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icaseybaybee

ruesdeluxe

merchandisej

museiums

artist: miranda sofroniou

evenasmallcough

Then, just like that, he jumped into her lap and circled, his large white paws finding soft purchase on her thighs. Kya sat frozen, her arms slightly raised, so as not to interfere with his maneuvering. Finally, he settled as though he had nested her every night of his life. He looked at her. Gently, she touched his head, then scratched his neck. A loud purr erupted like a current. She closed her eyes as such easy acceptance. A deep pause in a lifetime of longing.

Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing (pg. 289)

janicesopranos

SHARP OBJECTS (2018) I, TONYA (2018) BETTER CALL SAUL (2015—) PRECIOUS (2009) HEREDITARY (2018) MOONLIGHT (2016) SHAMELESS (2011—2021) SUCCESSION (2018—)

itsjust-itdoesntmatter

That time of year again

cosmicanger

Toni Morrison, New York, NY, 1998, ph. Andrea Modica

expressions-of-nature

by Yulia Maltseva

artist: chloé joyce

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness

Michael Kagerer

THIS RIGHT HERE

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

molothoo

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

scretladyspider

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated

dantalaois

odinsblog

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.