#drug wars

[gregor-samsung]

Pájaros de verano [Birds of Passage] (Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra - 2018)

[moire-on-my-mind]

Teresa Margolles. (2009). Flag I [Fabric, blood, earth and other substances]. Source

The fabric of Flag I contains traces of blood, soil and other substances from the sites of murders around the northern border of Mexico, testifying to the thousands of violent deaths associated with the powerful drug cartels that control smuggling routes to the United States. Another version of this work was shown at the Venice Biennial in 2009, where Margolles represented Mexico with an exhibition titled What Else Could We Talk About? As the government failed to intervene in the drug wars, the blood-stained cloth was hung outside the Mexican pavilion as a memorial for citizens that the nation ignored.

[startrailsiv]

"Blood Money" by Peter Schweizer

This book needs to go viral. The survival of the United States depends on it. The ugly truth is revealed masterfully through Schweizer’s gold standard of investigative journalism. He has put together an amazing expose of corruption that involves not only how China is trying to undermine our country, culture, and democracy, but the public figures who are not only allowing, but facilitating it,…

[angrylesbianstereotype]

Okay Walter White was actually pretty funny as a character bc he was so toxic that seasoned drug lords were like I cannot work w this man I have to put my mental health first

[malinaa]

if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing

[bkenber]

Bernardo Ruiz and Oscar Hagelsieb Talk About 'Kingdom of Shadows'

WRITER’S NOTE: This interview took place back in 2015. The U.S.-Mexico drug war is one many of us watch from a distance, but the documentary “Kingdom of Shadows” forces you to look at the war more closely than usual as it puts a human face on the damage left in its path. Director Bernardo Ruiz observes the ongoing conflict through the perspectives of three individuals: activist nun Sister…

[happyroadkillart]

how this guy lost the war on drugs is a mystery to me

[thefreecheese]

The Free Cheese Episode 524: Educational Games

This week on The Free Cheese, what did you learn? We chronicle the rough timeline of educational software and share key lessons we’ve learned in video games. 

[thatsillyfucknvegan]

Move over sharknado and megalodon. This is the real Scarface hopped up on cocaine you don't wanna fuck with.

[panakina]

The robins’ arrested development is fascinating to me on a meta level.

The first child sidekick of the golden age of comics, never meant to be a man, a child for forty years who fought and demanded the right to grow up.

The second robin is slain in his career’s infancy. An unaging symbol of lost innocence because innocence itself was no longer required. Who burst back out of his grave unwillingly, in a man’s body, dragged into adulthood all at once. A child killed twice over.

The third robin, who was comfortable in his place as a child as a sidekick, evicted because someone else needed that spot, only to be wedged back into the box. Not quite a man, but he can’t go back to being a boy either, stuck in the in between.

And the fifth robin, still a child. Destined to grow into an adult role that will never be vacated, and so cannot grow up.

[jaigeye]

yoda

[romansmartini]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to speculate about the sexual and romantic undertones of celebrities’ professional relationships

[tyquu]

My n' my friend were being silly thinking about what these two would get up to in a reluctant temporary wild space alliance.

(I have not read the Thrawn books yet, everything i know about him beyond rebels is through @gherkinlizard )

[kattliet]

[star-anise]

I get how it's not actually paradoxical or surprising but it's eternally hilarious to me when the same people who say "But they're your FAMILY! You can't turn your back on the people who raised you!!!" also think it's a-ok to disown your children for the high crimes and misdemeanours of like. Smoking pot. Getting pregnant. Sucking dick.

[thejasontoddarchives]

Catwoman (2018-) #57

Bruce is really swinging between extremes huh