Remember that time a kid became a meme for asking John Kerry
How could you concede the election in 2004?
Why don’t you impeach Bush if you are against invading Iran?
Were you in the same secret society, Skull and Bones, as George Bush?
And then they dragged him away screaming and all anybody remembered was DON’T TAZE ME BRO?
Yeah, probably not #Mockingbird
The weird thing is, the guy asked about Iran, instead of Iraq, which is odd. We hadn’t invaded Iran, we invaded Iraq. Kerry’s daughter married an Iranian, and he has been doing backdoor negotiating with the Iranians trying to keep his nuclear deal in place. Violating the Logan Act is a big risk, don’t you think? Unless not getting what you planned for is an even bigger risk.
Q has dropped a ton of stuff. What everyone will be talking about however is this: Angela Dorothea Kasner. Daughter of a Pastor? Name of FATHER? History of FATHER? Hitler youth (member). Haircut to…
Qanon is coming for the mainstream next week. This is the most out there crumb I have seen yet. But when you read further down, it says the Bushes and the Hinkleys were old pals - even having dinner with each other the night after Reagan was shot. Why can’t Bush Sr. remember where he was in Dallas the day JFK was shot? Why did the Bush family help both the Nazis and Stalin keep their economies going? Why did they not stop the Iranians in 1987? Because terror is useful. Folks, you are going to find out the Uranium One scandal was delivering traceable isotopes to Russia to be put into nukes delivered by Iran. Paid for by the wonderful Obama via John Kerry. Isotopes are like fingerprints, the uranium would be traced back to Russia to start WWIII. Why would they do this? Well, why did the Rothschilds fund WWI? Why did the Bush family support the Nazis and Stalin? How did those elements become the OSS/CIA running Operation Mockingbird and MKUltra? Who is responsible for destabilizing Afghanistan so they can grow poppies? Why are so many of our youth on heroin? The same thing that happened to LA, remember Ollie North and Iran-Contra? Yeah, they’ve been killing us, the whole time. Time to wake up. Wakey wakey. Follow the White Rabbit.
A native Kansan returns home to find that the broken promises of commodity agriculture have destroyed a way of life.
Excerpt:
Most Americans experience Kansas from inside their cars, eight hours of cruise-controlled tedium on their way to someplace else. Even residents of the state’s eastern power centers glimpse its vast rural spaces at 85 mph, if at all.
But on recent trips back, I wanted to really see my home state—so I avoided I-70, the zippy east/west thoroughfare. The slower pace paid off in moments of heart-stopping beauty. At dawn, outside Courtland, wisps of morning mist floated above the patchwork of farms that gently rolled out all around me. Driving up a slight incline, I had a 360-degree panorama to a distant horizon. And that is when I realized what was missing. As far as I could see, there was an utter lack of people. The only other sign of human life was a farm truck roaring down a string-straight road toward the edge of the earth.
Pictured above is a small section of Main Street in Wheaton, Kansas. The building of Kufahl Hardwarde, formerly Wilson and Kufahl, was founded in 1896. The upper level was a funeral home. There’s a giant wooden freight elevator, still in working order, that was used to lift and lower caskets. To the right of the sign on the corner is a red gas pump.
That’s the thing about rural Kansas: No one lives there, not anymore. The small towns that epitomize America’s heartland are cut off from the rest of the world by miles and miles of grain, casualties of a vast commodity agriculture system that has less and less use for living, breathing farmers.
Since 1980, the average Kansas farm has expanded in size from 640 to 770 acres—and yield increased, too, thanks to investments in machinery and chemicals. Between 2003 and 2016, Kansas’s farmers improved their wheat yields from 48 bushels/acre to 57 bushels/acre and enjoyed some record harvests, according to Mykel Taylor, a K-State agricultural economist.
But those extra bushels per acre likely required exorbitant financial investment. During those same years, Kansas’s average annual expenses per farm more than doubled, rising from $130,000 in 2003 to a whopping $300,000 in 2016, according to Taylor. And now, commodity crop prices have fallen off a cliff. Commodity wheat, for instance, fell to $3.37 per bushel in 2016 after averaging $6.50 per bushel across the previous eight years.
