charlotte-it-was-really-nothing: The Smiths - William, It Was...
charlotte-it-was-really-nothing:
The Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing ♥
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heaintevenagoodlyrottenappeltho: sempermisha: i don't get it when people tell me i should stop...
heaintevenagoodlyrottenappeltho:
i don't get it when people tell me i should stop doing things because "boys don't like it"
like god forbid my personal choices prevent me from dating shallow close-minded assholes who care how long my hair is but don't give a fuck about me as a person
preach
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sundaize:
Suspect In Geoff Rickly Gunpoint Robbery Arrested
The suspect in Geoff Rickly of Thursday's gunpoint robbery has reportedly been arrested after being caught online by using Rickly's iPhone to create a new Instagram account. Check out a tweet from 911 Operator below after the jump.
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Geoff Rickly (Thursday) Comments On Gunpoint Robbery
Geoff Rickly (Thursday) Robbed At GunpointBest news.
Karma is lovely
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stelmarias: Advice from Adventure Time (x)
Advice from Adventure Time (x)
knowledgeequalsblackpower: lasiguanaba: Amelia...
Amelia Venegas Pachuca arrested for carrying brass knuckles during the Zoot Suit riot summer of 1943 in Los Angeles22 year old Venegas, a wife of a sailor (fighting overseas), was going to the store with a baby in her arms to get some milk. Because skirmishes between servicemen and Mexican-Americans had already been going on, she grabbed some brass knuckles to be safe. On her trip, she and the baby witnessed police officers taunting and abusing some Mexican-Americans youths. Unable to control her emotions, she began cursing the officers.She was immediately arrested and jailed for "disturbing the peace." Her baby was taken to jail with her and eventually passed along to a relative. (The Woman in the Zoot Suit:Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory by Catherine Ramirez)Zoot Suit Riot is more than just a 1990s song. It was an actual historical event.In the summer of 1943, Mexican American youth in Los Angeles faced discrimination and violence in their own neighborhoods at the hands of U.S. servicemen.
World War II is often credited with pulling the country together. As their compatriots defended democracy abroad, however, some Americans met hostile forces on the home front.
Los Angeles in the 1940s was swamped with GIs. The entertainment capital drew thousands of servicemen on leave from nearby bases and training centers.
Like today, the civilian population of L.A. then included a large Mexican American, or Chicano, minority. Many of the white servicemen in town came from areas of the country where there weren't a lot of Chicanos. Here they heard stories about Chicano youth gangs and about how to pick up Chicanas, or Mexican women.
A Chicano teenage fashion trend called the zoot suit —
modeled on flashy, mobster attireAfrican-American Jazz/Harlem culture— was widely ridiculed in the white press. Visiting servicemen joined in harassing "zoot-suiters." In the spring and summer of 1943, tension between GIs and young Mexican American males turned violent.In Oakland and Venice, Calif., sailors and marines "raided" Chicano gatherings and attacked the zoot-suiters, stripping them of their clothes. On June 3 in Los Angeles, a reported dispute over Chicanos set off a military riot. For five straight nights, Whites in uniform stormed the streets. They dragged zoot-suiters out of bars and nabbed them in movie theaters by turning the lights on.
What started as an assault on Mexican Americans quickly expanded to include blacks and Filipinos. Each night, police officers waited until the GIs left and then swooped in to arrest the victims of the violence.
Fearing mutiny, military officials declared the downtown district off limits to military personnel. The measure restored order, but real peace was harder to achieve. In a national newspaper column, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt blamed the riots on "long-standing discrimination against the Mexicans in the Southwest."
A rebuttal by the Los Angeles Times ended with the statement, "We like the Mexicans and think they like us." This wording made clear, as far as official Los Angeles was concerned, Mexican Americans were still "them." (via Teaching Tolerance)
Learn more about the riots and the escalating violence here.
betotzin: Rarámuri advice
Rarámuri advice
White Student Union (Vice Documentary)
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Good.
curlysalvadoran: Y'all ain't fucking with my Pandora station...
Y'all ain't fucking with my Pandora station tho
comicallyvintage: Don't Let Her Down!
Don't Let Her Down!
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meanmissusjosephine: i want to lick it
i want to lick it
"Cold" by Adriana Cahova
"Cold" by Adriana Cahova
gly9h-the-hellhound: pillory: Oscar was adopted as a kitten...
Oscar was adopted as a kitten from an animal shelter and grew up in the third-floor end-stage dementia unit at Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island. The 41-bed unit treats people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and other illnesses, most of whom are in the end stage of life and are generally unaware of their surroundings. Oscar was one of six cats adopted by Steere House, which bills itself as a "pet friendly" facility.
After about six months, the staff noticed that Oscar, just like the doctors and nurses, would make his own rounds. Oscar would sniff and observe patients, then curl up to sleep with certain ones. The patients he would sleep with often died within several hours of his arrival. One of the first cases involved a patient who had a blood clot in her leg that was ice cold at the time. Oscar wrapped his body around her leg and stayed until the woman died.In another instance, the doctor had made a determination of impending death based on the patient's condition, while Oscar simply walked away, causing the doctor to believe that Oscar's streak (12 at the time) had ended. However, it would be later discovered that the doctor's prognosis was simply 10 hours too early: Oscar later visited the patient, who died two hours later.
Oscar's accuracy led the staff to institute a new and unusual protocol: once he is discovered sleeping with a patient, staff will call family members to notify them of the patient's (expected) impending death.
Most of the time the patient's family has no issue with Oscar being present at the time of death. On those occasions when he is removed from the room at the family's request, he is known to pace back and forth in front of the door and meow in protest. When present, Oscar will stay by the patient until they die, then after death will quietly leave the room.
i find this very interesting as this behavior seems common in many cats that reside in mental and nursing homes. Often sharing the bed of the soon to be deceased. In the ancient world cats were revered by many cultures, most famously Ancient Egypt, as guardians of the underworld, keepers of the gate of death, and sometimes even harbingers of death itself. This makes me wonder whether this behavior was observed during ancient times as well and perhaps prompted this belief and many practices surrounding it.
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