Syrian kids deserve a chance to feel the childish joy of running out of their houses at the sound of an ice cream truck and buying ice cream

Pakistani kids deserve the chance to go to an amusement park and feel the rush of the wind in their face as they try the biggest rollercoaster in the park

Afghan kids deserve a day to sleep in and wake up lazily to the warm glow of the sun and the sound of happy voices coming from downstairs

A young Iraqi girl deserves the chance to discover the amazing world of cake decorating and realize that she was born to decorate incredibly stunning cakes

A boy from Uganda deserves to fulfill his dream of becoming a singer because his whole family and all his neighbours always praise his beautiful voice

A little Somali girl deserves to know all the different art mediums that exist so she can explore her God given talents as an artist and mesmerize everyone with her work

A brown man enslaved in Kuwait deserves to wake up early and surprise his wife with breakfast in bed and to hold her in his arms

A little boy in North Korea deserves to feel the nervous excitement as he gets on a plane to fulfill his dream of traveling the world

A Palestinian girl deserves her chance to stun the world with her superior acting skills, a surefire Oscar winner if the world ever knew it

A Kashmiri boy deserves a chance to delve into the world of literature and be the greatest poet we ever knew

A Native girl in Canada deserves to find out she’s an amazing swimmer and fulfill her dream of one day competing in the Olympics

A Sudani boy deserves to feel the excitement of seeing a magic trick for the first time and then putting on his own little magic show for the neighborhood

An Egyptian girl deserves to find out she can make the best blueberry muffins you ever tasted and she opens her own bakery to discover she’s a talented businesswoman as well

A black boy in America deserves the chance to graduate from his dream law school and become the best humanitarian lawyer to practice

A Nigerian boy deserves the chance to wake up at dawn and go on a beach trip with his friends so they can catch the sunrise and stare in awe at the explosion of colours against the sky A Yemeni girl deserves to feel the exhaustion after spending an entire day doing dares with her friends and she goes to sleep with a smile on her face

If they were born on this planet, they were meant to be here. Everyone deserves a chance at a life. They deserve to know peace.

The daily struggles of the children around the world should include arguing with their parents about not wearing a sweater because it’s not that cold out, not making sure they live to see another day.

Everyone deserves a chance at life.

Do what you can to save humanity. Change starts with you.

Little Black girls in America exist as well. And they too are terrorized and deserve to know peace.

Mucad Ibrahim - 3

Abdullahi Dirie - 4

An unnamed 12 year old

Sayyad Milne - 14

Hamza Mustafa - 16

Talha Rashid - 21

Tariq Omar - 24

Ozair Kadir - 24

Ansi Alibava - 25

Syed Areeb Ahmed - 26

Ramiz Vora - 28

Farhaj Ahsan - 30

Mojammel Hoq - 30

Atta Elayyan - 33

Junaid Mortara - 35

Hussain Al-Umari - 36

Mohammed Omar Faruk - 36

Junaid Ismail - 36

Osama Adnan Abu Kwik - 37

Zeeshan Raza - 38

Kamel Darwish - 39

Haroon Mahmood - 40

Sohail Shahid - 40

Hosne Ara Parvin - 42

Syed Jahandad Ali - 43

Khaled Mustafa - 45

Mohammad Imran Khan - 47

Naeem Rashid - 50

Matiullah Safi - 55

Amjad Hamid -57

Lilik Abdul Hamid - 58

Arifbhai Mohamedali Vora - 58

Ghulam Hussain - 60s

Karam Bibi - 60s

Musa Vali Suleman Patel - 60

Abdelfattah Qasem - 60

Ashraf Ali - 61

Mohsin Al-Harbi - 63

Linda Armstrong - 65

Maheboob Khokhar - 65

Muhammed Abdusi Samad - 66

Ali Elmadani - 66

Munir Suleiman - 68

Ahmed Jamal al-Din Abdul Ghani - 68

Hussein Moustafa - 70

Abdukadir Elmi - 70

Haji-Daoud Nabi - 71

Musa Nur Awale - 77

Ashraf Al-Masri - unknown

Ashraf al-Morsi - unknown

Zakaria Bhuiyan - missing - unconfirmed

These are the names that should be on everyones dashboard right now. Not eggboy. Not the murderer. And certaintly not a Clinton.

Thank you

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earlier this month it was 120 degrees in Australia , but yeah lets continue to mock those trying to save us in the 12 years we have left to slow climate change’s effects. 

What is the worst thing that could happen if we listen to scientists and change our ways, and then it turns out they were lying? 

Slowly dying in a mad max hell world to own the libs I guess. 

this is literally why scientists stopped calling it “global warming” and started calling it “climate change”

because these dense motherfuckers couldn’t get it through their heads that an increase in the average global temperature is, has, and will lead to an increase in extreme weather events including goddamn polar vortexes.

“Fner ner ner, look at all the snow outside, what of your global warming now?? CHECK AND MATE SCIENTISTS so much for your fancy degrees and decades of research” of fucking course you’re still gonna get a winter you goddamn dingdongs! The Earth still has a fucking axial tilt – there is always going to be a portion of the year that is colder because that’s when you’re further away from the sun! 

