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Graduation Gown a Problem for Albuquerque Transgender Student

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:29:29 -0400

Graduation Gown a Problem for Albuquerque Transgender Student:...

nearlya: Russ Mills. Website

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:47:00 -0400

nearlya:

Russ Mills.

Website

"As a child I never heard one woman say to me, “I love my body.” Not my mother, my elder sister, my..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:45:11 -0400

“As a child I never heard one woman say to me, “I love my body.” Not my mother, my elder...

Thank you, new followers!

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:41:32 -0400

I’m glad I post things that is of some interest. I’m following you guys back because...

Five major scandals the media isn't obsessing about

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:12:12 -0400

think-progress: Are these things more important than edits to talking points? Judge for...

carrymyobituary: Rockers to Swallow by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:10:58 -0400

carrymyobituary:

Rockers to Swallow by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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Fri, 17 May 2013 15:10:33 -0400

"If you want to kill yourself, kill what you don’t like. I had an old self that I killed. You can..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:59:28 -0400

““If you want to kill yourself, kill what you don’t like. I had an old self that I killed. You...

sleeplessseattleite: bright-happy-healthy: I just thought this...

Thu, 16 May 2013 01:54:23 -0400

sleeplessseattleite:

bright-happy-healthy:

I just thought this needed to be pointed out to the Tumblr community.

These are all photoshopped by Enrico Francis

It needs to stop.

Impossible “perfection”.

lalibertarienne: israelfacts: A Health Ministry inspector...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:57:34 -0400

lalibertarienne:

israelfacts:

A Health Ministry inspector poured bleach over pots full of food in a Sudanese restaurant in Tel Aviv Sunday night.

The inspector, from the ministry’s district office for Tel Aviv, was participating in a raid by police and municipal inspectors on illegal businesses owned by African migrants. Altogether, the raid shut down 10 businesses in the city’s Neveh Sha’anan neighborhood, confiscating their equipment and welding the doors shut. The equipment was then loaded onto vans by other African migrants who had been hired as contract workers.

Many diners saw the inspector pouring bleach on the food, and one, asylum-seeker Aladin Abaker from Sudan’s Darfur region, posted photos of the incident on his Facebook page. He also described his feelings of humiliation.

“Everyone − except the destroyers − was in tears from the humiliation,” he wrote. “The waitress told us, ‘I’ve seen very harsh things in my life, like torture in Sinai, but this humiliated me more than what happened to me in Sinai.”

Abaker accused the inspector of “insensitivity to people and their culture, which sees food as a sacred thing that must be respected,” and said the raid was aimed at “embittering our lives so we’ll return to Africa ‘voluntarily.’”

Altogether, he said, more than 200 kilograms of meat, chicken and fish and over 500 prepared meals were destroyed.

The inspectors said they didn’t know where the meat came from and therefore feared for the diners’ health, Abaker wrote. “We told them: But this is the only place we’ve eaten all our meals for four years now, and none of us ever had stomach problems. Even whites eat here.”

The Health Ministry responded that inspectors had discovered “deplorable sanitary conditions, food stored under unsuitable conditions and temperatures, and food from unknown sources. In order to preserve the public’s health and that of the diners themselves, it was decided to destroy the food immediately. As part of the process of destroying the food, chemicals suitable to this purpose are used. It should be noted that this was a routine process of food destruction that is no different from other destructions of food/meat.”

Tel Aviv’s deputy city manager, Ruby Zelof, said the raids were carried out “to eradicate the undesirable phenomenon of businesses operating illegally, with sanitation and safety problems and illegal connections to electricity and water, and sales of alcoholic beverages without permits.”

Haaretz | Photo credit: Aladin Abaker

Israel is deporting Africans and also planning to put tens of thousands into detention camps.

Knesset Member Miri Regev — a member of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud Party — called the refugees “a cancer in our body” and Danny Danon — also a Likud Knesset Member — wrote on his Facebook page referring to the Africans as “infiltrators”. Interior Minister Eli Yishai said the African asylum seekers threaten “the Zionist dream,” adding, “Jobs will root them here.”

See also:

Why is the birth rate in Israel’s Ethiopian community declining? Ethiopian women who immigrated to Israel were coaxed into agreeing to injections of long-acting birth control drugs, or told they would not be allowed into the country

Israeli woman has her photo taken with Africans, titles the Facebook album: “Late night tour of the Tel Aviv Safari”, captions the photo: “There are no signs forbidding taking pictures with the animals. There were no signs that forbid feeding, but we passed on that.”

Of all the people that shouldn’t persecute others, I would have thought the Jews would be the last

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Wed, 15 May 2013 21:17:24 -0400

theonlymagicleftisart: (Sarah Jarrett)

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:17:07 -0400

theonlymagicleftisart:

(Sarah Jarrett)

fuckyeahforensics: Ivory Bangle LadyThis series of images...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:16:46 -0400

fuckyeahforensics:

Ivory Bangle Lady
This series of images showing the skull and how the lady might have looked was created by Aaron Watson of the University of Reading

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Wed, 15 May 2013 16:15:00 -0400

fer1972: Double Exposure Artworks by Yaser Almajed 1. Night and...

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:24:33 -0400

fer1972:

Double Exposure Artworks by Yaser Almajed

1. Night and Day

2. Getting Old

3. Paris

4. Surviving

I have really nothing to say, but I want to say it all the...

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:06:12 -0400

I have really nothing to say, but I want to say it all the same.

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Tue, 14 May 2013 22:54:32 -0400

perpetu8: Report on a probability by Paul Flockhart

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:12:25 -0400

perpetu8:

Report on a probability by Paul Flockhart

To my new followers… To my old followers… To those who unfollowed me… To those who looked at my...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:09:07 -0400

To my new followers… To my old followers… To those who unfollowed me… To those who looked at my...

31 Songs To Listen To While You Read That Nice Story About How Loneliness Will In Fact Kill You

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:02:35 -0400

31 Songs To Listen To While You Read That Nice Story About How Loneliness Will In Fact Kill You:...