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jessehimself: Pennsylvania Judge Sentenced For 28 Years For...
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Pennsylvania Judge Sentenced For 28 Years For Selling Kids to the Prison System
Mark Ciavarella Jr, a 61-year old former judge in Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for literally selling young juveniles for cash. He was convicted of accepting money in exchange for incarcerating thousands of adults and children into a prison facility owned by a developer who was paying him under the table. The kickbacks amounted to more than $1 million.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overturned some 4,000 convictions issued by him between 2003 and 2008, claiming he violated the constitutional rights of the juveniles – including the right to legal counsel and the right to intelligently enter a plea. Some of the juveniles he sentenced were as young as 10-years old.
Ciavarella was convicted of 12 counts, including racketeering, money laundering, mail fraud and tax evasion. He was also ordered to repay $1.2 million in restitution.
His “kids for cash” program has revealed that corruption is indeed within the prison system, mostly driven by the growth in private prisons seeking profits by any means necessary.—-
Why might this not be a HUGE national story and his name not household? I’ll give you one guess what color those kids were.
thepeoplesrecord: Women Artists Visibility Event: The Museum of...



Women Artists Visibility Event: The Museum of Modern Art opens but not to women artists, NYC on June 14, 1984
Shot by Clarissa SlighDespite the increased visibility of women artists by 1984, most were not included in mainstream gallery or museum exhibitions. When the Museum Of Modern Art opened the exhibition the “International Survey of Painting and Sculpture,” with great fan fare, of the 169 artists chosen, all were white and less than 10 percent were women.
Women artists were incensed. The Women’s Caucus for Art and other women’s groups in the area organized to protest the underrepresentation of women artists.
Included in the photographs are Lucy Lippard, May Stevens, Linda Cunningham, Emma Amos, Sabra Moore, Sharon Jaddis, and Alida Walsh. The posters were pasted all over Soho, a vastly different place from the Soho of today.
Otters taking an ice bath
Loriotters

Courtesy Monterey Bay Aquarium
At the Monterey Bay Aquarium. You can watch them, live and in the nude, below.
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These are quickly being put into the “always reblog” category.Female pilots edited out of the Star Wars movies.
I saw the tweets about this today, and I was like oh yeah, I remember hearing about that.
And then I saw the pictures and just— wow. What it would have meant to have these women in the movie, all this time. I can’t properly articulate it but it’s hitting me unexpectedly hard.
Wow thats a shame, even a nice old lady too. These Space Valkyries should have been left in.
They really should have.
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WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.
I lived, ate, and breathed Star Wars from age 2 until 2005 when RotS finally beat the enthusiasm out of me, and I have NEVER, EVER in all my reading on behind-the-scenes and makings-of heard of these shots. It’s a shame there was no relaunched edit of the original trilogy they could have slipped these in OH FUCKING WAIT THERE’S BEEN LIKE 3 OF THOSE NOW.
Fuck. FUCK. Whoever decided to edit out and bury these needs to french kiss an angle grinder.
I want to see the old lady in the A-Wing. Seriously, it’s like, she’s somebody’s grandma. Some kid in the Outer Rim Territories got greased by the Empire for seeing something she wasn’t supposed to see, and her grandma, the bush pilot, decided “Fuck this, I’m gonna strap on an fighter and make the Empire fucking PAY for the moment it decided to fuck with MY FAMILY.”
DON’T. MESS. WITH. GRANDMA.
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This is hilarious in the darkest way because this tree is holding the dead corpse of one of the other trees
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Columbia University Student Will Drag Her Mattress Around Campus Until Her Rapist Is Gone
"I think the act of carrying something that is normally found in our bedroom out into the light is supposed to mirror the way I’ve talked to the media and talked to different news channels, etc," Emma continues in the full video which you can watch here.
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Look at God
The true batman. bat man. get it? cause bats use echo location? ok, sorry
we are evolving
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beastlysmut: notcuddles: If the men in fighting games were...

