On some real stuff though! Yes women in Delhi are saying what NEEDS to be said!

viziers:

bippyfingers:

thinksquad:

Looks like police in Chicago have a tricked out surveillance truck equipped with cell site simulators, a.k.a. Stingrays, that force nearby phones to send data to cops instead of to phone company cell towers. Did those cops get a warrant for that?

Your tax dollars at work: Spying on people just because they demand that the government’s agents stop killing black people.

UPDATE: Anonymous has released a video featuring what appear to be Chicago police radio transmissions revealing police wiretapping of organizers’ phones at the protests last night the day after Thanksgiving, perhaps using a stingray. The transmissions pointing to real-time wiretapping involve the local DHS-funded spy ‘fusion’ center.

Watch here

https://privacysos.org/node/1609#update

Holy shit.

For those doubting this.. Chicago PD admitted to purchasing cell phone spying devices back in October of this year. (x)

Here’s a map of states that use these such devices (x), Illinois state and local police departments have been provided with stingray tracking devices according to the ACLU.

“We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.”

- Martin Luther King Jr. (via quakertownsbutt)

vvkaden:

die-rebel-scum:

Darren Wilson’s mother was convicted of forgery and theft.  She stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from a neighbor before she died.  We didn’t hear about that because it has nothing to do with the case and didn’t matter.  Why are we hearing so much about Michael Brown’s stepfather and Tamir Rice’s parents?

you know exactly why

captain-melonhead:

THIS SHOULD ALSO MAKE YOU ENRAGED.

POLICE BRUTALITY TOWARDS BLACK WOMEN EXISTS.

BLACK WOMEN (ESPECIALLY TRANSGENDER) ARE GETTING MURDERED, RAPED, AND BRUTALIZED BY THE POLICE AND ARE BEING BLAMED FOR **THEIR** ACTIONS.

DON’T SLEEP ON POLICE BRUTALITY TOWARDS BLACK WOMEN.

riotsiren:

I need this framed

alwayslabellavita:

micdotcom:

This brave student has died after protecting two teen girls from harassment

Dozens of Germans mourned Sunday over the death of 23-year-old student Tugce Albayrak, who was killed after defending two teenage girls who were reportedly being harassed by a group of men.

The BBC reports that Albayrak was brutally attacked after intervening in the harassment earlier this month. Albayrak reportedly heard “cries for help from the toilet of a fast food restaurant” in the German town of Offenbach before confronting the group of men who were aggressively pursuing the two girls. One of the men later returned and attacked her in a parking garage. 

Tugce was also a Muslim. Please don’t forget this. Since every time a Muslim commits a crime, people are so quick to mention their religion—it’s only fair that we apply the same standard and mention Islam when a Muslim does something good. And what Tugce did was so amazing and brave. She died a true hero’s death and I’m hoping this will continue to open peoples’ eyes to the deadly consequences street harassment can lead to. 

nollag:

whomp there it fuckin is

“When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it’s all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they’re not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.”

- Chris Rock in New York Magazine

amuzed1:

ultravioletrai:

OMG JANELLE. JAAAANNNEEELLLLEEEEEE 🙌👏🙌

Why my fave is better than your fave

mysharona1987:

#alivewhileblack twitter tag is a must read.

I am ashamed to be white.

“[I]t is actually more expensive to be poor than not poor. If you can’t afford the first month’s rent and security deposit you need in order to rent an apartment, you may get stuck in an overpriced residential motel. If you don’t have a kitchen or even a refrigerator and microwave, you will find yourself falling back on convenience store food, which—in addition to its nutritional deficits—is also alarmingly overpriced. If you need a loan, as most poor people eventually do, you will end up paying an interest rate many times more than what a more affluent borrower would be charged. To be poor—especially with children to support and care for—is a perpetual high-wire act.”

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It Is Expensive to Be Poor | The Atlantic  (via america-wakiewakie)

Reblog this forever. I’ll never forget how many of my students in the school I worked in with a 100% free and reduced lunch rate lived in residential motels and how many of them relied on the school to get breakfast and lunch and how often those were their only meals for the day.

Or how my friends who have older cars have to spend so much money repairing them but an older car was all they could afford in the first place.

And how you literally have no safety net because if you already fixed one thing on your car and something else goes a week later, you’ve already spent the little bit of buffer you saved up.

(via raindropprincess)

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

(via moniquill)

catracism:

justice4mikebrown:

In reference to the protests in NYC yesterday.

(Dec. 5)

you know the NYPD did this precisely because they know that the protesters there are actual considerate human beings who WOULD BE concerned for the hypothetical people in the ambulances who hypothetically needed medical attention, they KNEW the protesters would get out of the way because what the fuck kind of reasonable person wouldn’t? the NYPD knowingly took advantage of the goodwill, consideration, and general all-around CARING ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE that the protesters have to ambush them. is there no limit to how low the nypd will stoop

I smell the Sixties—and I never really wanted to smell them again.

mykemyday:

sunpat:

Pregnant woman blasts anti-abortion protesters outside a clinic in London

THIS LADY IS AN ICON SHE SPEAKS 300% TRUTH THE GUYS FACE IS JUST PRICELESS

Someone give this woman a medal.

