Remember that the calls for the national guard to intervene are calls to use state violence against Palestinian, Jewish, Arab, Muslim and other pro-Palestine students. They’re calling for deadly violence against Jews in the name of “anti-antisemitism.”
Various ferns. The fern paradise. 1878.
Students who participated in a walk out on UT campus have been arrested. Bail fund in the link below.
tourists visiting massachusetts looking at the attractions
Official Post of Massachusetts
Schrift-Proben von Schriftgiesserei - Benjamin Krebs - via Paris bibliotheques
Kate Bush at home using her Fairlight CMI synth (c. 1980)
unfriendly reminder that aotearoa is currently under the thumb of the most corrupt nasty disgusting evil little rats
i have seen advocates asking for this petition to be shared around and signed
if there are any other resources to oppose this decision or support our disabled community, please add on to this post (or alternatively, you can message them to me and i will add)!
cats are such decadent little beasts like look at this thang
What a pose... truly fantastic
This pandemic is really proving that government has the means to solve all problems they just choose not to
I studied abroad in London in 2014 and my British Politics professor literally brought in a former homeless woman who had been made not-homeless when, during the 2012 Olympics, she and everyone else were given temporary housing to keep them off the streets. and while some people returned to being homeless afterwards, most people didn’t, because it turns out it’s easier to get a job and be secure if you already have the house thing taken care of.
the government could absolutely fix homelessness today, and it would solve homelessness not just temporarily, but for the long term. but the government chooses not to, not because it’s expensive (it’s more expensive to have homeless people than it is to give them homes), not because it doesn’t work (there are a lot of studies confirming that it does), but because some people think that being poor is a moral failing that can only be solved by shitting on them some more.
please fucking vote
Check that you're registered to vote!!! Republicans are purging voters again.
Why?
Because they'll otherwise lose if we all vote. It's why they remove voting locations in Black regions and add more to white regions.
Republicans ALWAYS vote. They play the long game and know things take time. They're counting on the rest of us demanding immediate results and getting to frustrated and impatient when that expectation isn't met.
reblog for easter
forget april fools day its almost time for the best video on this entire fuckin planet
sunglasses. no sun. it’s cloudy: overcast.
Rapists, and killers, too? Really? (Those on death-row?) The drug/prostitution problems are just a portion of USA criminals.
yes, all criminals. the moment you say “except X criminal” is the moment that people will try to convict their opponents as having committed X crime.
it’s the same thing as what’s going on right now with people equating drag to some sort of child exploitation. “but the children!!” they wail, and people listen because oh, if drag is harming children, then drag MUST be BAD, so we HAVE TO BAN DRAG.
do you understand what i’m saying? you can’t take away the rights of any category of criminal, because suddenly that category will be overflowing with people who totally 100% definitely committed that horrible crime.
Just to look at this from one step further back, let's accept the premise. Let's imagine that there is a type of crime that is 1) horrible evil irredeemable universally-agreed-upon bad, and 2) could somehow be prosecuted with 100% accuracy and 0% bias. Yes, even then, those criminals deserve a right to vote.
Do you they're going to like vote themselves out of jail? Vote to make murder legal? What exactly are you afraid of.
Realistically they'll just... vote just like anyone else. They'll help elect city councilmembers they think will better their hometowns, and presidents they think will best serve the country. They might even vote in their own interests! To reform prisons, fund rehabilitation programs, and outlaw predatory practices by telecoms. Are you saying you don't want any of those things?
And even if there were one of those super-duper-unambiguously-evil totally misanthropic death-row convicts, who's scheduled to be execute the very next day and just wants to sow chaos and watch the outside world burn however they can... what's the worst they could do, vote republican?
Taking people's rights away isn't bad because it might happen to someone you like, it's because taking people's rights away is bad.
Maine allows this! ❤️❤️
everything is better when its public. libraries! public art! public history! public health! public education! public television!! public DOMAIN
@amtrak-official public TRAINS
Public trains and public domain, the intersection of the 2 things I care way too much about
Yeye
Claudia Keep (American, b. 1993, Low Moor, VA, USA, based Burlington, VT, USA) - Striped Sheets, 2022, Paintings: Oil on Masonite Panel
possibly the best seinpeaks vid
This problem is nothing new, but this specific example with these numbers puts it into a fucking brutal perspective.
To put these numbers a different way: A Taco Bell burrito that used to cost ~7 minutes and 20 seconds of minimum wage work now costs ~30 minutes and 30 seconds of minimum wage work.
You used to be able to work at Taco Bell anywhere in the country and make enough money in one hour to buy at least 8 burritos (maybe 9 if you're a manager or something) and feed, like, 3-4 people a decently-filling meal. But now, the same amount of work at the same job will get you one meal for one person. And this change has happened over a mere 15 years.
Remember this whenever you see rich people demonize younger generations for our financial situations, when they call us irresponsible for not investing a ton of money in savings accounts.
