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Language Maps of the US.

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Unarmed Black Man With Hands Up Shot By Police.

Charles Kinsey, 47, a behavior therapist from South Florida was shot in the leg three times by the police in North Miami while laying on the ground with his arms up and trying to help his patient with autism who had run away from a group home.

It all started when someone called 911 and said there was a man walking around with a gun. However it was Kinsey’s patient who was sitting on the ground cross-legged, playing with a toy truck.

Charles got shot by police despite telling them he was only trying to help his patient.

The police shot him, handcuffed him and left him on ground bleeding.

North Miami police have not released much information at all. They haven’t released the officer’s name, they haven’t given us an update on the investigation. However, they did say that the state attorney is now a part of this investigation.

#CharlesKinsey   #BlackLivesMatter 

#StopPoliceBrutality   #NorthMiamiPoliceDepartment

[cherryblossomgal]

“Sir, why did you shoot me?”

“I don’t know.”

[yeahiwasintheshit]

“I don’t know’

Ridiculous! I guess that’s what we get for having less training than most jobs.

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historyphotographed expansion in the U.S. Between 1920 and 1929, the nation’s total wealth more than doubled. However, in October of 1929, that all came to a screeching halt.

The stock market, which was, and still is, based largely in the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street in New York City, was a place where the wealthy and working classes alike could go to invest their money in hopes of larger returns.

The prospect of return on investment caused rapid growth of the stock market. Eventually, the stock prices were sold at a higher rate than their actual value. This, along with many other factors, led to the stock market crash of 1929 which ushered in an era we know as “The Great Depression,” which lasted roughly a decade.

By 1933, the results of the Great Depression reached their peak, leaving some 15 million Americans unemployed. On top of the mass unemployment, almost half of the banks in the country were left bankrupt.

The above image was taken in 1932 of an unknown man holding a troubling sign. As its name suggests, the Great Depression led to widespread depression on the individual level. Many people were without a source of income, which led to mass distress throughout the nation.

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This is Adam Erickson, pastor at the Clackamas United Church of Christ in Milwaukee, Oregon!

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Oh finally. A real Christian.

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Parents and students alike have welcomed Garella with open arms. (x)

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[logantheanimal]

My Trump-supporting friends and relatives mean well. I honestly believe they do. Today, though, I’m a little irritated with them. They refuse to believe that the bomber is real.

They say his van looks fake. Why would he put all those stickers on it?

It’s gotta be fake. That’s not something Republicans do.

It makes no sense! It’s a false flag operation! That van is a caricature of what Democrats think we are!

We’re not a bunch of weirdos! This is all made up to help them win the midterms. That van is too fucking weird to be real.

And I’m over here like…

RIIIIIGHT.

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The Door to Hell — Ahal Province, Turkmenistan

There is nothing more amazing than standing in front of a 230-foot burning crater that smells like sulfur. This natural gas field was accidentally set on fire by a group of scientists in 1971 and has been burning ever since. It’s your entry to the nine rings of hell.

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I’m obsessed with these pictures of the Indianapolis Colts Cheerleaders wearing their real world professional work attire as their cheer uniforms

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Good

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As someone who ran into the glue at 23rd st while trying to commute home during the protest I can tell you that:

1) there was a sign encouraging you not to swipe or get glue on your card and that

2) the emergency exit door was open so you could either walk onto the platform or hop the turnstile to still access the train

The protesters left you with a choice: become a fare evader (supporting the protest) or leave. But they didn't stop access to the subway as a utility.

I see a lot of outrage in the comments about inconveniencing people on their commute home but consider whose commute under "normal" circumstances -- under police surveillance -- are inconvenienced by police.

Are you upset because you're not someone who usually has to think about if you'll be singled out for doing the same thing as everyone else?

Did the protests make you experience the thing that, oh, they were protesting against?

Hey, then they worked.

And if you don't like it, well, the next subway stop is 5 blocks away. How convenient for you that this impediment was a one day, one stop friction in your life and not a constant threat.

And before anyone complains about how the protest impacted disability accessibility, 23rd st doesn't have an elevator or other accessibility options. Let's start with critiquing the institutional access first, shall we?

[milest3hr4t]

Can someone please explain this to me? because all I got out of this was, Protesters vandalized things, causing less money going to fund transit, causing transit prices to rise or causing transit to stop existing, potentially making transit unavailable long-term to people who depend on it, without inconveniencing anyone with a car of their own, meaning this disproportionately fucks over the poor.

