On Monday, the media was quick to paint a single picture of Baltimore: a chaos scene of violence and mayhem filled with images of looting, rioting, the burning of a CVS and the torching of a police car. But on the ground, a very different story unfolded — and these remarkable photos and videos are proof.
When I took Chloe in for her physical the doctor had her get down to her underwear and the doctor checked her out and then said “I am just going to take a quick peek in your underwear to make sure everything is okay down there” and Chloe said “momma you said no one can look at my privates unless I tell them its okay and I dont ant her to look at them because I dont know her very well.” I told her that it was her choice to have the doctor look or not but that I was right here and I would be sure the doctor did not do anything that was not okay, but if Chloe did not want her to look she didnt have to let her. She looked at the doctor and said very matter of factly “I dont want you looking in my underwear, there is nothing wrong with my private parts, and I dont know you very well” The doctor looked at Chloe and told her that she had the right to say no and that she wouldn’t force her to let her look. She asked her questions about it, like does it itch, does it hurt when you pee and Chloe answered them and then started getting dressed. The doctor pulled me aside and told me that she was a sexual assualt survivor and that she is so proud of my daughter for telling her no, even though she was a person of authority.
I have always and will always teach my children they control their body, even and especially when it comes to people of authority.
I have been writing about this all week and have gone through extensive background here, but Tony Funchess is literally involved in every major civil rights organization in Portland and is days away from becoming the default president of Portland State University.
This man raped two little black girls and STILL thinks there is nothing wrong with that. There might be a place in the world for ex-convicts to rehabilitate or whatever but DEFINITELY not unrepentant repeat offenders who predate on black girls!
It’s possible his opponent might not be able to serve in office so Tony is likely to win by default so you really need to sign this! Please. As someone doing direct action organizing around this - having this petition have a HUGE set of numbers will really help the efforts of students who aren’t being silent!!
so this is my school? and what? and like i’m in shock? and like i don’t know what to do?
They’re “frankenfood” or “dangerous” or “playing God.”
Legitimate problems with GMOs:
Artificially sterile seeds which force farmers to buy new seeds from with every crop from corporations which have a monopoly on said seeds. Especially harmful for smallholdings farms.
Like pesticides, pest-resistant GMOs become less effective at deterring pests over time due to natural selection.
licensing seeds which are then given away as a trial, then requiring farmers to either purchase the license again or destroy their entire crops. This is what at least one GMO corporation did in the wake of Haiti’s natural disaster.
if you spoil age of ultron for me or put those shitty cam quality spoilery gifs on my dash i will put a curse on your family, your future children, your children’s children, and your children’s children’s children. and your dog.
I WILL CAST DISHONOR UPON YOU, UPON YOUR FAMILY, AND UPON YOUR COW. SPOIL NOTHING.
This whole “trust Tumblr blindly” thing is eventually going to kill someone, as I became pointedly aware of on one occasion I was making fun of how poorly a particular bleach-based drain declogger was working on my sink and got a chorus of really dangerously misinformed people telling me to pour vinegar in after it because all cute little cool kid diy home care blogs they’re following talk about vinegar like it it’s the big secret the cleaning companies don’t want you to know.
And I cringed knowing that someday, some Well Actually expert who read a blog article once is going to give that advice to someone who unfortunately didn’t take high school chemistry and isn’t aware that MIXING VINEGAR AND BLEACH MAKES CHLORINE GAS.
ship’s computer crashes due to virus acquired during a porn download from a lower decks ensign
firmware update was pushed out to the fleet, has vital error in the clock program that causes every computer to repeat 2300. translators have to explain to the enemy why everyone is an hour late to peace talks.
unintelligble message is sent out into the void because someone’s pet cat walked across their keyboard. message is interpreted as a marriage proposal.
universal translators break, everyone is reduced to hand gestures
viewscreen has dead pixels in the upper left corner, drives the captain a bit bonkers
space gps tells us to take a right where we should take a left. plucky recent academy grad on the graveyard shift realizes that this would take us into the sun and makes the course correction. ship’s computer advises her for two hours to make a u-turn when it is safe to do so
shout out to those humans out there that haven’t even hit 18 yet but have been through enough hell to last four lifetimes. your age does not invalidate your pain and experience. i respect you so much.
