bear with me, kids. 

the unfriendly atheist is stocked up on the queue. shit-atheists-won’t-do is empty. 

why the fuck am i so sober?

if i have gay sex with people will they give me drugs?

shadesofbrixton:

This fierce bitch is Katharine McCormick.  She’s mostly remembered as a suffragette, but hold onto your hats, tumblr, because she was so much more than that.

• In 1904, Katharine was the first woman to graduate from MIT with a degree in science - and only the second woman to graduate from MIT ever.
• She became the Vice President of the League of Women Voters during their fight for the women’s vote.
• Back when any form of birth regulation was frowned upon, she smuggled diaphragms from Europe to give them to ladies in NYC.
• Katherine funded, almost in its entirety, the creation and testing of the oral birth control pill as we know it today. 
• Built the first female dormitory at MIT, securing women’s foothold in the sciences and engineering at the school.
• Upon her death, split her accumulated millions among Planned Parenthood and Stanford’s school of medicine (to benefit female doctors).

Now you know a thing.  Go learn some more things.

str8fight:

– View on Path.

jonnyborg:

who?

The dude who played loki in the avengers. 

I heard that someone published private photos of him (not nudes or anything), and apparently the tumblr blogs that publish like 300 pics of him a day are shitting themselves oevr it. 

tumblr drama

squashed:

If you haven’t connected the dots, the vast difference between the competent response to Hurricane Irene and the incompetent response to Katrina was not a coincidence. It’s not that George W. Bush didn’t care about black people. By the time a hurricane strikes, it doesn’t much matter who the President cares for. The only question is whether an organized and efficient emergency response infrastructure is in place.

Getting that infrastructure in place requires appointing people who believe that it’s possible to have an organized and efficient government response. Across the board, Obama appointed smart, passionate people who believe in what they’re doing. Bush appointed people who believed that government should do as little as possible. It’s hardly surprising that his appointees were asleep at the switch for both Katrina and the recession.

Do you remember when the BP Oil Spill was supposed to be “Obama’s Katrina”? As it turns out, the response was, while not perfect, pretty good, considering the magnitude of the disaster. Nothing turned out like Katrina on Obama’s watch because he led a competent government.

I don’t know why anybody would want to vote for a guy like Romney who can’t even imagine—let alone lead—a competent government.

BULLSHIT. A whole load of liberal propaganda. The BP oil spill is continuing to have negative effects on the Gulf Coast environment, just that the rest of the US doesn’t notice because they think Obama is the goddamn pope or something.

BP continues to operate in the US, oil and gas companies continue to work in the gulf without anyone giving a shit, the seafood industry still struggles, the environment is still broken, people negatively effected continue to wait for compensation and aid, etc. etc. 

But yeah, I forgot how Obama is literally Jesus fucking Christ come down from heaven and can do no wrong. 

You guys are fucking morons. I hope you like going to sleep at night knowing that your precious goddamn president is doing his part to allow corporations free reign to destroy the country from nature up. 

thepeoplesrecord:

qweent:

Tulsa OK 1921: US Government Bombs US City

National Guard troops patrolling the streets armed. Thousands of black people held in a convention center. Hundreds of black dead, with bodies piled like wood. That was not New Orleans, that was Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June 1921.

On May 30, 1921 a young black man named Dick Rowland, stumbled into a white woman, while entering an elevator. He was accused of assault, and arrested the next day. Newly rich from oil Tulsa, was a Ku Klux Klan town. Rowland was sentenced to be hanged. The Tulsa Tribune called for a “Negro lynching tonight.”

The white mob was surprised when they were met by several dozen armed black men, dressed in their World War I uniforms. This led to a racist three day destruction of the black neighborhood of Greenwood. The Red Cross reported 300 mostly dead black people.

Greenwood called “Little Africa,” was a relatively wealthy community. White mobs, many deputized, destroyed every house, store, church or school. The mob met resistance from an armed black population. Governor Robertson declared martial law. The National Guard arrived with machine gun mounted trucks, and airplanes hovering over Greenwood. It was the first time an American city was bombed from the air, by the US government.

Over 6,000 black people, were round up and held in the convention center and fairgrounds, as long as eight days. The homeless were shuttled into a tent city, where typhoid and malnutrition took over. Blacks were allowed out of the convention center, with a tag, with an employers name. Thosands fled the city.

Attempts to turn Greenwood into an industrial zone were unsuccessful. For several years, it was deprived of paved streets, running water, and garbage collection.

See: Tulsa Reparations Coalition and thank you to Internationalist Group for presenting this story in your newspaper.

RENEGADE EYE

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I had no idea.

murphysbride:

readnfight:

martaunderthesea:

strangeprison:

At a press conference this afternoon on New York City’s preparations for Hurricane Sandy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg was asked about the safety of prisoners on Rikers Island, which lies near the mouth of Long Island Sound, between Queens and the Bronx. Bloomberg appeared annoyed by the question, and responded somewhat opaquely: “Rikers Island, the land is up where they are and jails are secured.” Apparently unable to fathom that anyone’s main concern would be for the welfare of the more than 12,000 prisoners on Rikers, Bloomberg then reassured listeners: “Don’t worry about anybody getting out.”

of course.

What we mean when we talk about environmental racism.

of course. he didn’t take them out for Irene, and if a worse storm were coming he wouldn’t take them out.

lol remember in katrina when the folks in Angola state penitentiary were left to drown in the floodwater? They didn’t evacuate anyone, and the deputies vanished