Yeah the whole Utah thing is great and all, with the working towards ending homelessness.
But I still don’t fucking understand how we have the irrefutableobviousempirical proof that housing people who are homeless is cheaper than jailing them, is cheaper than leaving them in the streets, is cheaper than shoving them in inefficient homeless shelters, and yet??
All of this would be violent and wrong even if it were more expensive, but the fact is there is no other real reason that benefits the nation that they can fall back on.
The criminalization of poverty and homelessness mostly benefits private prison owners/investors, which are subsidized substantially which is to say they take money from the state which could be used to uplift it’s impoverished with excess.
These aren’t new facts, this isn’t a sudden happening; it’s been this way. Don’t for a second think these politicians don’t know this shit. They do, they aren’t ignorant, they aren’t uneducated, they know these facts.
They’re trying to take our ability to produce from us so they can profit from our work, and if they can’t do that they’re trying to kill us.
“We’ve ping-ponged other ideas but it always comes back to Veronica Mars
because it’s so special to the both of us and in truth, because it’s so
beloved by fans,” she said. “The whole reason to create something is so
people will love it and we have the best fans on the planet so we’re
definitely still looking for the window where we could allow Veronica to
exist again, whether it’s a miniseries or a short-run cable series.”
a fairy: don't consume any food from this realm unless you're prepared to remain here for an
me, immediately shoving an entire unpeeled orange in my mouth: Unfortunate
people in fanfiction are so good at identifying v specific smells. I literally struggle to identify vanilla when I’m sniffing a candle labelled “VANILLA” how are these kids getting woodsmoke, rain, mint, and a whiff of byronic despair from a fuckin tshirt
I once saw someone point out something I hadn’t really considered before- libraries are one of the only places that are warm and dry where you can stay for long periods of time if you have no money. If you’re someone with nowhere to go during the daytime, they provide a safe environment in which to keep a roof over your head for a while- and all while you can access information.
here is an idea: normalise the idea that adopting kids is a valid option even for parents who could conceive a child themselves, and not just an inferior backup option for parents who can’t
Racial microaggressions you hear on a daily basis in America
Photographer Kiyun asked her friends at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus to “write down an instance of racial microaggression they have faced.”
Ommmggggggg I just went to a restaurant and the waiter didn’t poison my food, or beat the shit out of me for walking in! They literally just took my order and came back with my food when it was ready. Bless these angels 😊😊😊😊😊😊😍😍😍😍😍😘💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Literally what you people sound like when you praise cops for not killing innocent people and doing their fucking job
although this is true, cops should still be praised for doing their jobs like they’re saving ur life???
So is everyone else???? Trash collectors, plumbers, janitors, people who make my clothes, literally the majority of jobs on this planet is to make sure humans can exist safely and live longer. Cops are getting paid, well, much better than a lot of other jobs and their jobs aren’t even that dangerous in comparison to others. Like everyone should be praised for doing their job, but at the same time, like the rest of us, the reason they even have a job is because they better be fucking doing it well, not because of some bro code that makes it cool to kill and threaten innocent people (the literal opposite of their job) and then go on a paid vacation.
There needs to be standards.
You’re a moron. If someone does well in any job they deserve praise, but to compare a policeman to a rubbish collector… Next time someone robs a bank or kills someone, we’ll be sure to get the janitors on it… You can’t compare a skilled job with menial labour.
Menial labor that keeps diseases from spreading. Janitors are fucking important. All jobs are fucking important. Trash collectors are the like are in fact MORE important than police officers. When the police in nyc were on strike crime was actually down (Google it), when the trash collectors, or transit workers are on strike the city suffers, GREATLY.
Yes, the police should be grateful I compared them to the people who collect trash, because I’m comparing them to people who are actually fucking useful and whose jobs are far more important.
Anakin: Gah, my grandson is such a whiny kid. That's the fifth temper tantrum he's thrown today! Must get it from Solo's side of the family.
Obi-Wan:
Qui Gon Jinn:
Mace Windu:
Yoda:
Anakin: What.
Leia has, for various reasons, a very dubious outlook on classic Jedi training methods. This is not just because of various circumstances surrounding her son, she’s had this opinion for many years before his birth. But Luke was insistent when Ben proved Force sensitive and there was nothing Leia could say otherwise that had any documentation, any records, any proof.
(she’s concerned that her use of the Force might be considered Other, or Grey, or Dark)
It’s like this: the Jedi are unsubtle.
It’s like this: Moving a blaster’s nose a half centimeter causes the shot to miss by a feet. It’s much easier to make 5 blasters miss than to throw 5 Stormtroopers backwards.
It’s like this: when Leia speaks, she is Forceful. When she speaks to a room, she starts with nudges to make everyone listen, she slides in quiet elation at her words, she ends with encouraging a feeling of being able to do absolutely anything in the Universe.
And she lets her speech carry out the rest of the details, rather than her Force, she lets her people decide how to act, she lets choice finish their decisions and these decisions and choices lasts longer when she leaves the room than if she simply Forced someone to say, “I will do as you command.”
(she takes after her mother, she hears)
Leia wonders if that was how Palpatine caused her father to go Dark, and remains quiet when Luke trains her son.
And when Ben turns, she feels the reverberations, and can’t find it in her to blame Luke for it entirely.
