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jesus christ, be polite to children and show them manners. fucking say excuse me when you walk past them, apologize to them when you cut them off, thank them when they’re courteous to you. they’re not little objects that don’t matter. you should be a fucking example and teach them how to treat people, instead of acting like they’re these invisible THINGS that don’t have feelings or don’t notice when they aren’t acknowledged. be polite to children the same way you’d be polite to someone of your own age group or older. you can respect a child.

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pretty sure my chorus teacher hates me because every time we sing silent night and get to the line ‘holy infant so tender and mild’ i just lose it. so tender and mild. jesus is a tiny tender steak. the pastor adds a mild spice rub. serves him with a side of carrots and potatoes. mary did you know your son is a fucking cured meat. sleep in heavenly peace meat boy

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Watch: John Legend is so right. The entire interview is 100% hard truth.

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I think that in any social group that reaches certain size, it’s a good idea to work under the assumption that at some point at least one abusive person will join the group and exploit the group’s social rules and existing systems to mistreat others.

So when approaching a new group, or even when judging a group you already belong to, the question should not be, “Are there abusive people in this group?” but “What features of this social group could potentially be exploited by abusive people?” or even “What features of this social group are already being exploited by abusive people?.”

Predators always find a way to use even the fairest, most nourishing environments to their advantage. It’s what they do. So any social group that claims to be “not like other groups” and to be “free of abusers” is at best passively ignorant of those who are taking advantage of the group and at worst spending a lot of time and resources and hiding the predators within the community and silencing their victims.

Therefore, any group to claims to be an predator-free oasis should be seen as suspect - specially if said group claims to be the only right one and the only abuser-free one.

After all, isolating your targets from other social groups is the first step in any abuser handbook.

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He said my writing does not show him Africa. Keep in mind this American man has never visited any country in Africa. He said i was writing about Africans driving and listening to Sade in air-conditioned cars. He just couldn’t identify with such. He said it like i should apologize for ever portraying my people as some modern day normal Africans. It is as though if Africans are not killing each other or dying of a disease; then our stories are not valid. As a Nigerian, i have never witnessed war and i know what listening to Sade in an air-conditioned car while in crazy Lagos traffic feels like, yet an American who has never stepped foot in my continent tried explaining my country to me. He said, “i am sorry, this is just not believable….” and then as i tried to hold my anger, i understood the ‘burden’ of writing an African story. The anger most African writers feel when others seem to know so damn much about our own motherland. The terrible idea that Africans are a certain way is disheartening. I remember how my friend in Lagos laughed as i told her about the American. She laughed loud at his foolishness and cursed him in Yoruba. You cannot tell me what an African city looks like, you cannot tell me what a Nigerian city looks like. You cannot tell me how to write about Africa only if it shows her people as helpless, only if it feeds into your stereotype. How can a foreigner tell us about our own land? They want to shake their head, read only about struggles and discuss it in their book clubs. The audacity of a foreigner to tell me how to write about my people.

Ijeoma Umebinyuo (via meggannn)

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Scalding 

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I’m just here to remind you that everything that is happening in Ferguson right now is because of the residents and activists in Ferguson that have spent 215 days protesting. I’m also here to remind you that Black people have led this movement. And for this reason, we will never allow anyone to force a white savior narrative on us. We are perfectly capable of freeing ourselves and speaking to our own experiences, we don’t need anyone doing that for us. We are capable. We WILL get free. “Ain’t no power like the power of the people cause the power of the people don’t stop!”

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It’s baby season!

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It appears that Cuban officials have spoken the final word on the fate of Assata Shakur: Without question, she’s staying in Cuba.

“I can say it is off the table,” Gustavo Machin, the deputy director for American affairs at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Yahoo News in Havana when asked about calls for Cuba to return Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard.

While that news will be greeted with glee within many Black activist communities in the U.S., where Shakur is seen as a hero for her courageous fight against the most powerful nation on the planet, it won’t be warmly received by American lawmakers and law enforcement officials, particularly in New Jersey, who have been energetically trying to get their hands on Shakur ever since President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced in December they were normalizing relations.

This is a time when white supremacy and power stands so extreme that a leader of a foreign land, Benjamin Netanyahu, would feel so empowered to march into the Capitol chamber in Washington, DC, and insult the American president. So the fact that the small island of Cuba and this 67-year-old grandmother continue to withstand the enormous pressure being exerted from the U.S. strikes many as admirable.

Not only have U.S. officials issued tough-talking statements and increased the bounty on her head to $2 million, they even declared she was one of the country’s most wanted terrorists—permanently distorting the word “terrorist” in the eyes of many observers by placing that label on Shakur, who was convicted in 1977 of killing a New Jersey state trooper during a 1973 shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike. But after her conviction, Shakur escaped from a New Jersey state women’s prison two years later and fled to Cuba, where she has lived under the protection of the Cuban government for 30 years.

As recently as last week New Jersey officials were still at it. Cuba’s decision to provide sanctuary for Chesimard “is an intolerable insult to all those who long to see justice served,” including members of the slain New Jersey state trooper’s family, Sen. Bob Menendez, ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry last week.

Menendez said to Yahoo in an emailed statement that Chesimard is a “cop killer” and her return should be “a top agenda” item before any further concessions are made to the Castro government. But Cuba hasn’t budged on Shakur.

