I’m so sad to see the huge fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris today. So much history being lost.

My country’s literal revolution is happening right now but nobody cares bc it’s not impacting the US/Europe

Millions of people in the capital of Sudan (Khartoum) have gathered to protest the regime of the dictator President Omar Al Bashir who has been in power since 1993

People of all walks of life are protesting non violently and 60 have been killed since yesterday

Revolts have been going on for years and prior to this uprising children have been gunned down by the police for even being in the general vicinity of protesters. The state in my country is so bad that people in the army who have been told to stop the protests are joining in (including high ranking officers).

***quick fix: 60 people have been killed or seriously injured sorry for the misinformation y'all

PLEASE BOOST THIS

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Are you ready? #avengers #endgame

Buncha jackasses standing in a circle

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Amazon workers listen to your Alexa conversations, then mock them

Sometimes, it was their "way of relieving stress."

futurism.com

yikes

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Another couple found guilty of murder for parenting by "To Train Up a Child"

www.examiner.com

Two parents in Washington state have been found guilty of murder after following the abusive parenting techniques advocated in the parenting book “To Train Up a Child”

MAJOR TRIGGER WARNING

Some of the discipline techniques the Pearls teach include:

Using plastic tubing to beat children, since it hurts a lot but leaves fewer marks to alert authorities
Wearing the plastic tubing around the parent’s neck as a constant reminder to obey
“Swatting” babies as young as six months old with instruments such as “a 12-inch willowy branch,” thinner plastic tubing or a wooden spoon
“Blanket training” babies by hitting them with an instrument if they try to crawl off a blanket on the floor
Beating older children with rulers, paddles, belts and larger tree branches
“Training” children with pain before they even disobey, in order to teach total obedience
Giving cold water baths, putting children outside in cold weather and withholding meals as discipline
Hosing off children who have potty training accidents
Inflicting punishment until a child is “without breath to complain.”

Please sign the petition in the article for Amazon to stop carrying books that advocate for child abuse and torture and signal boost. They need several thousand more signatures.

WHAT THE FUCK.

The author of the book should be burned to death

I’ll get the gasoline

My parents had this book. They used glue gun sticks instead of tubing or branches. The first time I saw glue stick in an art class (at about 6 years old), I got scared, because I didn’t know they had any use other than punishment.

kiwianaroha

Please, please, please sign the petition and add a comment on WHY this book should be treated as an exception! This isn’t about censorship, this is about removing a product from the market that has directly caused the deaths of nearly half a dozen children already.

If this book is sold online anywhere, leave negative reviews with links to articles reporting the deaths of these kids. Gonna do that now myself

It has two and a half star reviews on Amazon, with a few five star reviews claiming it’s nothing like the abuse described. Be sure to take snippets from the book and share it with your review so that people are not mislead.

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TS Madison explains why she posted about the death of a Black trans woman before she posted about Nipsey Hussle on her social media, wishy washy-ness with Cis ‘acceptance’ & what she tolerated with Khia who she felt she educated

rhaproom

A friend showed me this earlier today and I’ve been thinking about how so many mistake our LGBTIQ brothers and sisters wanting respect with wanting acceptance. It’s not a matter of wanting approval, it’s a matter of being given the respect that EVERY human being is entitled to.

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Lmaoooo so one hilarious observation I’ve made, Chadwick’s whole demeanor changes when he’s around too many white people/around white ppl for too long and it’s so funny. Like if his interviewer is black, the interview is guaranteed to be more lively and engaging, even if he doesn’t like the interviewer. Aldknfkwodjdn it literally cracks me up because Chadwick is such a real nigga 😭😂

Chadwick with black folks:

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bimbocracy

Men: *deliberately mislead women for sex, emotionally manipulate women into sex, pretend that they’re there for the long term to get a quick fuck and leave*

Women: I’m very up front about my standards, I don’t date men who don’t spend money on me

Men: what a shallow manipulative whore slut can you believe this selfish spoiled bitch. Women only want money while I, with the moral high ground, aim simply to use, discard, and penetrate them for free under false pretense

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“I am not a God in the sense that I can tolerate exploitation, oppression, and repression. My worshippers know freedom ain’t free. They know the most potent weapon of control for the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. They know slavery is not a condition. Slavery is a cult. Human trafficking is a cult. Slavery got a rebrand like muthafuckin’ the Alt Right.” - American Gods | 2.04

God of my ancestors

Source: roslin

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Bunny season should be year round. 🥕

IG: iridessence | Main blog

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They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants

“It was a slave camp. I can’t believe the court sent me there.”

www.revealnews.org

Across the country, judges increasingly are sending defendants to rehab instead of prison or jail. These diversion courts have become the bedrock of criminal justice reform, aiming to transform lives and ease overcrowded prisons.

But in the rush to spare people from prison, some judges are steering defendants into rehabs that are little more than lucrative work camps for private industry, an investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has found.

The programs promise freedom from addiction. Instead, they’ve turned thousands of men and women into indentured servants.

The beneficiaries of these programs span the country, from Fortune 500 companies to factories and local businesses. The defendants work at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Oklahoma, a construction firm in Alabama, a nursing home in North Carolina.

There’s little drug rehabilitation going on at these labor camps. Some of the companies that utilize the slave labor are so dependent on it that they’d go under without it. Some of the industries these men are forced to work in are notoriously dangerous. When they’re injured, the companies file workers compensation claims – and keep the money for themselves, even though the workers are typically not employees but clients.