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Ron Swanson is a simple man.

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STOPP

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Why Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress designer was fashion’s ‘best kept secret’

By Raquel Laneri 

In 1953, when Ann Lowe received a commission to create a wedding gown for society swan Jacqueline Bouvier, she was thrilled. Lowe, an African-American designer who was a favorite of the society set, had been hired to dress the woman of the hour, the entire bridal party and Jackie’s mother.  [Read article in its entirety at the NY Post.]

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hmm

[miscreant-side-puffs]

Of course

[blackfemmejeanvaljean]

she also designed the Playboy bunny uniform

[onrisquedepleurerunpeu]

The original Edna

[96thdayofrage]

[socialjusticeinamerica]

We haven’t had real journalism for decades. They just repeat and argue over press releases. Our so called news is almost all domestic politics with barely a mention of the world situation. No wonder so many Teapublicans are so ignorant of the geo-political situation.

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You know she dead

[kafysanchez]

Something my dumbass would do

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out of all the aspects of millennial-bashing, i think the one that most confuses me is the “millennials all got trophies as a kid, so now they’re all self-centered narcissists” theory

like— kids are pretty smart, y’all. they can see that every kid on the team gets a trophy and is told they did a good job; they can also see that not every kid on the team deserves a trophy, and not everyone did do a good job

the logical conclusion to draw from this is not “i’m great and i deserve praise”— it’s “no matter how mediocre i am, people will still praise me to make me feel better, so i can’t trust any compliments or accolades i receive”

this is not a recipe for overconfidence and narcissism. it is a recipe for constant self-guessing, low self-esteem, and a distrust of one’s own abilities and skills.

where did this whole “ugh millennials think their so-so work is super great” thing even come from it is a goddamn mystery

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what fucking kills me is, yeah, maybe we got the trophies, but who gave them out

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this is not a recipe for overconfidence and narcissism. it is a recipe for constant self-guessing, low self-esteem, and a distrust of one’s own abilities and skills.

Which is pretty much what mental health practitioners observe happening.

It’s also what I observed happening as a singing teacher: the older kids literally would not believe a positive word I said until I had proved I would tell them they screwed up/had done badly/etc. I did so in as useful a way as possible (“So this passage. We really need to work on this passage. A lot. This passage is not good yet.”), but with almost every adolescent I taught I had to prove I would give them straight-up criticism before they would parse my praise as anything other than meaningless “the grownups always do this” noise.

[the-headless-vulcan]

All of this. And then you feel like you’ll never be good enough to stand out and it fosters obsessive perfectionism that leads to procrastinating and giving up so you can get things done on time and then you’re never satisfied with anything and see everything you do as mediocre. Our generation is depressed from shallow compliments that don’t mean anything or lead to anything, it’s all empty.

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This is what a real, qualified OBGYN will tell you about what women feel when they get an abortion

Dr. Willie Parker, who is trained as a gynecologist and OBGYN, is a hero for the pro-choice movement because he’s honest about the undiscussed aspects of getting (or not getting) an abortion. Watch how he gives a consultation.

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Call him out, Hillary! Women need control over their own bodies.

Gifs: PBS

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Umm I’m pretty sure that’s a c-section Donald

[refinery29]

Right?!?

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Welp…

[phroyd]

‘Nothing to See Here’ Is Pundit Takeaway on DNC Leaks

Some journalists have tried to find the most newsworthy bits of the Clinton leaks. Others have sought to dismiss and downplay.

“ … But this whole “surprised” line is a complete red herring. Who has ever claimed they were surprising, and what does surprise or lack thereof have to do with anything? … “

“ … Something doesn’t have to be shocking or surprising to be newsworthy, much less objectionable. Indeed, the routine banality of Clinton and her aides colluding with the DNC to undermine Sanders, and cozying up to Wall Street, makes it more consequential, not less. The “why is this shocking?” tic is a rhetorical gimmick meant to downplay revelations that, while perhaps assumed, had heretofore not been backed by specific evidence. … “

I would Agree, this information is very consequential and much of The Press is making reporting on these facts, insignificant!

Phroyd

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USWNT Megan Rapinoe for The Players Tribune, Why I Am Kneeling

[17heath]

Fuck shit up pinoe hell yeah

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NSA whistleblower says DNC hack was not done by Russia, but by U.S. intelligence

NSA has all of Clinton's "deleted" emails.

On Aaron Klein’s Sunday radio program, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” (broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia’s NewsTalk 990 AM), US government whistleblower William Binney threw his hat into the DNC hack ring by stating that the Democratic National Committee’s server was not hacked by Russia but by a disgruntled U.S. intelligence worker.

The motivation of the hacker…concern over Hillary Clinton’s disregard of national security secrets when she used a personal email and consistently lied about it.

Binney was just getting started with revelations we are sure no mainstream media news site will dare to cover. The“Putin did it” fairytale is just too easy for the sheep to follow.

Binney also proclaimed that the NSA has all of Clinton’s deleted emails, and the FBI could gain access to them if they so wished.  No need for Trump to ask the Russians for those emails, he can just call on the FBI or NSA to hand them over.

[movie]

Freedom Writers (2007)

[caramelanin]

This movie was so important

[wildlyunlikelybabe]

This is one of the only “white savior” movies that matter because they didnt silence the stories of the kids of color. They kept it real and in doing so kept it realatable.

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this movie is superb

[justabrokenwindow]

democrats: “yeah we could’ve crowdfunded $13,000 to help homeless lgbt youth but instead we used it to rebuild the offices of the people responsible for putting them on the street. we’re so reasonable and compassionate!! o yea and don’t forget to vote Hillary lol”