lupin5th | Jun. 10th, 2020

Jun. 10th, 2020

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honeybrowns:

darkerskin:

Take this with you

to all my white followers who stew in unnecessary guilt trying to come to terms with the privilege you have, watch this

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susiephone:

god every day, daniel radcliffe gives me a new reason to love him. he just put joke karen rowling on blast for her shitty-ass terf beliefs.

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ballumory:

Artwork in Bristol by Lanie Rose (link to her instagram in source)

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everythingfox:

#Judging u

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everythingfox:

This fox knows what you’re up to

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thothoes:

READ THIS THREAD

this is why we say all cops are bastards. this is why we need to abolish the police. the cruelty is not an accident. it is the point.

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justcatposts:

kittens make everything better

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fornsidramerica:

[img desc: POC fist holding Mjolnir and text that says BLACK LIVES MATTER]

HEATHENS STAND WITH BLACK LIVES MATTER

Pass it on!

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pakisstani:

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everythingfox:

❤❤

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fromacomrade:

You wanna be an ally? You wanna “punch Nazis?” Keep reading.
Look, people. This is fucking serious. Please read.

We aren’t glitter bombing Nazis. We aren’t throwing flour on them. We definitely aren’t going to peacefully shut them down. They want to kill us, they said so in Charlottesville. They made it very clear where they stand and how they plan on taking action. Their violence needs to be met with great force.

If you are not down to physically fight these fuckers, please stay off the front lines. You’ll get hurt and your pacifism will be a liability, resulting in others being hurt. Run support. We need more support.

-Go to a street medic training
-Run jail support
-If you’re good at using the internet (as in better than average), learn how to securely (and correctly) doxx these people.
-If you’re a creative type, write a zine about anti-fascism
-If you’re EMT trained, HOST a street medic training
-Become a legal observer through the
National Lawyers Guild
-Set up letter writing events to send to political prisoners
-There’s a lot of parents who want to fight but can’t because of their kids, watch their kids for them
-If you can cook, organize food drives/pot lucks for the larger demonstrations.
-Help people in more counseling/therapy ways.
-Help get needed supplies, such as food, water, and medical supplies.
-When organizing, inclusivity is not optional, and is mandatory to win.
-Listen to the concerns of those most effected.

Add any extra support jobs you think of.

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insomniac-arrest:

serialreblogger:

action–cats:

headspace-hotel:

You can identify a fake redneck by their passionate support of “blue lives matter.” Real rednecks have been in at least one physical fight and/or high-speed chase with police officers and would do it again

“redneck” is a valid culture, not a euphemism for “bigot”

this is a reminder that one of the historical roots of racialized slavery in the United States comes from the “Slave Codes” of 1705 that made slavery firmly based on skin color instead of circumstances

One of the biggest influences on creating these codes was “Bacon’s Rebellion” where white indentured servants and black slaves united to attack the Virginian Governor and thoroughly spooked the ruling aristocracy that feared the disenfranchised teaming up to overthrow them

remember: race divisions were orchestrated in the US to maintain class hierarchy, racism did not just happen– it was constructed intentionally to keep people divided based on perceived differences.

The narrative of the “Redneck vs the Black man” is a false one that is purposefully spread and popularized to extend the status quo.

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spirantization:

hermionc:

reminder to be wary of any news coverage you hear or read that doesn’t come from a direct source because there is always some type of spin on EVERYTHING.

I want to expand on the grammatical explanations and the implications these headlines create. Firstly, it’s important to note what active and passive voices are and why we use them.

Active voice puts the agent of the action in the subject position. It places emphasis on the person who did the action. Headline #2 is active. We know who did the action. Who struck the journalist? Protestors.

Passive voice puts the receiver of the action in the subject position. It places emphasis on the receiver of the action, and not on the person who did the action. Both Headline #1 and #3 are in passive, but they’re slightly different.

#1 is non-agentive. Who shot the photographer in the eye? We don’t know. It doesn’t say. Was it the police? Protestors? Someone else? Readers are left to draw their own conclusions or insert their own biases to fill in the blanks.

#3 is agentive. Who hit the reporter with a pepper ball? An officer. We know who did the action, but because the sentence is passive, the emphasis is on the reporter who received the action, and not on the officer who did the action.

It’s important to note these differences and be aware of how we use active and passive sentences. Passive sentences are not inherently bad; there are times and places where they are useful and more appropriate than active sentences.

HOWEVER, there is a clear pattern of passive voice headlines obscuring police brutality or racism. We see this same pattern again and again. Police shot a photographer in the eye. An officer hit a reporter with a pepper ball on live television. Omitting the agent of these actions, or shifting it out of focus, is harmful.

So as you continue to read news, and see headlines likes the ones above, ask yourself: Who did these actions? Who benefits from being named? Who benefits from being omitted? What kind of narrative is being created?

