Sunday Snippets: August already

I'm going to blink and it's going to be Christmas.

GOP senators block election security legislation hours after Mueller warns of Russian interference

Leaders In Baltimore And Maryland Denounce Trump Tweets Attacking Elijah Cummings

Residents Form Human Chain To Protect Neighbor From ICE Agents

ACLU says over 900 children separated from families at US border since last summer

Ex-McConnell staffers lobbied on Russian-backed Kentucky project

A woman's greatest enemy? A lack of time to herself

A Ray Of Hope For The Children Of Sex Workers

Prince George’s Co. announces new approach to juvenile offenders

Let’s have a gender-reveal party that reveals gender is a construct

Ethiopia Says It Planted Over 350 Million Trees in a Day, a Record

Want to Change the World? Talk to Kids

The Trauma of Teen Mothers Held in Border Patrol Lockups

Sunday Snippets: Snow?

I love that we named the storm Hercules.

Beautiful images

Absolutely dead. I loved Power Rangers as a kid. One of my favorite shows as a kid.

Truth, because damn

Beautiful post from Monica at TransGriot

But the cure for those body image issues is pretty much the same. It's getting comfortable in your own skin, understanding that gender identity is between your ears, and confidently projecting and expressing to the world acceptance of your gender identity.

Holy Crap If I were the people on that boat and saw that picture later, I'd never leave my house again.

There have been great conversations on Twitter recently. 

While #SolidarityIsForTheAbleBodied shined a light on incidents of able-bodied privilege from across the globe, showing how ableism is a systemic issue in all political and societal respects, it also revealed something that has long been known by some, but that has been unrecognized by others: that FEMINISM HAS AN ABLEISM PROBLEM.

Also, see this one.

A great idea for pronoun usage

Gee, ya think? If you don't have the money, yeah, having a family just doesn't usually happen. I know the feeling.

The 11 Dumbest Things Said About Women In 2013 Let's be honest, god knows there was a lot.