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I JUST WATCHED A US SENATOR ON THE NEWS SAY THAT THE KIDS MARCHING FOR GUN CONTROL SHOULD BE FOCUSED LESS ON ASKING OTHERS TO CHANGE FOR THEM AND SEEING WHAT THEY CAN DO THEMSELVES LIKE LEARNING CPR. IM SORRY BUT WHAT?! YOU WANT KIDS TO LEARN HOW TO PERFORM CPR SO THEY CAN DO IT ON THEIR CLASSMATES THAT WERE JUST SHOT AT SCHOOL? WHAT IS CPR GOING TO DO ON A BULLET WOUND. HOW ARE PEOPLE THE MAJORITY OF WHICH ARE UNDER 18 AND UNABLE TO VOTE SUPPOSED TO CHANGE POLITICS AND LEGISLATION WITH LITERALLY NO POLITICAL OR ECONOMIC POWER. THEIR VOICES ARE ALL THEY HAVE. THEY ONLY HAVE EACHOTHER YOU ABSOLUTE WALNUT WHO ELECTED YOU I CANT BELIEVE. I AM LIVID

gravityfalls-bipper

I posted this to the wrong blog but fuck it everyone needs to see the absolute bullshit that is American politicians.

gravityfalls-bipper

So some people have been asking for sources (most recently @parrilladorable ) so here you go:

The man was former senator Rick Santorum aka this guy:

And here’s the link:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/25/politics/rick-santorum-guns-cnntv/index.html

odinsblog

American history is largely one of armed white men using organized, state-sanctioned, domestic terrorism that targeted Native Americans, Black people, and other non-white Americans. Calling any non-white race inherently violent is a gross act of projection, erasure, and an attempt to whitewash history.

micdotcom

Anti-abortion lawmaker: Rape and incest are the “will of God”

A male Republican lawmaker has suggested that rape and incest are not simply crimes that often devastate their victims, but sometimes also the “will of God,” according to the Huffington Post.

Sometimes, he said, God will “bring beauty from ashes” — a baby.

While defending anti-abortion legislation that would bar women from terminating pregnancies on the basis of a Down syndrome diagnosis or “genetic abnormality,” Oklahoma Rep. George Faught was asked about the bill’s omission of typical exceptions: rape and incest.

According to Raw Story, when Rep. Cory Williams asked Faught if he saw rape as “the will of God,” Faught replied:

“Well, you know, if you read the Bible, there’s actually a couple circumstances where that happened. The Lord uses all circumstances. I mean, you can go down that path, but it’s a reality unfortunately.”

“Incest,” Williams asked? “Same answer,” Faught said. Read more (3/23/17)

sixpenceee

Bioluminscent trees could light up our streets! Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde’s team are turning their attention to bioluminescent jellies and bacteria. By merging their light producing compound with plants, the team envisions illuminating city streets with trees that glow at night. (Source)

pyropansy

This sounds like something from a fantasy novel.

currentsinbiology

West Sumatra, Indonesia

Two snails perch on the head of a frog in west Sumatra.

Photograph: Riau/Barcroft Images

babyanimalgifs

What a spectacular jump.

(via qoomaiboo)

paintbond

For you

micdotcom

Trump to visit grave of Andrew Jackson, one of the most racist presidents in US history

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump was scheduled to visit Andrew Jackson’s tomb in Nashville, Tennessee, to pay tribute to the seventh U.S. president on his 250th birthday.

“They say my election was most similar to his,” Trump told a crowd of auto workers gathered in Michigan shortly before his planned trip to the Hermitage, Jackson’s Tennessee home, to lay a wreath on the former president’s grave.

Jackson was one of the most viciously racist presidents in American history. His years spent leading brutal military campaigns against Native Americans in Georgia, Alabama and Florida presaged him forcing 46,000 indigenous people from their lands in the Southeast and marching them west, including via what became known as the “Trail of Tears.” Read more. (3/15/2017 5:01 PM)

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emilydwarfield

While everyone’s tweeting out their latest work and Facebooking their cutest kid, Tumblr still meets me where I’m at

animalrates

Here’s a doggo blowing bubbles. It’s downright legendary. 13/10 would watch on repeat forever (vid by Kent Duryee)

more animals rated here

portlandvalentine

Efforts to raise awareness about human trafficking contribute to a save and rescue rhetoric that helps little, yet renders the lives of sex workers and minors in the sex trade unsafe.

While recent campaigns aim to bring awareness of child sex trafficking, recent research has suggested that the public’s understanding of sex trafficking is misinformed. A research report, Youth Involvement in the Sex Trade: A National Study by John Jay College and the Center for Court Innovation, contested the myth that youth engaging in the sex trade(s) were all victims of sex trafficking. This two-year long research project showed only 10% of approximately 300 interviewed minors in the NYC sex trade used “market facilitators” (e.g., pimps), and 70% stated they had sought services specifically for youths at least once and could not adhere to the regimented guidelines of the service agencies (one-half of the 1,000 minors interviewed nationally did not access services). A whopping 95% of NYC youth stated they exchanged sex for money purely for financial support.

If we apply these empirical findings through a social justice lens, it clearly shows that youth are using prostitution as survival mechanisms due to the fact there are minimal resources made available to them other than state/city sanctioned programs that leave little recourse for them to determine their future outcomes. When we spend millions of dollars annually on awareness campaigns looking for pimps that aren’t there, additional millions annually on youth programs for shelter and services not utilized, and have contributed millions in taxpayer revenue to fund program-specific street outreach/trafficking, we must ask ourselves why the estimated 3,946 NYC homeless youth engaging in prostitution did not seek these services out.

The answer is simple: if minors are caught prostituting, most are arrested, pipelined back into a system that has more than likely failed them repeatedly, or sent back to environments that are dangerous and abusive. A similar study in Atlanta found no shelters for youth at all despite the heavily funded claim that the city was an immense hub for child sex trafficking.

A legitimate question posed to the anti-trafficking awareness campaigners would be: why do these campaigns dismiss the needs of the majority of youth in the sex trade that are not being coerced by third parties? Anti-trafficking awareness campaigns employ scare tactics that present all children as sex trafficked. They detract from building a movement that addresses sustainable and workable solutions to fix the vulnerabilities of societal realities that affect youth such as homelessness, systemic abuse by the child welfare system, and the fact that minors have little or no legal options to actively participate in their self-determinations.

emilydwarfield

This is a fantastic article. Appending this resource: “What Should You Do If You See Someone You Think May Be Trafficked?” (DON’T call the police) https://nyatn.org/2017/01/11/talktraffic-what-should-you-do-if-you-see-someone-you-think-may-be-trafficked/