2020 let’s goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

ITS HAPPENING

believe it.

Last I checked there ain't shit illegal about doing this.

He drove INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC yeah I think that shit counts as reckless driving. He’s lucky the other cars were so far back on the road

You think they'd do this with other cars nearby? They were clearly smart enough to figure how to do this, obviously they'd wait until traffic cleared to get it back after all this effort.

I get your concern, but calm down.

Make it stop.

11 May 2020, during pandemic, official release from the US Department of Energy:

OK. Sure. Whatever.

Uranium, right? Y’know how, for the past century, Navajo country experienced the worst radiation poisoning from uranium mining, then from nuclear weapons testing, and then from the disposal of radioactive waste? And how the largest single radiation poisoning disaster on “US soil” happened in Navajo country? And how babies born, to this day in 2020, in Navajo country have uranium in their bodies? And how Navajo country has the highest covid/coronavirus infection rates of any US “state”? And how the US federal government was 6 weeks late in sending Navajo country financial aid during the virus outbreak? And then the US federal government, in the middle of the pandemic, is signalling support for the opening of uranium mines in Lakota territory?

From the Department of Energy’s release, 11 May 2020:

But wait:

Something I said the day before the Department of Energy’s announcement:

Uranium mining, environmental racism, and resource extraction on Native land during pandemic: The Navajo people were promised and also legally entitled to receive $600 million to help protect themselves against covid, but it took 6 whole weeks for the US government to issue the aid, which only happened after the Navajo sued the government. During those 6 weeks waiting for help, Navajo Nation became the site of the highest per capita infection rates outside of the NYC-Philadelphia urban corridor. In another major Native and relatively rural region held hostage by resource extraction companies, right in the midst of pandemic and quarantines, Lakota living in the Pine Ridge region (site of what might be the “poorest” counties in the US), are grappling not just with the beginning of the construction of the major Keystone XL pipeline, but also with renewed US federal government support of a Canadian mining company’s project meant to open a uranium mine in the Black Hills. And right before local quarantines and lockdowns began across the US, Dine land and the Navajo were in headlines because of a recent increase in attention given to the lasting legacy of poisoning and environmental racism from the infamous uranium mining on Dine land and the Colorado Plateau in the mid-20th century. (Much of the uranium mining was taking place at the same time that Dine matriarchs led the fights against coal mines at Black Mesa and other sites.) […] 

By the end of 2018, the contiguous US had only 5 uranium mines, and, in 2019, a lobbying group of major resource extraction companies interested in uranium asked for help from the US president’s office. In April 2020, the president’s Nuclear Fuel Working Group released a report passionately advising revival of uranium mining, and the US president announced a 2021 budget granting over $150 million to purchasing uranium mined within US borders. In April 2020, during pandemic, the major Keystone XL oil pipeline was beginning construction; carrying Alberta oil, its route crosses directly through the Rosebud Sioux reservation land immediately next to Pine Ridge. At the same time, in April 2020, worldwide stock price of uranium surged as Canadian and US corporations now discuss their targeting of the Black Hills as a coveted sit. A Canadian company plans a 10,600-acre uranium mine, expecting to extract millions of pounds of the ore, as Lakota organizers pursue legal cases under the shadow of the desecrated Six Grandfathers. […]

Here’s a statement from The Guardian, from 8 May 2020: ‘The Native American tribe [Navajo] now has the highest per-capita Covid-19 infection rate after only New York and New Jersey, and the spread is not slowing. “We are doing our very best to flatten the curve with the very limited resources we have on the Navajo nation,” president Jonathan Nez told the Guardian. “The first citizens of this country were once again pushed aside by the most powerful government in the world … but now that we’re in the headlines, US citizens are finally realising the deplorable conditions our people live in. We’re fed up. This has got to end.” [Edit: As of 18 May 2020, infection rates at Navajo Nation have surpassed New York and New Jersey.] […]

For posterity:

‘A long-anticipated Trump administration report aimed to “revive and   strengthen the uranium mining industry” was released Thursday [23 April 2020], and if its recommendations are implemented, it could provide direct government support for uranium production in San Juan County where the country’s last conventional uranium mill and several idled mines are located. Uranium companies applauded the plan within hours of its release while numerous conservation groups and Native American tribal leaders announced opposition. […] Residents of the Ute Mountain Ute community of White Mesa, which is located several miles south of Energy Fuels’ White Mesa Mill, have long worried that groundwater contamination around the mill site could worsen and eventually reach its drinking water aquifer. The Ute Mountain Ute Environmental Programs Department sent a letter to the Utah Department of Environmental Quality in January pointing to “overwhelming data showing significant trends of increasing groundwater contaminants and acidification” below the mill site […].’ [Source: Zak Podmore. “Trump administration plan could revive the uranium industry in Utah, raising concerns from conservationists.” The Salt Lake Tribune. 25 April 2020.]

