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@thehumanspiritneedsnature
From the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Handbook
this honestly changed my life. internalizing these statements changed me, changed my relationships, changed the whole damn game.
dbt is a lifesaver and i will always be grateful.
me too.
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Literally there’s nothing anyone can say at any point in time to make up for the silence to what has been happening in Aleppo
Today there were advancements by the assad and russian forces into the city and aleppo is about to fall. 100,000 people are trapped in. Public executions are reported. Photos and videos from the city are scarce which is only more terrifying. Activists and journalists have all sent their last or farewell messages and there is no way out.
This is genocide and nothing anyone will say will make up for this absolute tragedy which we all watched indifferently
“I grew up in the suburbs. I used to think that I could write a prescription for a poor man: ‘Get a job, save your money, pull yourself up by the bootstraps.’ I don’t believe that anymore. I was ignorant to the experiences of poor people. I’d invite anyone to come and meet the people who live in this neighborhood. Right now we are surrounded by working poor people. These are the people who sell your tools at Sears, and fix your roofs, and take care of your parents, and mow your lawns, and serve your meals. They’re not getting a living wage. There’s no money left to save. There’s nothing left if they get sick. Nothing left if their car breaks down. And God forbid they make a mistake, because there’s nothing left to pay fines or fees. When you’re down here, the system will continue to kick dirt in your face. You can’t pull yourself up when there’s nothing to grab onto. We aren’t paying our brothers and sisters enough to live. We want them to serve us, but we aren’t serving them.”
Please share and participate if you are able! Help us meet the ask of the people who are putting their lives on the line.
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“Hello, my name is ________, and I stand with the water protectors at Standing Rock. I demand that the Army Corps of Engineers, Morton County Police and Highway Patrol, and National Guard rescind the evacuation notice. Not only is this environmental racism, but it violates yet another binding agreement between the United States and this land’s indigenous peoples. Additionally, we demand that no government body hinder or prevent any efforts to provide emergency supplies or any resources that the climate necessitates. Both the statement from the Army Corps of Engineers as well as the evacuation notice from Governor Jack Dalrymple are creating unsafe and potentially lethal sets of circumstances for the water protectors. These decisions are hypocritical in nature since they claim to be concerned for the health of the water protectors while depriving the Oceti Sakowin camp of the means to remain healthy in a harsh climate.
The DAPL means environmental disaster for indigenous people who live on the land, and the planned illegal eviction of the Oceti Sakowin camp endangers the lives of the water protectors who recognize the hazardous consequences of the pipeline. Be on the side of history that stands up for democracy, indigenous rights, and a sustainable future for generations to come. Water is Life.”
And remember, this is 2016. The government itself starves Native Americans who just protect their own land.
The media is silent, as usual.
God bless these warriors.
#NoDAPL #NoJusticeNoPeace
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
Stephanie Perkins (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
So the USA is trying to starve its poor to death. Not even an exaggeration.
The SNAP program is getting some work requirements applied again which are expected to leave up to (or more than) a MILLION people without benefits. Of these people, 97% are at OR BELOW the poverty line.
And the only way to “earn” your benefits - the way to “prove” that you don’t “deserve” to starve to death - is to work 20 hours per week, or 80 per month.
Either pull a job out of your ass (earn your paycheck AND qualify for food assistance), OR participate in 80 hours of UNPAID labor (PLUS the expense and time of transportation to and from a set, unflexible location).
And after working 80 hours (plus paying money you don’t have for transportation to get to the designated “program” location/s) for the state to “prove” you don’t deserve to die, you get… are you ready?
I’m gonna use the Florida figures, because that’s what I was reading up on.
Less than $200 in food assistance. The average is actually less than 150.
Care to do the math?
$150 for 80 hours.
$1.88 per hour.
The USA is a fucking dystopia.
What the ever living fuck.
@fullten @lady-feral I…what
Yeah, I was hit with this. We’re okay right now since we’re staying with family, though feeding us puts a strain on them as well.
I make some internet money that works out to about 125 a week so if I wanna keep getting my food assistance I have to itemize that so it qualifies as a 20 hour a week job, which it probably does, but it’s ridiculous that anyone has to do this and most people under the poverty line will not be able to.
