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brokenbalder-deactivated2014012

comrade-babygirl-deactivated201

Please keep this circulating. Cops are getting more and more brazen, know your rights!

hello-imaliveandwandwell

good to know

notsocolourblind

Reblogging every time this goes past

peace-love-colbert

jumpingjacktrash

oh my god.

let me share a memory with y’all. it’s from i guess 1978 or thereabouts. it’s high summer. i don’t remember where my mom was driving me, in our avocado green chevette, i just know there was a traffic jam that turned 35w northbound into a parking lot from horizon to horizon.

picture it – wait, you don’t have to use your imagination, this happened all the damn time back then.

every one of those damn cars was burning leaded gasoline. there were no emissions regulations. there were no safety regulations. there were just thousands and thousands of detroit steel shoeboxes belching visible smoke as they idled, engines loud and hot, here and there a radiator giving up in the heat, a cloud of burning oil rising.

i, a smeet of five or six, was choking on toxic smog.

i reckon it was about a half hour into the traffic jam that i first threw up. i remember a blinding headache, i remember being confused, i remember dry heaving with my arms and head hanging out the window, the green metal of the car burning my hands and my chin. i don’t remember passing out, but i’m told i lost consciousness before mom was able to get to an off-ramp, because there were no emergency lanes on the highways back then.

i lived. and life went on. what were we going to do, complain? if i’d died, the cause of death probably would’ve been recorded as heatstroke, not carbon monoxide poisoning.

i know i’m probably preaching to the choir here on tumblr. but i really wish i could tell that story to the people who think deregulation is no big deal. i wish they’d put themselves in my mom’s shoes.

or even just look at some old pictures, then look out the window.

ever notice how cityscapes used to have that orange tint and hazy aura? yeah, that’s poison gas.

remember how the mississippi river used to be a stinking soup of baby-shit yellow sludge covered with disturbingly stiff rafts of light orange foam?

i can’t even find pictures of the sludge and foam, i guess they didn’t end up on the internet. the smell was indescribable. that oily shimmer. the reek of dead things. people didn’t boat on the river for pleasure; it smelled too bad, it was too ugly, and you could get super super sick if you touched the water.

and now look at it.

i still wouldn’t want to drink it, but if i fell in i wouldn’t bolt for the shower in a panic, you know?

if the thieving billionaires get their way, we can kiss those sailboats goodbye, and learn the smell of toxic foam once more. the ultra-rich won’t even feel the extra money, they’ve already got more than they could ever touch, they just stash it in offshore accounts to rot, but the rest of us will return to a time of neverending nausea and weird cancers. a time when every elementary school class had at least one kind who’d been born with no fingers or their heart outside their body, and this was just… the way things were.

i’m sorry. i didn’t mean to longpost. it’s just. god. y’all have no idea how CLEAN everything is now, compared to when i was a kid. and these rich old men are counting on that, on people not knowing or not remembering how bad it was before regulation, not realizing how much we need these protections until it’s too late.

themightyglamazon

I enforce federal worker health and safety and pollution regulations.

When I was learning my trade, when my classmates and I were having a chuckle over the “well duh” level of specificity written into the Code of Federal Regulations (try “no hazardous material shall be stored in crew berthing” on for size), I will never forget the silence that followed when our instructor spoke these words:

“Your regulations are written in blood.”

These regulations were not written on a whim. They were written because someone thought they could cut costs by storing however many more pounds of a radioactive, toxic, carcinogenic, or whatever else material in the same rooms where the human beings they paid to transport those materials slept, and then did that, because no one was telling them not to.

They were written because people died. Horrifically. Because unregulated capitalism values profit over human life and suffering.

Can I say it again, for those not paying attention?

Unregulated capitalism values profit over human life and suffering.

publicshaming

Reaction to the government response to the Black Lives Matter protests

Reaction to the government response to the coronavirus pandemic

biologicalstepfather

If you know who Emmett Till is please reblog.

I’m trying to prove a point to my dad.