If the men in fighting games were dressed like the women…
I require elaborate cock socks on all my video game characters.
Maybe I’ll draw a series.
I CAN’T BREATHE
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Looking for romantic opportunities on OKC continues to go wonderfully, thanks for askin
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Yes please, explain to me again how this has nothing to do with sexism.
[TRIGGER WARNING for EVERYTHING]
Read the whole thing. If you have the urge to skip it, that’s because you have the option to skip it. It isn’t directed at you 24/7. And we need to fix this bullshit.
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"PARE DE ME INTERROMPER, CARA"
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| Numa escola católica nos EUA, só meninas prestam juramento de não falar palavrões |
Falando de outra forma, geralmente ensinamos as meninas a serem subservientes e os meninos a exercerem dominância.
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| "É uma excelente sugestão, Srta. Triggs. Talvez um dos homens presentes queira fazê-la." |
Isso também vale para gerentes de nível sênior no local de trabalho. Homens em posição de chefia não são interrompidos com frequência pelas pessoas que trabalham para eles, especialmente caso essas pessoas sejam mulheres. No entanto, mulheres em posição de chefia são interrompidas rotineiramente por seus subordinados homens.![]() |
| Descobri que dou mais RT para mulheres que homens: 65% a 35%. E você? |
Os tribunais demonstram também como a credibilidade e o status, menos atribuídos às mulheres, também são duplamente afetados pela raça. Se mulheres negras depondo em tribunais adotam o que é frequentemente caracterizado como uma “linguagem de mulher [branca]”, elas têm menos credibilidade. No entanto, se são mais assertivas, jurados brancos as consideram “rudes, hostis, descontroladas e, portanto, menos críveis [de novo]”. O silêncio pode ser uma abordagem adotada pelas mulheres para se adaptarem à faca de dois gumes, mas não ajuda quando você está depondo.
Entretanto, a melhor parte é que somos socializados de modo a pensar que as mulheres falam mais. A percepção enviesada do ouvinte faz com que a maioria das pessoas pensem que as mulheres não ficam quietas, quando na verdade os homens dominam. Linguistas concluíram que muito do que é popularmente visto como homens e mulheres sendo de planetas diferentes, verbalmente, é uma confusão entre "linguagem de mulher" e "linguagem sem poder".
Há, claro, exceções que ilustram o papel que o gênero (e não o sexo biológico) desempenha. Por exemplo, eu tenho uma criança muito engraçada que frequentemente participa de discursos simultâneos, interrompe e troca de assunto aleatoriamente. Se você lesse uma transcrição de uma de nossas conversas típicas, provavelmente acharia se tratar de um menino, com base no fato de considerarmos esses hábitos de discurso como “masculinos”. Mas essa criança é uma menina. Ela se sente mais confortável para ser assertiva e tem mais autoconfiança que as meninas de modo geral. É difícil achar o equilíbrio entre garantir que ela mantenha sua autoconfiança e ensiná-la a ser bem educada. No entanto, normas excessivas de boa educação para meninas, que espera-se que sejam um exemplo para os meninos, têm um impacto real sobre mulheres que devem, conforme ouvimos frequentemente, superar sua socialização infantil e aprender a falar como homens para serem bem-sucedidas (aprender a negociar, exigir pagamentos mais altos etc).
The wasteful fraud of sorting for youth meritocracy
"Sorry, you didn't make the team. We did the cuts today."
"We did play auditions all day yesterday, and so many people turned out, there just wasn't a role for you. We picked people who were more talented."
"You're on the bench until your skills improve. We want to win."
Ask the well-meaning coaches and teachers running the tryouts and choosing who gets to play, ask them who gets on stage and who gets fast tracked, and they'll explain that life is a meritocracy, and it's essential to teach kids that they're about to enter a world where people get picked based on performance.
Or, they might point out that their job is to win, to put on a great show, to entertain the parents with the best performance they can create.
This, all of this, is sort of dangerous, unhelpful and nonsensical.
As millions head back for another year of school, I'm hoping that parents (and students) can call this out.
When you're six years old and you try out for the hockey team, only two things are going to get you picked ahead of the others: either you're older (it's true, check this out) or you were born with size or speed or some other advantage that wasn't your choice.
And the junior high musical? It's pretty clear that kids are chosen based on appearance or natural singing talent, two things that weren't up to them.
Soccer and football exist in school not because there's a trophy shortage, not because the school benefits from winning. They exist, I think, to create a learning experience. But when we bench people because they're not naturally good, what's the lesson?
If you get ahead for years and years because you got dealt good cards, it's not particularly likely that you will learn that in the real world, achievement is based as much on attitude and effort as it is on natural advantages. In the real world, Nobel prizes and Broadway roles and the senior VP job go to people who have figured out how to care, how to show up, how to be open to new experiences. Our culture is built around connection and charisma and learning and the ability to not quit in precisely the right moments.
But that's not easy to sort for in school, so we take a shortcut and resort to trivial measures instead.
What if we celebrated the students who regularly try the hardest, help each other the most and lead? What if we fast tracked those students, and made it clear to anyone else willing to adopt those attitudes that they could be celebrated too?
What if you got cast, tracked or made the cut because you were resilient, hard working and willing to set yourself up for a cycle of continuous improvement? Isn't that more important than rewarding the kid who never passes but still scores a lot of goals?
Before you feature a trumpet prodigy at the jazz band concert, perhaps you could feature the kid who just won't quit. No need to tell him he's a great trumpet player--the fact is, none of these kids are Maynard Ferguson--just tell him the truth. Tell him that every single person who has made a career of playing the trumpet (every single one of them) did it with effort and passion, not with lips that naturally vibrate.
We're not spending nearly enough time asking each other: What is School For?
Since I first published Stop Stealing Dreams to the web, it's been shared millions of times. My hope is that as we go back to school, you'll forward this video and this manifesto (screen edition) to every parent and teacher you know. (Here's a printable edition if you want to print it out and hand copies out).
Let's talk about school and figure out what we're trying to create.
webbys: It’s their Internet, we just honor the very best of...

It’s their Internet, we just honor the very best of it.
every day is cat day, imo.
Iolanda. Abandonada prenhe
LoriA mãezinha da Daeny.
Esta linda cadela das fotos é a Iolanda. Foi abandonada às vésperas de parir e aguarda agora um lar com carinho e responsabilidade.
Tem aproximadamente um ano e meio, porte médio, dócil e muito sociável com crianças e outros cães.
Está castrada, vacinada, vermifugada e será doada somente para pessoas que gostem de cães e tenham condições para cuidar.
Contato para adoção: Aline: (31) 8753.3588.
E-mail: aline38paixao@gmail.com

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