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  • I love so many things about this ?#?NoBillNoBreak? sit-in, but the thing I love the most is John Lewis’ facial expression. He has Resting Protest Face. He doesn’t give a shit about your guns, or your parliamentary procedures, or your C-SPAN cameras. He’s heard you want to put him on Periscope but he’s not sure he gives a shit about that either. He’s like “Did you see Selma? You remember the John Lewis character? That was me. John ‘I asked for and received an apology from the Klan’ Lewis.” He is the human personification of the expression “You tried it.” He most definitely doesn’t give a shit about Paul Ryan. When asked for comment about how Paul Ryan compared to political foes he’s encountered in the past, Lewis thought for a second and replied “He doesn’t have the range.” John “Freedom Rider” Lewis has an honorary doctorate in sitting. Don’t come for him unless he sends for you.

    R. Eric Thomas – I love so many things about this #NoBillNoBreak…

    My favorite: “He is the human personification of the expression ‘You tried it.’”

    (via jasmined)

    “He doesn’t have the range” is so brutal in its dismissiveness. 

    (via whatblogidonthaveablog)

  • [M]en who share household and child-rearing responsibilities with women are mistaken if they think that this act of choice, often buttressed by the gratitude and admiration of others, is anything like the woman’s experience of being forcibly socialized into these tasks and of having others perceive this as her natural function in the scheme of things.

    Uma Narayan, “The Project of Feminist Epistemology:  Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist” (1989)

  • Gordon Werner on Twitter

    Gordon Werner on Twitter

    solarbird:

    solarbird:

    PAID I-1515 SIGNATURE GATHERERS ARE TELLING PEOPLE THAT IT’S A PRO-TRANS-RIGHTS INITIATIVE, RELYING ON COMPLETE IGNORANCE – DON’T FALL FOR IT, DON’T BE STUPID, REPORT IT IF YOU SEE IT.

    In real life, I-1515 is a vicious anti-queer initiative that actually targets trans kids with abuse and puts a $2500 bounty on their heads and I am not even making that up.

    IF YOU SEE IT, SAY SOMETHING.

    AND SHARE THIS LIKE FUCKING WILDFIRE, THIS HAS TO GET OUT, PARTICULARLY TO APATHETIC DEMI-POLITICAL FRIENDS.

  • We must not pretend that the countless people who are routinely targeted by police are isolated. They are the canaries in the coal mine whose deaths, civil and literal, warn us that no one can breathe in this atmosphere.

    Sonia Sotomayor, in her dissent of the recent SCOTUS ruling allowing police to illegally search anyone’s private property for any reason and to use anything they illegally acquire against you in a court of “law.” (via iwriteaboutfeminism)

  • micdotcom:

    House Democrats stage sit-in for gun control action

    Democratic members of Congress led by Rep. John Lewis (D Ga.) staged a sit-in Wednesday morning on the House floor, demanding a vote on gun reforms in the wake of the Orlando, Florida, massacre. More than two dozen members joined in. Right after they started, the GOP took steps to make sure few saw the sit-in.

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    thesociologicalcinema:

    When a man claims that he would be delighted if the roles were reversed in harassment, he is not actually thinking of what it is like to be a woman walking down the street–he is thinking of what it is like to be a man walking down the street, with all the physical security and social privilege that comes with being a man, enjoying the compliments of what must surely be, in this scenario, women he does not find repulsive or threatening. In other words, a man with this response to street harassment is imagining only a formal reversal of roles, holding constant everything about his experience of being a man except for the fact that he is the object of sexual attention.

    ~ Mary Ann Franks

  • howling-fucking-fantods:

    escavel:

    sopphistries:

    tittyrants:

    fire-lord-frowny:

    It really, REALLY bothers me when I hear people frame climate change and other environmental crises as something that everyday, average-ass people are responsible for, and not corporations and entire governments. 

    Like literally, how can a regular-ass person ~opt out~ of all damaging behaviors while still being able to function in society? 

    You literally can’t. 

    The future of our planet is not down to whether or not someone recycles their water bottle. 

    It’s down to whether or not governments and corporations decide to quit sucking up all our resources and poisoning the earth with reckless abandon. 

    I mean obviously people should still live as cleanly and as sustainably as they can manage where they are and with what they have, but like. THAT isn’t the major issue. 

    govts and corporations have deliberately put the onus on yr individual choices so the system can continue being as destructive/profitable

    God bless this post this pisses me off so much

    Also this hyper-individualist shift of responsibility is largely an American thing and consumerism is framed as a solution- e.g., buy more shit that’s sustainable! That’ll fix the problem (buy a new, green water bottle! buy a new, green car! buy a new, green whatever-the-fuck that’ll just ultimately produce more waste)!

    I took a course in sustainable engineering.

    The professor mentioned that even if every private individual in the world were to conserve resources and the environment the ol’ Jimmy Carter way- by turning down the thermostat, recycling your glass and plastics and metals, cut down on luxuries, take shorter showers, etc., it would only get us 10% of the way to where we need to be in order to avoid global catastrophic climate change.

    The vast majority of freshwater use is from industry and agriculture. http://www.worldometers.info/water/ 

    The vast majority of CO2 emissions is from industrial and electrical generation sites and associated vehicles. http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.html

    Private individuals hardly make a dent, even in ideal conditions.

    Thank you.

    On the other hand, 

    – Opting to buy an appallingly inefficient SUV which requires many more resources in its manufacture, then uses more petrol/gasoline than a smaller vehicle for its entire lifespan, then trading it in at only a couple of years old for another one? Bearing in mind that each gallon of gasoline *also* contains a vast amount of embodied electricity (petrol refineries use terrifying amounts of energy that’s rarely factored in when calculating efficiency of vehicles)…

    – Buying tons and tons of consumerist crap

    – Throwing away around 50% of your food…

    …all of this encourages and strengthens these companies. I’m not so naive as to believe that you individuals-acting-individually will change things. But removing the demand, and pushing companies to change is the only way we’ll get anywhere. As long as everyone still buys their crap, they’ll keep making and pushing it.

  • Gordon Werner on Twitter

    Gordon Werner on Twitter

    solarbird:

    solarbird:

    PAID I-1515 SIGNATURE GATHERERS ARE TELLING PEOPLE THAT IT’S A PRO-TRANS-RIGHTS INITIATIVE, RELYING ON COMPLETE IGNORANCE – DON’T FALL FOR IT, DON’T BE STUPID, REPORT IT IF YOU SEE IT.

    In real life, I-1515 is a vicious anti-queer initiative that actually targets trans kids with abuse and puts a $2500 bounty on their heads and I am not even making that up.

    IF YOU SEE IT, SAY SOMETHING.

    AND SHARE THIS LIKE FUCKING WILDFIRE, THIS HAS TO GET OUT, PARTICULARLY TO APATHETIC DEMI-POLITICAL FRIENDS.

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    rissa-is-a-nerd:

    comforthawk:

    coyohti:

    Well this is horrifying.

    I want to vomit

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    wilwheaton:

    (via Reddit)

    Oh god, sometimes I’m so proud of my ancestral land :)