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"Today is a day of mourning for the children of Chicago. Their education has been hijacked by an..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:28:05 -0400

“Today is a day of mourning for the children of Chicago. Their education has been hijacked by an unrepresentative, unelected corporate school board, acting at the behest of a mayor who has no vision for improving the education of our children. Closing schools is not an education plan. It is a scorched earth policy. Evidence shows that the underutilization crisis has been manufactured. Their own evidence also shows the school district will not garner any significant savings from closing these schools.

This is bad governance. CPS has consistently undermined school communities and sabotaged teachers and parents. Their actions have had a horrible domino effect. More than 40,000 students will lose at least three to six months of learning because of the Board’s actions. Because many of them will now have to travel into new neighborhoods to continue their schooling, some will be victims of bullying, physical assault and other forms of violence. Board members are wishing for a world that does not exist and have ignored the reality of the world we live in today. Who on the Board will be held responsible? Who at City Hall will be held responsible?”

- Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis commenting on today’s news that the Board of Education has voted to close 50 Chicago public schools.

While only around 40 percent of children in Chicago are black are Latino, 90 percent of children whose schools will be shuttered are black or Latino.

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fuck this country. fuck this country. FUCK THIS COUNTRY

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Outrageous. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

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Just as Bloomberg did with N.Y. schools. These guys are dipshits why do we continue letting them run this? Vote these fuckers outta here.

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today has been so emotional. found a new boarding school that is EXACTLY like nla - same people,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:33:32 -0400

today has been so emotional.

found a new boarding school that is EXACTLY like nla - same people, same everything

it’s really scary/sad.

these folks need to go to jail.

heroinmethwitch: fatbodypolitics: casual-isms: activistaabsent...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:07:23 -0400

heroinmethwitch:

fatbodypolitics:

casual-isms:

activistaabsentee:

madonnax:

June 1987, Madonna was rushed to the Cedars Sinai hospital for an X-ray after her then-husband—Sean Penn hit her across the head with a baseball bat. At the time, they had been having a heart-to-heart talk about reconciling.

Madonna did not make an official complaint because Penn was about to serve a short jail term for attacking a film extra and violating the probation he’d been given for punching a fan. It was a decision she would come to regret. In the late afternoon of December 28, 1988, Penn scaled the wall surrounding the Malibu house and found Madonna alone in the master bedroom.

According to a report filed by Madonna with the Malibu sheriff’s office, the two began to quarrel. Penn told her he owned her “lock, stock and barrel”. When she told him she was leaving the house, he tried to bind her hands with an electric cord. Screaming and afraid, Madonna fled from the bedroom. Penn chased her into the living room, caught her and bound her to a chair with heavy twine. Then he threatened to shave her hair. Penn was “drinking liquor straight from the bottle” and the abuse went on for nine hours, during which he smacked and forced Madonna to perform a “degrading sex act” on him.

He went out to buy more alcohol, leaving Madonna bound and gagged. Some hours later, he returned and continued his attacks, then finally untied her. Madonna then fled the house and ran to her car. Penn ran after her and was banging on the windows of her Thunderbird while she spoke to police on her mobile phone. Fifteen minutes later, she staggered into the sheriff’s office.

Wow. I had no idea this had ever happened. Makes me look at Sean Penn a lot differently, even if he’s a more stable less ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING person now…

Friendly reminder that Sean Penn and other abusive white celebrities are not demonized the way that Chris Brown is and when Rihanna said she still loved Chris Brown people were ready to hang her. But Madonna gets all the sympathy in the world.
#double standard

The bold.

so gross, and upsetting, i got an anon a while back asking how rihanna was a survivor, like what the fuck

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Wed, 22 May 2013 23:05:32 -0400

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Wed, 22 May 2013 23:03:48 -0400

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kateordie: DONATE HERE! You know I don’t usually do these types...

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:59:48 -0400

kateordie:

DONATE HERE!

You know I don’t usually do these types of things, but this is important to me! Kirk’s kicking cancer in the face and swimming 14km from NB to PEI this summer and raising money for sick kids. That’s pretty friggin’ cool.

You can donate anonymously, as much or as little as you like.

Thanks in advance, internet. Do some good!

theclearlydope: Pussy Magnet.

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:54:19 -0400

theclearlydope:

Pussy Magnet.

radhauswife: This is amazing.

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:53:35 -0400

radhauswife:

This is amazing.

crankyskirt: “My cousin Jody Potts made my niece Nazhre, who...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:39:38 -0400

crankyskirt:

“My cousin Jody Potts made my niece Nazhre, who was our flower girl, a beaded hide dress with porcupine quillwork.

My Great Aunt Adeline Potts made my wedding dress out of white elk hide, with traditional Hän Gwich’in beadwork. She also made a matching pair of beaded wedding slippers.”

- Shyanne Beatty

I’m a pretty nice person. I can put up with a lot. For instance, someone is staying with me...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:56:14 -0400

I’m a pretty nice person. I can put up with a lot. For instance, someone is staying with me for free for about 2 or 3 weeks. We dont mesh super well but it’s okay. I’m nice. I can put up with a lot EXCEPT FOR WHEN HE CHANGES THE STATION IN THE CAR WHEN I’M DRIVING HIM PLACES.

You can be rude

You can be obnoxious

BUT IF YOU TOUCH MY STEREO ONE MORE TIME, I WILL CUT YOU.