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Andy-bassist and glassblower

[captainanndy]

I’m tired of school shootings so I’m slowly making a list of people running for office in 2018

Florida primary August 28th U.S. Senator

Democratic Party Democrats

Bill Nelson - Incumbent - pro-affordable care act(but takes money from insurance companies) - gun control(focus on assault rifles and smart gun technology) - pro-choice - pro-immigration - climate change - public schools - lower tuition - pro civil rights - pro free trade - anti-privatizing social security - voter's right

Tamika Lyles - universal healthcare - climate change - gun reform - criminal justice reform - public schools - civil rights - infrastructure

Republican Party Republicans

Augustus Sol Invictus - might had dropped out - small government - end war on drug - reduce government spending - end federal reserve - white nationalist

Lateresa Jones - repeal and replace affordable care act - $100 million campaign to find cure for cancer - cut government spending - anti-public schools - solar energy BUT big on coal and fossil fuels - TERM LIMITS

Howard Knepper - Stop bear hunts/animal rights - universal healthcare - invade cuba - amnesty for immigrants - regulate housing and bank industries

Martin Mikhail - no info yet

Joe Smith - doctor

Marcia Thorne - pastor

Potential

Rick Scott - Governor of Florida

[captainanndy]

I’ve just been feeling empty since you’ve been gone.

[ithelpstodream]

[africanaquarian]

bitch I’m working on it

[captainanndy]

Have you tried reading comic books? Blade is a black vampire, Vixen has an ancient family relic that grants her the ability to use the strength of animals, Black Panther has his own spies, and the Divinity is another good one.  

I agree with need more representation but I feel like you guys ignore an entire media that is giving you exactly what you want.

[amateur]

[cheese24k]

[heterodoxy]

Adorable baby girl being chased by daddy, finally takes a stand.

[purplelittlemermaid]

Omg 😭

[aaliyahbreaux]

I don’t get why people hate immigrants so much… Like they’re literally just… People… From another location….

[bree-3po-deactivated20190814]

My partner is an immigrant from the UK and still holds his citizenship. At a recent event, an acquaintance talked about how many “immigrants” get jobs over “Canadians” and they shouldn’t allowed to be management (which my partner is). My partner reaches across the table and goes “Hi, immigrant here!” and she goes “Oh I didn’t mean immigrants like you…” And you can so tell they just mean “brown people” or “Asian people” but they pretend it’s about jobs and shit.

[i-dont-karo]

That’s the same with my family. We were war immigrants from the soviet union and now live in Germany. Now the syrians are here because they also have war, and people keep asking me why I’m defending them so mercilessly. And when I tell them that my family (that is still alive) has gone through the same bullshit. But they insist that both scenarios are completely different. They’re not different, you’re just racist.

[bearymcbearface-blog]

THEY’RE NOT DIFFERENT. YOU’RE JUST RACIST.

[strangeparker]

[jolinxo]

View this post on Instagram

[phuckyou22]

A love story

[cinnaluna]

This person…. fixes butterflies….. 🦋

[im-just-a-reaction]

Amazing

[saint-ambrosef]

every time you reblog this post, another butterfly flutters for the first time

[notworblacosplay]

CONTACT CEMENT, I’M TELLING YOU

[wwinterweb]

People Share Their Worst First Date Stories (See 14 More)

[baawri]

[latinarebels]

wow so powerful.  what film is this?

[xtaticpearl-deactivated20180118]

Lajja. This film is called Lajja. Lajja, in a general translation from Hindi, means Shame. 

It talks about different women in different situations overcoming the shame instilled by the society to keep them under the control of men. 

[abomination-of-gender-deactivat]

I need people to understand that the viral onion article that’s going around has been posted five times over the years, always verbatim except for the name of the city and number of dead.

[mitski-miyawakis]

story time.

[beyondplusultra]

the look in your eyes is what gets me.

[updatepls-deactivated20180722]

“so i return to my body.. from the other plane of existence.. in which i scream”

DEAD

[localgays2]

“Story time.

I have this one white friend.