(she wonders if she should have Spoken, or if it would have made things worse)
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The base is collapsing around their ears, their TIE fighters are falling from the sky, and That Girl has come back with That Lightsaber and more training and for the life of him Kylo cannot hold his ground against her so he’s running but those are things he’s not examining too closely. Instead:
“HIGHLY TRAINED FIGHTERS, he says,” Kylo swears under his breath and dodges around more Stormtroopers, hoping they’d stall his pursuit. The Force tells him they don’t do a damn thing. “PICKED from a YOUNG AGE, he says, BETTER than CLONES, he says, THEN WHY CAN’T YOUR STORMTROOPERS HIT THE BROADSIDE OF A DEATHST–”
Hux suddenly skids to a stop. “She’s here.”
“WHO’S HERE?!”
“I don’t know what she has, the scientists can’t figure it out but when she’s around,” Hux staggers, panting, “at this point, no one can aim straight if she’s even on the same planet, let alone the same room and–”
“WHO?!” Kylo reaches out and grabs Hux by the throat, pulling him to his toes. “GIVE ME A NAME.”
A throat clears behind him.
“Ben,” His mother says.
Kylo freezes.
“Put that back where you found it. We need to talk.”
THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH. How else HOW ELSE I ASK YOU could a whole pack of storm troopers fire down a narrow hallway and hit nobody?
This is EXACTLY how I picture LEIA’S abilities holy shit good shit wow A+++ I want to write this a million times and have everyone write Leia like this.
@darkthestars I feel like you might be interested in this
This really reminds me of Jedi Battle Meditation,a concept introduced in Knight of the Old Republic, where a force-user spreads their power through an entire battle, pushing events towards victory for their side.
It took all of Bastilla’s concentration and power to do it- a trained Jedi Master, no less.
The residents of Flint, Michigan have been drinking poisoned water for years. It took a national outcry for Michigan’s governor to finally declare an emergency; an emergency created by his administration. This totally avoidable disaster will be conveniently forgotten the next time austerity proponents want to impose cuts on poor communities to fund tax breaks for the rich.
As if things aren’t bad enough in Flint, there is a whole population of undocumented immigrants in Flint who are afraid of even seeking relief or clean water. ABC 12 reports that up to 1,000 undocumented immigrants in the area may not go to water or filter distribution events from the National Guard or other organizations out of fear:
Perhaps as many as 1,000 are not going to water distribution centers, they're not calling 211 and they're not getting deliveries. It's because they're scared.
These people are undocumented immigrants living in Flint, mostly on the city's east side.
It's hard to imagine, but many of them weren't even aware of lead in Flint's water until a couple weeks ago.
"One day I turned on the faucet and the water started coming out yellow,” said Lucia.
Lucia has been living in Flint for more than a decade. She left Mexico 23 years ago. We're not using the single mother's face or name, because she's undocumented.
"I’m not here legally. And I’m always scared that they'll arrest me, and then deport me," she said.
Lucia heard about lead in Flint's water four months ago from her son. Since then, she's been buying bottled water - and she won't get close to a distribution center after a recent experience.
"I got close to see what they were giving out, and it was water. And the first thing they asked me for was my license," she said.
Some local groups have been quietly going around the east side trying to distribute water, but the problem is a lot of these undocumented immigrants are scared - and they won't even open the door for them.
This is yet another example of the often-fraught lives of undocumented immigrants. Not only were they possibly poisoned, people are afraid of availing themselves of the few options available to help. And without filters or clean water, until Flint is reconnected to the old water system and the herculean task of replacing water pipes is complete, undocumented immigrants will continue being at-risk for lead exposure.
“We teach females that in relationships, compromise is what women do. We raise girls to see each other as competitors, not for jobs or for accomplishments— which I think can be a good thing— but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don’t mind knowing about our sons’ girlfriends, but our daughters boyfriends? ‘God forbid!’ But of course when the time is right, we expect those girls to bring back the perfect man to be their husband. We police girls, we praise girls for virginity, but we don’t praise boys for virginity. And it’s always made me wonder how exactly this is supposed to work out because *laughs* the loss of virginity is usually a process that involves *laughs*…
We teach girls shame. ‘Close your legs!’ ‘Cover yourself!’ We make them feel as though by being born female, they are already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up—and this is the worst thing we do to girls—they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an artform.”
It’s 2016…can we please replace “spirit animal” with a better word that doesn’t have anything to do with Native American culture? I propose “patronus” as a better alternative.
For all y'all who use ‘spirit animal.’ (Yeah, that was me once.) I’m reblogging this b/c I got some arguments on this elsewhere, and expanding.
Yes, we COULD make the argument that spirit guides exist in the mythology of many cultures, including many of the Celtic/Germanic ones which are our direct grab-bags of culture. We COULD do that. We might even technically be right. But here’s the thing: it doesn’t matter.
Because when we make the choice to loudly insist that – which, yeah, I did once, and yeah, I still have my Celtic Animals divination cards I bought when I was shopping with Ginny when I was 19 – we are making the choice of insisting that loudly over the voices of people whose religions were ILLEGAL TO PRACTICE until 50 years ago, who STILL get shat on about their religious practice (see: schools trying to force Indigenous boys to cut their hair) and having to put up with clueless white folks giving themselves ‘Indian names.’ So, instead, how about – we don’t argue that, instead. Let’s just not do that.
Let’s use patronus instead. That’s ours. We can use it. It’s not in contest! It’s a term created by a white lady in a book about kids who may or may not be white (and some definitely aren’t) but are definitely English. And while Dumbledore’s mom may have been Native/Indigenous (yes, go look it up, y'all), that’s as close as we get to Hogwart’s and Native religions having any crossover at all.
So let’s use patronus instead. “That adorable dog is my patronus.” “Carrie Fisher is my patronus.” “Poe Dameron is my patronus.”
