Smarty Pants

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[smartypants]

#ThrowbackThursday of a sort. I unearthed this at Mom's house over Memorial Day. I was 13-years-old and passionate about politics (not much has changed). I had Mom drive me to the local AFL-CIO headquarters so I could buy a shirt with my allowance. Debating now if I should wash and wear it, or put it away for a future episode of @roadshowpbs.

[smartypants]

#LosAngeles, do you care about how our schools are run and what happens to police officers brought up on disciplinary charges? Then get out there and #vote today! Polls are open until 8:00 PM. #NoOnC @aclu_socal @aclu_nationwide

[smartypants]

That's all.

[smartypants]

I inherited Grandma Albart's festive (homemade) toilet seat cover. 🎅🏻🙈

[smartypants]

Sting & 🎅🏻

[smartypants]

I know I'd feel a lot better.

[smartypants]

@hillaryclinton's expression in the moment her opponent said he called her a #NastyWoman after listening to her, 'rattle on and on and on,' is all of us every time some dude has a 'great' sexist joke he can't wait to tell us. #ImWithHer

[smartypants]

#Debate 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[smartypants]

#Debate #ImWithHer

[smartypants]

#WhyWomenDontReport

[adulthoodisokay]

Without question the best part of tonight’s SNL with LMM. [x]

[makkachhin]

i’m crying 

[peopleareaproblem]

Adorable child: “Okay, so your character,” *nervous giggle* “is all into science and technology-”

Kate McKinnon: “Yes.”

Adorable child: “How cool was it to work, um, with all the new gadgets?”

Kate McKinnon: “It was the best. Here’s why: When I was your age I used to take apart VCR’s and radios and stuff and I loved seeing the circuit boards. And so, we got on the set and it was just covered in all these circuit boards and it was so cool to be around all that stuff that I used to love when I was a kid.”

@captioned-vines

[smartypants]

😍😍😍 #KateMcKinnon

[latenightseth]

Seth takes A Closer Look at how the Black Lives Matter movement has evolved.

[bobbycaputo]

So accurate it hurts

[mapsontheweb]

How Europeans Think Americans View Europe.

[frankocean]

I read in the paper that my brothers are being thrown from rooftops blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs for violating sharia law. I heard the crowds stone these fallen men if they move after they hit the ground. I heard it’s in the name of God. I heard my pastor speak for God too, quoting scripture from his book. Words like abomination popped off my skin like hot grease as he went on to describe a lake of fire that God wanted me in. I heard on the news that the aftermath of a hate crime left piles of bodies on a dance floor this month. I heard the gunman feigned dead among all the people he killed. I heard the news say he was one of us. I was six years old when I heard my dad call our transgender waitress a faggot as he dragged me out a neighborhood diner saying we wouldn’t be served because she was dirty. That was the last afternoon I saw my father and the first time I heard that word, I think, although it wouldn’t shock me if it wasn’t. Many hate us and wish we didn’t exist. Many are annoyed by our wanting to be married like everyone else or use the correct restroom like everyone else. Many don’t see anything wrong with passing down the same old values that send thousands of kids into suicidal depression each year. So we say pride and we express love for who and what we are. Because who else will in earnest? I daydream on the idea that maybe all this barbarism and all these transgressions against ourselves is an equal and opposite reaction to something better happening in this world, some great swelling wave of openness and wakefulness out here. Reality by comparison looks grey, as in neither black nor white but also bleak. We are all God’s children, I heard. I left my siblings out of it and spoke with my maker directly and I think he sounds a lot like myself. If I being myself were more awesome at being detached from my own story in a way I being myself never could be. I wanna know what others hear, I’m scared to know but I wanna know what everyone hears when they talk to God. Do the insane hear the voice distorted? Do the indoctrinated hear another voice entirely?

[micdotcom]

This is beautiful. Thank you Frank. We’re always grateful for your Tumblr posts.

[theonion]

Nation’s Overthinkers Convene To Determine What That’s Supposed To Mean

NEW YORK—Following what they deemed to be a peculiar interaction with a number of possible implications, the nation’s top overthinkers gathered for an intensive three-day symposium this week to determine what that’s supposed to mean.

Thousands of overthinkers from across the country, who were seen furrowing their brows and squinting intently, convened in the auditorium at the New York Hilton in Midtown Manhattan in an effort to closely scrutinize the words that had been said and ascertain what—if anything—had been the actual intention behind the exchange in question.

“That was definitely weird—wasn’t it weird?” leading overthinker Jennifer Cuthell of Athens, GA said during the symposium’s opening remarks, addressing the agitated, handwringing crowd. “Or maybe we were being weird. Could that be it?”

“Hmm,” Cuthell added.

More.

[smartypants]

I missed my people’s convention, sounds like.