Speak the word, sister!

And they can’t say squat to her because there’s the bump, for all to see.

I love her.

All week I’ve been hearing this awful noise that sounds like the hurk-hurk-bork of a cat throwing up, and so I’d run through the house to find the guilty kitty so I could put him on tile rather than have him throw up on the harder-to-clean carpet, but each time I’d find all of the cats in the hall, just staring at me like they were totally innocent and wondering why I’d interrupted their meeting.  And then I finally was like, “Fuck this, cats.  I’m just gonna stand here until one of you fuckers tries it again.  I’VE GOT ALL DAY.”   But then they just looked at me, because turns out they have all day too.

And then I heard it again and turns out it wasn’t the cats.  

It was the toilet.

The toilet was gurgling and making noises like a cat vomiting, and I thought that seemed odd because toilets don’t vomit and are more likely vomited into, but that noise was definitely coming from the toilet and that’s when I realized that my toilet is probably haunted.

Seriously.  I can hear it even now.  It’s like the ghost of someone who ate a bad burrito is in there.  Or maybe it’s the spirit of a long-dead dog who is drinking from the toilet,  Frankly, I have no idea how to handle this and I don’t know whether to call a plumber or an exorcist.

I tried to research it and google was like, “Way ahead of you.  Here’s what other people are searching for:”

Conclusion:  Toilet poltergeist are fucking everywhere.

It’s getting louder and now I’m officially scared of the toilet.  I’ve just regressed back to age 3.  Awesome.  I blame the toilet.

I told Victor we need to call an old priest and a young priest and he said I was being ridiculous and that “it’s probably  just air in the lines”, which is just as scary as toilet ghosts because if there’s air in the lines that means that toilet snakes and sewer alligators now have the oxygen necessary to crawl up our toilet pipes without drowning.  So now I can’t sit on the toilet without first screaming and kicking the toilet a few times to scare off any snakes that might be near the surface, which is going to be difficult to explain when we have company over.  Thanks a lot, Victor.  

Victor said that if it kept happening he’d call a plumber to “snake the lines” and I just stared at him because that’s the exact opposite of what I want.  If anything I want someone to de-snake the lines.  Then Victor explained that “snaking the lines” doesn’t have anything to do with real snakes but after this summer’s “We need to expand the fire-pipes under your house” confusion I just don’t trust anything.  I’m considering changing out the toilets for small buckets, and now I know why everyone used chamber pots in the Victorian ages.  It was probably because of all the alligators.

These are the things they never cover on the History Channel.

“Cosplay is an industry largely dominated by women; it opens up the world of comics—a world which has overwhelmingly felt exclusionary to girls and women—in a whole new way. It allows not only a small subset of women to make money off of their love of comics (something self-proclaimed comic fan Broderick has been doing for decades), but it also allows a large number of female comic book fans who might otherwise feel shut out of the industry to proudly proclaim their love for certain characters or comics. Strange that so many people have taken issue with something that often involves women taking control of their own image, bodies, and sexuality, and commodifying it without male permission or control. So strange.”

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- Another Comic Book Artist Can’t Stand Change, Competition; Writes Whiny Post About Cosplayers | The Mary Sue (via themarysue)

Sam Maggs slaying YET AGAIN

(via kateordie)

socialjusticekoolaid:

Cops who shot 12-year-old boy in the stomach watched him lie in agony and gave NO first aid before he died hours later

• Tamir Rice was shot by rookie officer Timothy Loehmann, 26, after a 911 caller said he saw the boy with a gun that was ‘probably fake’ on Saturday
• But the dispatcher did not tell the officers that the gun might be fake
• Cops ‘told him to raise his hands’ but instead he reached for his waistband(Disproven by video)
• Officials said that it took four minutes for Rice to receive medical attention
  
• A spokesman for the mayors office said Loehmann and his colleague Frank Gramback, who was with him, are under investigation 
• Rice’s family said he would be alive had Loehmann not acted so quickly

(Read more here)

Are you following the story of young Tamir Rice? They’re already trying to tell us this 12-year old unarmed boy deserved to die— that he would have grown up to be a thug. Please spread the word of this child’s life. It mattered, and we won’t let them fool us into believing otherwise. #staywoke #farfromover

“

In 2010, Brent Staples coined the term
Whistling Vivaldi, recounting college days
when he’d hum classical music in public
to put the whites around him at ease.

But in Cambridge, black Harvard
professors still get arrested for going home.

In North Carolina, a college degree
won’t stop a cop from emptying a clip
into an unarmed graduate.

In Detroit, an honor student’s pleas
for help are only answered with shotgun.

You’ve been whistling Vivaldi your whole life
& even when you went to college
& got that good job
& wore clothes that fit
you have always sounded like a police siren to them.