(unless you live between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn, in which case you’re at more or less the same distance from the sun all year, but presumably then you aren’t pointing to snowfall as proof positive that scientists are spearheading a conspiracy to…i don’t even fucking know. reduce emissions? meanspiritedly destroy the fossil fuel industry, which is gentle and blameless and certainly has never been linked to enormous environmental disasters or long-term health concerns or…?)

Conservatives will be the fucking death of us

Also the reason for these extremely cold temperatures happening and doing so more often is directly a result of literal global warming. Due to rising temperatures (thanks to climate change caused by humans which is real and happening right now and fuck anyone who says otherwise), the Arctic sea ice has been melting more and more without replenishing itself during winter. To make matters worse, the more ice that melts, the more ocean is exposed, which absorbs (rather that reflecting like ice does) the sun’s energy, further heating up. 

This rise in polar temperatures is the reason the polar vortex is currently above the US and making Day After Tomorrow a reality

For those who don’t know, a polar vortex is an area of low pressure that likes to chill around the poles (both north and south but the north is more relevant here). These areas of cold, dense air are usually kept in check by jet streams: long, narrow, fast flowing air currents caused by two masses of air that are different in density/pressure/temperature etc. meeting. 

The polar jet streams in particular are caused by the meeting of cold, dense low pressure polar air and warm high pressure air from the tropics. It’s usually pretty strong, especially during winter, as the temperature gradient between the poles and the tropics is rather large. The bigger the difference, the stronger the wind, and the less likely that polar air escapes southwards.

However, due to the warming around the north pole thanks to the melting sea ice and warming oceans, this gradient is decreasing.

This results in a weaker polar jet stream, which allows the vortex to meander all over the place, such as down south into the US, bringing the cold dense air with it.

Please go forth and use this information to make sure the idiots using this cold snap as piss poor evidence that climate change isn’t real know that they’re wrong and they should feel bad. Also maybe tie them down and make them watch this video (which is where I got these gifs from) which is a good (but terrifying) explanation of how extreme weather events are becoming and will become more common as a result of anthropogenic climate change.

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Whoooooooo child. Let them know

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Black activists are being lynched but there’s no media coverage

The Past is The Past, Matt Bors

Let’s reblog this until everybody sees it

Rare Photos of Black Rosie the Riveters

During World War II, 600,000 African-American women entered the wartime workforce. Previously, black women’s work in the United States was largely limited to domestic service and agricultural work, and wartime industries meant new and better-paying opportunities – if they made it through the hiring process, that is. White women were the targets of the U.S. government’s propaganda efforts, as embodied in the lasting and lauded image of Rosie the Riveter.Though largely ignored in America’s popular history of World War II, black women’s important contributions in World War II factories, which weren’t always so welcoming, are stunningly captured in these comparably rare snapshots of black Rosie the Riveters.

Reblogging because I’ve never seen these before, and I bet a lot of people haven’t. 

If you are really interested in this history, might I recommend both Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda in World War II and Bitter Fruit: African-American Women in World War II.

We need more black doctors and we need them in our communities!!!!!

Black ppl also need better access to healthcare and programs!!

Black women did nothing to deserve the shit we get on a daily basis.

Queen of Genovia Snapped

Holy shit

Yes, that was truth beautifully stated.  Anne Hathaway is using her privilege in the most positive way.  I strive for that as well, but, yes, it is easier said than done.  That’s why we need to keep practicing this until it is set deep into our bones.  Anything else is unconscionable.

I support this

This is the second time I’ve seen it done correctly.

Rihanna trying to figure out what the hearts do on Instagram live.

“I heart you back!!” 💝

I wrote about bad men and the path to redemption for the @nytimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/opinion/louis-ck-comeback-justice.html https://www.instagram.com/p/BnFOcrFFHxf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4onkiep0uu5s

Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul,” died Thursday in her home city of Detroit after battling pancreatic cancer. Her death was confirmed by her publicist, Gwendolyn Quinn. She was 76.

Franklin sold more than 75 million records during her life, making her one of the best-selling artists of all time. She took soul to a new level and inspired generations of singers who came after her.

No one’s life can be condensed to one word — but Aretha Franklin came close when she sang one word: “respect.”

“Respect” was written by the great Otis Redding. In his version, a man is pleading, offering his woman anything she wants in exchange for her respect. He sang: “Hey little girl, you’re sweeter than honey / And I’m about to give you all of my money / But all I want you to do / Is just give it, give it / Respect when I come home …”

Aretha changed those lyrics to demand parity. “Oooh, your kisses,” she sang, “Sweeter than honey / And guess what? / So is my money …” In her hands, “Respect” became an empowering song — for black women and for all women. It was a No. 1 hit in 1967, and it became her signature song.

Franklin was 25 years old when “Respect” was released. But she had been singing since she was a small child in her father’s New Bethel Baptist Church.

Aretha Franklin, The ‘Queen Of Soul,’ Dies At 76

Photos: Getty Images

In honor of a music legend. 

Aretha Franklin  25 March 1942 – 16 August 2018