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“It’s going to be a very, very anxious-ridden time. Two of the issues that I’m most concerned about are [global warming], which these guys are all denying, and the immigration issue. (…) We’re going to have to say, ‘You cannot do this over us. You’re going to have to go through us, around us, under us. We’re not going to give these people up without a fight.’ Every single one of the people they’re trying to deport is one of us, and we’re not going to give them up. We belong to a very, very exclusive club. It’s called the United States. And the dues are very, very high. And sometimes the leadership does not represent the core values of most of the members of that club. But we don’t withdraw. We try to change the thinking of those in power, and if that doesn’t work, then we change those in power. We’re still part of this. We cannot divest ourselves. This man is reflecting a part of our culture that the majority of us do not recognize and do not share. We don’t approve of tyrants and bullies, but we’re stuck with one now, and now our real character is going to show up. We can’t sit back, We can’t not get involved. We have to get more and more and more involved. And we have to allow ourselves to be taken to the best part of ourselves, and it’s gonna be costly. But that’s what it means to belong to this very exclusive club.”

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Martin Sheen on Donald Trump: ‘God forgive us, but we just elected a tyrant’
(via donnajosh)

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Originally posted by japprendsledroit

jordanparrished:

So I’m concerned that people don’t realize just how messed up the situation at Standing Rock really is. The United States signed treaties acknowledging and agreeing that there are certain areas of land that were never ceded to them. These areas do not belong to the United States. They belong to a sovereign nation governed by indigenous people. The land that the Dakota Access Pipeline runs through is not part of the US. It is part of the Lakota nation. That means it is essentially a separate country.

Please imagine if the US wanted to build a pipeline from Washington to Alaska and they went through part of Canada to get there. Canadians protested, saying they have no right to be there and they’re destroying their water, and in response the USA sent militarized police to attack, harass, and harass these protesters, then arrested them for trespassing… on their own land.

That is what’s happening. This is an invasion, and the police are interfering on behalf of a foreign oil company.

Some of my favorite fun facts about Alan Turing

halleregina:

  • He would come to work at Bletchley Park in his pajamas and sometimes used a tie as a belt
  • He chained his tea mug to the radiator next to his desk because he was convinced someone would steal it due to the lack of cutlery in wartime England
  • He briefly brewed ale in Hut 8, the same room in which he decrypted Nazi codes, before someone higher up made him stop
  • He broke the chain on his bicycle and instead of fixing it or getting a new one he calculated exactly how many times he could peddle from point A to B before the whole thing fell apart. 
    • He also refused to share this number so nobody else could use his bike.
  • He joined Home Guard (which was kind of like the army reserves) during World War II as a hobby because he wanted to learn how to shoot a gun, and once he learned that he straight up stopped going. 
    • They told him if he didn’t continue with his shifts he’d be persecuted under military law, and he told them he wouldn’t be, because he had just written “NO” on the terms and conditions sheet when signing up.
  • He was sent to codebreak in America for awhile and he was overwhelmed by Americans being friendly and chit-chatty so he ended up talking loudly about how he’d been propositioned by a (fellow) gay man at his hotel so everyone would be weirded out and leave him be.
  • He had a teddy bear named Porgy he would practice his speeches to.
  • Honestly so much of his life was amazing and tragic but he was also just a weirdo nerd and I love him so much