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Me applying to jobs

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Vanishing Mexican Lawyers Are Leaving Fear And Questions Behind

More than 60 lawyers disappeared or were killed during a wave of violence in Durango. Their families mourn them and hope for justice while their colleagues scurry away from certain criminal cases. What happens when people go missing and those left behind do not have the minimum measure of protection to speak up and demand an investigation? And what happens when the missing are the very people tasked with upholding justice?

"When a friend called to tell her that human remains had been discovered nearby about a year after her husband disappeared, Sara thought about collecting a set. “It may not be him,” says Sara, but they would afford her the luxury of getting a death certificate and formalizing her family’s grieving process.

She took the remains home."

[gael-garcia]

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"Surrounded by high-concept craziness and comedies driven by conflict,Parks stood out for staying grounded and sweet, for keeping things, if not low-stakes, then real-stakes: marriage, kids, friends, work. So many of the most compelling relationships on TV feed on twisted power dynamics or toxic affairs. But on Parks, at the end of the day, these people love each other. It’s a bunch of generous, ambitious do-gooders, even when they try to act like they hate everything (April), or like they don’t believe in government as a force for good (Ron), or like all they really care about is money and the fine -eather goods money can buy (Donna, Tom). They just want to make their town — and America! And maybe even the world! — a better place. There’s a reason Pawnee is first in friendship." (http://www.vulture.com/2015/02/parks-and-recreat-recap-series-finale.html)

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When we worked here together, we fought, scratched, and clawed to make people’s lives a tiny bit better. That’s what public service is all about: small, incremental change every day. Teddy Roosevelt once said ‘Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is a chance to work hard at work worth doing.’ And I would add that what makes work worth doing is getting to do it with people that you love. I started my career more than thirty years ago in the Parks and Recreation department right here in Pawnee, Indiana. I had a lot of different jobs, including two terms as your governor. And soon, a new, unknown challenge awaits me which to me, even now, is thrilling because I love the work. Not to say that public service isn’t sexy because it definitely is, but that’s not why we do it. We do it because we get the chance to work hard at work worth doing, alongside a team of people who we love. So I thank those people who walked with me and I thank you for this honor. Now, go find your team and get to work

[gael-garcia]

Hold up. You’re leaving? For truth?

[abandonedvan]

the fbi just tweeted this

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The windmills with which he [Don Quixote] tilted were the serious antagonists of a hardly vanished world, but to tilt with them when the world no longer called them serious was to rave.”

Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture

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reblog & click here to enter! :D

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President Obama hopes to make two years of free community college accessible for up to nine million Americans. I’m guessing the new Congress will squawk at the $60 billion price tag, but I hope the idea sticks, because more veterans, from Iraq and Afghanistan this time, as well as another generation of mothers, single parents and workers who have been out of the job market, need lower obstacles between now and the next chapter of their lives. High school graduates without the finances for a higher education can postpone taking on big loans and maybe luck into the class that will redefine their life’s work. Many lives will be changed.

Chabot College is still in Hayward, though Mr. Coovelis, Ms. Fitzgerald and Mr. Kennedy are no longer there. I drove past the campus a few years ago with one of my kids and summed up my two years there this way: “That place made me what I am today.”

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Some mornings you wake up and think, ‘Gee, I look handsome today.’ Other days I think, "What am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

Liam Neeson

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[bookmania]

Je suis Charlie | Banksy | kateoplis

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Argentinian President adopts 'werewolf' boy

The President of Argentina has adopted a young Jewish man as her godson to "stop him turning into a werewolf", according to tradition.

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34 Examples of Christian Privilege

If you’re a Christian in the US, there are a bunch of unearned benefits you get that members of other faiths (or non-religious people) do not. Let's learn together.

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"Those who are racially marginalized are like the miner's canary: their distress is the first sign of a danger that threatens us all. It is easy enough to think that when we sacrifice this canary, the only harm is to communities of color. Yet others ignore problems that converge around racial minorities at their own peril, for those problems are symptoms warning us that we are all at risk." - The Miner's Canary: Enilsting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy.

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Me: I'm not gonna write it.‏

Me: I'm not gonna write it.‏

Me: ‎I'm not gonna write it.‏

Me: I'VE GOTTA WRITE IT FUCK‏

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Wu-Tang Clan // A Better Tomorrow

"For all my people that's out there persevering through the storm Black fist, Staten Island, stand up, stand strong Penetrate through the gate and bring the Clan along"

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"I got to hear about his whole process in creating this piece and he diverts from his usual technique of creating art that looks clean here. Because his furiousness would not let him make this clean. The hanging bodies drip into the white stripes, and that is part of what makes Patrick’s work so poignant. The flag’s white stripes can’t be so white because they’re soiled by the blood of black lives taken."

http://thegrio.com/2014/12/06/new-age-of-slavery-painting-patrick-campbell/