they just keep moving the line

6'1" bi TX girl | 28 welcome to the junk drawer of my mind palace

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a choir of adoring angels has surrounded my blog. and they come bearing a request i simply cannot refuse

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the palestinian olympic team in paris 🇵🇸

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Sorry for adding this here, but I haven't found it in the notes and I felt it could belong.

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why are so many automatic soap dispensers so shy

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come on, beloved… You know i am here….

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Unique Tourmaline crystal with Apatite crystals on it, from Pederneira Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil

How do you feel about it?

Photo: furuta_mineral_collection

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death to instagram face long live weird -looking women

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isnt it cool how the brain is like a wet computer

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my creepy monstrous henchmen agreeing with me

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body candles by CTOAN

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sorry i cannot date u, i am holding out for my tumblr mutual and it is actually getting pretty serious we mutually spammed each other's blog 3 days in a row and i even sent them a picture of a fucked up looking cat and said 'u' and they said 'lol true' so u could say we are on the path for marriage

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hi

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yeah?

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Corporate America Never Really Quit Forced Labor

Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year. A landmark lawsuit alleges many are being kept in prison because the business is just too good.

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There are 800,000 incarcerated workers in the US, and they do roughly $10 billion worth of work a year, more than $2 billion of it for clients outside the prison system, according to a 2022 study by the American Civil Liberties Union and the University of Chicago. (The lawsuit estimates that the state of Alabama makes over $450 million off of prisoners’ labor.) “We wanted to bring an indictment against the entire system,” says one of the plaintiffs, Robert Earl Council, who goes by the moniker Kinetik Justice. That includes the companies they say profit from making inmates build auto parts, haul beer and ring up Big Macs, thanks to a system that ensures people deemed safe enough to work remain incarcerated and working on the cheap.

Prison labor touches almost every corner of American life. Prisoners farm on former slave plantations in Louisiana and upholster high school auditorium furniture in Massachusetts. They produce Russell Stover chocolates in Kansas and handle DMV customer service calls in New York. In 2014 lawyers for Kamala Harris, then California’s attorney general, argued against easing the state’s parole process because it was so dependent on captive firefighters. During the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, prisoners washed hospital laundry, made masks and dug mass graves. These days, they’re also building more prisons.

Utah’s prison labor agency alone has provided goods or services to hundreds of private clients over the past decade, including the Boy Scouts of America, Cold Stone Creamery, the Nature Conservancy, Smithfield Foods and the Sundance Film Festival, according to documents obtained via a public records request. Earlier this year, an Associated Press investigation found prison labor in the supply chains of dozens of prominent companies including Cargill, Coca-Cola, Kroger, Target and Walmart.

(the whole article is important but i wanted people to see how widespread this is)

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I'm glad to see people actually talking about this, creating resistance to these practices even if solving them seems eons away. I've seen prison labor in person, with people I love as the captives, and it's disgusting. Watching people with a gun pointed at them from the back of a Clydesdale horse actively burning while farming cotton in the Texas sun will really make a person consider switching to polyester, and ending prison slavery.

If anyone sees this post and feels skeptical, look up some of Texas's private prisons on Google Earth. You will notice they are all surrounded by farmland without shade, many bordered by rivers. This isn't an accident. It's the same way plantations kept slaves from escaping two hundred years ago. It's the same evil with a different face.

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