“No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom.’ If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.”—
don’t you dare become a parent and then say “i didn’t sign up for this” when your kid is lesbian, gay, bi, trans, disabled, anything you erroneously consider “abnormal” by becoming a parent you sign up for everything you sign up to accept your child no matter who they are it’s not something you can back out of
dude im so pissed. here in california w our megadrought we just found out nestle has been bottling all our water on a permit that expired 27 YEARS AGO. and the ceo of nestle literally said that human beings do not have a right to water and it should be privatized. i wish i was lying. capitalism everybody. we only have a year of water left and idk whats gonna happen if it doesnt get better. anyone live in like maine or something watery so i can come live with you
WARNING! Spotify is running an ad for the MTV movie Unfriended and if you’re listening to your music and doing something other than staring at spotify, which I would assume most people do, you will be scared shitless when it plays because it’s silence for a second and then a high-pitched scream. I’ve never made a post like this but PLEASE signal boost this because I know it could be a huge issue for people and I just want to warn everybody so they aren’t scared half to death like I was.
I was listening to music to calm down from a panic attack one night and then they played an ad for a scary movie and I practically died…
I’ve been scared ever since when I listen to my music. Thanks for this, now I’ll be even more careful
Hey all you lovely people who have periods, the world is starting to look a little bit brighter now that certain tampon/pad companies have started to allow people to receive small kits and samples of pads, maxi pads, liner, and tampons for free. And I mean 100% free and discreet. You just have to give them your address and name, and bam! You’ve got all the menstrual cycle products you could ever need for no cost. Links below!
SOME MOTHER FUCKING MACCARONI (MAKE SURE THEY’RE DRY BRO DON’T WANT NO STICKY-ICKY MAP)
AIGHT THAT SHIT DON’T LOOK LIKE NO COUNTRY I KNOW (EXCEPT MAYBE AUSTRALIA FUCK THEM THOUGH)
ORGANIZE YOUR MACCARONI! MAKE SOME FUCKING COASTLINES!
BETTER, BUT NOT FUCKING GOOD! WHATEVER, TRACE THE COASTLINE WITH YOUR PENCIL. BE SURE TO BE SLIGHTLY SQUIGGLY AND, OH, FUCK THOSE LITTLE ISLANDS YOU MADE THEY’RE NOT BIG ENOUGH TO BE WOBBLY ENOUGH SO YOU’RE BETTER OFF USING EITHER RICE (OR SIMILAR) OR JUST TRY TO MAKE SOME REALISTIC FUCKING ISLANDS (SPOILER: YOU WON’T)
GOOD ENOUGH I GUESS WHATEVER LOOK AT THAT VAGUE SORT OF ISLAND/COUNTRY/CONTINENT SHAPED PIECE OF SHIT. SEE THE ISLANDS? I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO DAWG.
NOW TAKE A SHARPIE AND MAKE EVEN SQUIGGLIER FUCKING LINES AS YOU FILL IN YOUR ISOUNINENT
LOOK AT THIS WONDERFUL PIECE OF SHIT IT TOOK ME LITERALLY TEN MINUTES TO MAKE TOPS AND NOW YOU JUST NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHERE TO PUT ALL YOUR DWARF-FUCKING ELVES AND LIZARD-PEOPLE WITH BOOBS
1. Open Culture: Not a large a selection, but high quality texts. If you just want to skim a book to brush up on a course you took in ninth grade, download one of these. I have yet to be disappointed.
2. Book Boon: Provides free college-level textbooks in a PDF format. Probably the widest range of subjects on the web. The site is also pretty.
3. Flat World Knowledge: The worlds largest publisher of free and open college textbooks. Humanitie texts are particularly difficult to come by, this site has a great selection in all disciplines.
4. Textbook Revolution: Some of the books are PDF files, others are viewable online as e-books, or some are simply web sites containing course or multimedia content.
5. Library Pirate:I’ve always had an addiction to torrent based pirating. When this site opened a few months ago, I went a little overboard. After dropping two hundred on a paperback spanish textbook, I downloaded the ebook version illegally. I also got a great Psyc text i’m obsessed with. It will be interesting to see how this site grows- they already have a great selection.
College bookstores completely rip off their students, so ALWAYS reblog free textbooks!
