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Nearly 2,000 People Are Currently Protesting Fatal Police Shooting Of Tony Robinson In Wisconsin.

Almost 2,000 students marched in Madison, Wisconsin on Monday to protest the fatal police shooting of an unarmed biracial teenager, while his family demanded justice and the police chief apologized.Students crowded into the rotunda of the state Capitol in the morning, chanting and waving signs to protest the death of Tony Robinson, 19, shot on Friday by a white police officer. An investigation into this case is still going on, no word on any new findings. #StayWoke#BlackLivesMatter

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(Unknown). Interior of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County “Old Main” Building. 1874.

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$80 Billion

That’s the expected cost to taxpayers over 10 years from Obama’s proposed free tuition plan, the White House admitted Friday.

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That’s about the cost of 8 months of war in Iraq. Seems like a much better investment of my tax dollars to me.

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I bolded

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It’s amazing how 80 billion isn’t worth mentioning when it’s about killing people, but is suddenly a huge, horrifying barrier when it’s about improving lives.

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#this is everything

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Ferguson

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powerful as fuck!

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Viola Davis’ advice to young women from the Oscar’s red carpet. [x]

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i love how the dude (i’m assuming her husband) looks at her in awe and then smiles with so much pride when she’s done answering.

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Glenorchy, South Island New Zealand

Source: @kolesjourney

#the possibilities of the open road

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it’s called ‘empire mayonnaise’ too, which makes it even more ugh

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“… I would like to tell you what I often told you when you were much younger. I like you just the way you are. And what’s more, I’m so grateful to you for helping the children in your life to know that you’ll do everything you can to keep them safe. And to help them express their feelings in ways that will bring healing in many different neighborhoods. Its such a good feeling to know that we’re lifelong friends.”

Right in the feels.

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Today’s Gender of the day is: ugly giant bag of mostly water

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See “The City That Never Sleeps” (and other always-awake metropolises) get star treatment in Darkened Cities by Paris-based photographer Thierry Cohen.

Using a composite technique pioneered in the nineteenth century by Gustave Le Gray, Cohen merges cityscapes with starscapes from places free from light pollution situated on precisely the same latitude.

The resulting images convey a powerful message. Writes Francis Hodgson,

In Thierry Cohen’s series, Darkened Cities, we think we see bright night skies over cities. Very traditional, very poetical. Actually, what we’re seeing is the opposite. These skies are an indictment and a lament. These are the skies that we don’t see.

There is an urban mythology which is already old, in which the city teems with energy and illumines everything around it. All roads lead to Rome, we were told. Cohen is telling us the opposite. It is impossible not to read these pictures the way the artist wants them read: cold, cold cities below, cut off from the seemingly infinite energies above.