BENS SYNOPSIS

Every day in day out, we find something that make us tick. Its how we deal with it, that defines us who we are

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Video: Troompaloompa

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Hillarious

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 TRUMP UNIVERSITY SCANDAL DEEPENS: TRUMP FINED 2 BILLION IN LEGAL FEES He largely sidestepped discussion of the controversy surrounding his infamous Trump University project during this week’s GOP debate, Donald Trump is now hitting back against allegations that he defrauded scores of former students out of 2 Billion Dollars. According to a report byMediaite, the real estate mogul talked about the flap at length during a campaign stop in Arkansas on Saturday, alleging that the judge in one of the cases against him has acted unfairly. As with a number of other issues raised in the campaign, the outspoken Republican candidate is bringing race and ethnicity into the discussion, as well.

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It could well turn out that the walk-in closets of billionaire Donald Trump hold some formidable skeletons. While the GOP frontrunner is now regarded far and wide as the inevitable Republican nominee come November, a scandal from his past might derail his political momentum in just a few months. According to the Week, the real estate mogul is listed as a witness in a huge fraud case regarding one of his most infamous business fiascoes, Trump University. The Week notes that Trump has been called as a witness for both sides in the case and that any court appearances could interrupt his campaigning during primary elections in May and June.

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WHAT THE HELL IS THIS BULLSHIT!?!? THIS IS TERRIFYING. TERRIFYING THAT THERE ARE GROWN ASS PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WITH THIS AMOUNT OF IGNORANCE RUNNING THROUGH THEIR VAINS. ARE YOU THAT BLIND? HAVE YOU SEEN THE AMOUNT OF BLACK LIVES TAKEN BY POLICE THIS YEAR ALONE, LET ALONE IN PAST YEARS?? WHEN WILL THIS END? WHEN CAN Y’ALL JUST LET US LIVE?!?! WITHOUT US, YOU WOULDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH YOURSELVES. THERE WOULD BE NO CULTURE TO APPROPRIATE, NO FOOD SEASONING, AND NOBODY TO BLAME FOR ALL YOUR SHIT. AND FOR THE WHITE PEOPLE WHO ARE READING THIS AND ARE NOT RACIST, I’M NOT TALKING TO YOU. I THANK YOU. BUT I AM SICK AND TIRED OF BOOSTING HASHTAG AFTER HASHTAG AND READING BACKSTORY AFTER IGNORANT BACKSTORY. IT IS 2015 AND WE ARE STILL MARCHING FOR JUSTICE. AFRICAN AMERICAN EPIDEMIC? YOU FUCK ASS BITCH ASS CRACKER ASS MOTHERFUCKING RACIST. THIS IS GENOCIDE. SLOW, PUBLIC, GENOCIDE. THATS WHAT THE FUCK IT IS. BUT GUESS WHAT? YOU CANNOT KILL US ALL. WHITE OFFICERS ARE TARGETS BITCH!?!?! SO ITS JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT BLACK PEOPLE ARE BEING HUNTED ON THE DAILY? THAT INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE DYING IN PUBLIC AND THESE FUCK ASS POLICE OFFICERS ARE GETTING PAID MOTHERFUCKING LEAVE? AND NO, THE POLICE OFFICERS THAT KNOW HOW TO DO YOUR JOBS AND NOT BE RACISTS IM NOT TALKING TO YOU. BUT I CANNOT STAND FOR THIS BULLSHIT TO BE IN THE MINDS OF OTHER HUMAN BEINGS. IT IS COMMON SENSE. THERE IS NO RACE CARD. THERE IS NO WHITE POLICE OFFICERS BEING TARGETED. THERE IS JUST A TEENAGE GIRL LYING FACE DOWN ON THE GRASS WITH A GROWN ASS MAN SITTING ON HER LIKE A DAMN HORSE. THEE IS JUST VIDEO EVIDENCE OF THIS SAME MAN WHIPPING HIS GUN OUT TO THREATEN WHAT APPEARS TO BE TWO TEENAGE BLACK MEN RUNNING TO TRY TO DEFEND HER. THERE IS JUST A WHITE PERSON RECORDING THE ENTIRE FUCKING THING. YOU DO NOT SEE ONE COP THROWING THEM ON THE GROUND, POINTING THEIR GUN AT THEM, OR EVEN CHASING THEM.

