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Musk running Twitter be like

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hey tumblr it’s been 15 years

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Cancel Culture Isn’t A Thing, You Snowflakes - Some More News

PC culture isn’t killing comedy. Millennials aren’t overly sensitive. The people who whine that you can’t make a film like Blazing Saddles anymore also, like, conveniently forget that time Robert Downey Jr got an Oscar nomination for literally doing blackface in a comedy from only ten years ago.

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Polar bears could face extinction faster than thought, study says

South Africa’s Cape Town, [4 million people],  Is Set To Run Out Of Water In April

Even Breathing Is A Risk In One Of Orlando’s Poorest Neighborhoods People inhale soot and noxious fumes from the car-laden highways encircling their historically black community.

Air Pollution Is Killing Millions Around The Globe Each Year It’s not listed on death certificates, but it’s still considered “one of the great killers of our age.”

Global Warming killed 60% of the world’s saiga antelopes in 2015.

This Sea Turtle Population Is Almost All Female, Thanks To Climate Change In the northern Great Barrier Reef, juvenile green sea turtles are 99 percent female.

This WV Town Is So Toxic, They Want It Wiped off the Map“Every single neighbor I’ve had has died of cancer.”

Soon the Only Coral Reefs We See Will Be on the Nature Channel

Trump administration officially scraps Obama-era rules for fracking on federal land

Trump administration has quietly changed government’s sharing of climate data in unprecedented ways. Just one year in, the changes are pronounced.

Pruitt’s EPA wants to let states handle coal ash. Oklahoma shows why that’s so dangerous.

Customers End Up Paying For The Toxic Legacy Of Coal Ash. Residents are forced to pay for coal ash with their money and health.

Study Uncovers Startling Number of Black Lung Cases in Coal Miners. Miners are contracting the disease with striking frequency and at younger ages than ever before

The Interior Department Has Cleared the Way for Energy Developers to Destroy Natural Habitats

The National Park Service Will Be Run By The Guy Who Helped Dan Snyder Cut Down Public Trees To Improve His River View

Trump EPA nominee advances after hosting fundraisers for 2 Senate committee members.Nominee lobbied for coal giant Murray Energy.

Fear of Trump solar tariff helped slam brakes on the fast-growing industry in 2017.,Under Trump, U.S. solar employment sees first drop last year.

Lands stripped from Utah monuments open to claims, leases by oil, gas, coal and uranium companies

Trump Boasts The Ice Caps Are ‘Setting Records.’ But It’s For Melting.

Fracking companies won’t have to disclose chemicals thanks to Trump administration rollback

Climate coalition tallied all of Trump’s censorship of science. It’s staggering. Trump’s war on science threatens the nation’s safety, experts warn.

Trump’s EPA Could Allow Teenage Workers To Handle Dangerous Pesticides Officials have signaled they may eliminate the age requirements for working with toxic chemicals on farms and other worksites.

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the end of The Big Short isn’t fucking around

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Sometimes you hear that statistic about how if Barbie were a real person, she would fit the weight criteria for anorexia and her boobs would be so disproportionately big that she wouldn’t be able to walk upright. There’s a less fantastical version of that idea, though, that a generation of girls like me saw play out in Britney Spears: If you did everything you were supposed to do to become the Perfect Girl — did just enough sit-ups and cooed just so and showed just enough skin and kept up the lie that you were born only to make someone else happy — it all just might send you completely over the edge. I hear a strain of this idea in the macabre of Lana Del Rey’s music, which blurs the borders between life and death, between the American dream and a nightmare: “Will you still love me when I’m no longer young and beautiful?” But Britney’s music explores this deep a darkness in only its subtext; her sad songs like “Lucky” and “Everytime” strike me as so intensely devastating because even in their darkest moments, they still put on the façade of pretty, like the girl who early on learned that trick of how to blot away tears without smudging even a smidge of mascara. Britney’s meltdown happened when I was in college, learning to hate the game more than the player, finally able to see larger and more systemic threats to my liberation than the feigned innocence of a pretty girl from Kentwood, Louisiana. Still, something about her breakdown felt too traumatic to fully process it at the time. Only when she managed to miraculously come out the other side of it could I acknowledge the terrible pain she must have been going through, could I admit that I didn’t know how Britney Spears didn’t die of it, of being a girl.

Lindsay Zoladz, Leaving Britney Alone (via wizzard890)

“Listening to all of Britney Spears’s albums in chronological order is like looking at an Animorphs cover of a teen girl gradually turning not into a woman, but a cyborg.”

STRONGLY RECOMMEND READING THIS WHOLE PIECE

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we should honestly start using this gif instead of the “how could you say something so controversial yet so brave” one

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Vigil for #KaliefBrowder, a young man who took his own life after years of reliving the trauma of spending three years in an adult prison beginning at the age of 16, for the crime of stealing a backpack in which he never was convicted. His wrongful imprisonment is another example of the flawed justice system that has stolen the lives of so many innocent people. 

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secondhand embarrassment is pure agony and i wish a lot of comedy didnt rely on it

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I know it sounds like a joke, but “the agriculture lobby” is actually a major part of the reason we don’t have laws that focus more on exploited agricultural workers rather than people doing sexual labour. #sexwork #labourrights

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SO I WENT TO THE LOUVRE TODAY…

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you know those lawn mower robots? vegetarian roombas.