On this day 4 years ago, Colin Kaepernick took a knee for the first time in protest of racial injustice. Today, sports across 4 leagues halted.

“We are expected to play at a high level, give maximum effort and hold each other accountable. We hold ourselves to that standard, and in this moment, we are demanding the same from our lawmakers and law enforcement.” [Milwaukee Bucks’s Players Statement]

#NBAboycott #MLBboycott #WNBAboycott #MLSboycott #✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

Here’s a graphic. Nixon started it, Ronald Reagan fucked it into the sky 

Here’s a quote from Nixon’s aid regarding the drug war. Notice the last line where he admits they knew they were lying about the drugs. 

Source: CNN.com, 24 March 2016

48 states have some kind of restriction against felons voting, in all of these states felons aren’t allowed to vote while in prison. 30 of those states also restrict voting after the person is released from prison. In 9 states you can permanently lose your right to vote if convicted of a felony

This is actually an improvement that reflects pro-felon legislation that’s been passed recently. In the past there were more states that took away all voting rights as soon as you were convicted and offered no recourse to ever get them back

Some experts have said that Florida wouldn’t have gone to Trump in the 2016 election if ex-felons had been allowed to vote. Florida has the 4th largest votes in the elector college (29), it has the 2nd largest black population out of all the states, and it has the highest rate of citizens who are banned for life from voting

Conservatives have wanted to kill this for years but they’re going for the killing blow at precisely the most damaging time – which shouldn’t surprise anyone at this point. Be mad and be loud about this one, friends. Call your senators.

The mail piling up?

Those are bill payments.

Those are medication refills.

Those are time sensitive documents.

Those are paychecks.

Gutting the USPS doesn’t just mean skewing the election. It means millions of people will be without the things they desperately need for survival.

Disabled people who can’t access their grocery store will go without supplies

People who can’t afford to pay for private shipping/people who don’t live on profitable routes may lose shipping altogether

People who can’t afford private shipping and need government intervention the most will not be able to send mail-in ballots

It means court orders for parents who will end up missing their custody battle and lose their children

There is so much more than, “my package will be a week or two late”

Mail service is a necessity, not a luxury.

shocking

*ahem*

from this post 

Comedian Phil Hartman was murdered by his wife on May 27th 1998

NFL player Steve McNair was murdered by his girlfriend on July 4th, 2009

John Wayne Bobbitt had his penis cut completely off on June 23rd, 1993

Travis Alexander was murdered by Jodi Arias on June 4th, 2008

Andrew Bagby was murdered by Shirley Jane Turner on November 6th, 2001 (She later murdered their 1 year-old son on August 18th, 2003)

Brenda Spencer killed two and injured nine at Cleveland Elementary School on January 29th, 1979

Laurie Dann killed one boy and injured five others at Hubbard Woods Elementary School on May 20th, 1988

Jennifer San Marco killed eight people at Goleta postal facility on January 30th, 2006

Sylvia Seegrist killed three and injured seven during a shooting spree at a Springfield mall on October 30th, 1985

Mary Ann Holder killed five children including her own son in Pleasent Gardens, NC on November 20th, 2011

Jullian Robbins killed one and injured two at Penn State on September 17th, 1997

Heather Smith killed two then committed suicide at Spanaway Junior High School on November 26th, 1985

Latina Williams killed two others then self at Louisiana Technical College on February 8th, 2008

Amy Bishop Anderson killed three and wounded three others at the University of Alabama on February 12th, 2010

What’s most interesting though is that mainstream media doesn’t even mention female shooters when they claim to show the history of the crime — but I guess they’re going by high scores. While its true that most shooting sprees are committed by males, it is also truethat most child abuse, neglect, and murders are committed by females.

Women who killed or attempted to kill children in the news, past 30 days (US):

Women who killed or attempted to kill children in the news between January and April 2014 (US):

This is only mid-year and I didn’t even include the reports of mothers killing their children from previous years or other countries.”

The only thing “shocking” here is how far you’ve managed to cram your head up your own ass.

This post is disturbingly long.

REBLOG THE SHIT OF THIS. I AM SO FUCKING SICK OF PEOPLE TREATIG WOMEN LIKE INNOCENT GODDESS WHO NEVER DO ANYTHING WRONG WHILE THEY TREAT ALL MEN LIKE ANIMALS.