And - [mocking] I have this one white friend, I’m not racist. And like - where was I even going with this? [laughs] She’s not even my friend, she’s just someone I know. Okay, whatever, ‘kay, so this one white person that I know - [under breath] (I know a lot, my entire town is white.) Anyway, um, one day, she comes up to me, and she’s like,

“Jenny, what are you?” and, you know, that’s like white person talk for like, [sarcastic mocking] “what FUCKING country do you come from? Like obviously you’re not from here.”  And I’m like, “um, I’m Chinese.”

And she’s like “What? You’re Chinese?”

And I’m like, “Yeah, I don’t know why that’s so much of a surprise.”

And she’s like “Well, I thought you said you were Asian.”

And - [deep breath] [pause] there was a moment, a good minute and a half, where I left my body and ascended onto another plane, and I screamed into the abyss of that plane [pause] because she did not know that Asian and Chinese are… I, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t even… you know, whatever.

So, return to my body, from the [pause] other plane of existence in which I scream. A lot. And I tell her: “You know, China, China, you see, the country that I’m from, is a part of Asia.”

And she’s like, “Where’s Asia?”

[whispers] She asked me. Where Asia is.

And I say, “Well, Asia consists of, you know..” and I list the different Asian countries and she’s like “Whaat?”

And I’m like [sarcastically] it’s, it’s this thing, you know, that you learn about in like third grade geography. It’s a continent! And she’s like “A continent?”

And I’m like “Yes.”

And she goes, “so it’s not a country?”

I’m like, “No.”

And she’s like “What’s the difference?”

And I’m like [deep breath] “America, you see, has like North, Central, South, so like, take somewhere from Canada; they are North American but they’re also Canadian…”

And she’s like “I don’t understand.”

And I’m like “It’s okay, just know that I am both Asian AND Chinese” and you know what, she is still confused to this day, and I [pause] am still on the other plane of existence, screaming, as I tell this story to you. So you can come join me, on the separate plane of existence.”

[katjohnadams]

I WILL ALWAYS REBLOG THIS SHIT BECAUSE IT IS TOO REAL, TOO TRUE.

[muffintop-malachite-deactivated]

I’m actually crying

[captainanndy]

I feel homeless without you in my life.

[nevaehtyler]

this is iconic

[captainanndy]

We men are gross

[ithelpstodream]

[jehovahhthickness]

You can’t be serious… that shit is soooooo unsafe for the patient and taxing on nurse 😩

[diaryofaprettycurse-deactivated]

As a nursing major this hurts me. It’s already hard enough taking care of someone who cannot take care of themselves but NOW we don’t have the materials needed to administer care. This pisses me off 😒

[jadorexjaii]

Man what the fuck

[tanaje]

He’s telling the truth, I currently work at a hospital and there is a nationwide shortage of IV fluid bags. So bad that they’re referring to alternative methods like medications that can be administered orally or like the post above. Smh

[sauvamente]

Not to mention the shortage of antibiotics

[thememacat]

WTF??

[beachgirlnikita]

Some 40% of drugs and supplies used in the US were manufactured in PR. Drug shortages were predicted after the hurricane and now they are starting to happen.  Since PR doesn’t seem to be considered to be part of the US by this administration, help to fix it has been short and late in coming, which means that drug shortages will only get worse.

Are we great yet?

[disasterlarper]

in the children’s hospital i was rotating at we weren’t changing central line tubing (lines that go.. directly to your heart, as in, not something you want infected) for six days instead of 3 due to shortages

[the-real-seebs]

what the fuck

this is sort of horrifying

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

More than half of my clients have had to have their entire medication regimens reworked. Medication regimens that they had been stable and supported on for months or years. Medication regimens that had helped them steadily improve and progress in their lives had to be thrown out the window and completely started over by trial and error again because their medications are no longer available.

People are dying in Puerto Rico and people are going to die on the continental US as well.

[lacommunarde]

Merck’s main manufacturing facility is in PR, if you want a name.

[bobcatmoran]

The FDA actually put out a press release on this today. Apparently it’s not just the IV bags, but the fluids as well that are in short supply. There’s a (worryingly long) list of drugs and related paraphenelia experiencing shortages [here].

[kimreesesdaughter]

I just left a plantation tour in Louisiana. I have a lot to say…

[purplechocolatekisses]

SAY IT!

[kimreesesdaughter]

I honestly thought I knew everything about slavery. Not so.

