, in a manner more typically employed by Western media to victimise them,” said the band, describing the choice of clothing.”
Or, you know, you could just call it water recycling.
In The Martian, Matt Damon used his own shit to fertilize potatoes and survive the Red Planet. While we all know Matt Damon isn’t actually an astronaut, we do know that human excrement is very much real—and it could be integral to getting real humans to Mars in the near future.
why are dog lovers so hateful??? like you meet a cat lover and they’re like “oh i love dogs a lot too! i just prefer cats!” but dog lovers are always like “my ENTIRE FAMILY was MURDERED by a CAT, a cat STOLE MY GIRLFRIEND, BURNED MY HOUSE DOWN, TOOK MY JOB AND KEYED UP MY CAR"
Copypasting something I wrote on Facebook a couple years ago (thanks JJ for reminding me of it):
I didn’t really grow up with dogs, so I’m learning about dog behavior as an adult and the more I learn, the more creeped-out I am by a specific subset of “dog people” who usually also “hate cats,” because it’s becoming obvious that these people don’t actually know their dogs’ avoidance/anxiety signals, so they’re just stomping all over these animals’ boundaries. It comes across less as “I love dogs and hate cats” and more “I like animals that can’t say ‘no’ to me in a clear, direct way.”
I can’t stop thinking about crocodiles for some reason so here’s some cool pictures I found of probably the second largest one in captivity, his name is Utan:
isn’t he beautiful
listen to the SOUND when he bites
and that’s not even a real power bite, that’s mostly just heavy bone falling on heavy bone from his jaws and the air rushing out from between them
2000 pounds of Good Boy
you get me
I honestly expected like 5 notes, what HAPPENED here
More tags on this ridiculous post:
Wait, thats the 2nd biggest crocodile? Then what does the biggest one look like?
That would be Cassius, a very old Saltwater crocodile who is estimated to be around 114 years old and lives at Marineland Melanesia in Green Island, Australia. His official measurement is 5.48 meters, which makes him the largest in captivity currently. Because Utan is only slightly smaller and much younger, (only in his 50s), he will likely break Cassius’ record eventually. But for now, Cassius holds the title:
He is NOT, however, either the largest crocodile ever captured in Australia OR the largest ever in captivity.
A slightly larger crocodile has been reported (though not yet comfirmed) to have been captured at 5.58 meters.
And while the famous Brutus of the Adelaide River was estimated to be just slightly larger than Cassius at 5.5m, he was driven out of his territory by a younger and even larger crocodile, who as a result has been given the name, The Dominator. He is estimated to be just over 6m.
This is Brutus, with an appropriate caption:
It is believed that he lost that arm in a fight with a Bull Shark.
The Bull Shark lost.
THIS is the crocodile who kicked him out. The Dominator:
And that’s STILL not the biggest.
The largest living crocodile ever reliably measured was Lolong, who for the 1.5 years between his capture and his death was the largest crocodile ever held in captivity, at a whopping 6.17 meters (20 feet 3 inches) and 1075 kg (2,370 lbs). He had been feeding on both humans and very large livestock in the Bunawan creek in Agusan del Sur in the Philippines. It took 100 people all night to drag him to shore during his capture.
And here’s why:
Also, to prevent credit from getting buried on a separate reblog, I have been informed that the above image of the crocodile with the cartoon eyes and halo was made by @rashkah! (And it is wonderful and I would like to thank him for its existence, because it perfectly captures my feelings about terrifying giant primordial reptiles.)
It is not profitable for everyone to live comfortably
The system demands unceasing growth and resource extraction for its own survival, in turn putting the survival of humanity and ecosystems in peril
The growth that arises from capital accumulation makes a select few obscenely wealthy, while most of the world lives in poverty
It can be transcended
“The future is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed.” – William Gibson
And the thing is: the world’s wealth wouldn’t even need to be evenly distributed in order to feed, hydrate, clothe, and house everybody at a basic survival level. We could do that with the resources we have and the rich could still be rich.
you don’t have to do anything special or significant to “earn” these things. you don’t have to meet some quota of productivity before you’re “allowed” to do these things. you are allowed to eat, drink, and sleep when you need to. you don’t have to do anything additional in order to have the right to meet your body’s most basic needs.
Toot! Toot! All aboard! The tumblr train is departing… reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it … Continued
by Prachi Gupta on The Slot, shared by Joanna Rothkopf to Jezebel
Hillary Clinton found Donald Trump’s intrusive, domineering behavior during the second presidential debate to be exceedingly creepy, according to an excerpt from her upcoming memoir about the election.
Less than two weeks after a white nationalist allegedly rammed his car into a crowd of anti-racist activists in Charlottesville, VA, another person has weaponized a car to drive through a demonstration in St. Louis, MO.
This is such great news! For YEARS this law has been in place in Arizona and not even a year ago they tried to extend this to our universities out here. The classes weren’t allowed AND books on the subject weren’t allowed, even work by authors like Sherman Alexie weren’t permitted. We can get our classes back, we can learn about our cultures, and this sets great precedent if they tried to do this/extend this again.
“OK,” conceded the staffer. “But when Senator Isakson votes, he’s not voting about that. Senator Isakson doesn’t agree with the president’s statements about Nazis, but there are some policies that he does agree with, and those are the ones he votes for.”
“OK,” I said. “So what I will tell my kids is that the Isakson camp says there are some policies that are so critical, and so important to the welfare of this country…”
“Yes. Yes,” interrupted the staffer.
“…That it’s worth putting up with Nazis to see them enacted.”
Their lives of Dan and Fran Keller were ruined after being falsely accused by Christians of running a "Satanic" day care.This payment is one small way to right those wrongs.
yesterday my first table at work was 4 complete shitholes who yelled at me twice before i even took their food order and almost made me cry. before they ate, they all bowed their heads to pray.
so on the top of their receipt i wrote “hebrews 13:2″ and they went WILD. they LOVED IT. they tipped me over 20% for my “education fund”.
hebrews 13:2 is “do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it”, and i really hope they got home and looked it up and realized that i am, in fact, a petty fucking bitch
this couple came through my lane today and one of the items they had was a very small but still functional piñata, like maybe six inches long and five inches tall, and i commented that it was adorable, and the couple sort of shuffled their feet and looked at the ground and then one of them looked at me and said the best thing i’ve heard in the month of may:
“we’re giving it to our cat. for his birthday. it’s in august. …we like to plan ahead.”
This is as good as that cat in the yurt with an ipad.
