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In the bizarro world of the criminal court system, unarmed blacks are presumed guilty and the mostly white armed law enforcers who kill them are presumed innocent. American justice is blind only in one eye.

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Shuttle Discovery Makes Final Flight

Discovery—the fleet leader, with 39 orbital missions—is the first of the three retired space shuttles to head to a museum. It will go on display at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, taking the place of the shuttle prototype Enterprise. The Enterprise, which wasn’t equipped for space flight, will go to New York City.

This isn’t about being able to see the world through the eyes of the oppressed; rather, it’s about paying attention when the oppressed tell their own stories and believing them. But privilege means never having to consider that anyone experiences the world differently from you.

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Geraldo Rivera: “I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.”

Photo: Geraldo Rivera wears a hooded jacket while waiting for a live broadcast during FOX News’ coverage of Hurricane Frances in 2004. [YouTube]

Brilliant. What a douchebag.

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“At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the “unsinkable” R.M.S. Titanic disappeared beneath the waves, taking with her 1,500 souls. One hundred years later, new technologies have revealed the most complete—and most intimate—images of the famous wreck.”

These pictures are so morbidly fascinating. And check out the interactive gallery too. It lays everything out like a crime scene so you can see where all the pieces of the ship landed on the sea floor.

(via Unseen Titanic - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine)

OH. MY. GOD. The comments on Fox New’s website concerning the shooting of Trayvon Martin are making me sick.

CAPEHART / WASH. POST: "One of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other people’s suspicions. One minute you’re going about your life, the next you could be pleading for it, if you’re lucky. And far too many aren’t. That’s why the the Feb. 27 killing of Trayvon Martin has black parents around the country clutching their sons a little closer. By all accounts, Trayvon was a good kid. He helped his father coach Little League. He had dreams of becoming a pilot. He was good at math. The Orlando Sentinel said that Trayvon’s English teacher described him 'as an A and B student who majored in cheerfulness.' And now he’s gone because, as Charles Blow wrote on Saturday, 'a man with a gun and an itchy finger' found Trayvon 'suspicious.'" ›

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popchange:

Katy Butler delivers the “Bully” petition to the MPAA, asking them to drop the R rating to PG-13 so that the target audience can watch the film. Read more here.

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khealywu:

neil-gaiman:

Excellent links and information:

captainjhwatson:

Since Uganda is getting a lot of interest on the internet right now, I figured it was important to try to present an alternative source of information. Invisible Children is, as many already know, a highly problematic organization, but that shouldn’t stop you from trying to help. Here are some other sources of information, statistics, and ways to donate/help.

• American Progress’s 2007 report, “What to Do About Joseph Kony”
• Amnesty International’s 2011 report on Uganda
• Global Security’s page on the Lord’s Resistance Army
• Washington Post, “A Child’s Hell in the Lord’s Resistance Army,” May 2006.
• HRW: “Protect civilians from LRA abuses,” May 2011
• AllAfrica.com, “Amnesty International wants Kony arrested,” May 2010
• AI’s Uganda Portal
• Human Rights Watch’s Uganda portal
• Democracy Now!’s Uganda portal

No judgement about lack of research from me, but I want to make sure we’re spreading the most accurate picture of what’s going in Uganda and the entire region. It’s not something I am particularly well educated in, so let’s educate each other with the internet.

This shit is horrifying and terrible and it deserves attention, but let’s get all the information to spread.

(via weaziller-melisasaraceni)

Joseph Kony, Invisible Children and the rise of quick social activism

First ten members of US Congress pose for NOH8 ›

And in addition to traffic, Tumblr has even boosted The Atlantic’s sales of its print magazine. “We’ve even been hooking younger kids with our Tumblr,” says Jared. “Many teenagers have written to say that they’ve purchased the magazine because they loved the content on our Tumblr so much.

If you tailor your news viewing, as some people are now doing, so that you only get one point of view, well of course you’re going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.