I HAVE had real jobs. I’ve had enough real jobs that the taxes taken out of my own past paychecks already cover all the food assistance I’ve used and plenty to come. I have already paid for this food myself.
And every day a politician somewhere in this country wastes enough money to feed our entire fucking population.
I WANNA ADD SOMETHING IMPORTANT for anyone who thinks they might need to sign up for food assistance, cause a few people just asked me some stuff about it.
In your interviews and applications, they are going to ask “do you ever eat with other people.”
This is a trick question.
You’re gonna probably think “well, technically, yeah, I had lunch with my friend last week…my mom made me a dinner….”
STOP
Answer NO. Always always answer NO. This question is designed to weed people out. If you admit to literally ever sharing a meal with another human being, that actually allows them to deny or alter your benefit amount. Even though this is legally referred to as “supplemental” food assistance and it isn’t enough to live on by itself, Republicans already don’t want anyone to have even that, and they want to consider it “fraud” if you both receive food assistance and EVER share food with another person, whether you’ve used your benefits to buy ingredients for someone’s birthday dinner or your mom made you a casserole one visit.
The correct thing to say when asked these questions is “I purchase and prepare my own food” or “we eat separately.” Even if you’ve already told them you live with family or a roommate.
Remember: Republicans don’t even want assistance recipients to be able to buy “luxury” items like fucking pasta sauce. They would limit you to nothing but gruel if they could. They’ve fought and pushed to load the benefit process with “tricks” and catch-22′s like these to treat as wide a range of people they can as lazy fraudsters and moochers.
Hey @fullten , this is some super important information from bogleech here. Sorry to bother you to post it again but I think this might save some people some pain in the future to see this.
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Trump's Cabinet
White House Chief Strategist:
Steve Bannon (CEO of Breitbart News)
He was arrested for three counts of domestic violence in the 90s.
The charges were dropped after him and his attorney threatened his ex-wife into fleeing the state.
He choked his ex-wife and smashed her phone so she couldn’t call 911.
He was accused of sexual harassment by female co-workers. “Saftey Regulations? I’m going to ram those Safety Regulations down her fucking throat,”
“There are some unintended consequences of the women’s liberation movement, the women that should lead this country would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children. They wouldn’t be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England.” ― Bannon during interview when asked about women in government
He was outraged when he found out that Jews were allowed at his daughters school and complained to them over it.
He helped promote the white supremacist novel The Camp of the Saints which depicts non-white immigrants as barbaric invaders who’s goals for moving to Europe and America is to bring forth the downfall of civilization.
He was a member of a Facebook group that produced racist rants and death threats against President Obama.
He complained about there being to many Asian CEOs.
National Security Advisor:
Michael Flynn (Disgraced former General)
He says Islam is Cancer and it’s irrational for people not to be afraid of Muslims.
He ordered female Defense Intelligence Agency employees to “dress sexy” and wear short skirts and makeup.
He was fired from the Military for trying to demand to much power and authority. Though he says the reason was, “political correctness.”
Leaked Bush Administration emails show he show he had extreme anger issues, refused to follow orders, went against policy and became, “physcially abusive with staff.”
He wants to bring back torture.
He retweeted anti-semetic Tweets.
He is a Board Member for what The Southern Poverty Law Center considers the largest Anti-Muslim Hate Group in America.
His son and top adviser is famous for posting online Conspiracy Theories and racist memes.
Attorney General:
Jeff Sessions (Alabama Senator)
He said he supported The K.K.K until he learned they smoked pot.
He admitting to making racist jokes during the investigation of two Klansman whom had kidnapped, beaten, tortured, slit the throat and murdered a young black man in 1981 before hanging his body in a tree at a local park in Mobile, Alabama.
He called an attorney a “race traitor” for defending a black client in a voting rights case.
He was considered by the Reagan administration to racist to be a Judge 30 years ago.
He called the ACLU and the NAACP “un-american” and “communist” for forcing civil rights down Americas throat.