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katy-l-wood:

sabertoothwalrus:

Somehow this video captures the scale of whales better than any other video or photo I have ever seen.

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everythingfox:

Cat playing the blues

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viveleschao59:

bullet-shot-heroes:

wildhaunt:

sauntervaguelydown:

I’m putting my foot down, if you don’t Know you’re flirting you’re not Flirting. Flirting requires knowledge and intent. If you’re not doing it on purpose you’re just bantering. I will die on this hill, yes.

I always feel like people think I’m flirting and that makes me feel unsafe. this makes me feel like I have some agency and that I can just kinda say, “no, flirting requires forethought. we’re just talking and I’m being nice.”

SAY THIS LOUDER

I feel obligated to share this because every time I acted with fucking common decency or was just nice to people, they would thought I was flirting and get mad when I wouldn’t say yes to a date or something.

I’m as aro as they can get and can’t romance to save my life so I sure as hell ain’t flirting.

Being nice is a thing.

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naamahdarling:

This fucked me up for a good 20 minutes.

My anger was my own heart standing over the beaten-down part of me and saying “You may be too whipped to feel it completely right now, but this situation is not okay and how they are treating you is not okay, so I am going to watch your back until you can protect yourself again.”

I’ve been told hanging on to my anger is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

No. It’s me realizing I had the right to stand up from the table and not drink the poison I was being told was the only truth. It’s me reclaiming the power I ceded to others in a desperate attempt to survive.

Never. Again.

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uselessmachine:

and the two side by side….. love some good sun and moon imagery

print shop here

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amethystviolist:

herochan:

Generational Oppression

Art by Ricardo Chucky || IG

[ID: A realistic painting of a raised black fist over a mottled gray background. At the base of the image, the arm bears a chained manacle. Above it is an unfettered metal shackle. A plastic and metal handcuff with a broken chain rests above that. Finally, over the handcuff, a plastic zip-tie pulls the skin around the wrist. End ID.]

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moonlandingwasfaked:

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rose-garden-over-madison-square:

rose-garden-over-madison-square:

Reminder to not give up, you are bringing about change.

List of positives to come out of the recent protests as of June 4:

- George Floyd’s murderer charged with murder and manslaughter, then had charges increased, then the officers that watched it happen were charged with aiding and abetting

- Louisville police (Breonna Taylor’s murderers) department will now be under review from an outside agency, which will include review on training, bias-free policing and accountability. (Unfortunately her killers have still not faced charges yet as far as I could find.)

- Charges are to be dropped for Kenneth Walker

- Atlanta has announced plans to create a task force + public database to track police brutality in metro Atlanta area

- Minneapolis city council members are considering disbanding police force in favor of a “community-oriented, nonviolent public safety and outreach capacity”

- Colorado lawmakers have introduced an incredible police reform bill that includes body cam laws, repealing the “fleeing felon” statute, banning chokeholds, and more

Feel free to add more if you know of more!

- LA Mayor announces plans to reduce funding to police department by about $150M and instead invest that in minority communities for jobs and education

-Virginia governor announced plans to remove confederate monument in Richmond and timeline to remove confederate monument in Norfolk has been accelerated

from twitter https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1269340619476021253?s=21

This is a movement, not a moment! keep up the protests

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siderealsandman:

This should not scare you away from unionizing; this should scare you towards unionizing.

soundfanatic:

yes, it’s just as nightmarish as you would imagine an evil empire being

inqilabi:

I really don’t mean give them the guillotine as a joke.

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everythingfox:

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danidraws:

danidraws:

In an effort to share a little black and queer history during this turbulent Pride month, here’s a comic about one of my favorite musicians, Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

https://www.everythingisgoingtobeokcomic.com/sister-rosetta-tharpe/

I almost included this tidbit, but then I got lazy bc I didn’t want to draw a bus, but now I kinda wish I had.

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everythingfox:

Vampire cat

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Warren, Pressley introduce bill to make it a crime for police officers to deny medical care to people in custody:

seandotpolitics:

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) announced Friday they will introduce a bill that would hold law enforcement officers criminally liable for not providing medical care to people in their custody.

The two Massachusetts lawmakers will bring forth the Andrew Kearse Accountability for Denial of Medical Care Act, named after Andrew Kearse. Kearse, a 36-year-old black man, died of a heart attack in the back of a police cruiser in 2017 after begging the officers for help. The officers did not face charges in relation to his death.

“Andrew Kearse died begging for help and the police officer who looked the other way got off scot-free. Our bill will make sure that officers who fail to obtain potentially life-saving care for people in their custody are held accountable,” said Warren. “This legislation is just one step - I will keep working with my colleagues for a complete overhaul of our policing and justice systems.”