I debated on whether or not to reblog this but damn those sources are a fucking feat and pretending that they dont exist erases the victims.

once in a blue moon someone on tumblr will acknowledge anyone other than a man has done something wrong

if your feminism involves overlooking crimes by women then it isn’t feminism

if your feminism involves overlooking crimes by women then it isn’t feminism

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

Robert De Niro & Henry Cavill in Stardust (2007), dir. Matthew Vaughn

In honor of Day of the Dead, here’s a repost of my comic about the San Francisco Columbarium and the man who spent 26 years restoring it.

This comic originally appeared on Medium at The Nib. Go check out my other work there.

Emmitt and the Columbarium.

No. Hollywood has an older man problem.

this is so gross

I wish I could remember the name of the actress who went ballistic after being told that, at 35, she was too old to play the love interest for the 55-year-old lead.

It was Maggie Gyllenhall.  And I stand corrected, she was 37.

Damn

“The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.”

-Malcolm X (1962)

(Originally found on insta from @ashleighchubbybunny)

The Rise and Fall of Bon Appetit

Sometimes life comes at you fast.  Sometimes, that means stories in the food industry break in such rapid succession that you have no time to blink in between.  Sometimes, it means someone found out about something racist you did a few years ago.  What happens when it’s both?  Ask the fine folks at Bon Appetit.

In recent years, Bon Appetit made a name for itself, rising from the ashes of dying print media, through its Youtube channel featuring a diverse cast of personalities.  But over the course of this past week, many of the publication’s executives have been found to foster a toxic workplace culture, rife with racism, sexism and homophobia.  

Before I get too deep (because this is going to be a long one), I feel the need to point out that while this story’s breaking happened to coincide with Black Lives Matter protests across the country and gained traction from people’s outrage towards inequality, the events that have unfolded should not be blamed on “cancel culture,” “political correctness run amok” or any other reactionary dismissal of critical thinking.  Adam Rapoport didn’t lose his job because Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter came to be because of the damage that many in positions of power like Rapoport have done in both mainstream media and society as a whole.

[Also, yes, there are going to be a lot of links to Instagram posts that have been screenshotted and uploaded to Twitter.  Clearly the real takeaway from this debacle is that I need to get an Instagram account.  Also also, thanks to Tumblr’s new rules about offsite links, you’ll have to go to my main site for the full receipts.]

Preamble

Shortly after the killing of George Floyd, Adam Rapoport, Editor-in-Chief at Bon Appetit, wrote an editorial highlighting some of the coverage they’ve given to black chefs.  Many criticized this as being superficial and performative, with others saying that BA has, on numerous occasions, shut down articles relating to black culture for not being “trendy” enough or otherwise was discriminatory towards black employees. (Also, the repeated use of “uprisings” instead of “protests” seems a little suspicious.)

An article from Eater criticized the role BA played in the appropriating and whitewashing of many cultures’ ingredients and cuisines (gochujang, Aleppo pepper, and sumac seem to be some of BA’s favorite ingredients) that had become prevalent in food media in recent years.

While it’s a fairly minor offense in comparison, it may also be worth bringing up the time Rapoport accidentally called Priya Krishna “Sohla,” the name of his other Indian employee.

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He took his oath seriously, seldom seen these days

Image taken in seattle 

[ID: an aerial shot of the seattle protests. in the upper half of the image, an impressive crowd of protestors is packed so densely together that you can’t see the ground they’re standing on. in the lower half of the image stand police in a few thin lines. /end ID]

THE CHICAGO POLICE HAVE ARRESTED JUSTIN COSBY AND ARE LYING ABOUT HIS LOCATION

JUSTIN COSBY IS ONLY A TEENAGER PLEASE HELP SPREAD THIS I FEAR WHAT THEY’VE DONE TO HIM THIS NEEDS TO GO VIRAL AND PUBLIC PRESSURE NEEDS TO BE PUT ON THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE

Don’t let them paint him in an unfavorable light, he is a student, a speaker, a mere teenager, he was protesting peacefully and they detained him violently

CALL CPD IF YOU CAN

This is what invasive thoughts look like