Sunday Snippets: Almost Halloween!

We've got a bunch of Marvel costumes this year.

A Group Of Students Burned A Latina Author's Book Because They Felt Attacked For Being White

Maxine Waters Told You So

It’s Time to Stop Treating Parenting as a Mom’s Burden and a Dad’s Adorable Hobby

Before Ikea and H&M can use recycled fabrics, they have to figure out what’s in them. (Answer: lots of poison)

The Winners of the 2019 Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Sunday Snippets: Kavanope

This man doesn't deserve to be elected to anything.

To The Non-Racist White People, Please Just Be The First

Why White Parents Need to Do More Than Talk to Their Kids About Racism

Hundreds Of Roman Gold Coins Found In Theater Basement

Maryland is taking the EPA to court over air pollution coming from upwind states

Childhood Trauma And Its Lifelong Health Effects More Prevalent Among Minorities

Border Patrol Agent Arrested in Connection With Murders of 4 Women

House Farm Bill could prevent formerly incarcerated individuals from obtaining food assistance

Sunday Snippets: Teething

My kiddo is teething. And has a stuffed/runny nose for the past two days.

You have reached the voicemail of Jillian. She is dying from sleep exhaustion. Please leave a message after the beep.

VACCINATE YOUR MOTHERFUCKING CHILDREN

And I thought three pregnancies in my dept were bad

DELI OWNER FATALLY STABBED IN THIRD ATTACK ON SIKHS IN THREE WEEKS

This bullfuckery

When Feminism Is White Supremacy in Heels

This Is the Most Amazing Photo Ever Taken From a Commercial Airplane. Now, a Southwest Passenger Explains How He Did It

Close-up shark portraits

Goats Like It When You Smile at Them, Extremely Heartwarming Study Says

This shit is hilarious

Trump admin wants ability to hold migrant kids indefinitely, upending decades-old ban

Interesting

Sunday Snippets: WTF It's August, Not December

Saw winter holiday giftwrapping on prominent display at Costco at the beginning of the month and wanted to set things on fire. I HATE THE HOLIDAY CREEP.

Why Don’t More Men Take Their Wife’s Last Name?

NEW ORLEANS WOMAN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR KILLING ABUSIVE HUSBAND IS GRANTED NEW TRIAL

A black Smith College student was eating her lunch when an employee called police Wtf. Do white people have a bingo card or something?

LGBTQ+ Advocates Worry a Serial Killer Is Targeting Black Trans Women in Florida

Thoughts and prayers

Spectacular' ancient public library discovered in Germany

Transit Union Refuses to Bring White Nationalists to 'Unite the Right' Rally

Grieving a Miscarriage: An Illustrated Discussion

The Doctor Doesn’t Listen to Her. But the Media Is Starting To.

These are gorgeous

Church leader berates breastfeeding woman for causing ‘men to lust and stumble’

Or we could, I don't know, STOP SCHOOL SHOOTINGS

The stupid burns

Sunday Snippets: BLESS YOU FALL

THE BUGS HATH DIED FOR ANOTHER YEAR

Love Scully

Wendy's Twitter is brutal

True story of cats

Here for this

Report: More Than 150 Land Defenders Murdered So Far This Year

WOMEN SHOULDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE, SAYS ‘ALT-RIGHT’ LEADER RICHARD SPENCER Well, Dick, I think you should hide in a cave, but here we are.

#SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, Part 2: On Rose McGowan and the Continued Failure of White Feminism Goddamit

Hork

Sunday Snippets: Done!

Finished all our home renos (save for touch ups), house is on the market and I got long nap yesterday.

This is so cool Europe, don't be so far away/expensive to move to....

Discovery Of 14,000-Year-Old Settlement In Canada Could Rewrite North American History

Ha!

White people

SLAVE WRECKS PROJECT I need to visit the new African American museum once all the house stuff has settled.