He used racial slurs to address black co-workers. And told one Black Attorney, “You best be careful how you talk to white folks, boy.”
He referred to the only black commissioner in Mobile Alabama as “the n*gger.”
Dozens of former co-workers allege he is a racist and when asked about racist comments he has refused to give a straight answer.
Q: “Did you refer to him as the N-Word? Yes or no?”
A: “I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create.”
He tried to fight against the passage of the violence against women act and fought against laws to make spousal rape a crime.
He said if a person is gay it should automatically disqualify them from getting a job as a judge.
He attempted to pass laws that would defund any school that allowed gay student groups or clubs such as the Gay-Straight Alliances. “An organization that professes to be comprised of homosexuals and/or lesbians must not receive state funding or use state-supported facilities to foster or promote those illegal, and sexually deviate activities that break the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws.”
He voted in favor of laws that would make it legal for the U.S military to perform torture.
He has received a 0% rating from The Human Rights Campaign.
Secretary of Education:
Michelle Rhee (Owner of a multi-billion dollar Charter school lobbying group)
She is one of the leading supporters for Charter schools and public school privatization, in 2007 became Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public school District, during that time she was accused of closing schools and firing teachers so she can steal the pension money for herself.
She fired 266 teachers who were members of the union and justified it saying, “I got rid of teachers who had hit children and who had had sex with children.” After public outrage into the comments over why she would fire teachers who were pedophiles instead of having them arrested she refused to provide any evidence the 266 union teachers had ever abused children and refused to apologize for her comments.
She has been accused of making the school district worse on purpose to help lobbyist groups justify their stance that public and free education is a failure.
She fought against School District Employees Unionizing.
She made up her resume.
Secretary of Agriculture:
Forrest Lucas (Billionaire owner of the company Lucas Oil)
He used company money to buy himself a mansion and avoid paying property taxes then justified it saying he’s using it as a, “corporate retreat for himself” since he is an employee of his company.
His wife wrote on Facebook saying, “I’m sick and tired of minorities running our country! As far as I’m concerned, I don’t think that atheistss, muslims nor any other minority group has the right to tell the majority of the people in the United States what they can and cannot do here. Is everyone so scared that they can’t fight back for what is right or wrong with his country?” He defended his wife’s statements by saying he has donates to Veterans groups and since they (presumably) help veterans who are minorities he’s not a racist.
He is famous for being the biggest proponent against animal rights on earth and created a lobbying group called Protect the Harvest who’s motto is “keeping America free and fun.“ to fight against animal rights groups. His group is accused of being a corporate front that openly vows to fight groups such as The Humane Society of the United States and The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Many of the groups board of executives are state politicians who have used Lucases money to try do things like legalize puppy mills, legalize hunting endangered animals and shorten the punishment for crimes like animal cruelty.
I have done extensive research to try and find out why anyone would support these things. And why someone would go as far as to spend millions of dollars so people don’t go jail for beating their pet dogs, and the closest answers I have gotten from interviews is that Forrest Lucas seems obsessed with the idea, “That a man has a god given right to do with, what he pleases to his property.”
Secretary of Energy:
Harold Hamm (Billionaire Oil Tycoon)
He ordered The Dean of The University of Oklahoma to fire researchers who published papers or did research into the environmental effects of Fracking and Drilling.
He is against wind turbines because unlike oil wells they don’t look Americans.
He uses slippery slope fallacy to argue if the U.S passed environmental regulations it will lead to genocide because the end result of environmental laws would be the U.S massacring people and performing forced abortions to stop overpopulation.
Secretary of Homeland Security:
Michael McCaul (Texas Congressman and the 2nd Richest U.S Politician before Trump with $300 million dollars)
He attempted to remove the right of deceased soldiers families to choose which prayers, if any, were to be read at a soldier’s funeral. Meaning that if an Atheist or Hindu or Muslim soldier dies by law the family would have to recite and read Christian Prayers during the funeral.
He wants Putin to lead the monitoring of the situation in Syria rather than an international commission or the U.N
He violated Ethics Laws when he was responsible for the Keystone Pipeline deal avoiding the entire time to bring up the fact that his family owns the company that would build and own the pipeline.
