wetwill:

HELP AND REBLOG PLEASE.

if you do one thing today, fucking reblog this. You could be the reason for someone surviving. It takes seconds. Do it.

socialistexan:

one-angry-liberal:

Yes, I will be spending most of my time on here today posting anti-war propaganda. 

Priorities, we don’t have them.

political-linguaphile:

Things no one tells you:

• Having sex doesn’t make you a whore.
• Not having sex doesn’t make you a saint.
• You don’t have to have kids if you don’t want to.
• You are the only person who has rights over your body.
• You are no one to judge others.
• “Femininity” is not anti-feminist. 
• Verbal harassment is not flattery. 
• If something makes you uncomfortable, you don’t have to endure it.
• You don’t owe anything to anyone. 

piddlebucket:

sonneillonv:

mutt-cats:

My uterus, my choice 

Because every part of you belongs to you.

without apology

whoneedsfeminism:

Because when I told my friends that I wanted to get sterilized the first reaction I got was, “But that’s what we were made for.” or “What if you get married and your husband wants his own children?” or “Why wouldn’t you want to have babies?”

Because apparently we don’t live in an overpopulated…

nom-chompsky:

paach:

• Diane Tran, 17, thrown in jail for one night because of repeated absences from school
• Honours student has been working two jobs to keep family afloat since parents’ divorce
• Has been taking advanced placement and college courses in addition to jobs and missed school due to exhaustion
• Spent the night in jail for truancy

Petition for the decision to be overturned here

Saw this on the news last night. She was also fined $100, despite the fact that she’s clearly already struggling. 

thebamboozledcatholiclesbian:

weirdette:

feministhistorian:

That is why some of us date men. Some of us fuck men. Some of us have sons. Some of our closest friends are men. Some of us are married to men. Some of our greatest allies are men. Some of us are men.

MRA folks need…

mafindor:

5/24/2012: MISSING FAMILY ALERT: Authorities in Washtenaw County, Michigan are asking for the public’s help to find Alisha Martinez (29) and her kids, 8-year-old Areiyla Middleton and 3-year-old Elijah Isom were last seen Tuesday morning, 5/22/2012 at their Ypsilanti Township home. “We recieved a call yesterday actually, on the 23rd, but the last time that the mom and her children were seen was early morning on the 22nd, around 8, 8:30 in the morning,” said Derek Jackson with the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office. The older child did not go to school Tuesday and has not been to school since.

“[There is] no evidence that she is injured in any way or [of] any foul play,” said Jackson. “We just are trying to hopefully get some information from someone or even her herself — where she is or … what may have happened.”

Martinez is described as 5’1” and about 117 lbs.

Anyone with information as to the family’s whereabouts is asked to call Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office Detective Everette Robbins (734) 973-4884.

You may also call the confidential tip line (734) 973-7711 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAK UP.

SOURCE: http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/05/24/family-of-3-missing-since-tuesday/

blogvader:

And I won’t argue that children are precious, but, what exactly is prayer supposed to accomplish here?

Fine.  We won’t argue about the preciousness or lack thereof in children…-sigh-  Comprehending the point of prayer is futile from an gnostic-atheist point of view.  Prayers are thoughts, thoughts are not concrete, tangible, or at all relevant until expressed.  To put the pray-er’s intent in broader religious terms: they are asking for a kind of general good will towards this child in the hope that some power of positive thinking type bullshit will help this child in some way.  If we assume that the gods that take prayers do not have a master plan and do listen to the wishes of individuals, each prayer is a tally mark in this child’s “live” column.  Realistically, this child may get reblogged, or whatever the facebook equivalent is, enough to get news coverage, financial support, or the attention of a particularly skilled doctor/surgeon (etc., etc., etc.).  This would be the power of social media though, not prayer.  Even if it was shared/liked/reblogged with the prayer line attached and this child does live because of facebook action, the prayer line is no more effective than if they had said “like/share/reblog if you want this to get enough coverage for something positive to actually come out of the hopeless, moronic waste of time that is facebook” the difference being that prayer gets “good Christians” to reblog/share/like and my statement would probably get people who have but kind of hate facebook to pass it on (or those who genuinely give a shit about shit like this).  The call for prayer would not be the cause of the cure, merely a factor in who likes/shares/rebloggs.  To restate: prayer=no power, social media=lots of power.  Caio.