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the principal at my school made an announcement yesterday that the girls need to start covering up and then i found this in the hallway
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“The upshot for all this for teens is simple: your lives suck a little more thanks to increased police presence and surveillance. If you’re in one of those poor schools dominated by cops, you could be prosecuted as a criminal just by acting out, so it’s probably safest not to engage with anything—just keep your head down and your mouth shut and try to get through it. […]
So until the adults can figure out a way to get the prison-industrial complex in check, try not to do anything whatsoever, OK?”—Harry Cheadle, “We need to stop arresting so many children”
You’ve likely heard the story of Kiera Wilmot, a high school student who was charged with a felony for doing a science experiment which caused a loud noise, some smoke, and no damage to anyone’s person or property. It took a petition with nearly 200,000 signatures to bring sanity to Kiera’s case, but she’s off the hook and will be going back to school.
Unfortunately, this isn’t an isolated incident. Cheadle’s article lists a number of cases of teenagers pulling pretty harmless — albeit stupid — pranks or just generally being dumb kids on the internet and receiving serious charges as a result, e.g. being charged with a felony for making threats on Instagram. Instagram.
Yes, wrong or stupid behavior shouldn’t be ignored because the prankster is a kid — but handing out felony charges for science experiments and online threats is beyond overreaction. (Not to mention, it’s highly impractical. Are we going to arrest half the internet?)
There’s a difference between being tough on crime and being stupid. I’ll let you figure out which category Kiera’s case and others like it fall into.
Definitely read Cheadle’s whole article here.
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And I love you RDJ
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Alex White Plume: Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council Eyapaha and Sovereignty Warrior. Alex cultivated hemp (a truly regenerative crop that could replace plastic and other petroleum products to start) and was raided by the DEA. You don’t ask for sovereignty, you just be sovereign.
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My Great-Great-Great Grandfather was named, Odin Uppeguarde, from Sola, Norway. My son Odin Michael, was named after him. How could I not reblog?!
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The cruelest irony? The building’s owner moved here from Iran to be more free and prosperous:
Anaheim small-business owner Tony Jalali fled Iran in 1978 for a better life in the land of liberty, but he soon may find his American Dream unconstitutionally taken from him by the city of Anaheim and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Southern California in a ploy that should leave most Americans shaking their heads in disgust. Jalali faces the loss of his well-maintained office building if the city and the federal government get away with an attempt to do an end-run around California laws.
Over the past few years, Jalali rented out his small office building on Ball Road to numerous businesses, including two medical marijuana dispensaries – businesses that are legal in California. Jalali felt comfortable doing this because, not only is medical marijuana legal under California law, but Anaheim itself since 2010 has hosted the world’s largest marijuana trade show in its city-owned Anaheim Convention Center (and is slated to host again in July). The federal government, right up to the president of the United States, said it had “bigger fish to fry” than to undermine state laws on medical marijuana.
The city asked government attorneys to take Jalali’s property through drug-related civil forfeiture – which allows the government to take and sell your property without ever charging you with a crime, let alone convicting you of one. To make the deal sweeter for both the city and the feds, through a program called “equitable sharing,” Anaheim and its police would collect up to 80 percent of any bounty seized, while the federal government would bank the remaining 20 percent. The property owner would be left with nothing.
Read the full story here. Civil Asset Forfeiture is truly one of the most appalling and least known ways our government screws us over.
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Johnny Galecki, regarding rumors about him being gay.
This is one of the best statements given by an actor.
Well said…
And a perfect example of what integrity really is.(via jethrowilbury)
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Guys, let me tell you about orcas.
Orca whales are mean motherfuckers. They cruise the oceans with only two things in mind: one, having sex, and two, eating every poor fuck they find out there that’s smaller than them. They are such badass motherfuckers that even great white motherfucking sharks don’t dare fuck with them, which in my books, places them above the sperm whale as Biggest Badass of the Ocean. And why don’t sharks bother them, you may wonder? Because orcas fucking learned that if you flip a shark over they go into a sort of coma, so now they do it intentionally so they can eat the motherfucking sharks. Not only that, but orcas have also learned how to hunt sperm whales and motherfucking sea birds.
The orca whale lives in a matriarchal pod. Every pod has unique hunting methods and whatnot, which is passed down from parent to offspring- these scary fuckers have formed civilizations. And what do they do for fun, apart from hopping around on the water’s surface and grinning like crazy mofos? They hunt for fun, going so far as to tip over ice floes and beach themselves just for the thrill of killing.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. Orca whales are too damn cute and smiley looking to be heartless predators of the sea. Well, let me counter-argue with this photo:
THOSE ARE NOT THE TEETH OF A CREATURE THAT WANTS TO BE YOUR FRIEND.
Reblogging for excellent commentary.
I now love orcas more because you made them seem like the Winchesters
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