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Look at how angry this little kitty is! He looks like he's about to murder the photographer.

#I'm sure someone loves this cat but it really has a face for radio.

camouflage half complete, now if I can just get the stripes to turn blue

Do you want a kitten in the DC area? Adopt my new kitten's siblings! They are beyond cute! (Pictures of new kitten to come, I promise.)

#kittenz!!!

adulting

I’m not knocking the red — in fact, red Grumpy Cat is currently what Facebook thinks I look like — and I’ve heard from many LGBT friends, particularly older ones, that it’s a touching reminder of all their straight allies.

But it is not, in and of itself, work. And if you want to carry this...

#so important.#don't forget other causes too!#voting rights for example.

laurenspendsmoney

Lemme Teach You

Attention Americans of the United States: there is an epidemic in this country. Worse than the obesity epidemic and the longreads-analyzing-Lena-Dunham epidemic. Worse even than people who put ketchup on eggs.

Every day, in every state, in every city, even the BEST CITY, hundreds of regular people leave their homes, completely unaware that the pleats and slits in the fabric of their coats and skirts are SEWN TOGETHER FOR MERCHANDISING PURPOSES AND ARE SUPPOSED TO BE UN-TACKED UPON WEARING BUT AREN’T BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE STUPID AND WEREN’T RAISED WELL.

Just this morning on my commute to work I saw THREE. SEPARATE. INSTANCES. OF TACKED COAT HEMS. THREE! One was a nice looking girl, a sweet person probably, wearing a wool coat with 5 kick pleats in the back, and each one was tacked! The coat is LITERALLY completely different for this girl than it was meant to be by the designer and she has NO IDEA. There should be beautiful pleat movement but there is only stillness and sadness. I feel. So bad. For that girl.

Anyway the list goes on. Pompous-looking jerk dudes wearing expensive stupid coats on the subway acting like they invented water checking their stupid phones every 30 seconds like they’ve got places to be, with their stupid COAT HEMS TACKED STILL. Women dressed like catalog spreads, trying to make it in the big city, barely able to scale the stairs at Grand Central because their pencil skirt back slits are still sewn together and their legs can barely move. So? Sad?

There should be a PSA about this. The “X”-shaped threading in the back of your coat or skirt is NOT DECORATIVE. IT ISN’T SOME COOL AWESOME LOGO. IT’S NOT GOING TO ADD TO YOUR STREET STYLE. IT WILL ONLY MAKE YOU LOOK CLUELESS AND IT WILL ONLY RESTRICT YOUR RANGE OF MOTION!!!!!!!!!

Possible slogans for The National Coalition for Temporary Fabric Tacking Awareness:

Cut it Off. Every Skirt. Every Coat. Every time.

Use your head, clip your threads

TEMPORARY FABRIC TACKING: NOT EVEN ONCE

Where X Marks the Spot, Make it NOT

#Important PSA

newyorker

The Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “can project the daunting stillness of a seated monarch,” Jeffrey Toobin writes in his Profile of Ginsburg this week. “She is tiny—about five feet tall and a hundred pounds—and her face at rest conveys a pursed-lipped skepticism. She dresses with a dowager’s elegance, often in exotic shifts acquired on her travels around the world; she sometimes wears long gloves indoors.” A groundbreaking litigator for women’s rights before being appointed to the bench, Ginsburg has worn many aspects in her eighty years. Here are photographs of Ginsburg as a girl in Brooklyn, as a law graduate who left Columbia as co-valedictorian (but with no job offers), as a young mother, and as an advocate whose greatest legacy, Toobin argues, may be in the cases that she argued before what was then an all-male Supreme Court—and won. Click-through for a slideshow: http://nyr.kr/W0Hkz5

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<3 you, RBG.

#also did you know RBG was a fox?#because she was.

fuckyeahfeminists

rewiredotnews

racial and ethnic disparities in reproductive health outcomes, from Guttmacher Institute

#so glad that the infographic explains larger concepts and not just pithy headlines.

todaysdocument

Frances Perkins: First Woman Cabinet member

80 years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt notified the U.S. Senate on March 4, 1933, that he had nominated Frances Perkins of New York to be Secretary of Labor. A lifelong labor reformer, she rose to prominence following the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. She was confirmed as Secretary of Labor and became the first woman appointed to a Cabinet position. She was the longest serving Labor secretary, serving for 12 years between 1933 and 1945. She was also the first woman to enter the Presidential Line of Succession.

Keep reading at Prologue: A Factory Fire and Frances Perkins

motherjones

Ball so hard.

#ball so hard.

galentines

THEY ARE READING HER DRESS

#best show on tv.

think-progress

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Big surprise.

#fuckers.

nbcparksandrec

Save yourself a trip to the store and share our Valentine’s Cards instead.

PS: “You can get it.“

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Dear Stuart in Chicago, you can get it.

#best show on tv.

nayrnire

Jeopardy, go home. You are drunk.

#you know Alex Trebek sings this in the shower.

think-progress

Some questioned why a man my age would watch a show about girls in their twenties, as if they’d just discovered me hanging around a school playground with a shopping bag full of candy in one hand a fluffy puppy in the other. Of course, these critics are right. When I read Moby Dick I first had to convince the bookseller that I was a former whaler named Queequeg. When I read the poetry of Sylvia Plath, I had to pretend I was a depressed white woman with daddy issues. Don’t worry, I used a fake ID.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on why it’s silly to pretend men don’t care about women in pop culture.

Women aren’t a niche subject. Deal with it.

(via think-progress)

#love this.