Just keep swimming

Amanda/17/slam poet/panda lover

[old-friends-senior-dog-sanctuary]

[fleurabeille]

here is my room! i feel like i’m living in a magic botanical garden and i couldn’t be more happy 🌿🌿✨

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Leon Kroll - Two ladies in a garden

Via Flickr/Deflam

[brawling]

[skaodi]

Marchesa Notte Spring 2016.

[pwtience]

[atraversso]

[helloserotonin]

[milkmaidmilf]

resting your phone between your head and shoulder while you’re talking and feeling like a responsible and hectic businesswoman from a 2007 rom com with filing to do

[vox]

Obama: once out of office, I’m gonna stop being polite and start getting real

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has a great new interview with President Obama in Vanity Fair. In the wide-ranging interview, they discuss Abraham Lincoln, Obama’s biggest regrets from his time in office, and how a visit to the pyramids reminded Obama that cable news doesn’t really matter.

But perhaps the most intriguing bit was when, in a brief discussion of Obama’s plans for his post-presidency, Obama hinted that he planned to start speaking out more like an activist than a president.

There are “things,” he told Goodwin, “that in some ways I suspect I’m able to do better out of this office.” He elaborated that because of the “institutional constraints” of the presidency, “there are things I cannot say.”

He went on to essentially say he wanted to use his post-presidential bully pulpit more like an activist than a venerable elder statesman. “There are institutional obligations I have to carry out that are important for a president of the United States to carry out, but may not always align with what I think would move the ball down the field on the issues that I care most deeply about,” he said.

And while vague, this is an intriguing hint that Obama is thinking about being a very different ex-president than we’ve been used to.

[kanadabiscuits]

#Obama…With our blessings….Go…Kick….Some…Ass 

[bang]

its like Papaw but a million times worse

[oh-the-cleverness-0f-me]

For those of you who don’t know the context here, that woman lived in a period when women couldn’t vote and was meeting the nation’s first female presidential candidate.

The second photo is her watching one of the most qualified women in history with 30+ years geopolitical experience lose to a racist, sexist yam in a hair piece.

[holyromanhomo]

This is going to genuinely haunt me

[teamtylerandkorey]

[sunshinetoday]

badassbettyrizzo:

BUT CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW BILL CLINTON MOUTHES “THAT’S MY GIRL” CAN WE FUCKING TALK ABOUT THAT. 

[timgy]

Listen, I voted for her, but in my heart I don’t know that I’ve had many moments of truly liking or admiring her. But this moment? This poise? This complete self-control (in a situation where sexist men would expect her to be falling apart)? I have never been prouder or more admiring of someone. I agree, Bill. That’s our girl.

[dailylmm]

@DawsonCrazy26: Here’s Lin getting scared by a frog you’re welcome

[thelegendofclarke]

Literally millions of Americans right now are telling women this: It doesn’t matter how qualified you are. It doesn’t matter how smart, capable, or experienced you are. It doesn’t matter if you are the most qualified person for your job in American History… You are still not as good as a sexist, racist, bigoted, misogynistic fuckboy who paints himself orange.

In my opinion, that’s a fucking shame.

[micdotcom]

Hillary Clinton sends a hopeful and gracious message in her concession speech

[bywandandsword]

Real talk folks

Regardless of the outcome of tonight, y’all be careful. 

If Trump wins, hate crimes are going to increase because, as we have already seen, groups like the KKK and those who think like them are emboldened by the popularity of Trump. They will become more open about their bigotry, which will lead to violence. 

On the other hand, if Hillary wins, there are going to be a lot of very angry Trump supported out there, of the historically violent and hateful variety who are going to be looking for things and people to take their anger out on and an excuse to do it. 

Be careful. Look out for each other. Stay safe.

[comradesaucegay]

this is a very real concern, guys. after brexit there were about five times as many reported hate crimes in the UK, and several police officers still believed hate crimes were significantly under reported. if trump wins it’s likely that something similar, perhaps even worse, will happen in the US. and if he loses, a lot of trump supporters (about 30% according to the washington post) have said they’re going to protest the outcome of the election

no matter who wins, it could become pretty ugly

[weremethyst-deactivated20170218]

just so everyone knows, they’ve already begun. a black voter was just shot at by a trump supporter at a poll location in my county and a heavily armed trump supporter shot many people and killed one at a poll location in california! PLEASE be safe!

[undercovertacobell]

somewhere in the United States right now is the first woman president. she is watching this unfold and she is making plans.