lustyloveylady: what a beautiful powerful human being I will...
what a beautiful powerful human being
I will always reblog this when it comes up on my dash
That's exactly what she is, a beautiful, powerful human being! Bravo!
"The sexualization of women is only appealing if it's nonconsensual. Otherwise it's "sluttiness"."
"The sexualization of women is only appealing if it's nonconsensual. Otherwise it's...PLEASE. ATTENTION. IMPORTANT. PLEASE. My followers from all around the world. This is the first time i'm asking for something THIS serious. And i need, we need your support. Turkish people, my people are standing up for their rights, after a long long time. First it started as a protest against a mall that will be built in one of our historical parks. But then it got bigger, it's not only about the trees anymore. It's about the people who got beaten, who got thrown tear gas bombs to their heads, who got intentionally hit by police cars, and killed. In here we are not allowed to speak are minds anymore, and media is not helping either. Help us spread the word, let the world know about what's happening here. I'm asking, wanting you to reblog this. Please. Once you finish reading this, please reblog.
wendymabelaraneaprenderghast: the-only-romance: tomwaitsforme: PLEASE DON'T IGNORE...bemusedlybespectacled: ALWAYS REBLOG KAT DENNINGS SLAMMING SLUT...
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Born A Ramblin Girl: GUYSGUYSGUYSTHIS IS HUGE FOR ME PLEASE
Born A Ramblin Girl: GUYSGUYSGUYSTHIS IS HUGE FOR ME PLEASE:..."You see, when we are not considered to be the legitimate owners of our bodies, then our decisions..."
"You see, when we are not considered to be the legitimate owners of our bodies, then our..."The best predictor of belief in a conspiracy theory is belief in other conspiracy theories."
"The best predictor of belief in a conspiracy theory is belief in other conspiracy..."Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to..."
"Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a...MSNBC Comment on Youtube Video
This is disturbing and unacceptable under any circumstances but if this is the official channel of...Meet Eesha Khare - A Brilliant Young Scientist And Role...
Meet Eesha Khare - A Brilliant Young Scientist And Role Model
Teen's invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds
(Photo: Intel)
Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student's invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds.
That's really cool. Would have been nice to have Eesha Khare's name prominently on this post itself though :)
She is an awesome example to all young people and especially other young women who see that they can excel at science.
Because this makes so much sense.
Because this makes so much sense.
odinsblog: Massive Voter Suppression Widespread Election...
- Massive Voter Suppression
- Widespread Election Fraud
- Espousing legalized racial profiling
- Proposing to fix any international dispute with yet another war
- Opining to reignite the war with Iraq
- Ongoing Wars Against Women's Health
- Denying Climate Change
- Fighting against Fair Pay for women
- Opposing a minimum wage
- Fighting to repeal Affirmative Action
- Anti-Science and Opposed to Critical Thinking Skills
- Opposition to Universal Healthcare
- Fighting Marriage Equality
- Blurring the line between Church and State
- Blocking the DREAM Act
- Defunding public education, PBS, and early education
- Fighting against any type of alternative or Green Energy…
There's one political party doing these things en-mass as a part of their party platform, and it ain't liberal politicians or the Democrats.
Republicans are dangerous. Either they are actually as ignorant and hateful as they portray themselves or they have such low moral character that they're willing to foment racial and religious hatred for personal gain.
Either way, they're dangerous. Voting Republican endangers the planet (seriously) and makes the world a dumber, more hateful place. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who votes for the GOP/Tea Party is part of the problem.
Add to this list, * Voting to do away with overtime pay (and thus the 40-hour work week), * Refusing to allow even the smallest gains against gun violence, * Championing the use of torture by our military and CIA against any so-called "enemies," * Proposing the end of child labor laws, * Advocating the undue influence of corporations on our democracy through such means as Citizens United… and the list goes ON and ON. There is NOTHING on the Left even close to this kind of laundry-list of organized, concerted efforts to fuck over the average Joe for the soul benefit of their wealthy benefactors.
When will the American public wake up?
thepoliticalfreakshow: We Can Handle The Truth: Why The CIA...