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Enough.

TIL, that I could kill someone with a single punch if i was an agressive person and i do not think i am an agressive person but you shouldn’t fuck with me to find out in the most pain ful way possible  

Can we sink the damn yacht or

Antonio, 24

“I am wearing the Cock polo. It is inspired by frat bros, daddy’s boys, philistines and other forms of assholes.”

May 18, 2017 ∙ East Village

Is this British culture?

Karen knows no nationality

The Elder Scrolls music really puts this over the top.

Yes ma'am I am running opening and yes I did do closing last night and you are correct that that would have left me with four hours of sleep, but after washing down my meds with twice the recommended max dose of caffeine and a three kilometer power walk meditating on the true nature of joy I *did* experience a new revelation in my pursuit of enlightenment, and according to my findings, life is going pretty well for me

legendary scamming right here

good for her

Oh my

Donation/For Sale Post

Hi again! I had a donation post going around, but it’s gotten overly long and outdated, so I’m making this new one!

I’m a disabled (endometriosis/adenomyosis/ptsd) latina jew, and my boyfriend is a Guatemalan immigrant. I’m unable to work due to constant pain and bleeding. He works, but is unable to now after being deemed nonessential during this virus catastrophe. Our only income now is through my sex work. Work for me now is incredibly slow, as everyone is out of their own work and not buying much from me. Neither of us qualify for the upcoming stimulus package as I make too little money and as an immigrant my boyfriend has a tax ID number but no social security number.

We are negative $14 in our account.

We need food and toiletries, I don’t even want to think about how I’m unable to get any of my meds. We were struggling before this virus, and now it’s just even worse.

If you want to help and can, my cashapp is $alexkaplan1.

I only have cashapp because as a sex worker I was banned from PayPal, and they also own Venmo. If you aren’t comfortable sending money, but want to help us eat I am happy to provide my email for ubereats/doordash giftcards. I can also provide my phone number for zelle payments. I sell photos, videos, and have a nsfw snapchat.

I’m happy to answer any questions!! Thank you from us, and good luck to everyone during this trying time.

if anyone has anything to spare so we can eat that would be amazingly helpful!!! $1, $5, it all adds up to a meal for us.

Thank you.

we really need food for this week lol I’m currently good on medicine (thank god) but we need to eat and have no groceries right now, plus June’s rent will be here eventually and we’ll need to have that since we’re out of work

We really need to eat lol

please help us eat if you can we’re hungry and I need to save to see the doctor and so many other things and I’m terrified about health and need medicines and doctors and all these other things that we can’t take care of because we’re out of work and I’m really sick but most importantly we just need to eat once a day

Thanks to some very kind people I was able to get some of the medicines I’ve needed today!!!

But between their costs and ubering costs and things, we haven’t made money to eat today.

We haven’t eaten all day and just want $30 so we can order some food and eat once today!! Please help if you can, that’s just 3 people sending $10 or 6 people sending $5, it all adds up!! Please help if you can and thank you so much for your time.

I really would like to eat a nice dinner it’s been days since we ate good food and I’m so tired and hungry and please help us eat I just want a pizza that’s all or something else that’s cheap(er) and filling

I love the south :3

This isn’t ironic I actually love the south like deadass

op may i ask why

Cause I live here and it’s nice and there’s so much culture. And cows

...we have culture here??? other than bomb ass sweet tea

the fact that you have the audacity to use "bomb ass" (aka Black slang) while pretending you don't know that Black people, Native Americans, and Latine communities have long storied histories in the South alongisde the many living cultures that exist throughout the South makes you sound like a buffoon. 

treating the South as a conceptual wasteland full of conservative hicks you hate isn't cool or edgy 

and idk how the fuck you can call yourself Punk while being unaware of the history of the south in the US lmao. 

I hope people are aware that the Native, Black, and Latine communities in the South have a national impact on our culture and history. Our food, music, resistance, and our language was and is sustained by the South. You can't call yourself a fan/supporter of any of those things and not have awareness or respect of the South.

comic about not tweeting

I’m sure they appreciated that. Very inspiring.

Thank you, RCAF. Very cool.

what are you even supposed to do on twitter

every time i use it i get angry at someone every 40 seconds

twitter is like youtube comments without the videos

William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature (via anarchist-moonchild-blog1)

I would give up the entire breadth of possibility contained within the human experience to be a treeshrew

dutch people have free drugs and free sex but bravely power thru it to be abjectly boring

have you considered that this is why theyre boring

free (and some of the world’s best) drugs, free sex, that’s all good

the problem is they’re European