Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Always. And we stand in solidarity with the peaceful student protests, happening across the US.

Death doula says life is more meaningful if you 'get real' about the end

A portrait of Haitians trying to survive without a government

Indigenous women in Greenland sue Denmark over involuntary contraception in the 1960s and 1970s

Pay to stay: Florida inmates charged for prison cells long after incarceration

A hunk of space junk crashed through his roof in Florida. Who should pay to fix it?

A photographer documented Black cowboys across the U.S. for a new book

COMIC: The roadside marker unlocking a forgotten civil rights murder

10 years after Flint, the fight to replace lead pipes across U.S. continues

“The Bulldozer Kept Coming”: A Girl Stares Down Death in Gaza

Sunday Snippets: Washington DC

Trying to stay safe and sane this week, with white MAGA folks descending on the city, trying to overturn the legal election because they didn't like that black folks voted.

Ya know, normal stuff.

Stray Cat Knocks On Woman's Door Asking To Be Let In From The Cold

We Can’t Let Our Elections Be This Vulnerable Again

GOP leaders in Pa. Senate will refuse to seat Democrat certified by state as winner

Montreal woman reflects on her year of buying nothing new

Wintry Scenes From a Swedish Wonderland

Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Charged In Flint Water Crisis

A “Prisoner of War” Story: The Life and Captivity of Lisa Montgomery—The First Woman To Be Executed by the Federal Government in 68 Years

Election sign causing controversy in Olive Branch neighborhood

Sunday Snippets: Weary

Just weary. We've had our good days and our bad days. It's just a bucket of suck for everyone.

Michigan's Ex-Gov. Rick Snyder Knew About Flint's Toxic Water—and Lied About It

Coronavirus erases almost all the 23 million new jobs created since the Great Recession

Sting, Jimmy Fallon, and the Roots perform 'Don't Stand So Close to Me' remotely, creatively

The White House Has Erected a Blockade Stopping States and Hospitals From Getting Coronavirus PPE

Maryland Acquires 500K COVID-19 Tests From South Korean Lab, Gov. Hogan Wants To Test Up To 20,000 A Day

Stacey Abrams On Voting Rights, COVID-19, And Being Vice President

Feeling Exhausted Right Now? How Coronavirus Is Putting Americans in a Collective Shock and Trauma Response, and How Best to Cope

GOP Gov. Hogan On Trump’s Snub: ‘I Have No Idea What He’s Upset About’

Why Quarantine Could — But Won’t — Change Gender Roles at Home

Sunday Snippets: Just keep swimming

Healthcare, Puerto Rico, climate change...it's enough to keep your head spinning

Well, this is awesome

Terrifying So ready to scream seeing this movie

I had no idea about this

brb, about to binge at the library

Anti-Abortion Protesters Storm The Waiting Rooms Of At Least 2 Clinics

The Stunning Hypocrisy of the Pro-Life Movement

Sunday Snippets: Heat hath returned

Along with bugs, sadly

I'm not anti-police — I'm anti-police brutality and corruption YES. Distinction is important!

This shit is terrifying

I love this idea

This is how you fucking get zombies But no, climate change, totes not real.

Fucking cruel Because Flint hasn't suffered enough

This is one of my many fears if/when I get pregnant

TW for sexual assault  My god, the people laughing as this is happening. Horrifying.

Dinosaurs are awesome

Beautiful 22-year-old mother Symone Marshall dies in Texas police custody after weeks of neglect

Jeff Sessions decision to re-up in the drug war won't work

Law enforcement priorities exacerbated this problem. African Americans are four times as likely as whites to be arrested for drug offenses despite the fact that whites and blacks use drugs at roughly the same rate and that people who buy drugs usually purchase them from sellers of their own racial or ethnic background. 

This is heartwarming

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(photo credit: http://i-am-a-child-of-time.tumblr.com/post/156805486250/spellchucker-shoshanah-ben-hohim-kixxarse)

New Law Lets Dads Veto Abortions HORK.

Proposal makes Maryland a 'sanctuary' state YES MARYLAND. Really cherishing the fact that I live in a decent state these days, along with three badass reps.

 Leaked Draft of Trump’s Religious Freedom Order Reveals Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination

Language in the draft document specifically protects the tax-exempt status of any organization that “believes, speaks, or acts (or declines to act) in accordance with the belief that marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman, sexual relations are properly reserved for such a marriage, male and female and their equivalents refer to an individual’s immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy, physiology, or genetics at or before birth, and that human life begins at conception and merits protection at all stages of life.”

10 Ways to Support Muslims in the U.S. Right NOW

Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps

Hogan deletes public opinion Rest of my reps are kicking ass and then there's this guy.

Ordinary Americans carried out inhumane acts for Trump

The question we need to ask ourselves is: What will we do? This is not a hypothetical question. Most of us will not face the stark choice employees at airports faced over the weekend.

Flint still fucking matters

O’Neill has argued that companies should not have to prove their drugs work in clinical trials before selling them. What could go wrong?