We Can Handle The Truth: Why The CIA Needs To Tell The American People About The Dirty Secrets of The War on Terror
In April 1975, Sen. Frank Church impaneled a special investigative committee to look into shocking accounts of CIA dirty tricks. The Church Committee ultimately published 14 reports over two years revealing a clandestine agency that was a law unto itself — plotting to assassinate heads of state (Castro, Diem, Lumumba, Trujillo), carrying out weird experiments with LSD, and suborning American journalists. As a result, President Gerald Ford issued an executive order banning the assassination of foreign leaders, the House and Senate established standing intelligence committees, and the United States set up the so-called FISA courts, which oversee request for surveillance warrants against suspected foreign agents.
But the war on terror unleashed the CIA once again to carry out dark deeds against America's enemies — torture, secret detention, and "rendition" to "black sites" across the world. How have Americans reckoned, this time, with the immoral and illegal acts carried out in their name? They have not: the CIA has retained control over the narrative. As the Constitution Project's Detainee Treatment report describes in great detail, the CIA falsely reported — to the White House as well as to the public — that torture "worked" in wresting crucial information from high-level detainees, and thus needed to be an instrument available to interrogators. Officials like Vice President Dick Cheney repeated ad nauseum that the CIA's dark arts had saved thousands of lives. Is it any wonder that a plurality of Americans think the United States should torture terrorists?
I wrote last month about the detainee treatment report, but I find it incredibly frustrating — and all too telling — that the findings were overwhelmed by the tidal wave of coverage of the Boston bombing. Because we fear terrorism far more viscerally than we feared communism — certainly by 1975 — we are all too susceptible to the view that America cannot afford to live by its own professed values. But of course that's what Chileans and Brazilians thought in the 1970s. That's why Sri Lankans have granted themselves the right to slaughter homegrown terrorists wholesale, and react furiously to any hint of criticism.
People give themselves a pass unless and until they are forced to face the truth, which is why a public airing of history is so important — and so politically fraught. There's always a compelling reason to avoid facing the ugly truth. In early 2009, Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called for an independent commission to investigate allegations of torture. But President Barack Obama's spokesman said that the proposal would not be "workable." We know what he meant: you can hardly blame the president for avoiding a colossal fight with Republicans over the past, especially, when he had so many fights he needed to wage over the future.
Obama probably thought that he could put the problem to rest by ending torture as well as the cult of secrecy surrounding CIA practices. He succeeded on the first count, but failed on the latter. In April 2009, he agreed to release the so-called "torture" memos written by President George W. Bush's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), as well as photos of prisoner abuse from Iraq and Afghanistan. But then, after a fierce debate inside the White House said to pit Obama's military commanders against his counselor, Gregory Craig, among others, the administration reversed itself. The president later signed legislation allowing him to withhold the pictures if he determined that the release would harm national security.
Once adopted, the logic of national security carries all before it. The release of the OLC memos, the detainee treatment report notes, was the high-water mark of Obama-era transparency on torture. CIA reports on the death of three prisoners in custody as well as on broad policy towards detainees remain classified; so do the results of inquiries by the armed forces criminal investigation division. The agency's ability to withhold information probably contributed to the Justice Department's decision not to pursue indictments on any of the 100 or so cases of CIA mistreatment which it investigated. Defense lawyers in the military trial of the "9/11 defendants" held at Guantanamo have had to work around a "protection order" which classifies entire subject areas — including anything related to the defendants' arrest or capture, the conditions in which they were held, or the interrogation techniques to which they were subjected. Whatever becomes of the defendants, Americans will learn nothing from the trials.
On matters of secrecy, Obama has been little better than Bush. This has become notorious in the case of the drone program, a centerpiece of Obama's prosecution of the war on terror. In a recent speech at the Oxford Union, Harold Koh, the former chief counsel of the State Department, said that the administration has failed to be "transparent about legal standards and the decision-making process that it has been applying."
I asked Koh why the White House has so regularly deferred to the CIA on issues of transparency and accountability. Koh pointed out that the CIA's concern that exposing past bad acts could serve as a recruiting tool for al Qaeda was hardly trivial. But, he said of the White House: "They don't have a good balancing mechanism on the value of disclosures. It's almost like if nobody's clamoring for it, the pressure can be resisted." The pressure comes from the outside — from the press, from civil-liberties groups, and activists — but not from the inside. So the CIA carries the day.
