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stunningpicture

Portrait I drew of the lovely Maggie Smith.

lucillebruise

I am getting this framed and hung over my fireplace goddamn.

dynamite5ftjewishbitch

Same.

caitlinhill

Slow clap.

tomthefanboy

I’m pretty sure this is the portrait of McGonnagal that hangs across from the portrait of Snape in the headmaster’s office.

benepe

Dear US Quidditch players, coaches, officials, volunteers, staff, fans, family, friends, partners, and supporters,

Thank you so much for a fantastic season and an amazing World Cup 8 – by far our most successful yet. I am so appreciative of all our staff, volunteers, officials, and players for...

galentines

GOD BLESS EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS

edwardspoonhands

I'm watching people react to you re: the James Franco issue, and even when you're condescended to, or called a hypocrite, you explain patiently and calmly your reasoning. It seems like you have an endless supply of patience. Do you ever get frustrated and have to take a step back from the computer and regain your ability to explain calmly and rationally? If so, can you give any tips?

Here’s a secret!! You know where my patience comes from?

Power.

I am extremely empowered because I am:

1. Kinda Famous

2. Male

3. White

4. Financially stable

5. Massively supported by awesome people who I respect

It’s very easy not to take things personally when every single cultural cue is telling me that I am in a position of strength and many of those cues have been communicating that to me since birth.

Privilege is everywhere and I am one lucky fucker.

danascullayy

aliciaradford

I’m now going to give you permanent answers to all the silly questions you’re going to end up asking me and every other woman in this election over the next few months.

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Jeff Jackson, a young Democratic NC State senator is the only senator in the general assembly today due to the snow.

styro-sometimes

National Hero.

buzzfeed

Hey Buzzfeed. I like a lot of the stuff you guys do, but I've noticed something lately that makes me (and I assume a lot of other people) question whether or not to read your website. It seems like a disproportionate number of your articles and videos cater to women and so-called "feminists". This very blog recently posted a picture that mocked the new and popular #Meninist activist movement. Do you REALLY want your readers to think you support so-called "feminist" ideology?

Yes. Unequivocally yes.

inothernews

Imagine that Eric Garner had been white. Imagine that he’d been living in Idaho. Imagine that the law-enforcement officers who killed him had been federal agents. His death would be a Tea Party crusade. Think about it. The police hassled Garner because he had a history of selling untaxed cigarettes. It’s the kind of big-government intrusion that drives Tea Partiers nuts. One of the events that helped launch the Tea Party, in fact, came in January 2009, when activists from Young Americans for Liberty donned American Indian garb to protest the soda taxes proposed by then-New York Governor David Patterson. Garner responded to being hassled with a statement of “don’t tread on me” anti-government defiance: “I was just minding my own business. Every time you see me you want to mess with me. I’m tired of it. It stops today!” A tussle ensued. The police put Garner in a chokehold, and he died. The Garner case bears some resemblance to that of Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who this spring prevented Bureau of Land Management agents from impounding his cattle after he refused to pay government grazing fees. Like Garner, Bundy was engaged in a form of commerce he believed the government should not tax. Like Garner, Bundy resisted law enforcement’s efforts to punish him for it. For many conservatives, this made Bundy a hero and the government that sought to penalize him a tyranny. Right-wing activists, including some Republican legislators, flocked to Bundy’s ranch as he stared down federal agents, and Nevada Senator Dean Heller dubbed these vigilantes “patriots.” “At the heart of this issue,” declared Fox’s Sean Hannity, is “my belief that our government is simply out of control.” Ted Cruz called the Bundy affair “the unfortunate and tragic culmination of the path that President Obama has set the federal government on” in which “we have seen our constitutional liberties eroded.” To imagine how Fox News would be reacting right now had Garner been white, rural, and facing the feds, you need only imagine how it would have reacted had a BLM agent shot Bundy dead. But Fox and the rest of the pro-Tea Party right aren’t reacting that way. Yes, some conservative pundits—noting the video that shows Garner being choked to death—have condemned the grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer who killed him. Rand Paul has denounced the high cigarette taxes that Garner flouted. Overall, however, conservatives have responded to the Garner case with a yawn.

The Atlantic, "If Eric Garner Were White" (via prepstergrunge)

jazzykatharding

So either Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a Nerdfighter, or he has met a lot of Nerdfighters, because he immediately knew what to do when I told him I was one.

And if you have never seen him speak, I highly encourage it. Best keynote speech I have ever attended.

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Pop music has a very sexy, sometimes risqué side, how are you going to deal with that?

sandandglass

Bryan Stevenson on The Daily Show.

huggingthehorse-blog

The Adventures of Marx and Engels, #16

fishingboatproceeds

Hey John, what is your reaction to the news that the Riverside district has chosen to ban TFIOS from middle school libraries on the grounds that it deals with mortality and sex? I remember your reactions to similar situations concerning your books have been pretty animated and wondered what you thought?

I guess I am both happy and sad.

I am happy because apparently young people in Riverside, California will never witness or experience mortality since they won’t be reading my book, which is great for them.

But I am also sad because I was really hoping I would be able to introduce the idea that human beings die to the children of Riverside, California and thereby crush their dreams of immortality.