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football is the funniest thing in the world

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HUGE list of free (!!) books by black authors and revolutionaries. includes writings by toni morrison, james baldwin, assata shakur, angela davis, malcolm x, audre lorde and frantz fanon. 

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SAUSAGE BISCUIT QUICHE

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high school is soo funny in hindsight. the entire time you're there thinking it's the most important period of your life and then the second you're out you're like well that was fucking stupid

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i’m in tears over this holy shit

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It’s a little known fact that in the 60s and 70s the CIA was actually run by fucking wile e coyote

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In 1961, the CIA tried to kill Castro by redirecting a road he used regularly into a solid stone wall onto which they’d painted a picture of a tunnel. This failed when Castro’s car proceeded straight on through the tunnel unhindered.

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'Woke up sweating': Some Texans shocked to find their smart thermostats were raised remotely

Some said they didn't know their thermostats were being accessed from afar until it was almost 80 degrees inside their homes.

Without anyone touching it, they said their thermostat was changed while they were sleeping, making their home unbearably hot.

“Was my daughter at the point of overheating?” English said. “She’s 3 months old. They dehydrate very quickly.”

His wife received an alert on her phone soon after that. The family said their thermostat had been changed remotely, raising the temperature of their home during a three-hour “energy saving event.”

The family’s smart thermostat was installed a few years ago as part of a new home security package. Many smart thermostats can be enrolled in a program called “Smart Savers Texas.” It’s operated by a company called EnergyHub.

The agreement states that in exchange for an entry into sweepstakes, electric customers allow them to control their thermostats during periods of high energy demand. EnergyHub’s list of its clients include TXU Energy, CenterPoint and ERCOT.

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All k9 dogs are abused hands down if you post any pro k9 stuff on my dash you’re unfollowed I don’t care if we’ve been mutuals for years, you can claim to be anti-cop or a leftist or whatever but if you post k9 dogs with like “a good doggo! A good boy!” fuck off, if I lose followers over this then good riddance

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It’s ALSO worth saying that police dogs serve a significant role in worsening police brutality. A dog trained to attack a human will maim them. A cop looses a police dog on someone, and that person is expected to peacefully cooperate while a dog is trying to tear their limbs off. It is very easy for those massive wounds to get infected. It is an absurd amount of violence. And beyond the initial attack, the fact that a “poor sweet innocent doggo” did this is used to excuse that brutality in court. Especially if the victim, panicking in the moment, lashed out at the dog. As this website has demonstrated many times, majority-white juries have more sympathies for injured dogs than the people of color who are most often victims of police brutality. So they’re not just systemic animal abuse, they’re also a tool for increased police brutality and to excuse

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Not to mention, training dogs for policing dates back to slavery and the KKK. If there’s any more proof that police are just a branch of white supremacy heritage, it’s the use of police dogs. ACAB.

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Okay so, I understand where this post is coming from and I think it’s important to talk about the problems with using dogs in police work, but I think it detracts from the conversation to say all police dogs are abused. 

I went to a collage that had dog training courses and the three people who taught those courses were either retired canine officers or had worked to train police dogs since the 70′s. They talked about how to train those dogs extensively and there was even a dog aggression course that focused more on that aspect that I took. 

There are dogs who are abused in the process of working or training to become attack dogs, but it’s not a process that has to be abusive. I went to one of the facilities that train these dogs and took three different bites from three different dogs. These dogs were never hit, in fact they were heavily praised, even the one that wasn’t as enthusiastic as it’s peers. 

The reason I think it’s important to move the conversation away from “police dogs are all abused” is that if stricter laws were put in place so only the positive, non-abusive methods were used most people would drop the issue, because all they care about is the animal’s safety and wellbeing, not the moral question of whether or not we should be using animals to maul people.

You don’t have to feel bad for a lot of these dogs. They want to hurt you. They enjoy it. Dogs were bred from wolves and it’s not hard to breed high energy dogs that find attacking people rewarding. These dogs view the people they are sent to attack as fun chew toys. All three dogs that bit the training sleeve I wore were more then happy to do so. In fact even the retired cop mentioned that these dogs enjoy doing this so much that they have been known to go after the trainers who wear the bite suites even when they aren’t wearing them and that we should be careful because these trained dogs can recognize by a persons body language that they have been one of these bite work targets.  

The movement to remove bite trained canines from police departments shouldn’t focus on the animal cruelty aspect because it’s an easy thing for the departments to fix, or show the public that it can be achieved without animal abuse. It should focus on the human cruelty that these dogs and their handlers inflict on others, particularly POC. 

Less “police dogs=animal cruelty” and more “police dogs=cruelty to human beings”.  

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