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AFTER 33 YEARS OF ABUSING POOR PEOPLE FOR SPECTACLE, "COPS" HAS FINALLY BEEN CANCELLED!!!

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The show’s 33rd season was expected to premiere on the Paramount Network on June 15.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, POP YOUR BOTTLES

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white people on twitter are ‘boycotting’ Paramount for canceling Cops and A&E for canceling Live PD

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“I think she started to realize that it wasn’t going to happen for her. She was in her forties. She hadn’t met the right person to start a family with. And after her third failed insemination, she had enough money to try one more time, or adopt. So she chose to adopt. This was the 90’s, and China had just begun to loosen their restrictions on international adoption. So she travelled there with a group of eight other families. The adoption lawyer gathered everyone in the hotel restaurant. Then he walked in a circle, and handed each family a small piece of rice paper. On the paper was written a name, a birth date, and a date of abandonment. My mother describes that piece of paper as the first time she ever met me. She gave me three names. My first name is Zoe, which means ‘life.’ She kept my Chinese name FuMian as my middle name. And my third name is Suni, which means ‘long awaited little darling.’ Ever since that day it’s just been the two of us. As a young child I wasn’t able to fully understand the concept of adoption, but I knew we didn’t look alike. And my children’s books had titles like Families Are Different and The Color Of Us. But Mom was very open about my history. She always did her best to incorporate Chinese elements in my upbringing. We celebrated Chinese New Year. I took Mandarin classes. There was Chinese artwork hanging in our house. As I grew a little older, I started to ask a lot of questions about my birth mother. But Mom never felt threatened by it. She encouraged it. She told me to write letters and keep them in my journal, to let my birth mother know that I was doing OK, and that I was happy. We even invented a name for her, so that she would seem more real. We called her Mei. Whenever we talked about Mei, my mother would show me that original piece of rice paper. It shows my birthday as March 7th, but my abandonment was two weeks later on March 21st. Mom always made a big deal out of those two weeks. She told me that it proved how much Mei loved me. And how she knew she couldn’t keep me, but she wanted to care for me as long as possible. So that I would be strong enough to move on.”

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“I’m speaking to you from my heart. Look, I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this, but fuck that. Today is about innocent people who were halfway through their process, we don’t know what George Floyd could have achieved, we don’t know what Sandra Bland could have achieved, but today we’re going to make sure that won’t be an alien thought to our young ones. Every black person in here remembered when another person reminded you that you were black. So none of you out there, all those protesters on the other side, protesting against what we want to do, protesting against what we want to try and achieve, burn you, this is so vital. I need you to understand how painful this shit is. I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every day that your race means nothing and that isn’t the case anymore, that was never the case anymore.” John Boyega at The Black Lives Matter protest in Hyde Park June 3rd 2020

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best friends can break your heart.

you can look back at pictures and feel empty. you can be reminded of them by every little thing. you can almost break down seeing them on social media with someone else, smiling like you guys used to. you can want to text or call but know you can’t do that anymore. you can miss them and feel yourself aching to talk to them one more time to try to fix it.

friends can break your heart. we just don’t talk about it.

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does anyone else just like, feel like their time was up years ago and feel like the world forgot to kill you

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I’ve been saying this since I saw the movie

Im glad I’m not the only one

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quarantine feels kinda like that area between christmas and new years where i have no idea what day of the week it is, or if i’m supposed to be going to work. AM and PM blend together. i’ve taken four naps in 10 hours. leftovers are my primary foodsource. got that weird sunday anxiety except it’s every day for the next 2 weeks