And yet it's not too late to expose, and learn from, the sorry history of the last decade. Last December, the Senate Intelligence Committee approved a 6,000-page report on the finding of its secret investigation into the treatment of detainees. The report, which has not been made public, describes the CIA's detention program in minute detail. Among other things, it puts to rest the canard that torture works. In his confirmation hearings, CIA director John Brennan admitted that the report had led him to question "the information that I was given at the time" that so-called "enhanced techniques" had saved lives.
Brennan has learned this; other Americans may not have the chance. The CIA is likely to both dispute the findings and to try to keep them secret. In a letter to Obama, Sen. Mark Udall complained that Brennan had shown "little to no interest" in working with his staff, and had already missed the deadline for response by more than two months. A congressional aide said that there was no sign that the White House had even examined the report, much less prepared a response.
The good news is that the irrepressible Vice President Joe Biden recently advocated publishing the findings, saying that Americans needed to "excise the demons" through a full disclosure of past abuses. Biden even compared the redemptive value of facing the truth on torture to the effect of the war-crimes tribunals on Germany. Obama probably didn't authorize the analogy, but he may well have signed off on the position — in which case the comment should be read as a pre-emptive shot across the CIA's bow.
In the course of questioning Brennan during Senate hearings, Sen. Udall quoted Howard Baker, the widely admired Republican moderate from the bygone age of Republican moderates, to the effect that the Church Committee report may well have weakened the CIA in the short run, but strengthened it in the long run — by reminding the agency of what it should as well as shouldn't do. Apparently even the CIA agrees, since its website carries an admiring description of the committee's findings. If and when the Senate Intelligence Committee report is made public, in whole or in part, current and former CIA officials, conservative pundits, and Republican politicians will no doubt join as one to warn that America's national security has been compromised, its enemies emboldened, its intelligence operatives compromised. That's what they said in 1975. They were wrong then, and they will be wrong now.
osirismorte: godtiercosbytop: fyeridan: "This a photograph...
"This a photograph taken from the teenager (shirtless guy) named Austin Schafer's Twitter account, of a kid being tied up and beaten by upper classmen at Columbia High School in Nampa, Idaho.
This is a recent photograph and one where the school's authorities have not taken action yet. Remember this kid's name and repost this picture.
The Neanderthal trash who are bullying him deserve to have this picture plastered all over the Internet for prospective college admission offices to see so their career pinnacle can be asking me which kind of soup I want at Olive Garden.
If you've been a victim of bullying or know someone who has, please repost."Signal Boost
Dang I live 5 minutes away from there
Signal Boost. We need to end this shit!
secularhumanist2: couple this with the republican house voting...
couple this with the republican house voting to abolish the 40 hr work week and thus eliminating overtime pay, they don't give a fuck about you or your friends, they need to go, tell all your friends
Thank you
Thank you
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toastedpopsicle: current: oinonio: U.S. Gun Deaths Since the...
U.S. Gun Deaths Since the Massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School
Sandy Hook happened six months ago today.
9/11 killed three thousand people. Gun violence kills more than twice that a year. 9/11 completely changed the way our government works. (or rather shut it down.) Gun Violence incites the occasional murmur.
…Well, gun violence doesn't kill twice the September 11th total annually but there is no other problem in America that kills this many people for which we take no measures to cure or to curb.
norsegays: astrolope: People being angry about ~dem gays~ on...
People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target's Facebook.
I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story.
A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right?
It is a big deal because i'm a transman.
It doesn't take a genius to conclude that it's hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don't pass, it's hard to be taken seriously at a job interview.
Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews.
At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn't care. Not in the sense that they don't emotionally care, but that it didn't matter. I was male and that's all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple.
At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren't sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you've had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn't ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person.
TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life.
virginiacountryboy: italianluxury: siknastynik: porcelainivory...
Remember this lady?
Oh my god
I've reblogged this before and I'll reblog is again.
Fuckin al gore !
Wow… That's amazing. Just, wow.
reblogging forever
Dammit al gore….
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