Secretary of the Treasury:
Steven Mnuchin (Worked for Goldman Sachs and produced American Sniper)
He has been accused of racism by enacting company policies to refuse to give loans to minorities and giving Latinos higher mortgage rates than whites.
If you were a Latino who didn’t pay your morgue to Steven Mnuchin’s bank you are 20% more likely to be evicted than if you are white and in the same situation.
The bank he headed broke the law numerous times with unethical and illegal foreclosure practices. Trying to evict an elderly couple who had already paid them $525,000 in mortgages for a house that was only worth $200,000.
He has been sued dozens of times and settled or was found guilty in multi-million dollar lawsuits on several separate occasions.
He has been forced to testify and received subpoenas from the Department of Housing and Urban Development multiple times.
Secretary of Commerce:
Peter Thiel (Billionaire Trump donor)
He wrote a book called “The Diversity Myth: ‘Multiculturalism’ and the Politics of Intolerance” some highlights of the book is when he argued that the point of awareness about rape and sexual assault victimization is to vilify men and that Ivy League Universities have been forced to dumb down curriculum ever since they allowed blacks to attend their schools so minorities will be able to graduate. The book was so offensive that even Republicans called it out as bigoted and filled with lies.
He published an essay where he argued that women being allowed to vote hurts democracy.
He wasted millions trying to build an artificially made island that could be turned into a Libertarian paradise after he was inspired by reading Atlas Shrugged.
He believes that performing blood transfusions with the blood of young people will stop the aging process.
Director of the Office of Management and Budget:
Tom Coburn (Former Oklahoma Senator)
Back when he was a doctor he sterilized a 20 year old woman against her will.
Back when he was a doctor he committed medicare fraud according to the State Attorney General. (Ironically he wants to end Medicare because he says it’s used primarily for fraud.)
He demanded the Holocaust film Schindler’s List be banned from airing on television.
He used legal loopholes to attempt to prevent several bills from coming to the Senate floor. Some of the bills includes one that would assure Veterans get health benefits. The law that criminalized online child pornography and one law that would cut funding to the Ugandan terrorist group, The Lord’s Resistance Army. Who are famous for massacring entire villages but letting the young children live so they can be used as child sex slaves. The LRA currently is killing more people each year than ISIS is.
He has close connections to a Christian Advocacy group known as, “The Family” which has been described as a cult, and who’s influence is responsible for the passage of laws in Uganda which in 2008 made Homosexuality a death penalty crime.
He tried to bribe the Mistress of another Congressman when he found out she was going to the press about their affair and other ethics violations.
Director of the Environmental Protection Agency:
Myron Ebell (Lobbyist for Climate Change Deniers)
He pretends to be a scientist despite any actual education or training as one.
He receives millions of dollars from the oil industry.
He thinks Pesticides are harmless.
He fought to take away all protection for endangered species in the name of “property rights.”
He believes smoking isn’t anymore dangerous then breathing in car exhaust fumes when you walk around a major city. (He wrote these articles while getting funding from Cigarette company Philip Morris.)
He bragged about being labeled as one of the most dangerous people in the world by environmental and animal welfare groups such as Greenpeace and Rolling Stone in his autobiography.
He claimed it was “unconstitutional.” for Obama to make a speech talking about how the world should focus on environmental issues.
CIA Director:
Mike Pompeo (Congressman who was elected thanks to The Tea Party)
He falsely claimed after the Boston Bombing that not a single Muslim has spoken out against terrorism and that Muslim leaders were “complicit” in the attack.
In 2010 he tweeted asking his followers to read a blog post a supporter of his wrote which ranted against Raj Goyle (The Democrat opponent who was running against him for his Congress seat) with racial epithets and calling President Barack Obama an “evil muslim communist USURPER.”
He wants more government surveillance to “stop terrorism.”
He is obsessed with having Hillary arrested.
He thinks Edward Snowden should get the death penalty.
Domestic Policy Advisor
Ken Blackwell (Former Ohio Secretary of State)
He says, “Gays can be reformed, just like arsonists.”