DEAD!!!

*waits for some neckbeard to coin the phrase, “earbud-zoned”*

sapphicnymph-deactivated2016020

im laughin bc that’s literally 99% of the reason women wear earbuds

pragnificent

Men are terrifying babies

ilikestring-deactivated20190827

Holy shit.

drnerdlove

(sigh) Dudes like this are why I will literally never be out of a job.

black-to-the-bones-deactivated2

Twitter goes crazy over unlawful arrest of the teen who tried to sell his MacBook

antifainternational

via Mitch Baird: “We were witness to something beautiful today. These two men are the same two men who were in that picture that went viral. Only in that picture, the gentleman on the right was wearing red face and feathers and angrily screaming at Robert Roche on the left. Today this man came up and asked for the forgiveness of my mentor and all those present. True to form, Robert graciously forgave him and listened to what he had to say. This baseball fan used my megaphone to address the wrong in how he acted previously. I watched my hero become an even more honored and cherished elder in one moment. This is the moment they shook hands and peace was made. I’m blessed to have been witness to this. — with Bee Schrull in Cleveland, Ohio.”

deathspeaker-deactivated2018121

Never give up hope that people can change.

17mul

@lmsig

welkinalauda

“For a while the Indians found friends, but not strong enough friends, in the United States Senate. On February 11th, 1831, the Senate requested that President Jackson should inform that body whether the Intercourse Act of 1802 (which guaranteed federal protection to the Indians) was being observed; and if not, why not.

On February 22, 1831, President Jackson delivered to the U.S. Senate a special message - one of the most dumbfounding messages ever. He announced that he was a champion of the state of Georgia (the outrage in question was one of Georgia against the Cherokee Indians) and of all other states in any controversy they might have with the Indians. He announced that he would not enforce the Intercourse Act or any other act or treaty that the federal government had ever made for the protection of any Indians, and he would not allow them to be enforced.

And he won, for the Jacksonian revolution (the most misunderstood movement in American history) was in full swing. It was almost exactly the opposite of what is taught and believed of it. To describe it we must borrow the phrase of a better man about a more comprehensible revolution: It was the “Revolt of the Rich against the Poor.” It was that and no other thing.

It embraced the illegal seizure of two hundred million acres of Indian land in half a dozen southern states, and the turning of this land over to a few hundred already very rich men. It ensured that the seized land would be of the giant slave-plantation sort, and not the freehold sort. It created the poor white and the poor black classes, which still endure.

The Jacksonian men were not the poor but honest frontiersmen. They were wealthy and powerful and corrupt, and they had found their leader.”

–R.A. Lafferty, Okla Hannali 1972

drst

This era is not my specialty, so take this with some salt, but it would not surprised me that the mythos of scrappy Jacksonian rebels is bullshit and it was really all about making rich people richer.

freifraufischer

It was. The Jacksonian mythos is about making different rich people richer than their enemies had been making richer.

drst

American politics in a nutshell.

hanhaoshua

I need feminism because...

Zayn Malik can pay to leave in the middle of a world tour, the middle of a contract, and make his own music because he didn’t like One Direction’s music, but Kesha is being forced to stay in a contract with her mental abuser, sexual assaulter, and rapist and Sony won’t let her out without repercussions

Sam Pepper goes around with sick and horrible pranks and nobody bats an eye, and when people do, they get shit because the girls who got their ass grabbed should have liked it.

Chris Brown can beat women and get away with it WITH a career and female fans still worshiping this woman beater.

Hillary Clinton will get asked about her wardrobe in interviews instead of political topics, unlike her other male runners.

Tampons and pads are taxed as luxury items, but male shaving items are not.

When I get catcalled at the mall, the guys yell at me about how I should take it as a compliment and only stop when my boyfriend shows up and tells them to stop.

Nobody bats an eye at a shirtless male, but the moment a woman doesn’t have a shirt on and her breasts are out, people are in outrage.