Shaun King as always

Maryland: General Assembly Overrides Governor’s Veto, Protecting Public Schools from DeVos Agenda

This truth (image)

Maryland becomes first state to reimburse Planned Parenthood clinics if Congress cuts funding

Ways to help in Syria

Using haiku, more than 200 poets pay tribute to Obama

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: Anniversary

Yesterday was my 6th wedding anniversary!

(Image credit: http://jessehimself.tumblr.com/post/143297078538)

Great idea from Erin Boyle

Babies and Puppies!

Ugh, white men

White people

Neighbors stunned by San Jose couple's murder

A wonderful idea

We will miss you Prince

Beautiful poem

A powerful look at how right-wing calls for profiling hurt real people.

Sunday Snippets: Baltimore

In solidarity. 

Goddamn white people

Fuck you Nestle

Nestlé is the #1 bottle water producer in the country and own the brands Arrowhead and Pure Life. The company's response? Don't worry, folks. Nestlé "monitors its water use and the environment around the springs where water is drawn." The California drought has gotten so bad we've been warned there is only a one-year supply left in the reservoirs. In Sacramento, Nestlé has recently been under fire from environmental activists, calling the company's unregulated tapping of California aquifers a "corporate giveaway":

Fuck yes Jesse Williams

Truth

Brb, vomiting everything I've ever eaten

they would steal the babies during the course of the day, some would be infants, some would be a yr old, some would be toddlers they would grab these children, take them down to the swamp & leave them in pens like little chicken coops.

I think I've drunk all of those wines at one point or another

#YesAllWomen Posters

I'm not crying, it's raining on my face

Not all cats are jerks

#alivewhileblack

God forbid we pay attention to the real problem

Awful

On November 26, 2013, 38 year old Ervin Edwards, partially deaf and mentally ill, was arrested by police for sagging his pants and taken to the West Baton Rouge Parish jail in Louisiana. He only lived for a few more minutes inside of the cell.

For 18 months, police have lied over and over again about what happened the night Ervin Edwards died in their custody. Now that a video of their despicable actions has been released, ( Warning very tough to watch ) it’s clear they murdered this man and left him to die all alone in his jail cell. 

And there it is & times two

#Baltimore

My heart goes out to the protestors. They've been ignored and killed. And then when they try to speak out, the same damn thing that happened in Ferguson happened; people hijacking the protest, to riot and act like idiots.

I pray that each child finds their way home, unharmed

Exactly!

White people need to speak out against the shit that is going on

Yes, not everyone is trying to riot

The hypocrisy is stunning  We don't condemn the entire white race when one of them shoots up a movie theater.

Goddamn white people

Sunday Snippets: It's been a week

Um. So this week. I got food poisoning, bruised myself shoveling snow, my car's hatch dropped on my head and I also gave myself a minor concusssion and dented a table, when I bent down to put my snow boots on.

Which goddess did I royally piss off?

An interesting concept

Horrible

A Moroccan man in France was brutally killed after being stabbed 17 times in front of his wife at his own home by a neighbour in what is described as a “horrible Islamophobic attack”.

Oh, kitties.

Powerful haiku

Sandy beach picture So calming

Welp, there it is

Peaceful woods picture

5 Black Trans Women Who Paved the Way

Well, this baby is hysterical

Horrifying (TW)

The media attention surrounding the Isla Vista shootings was a twofold gift for the group, driving new recruits to the movement and allowing A Voice for Men to present itself as the moderate middle. Some men tried to distance themselves from Rodger with a hashtag, #notallmen. Many more women—a million within days—responded with #yesallwomen, as in, yes, all women have experienced variations of the misogyny that led Rodger to his crimes. The manosphere did not like this. "Men are your benefactors, your protectors, and your providers," a writer at A Voice for Men explained. "So the next time you trend a hashtag about us, maybe you say 'thank you' instead."

On Patricia Arquette's speech

“The truth is: Even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface, there are huge issues that are applied that really do affect women,” Arquette reflected. “And it’s time for all the women in America and all the men that love women, and all the gay people, and all the people of color that we’ve all fought for to fight for us now.”

