Checking All The Water In This Area

Jessie, 30, here and queer. Alabama, USA. Mental health, Medicine, McElroys, Mermaids, Marvel, Maslany, My pets, Memes, & Miscellaneous.

[hearteyes-wheeler]

Stab a politician day!!!!

[gaynfl-moved]

Former Minnesota Vikings punter, Chris Kluwe, who was blacklisted from the league for standing up for marriage equality, speaks at a city council meeting where he calls Trump a Nazi. He is subsequently arrested and carried out by police.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I just want to clarify a few things, because I have a feeling some people may share this without watching the video in full and/or getting further details from related news articles:

Kluwe was there to specifically protest the installation of a [massively cringe] pro-Trump plaque. Per ABC News: "Kluwe, a Huntington Beach resident, was protesting the council's decision to place a plaque commemorating the public library's anniversary. The plaque included the words "Magical Alluring Galvanizing Adventurous," an apparent nod to President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again slogan."

Kluwe was not just arbitrarily hauled off by cops for speaking out against Trump. If you watch the video until the end, you'll hear him announce his intentions to engage in the "time-honoured American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience." From there, he defiantly approaches the stage where the seven [aforementioned cringe, right-wing lunatic] Huntington Beach City Council members are all sitting, knowing full well that he is about to be arrested and charged with disrupting an assembly.

Thanks to this deliberate act of protest, some of Trump's 24/7 news blitz will now be interrupted by images of a former NFL player being carted away by a gaggle of dour looking cops:

(this is a good thing, if that's not clear; I feel like too many people have forgotten about the tactical use of arrests by activists, especially during the Civil Rights era, to highlight injustice or disrupt a media narrative)

Anyway, kudos to Mr Kluwe for this, I hope more public figures will follow suit.

[charles-jpg]

he’s literally so right about everything

[liberalsarecool]

The cruelty of racist white men.

[wolf840]

Does anyone else remember when Elon was like "if anyone knows how to end world hunger for 6 billion USD, I'll fund it" and UNICEF was like "we're going to spend a month to make a plan to end world hunger for 6 billion USD and Elon is going to fund it" and Elon was like "actually, nah" and then bought Twitter instead?

I think that was one of the worst things I'll ever see in my life.

[tiredspacedragon]

I still think that should be the thing for which he's the most famous. It should be brought up every time he's mentioned. In any news article, any interview, any history book. "Elon Musk, who was offered a chance to end world hunger and turned it down." Put it on his fucking gravestone.

[headspace-hotel]

You can identify a fake redneck by their passionate support of “blue lives matter.” Real rednecks have been in at least one physical fight and/or high-speed chase with police officers and would do it again

[runyons6]

[axolola]

why would you leave this in the tags, your gramps is a Legend

[wingdingsandbrokenstrings]

true red necks fought for OSHA, unions and labor rights

[musashi]

EVISCERATED

[edge-level-100]

[obfuscatingreality]

For those that don’t know, Brock’s mom and dad both bailed on their kids to go dreamchasing for a bit and he had to look after NINE siblings on his own

In other words,

SHOTS FIRED

[layserwulf]

Brock also just kind of left those same 9 siblings so he could travel the world with a 12 year old and his electric rat

[musashi]

Brock literally hung tight until his dad came home, gave said dad a stern shit-talking about how much of a worthless deadbeat he was to his face, refused to set one foot out of Pewter City until he was sure the dude would stay and take care of his damn kids, and then left to follow the dreams he was never allowed to follow because he was too busy cleaning up his parents goddamn mistakes.

But, like, go off, I guess.

[420masterrace]

[agilitylabs]

Super great advice from Control Unleashed: The Puppy Program by Leslie McDevitt

[weavemama]

she should have been rewarded.

[nah---nigga-deactivated20180917]

Y'all got sources?

[weavemama]

yeah so more information about this woman who leaked important information pertaining russia’s involvement in the election: 

Her name is “Reality Leigh Winner” and she was a NSA Contractor. She passed a top secret NSA document to a news source (an article from The Intercept) that contains information about a Russian cyber-attack with one voting machine DAYS before the 2016 presidential election. This is considered the most detailed piece of proof regarding Russia’s interference with the elections to date. 

Here’s how the NSA document described how the Russians did the hacking: 

“As described by the classified NSA report, the Russian plan was simple: pose as an e-voting vendor and trick local government employees into opening Microsoft Word documents invisibly tainted with potent malware that could give hackers full control over the infected computers.

But in order to dupe the local officials, the hackers needed access to an election software vendor’s internal systems to put together a convincing disguise. So on August 24, 2016, the Russian hackers sent spoofed emails purporting to be from Google to employees of an unnamed U.S. election software company, according to the NSA report. Although the document does not directly identify the company in question, it contains references to a product made by VR Systems, a Florida-based vendor of electronic voting services and equipment whose products are used in eight states.

The spear-phishing email contained a link directing the employees to a malicious, faux-Google website that would request their login credentials and then hand them over to the hackers. The NSA identified seven “potential victims” at the company. While malicious emails targeting three of the potential victims were rejected by an email server, at least one of the employee accounts was likely compromised, the agency concluded. The NSA notes in its report that it is “unknown whether the aforementioned spear-phishing deployment successfully compromised all the intended victims, and what potential data from the victim could have been exfiltrated.”

[memor-somnis-deactivated2022031]

So instead of having Trump and his entire party removed, they gon throw home girl in jail and try to act like none of this happened.

[simonalkenmayer]

Her name, Reality Winner, is ironic in this context.

[firefox-official]

me, pleasantly skipping that One Song on my playlist despite never deleting it out of pure laziness:

[firefox-official]

i used the wrong picture

[firefox-official]

i’m glad everyone thinks that it still fits

[glumshoe]

I saw jokes about “ACAB” meaning “assigned cop at birth” before I saw it used for “all cops are bastards” so now every time I see it listed among sexuality/gender/mental health acronyms I always read it that way and get momentarily alarmed.

[tatsumum-deactivated20150517]

[adeles]

Happy New Year!

[best-of-tumblr]

[tombstonettromboners]

the absolute madman

[ykana]

[thegravelbro]

a mass exodus from chicken village

[assbaka]

what tragedy befell these gentle folk…

[keybladesoras]

A foundling is in your care. By Creed, until it is of age or reunited with it’s own kind, you are as it’s father.

[bimbocracy]

Men think it’s ruder for a woman to say “don’t interrupt me” than it is for them to interrupt her in the first place

[fuckyallbitcheslol]

id probably call that ruder. Jus cause I interrupt someone don’t mean I was mentally thinking bout cutting this annoying ass bitch off. it just so happened my g.

[bimbocracy]

I know you would call that ruder. That’s what the post was about.

[bimbocracy]

Me: men think this

A man: no, actually I think exactly what you said men think

Me: right.