Men can’t go out in public wearing ‘feminine’ items without being ridiculed.

I got detention for wearing shorts over my leggings because my shorts were not fingertip length and was distracting to my male students learning environment, despite having full length leggings on and my shorts covering my butt.

5SOS can have a completely bare naked magazine cover, only cover their junk with their hands, and be praised, but Selena Gomez releases an album cover of her naked, but at the same time quite covered, and gets called a slut on social media.

When Justin Bieber posts a naked photo of him on a boat (with his back facing the camera) he is praised and drooled over, but a woman can’t post a bikini photo without being attention seeking.

Tyler Joseph can’t wear a dress on stage during a performance without being called out on the media, and in person, but a female can.

When a female says she’s a feminist, people think that women want to be better than men.

When a male says he’s a feminist, people think he is lying to get women’s attention.

When a gay man says he is raped by another man, he is told he should have liked it because he was gay.

When a boy says he was raped by a female, his friends say he should have liked it because he got laid by an older woman.

When a lesbian is raped by a man, he gets away free because he claims to try and turn her straight so her family would accept her.

Because ‘there are only two genders’.

Because pansexuality, demisexuality, asexuality, agender, genderfluidity, and other sexualities and genders are seen as ‘fake’ and ‘jokes’ because people use them as jokes.

I need fucking feminism because we all deserve to be treated equally.

juelzsantanabandana

Interracial porn blog: i love black guys sorry but i only crave that black nigger, gun shooting,house robbing fried chicken eating, watermelon juggling,ghetto criminal cock ;).

Black person: wow..um thas kind of not cool to say at all.

Anti-sj blog: not cool?? WOW u heard it folks!!! dating outside your race is racist apparently!!! LOL SJW logic! Kek!

Sarah Heskin is about to get bitch-slapped by social media. Right in the employer /relatives/scholarship committee. That's my prediction and fervent wish.

moisemorancy-deactivated2022061

This really did happen tho….

ayoaprell

Yo I hate that broad so damn much…

computasputin

The Coonfast Club

My boyfriend 's mom wanted BBQ for supper so asked us to pick it up on the way to her house. The line was nearly out the door, but moved quickly. It was so busy because several university track teams were waiting in line , and most of these student athletes were black. Two bikers in leather and cuts began mouthing off- calling them thugs, telling them to leave because there was no fried chicken. The bikers were tall and strong , shaved head with white power tattoos- scary, in other words. I stepped up to them and told them to knock that shit off, to leave those kids alone. They ignored me and started calling me a N word lover and went back to harassing the kids. I turned to the people in line , because I didn't have a good plan B. I said loudly"These boys are from up North, not from around here. They're calling our talented athletes all sorts of racial slurs! We need them to stop this, show them this shit isn't how we do it in Texas !" Silence, in what had been a noisy place. My hands were sweaty and shaking and my stomach was churning. Then a man from behind me stepped forward, making it very obvious he was carrying. He said "You need to take it outside". At first I was all deer in the headlights because I thought he meant me- but them he got right in their faces and repeated "I said , take your crap outside. Now." He gave them a small nudge and after first looking like they might fight, they walked out. This is for everyone who claims they can't speak out because it is scary, they are shy , they wouldn't know what to say. I was scared. I stuttered. I'm not a leader- but I got it done with the help of someone who also didn't like what was happening. The more I do this, the more often others stand up and help- just think on that next time you look away instead of actively fighting racism. Of course it isn't easy- but it's necessary to do.

kokoona-deactivated20160520

Also, it’s strange that when a white man clocks a black protestor in the face at a Trump rally, it’s not a “riot” it’s just a scuffle, a small fight, a “disagreement.” When a group of overwhelmingly millennial voters show up to a rally to counter protest a Trump rally, comprised of Black Lives Matter activists, LGBT rights activists, Latinx movements, Muslim activists, etc. it’s immediately seen a “threat to security,” and disruption is immediately perceived as violence. I’m proud of my city for shutting it down.