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bricuhbrac: snoozlebee: allisonkilkenny: Chris Person fixed...

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:12:37 -0400

snoozlebee:

allisonkilkenny:

Chris Person fixed TIME’s new magazine cover. Now it’s accurate. (TIME version #1, Person edit #2)

Update: And here’s another stellar contribution from @direlog

EXCELLENT

and another

ghostribbons said: ja blöö gillade inte den alls! kul att den kommer spelas hela tideeeen

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:44:20 -0400

ghostribbons said: ja blöö gillade inte den alls!

kul att den kommer spelas hela tideeeen

Et vaga et inconstans et disciplens sibi: guppyao: wow i seriously can’t get over eric saade. yesterday he...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:12:31 -0400

Et vaga et inconstans et disciplens sibi: guppyao: wow i seriously can’t get over eric saade. yesterday he...:

guppyao:

wow i seriously can’t get over eric saade. yesterday he represented green room in eurovision and he had this silly thing where he used hashtags for everything. and he hashtagged the winning girl from denmark #beautiful girl and then when he was giving back over to the hostess petra…

thepensivebrony: “you shouldn’t be depressed, people have it worse than you” finally, after years...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:07:56 -0400

thepensivebrony:

“you shouldn’t be depressed, people have it worse than you”

finally, after years of searching, the person with the worst life ever is found. formally, they are granted permission to be sad. but only them. only they have earned it. no sads for anyone else at all ever

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Sun, 19 May 2013 15:50:45 -0400

espill said: It wasn’t that good. I preferred Germany’s.that was cascada, right? i just think it...

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:41:55 -0400

espill said: It wasn’t that good. I preferred Germany’s.

that was cascada, right? i just think it sounded too much like loreens euphoria!

also i’m really sick of denmarks song already

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:18:49 -0400

also i’m really sick of denmarks song already

cezar - it’s my life (esc romania 2013)i mean look at...

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:12:00 -0400

cezar - it’s my life (esc romania 2013)
i mean look at this, he should have won.

sad-dress: honestly, violent reactions to street harrassment seems like the only thing that’ll...

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:57:00 -0400

sad-dress:

honestly, violent reactions to street harrassment seems like the only thing that’ll work

because we’ve tried to explain to them that we are human beings, that our bodies are our own, and it hasn’t worked

they just laugh

stamping on their fuckin nuts will get through to them though

"That the Obama administration is now repeatedly declaring that the ‘war on terror’ will last at..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:52:08 -0400

“That the Obama administration is now repeatedly declaring that the ‘war on terror’ will last at least another decade (or two) is vastly more significant than all three of this week’s big media controversies (Benghazi, IRS, and AP/DOJ) combined. The military historian Andrew Bacevich has spent years warning that US policy planners have adopted an explicit doctrine of ‘endless war’. Obama officials, despite repeatedly boasting that they have delivered permanently crippling blows to al-Qaida, are now, as clearly as the English language permits, openly declaring this to be so. It is hard to resist the conclusion that this war has no purpose other than its own eternal perpetuation. This war is not a means to any end but rather is the end in itself. Not only is it the end itself, but it is also its own fuel: it is precisely this endless war - justified in the name of stopping the threat of terrorism - that is the single greatest cause of that threat.”

- Washington gets explicit: its ‘war on terror’ is permanent | Glenn Greenwald (via theamericanbear)

this is some 1984 shit

(via kittiesinqueerland)

drenchedinlove: POSTING NUDES DOES NOT MEAN YOU LACK SELF RESPECT. POSTING PROVOCATIVE IMAGES DOES...

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:47:09 -0400

drenchedinlove:

POSTING NUDES DOES NOT MEAN YOU LACK SELF RESPECT.

POSTING PROVOCATIVE IMAGES DOES NOT MEAN YOU LACK SELF RESPECT.

POSTING SKIN DOES NOT MEAN YOU LACK SELF RESPECT.

POSTING SEXUAL IMAGES OF YOURSELF DOES NOT MEAN YOU LACK SELF RESPECT.

YOU CAN RESPECT YOUR BODY AND FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT AND SHARE IT WITH WHOMEVER YOU WISH, AND THAT IS NOT A BAD THING.

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Sun, 19 May 2013 07:39:36 -0400

sinidentidades: Over the Line: Why are U.S. Border Patrol...

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:39:27 -0400

sinidentidades:

Over the Line: Why are U.S. Border Patrol agents shooting into Mexico and killing innocent civilians?

Fatal shootings by Border Patrol agents were once a rarity. Only a handful were recorded before 2009. Even more rare were incidents of Border Patrol agents shooting Mexicans on their own side of the border. A former Clinton administration official who worked on border security issues in the 1990s says he can’t recall a single cross-border shooting during his tenure. “Agents would go out of their way not to harm anyone and certainly not shoot across the border,” he says. But a joint investigation by the Washington Monthly and the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute has found that over the past five years U.S. border agents have shot across the border at least ten times, killing a total of six Mexicans on Mexican soil.