”

- Mckendy Fils-Aimé, “For Those Who Whistle Vivaldi,” published in Drunk in a Midnight Choir  (via nothelpingrightnow)

“Outside the lab, Piff found that the rich donated a smaller percentage of their wealth than poorer people. In 2011, the wealthiest Americans, those with earnings in the top 20%, contributed 1.3% of their income to charity, while those in the bottom 20% donated 3.2% of their income. The trend to meanness was worst in plush suburbs where everyone had a high income, and never laid eyes on a poor person. Insulation from people in need, Piff concluded, dampened charitable impulses. Poorer people were also more likely to give to those charities servicing the genuinely needy. The rich gave to high-status institutions such as already well-endowed art galleries, museums and universities, while Feeding America, which deals with the nation’s poorest, got nothing.”

- 'The A**hole Effect': What Wealth Does to the Brain | Alternet (via b-binaohan)

blackgirlsparadise:

Clock em.

Oh, this guy is deadly.  When he compares our cops to South Africa’s—I just want to pull a paper bag over my head.  I’m going to Denmark next year.  Maybe I’ll tell people I’m from Canada.

ceruleancynic:

amarilloo:

dtk-womenwarriors:

ART BY WESLEY  BURT

Part I

NOW THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT

oh would you fucking look at that

WOMEN IN BATTLE GEAR/ARMOR THAT IS NOT DRIPPING WITH FROTHY-SLICK CURDS OF SEXISM

goddes and men saide it was notte to bee

but they would notte listen

Some of this looks awfully heavy for combat, but I still approve.

kittenspine:

police are blaming social media because we’ve hit a point in social media where mass amounts of people are being made aware of events via first person accounts, through photos and videos and live streams 

of course they’re blaming social media because social media is making it harder to lie and hide the truth 

“Truth in Texas Textbooks submitted a 469-page document of its complaints to the board of education. One complaint was against a Pearson textbook that showed Sam Houston in a “dress.” TTT was concerned by the “subtle message this imagery is conveying to impressionable 7th grade students.” (Pearson responded that the “dress” was “Cherokee garb from the time during which (Houston) lived with the Cherokee.”) TTT was also opposed to the “anti-American bias/subliminal messages” in a question about the Mexican-American War that made “the U.S. out to be the ‘bad guy’ and Mexico to be the ‘good guy.’” […] A McGraw-Hill textbook originally dramatically understated the disadvantages black students faced during segregation. Originally, the passage said, “Under segregation, all-white and all-African American schools sometimes had similar buildings, buses, and teachers. Sometimes, however, the buildings, buses, and teachers for the all-black schools were lower in quality.” McGraw-Hill subsequently apologized for its earlier phrasing and amended the section to say, “Under segregation, the facilities of the African American schools were almost always significantly lower in quality.” […] Texas history standards call for teaching about the influence of Moses and biblical law on America’s founding documents. Textbooks followed these standards. Perfection Learning’s Basic Principles of American Government said Moses contributed the idea that “a nation needs a written code of behavior” to the American government. It also recommends the Book of Exodus to students for further reading, an endorsement of religion. Other publishers, including Pearson and McGraw-Hill, in their attempts to meet Texas’ standards had sections on Moses’ contributions to the American Constitution. I testified about the major violations of separation of church and state in these textbooks, but all of these endorsements of religion remain in books that have been adopted for teaching history in Texas public schools. […] These problems aren’t just Texas’ problems. Because Texas is such a large purchaser of textbooks, publishers shape their books to meet Texas’ standards and sell them all around the country. School districts in New York or California can teach their kids all about Moses now, too.”

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But as Jose Maria Herrera, a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, pointed out, the war was “an event in which it is difficult to paint the United States in a positive light.” He was disappointed by the “scant treatment” of the Mexican-American War in Pearson’s and other textbooks. Rather than seeing subliminal messages, Herrera said the books engaged in a “deliberate attempt to avoid confronting a problematic era in American history.” Still, discussing the Mexican-American War at all is an improvement. In April, when the state board was considering a course on Mexican-American history, board member David Bradley, according to the Associated Press, “called the course ‘reverse racism’ and threatened ‘to pull a Cesar Chavez and boycott.’ ” Bradley then boycotted public testimony about the course.

-"Moses and the American Constitution", Zack Kopplin for Slate

Another recent article attempting to draw attention to the political wars that are currently writing, erasing, and re-writing what Americans believe is “history”. I really hope you all read the entire article-it might shed some light on why I do this, and how many of the things we consider “facts” aren’t neutral or unbiased at all.

(via medievalpoc)

songofsarcasm:

breelandwalker:

rotifers:

etherealspacewitch:

fatanarchy:

Good luck affording a place to live. Forget being able to fucking eat “healthy” like you’re “supposed to” (aka, morally obligated to).

in hawaii, you have to work 2 more hours in a week than exists in a week to pay rent

Anyone who puts in an honest 40 hours of work per week, regardless of the skill level of the job, ought to be paid at least enough to keep a roof over their head and afford vital expenses like food and health care. This country has betrayed the working class, and it’s absolutely inexcusable.

Putting this out there for all the assholes who don’t think minimum wage should cover living expenses.

Like 80% of my income goes to rent (and I have a roommate) and I moved to a place where rent is literally hundreds of dollars cheaper than it is where I used to live.  

Modern life.  And older people make snide remarks about 20-somethings who have to move back in with their folks.  They can’t afford to live anywhere else, unless their families want them living in boxes, with no food and no health care.