The owner of this particular plantation had it built by slaves for 3 years. Every brick was handmade. Over 120,000 bricks on 2,000+ acres of land (this place was huge.) The clay used for the bricks came from the Mississippi River. The majority of the slaves are buried under the Levees and water. Some are buried with their Masters. Not allowed to live with them but could be dead with them.

Before you enter the house, there’s a list of slaves who lived here including their age and how much they were purchased for. 124 total. Some slaves were worth as little as $25. As young as 5 years old.

On this particular plantation, the owner was big on punishment…he used noise making neck restraints. Imagine three 4lb balls around your neck with bells inside. Children were restrained by ankle locks that connected between their ankles.

This was a sugar cane plantation, one the worst practices to involve slaves because of its danger. A lot of slaves were decapitated, amputees and killed from the fields and machinery. A lot of kids lost their lives creating sugar. Speaking of children, a child stood in the living room and operated the fan with a string while guests ate dinner. As young as 3 years old.

Here’s what shook me even further: Before the Civil War, a lot of slave owners were going in debt and could not afford their properties and were not producing enough cotton and sugar to maintain their lifestyles. Slaves were used as HUMAN CREDIT CARDS. Slaves were a guaranteed line of credit. You could get HALF of your property’s value depending on how many healthy and able slaves you owned.

My people were human credit cards and lines of credit to BANKS. We were property. We were labeled as equipment and nothing more.

There is no such thing as a good slave owner. They owned my PEOPLE and used them as checks and balances. This cycle continues with prison and brutality. I do not want to hear shit about “Why can only Black people say this or that?” I don’t want to hear shit about “we’re all human.”

And by the way, not one of those slaves are at rest. Those spirits were so alive, you could feel their presence, their pain and someday, their revenge.

[kimreesesdaughter]

The front of the house and yard. This plantation was huge. Just thinking about my ancestors tending to all this land…

SOME of the enslaved names, ages, race and purchase price.

The living room.

Interior.

The dining room. That piece hanging above the table is ORIGINAL to the house. That’s the fan that a slave as young as 3 years old had to operate manually with a string.

The view from the balcony in the main hallway. This is how they looked over the slaves while they worked in the yard.

*sigh* Names of the enslaved that occupied the shacks. Children included. Their names are written inside one of the shacks. I’m not sure if there are other names inside other shacks because I could only handle 2. After I saw the punishment equipment, I left.

Slave Shacks. These are NOT the original shacks. These were built to imitate them.

Slaves for Sale Ads.

The landscape of Slavery throughout the United States in 1860. JUST 1860. Let that sink in.

Note: The last time the home was OWNED by a Louisiana citizen was 1972. This is her original bedroom, her lipstick is STILL on the dresser. This is why the house has been updated since slavery times because it was occupied up until 1972. Regardless, this used to be where house slaves slept.

[sourcedumal]

Jesus.

[fluffgawd]

The balcony picture really just fucked me up. I’m sick.

[shegotalapurchasecard]

This is 2 mins from my parents house.

[deprimo-bitch]

I used to work here and let me tell you, the spirits of the slaves are angry. Oak alley plantation is also a bed and breakfast now and cabin number 4 and the rene house are just not somewhere you want to sleep, no matter what the workers tell you. We had complaints from guests saying that when they were sleeping in the Rene house, they would feel hands on their necks. Cabin number 4 is worse because when guests tried to leave,the door knob had a habit of somehow falling off and leaving the guests locked in the house with all the crazy activity going on.

They call the mansion the big house now and theres activity there too. The plantation has gray line tours come out and one time when they were in the first room of the tour a candle stick flew across the room at a mans head. Also, you’d be in the big house alone and all of the sudden, your hair or clothes would be pulled.

Theres a lot more that happened but its really too much to type.

[kimreesesdaughter]

I believe it! The moment we pulled into the parking lot, you could feel it. The friend I was with can feel spirits (like their pain) and he was in so much pain physically and mentally that he cried for an hour before we got out the car. That’s how bad it was. I could feel the anger.

They 100% left out that place being a bed and breakfast. That’s disgusting. There’s a man who lives on the land too in what was the overseer’s court.

[afros-and-bowties]

You’re better than me. I wouldn’t last 3 mins before either breaking down or burning that sumbitch to the ground. Fuck America and it’s fucked up history.

[7thwdhokage]

That’s not even the only plantation tour we got b it gets worst