Wall Street and the Rail companies have always crushed farmers, 150 years ago a populist movement swept the country, and by the 1893 elections they had won 1500 seats, including Congress, State Representatives, Mayors, and Governorships. The next year, ballot access laws developed by the Republicans and Democrats crushed the movement, they never recovered. Socialists were responsible for the pro-labor laws that passed in the next 30 years, but when FDR co-opted their platform, they never recovered. And so here we are. Trump vs. Sanders would have been the ultimate populist showdown, and instead, the DNC gave us a center-right neoliberal to surf the wave of disillusioned voters. Trump is a lock for 2020, as long as Democrats keep pushing their Third Way Neoliberal War-mongering defrauding of the public will.
His factory is located in the Bay area with some of the highest rents of anywhere on Earth, pays his workers 30% below industry standard, since 2012 Tesla as been cited by OSHA for twice as many safety violations as similar companies, Tesla employees receive fewer benefits than employees as other auto makers, Musk has been openly and aggressively anti-union and says unions would make Tesla less competitive as a company. He’s personally worth $20 billion and was the largest shareholder of PayPal when he left the company in the early 2000s (PayPal has an insanely sordid history of its own).
He’s a shit goblin whose family wealth was built on Apartheix era injustice and exploitation. SpaceX is cool only if you arent aware that the ONLY reason it exists is because of lobbying that has defunded NASA to the point that it must contract out public resources to private companies like SpaceX if it wants to continue doing space missions and research.
Elon is also a Rockabilly so fuck that stone faced moon ghoul on every level
Here’s more about the OSHA violations, including the fact that the factories don’t have appropriate safety markings because “Elon doesn’t like the color yellow.”
He’s willing to let people get killed for the aesthetic.
This is one of my new favorite groups. Heilung’s style is similar to Wardruna, with most of the instruments being made from antlers, bones, and ingredients found in nature. Definitely a dark ambient pagan folk vibe. The band was awesome enough to record a full live show and put it up on Youtube. Worth a watch if you’re into this kind of music. I’m kind of geeking out over these guys so I’d love to hear your thoughts on em!
closely related to sharks but with long, flat bodies and wing-like pectoral fins, mobula rays are ideally suited to swooping through the water - here off the gulf of california - yet seem equally at home in the air, so much so that they have earned the name “flying rays”. mobula rays can reach heights of more than two metres, remaining airborne for several seconds.
mobula rays are quite elusive and difficult to study, so biologists are not quite sure why they jump out of the water. theories vary from a means of communication, to a mating ritual (though both males and females jump), or as a way to shed themselves of parasites. they could also be jumping as a way of better corralling their pray, as seen with them swimming in a circular formation.
what is known about mobula rays is that they reach sexual maturity late and their investment in their offspring is more akin to mammals than other fishes, usually producing just a single pup after long pregnancies, all of which makes them extremely vulnerable to commercial fishing, especially as a species that likes to come together in large groups.
“They shouldn’t feel like they’re being punished for being a girl.”
“Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, S.D. ― Dominique Amiotte, 17, always makes sure to keep a few extra tampons in her locker. It’s not much, but it’s enough to encourage at least some of her struggling friends to come to school when they have their periods.
About half of Amiotte’s girlfriends can’t afford tampons or sanitary pads. As a result, when they menstruate, they’ll skip school for as long as a week. This can lead them to fall behind in class, contributing to the already abysmal graduation rates on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. There are no official records on how many of the young women at the reservation’s 13 schools have felt the consequences of this issue, but individuals we spoke to say it’s an inescapable part of everyday life.
“It makes me angry,” Amiotte told HuffPost unflinchingly while seated in an empty classroom at the Crazy Horse School, where there are 70 girls enrolled in middle or high school classes.”
“Does anybody question toilet paper in public restrooms?” Weiss-Wolf said. “We treat it as a given, no one asks about the toilet paper budget.”
Highly highly recommended read.
Here’s people trying to be part of the solution where you can donate
Here is their amazon wishlist, full of tampons, bras, and pads.
Here’s an amazon wishlist of Lakota Kids nonprofit - filled with children’s sleeping bags so children on reservations in places without heat can stay warm(er) at night.
A whole lot of rabbits head into the forest in this mysterious Gustave Doré illustration. Posted in belated recognition of Doré’s birthday this past Saturday.
Horrible Histories S01E03
↳ Slimy Stuarts: Wife swap with the Miserables, a Puritan family, and the Merrys, a Restoration family
~ History ~
Some names such as Joy, Hope, and Mercy are still used today but others such as Silence, Discipline, and ‘If Christ had not died for thee, thou hadst been damned’ were real. Here is a list of more Puritan names
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