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[repeatedly pummels steve]

@aoboobarnes / aoboobarnes.tumblr.com

"flatulent gay caffeinated nerd" "caused the apuncolypse""call me pal"
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reblogged
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chessys

support oversized clothes we must water the seeds of wearing blankets in public

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bugdotpng

more pixel sorting by me!

this is the carina nebula, originally captured by the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory
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lithicc

Richard Spen/c-er was punched again today 1-25-2016. presumably in Philly

Thank you for this birthday gift, kind-fisted stranger

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“Anna for you to sit here & call Trump a racist is outrageous"

“well lemme do it again and lemme do it in two languages”

SHE ENDED HIM 💀💀

[Murders you on national television in Spanish]

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I’m the guy in the middle smiling when she said it in Spanish 😂

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que-mystery

“Es un racista” 😩😩🙌🏽🙌🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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pig-demon

PUÑETA DALE DUROOOOOO.

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puckingfussy

God, I love this so much

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lacigreen

Y'all, it’s only Day 1, and things are looking GRAVE AF. Today Trump re-instated a law that will kill thousands of women – and I am not exaggerating here. He did this 2 DAYS after the women’s march, surrounded by a group of smirking old dudes. Lovely. The policy is called the “Global Gag Rule”.

Here’s what you need to know:

The Global Gag Rule bans health organizations around the world from receiving US funding if they so much as *mention* abortion. The organizations are also banned from providing abortion services – even though other funding sources, like donations, are used to pay for them. (The Helms Amendment bans the use of US funds for abortion abroad.)  The GGR is not a budget cut for US taxpayers, it is a special stipulation for foreign aid targeting reproductive health organizations specifically.

As you might imagine, this policy puts international health centers in a very difficult position. They either lose funding for things like STI screenings and birth control, or they leave patients seeking an abortion to do it on their own.

We saw the devastating impact of this policy when President Bush signed it into effect in 2001. Take Ethiopia, where unsafe abortion is the second-leading cause of death (after HIV/AIDS). Organizations there decided they could not turn women away, and thusly experienced a massive birth control supply crisis as punishment. 16 other countries also saw US donations of contraceptives and condoms abruptly cut off.  As a result, the abortion rate INCREASED.  

I know it’s not their thing, but the GOP desperately needs to put on their thinking caps here. What happens when you cut off birth control access? Oh yes! More people get pregnant! And what happens when you cut off safe access to abortion services? Oh, right. People die. Every year 50,000 women die from a lack of access to safe abortion. There are literally 90 katrillion studies showing that banning abortion *does not stop abortion from happening*, it just means they happen in dangerous conditions. That’s a fact. And, at least to this chick, facts still matter.

Then there are the effects that GGR has on HIV/AIDS prevention efforts. In some of the communities affected by the rule, HIV infects as many as 1 in 4 people.

Overall, this is a law that has well documented effects of death and destruction. On what fking planet is this policy “pro life”? I’m pissed, naturally. It’s unbelievable (well, not really) that our government would put women around the world in this much danger FOR LITERALLY NO REASON. Seriously – WTF?? I will not stand for it, and I hope you’ll join me in sending a vocal NOPE to our leaders.

This week, Senator Gillibrand and Senator Shaheen are introducing bi-partisan legislation to permanently REPEAL the Global Gag Rule. They are calling it “HER Act”. It’s unclear to me what is possible given that we have a 1-party government now, but given that lives are on the line, I am going to do what I can to fight back at every turn. 

PLEASE call your reps and tell them what you think of the Global Gag Rule:  http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

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The Mirror of Galadriel.

“`Many things I can command the Mirror to reveal,’ she answered, `and to some I can show what they desire to see. But the Mirror will also show things unbidden, and those are often stranger and more profitable than things which we wish to behold. What you will see, if you leave the Mirror free to work, I cannot tell. For it shows things that were, and things that are, things that yet may be. But which it is that he sees, even the wisest cannot always tell. Do you wish to look? ‘” (J.R.R, Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2). “The Mirror of Galadriel”. 
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