Sunday Snippets: Helllllllo summer

There are so many things I love about summer. The fact that I was bitten 7 times on one leg by those tiny winged vampires is not one of them.

Florida Governor Signs Bill to Allow Birth Certificates for Miscarriages Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeal slippery slope here. I can understand why grieving parents would want these; recognition that their child lived. But.....anti choice bullshit would inevitably fuck this up for the rest of us.

Yay Maryland!

Whoa. I had no idea Also, irony.

Former NAACP president Ben Jealous announces his candidacy for Maryland governor

Awful. And right in my state too

Really interesting read

Super gross

Beautiful

How a Philly Ob-Gyn Ended Up Delivering a Baby Gorilla

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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

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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: Just let me know when the bar opens

I'm approximately 198308435% done with this year.

How to call your reps when you have social anxiety

Trump’s New Chief Strategist Says You Can Spank The Mental Illness Away

Very interesting how that works

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has called for increased police protection of local mosques after letters that threatened the genocide of Muslims and praised President-elect Donald Trump were sent to multiple California mosques this week.

Very cool

Absolutely horrifying

I have no words

Sunday Snippets: Love

Love Trumps Hate. It must.

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Staying sane in the winter

This is a great strategy for all types of harassment, please share!!!

A letter was sent home to students and parents Friday after swastikas were found drawn on the walls of a Montgomery County middle school.

Funny how that works

Have always loved B&J

Powerful letter from the ACLU

Oh, because nothing could go wrong with this

'KILL BLACKS' written on Md. elementary school wall

Neat pictures

Sunday Snippets: Anniversary

Yesterday was my 6th wedding anniversary!

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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: 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: Oh, look snow....again.....*cries*

Rape culture, what rape culture? & An article by Zerlina Maxwell

Gah! SO cute!

Feels! I love random acts of kindness.

YES! I'm so beyond tired of blackface, it's wrong, plain and simple.

What. The. Hell. Footage I got of being HARASSED by Lou Ann Zelenik and others after a court hearing. Islamaphobia is alive and well in this part of the U.S.

This little owl is so cute!

Endo Awareness Month Endometriosis is a weird and kind of unbelievable disease. It’s hard to describe, and it involves a top-secret body part called the uterus that you don’t hear about it much, but it affects 157 million of women across the world. (Check out this video.) Because it's underrepresented in medical training and causes debilitating pain that can’t be measured, tested, or seen on scans, you have a nice recipe for an invisible disease relegated to "crazy women."

Yup! I remember being told by a coworker, after I said I wasn't feeling well, I had to leave early and they just looked at me, sighed, and said, "You don't look sick." I had a boss tell me that, that she couldn't stop me if I really needed to leave early.

Exactly! As you can see from the chart above, the Zero Waste lifestyle is actually more about not doing(i.e, not participating in unsustainable activities) than it is about doing (working on Zero Waste) as one would expect. For me, Not participating in unsustainable activities has made room for living more, along side working a fulfilling full-time job.

Interview with Ariel Gore Her new book, The End of Eve, is out. Go buy it. Seriously.

Not a Catholic, but definitely digging this guy

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No lies

Yay!!! That human rights wrong was corrected today when the Maryland House of Delegates voted 82-57 to pass SB 212, the Fairness for All Marylanders Act! This bill, unlike the unjust 2011 one I blasted all over these TransGriot pages at the time along with a coalition of trans people just as pissed off about the unjust bill, expand Maryland's anti-discrimination laws to protect transgender people in employment, housing, access to credit and public accommodations.