excuse me officer i would like to report a murder

Guardian News: “‘You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,’ climate activist Greta Thunberg has told world leaders at the 2019 UN climate action summit in New York.”

i know everyone makes fun of ya dystopian fiction and books like the hunger games or divergent, etc. like “lmao one teenage girl can’t save the world” but uhhh 

that is literally????

what’s happening?????

right now?????

like idk about you, but i can smell a revolution coming

and she’s leading it. 

This is amazing

Vaccinate your fucking kids.

These parents authorized an “emergency” vaccine to save the kid, but refused to let the doctor give him another to keep him from getting it again.

The doctors had to “cut a hole in their son’s throat so he could drink water,” but they refused to vaccinate him against tetanus, which means this could happen to the kid again.

Honestly this is the case with most things.

“I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.’ Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”

-Martin Luther King, Jr. | Letter from Birmingham Jail 

i’m always so surprised  by the decor of random mcdonalds??

in new york?

in hungary??

in dc??

dc even got the clown and everything

Minding one’s own business needs to be a course in college…

This makes me sad. I grew up in a diverse area near the westcoast and I love casually hearing other languages. It makes me feel closer to the world and happy that they’re free to speak whatever language they want. This might sound weird, but whenever I hear them, it reminds me that strangers are real people with their own life and history. It’s a fact we easily forget. Language is such a huge part of who we are. I can’t imagine being forced to deny a part of my identity. To be told that I need to squish myself into their boxes or I’ll become the nail that needs to be hammered down. I hate this and I am so sorry this is happening to you.

If you move to an English speaking country, speak English, or better yet go back to the country that speaks your language and no one will say shit to you 🙆🏻‍♀️ the complete entitlement from immigrants when the loacals ask them to assimilate to their country. I wouldn’t go to Korea and cry like a baby because they told me to stop speaking English. Its expected I speak Korean. You people need to grow up .

While the United States is a predominantly English-speaking society, there is actually no official language.  What would you say someone speaking an indigenous language?  Also, the person who wrote these tweets speaks English?  She was speaking Korean over the phone to her cousin in Korea.  Do you expect her to speak in English to someone who might not speak it rather than a shared one because she’s in a public space in an “English speaking country”?  Do you believe that everyone sharing a public space with you owes you something?  

Literally how the fuck are you going to call the victim entitled? They were having a private conversation and some fucking rando told her what language she could be speaking in a private fucking conversation that didn’t involve her at all. Gtfo.

Americans literally go to other countries and expect that everyone around them should know how to speak English. Really. I’ve seen americans completely and utterly lost in Brazil because our population mostly doesn’t speak English, and the fuckers didn’t even know a single word in portuguese. Or worse, they tried spanish, and while that’s valid cause hey, it’s closer to portuguese, it’s fucking rude to say that we speak spanish cause we fucking don’t. Wanna talk about research and speaking another country’s language before going there? Make sure you fucking do that before leaving your stupid ass country, bitch. Because my english might not be perfect, but I got a 107/120 in my toelf and moved to Canada. I know 2 languages fluently e a lil bit of a 3rd, looking forward to learn a 4th. What can you say about yourself, huh?

Sorry for the politics, but I’ve seen various variations of this type of incident come across my dash and I need to say this.

This is not about speaking English. This is about racism.

I’m a white woman, with two white kids, and I’m an immigrant. I often speak my native language ( Danish) to my children.

Now, I live on the West Coast, in an area with lots of immigrants and that might play a part, but all I’ve ever heard when doing this has been variations of “what language is that?” “That is so cool” “making sure your children are bilingual are such a gift to them”

Everyone arguing that you should speak English in the US can delude themselves all they want, but they don’t really care if someone speaks English.

FCC chairman admits Russia meddled in net neutrality debate. Around 500,000 comments were linked to Russian email addresses.

Feds investigating conservative firms after millions of fake comments given as evidence to support Trump’s end to net neutrality

Remember today when you see 100+ articles about how ‘civil’ and ‘noble’ H.W. Bush was that today is World AIDS Day. That 100,000 people, many LGBT+ individuals, especially gay men, died under his and Reagan’s watch. That he banned HIV+ people from entering the US, reduced research funding, and prevented educators from speaking about safe sex in favor of abstinence only education.

meirl