[asundergrowth]

Basically what happened is that the Manhattan Transit Authority raised the price of a train ticket by 2.75$. Which doesn't sound like much, but now a large percentage of poor New Yorkers can't afford to get to their jobs, and started jumping the turnstiles.

Now you're right, subways cost money to run, and the fares are there for a reason. But what people are really protesting here is what the MTA did in response to the fare jumpers.

They hired cops to literally just...stand around and watch the stiles, costing the city MORE money than if they just reversed the fare hike. New Yorkers are furious because there's clearly money to pay for these extra cops, but apparently not for maintaining the trains.

Tl;Dr The MTA basically said "we don't have enough money to run the trains so we are increasing the price" meaning thousands of people were faced with either hopping the fare or losing their job, but when people started jumping the stiles they apparently the MTA had enough money to hire a small army of cops.

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And some of the context here is that the real reason the subway fares have been rising is because NYC, like many cities, has been slowly shifting more and more of the burden of operating expenses from everyone (including the wealthy) onto the backs of the poor alone. So for example, the developers and businesses involved with Madison Square Garden haven’t paid property taxes in almost 40 years, although the tax abatement was only supposed to be for 10 years. That’s $555 million which should have helped to pay for infrastructure -- but some of the people involved are big donors to the governor, so they get to keep freeloading. And so that he looks like he’s “doing something,” Cuomo has now hired 500 more cops, at a price tag of $249 million, to catch fare evaders... who cost the city only $200 million. He’s happily collecting his chunk of cheese, but the poor are paying more and getting criminalized for struggling, and meanwhile the subways are literally on fire.

So this isn’t really about how much it costs to pay for public transportation. It’s about who pays, and whether that fare is fair.

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WHAT IS THE BOGGY CREEK / FOUKE MONSTER?

The legend of the Boggy Creek Monster has long captivated the people of Fouke, Arkansas, a little town about 150 miles outside of Little Rock. It is said that Fouke is the first place that this cryptid was spotted. According to legend, the Boggy Creek Monster stands between seven and eight feet tall on two feet and weighs close to 300 pounds. Its chest, legs, and arms are covered with thick, long hair.

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These Brilliantly-Designed Stores Are Living in the Future (x)

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Mauna Kea protectors built a Hale as a place of learning and police showed up in swat gear to take it down.

Hawaiian protectors have done so much to make their protest as safe and educational as possible. They have created a school, there is a community up there. These are peaceful people trying to save what is theirs.

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”A very fast-moving situation’: Lava burns more homes in Hawaiʻi neighborhood as new fissures form”

Less than a week ago, Leilani Estates was the picture of serenity on Hawai’i’s Big Island, a subdivision in the island’s eastern Puna district filled with wooden homes nestled in tropical plant-filled lots.

The latest eruption of the island’s most active volcano changed everything.

Shortly after Kīlauea erupted Thursday, the ground split open on the east side of Leilani Estates, exposing an angry red beneath the lush landscape. From the widening gash, molten rock burbled and splashed, then shot as high as 80 to 100 feet in the air.

The Hawai’i County Civil Defense Agency called it “active volcanic fountaining.” Some residents insisted it was Pele, the Hawai’ian volcano goddess, come to reclaim her land. Residents there were ordered to flee amid threats of fires and “extremely high levels of dangerous” sulfur dioxide gas.

Soon, another such fissure had formed less than three streets to the west. Then another, and another. From the vents, hot steam — and noxious gases — rose, before magma broke through and splattered into the air.

As of Sunday night, at least 10 such fissure vents were reported in the neighborhood — including two that had opened anew late Saturday night — and at least 26 homes had been destroyed, according to the county civil defense agency.

The fissures are forming along a northeast-southwest line in the rift zone, and not all of the older fissures are actively spewing lava, said Wendy Stovall, a volcanologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.

”As the eruption progresses, there will become a preferred pathway for the magma to go through,” Stovall said. “Some of the outer vents along this fissure line will start to close up and congeal because the lava is going to essentially harden.”Once that happens, lava fountains from the remaining open vents can shoot even higher — reaching up to 1,000 feet, Stovall said.

On Saturday, lava from one of the newer fissures spurted as high as 230 feet into the air, according to the Geological SurveyMore outbreaks are likely to occur along the rift zone, officials said.

VIA: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/05/06/a-very-fast-moving-situation-lava-shoots-through-hawaii-neighborhood-as-new-fissures-form/

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What 25 generations of bird nests inside an unused chimney looks like      

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