“Andrew Kearse should be alive. To be denied medical care while in police custody is cruel and inhumane,” added Pressley. “Far too many Black Americans have died in police custody. As the COVID 19 pandemic ravages our communities, including those behind the wall, we must codify in law that officers should be held criminally liable for denying medical care to people in custody.”

Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) are co-sponsoring the legislation in the Senate.

Among other things, the legislation would hold officials criminally liable if they fail to provide care to people in their custody who are experiencing medical distress, require training for federal law enforcement officials on assisting individuals in medical distress, and order inspectors general of agencies that employ law enforcement officials to investigate possible violations of the legislation.

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everythingfox:

slurp slurp

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my-hearts-require-tea:

granola-peasant:

isa-ghost:

twitblr:

🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

This is one of the most adorable Pride posts I’ve ever seen

What I love about the imagery of the turtle is that it’s sending the message that they are protecting themselves by being in their shell. It’s not about deceiving straight people (like we are often told), but about the turtle’s own safety. They’ll come out when the time is right and they feel comfortable. 💕🏳️‍🌈

The artist is @/smatterbrain on Twitter btw! This awesome piece deserves credit!

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one-time-i-dreamt:

Donate

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therealklt:

Veto-proof majority of Minneapolis City Council vows to disband police department

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incorrectbuckoarchive:

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daughterofelros:

blueskiesazureeyes:

tilthat:

TIL In 1966, the Beatles were making so much money that they had to pay a 95% “supertax” on their earnings in the UK. After finding out how much money they were losing, Beatles guitarist George Harrison wrote the song “Taxman” out of anger.

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This gets more bananas. That was a marginal tax rate. As in, each increasing amount of tax only applies to the chunk of change you earn over each income level. There was then a super tax that applied only to the most extreme high income earners.

So the Beatles got mad, they wrote Taxman, and they ended up forming a couple of corporations to avoid the income tax rates and pay corporate tax rates that maxed out at 30%… and turn most of the profits into capital gains. Those corporations were formed around their songwriting, and therefore the corporations held the rights to their songs.

Pretty shorty after that, they took the companies public, sold shares in the stock market, and they all sold a bunch of their shares to avoid a new capital gains tax. Suddenly, the Beatles held between 1.6% and 15% of the rights to their own songs.

And then Michael Jackson came along with his scads of money and bought up the rights. So he held more of their song rights than they did.

I’d heard the last part of the story, always as a “woe, poor Beatles” narrative. But today I learned that they ended up in that situation because of pure greed that stretched and strained and did every legally and morally gray thing possible to avoid paying their goddamn taxes…keeping the taxes for their highest earning bracket that were supposed to be helping middle income and struggling citizens out of the economy, while those same people scraped together their money to buy their albums.

I find myself with very little sympathy for rich white men who want to be richer.

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copperbadge:

Polkadot hopes you understand the transformative power of naps.

[Description: Polk is curled up in a basket, the beans of one paw cradling her face, her nose pressed into another paw. Bless.]

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storiesofimagination:

browntiger15:

Yep. Dam burst cause the jackass who owns them didn’t pay to keep up maintenance, or so I’ve heard. It’s as likely a story as any.

But I’m sure that this has nothing at all to do with the govt not keeping up on infrastructure and not imposing regulations.

b-obbs:

I couldnt tell if this was one of those “this is year is getting dramatically worse” memes or if something else actually happened so I looked it up.

Turns out Michigan is actually flooding.

kaijuno:

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naamahdarling:

And calling anyone who would resist fascism a terrorist. Nice.

thx-a-latke:

a sitting senator is calling for the military to be deployed against protesters

wondering what “no quarter” means?

it’s military-speak for “take no prisoners.” but is that legal?

but what about in the u.s.?

but there’s a more casual meaning of the phrase, too, that just means to treat prisoners harshly (which is also unacceptable). maybe tom cotton meant it in the more colloquial sense. why would we assume he meant it in the military sense?

so, correction: a sitting senator and former army captain is calling for the military to be deployed against protesters without taking prisoners in direction opposition to american law and international law knowing it’s a war crime because he’s a former army captain

justsomeantifas:

Source

noroithecurse2005:

the nyt remains a beacon of democracy in these turbulent times huh

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an-avaar-skald-and-bearsark:

thesummoningdark:

rinhkitty:

mahigxn:

pineapplepineapplebatman:

j0jin:

Scotland is not boring

When I say I love bagpipes, this is what I mean

Absolute banger

WHERE’S THE SOURCE, OP??????

This is Clanadonia

What the video doesn’t quite capture is that when you’re this close, their drumming feels kind of like being punched in the chest. When they’re playing on the street like this, every other busker in a 500m radius just goes and has a tea break, because there’s no point in trying to be heard over Clanadonia.

What the Summoning Dark says. They used to play outside the Thistles in Stirling when I was at Uni there pretty regular like, and you could basically hear them anywhere in the old town center.