In an interview in Havana at the Foreign Ministry, Machin told Yahoo that Cuba had granted her political asylum and so she would not be subject to any extradition to the United States. He added that the U.S. is harboring its own terrorists involved in attacks in Cuba, such as Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative charged in Venezuela for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. After escaping from jail, Carriles was accused by the Cubans of orchestrating a spate of hotel bombings in Havana in 1997.

In December, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is reportedly considering a run for president, sent a letter to President Obama stating that Cuba’s granting of asylum for Shakur was “an affront to every resident of our state, our country, and in particular, the men and women of the New Jersey State Police, who have tirelessly tried to bring this killer back to justice.”

The Queens-born Shakur, the step-aunt of rapper Tupac Shakur (her brother was Tupac’s stepfather), has been the subject of films, documentaries and rap songs over the years, in addition to her own writings, which were influential to a generation of activists.

http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/03/04/cuba-issues-the-final-word-on-assata-shakurs-return-to-us-no/

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90% of eating disorders begin with a diet. 

30% of all diets end in an eating disorder. 

99% of dieters gain back all the weight and more. 

Yo-yo dieting increases your chance of high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, and early death. 

Diets are dangerous. Say no to diet culture. 

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Lisa Bloom

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honestly a lot of trendy people live in nashville, especially east. and an airbnb can basically pay your rent if you do it right, so a lot of people take advantage of it.

okay, Nashville definitely has the best collection of places to stay that I've ever seen on Airbnb.

like..I just don’t get it.  do all of the people who live there just have impeccable taste?  every single goddamn listing is so light, inviting, pretty, and cheap that it’s impossible to figure out where to stay.  there’s 750 listings..350 of those are $125 or under.   TOO. MANY. OPTIONS.

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PAYPAL IS TRYING TO SLIP THE RUG UNDER US. Or they may have said this and just no one read about it or noticed/knew.

OKAY SO BEFORE YOU SEND ANY MONEY FOR THAT AWESOME COMMISSION YOU WANT TO BUY FROM THAT AWESOME ARTIST. PLEASE STOP AND READ THIS.

Paypal changed the look of how you will fill out information and send money. Thus, you need to be super careful. Don’t go all willy nilly through and be like “Yeah yeah yeah send” you need to stop when you see this screen right away.

Before you proceed, you will first notice one major thing: your address is showing. What you need to do if you are ordering a DIGITAL WORK (aka, it is being sent to you via the interwebz) is you need to click on your address and there around be a drop down menu of 3 (or more) options:

No address needed

Your Current Address

+ Add a new shipping address

Be sure to select “No address needed”, it is very important that you do. If you leave your address in there, Paypal will assume that you are to receive a physical package. A physical package which needs proof that exists physically. Paypal will want the artist to provide shipping labels and tracking info on said package. This is bad, very, very bad. Artists can get in trouble if they cannot provide these things.

Please, if an artist asks to send you back your money so that you can send it again correctly, do not be offended. You are paying them to do your commission, how can they do your commission with no money?

Reblog this, send this around, if you want to make a proper tutorial go ahead, I hope this was clear enough as it is.

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Look, I support them and the work they do, but I think the people that patronize their services are disgusting and entitled. Do whatever you need to do to survive but your customers shouldn’t be allowed to take advantage of you, even though they’re the ones paying you the money you need to survive. That’s why I think we should criminalize people that go to restaurants.

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The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.

The facility, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side known as Homan Square, has long been the scene of secretive work by special police units. Interviews with local attorneys and one protester who spent the better part of a day shackled in Homan Square describe operations that deny access to basic constitutional rights.

Alleged police practices at Homan Square, according to those familiar with the facility who spoke out to the Guardian after its investigation into Chicago police abuse, include:

Keeping arrestees out of official booking databases.

Beating by police, resulting in head wounds.

Shackling for prolonged periods.

Denying attorneys access to the “secure” facility.

Holding people without legal counsel for between 12 and 24 hours, including people as young as 15.

At least one man was found unresponsive in a Homan Square “interview room” and later pronounced dead.

Brian Jacob Church, a protester known as one of the “Nato Three”, was held and questioned at Homan Square in 2012 following a police raid. Officers restrained Church for the better part of a day, denying him access to an attorney, before sending him to a nearby police station to be booked and charged.

“Homan Square is definitely an unusual place,” Church told the Guardian on Friday. “It brings to mind the interrogation facilities they use in the Middle East. The CIA calls them black sites. It’s a domestic black site. When you go in, no one knows what’s happened to you.”

The secretive warehouse is the latest example of Chicago police practices that echo the much-criticized detention abuses of the US war on terrorism. While those abuses impacted people overseas, Homan Square – said to house military-style vehicles, interrogation cells and even a cage – trains its focus on Americans, most often poor, black and brown.

Unlike a precinct, no one taken to Homan Square is said to be booked. Witnesses, suspects or other Chicagoans who end up inside do not appear to have a public, searchable record entered into a database indicating where they are, as happens when someone is booked at a precinct. Lawyers and relatives insist there is no way of finding their whereabouts. Those lawyers who have attempted to gain access to Homan Square are most often turned away, even as their clients remain in custody inside.

“It’s sort of an open secret among attorneys that regularly make police station visits, this place – if you can’t find a client in the system, odds are they’re there,” said Chicago lawyer Julia Bartmes.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site?CMP=share_btn_tw