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This is exactly how Chinese MFs talk in English. 

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Didn’t know Norman Rockwell was with this leftist meme shit. Respect.

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This person is my new best friend

Farming systems need to fit into their natural and social environment. Sometimes we describe this as a socio-ecological niche.

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if you want to actually start to end homelessness, you need to give homeless people unconditional homes, including when we use them to do drugs or sit around drinking. either housing is unconditional or it isn’t

someone sitting at home alone, an active alcoholic, squandering your charity, drinking all day is better situation than a street homeless alcoholic. someone using drugs in your charity house is better than them doing the same w no shelter

most of you would not like most street homeless people, I definitely don’t and didn’t when I was street homeless. for every one person who uses unconditional shelter to turn themselves around, someone else will do jack shit and very slowly, if ever, work through the issues that made them homeless, will maybe never be able to live independently. still better than street homelessness, still worth doing. ultimately either you believe that shelter should be universal or you don’t

homeless people actually can’t be rehabilitated if you want to end homelessness. we either affirm the right to shelter for the worst drunken, lying, filthy, cheating, self destructive homeless people that exist, genuinely irredeemable wankers, or we concede that shelter is not a right

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I’m not saying it’s right, but I understand (x)

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Nothing more inherently masculine than doggedly defending and being unwaveringly subservient to a hierarchy you are towards the bottom of. Yes sir I will lmao

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Purple map, here we come!

How each state is doing in containing COVID-19 rn… 

(Nov. 10th 2020)

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In many states, these companies go so far as to back laws to criminalize protests […], openly weaponizing the police and criminal justice system to protect […] profits […] and the banks that fund them. […] This symbiotic relationship between the fossil fuel industry and police often means that the companies that are polluting Black and Brown communities – like Marathon Petroleum in Detroit, Valero in Corpus Christi, or Shell in Louisiana –  are the same ones that are aligned with and propping up police forces in these same cities. […] Fossil fuel companies support police foundations across the country, especially in major oil producing states such as Texas and Louisiana. [Report from 27 July 2020.]

Valero is the second biggest oil refining company in the US. Its Corpus Christi East refinery – part of the city’s “Refinery Row,” where a slew of refineries sit near predominantly poor, Black, and Brown communities – is a top emitter of benzene. Valero has a board seat on the Corpus Christi Police Foundation’s board of directors, and it is a sponsor of the Houston Police Department’s Mounted Patrol.

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Georgia Power is the largest subsidiary of Southern Company, which was ranked the second most polluting power company by the Los Angeles Times in 2019. Georgia Power is a major supporter of the Atlanta Police Foundation and has one representative on its Board of Trustees and two representatives on its “Young Executives Board.” In addition to its board seats, Georgia Power sponsors the Foundation’s numerous fundraising events including “A Night in Blue,” “Blue Jean Ball,” “Crime is Toast Breakfast,” and “Link Up Against Crime Golf Tournament.” The company made a direct $500,000 donation to the foundation in 2016. 

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Energy Transfer Partners, one of the companies behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, is a listed sponsor of the Friends of the Dallas Police, while Aramco, Cabot Oil & Gas, and several companies […] sponsor the Houston Police’s Mounted Patrol Department.

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Marathon Petroleum, the nation’s largest oil refining company […]. The company operates 16 refineries around the country, including a notorious 250-acre refinery in a Detroit, Michigan community that is 71% Black. Since 2013 Marathon’s Detroit refinery has received 15 violations from the state environmental regulator […]. Marathon’s Security Coordinator sits on the board of the Detroit Public Safety Foundation, the city’s police foundation. Marathon is also listed as a “Commanding Sponsor” of the foundation’s fundraising event “Above & Beyond” and a “Bronze Sponsor” of their “Women in Blue” event.

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Hilcorp, headquartered in Houston, Texas, is one of the largest privately-held oil drillers in the country and is best known for buying older oil and gas fields from other producers in order to extract any remaining product. From 2012 to 2015 Hilcorp’s Alaska operation had 25 documented violations of environmental regulations including allowing a gas pipeline on the seafloor to leak methane rather than stop production […]. In Ohio, Hilcorp’s drilling practices were blamed for dozens of earthquakes, while in Louisiana they have been responsible for several oil spills and destroyed oyster beds in an already vulnerable coastal community. Hilcorp’s billionaire co-founder and Chairman J/eff Hild/ebrand has a board seat on the Houston Police Foundation and is a notable attendee of their fundraising events.

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With a market capitalization value that ranked only behind Exxon/Mobil at the end of 2019. The fifth biggest US refiner, Chevron is a top polluter that owns two of the top six benzene-emitting refineries in the US. […] [I]n Richmond, California, community residents have fought for years against the power, pollution, and environmental racism of Chevron, which owns a major refinery in the city made up of 80% people of color. Chevron is a “Corporate Partner of the Police” sponsor of the New Orleans Police & Justice Foundation, as well as a board member of the Houston Police Foundation and sponsor of the Houston Police Department’s mounted patrol. It is also donor to and, as of the end of 2018, a board member of the Salt Lake City Police Foundation.

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Entergy is a publicly-traded, Fortune 500 company headquartered in Louisiana that also services parts of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas. Entergy is arguably the most powerful corporate force in Louisiana, with presences on prominent chambers, business associations, philanthropic organizations, and even charter school advocacy groups across the state. Entergy is a “Featured Partner” of the New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation with top billing on the foundation’s sponsors page. In 2018 Entergy made headlines after it paid actors $60-200 dollars to pose as grassroots supporters at a City Council meeting that was considering the company’s proposed gas-fired power plant in New Orleans East, home to a large Vietnamese community. The resulting scandal, lawsuit, and city council investigation prompted the Entergy New Orleans CEO to step down. 

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Gin Armstrong and Derek Siedman. “ Fossil Fuel Industry Pollutes Black & Brown Communities While Propping Up Racist Policing.” Eyes on the Ties and Little Sis. 27 July 2020.

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The badge cover up is so gross and hilarious.

November 7, 2020 - NYPD cops overseeing crowds celebrating Trump’s loss are visibly upset at a Biden victory, some are crying. [video]

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