[niggazinmoscow]

THIS RIGHT HERE

[afronerdism]

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

[molothoo]

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

• The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world
• Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)
• Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.
• The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

[secretladyspider]

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

[dantalaois]

[odinsblog]

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

[vampire-core]

[id: the first image is a tweet by Ryan Grim / @.ryangrim that reads: Ya know, if a country has so many people in prison that allowing them to vote could swing an election, maybe there are too many people in prison.

the second image is a tweet by Anthony Oliveira / @.meakoopa that reads: hi everyone - a government that denies its prisoners the right to vote is a government that now has an extremely vested interest in jailing its political opposition

thank you to coming to this, the literal first class of Civics 101 /end]

[ms-cellanies]

AUTO REBLOG

[niff-of-crows]

is this. anything

[probablyasocialecologist]

ALT

[redpandarascal]

same as it ever was

[ctntduo]

wait till the tumblr girlies find out that in binary star systems sometimes one star will basically eat the other and kill them both - resulting in the most powerful thing a star could ever do in its life.

[ctntduo]

you can become the greatest reckoning in the world but it will cost you your life and your partner’s life. or do you wish to simply circuit each other until you both die - never truly touching

[ctntduo]

[brightbluedot]

TO my understanding (based on this and this and my rusty old degree in astrophysics) there’s two types of systems that create type 1a supernovae

one is the double-degenerate model, where two white dwarfs eat each other and then both explode

the other is the single-degenerate model, where a white dwarf siphons off helium from a donor star, then it explodes and probably leaves the donor star more or less intact.

so, either you touch and you both go out in a blaze of destruction and creation, or you touch and one of you is destroyed... and the other has to live with it, in the cloud of debris they left, no less

but yeah either way it’s yuri

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."

"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."

One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.

[june-egbert-official]

Someone who says they don't care if dudes wear dresses and makeup is a better ally than someone who says they're a safe space for women and non-binary people. I am not joking.

[spongebobssquarepants]

[without-ado]

Cutie-pie of the sea (x)

[spike-cannon]

Taking myself on a silly little walk for my silly little mental health

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[tysonfurybattlepass]

the only bad part about going to the zoo is hearing adult men confidently tell their kids or gfs objectively incorrect information about the animals we’re looking at and having to remain silent. do u know the restraint it takes to say nothing when a grown adult man tells someone “falcons are in the same family as eagles” next to me? no babygirl. no.

[tysonfurybattlepass]

fyi falcons are not closely related to other birds of prey (hawks/eagles/buzzards). falcons are actually parrots that minmaxed for a glass cannon dps build.

[tysonfurybattlepass]

assault parrots, if you will

[important-animal-images]

[memeuplift]

[anxietyproblem]

[powerburial]

*setting an alarm for 9am in the middle of the day* fuck dude i have to be up in 17 hours

[lonestatus]

bed of rice sounds like the coziest place to be

[cunt-inent]

^ wet phone mentality

[huffylemon]

[magicalboycupid]