Catt | 19 | American | Libra | Gender-fluid | Bisexual | Anthro Digital Artist | Mostly speaks English, also some French and Swedish | This blog is mostly reblobs and cute animals. My art is on www.bratcatt.deviantart.com
so today i found out that i’m allowed to carry a knife with me to school as long as it’s smaller than 3 ½ inches but i still can’t show my shoulders and if thats not a perfect description of american schooling idk what is
A grown man accosted this mom’s 3-year-old son because she let him wear a tutu in the park. Her Facebook post about the incident is going viral – and shows why she’s anything but a “bad mommy.”
Read the full text of the Facebook post below the break:
I will never understand what goes through the head of people who think it’s okay to just go up to people they don’t know – Especially when there are children involved– and just say and do whatever. Like what makes someone think it is okay to go up to a parent and child and harass them like that? They obviously don’t have the best interest of the child in mind or they wouldn’t frighten them like that.
Anyway though, bless this woman for letting her child be himself and for responding to this horrible incident the way that she did. She and her son are the way of the future, brave and beautiful. It’s just a shame that some people are still stuck in the past.
I lost my baby Roxy Bean on Friday. I spent every dollar I had, including my rent money on trying to save Bean’s life. She died without me by her side (her heart gave out before I could get there and she suffered for two days in the hospital before succumbing to the parvo virus). It haunts me. On top of the worst grief of my life, I still owe $1500 (I didn’t qualify for a vet credit card) before they’ll give me her ashes. She’s still alone in that damn hospital. I considered a gofundme but gofundme takes a percentage from each donation, and makes you sign up with gofundme to donate. So, I’ve decided PayPal is the easiest, least inconvenient method and doesn’t take a fee or make you sign up. My PayPal is [email protected] anything you can donate will get me that much closer to getting my baby’s remains home. I understand not everyone has the financial privilege to donate, so even sharing this would help tremendously.
Just about the one good, pure thing going right now is the Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary, but some of its neighbors have taken offense and now it is being forced out— in only 60 days. I wish I were a lawyer so I could offer my services to fight this and at least buy them ample time to find and build a sanctuary equivalent to what they have now or better. Since I’m not, it’s time to dig deep and give, and not let 2016 get even worse. These dogs were promised a comfortable home for the rest of their lives. Their people need some help to keep that promise.
Please donate if you can at all, even a few dollars, and signal boost this until every set of dog-loving eyes on this site knows about what’s going down here. There’s a lot of cruel and scary things happening in the world that we can’t do a lot to fix or prevent, but we can stop the worst from happening here, and give these dogs who have finally found much-needed stability and peace a smooth transition to what will be an even better, more stable place to call home.
From OFSDS:
CHANGE IS IN THE AIR… WE NEED YOUR HELP! On August 19, the county zoning board, fueled by a few neighbors who think that OFSDS has grown too large for the neighborhood, gave us 60 days to move Sanctuary Dogs and operations.
The change will be positive. We are currently trying to work through a lease and also looking at other options that are more public than we are now. This will allow growth with the ability for more volunteers, supporters and potential forever families to visit. The time crunch, however, is not good and we will have to come up with a solution soon to avoid fines and legal penalties. We have promised our Old Friends that we will care for them for the rest of their lives and we will NEVER go back on that promise.
We don’t often ask for donations, but moving will be expensive and now is a special time for us. If you are able to donate to our Moving Fund, no matter how much, please go tohttp://oldfriendsseniordogs.com/donate.html to donate by credit card, PayPal or check.
Ultimately, this will be a GREAT move for OFSDS, we just have to get through this transitional stage. We will come out STRONGER and BETTER and in a position to help more Old Friends on the other side.
We will keep you posted.
The guy that ardently believed so much in the idealism of freedom and lasting peace that he was willing to destroy his own ‘brothers’ (though as a last resort and fought as hard as he could to avoid such a conflict until no other option remained.) A being that was a paragon and beacon of hope on a world that had known nothing but war, trauma, and terror for millennia. Who had become the self imposed protector of an undeniably inferior race hell bent on it’s own destruction because he believed ALL LIFE was capable of doing better. A being who beleived every one deserved equal respect, treatment, and consideration even when his closest friends and allies were contesting him. A being that so beleived in his persoanl convictions that it some times put him at odds with his own “family.”
In other words, one of the greatest heroes ever written in fiction…and “sluttyblackboy” thinks his name is some kind of insult…
My favorite parts of history (as might be obvious from my choice of subject matter when making books) are the ones that fall into easily-categorized genres, genres with associated visual iconographies. This is the sort of stuff I loved as a kid: pirates, knights, cowboys, explorers, romans and Egyptians and flying aces. Stuff you could find featured in a bag of toys or a generic costume.
For Black History Month, I thought I might visit some of these adventure-leaning periods and pick a few historic black people from those eras to draw, just for fun. If you’re doing a project or report in school this month, you could do worse than to tackle one of these toughies. Feel free to share some of these with youngsters that you know. And call them youngsters, they LOVE that.
A young man was arrested by Portsmouth, Virginia police over a mere $5 in groceries that he stole because he was hungry. The arrest came on the same day a Portsmouth cop shot and killed an unarmed African American 18-year-old. But now, Jamycheal Mitchell, 24, has been found dead in his jail cell, after spending four months behind bars with no conviction and no bail. Mitchell was said to have had ...
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Youth Jailed Since April For Alleged $5 Grocery Theft, Found Dead In Jail Cell
A young man was arrested by Portsmouth, Virginia police over a mere $5 in groceries that he stole because he was hungry.
The arrest came on the same day a Portsmouth cop shot and killed an unarmed African American 18-year-old.
But now, Jamycheal Mitchell, 24, has been found dead in his jail cell, after spending four months behind bars with no conviction and no bail.
Mitchell had no muscle mass left by the time he died. As a registered nurse, she said she believes he was starving himself, apparently to pressure the “justice” system to stop locking him up indefinitely.
Mitchell was accused of stealing a $1 bottle of Mountain Dew, a Snickers bar and a Zebra Cake. Combined, these amounted to a total of $5 he is accused of stealing from a 7-Eleven.
For that, he has been locked up for months, awaiting trail, and it is not even clear that he committed those crimes. There may have, perhaps, been a dispute about payment. Or perhaps he began consuming the food in the store and his credit or debit card was declined. Both of these scenarios could result in the same charges.
Perhaps still, he was poor, hungry, and stole food from time to time. Are we really in the business of locking people in cages for months over stealing food?
Mitchell’s death has not been covered by national, or even local media in Virginia, aside from a brief mention on the 11 o’clock news. Help us SPREAD THE WORD before the police start shaping the narrative of this young man’s death!