How is that legal

Erased there means what out here coming ???

Is Elizabeth Warren a modern day Hamilton? What can you possibly say that is SIXTEEN PAGES? I’m assuming that’s typed too.

Here’s the letter in question

That 16 pages includes works cited in the footnotes sourcing every claim she makes about the current state of education in the US, DeVos’s background, and and progress made under the Obama administration. This is not just a letter excoriating a candidate for an opposing view; it’s also a letter that plainly lays out the responsibilities the Secretary of Education will have and the implications of those responsibilities. The footnotes offer links to press releases, newspaper article, and government documents as evidence for Senator Warren’s claims.

Esstentially, this is Senator Warren saying: I did my fucking homework and you can read it for yourself right here; what are you gonna do for our students?

No Trump. No KKK. No fascist USA.

Black women got in formation in Public Square to underline issues that really matter. 

0 to a hunnid real quick

@la-siren

Did anyone bother telling the bigot that one of the San Bernardino shooters was born in the US?

Thank you for your service. Incredible and valid story.

The year is 1995, congress member Bernie Sanders stands in opposition of a homophobic statement said by Duke Cunningham. Cunningham derisively refers to “homos in the military” to support his argument while (strangely) discussing the Clean Water Act. Sanders, having none of it, quickly rises to the defense of thousands of men and women everywhere. Sanders ire is such that he repeatedly disrespects the Chairman by speaking over him in order to say his piece. [Video Source]

What does this say for Sanders? Well, that’s for you to decide. But to me, it says that for 20+ years strong he has shown his public support for LGBT+ persons everywhere, even in the face of ridicule and disrespect. Unlike some, Sanders has always been vocal about his beliefs concerning the LGBT+ community, and he has always held them. Key word always, and not just when doing so might garner him support for his campaigns. 

BONUS:

BOOM roasted

Kyle Lowry’s thought on the MuslimBan. “Personally, I think it’s bullshit.”

Reporter: “Wanna try that again without swearing?”

“No.”

Mood!

The Badlands National Park Twitter has been tweeting in open defiance of the administration’s gag order today, though most of them have been deleted.

This one is extra special. I’m sure it won’t last.

Aaaannnd!  They’re still going.

America is a melting pot that serves as a haven for people fleeing tyranny and oppression elsewhere. 

Far too often, the news treats refugees and Muslims as potential terrorists – and not as human beings fleeing oppression and war.

My girl spoke nothing but fucking TRUTH. Now that’s this kind of Women we need our girls to look up too.

Who is she?

Sarah Kendzior.

She’s an expert in authoritarianism and has accurately predicted almost everything that is happening - her unflinching insight and analysis is terrifying but invaluable right now. Well worth following on twitter.

fucking

why did i never see this until now

Eartha Kitt speaking truth to power at a 1968 luncheon at the White House hosted by Lady Bird Johnson which resulted in Kitt being blacklisted in the US for nearly a decade.

let it be known that on January 18th, 1968, Eartha Kitt stood in a room full of white women at The Women Doers Luncheon, GOT IN LADYBIRD JOHNSON’S FACE, and told her that the government was sending the best of the youth off to be shot and killed and, in not so many words, that THAT was the reason the youth were rebelling. She ALSO stopped President Johnson after he made a statement claiming that mothers should be responsible for stopping their kids from becoming criminals and asked about “the parents who have to go to work, for instance, who can’t spend time with their children as they should”. It was brushed off by LBJ who only mentioned the funding for day care centers put in place by the recently passed Social Security bill, and then more or less said that the women at that luncheon should figure it out for themselves.

She was blacklisted, but she defended every word she said that day. 

gifs via

SHERO

i will always reblog this story. always.

A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. [1985]

Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor [c. 1941 - 1945]

Maud Wagner, the first well-known female tattoo artist in the U.S. [1907]

A 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. [1990]

Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. [October 23, 1917]

Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, standing next to the code she wrote by hand that was used to take humanity to the moon. [1969]

Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. [October 1956]

Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. [1936]

Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail. [1961]   (freakin’ immaculate)

Now with more awesomesauce!

Female pilots leaving their B-17, “Pistol Packin’ Mama” [c. 1941 - 1945]

The first basketball team from Smith college. [1902]

Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. [1944]

Afghani medical students. [1962]   (man, screw fundamentalism.)

A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women’s Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain. [1940]

and just to wrap up…

Nina Simone, one of the most talented vocalists of the 20th century.

this is my favorite post in the entire world

this is why the world is beautiful, maybe its just me but i find this cool as fuck

“Your kid says hi.” -The sun