if the sun sets you free

It's not that we don't care. We just know that the fight ain't fair.

[halalchorizo]

The Light in Her Eyes (2011)

[straightboyfriend]

me texting someone

me: hey its me, an inconvenience,

[fullpraxisnow]

[wilwheaton]

The closeness of the Democratic outcome offers concrete electoral proof of the power of Sanders’s anti-establishment appeal. Between Sanders and Clinton, tie goes to the underdog. If you have any question about this, ask yourself: Which campaign was celebrating Monday night, and which was trying to figure out what went wrong?

Ruth Marcus, in WaPo (via wilwheaton)

People believe in Bernie.

(via liberalsarecool)

[saranavjord]

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[blueecofreak-deactivated2017111]

ALRIGHT AMERICANS TODAY WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT A THING.

How to make sure our pal Bernie Sanders wins the primaries so he can be our president: 

1. First of all, what are primaries? 

Well friends, it’s a preliminary election that decides the presidential candidates for each political party. If Bernie loses the primaries, he will NOT be able to become our next president. So for that reason it’s INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT that we all get our butts to those polls when the time comes. Here are the known or expected dates for the 2016 Democratic Party Primaries:

February

Monday, February 1: Iowa

Tuesday, February 9: New Hampshire

Saturday, February 20: Nevada

Saturday, February 27: South Carolina

March

Tuesday, March 1: Alabama; Arkansas; Colorado; Georgia; Massachusetts; Minnesota; North Carolina; Oklahoma; Tennessee; Texas; Vermont; Virginia

Saturday, March 5: Louisiana; Nebraska; Kansas

Tuesday, March 8: Mississippi; Michigan

Tuesday, March 15: Florida; Illinois; Missouri; Ohio

Tuesday, March 22: Arizona; Utah

Saturday, March 26: Alaska caucuses; Hawaii; Washington

April

Tuesday, April 5: Wisconsin

Tuesday, April 19: New York

Tuesday, April 26: Maryland; Connecticut; Delaware; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island

May

Tuesday, May 3: Indiana

Tuesday, May 10: West Virginia

Tuesday, May 17: Kentucky; Oregon

June

Sunday, June 5: Puerto Rico

Tuesday, June 7: California; Montana; New Jersey; New Mexico; South Dakota

Tuesday, June 14: Washington, DC

2. Okay cool, now I know when I need to vote!

But do you know in some states you can ONLY vote for Bernie if you are a registered Democrat?

STATES THAT ARE OPEN PRIMARIES (you do NOT need to be a registered Democrat to vote for Bernie):

Alabama

Michigan

North Dakota

Arkansas

Minnesota

Vermont

Georgia

Missouri

Wisconsin

Hawaii

Montana

STATES THAT ARE CLOSED PRIMARIES (you MUST be a registered Democrat to vote for Bernie):

Delaware

Maine

New York

Florida

Nevada

Pennsylvania

Kansas

New Jersey

Wyoming

Kentucky

New Mexico

STATES THAT ARE TOP-TWO PRIMARIES (you vote on candidates regardless of their party affiliation so you do NOT need to be a registered Democrat to vote for Bernie):

California

Nebraska

Louisiana

Washington

STATES THAT ARE HYBRID PRIMARIES (these vary between open and closed, and often depend on the current party, so if you live in one of these states you WILL need to find out the protocol for the 2016 presidential primaries):

Alaska

Maryland

Rhode Island

Arizona

Massachusetts

South Carolina

Colorado

Mississippi

South Dakota

Connecticut

New Hampshire

Tennessee

Idaho

North Carolina

Texas

Illinois

Ohio

Utah

Indiana

Oklahoma

Virginia

Iowa

Oregon

West Virginia

3. Okay, so how do I register to vote/as a Democrat?

Worried because your state has closed primaries or you’ve never used your constitutional rights to vote before and you think registering will be a terrible, vigorous, process?

DON’T WORRY FRIENDS.

Registering to vote is so easy, let me walk you through it.

Here is an online form you can mail in (available in multiple languages) that also gives you step by step instructions depending on your state. If you live in New Hampshire, North Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands, unfortunately you can NOT use this method.

For any state, you can check the following places to register in person:

State or local voter registration and/or election offices

The department of motor vehicles

Public assistance agencies

Armed services recruitment centers

State-funded programs that serve people with disabilities

Any public facility that a state has designated as a voter registration agency

Here is another link of states where you can register online, if you’re an anxious nugget like me.

EACH STATE HAS A SPECIFIC DEADLINE TO REGISTER IN TIME FOR PRIMARIES. IF YOU NEED TO REGISTER, MAKE SURE YOU FIND OUT WHEN THAT IS AND REGISTER BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

If you do end up having to register in person, do not be afraid friends! You are doing a very important and brave thing.

4. Alright, so I know when I have to vote, I am registered to vote, and if my state has closed primaries, I registered as a Democrat! I’m done now, right?

Nope, there’s one last thing! If you’re like me and unable to get to a voting poll, whether or not it’s due to school, work, your health, or being out of your state/country, you need to fill out an ABSENTEE BALLOT FORM!

This link contains not only the absentee ballot forms of every state, but some even have more voter registration forms as well!

DON’T FORGET. DEADLINES EXIST.

Write it in your planner, your calendar. Post it on your ceiling. Write it in ketchup on your burger. Tattoo it to your arm. Whatever helps!

AND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, WHATEVER YOU DO:

Do not brush this off. Do not assume, well I’m just one person, what is one vote going to do? Bernie can win without little old me.

That’s wrong. You and your vote is so incredibly important. Bernie cannot win without you. Without us.

So please. Read this. Spread this. Register. Get ready to vote. Bernie promises to do his best to better America. Let’s do our best to get him there.

#Bernie2016

[twistedhexsisters]

Bernie Sanders has higher standards!

[ligayaflor]

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got. And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever. And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives. And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly. Amen.

Aaron Freeman (via ligayaflor)

[beyonceprivilege-deactivated201]

me: *waves at a dog being walked*

dog’s owner: *waves at me*

me:

[block]

I think it’s important to realize you can miss something, but not want it back

Paulo Coelho (via itcuddles)

[steveinaspeedo]

[southerngent1227-deactivated201]

[stuck-inasmalltown]

i don’t mean to be political, but what if everyone had basic human rights

[kindness-vibrations]

[fyp-science]

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Margaret Mead (via fyp-science)

[womenforjustice-ourrevolution]

The Killer Mike and Bernie Sanders video we’ve been waiting for is here.

http://youtu.be/LCnrQZbqIQU