Sarcasm And Cats

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

[theconcealedweapon]

[xmagnet-o]

Yeah don’t do this.

[afronerdism]

Reblog if you have the mental illness and have never stormed the US Capitol in attempt to subvert democracy

[cryoverkiltmilk]

My anxiety and ADHD have never led me to storm a building and steal Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's shoes

[whitepeopletwitter]

[mathprofessorquotes]

“Wear a helmet. Get a flu shot. Call your mother.”

— -UC Davis statistics lecturer

[daechwitas]

let me be very clear that if you voted for donald trump or support him in any capacity you are not welcome here. my blog is not the place for you and i do not want you interacting with me. 

[cartoonpolitics]

(cartoon by Ed Wexler)

[mckitterick]

COVID-19: Airborne Transmission

COVID-19 Is Transmitted Through Aerosols. We Have Enough Evidence, Now It Is Time to Act

Finally, a practical article about coronavirus transmission and ways to mitigate its spread - including best practices for staying healthy. (These are just excerpts.)

Also, this is the first I’ve read verification of aerosol / airborne COVID transmission - hugely important information.

TIME magazine article (free): X

Two articles referenced in this piece:

Oxford Academic journal article (free): “It Is Time to Address Airborne Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)”

Science Direct article (free): “Short-range airborne route dominates exposure of respiratory infection during close contact”

[sgrumby]

hey don't let the media tell you this election is already decided. it's exactly what they said in 2016 and we all remember how THAT worked out. 2020 could be a knife's edge election, and 18-24 year olds could easily be the deciding voice. please register to vote. think about the people that might not survive another four years of this.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[la-laborista-republiko]

[lynati]

I’ve never seen it so concisely defined.

[freehugsbear]

“white nationalists murdering people will never be called terrorism in America because terrorism implies its a threat to the state apparatus but white nationalist violence only reenforces the state apparatus in America”

[mysharona1987]

[theocseason4]

Screaming .. what

[albertserra]

This person thinking a $200-300 bag means you’re the 1%

[cundtcake]

[timmisny]

yeah

[repost-this-image]

I'm sitting here boggling at the idea of spending more than $30 on a purse, when i could put that money towards so many other things.

[thats-what-sidhe-said]

$300 is pricey for a bag, but I’ve spent more than that on video games, so it’s hard for me to be judgey about it. They’re good sized bags, with a simple design that you could wear with a ton of stuff and won’t go out of style quickly. If they’re really good quality, they could outlast a number of my cheapo bags, since I go through a few of those a year (when I left the house). You would definitely have to have the money up front, though. (Hello, Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness.) The designer is Liberian-American, though, so you’d be supporting a Black-owned business.

But I haven’t seen any mention of this brand before, memes or no, so why has this suddenly shown up on Tumblr? Especially since it’s pretty low priced compared to a lot of designer names. Let me google! 

Ah. AOC bought a somewhat pricey, but practical, designer name bag, supporting a Black immigrant both directly and by providing publicity for his business. Suddenly, a post appears on Tumblr encouraging socialist and communist-leaning people to hate people carrying this particular designer name bag. 

She’s up for reelection in two months.

This is what propaganda looks like.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

“but do you really think Biden is better than–” YES YOU STUPID FUCKS, YES, I REALLY REALLY THINK THAT A MARGINALLY LEFT-WING  MOSTLY LAW-ABIDING ADMINISTRATION IS A BETTER OPTION THAN KEEPING THE CURRENT OPENLY CRIMINAL FASCIST ORGANIZATION IN POWER. YES I THINK AN INEPT BUT SLIGHTLY PROGRESSIVE EXECUTIVE BRANCH IS A BETTER OPTION THAN THE ADMINISTRATION THAT IS ACTIVELY MURDERING ITS CITIZENS WITH COVID, KIDNAPPING PROTESTERS, COMMITTING ELECTION FRAUD ON A MASSIVE SCALE, LOCKING CHILDREN IN CAGES, DESTROYING LIVES AND LITERALLY BRINGING BACK NAZIS. YES I REALLY DO THINK THERE IS A DIFFERENCE SHUT UP SHUT UP STOP TELLING PEOPLE NOT TO VOTE YOU STUPID STUPID FUCKS YOU ARE LITERALLY SIGNING US UP FOR 4 MORE YEARS OF TRUMP SHUUUUUUUUT UUUUPPP!!!!!