*rubs eyes* BUh-what?! No, no, no, no. Has she never heard of intersectionality?!

I love Jay Smooth

Cats and hedgehogs

Whoa snow ocean

Happy Birthday Trayvon

OMG, I love cute tiny animals

Sunday Snippets: Fucking hell

I can't. When the hell will this shit stop? Mike Brown. Oscar Grant. Sean Bell. Eric Garner. Tamir Rice. Travyon Martin. #BlackLivesMatter

Solidarity from #Ferguson inmates

White people after sporting events = completely ok & more

Marches around America after Monday night & #StoptheParade on Thanksgiving

Making my stomach turn

Something a lot forget

This is why I don’t tolerate even the most innocent Native American jokes from my white acquaintances. No one can be allowed to forget that this is still going on, right now, in our time. The genocide and ethnocide of indigenous American peoples, and of indigenous peoples around the world, continues as I’m typing.

Yup, because bankrupting America was totes ok

Because cats

Signal boost

Oh, and this piece of shit

Change the police. Make the police accountable. Hold the “balance of power” in check. Change policies. Educate civilians. Expose the truth. Make change.

I love seeing pictures like this

If you're able, this is a great idea

Gah, penguins!

TRUTH

Great resource

#HandsUpDon'tShoot reached the Hill

Tamir Rice

Signal Boost-Missing Child in DC

Yup. Cats.

Love this blog and am so excited for this book

Eric Garner

New York after the Eric Garner decision

More photos from NYC

Yes. This is the picture we should remember.

Protests 12/4 in NYC

#Alivewhileblack

This is awful

According to South Korean newspapers, last week the North Korean government PUBLICLY EXECUTED 80 people in 7 cities for watching South Korean/Western shows, movies, and videos, “pornography,” or possessing a Bible.

GoFund Me for Esaw Garner

Sunday Snippets: Almost Thanksgiving

....And the only thing I'm excited about is napping. This year has been rough and I'm hoping the last month provides a bit of relief.

That is so cute. If someone recorded me, I'd sound a like a giraffe yodeling.

Preach  Fuck yeah

Funny but so sad

Winter truths

OMG, I want a therapy alpaca! I visited an alpaca farm last year and it was the best. They are so soft and fluffy!

UGH. Double UGH What I've said for years. Women aren't entitled to have sex unless it's for making babies in a hetero marriage. FUCK ALL OF YOU.

Completely adorable video

Aww, polite little squirrel.

I love Sleepy Hollow.  Now granted, they need to step up their game this season. But Season 1? PERFECTION. The donut holes. Yolanda. Tom Mison makes me feel things.

No, of course not, rape culture is totes imaginary. THIS BULLSHIT

Truth I know what is was like growing up in a dysfunctional household. I know that pain.Which is why I try to live every day with a smile on my face.

Goddammit, fucking white people *table flip*

Because cats

Sunday Snippets: Almost July?

I've gotten so much done in the last few weeks but can't believe it's almost July.

This. All this. Fuck that racist twat waffle.

See gifs for explanation

or

lol, I love dogs.

"I take it back!"

*slow clap*

Essential reading for white anti-racist work

Extreme TW for an awful case of domestic violence Beyond heartbreaking and awful.

Indeed. A case of WTF? How dare you?

I may be a bit biased, but black kitties are awesome.

All the truth

*pets* & *moar pets* & *gah!*

Double ugh

Late last year, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Representative Rose DeLauro of Connecticut, both Democrats, introduced the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act, which proposed offering new parents and caretakers the ability to take 12 paid weeks off each year. Workers would contribute 0.2 percent of their wages to the Social Security Administration, which would handle paying bills. Employees could only get up to 66 percent of their monthly income, but that's a great deal more than the 0 percent workers in 47 states currently receive if they stay home with a loved one. 

Feels. All of them

Because puppies

Because goats

Because guinea pigs