 House Republicans Just Voted to Eliminate the Only Federal Agency That Makes Sure Voting Machines Can’t Be Hacked

White People: I Don’t Want You To Understand Me Better, I Want You To Understand Yourselves

How to Prepare Yourself for a Protest—and What to Do If You End Up in Cuffs

Sunday Snippets: Every day is a dumpster fire

photo source

DOOMSDAY PREP FOR THE SUPER-RICH Intriguing article

FLINT MI NEEDS FUCKING CLEAN WATER

Republicans pass sweeping bill to reform 'abusive' U.S. regulation

And there it is

 How to Fight Trump’s Racist Immigration Policies

Tracking Trump’s Agenda, Step by Step

Scientists stepping up

African Union criticises US for ‘taking many of our people as slaves’ and not taking refugees

Twitter rewrote 'Goodnight Moon' for Trump's America

Fucking here for the National Park Service

He said: “To assume that just because of someone’s age and gender that they don’t pose a threat would be misguided and wrong.” A FUCKING FIVE YEAR OLD?!?!

Wow, he sounds like such a prize

The top photo actually made me cry

Whoop, there it is

Sunday Snippets: Resistance

(From the DC March: http://jessehimself.tumblr.com/post/156190166378)

(From the DC March: http://jessehimself.tumblr.com/post/156190322488)

SOCIETY & CULTURE20 Million Muslims March Against ISIS and The Mainstream Media Completely Ignores It

300 Plumbers Poured Into Flint, Michigan, To Install Water Filters For Free

Fuck everything about this

Don't be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks This video has great tips about helping those who need it.

This is Psychological Warfare

Sunday Snippets: Work Trip

I flew out on Thursday and won't fly back until early dark thirty tomorrow. But! This overtime check is going to knock out my first student loan. Which is what I will keep telling myself through 17 hour days.

Way to go Churchill Ya racist douche

Formation Shutdown of Lake Shore Drive in Chicago

Poet Elizabeth Acevedo nails the hypocrisy of anti-choice advocates

Sandra Bland’s Mother Speaks At Congressional Caucus On Black Women & Girls

Republicans burn their voter ID cards to protest Trump

If you need a kitty in San Fran

What It's Like to Live With Only Bottled Water

The only thing city water is good for, Gail says, making an observation I heard from several people I spoke to, “is flushing the toilet.”

This poor guy Trying to do the right thing.

Utter jackass Christian, my foot.

Much better version

Sunday Snippets: Spring

Ah, Maryland in the Spring. Where we get the entire four seasons in a week. And I get the plague.

Well, isn't that special

Refreshing as fuck to watch

Awesome!

Funny how passports and borders didn’t exist when white people were invading the rest of the goddamn world…

Arizona Election Fraud

Marie Kondo and the Privilege of Clutter As a huge Kondo fan, this is a really good read. And very necessary.

Latino people are refusing to be generalized by Donald Trump or anyone else.

White police officers perform illegal anal probe on black South Carolina man in disturbing search for drugs

Very cool!

Sunday Snippets: Valentine's Day

Spending the weekend with friends and going to see Deadpool. Because nothing says I love you better than headshots.

And there it is

Love Audre Lorde

Truth

And there it is

Here are ten things that you probably don’t know about this crisis because the media, having come to the story so late, can only process so much.  This monster needs to be arrested.

A hidden world: Desperation for hundreds of homeless families in D.C. motels

Horrible

Right?!

Rest in peace, Kayden Clark

Derick Ebert, Baltimore Youth Poet Laureate I'm excited for his book.

During his confession, O’Kroley told the police “it was easy to kill” Nosal because “she had ruined my life.” ONCE MORE WITH FEELING, WOMEN DO NOT OWE YOU A GODDAMN THING.

I would adopt this bunny in a heartbeat

Da faq? Man, if this was a thing, I'd've been in jail a long time ago.

FINALLY Maryland’s legislature voted on Tuesday to override Gov. Larry Hogan (R)’s veto of a bill to give more than 40,000 ex-offenders in the state the right to vote while still on parole or probation.

One of the few times I have ever wished to live in Florida This poor little guy.

Gobsmacked

GOLDEN So much truth

Sunday Snippets: Holy crapola snow

So the snow started Friday around 1pm and will apparently continue until early Sunday morning. My back already hurts.

Say it louder for the people in the back

Adorbs I will forever be a cat person.

How can you deny a tiny turtle and alan rickman

Satyamev Jayate - When Masculinity Harms Men

A forthcoming academic study based on local newspaper reports has identified as many as 83 US deportees who have been murdered on their return to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras since January 2014.

Cat feels

LANGLEY PARK, Md. (WUSA9) -- Last month, reports surfaced that the Department of Homeland Security intended to carry out massive deportations of families who flocked to the U.S. amid violence in Central America.

Rain and restrictions blight refugees in Dunkirk

No one is reading the CIA torture report, so we turned it into 11 fun memes

Important PSA

14 MLK Quotes You’ll Never Learn in School

Detroit’s Teachers Want You to See These Disturbing Photos of Their Toxic Schools

Sunday Snippets: Hurricane?

It's been a little over three years since Hurricane Sandy. I'm hunkering down with the husband, cats and copious amounts of liquor to ride out this latest storm.

Truth

You have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.”

#RyanStokes

This is one of the instances where karma is going to fuck this dude up

For Halloween 2015, Just Say No To Blackface

File under duh

Awww, elephants

Whoop, there it is

I do believe another gent in history had a similar idea....

Why doesn't she get the same coverage?

Poor babies

Horrible

“They said it’s safe, but it’s brown water,” said Marshall, also a radiology coder, after the meeting.“Why do we have to drink brown water? No one else has to drink brown water.”

#JamesAnderson

Muted

What happens when a young girl of color goes missing? Who searches for her? Who tries to bring her home safely? Not the police, as the short film Muted shows.