IM SICK OF THIS SHIT.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/vesseloftruth/could-this-be-foxs-final-mistake-1mcra

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The end of FOX News, THANK GOD!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/vesseloftruth/could-this-be-foxs-final-mistake-1mcra

This could be the end of FOX News!

wait....

who’s complaining?

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Wow FoxNews fucked up this time

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I’m reading the same article as well friend, absolutely disgusting what fox is doing!

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Good job FOX NEWS , way to go

http://www.buzzfeed.com/vesseloftruth/could-this-be-foxs-final-mistake-1mcra

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#feminism

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My family is so against me becoming an army doctor on a fst bc it's not 'ladylike' but then there's you and your blog and it is such an inspiration to me that you can do cute 'feminine' things but also get out there & kick butt. Ily and ty so much!

First off, thank you for sharing this with me, and I’m so glad I’ve been able to help you out in some small way. Also, i’m going to be honest - I texted my CO a screencap of what you said above and I was like “THIS. This is why I post so many selfies.” And he was just like “That’s motivating!” to your comment above (and why he’s always willing to jump in on so many selfies with me & my Marines when my phone comes out because HE. GETS. IT.). 

As to your family, I’m sorry - I know that must be so frustrating for you. 

All I will say is only you get to define who you are, and what makes you feel the most comfortable. Our “jobs” don’t dictate our femininity. 

Whether I’m “all dolled up” in makeup and flowers in my hair…

Or gross and sweaty in the middle of a combat zone flying this magnificently beautiful beast of a machine…

I AM STILL FEMININE. Because *I* think I am.

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Your so brave!

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Sometimes the only way to stay sane in this world is to curate a space of positivity and equality.

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so true

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ariana grande cracks down on sexist double standards

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you get em girl

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Amina Yahya, Yemen’s first female rapper: I will find a way, I will shine

The 22-year-old singer, who has had to flee her troubled homeland, is determined to use her music to highlight women’s rights, child marriage and sexual harassment in the Arab world

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Yea! Equality

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‘The World Needs Female Rock Critics'

by Zack Zarrillo

A truly excellent op-ed for the New Yorker from Anwen Crawford:

The problem for women is that our role in popular music was codified long ago. And it was codified, in part, by the early music press. In the effort to prove the burgeoning rock scene of the sixties a worthy subject of critical inquiry, rock needed to be established as both serious and authentic. One result of these arguments—the Rolling Stones vs. Muddy Waters, Motown vs. Stax, Bob Dylan vs. the world—was that women came out on the losing side, as frivolous and phony. Whether a teen-age fan or a member of a girl group, women lacked genuine grit—even female critics thought so. “The Supremes epitomize the machine-like precision of the Motown sound,” wrote Lillian Roxon in her rock encyclopedia. “Everything is worked out for them and they don’t buck the system.” Judgments like that are still routinely applied to female artists today. In Hopper’s book, under the chapter heading “Real/Fake,” appears a 2012 essay on Lana Del Ray, an artist whose look harks back to those big-haired, mascaraed sixties singers, and whose career has unfolded beneath a cloud of suspicion as to her credentials, musical and otherwise. “As an audience, we make a big stink about wanting the truth, but we’re only really interested in the old myths,” Hopper writes. The myth of women’s deceitfulness is one of the oldest.

(H/T: Emily Coch)

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Support autistic women Support queer autistics Support autistic POC Support trans autistics Support non-binary autistics Support intersex autistics

Most autistic people we hear about in the public eye are white, cisgender, heterosexual males. Recognizing that I am one myself, we need to support all autistic people and not just the ones that make headlines. Intersectionality is the most important aspect of feminism and it also applies to the autism rights movement.

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Where Are The Feminists?

Where are they now? Where are all of those feminists? A 14 YEAR OLD girl in a bikini was attacked, brutalized, and dragged around by a grown man. But oh wait. She was of color. That’s not news. That’s not of importance to feminists because they base their values on white privilege. A young black girl in a bikini can be attacked by an adult male. That’s just fine. But lord help us if this had been a little white girl. God Bless America.