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roxtunecars: Awesome 1969 Pontiac GTO

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:40:21 -0400

Awesome 1969 Pontiac GTO

stfuconservatives: cakeandrevolution: americanfascism: joerobs...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:39:48 -0400

cakeandrevolution:

americanfascism:

joerobsbanks:

freedomisahumanright:

cushitic:

That’s a given.

More population = more people = more people in prison.
What you should look at is the percentage of people in jail and compare it with other countries.

Well then China would have the world’s largest prision population. But it doesn’t.

The US has 5% of the world’s population but 25% of the world’s incarcerated population. This should be common knowledge by now.

70% of the US prison population is People of Color, that’s as much as all of China’s prisons.

The United States not only has the worlds largest prison population, but we have the worlds largest per capita prison population at well over 700 of ever 100,000 people incarcerated.

China has 1 billion more people than the US, yet still imprisons about 1 million fewer people than the US.

So yeah, really, land of the free, home of the largest prison population by any way you want to measure it. But five-year-olds still have the right to shoot their two-year-old sisters! Freedom!!11

shortformblog: pewresearch: 12 is the median age at which...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:38:55 -0400

shortformblog:

pewresearch:

12 is the median age at which lesbian, gay and bisexual adults first felt they might be something other than heterosexual or straight. Among those who have “come out” to a family member or close friend, 20 is the median age at which they first did so.

“I really have not had to tell anyone. I am usually asked. My parents still do not understand, and it is something that is never discussed with my family.”

— 52 year old gay man

Our interactive data explorer lets you sort through a variety of personal coming-out experiences.

Recommend checking out the data explorer, which lets you filter by age. One of the respondents was 86.

It’s frightening to think that you have to keep a secret about yourself for so long from friends AND family.

kateoplis: “I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:37:57 -0400

kateoplis:

“I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.”

— Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

My father has never given me anything.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:37:35 -0400

My father has never given me anything.

Spain would be so proud.

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:28:00 -0400

Spain would be so proud.

despicable-me: BEE-DO! Download SO ME.

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:44:58 -0400

despicable-me:

BEE-DO!

Download

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stfuconservatives: beygonce: writeswrongs: Black Man to Lose...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:44:19 -0400

stfuconservatives:

beygonce:

writeswrongs:

Black Man to Lose Scholarship For Refusing Racist Assignment

Timothy McNair is a graduate student of opera at Northwestern University’s famed Bienen School of Music. McNair is at the school on a full scholarship, but the 25-year-old is standing up to his school after his professor, Donald Nally, gave him an assignment to perform a song created by a racist American poet named Walt Whitman. McNair asked his instructor if he could be assigned to perform the work of other artists but Nally denied him the opportunity and told him if he didn’t turn in all of his completed work by Friday, May 17th he’d receive a failing grade. McNair refused.

“Certainly I do not deserve to fail this class. I have a 3.7 GPA. I’m an officer on three committees of this university. So what is deserving for me? Is to be able to perform two pieces and have the third piece removed because of the insensitivity,” McNair told Chicago’s WGN news station. Although the piece McNair is instructed to perform does not contain any blatant racism, McNair believes it is still offensive that he was asked to complete the works of a devout racist. “We know (he) was historically racist. He’s called African Americans ‘baboons’ and was for oppressing voting rights,” McNair said of Whitman.

But let a white person had to sing a song written about Osama or Sadam that shit would have been on every new station.

I didn’t realize Walt Whitman had written such racist stuff (that wasn’t covered when we read his work in high school, SURPRISE) (if you’re curious, his archive has a super-apologist piece about it - along the lines of “well sure he was racist, but everyone was racist back then!”), and this is super fucked up.

Wow, really weird. Did not know that Walt Whitman was such a racist.

roxtunecars: Awesome Lamborghini Miura.

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:43:22 -0400

roxtunecars:

Awesome Lamborghini Miura.

Photo

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:41:43 -0400

ilovecharts: The Scientific 7-Minute Workout

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:27:55 -0400

ilovecharts:

The Scientific 7-Minute Workout

Photo

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:27:14 -0400

kateoplis: West Loop Aerie

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:26:47 -0400

kateoplis:

West Loop Aerie

roxtunecars: Awesome Fiat

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:26:19 -0400

roxtunecars:

Awesome Fiat

"The revolution that started in food is expanding to clothing: origins matter…”In the clothing..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:40:29 -0400

“The revolution that started in food is expanding to clothing: origins matter…”In the clothing industry, everybody wears it every day, but we have no idea where it comes from,” said Michael Preysman, Everlane’s chief executive and founder. “People are starting to slowly clue in to this notion of where products are made.””

- From today’s New York Times article “Newest Front for Fair-Trade Movement Is Retail Clothing”. (via everlane)

Uncrate: Lego Star Wars Ewok Village

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:53:00 -0400

Uncrate: Lego Star Wars Ewok Village:

shortformblog: apsies: Look who’s joining Twitter!!! And with...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:14:29 -0400

shortformblog:

apsies:

Look who’s joining Twitter!!! And with the greatest bio EVER.

Mom, wife, lawyer, FLOAR, FLOTUS, women & kids advocate, author, dog owner, hair icon, pantsuit fashionista, U.S. Senator, ceiling cracker… SecState… TBD…

Yes.

Whoa. A guy I know directly inspired this Twitter profile pic.

HALLO!

Created evidently in 2005 for a Birds Eye Peas TV commercial,...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:41:50 -0400

Created evidently in 2005 for a Birds Eye Peas TV commercial, custom made by Asylum Models and Effects in the UK.

It’s chassis’s from a go-cart, the headlights from a VW Beetle, the indicators are Lancia, the engine is Honda.

LOVE

"Women are socialized to make men feel good. We’re socialized to “let you down easy.” We’re not..."

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:44:15 -0400

“Women are socialized to make men feel good. We’re socialized to “let you down easy.” We’re not socialized to say a clear and direct “no.” We’re socialized to speak in hints and boost egos and let people save face. People who don’t respect the social contract (rapists, predators, assholes, pickup artists) are good at taking advantage of this. “No” is something we have to learn. “No” is something we have to earn. In fact, I’d argue that the ability to just say “no” to something, without further comment, apology, explanation, guilt, or thinking about it is one of the great rites of passage in growing up, and when you start saying it and saying it regularly the world often pushes back. And calls you names.”

- The art of “no.” « CaptainAwkward.com (via professorpinka)

awkwardsituationist: “not natasha,” a photographic essay on...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:43:46 -0400

awkwardsituationist:

“not natasha,” a photographic essay on eastern european sex trafficked slaves by dana popa

(documentary, the real sex traffic; film, lilya 4-ever)