February 2012
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Occupy All Streets: Breaking: NYPD fatally shoots... →
occupyallstreets:
Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said the shooting happened following a struggle with the suspect. He said an officer from the Special Narcotics Unit fired one time, striking 18-year-old Rahmarley Graham in the chest.
The shooting happened around 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon in the bathroom…
city-folks asked: lolol i hate that i find alex arnold's voice (maybe more) attractive, because he is basically a child.
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a fleeting comic book character: [TW: mentions of... →
sapphrikah:
In re-watching the show, I think I’ve come to square away the significance of each of the main characters’ original powers.
Kelly could read people’s minds because they judged her often.
Curtis could rewind time because he fucked up badly and would give anything to fix that.
Simon could go invisible because often times people treated him like it.
Nathan was immortal because he...
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baxtavius:
fussyfangs:
tumblr i am glad that we can all agree that chris brown’s actions were inexcusable
now if you could start applying the same critical spirit to your favorite white dudes that would be great
ben roethlisberger
julian assange
woody allen
kelsey grammer
roman polanski
elvis
nicolas cage
charlie sheen
gary oldman
mel gibson
bill murray
eminem
sean penn
the...
Patricia Stephens Due Dies at 72; Campaigned for... →
poemsofthedead:
Patricia Stephens Due, whose belief that, as she put it, “ordinary people can do extraordinary things” propelled her to leadership in the civil rights movement — but at a price, including 49 days in a stark Florida jail — died on Tuesday in Smyrna, Ga. She was 72.
The cause was thyroid cancer, her daughter Johnita Due said. She had moved to Smyrna, an Atlanta suburb, to be...
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LOL
Dear ——:
My time working here these past six months has taught me many invaluable lessons. I am very gracious for the opportunity as the “Export Manager”, however, due to school obligations and the desire to work in a field more closely related to my graduate coursework and after much deliberation, I have made the decision to leave
In addition, I felt that I have been working under the...
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It’s not true....
– (via gamma-decay)
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are...
– Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath (via bookmania)
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The reality of American prisons, this argument runs, has nothing to do with the...
– The Caging of America: Why do we lock up so many people?
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damn. my job is seriosuly getting to me. i remember i had posts earlier in august when i first started working there and things were fine and running smoothly. i now understand why on his last day, the boss’ son said he would never step foot in the warehouse again.
my boss treats people so poorly and really takes a lot of things for granted, namely the other women who work in the office....
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I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and...
– جبران خليل جبران (via islamicgirl)
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a...
– Jeanette Winterson (via tacit-delinquency)
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Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans...
– Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and filmmaker. His book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto’s Fist Fight in Heaven,” was on the banned curriculum of the Mexican American Studies Program.
http://progressive.org/sherman-alexie
(via chicanainchoos)
Luis Alberto Urrea is/was one of the...
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January 2012
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thanks 4 da memoriez
growing up, i was a child/teen with “issues” or whatever. sometimes i go back and read my old livejournal entries. honestly, i’m surprised at how self aware i was for a 13/14/15 year old. angst is one hell of a drug.
2005-06-18 02:18:00
sometimes you just can’t talk.
you’d think constantly ignoring someone would get that idea across that conversation is the...
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i have been in hibernation mode all weekend due to the snow, but now thinking about work and school tomorrow, b l a h. so looking forward to spring/summer.
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How can any girl sustain the belief that she is loved, truly loved, when all...
– bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love (via femmenoire)
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