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[newyorker]

Of course, all politicians say that they are dedicated to the interests and well-being of their constituents. But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who had the support of progressive groups such as MoveOn and the Democratic Socialists of America, isn’t your average pol. She delivered an important message to the Democratic Party by running an explicitly populist, anti-establishment campaign. And, as the Party prepares for the midterms and the 2020 Presidential election, it would do well to listen to her.

Read more. 

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Places where reality is a bit altered:

[solareveille]

playgrounds at night

rest stops on highways

deep in the mountains

[ghostfiish]

early in the morning wherever it’s just snowed

trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic

schools during breaks

those little beaches right next to ferry docks

bowling alleys

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unfamiliar mcdonalds on long roadtrips

your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep

laundromats at midnight

• any target • churches in texas • abandoned 7/11’s • your bedroom at 5 am • hospitals at midnight • warehouses that smell like dust • lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore • empty parking lots • ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods • rooftops in the early morning • inside a dark cabinet

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galeries in art museums that are empty except for you 

the lighting section of home depot

stairwells

[doomgeneration1995]

•hospital waiting rooms •airports from midnight to 7am • bathrooms in small concert venues

[midtownsparker]

I just got the weirdest feeling I swear

[the-crepes-of-wrath]

OK LISTEN THERE ARE REASONS FOR THIS!!!

A lot of these places are called liminal spaces - which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you’re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we’re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place.

The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for context - we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN’T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep - all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like “I already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.” Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate “danger” impulse but we’re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease. 

Listen I am very passionate about liminal spaces they are fascinating stuff or perhaps I am merely a nerd. 

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I, for one, appreciate your passion for liminal spaces and thank you for explaining it to the rest of us.

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[filmaticbby]

Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins

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“Have you thought of what animal you’d like to be if you end up alone?”

“Yes, a lobster. Lobsters live for over one hundred years, are blue-blooded like aristocrats, and stay fertile all their lives. I also like the sea very much.”

The Lobster (2015) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

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bruised but never broken #IAmAPreexistingCondition #VoteNo #VoteNoAHCA #wordsplash

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Happy World Poetry Day ✨

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sensitivity and strength go hand in hand #wordsplash

[wingysart]

Heart - anguish, love, yearning, courage

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Frances Ha (2012) dir. Noah Baumbach

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Poster paint drawings on paper, drawn from life in my mom’s backyard  

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(art by Kimothy Joy.)

[thejusticethatissocial]

The villains [in Get Out] aren’t southern rednecks or neo-Nazi skinheads, or the so-called “alt-right”. They’re middle-class white liberals. The kind of people who read this website. The kind of people who shop at Trader Joe’s, donate to the ACLU and would have voted for Obama a third time if they could. Good people. Nice people. Your parents, probably. The thing Get Out does so well – and the thing that will rankle with some viewers – is to show how, however unintentionally, these same people can make life so hard and uncomfortable for black people. It exposes a liberal ignorance and hubris that has been allowed to fester. It’s an attitude, an arrogance which in the film leads to a horrific final solution, but in reality leads to a complacency that is just as dangerous.

Get Out: the film that dares to reveal the horror of liberal racism in America (via thejusticethatissocial)

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"My stories are just trying to establish that we all have a place in the world." -Roxane Gay, who is every bit as down to earth and inspiring in person as she is on the page (at Women & Children First Bookstore)

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let's move forward Happy #InternationalWomensDay

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Brie Larson congratulating Emma Stone for her Win for Best Actress at the 89th Academy Awards.

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Female friendship is such a beautiful thing.