Allison Rockey

"...my life itself was become my amusement and never ceased to be novel." - Thoreau

[politi-gal]

First Lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters at the Great Wall of China.

[vox]

In a wide-ranging discussion, Bernie Sanders discusses his views on socialism, single payer, open borders, Zionism, and more with Vox Editor-in-chief Ezra Klein. Table of contents below: 0:00 – Socialism 3:20 – Universal health care 5:50 – Global poverty & open borders 9:29 – Unions 11:31 – Grassroots organizing 16:04 – Race 17:56 – Oligarchy and campaign finance 21:14 – Foreign policy 23:10 – Iran 25:12 – Rwanda 26:04 – Zionism & Israel 27:24 – Climate change 31:33 – China 34:04 – Greece 35:24 – Universal basic income

[vox]

The Supreme Court just legalized same-sex marriage across the US.

[allisonrockey]

Good job America, good job!!!!

[timemagazine]

I don’t think it’s over for these characters

Mindy Kaling on The Mindy Project’s cancellation (via timemagazine)

NOOOOOOOOOO They cancelled Mindy????

[avagardner]

[addictedtoconsumerism]

imadehimswearonchanel: Beach Fashions of 1950, photographed by Nina Leen for LIFE Magazine.

[allisonrockey]

Pretty much me at the beach.

[streetetiquette]

[ moved in ••• ] Brooklyn – Blessed to have a new home.

[racked]

obsessed. 

[micdotcom]

This bizarre Chinese dancing app is taking over the Internet 

A new Chinese mobile app called MyIdol lets you design a miniature version of yourself to dance all over your friends’ News Feeds — and it’s horrifying. All over Vine, Twitter and Instagram, grotesque doppelgängers with enormous heads are gyrating to Taylor Swift. Then things got weird.

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald

Penguin Edition 1970

[veronikelly-mars-deactivated201]

If we are to have a feminist YA, we must write about all the girls, not just the ones that are “likeable”. Because “likeable” is just another way of prescribing a right way to be a girl. Because girls and women are complicated and deep and layered and messy and infinitely fascinating. Because if male characters are allowed to be those things and still be worthy of reading, so should female characters. Because I don’t want to read just one kind of woman. Because I don’t want to be one kind of woman. Because if we do not give our female characters the right to be all kinds of women, how do we expect our readers to know they have that right, too?

from On Being a Feminist YA Author and Daring to Write “Unlikable” by Amy Reed (via catagator)

[obamawhitehouse]

120,915 Americans signed a We The People petition calling for a ban on conversion therapy for minors. We agree…. Join a conversation about this petition and steps the President has taken to expand opportunity for the LGBT community on Friday, April 10. Ask your questions now.

The Official White House Tumblr 

This is huge. Way to push the administration in the right direction on this, Tumblr - now get those Asks in!

(via libawr)

[nprbooks]

New Yorker copy editor Mary Norris’s first book, BetweenYou & Me, is part memoir, part guide to the mind-bending nuances ofEnglish grammar, and part homage to The New Yorker’s legendary writers and copy editors. Reviewer Heller McAlpin says, “It brims with wit, personality – and commas.”

 Memoir, Perfectly Punctuated In ‘Between You & Me’

[npr]

Perfect punctuation cover art. -Emily

[allisonrockey]

This was a delightful review. I don't even think I want to read the book but the review was fun.

[hirshhorn]

Periscope Up! Tomorrow, April 10, at 11 am our friends at Smithsonian are using the new iOS Periscope app to live-stream a private Gallery Guide tour. Join us! #FindYourH

[alicenthightower]

Broad City S02E10

[npr]

When traveling in Israel this month, we asked several Israelis if they worried about the future of their country.

"Of course I’m concerned," answered Stav Shaffir.

"We’re threatened from all over," said Anat Roth.

Both women are candidates for Israel’s Knesset, or parliament, in Tuesday’s election. They have a common concern about their country’s future — its conflict with Palestinians, its relations with the rest of the world — that has driven them to vastly different political positions.

Shaffir, 29, is considered a rising star in the left-leaning Labor Party. She favors peace talks with the Palestinians, and rose to prominence by investigating the finances of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories.

Roth, 40, also once leaned to the left — until an experience transformed her politics. She is now a candidate for the Jewish Home Party, which advocates denying Palestinians a state and annexing most of the land Israel’s army has occupied since the 1967 Mideast war.

2 Israeli Candidates Struggle With Nation’s Uncertain Future

(Top photo) Anat Roth, 40, is a candidate for the Jewish Home Party. Roth once was more left-leaning, but has come to believe that a two-state solution is impossible because of Palestinian demands. (Bottom photo) Stav Shaffir, 29, is considered a rising star in the left-leaning Labor Party. She rose to prominence through crowd-sourced investigations of the Israeli government’s funding of West Bank settlements.

Photo credits: Daniella Cheslow for NPR

[unconsumption]

Stumbled across this video, but it’s very cool.

It involves a group called Sit On It Detroit, whose members make really cool benches from reclaimed wood, stuffed with books anyone can have, and placed to serve public-transportation users.

Check it the video, it’s really impressive. Sit On it Detroit also has a Facebook page, here. 

Via.

[docwsb]

[v01ded-deactivated20150422]

So physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted from this week but it’s not over. The protests aren’t over, the conversations aren’t over, the fight isn’t over.