He works for an anti-gay hate group who wants gays deported.
He advised Trump to change the laws so youth Homeless shelters could legally refuse to help gay and transgender youth.
He believes mass shooting are caused by America’s lack of morality which stems from the country allowing gays to exist.
He wrote an article saying Mosques don’t have a right to exist in New York City.
He was accused of rigging the 2004 election in Ohio for George Bush. After he was called to testify in legal hearings by Congress he just refused to show up.
During his term he had 18 major lawsuits.
He accidentally published a list of 1.2 million Social Security numbers of Ohio citizens.
He fought tooth and nail to move to electronic touch screen voting machines instead of paper ballots, after it was discovered the machines had a backdoor software “glitch” it was revealed that Blackwell owned the company that made the voting machines.
A group of 31 pastors contacted the IRA alleging that a number of Churches in the state had been secretly funding Blackwell which violates laws prohibiting charity groups involvement in political campaigns.
Blackwell sent an email claiming he had never heard of any of the churches that he was accused of getting illegal donations from. But after media outlets traced the I.P address of the email it was revealed he sent the email inside of the church that he was claiming he had never heard of in the email he was sending from their building…
get to know the face of your new government, America, one that is even more advocating a pure elitist capitalist regime in which no one is safe unless you have millions and millions of dollars.
Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.
Warsan Shire (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
Let someone love you just the way you are - as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe you must hide of all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.
Marc Hack (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
Representation Matters to White People Too
Look, when I say “representation matters,” I believe that the most important thing is for people who are often ignored in arts and media to see themselves there.
But I also mean that it’s important for white/hetero people to see people who aren’t white/hetero.
Here’s the thing. I was raised in a very white/hetero community. Every friend I had was white. I never had a black person in my classroom until late high school. I never had a black teacher until college. There was one out-gay student at my high school. One. And I saw what shit he had to go through by being out.
And, if I’m honest with myself, most of the adults in my life were racist and homophobic. They were good, loving people…to me. But they were also racist and homophobic.
And as a kid through my teen years, I’d be lying if I didn’t say that didn’t affect me. I parrotted the adults in my life, which meant that I often parrotted their hate and their prejudice. I’m ashamed of those attitudes now–now that I’ve had education and met people who were different from me and travelled the world and put aside hate.
But then? It was easy to excuse racism. People who weren’t white and straight didn’t exist in my world–and they didn’t exist in the world I saw on television and in books and on the radio. It was easier to live in the bubble of that world.
Representation matters to white people, too. It is important for white people to see diversity. Not as a token, not as “politically correct”–the white people who feel that adding a minority character to a storyline is pandering are horrible people who are entirely missing the point. I’m talking about the white kids who don’t see minorities in their lives, but who see a black girl and a white boy being friends on Sesame Street. I’m talking about the straight teen reading More Happy than Not, I’m talking about the white teen empathizing with Malala Yousafzai. The more representation we have, the more we hold a mirror through the world rather than whiting-out people who aren’t like the majority, the better our world is.
Representation matters.
I swear to god, it’s like every damn word could have come out of my own brain. Brava!
Honestly. As someone who went to a very tiny, almost completely white private school through eighth grade and then to a high school in a city with the demographics of a marvel movie (89.3% White, 0.7%African American, 0.4% Native American, 5.6% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 0.8% other races, 3.0% two or more races. 3.7% Hispanic or Latino) I never realised that the casting choices in most tv shows and movies vastly underrepresent any race that isn’t white.
I remember being confused about people saying they should hire more actors of color for movies set in like new york because thats what i legit thought the rest of the US and western europe was like.
Representation matters more than you think.
Men are fucking disgusting, part 2485726364784483762367472636474
What the ACTUAL fuck?
do…men understand that you cant just….buy birth control…in the store………….like condoms?????? you…cant really shop around…for birth control?????
Also you don’t like??? Take MORE??? Because you’re having a ton of sex??? Like you always take the same amount wtf
men are so fucking oblivious we need better sex ed
“Don’t know how to shop” I’m physically repelled omg
“a party favor” someone kick this man in the head