[modern-politics111]

Here are policies Biden/Harris have supported, and what we could see in his presidency

Heathcare: a public option, increasing ObamaCare subsidies, lowering the price of prescription drugs, and regulating against surprise billing

Climate policy: a green new deal with a carbon tax, support for nuclear power, and $500 billion dollars a year in green spending, and rejoining the Paris Agreement, in order to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2035

Education: free Pre-K and more funding for K-12 schools, plus Bernie’s college tuition bill from the Senate, and providing student debt relief for lower income graduates

A $15 dollar minimum wage, which was a progressive staple back in 2016

Worker’s rights: mandating paid family leave, bringing back the Obama overtime rule that ensured millions of salaried workers would qualify for overtime pay, taking California’s “ABC standard” nationwide to stop gig companies improperly categorizing their workers as independent contractors in order to deny them benefits, ending mandatory arbitration clauses, and more

Union policy: various pro union policies, like “card check”, the House PRO Act (which gives workers more power in labor disputes, increases penalties on retaliation against unionization, would grant hundreds of thousands of workers collective bargaining rights they don’t currently have, and would weaken “right to work” laws), and defending public employee collective bargaining

Criminal justice reform: eliminating private prisons, cash bail, and sentencing disparities, eliminating the death penalty, and more. As well as banning choke holds, pushing more focus on deescalation, stopping the provision of police with military equipment, denying federal funding to problem police departments, reigning in qualified immunity, and other police reforms

Drug reform: legalizing medical marijuana, decriminalizing recreational marijuana, and scrapping federal convictions for mere possession. And with harder drugs, shifting away from mass incarceration, encouraging sending people who merely use various hard drugs to be directed to treatment instead of sent to prison

Immigration reform: giving DREAMers citizenship, ending the wall, ending deportations of non-felon undocumented immigrants, ending attacks on sanctuary cities

Tax reform: undoing Trump’s tax cuts and implementing further tax increases on the wealthy

Increasing funding for infrastructure, with a $1.3 trillion plan, including spending on green infrastructure

Housing and Homelessness: a $640 billion plan to aid in housing, including subsidies to ensure that nobody’s housing costs need to be more than 30% of their income, enacting Maxine Waters’ Ending Homelessness Act to provide $13 billion over 5 years to fight homelessness and build 400k new housing units for the homeless, and the Clyburn-Bennett eviction bill to provide aid for those facing eviction due to financial issues

Rebuilding our alliances, strengthening NATO and the San Francisco system, pulling away from Trump’s belligerent stance on Iran, and ending Trump’s disastrous trade wars

Elizabeth Warren’s bankruptcy reform bill

$78 billion a year on caregiving for expanded childcare and homecare

The Equality Act for LGBT + rights, to outlaw discrimination

As well as the Supreme Court. If Trump gets to replace Breyer and RGB, then you can say goodbye to any progressive reform in the next few decades

[paxamericana]

[occidentalavian]

[blackness-by-your-side]

When Sherry Johnson was eleven, she found one day that she’s gonna marry a 20-year-old member of her church who had raped her. She became pregnant and in order to avoid investigation and criminal case, her family and church officials decided to make the girl a legal wife of this monster.

“My mom asked me if I wanted to get married, and I said, ‘I don’t know, what is marriage, how do I act like a wife?’” Johnson remembers today, many years later. “She said, ‘Well, I guess you’re just going to get married.’” 

However, her case is one of thousand cases of child marriage. According to statistics, children 16 and under are still being married in Florida at a rate of one every few days.

Johnson and her family also attended a conservative Pentecostal church and that other girls of a similar age periodically also married. One girl said when she was 10 she was raped by both a minister and a parishioner and later gave birth to a daughter. There were all documents confirming her and her child’s age, but still, the judge approved the marriage to end the rape investigation, telling her, “What we want is for you to get married.”

And nevertheless, America prefers to interfere in other countries’ internal affairs, like in Syria, calling it “defending freedom” rather than to change states’ laws and to protect American children from rape, coercion and molestation. 

Today, Johnson is campaigning for a state law to stop underage marriage that has already become a norm in some states.

Please, help me to raise awareness to this issue. No one can remain indifferent to the problem of child molestation. 

#StopChildMarriage  #StopChildAbuse

[lizardsex-deactivated20191214]

Chris Christie refused to outlaw child marriage in New Jersey when he was governor. Until a few months ago 13 year olds could legally marry here. Fuck Republicans.

[rad-and-i-dont-stop]

Just remember until women got the vote age of consent was like 8 years old. It was one of the first things women changed when they got the legal right to vote and represent themselves as human beings.

[itsnotjustpms]

Look at those scratch marks. LOOK AT THEM. This was no misunderstanding. This person could’ve spoke a different language or not have the ability to speak at all and their message was still 100% clear and he 100% care only for what he wanted. Stop saying this BS. Stop joking about rape. Stop dismissing victims.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[antifainternational]

Postal workers are antifa. Help them save the USPS!