There is no doubt that Border Patrol agents face a difficult job. Between 2007 and 2012, twenty agents have died in the line of duty; most of these deaths were the result of accidents, but four were due to border violence. For instance, in 2010 Agent Brian A. Terry was struck down near Rio Rico, Arizona, in the Border Patrol’s Nogales area of operation, by AK-47 fire after he and his team encountered five suspected drug runners. In 2012, Agent Nicholas J. Ivie was shot by friendly fire after being mistaken by other agents for an armed smuggler.

But following a rapid increase in the number of Border Patrol agents between 2006 and 2009, a disturbing pattern of excessive use of force has emerged. When I first began to notice this spate of cross-border shootings, I assumed that at least some victims were drug traffickers or human smugglers trying to elude capture. But background checks revealed that only one had a criminal record. As I began to dig more deeply, it turned out that most of the victims weren’t even migrants, but simply residents of Mexican border towns like Jose Antonio, who either did something that looked suspicious to an agent or were nearby when border agents fired at someone else.

In one case, agents killed a thirty-year-old father of four while he was collecting firewood along the banks of the Rio Grande. In another, a fifteen-year-old was shot while watching a Border Patrol agent apprehend a migrant. In yet another, agents shot a thirty-six-year-old man while he was having a picnic to celebrate his daughters’ birthdays.

As the debate over immigration reform heats up on Capitol Hill, increased border security will likely be the condition of any path to citizenship for the millions of undocumented workers now living in the United States. This makes scrutinizing the professionalism of the Border Patrol all the more urgent. The picture that emerges from this investigation is of an agency operating with thousands of poorly trained rookies and failing to provide the kind of transparency, accountability, and clear rules of engagement that Americans routinely expect of law enforcement agencies.

So far, the Border Patrol’s cross-border shootings have yet to attract much international attention. If they continue, however, it is easy to imagine the U.S. not only being assailed by human rights activists around the world, but also compromising its standing to pressure other countries, such as Israel, to refrain from firing on unarmed citizens across their borders.

In 2006, the Bush administration began rapidly increasing the size of the Border Patrol, ushering in a fanatic recruitment drive. Customs and Border Protection spent millions on slick television ads that ran during Dallas Cowboy football games and print ads that appeared in programs at the NBA All-Star Game and the NCAA playoffs. CBP even sponsored a NASCAR race car for the 2007 season.

In less than three years, the agency hired 8,000 new agents, making Customs and Border Protection one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the United States. Because qualified recruits were so hard to find, the Border Patrol had to lower its standards, deferring background checks and relaxing training regimens. Lie detector tests, which were previously common practice, were often omitted.

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i voted eight times for romania last night. i don’t even like the eurovision song contest. i...

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:24:00 -0400

i voted eight times for romania last night. i don’t even like the eurovision song contest. i didn’t die from ~suffering~ this week when my sister made me watch it though.
also it’s warm outside! and for some reason eating breakfast takes hoooouuurrrssss and i should be vacuuming and washing my hair and going outside

hi hello if you’re reading this i hope something good happens to you today

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:51:38 -0400

hi hello if you’re reading this i hope something good happens to you today

angrybisexual: Saying casual sex destroys your ability to form meaningful romantic relationships is...

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:51:09 -0400

angrybisexual:

Saying casual sex destroys your ability to form meaningful romantic relationships is like saying that talking to a stranger at the bus stop takes away the meaning of your friendships.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 08:38:55 -0400

sick/disabled people are being forced to try to get jobs in sweden too. even people who are dying of...

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:30:30 -0400

sick/disabled people are being forced to try to get jobs in sweden too. even people who are dying of cancer are losing their benefits. the right-wing really doesn’t give a fuck about anyone who isn’t already privileged. they’re just trying to secure their own riches and kick down as much as they can. people have taken their lives because of this, not one or two, way more than that. according to the government underprivileged people need to get “stimulated” to “find jobs” and their way of doing that is lowering salaries, cutting the funding of healthcare and schools and denying sick people an income to live on, they’re taking away everything cause they themselves are well off enough to pay for those things, and everyone else is just a lazy unthankful bum. their hatred for unprivileged people is fucking palpable.
and faced with these facts, with peoples stories, with their own experts warning them that this or that reform will seriously harm alot of people, they just shrug it off, victim blame, say a couple of nonsense meanings and forget it.
and people adopt their way of thinking, and they make up excuses for them, as if they where little children not knowing what their decisions lead to, (even though experts including their own(!) warns them but they still go through with it), and they themselves see excuses to kick down to try to make a buck more to buy more things they don’t need.
urgh

cosmic vomit: crezias: Listen, I know tumblr only cares about American news, but...

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:16:18 -0400

cosmic vomit: crezias: Listen, I know tumblr only cares about American news, but...:

crezias:

Listen, I know tumblr only cares about American news, but this is really fucking tragic, and if this doesn’t get an coverage I will be incredibly angry.

The conservative’s bedroom tax has actually led to a woman taking her own life. Let me repeat that for you; a peice of…

koolthing: why is leaving the house such a hassle? why clothes? why shower? why look like normal...

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:10:51 -0400

koolthing:

why is leaving the house such a hassle? why clothes? why shower? why look like normal functioning human person?