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“I’ve been saying all along–this is primarily a vote for the next Supreme Court Justice. We cannot fuck around now. We need to play the long game. I don’t fucking care if you don’t like Hillary Clinton, or you don’t like Bernie Sanders, or you’re not really sure either one is reaching you the way they need to be reaching you. GET YOUR MOTHERFUCKING ASS OUT THERE AND VOTE FOR WHOMEVER WINS THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION. We need everyone who voted for Obama, and everyone who stayed home. Because we cannot lose this. We can’t. Presidents are for four years, Supreme Court Justices are for life. We win the court, we win everything. We lose the court, we lose everything–and there is nothing that the President of your dreams will be able to do to correct it.”
This is a must watch video…. tears
Watch 106-year-old Virginia McLaurin fulfill her dream of visiting the White House and meeting President Obama.
Imagine living through Jim Crow and Segregation and then living to see a black President. God is Good. My heart is bursting with joy
This is such a tear jerker, adorbs!
Yeah, I’m not even gonna pretend I’m not getting misty eyed, I don’t care, this is pure and beautiful and I will be emotional as fuck about it.
jim and jamie dutcher, determined to show “the hidden life of wolves”, lived for six years with a pack of wolves in the idaho wilderness of yellowstone. a constant but unobtrusive presence, the dutchers earned the unshakable trust of the wolves, and came to know them as complex, highly intelligent animals with distinct individual personalities, who are caring, playful and above all devoted to family.
“only a select few other species exhibit these same traits so clearly,” they note. “they are capable of not only emotion but also real compassion. this is the view of the wolf that we want to share. …it is an animal that cares for its sick and desperately needs to be part of something bigger than itself - the pack. the bond a wolf has to its pack is certainly as strong as the bond a human being has to his or her family.”
they add, “rarely did two wolves pass each other without playfully rubbing shoulders together or exchanging a brief lick. so often we would see two wolves relaxing together, curled up beside each other.” the dutchers also recount wolf behavior rarely documented: grief at the death of a pack mate; excitement over the birth of pups; and the shared role of raising young pack members.
but as the wolves struggle to reestablish their foothold in the american west, their public demonization continues. say the dutchers, “as we see wolves, once again, being shot, trapped and poisoned, we recognize that our unique experience, living with wolves, is unlikely to ever happen again, and for that reason we feel that we have an obligation to share the lives of these wolves with the widest audience possible.”
it’s not just the wolves at stake, but the entire yellowstone ecosystem. wolves keep the elk gene pool strong (no other predator does this); they redistribute elk herds, allowing vegetation to recover along rivers and streams, which provides food for beavers; and they keep the number of coyotes in check, which helps to maintain populations of rodents, antelopes and birds of prey.
Rose appeared on the program It’s Not You, It’s Men, with Rev. Run and Tyrese, where the two challenged her on consent and whether what a woman is wearing counts as automatic consent. And she shut. It. Down. She had a great response to Rev. Run saying “dress how you want to be addressed.”
do you know how cute i would be if i had more money
Normalize being disabled in public 2k16
iwantthatbelstaffanditsoccupant:
can everyone who reads this please tell me what the first book they fell in love with was
Narnia; A Wrinkle in Time/A Wind in the Door/A Swiftly Tilting Planet; The Lord of the Rings. I’m not sure in which order, but it was one of those.
When We Were Very Young/ Now We Are Six – by A.A. Milne
Of course, I was VERY little when I fell for those books. They were lovely.
Misty of Chincoteague, by Marguerite Henry. (followed, in very swift succession, by every other book of hers that I could get my hands on)
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler.
Or possibly My Side Of The Mountain.
( I think I wanted to run away?)
The Secret Garden. I remember my mom reading it to us for bedtime, a chapter per night, when I was three. I still have that copy on my shelf upstairs.
It was either Black Beauty or The Trumpet of the Swan, I think.
Ramona Quimby, Age 8. That’s the first one I remember, anyways. I think I was six.
Matilda
This was my second!
I think mine might have been the Sophie Series by Dick King-Smith, bc I shared a birthday with the heroine. Matilda was another early one I loved, though.
“I can also shock you”
“No, you can’t”