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Anne Sexton photographed by Arthur Furst featured in Anne Sexton:The Last Summer

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Nobody said ‪#‎AllLivesMatter‬ until we said ‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬ Nobody said ‪#‎HeterosexualPrideDay‬ until we had ‪#‎GayPride‬ Nobody wants ‪#‎WhiteHistoryMonth‬ until its ‪#‎BlackHistoryMonth‬ Nobody mentions ‪#‎MensRights‬ until we talk about ‪#‎Feminism‬

This shows me that you don’t actually care about these things, you just want all the “minorities” to shut up so the status quo never changes.

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🤷🏽‍♂️

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some days you’re just the squashed nutrigrain bar that exists at the bottom of every purse or bookbag

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You’re right no matter what I look like I’m still a snack and people are always grateful when they realize I’m there thank you for the inspiration post

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In 1989, George Bush gave a speech about crack. During the speech he pulled out a bag of crack and said “this bag was seized right across the street from the White House in Lafayette park.” Turns out, his speech writers had the idea to pull out a prop during his speech and in order to make it believable they had the DEA plant crack on this random 18 year old black kid. They lured him there. He didn’t even know where the White House or Lafayette park was. When he got there, they arrested them. The plot was discovered by a journalist.

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What journalist

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Gary Webb

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And then Gary Webb killed himself after he revealed that the CIA let crack infiltrate black communities through drug cartels making deals with the CIA. His wife left him and his career was ruined for exposing the drug war as a war against people of color.

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There’s a really well done movie called Kill the Messenger (x) I suggest everyone should watch. It was done in partnership with his family and details the events from beginning to end.

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Do we know the name of the “random 18 year old black kid” who was framed by the United States Government for a crime he didn’t commit?

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Update: His name is Keith Jackson. He has a wife and family now, and lives in the Baltimore/DC area. Unsurprisingly, he doesn’t want anything to do with what happened to him. The charges against him for the Lafayette case were dropped, but he received a 121 month sentence for distributing drugs near a school. Keith Jackson was a senior in high school when he was arrested. He was released from prison in 1998, 10 years later. We have to remember all of the time that was taken from him. We have to remember that he wasn’t just “some random 18 year old black kid.” The government chose him to become a caricature of who they wanted the “enemy” to be in the War on Drugs because he is Black. Remember Webb’s thesis. Remember Keith Jackson’s name. Remember his story.

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Mansplaining protip:

When a man starts explaining a concept you already told him you understand, instead of saying “I know” over and over until you die, try one of these:

Ok, which aspect is confusing you?

It seems like you have the basics down; Would you like me to recommend some good articles so you can get a more nuanced understanding?

So did you have a specific question, or do you just want a more in depth explanation?

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SAVAGE

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My cousin is an asst psych professor. Her new boss brought up how male students sometimes challenge female professors. He asked how she handles that: she says ‘hold on: let me take notes’, grabs a pen & paper, and proceeds to take no notes. If he asks why, she says ‘Tell me something I don’t know & I’ll have something to write’; no student has tried twice. Her boss laughed and asked her to mention it at the next staff meeting.

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I also like the patronizing, “oh, yeah?”

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“My New Year’s resolution is to make sure that the Republican Party dies.”

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Hurricane tips I haven’t seen circulating yet

Hey guys if you’re in the path of hurricane Florence and you still need to buy water/bread but everywhere is sold out, here’s some tips.

Don’t bother with the main grocery stores unless you’ve tried literally everywhere else or you know for sure when they get a shipment. That’s where it runs out first. Don’t even think about going in Walmart. Seriously my friend was in there yesterday and she said it looked worse than black Friday, everything non perishable was running out.

Try some places no one really thinks to go first when looking for water. The club stores, home improvement, office supply, dollar stores, gas stations, big lots. Even more upscale grocery stores might still have some. I found water yesterday at staples. STAPLES guys, they had a whole pallet left. Some guy came behind me and bought 15 cases. I hope he was on well water. Speaking of…

IF YOU ARE ON CITY WATER what are you even doing your water will stay on during power outages, buy maybe one pack and then invest in water filters if you’re worried about quality, because PEOPLE WITH WELLS WILL LITERALLY NOT HAVE ANY TAP WHEN IF THE POWER GOES OUT UNLESS THEY HAVE A GENERATOR. Which are also sold out where I am btw.

If you need bread and it’s just not available here’s some things you can do. Buy dough. Biscuit, croissant, whatever, and go ahead and cook it up and put it in air tight baggies, keep in refrigerator top improve shelf life until power goes out. Or make dough and do the same. You need hardly anything, maybe 5 ingredients. Get frozen dinner rolls, waffles, pancakes and cook them ahead of time and do the same. Tortillas and bagels are just as filling and usually don’t sell out at fast. Crackers can also work for mini sandwiches.

If you are worried about having enough food obviously grab canned goods if you can find some but may I also recommend Goldfish. Yeah. The kids snack. That stuff is FILLING. If you’re worried about going hungry get a giant box. Have one bowl full in the morning and you’ll be fairly full most of the day. It stays with you.

Well that’s my weird tip list, if you’ve got any hurricane advice feel free to tack it on!

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If you are not ABSOLUTELY SURE that you have storm windows, then cover them with something. Plywood, storm shutters, something sturdy. It’s easier to take a bunch of plywood off your windows after the storm, but replacing windowpanes can be surprisingly expensive. In regards to the water thing: If you are on city water and you want to make SURE you have enough, one thing I always do at the beginning of hurricane season to prep is save a gallon drink jug or two, clean them out THOROUGHLY, and fill them with water as an emergency supply. That way, in the unlikely event that the water tower leaks, you KNOW you’re covered. City water never goes out for long. (And don’t forget that some of the bottled water in grocery stores is ALSO IN GALLON JUGS. You’re not going anywhere during the storm. You can pour it into a cup.) Also: POP-TARTS. Pop-Tarts are the second most calorie-dense food in existence (after butter). This makes them terribad for dieters, but excellent for Keeping You Alive And Full if your food supply runs low. As an added bonus, they’re not very expensive! :)

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For people who don’t know how much water you will need to save, get as close to a gallon per person per expected day. If you aren’t physically active will you need to drink that much? Probably not, but err on the side of things taking longer than expected.

Here’s a handy calculator: http://calculate-this.com/how-much-water-store-hurricane-calculator

If possible, fill bathtubs too. Then you won’t need to waste drinkable water to wash your hands or boil an egg. If the electricity stays on, or it’s safe enough to light a fire, the steam from boiling water is a great way to stay warm. My family did that last year when snow storms knocked out our heater.

Please note, the placing your valuables in the dishwasher ‘hack’ that was going around last year is FALSE. It is the equivalent of wearing a splashproof watch scuba-diving. It is safer to keep those items with you.

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If it’s free it’s for me

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ok can we agree that the WORST feeling is when you’re just sitting around consciously procrastinating and you’re just overly aware that each second that passes is more time wasted and you like watch hours pass and you’re STILL procrastinating and you CANT STOP and your panicked brain is trapped inside a body that refuses to be productive and inside you’re screaming but outwardly you’re just eating chips

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Better Birth Control Access Could Drop Abortion Rate 67%, Save $12 Billion

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My post on the 100% hypocrisy of the so-called “Pro Life” movement

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Support Planned Parenthood!!!

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I made a new pack of positive doodles next to strange surreal encouraging messages. This one features 10 birds (including the one in this post.) You can download it for 1$ or any higher amount of your choice here.