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    News, Supreme, and Tumblr: AT&T
 9:46 PM
 KO
 Women's March Statement on Trump's
 Extremist SCOTUS Nominee
 Washington, DC - In response to Donald Trump's
 nomination of XX to the Supreme Court of the United
 States, The Women's March released the following
 statement:
<p><a href="https://imperilysm.tumblr.com/post/175744449789/association-of-free-people-dadpat-tactual" class="tumblr_blog">imperilysm</a>:</p><blockquote>
<p><a href="http://association-of-free-people.tumblr.com/post/175744119299/dadpat-tactual-triggeredmedia-they-literally" class="tumblr_blog">association-of-free-people</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://dadpat-tactual.tumblr.com/post/175743389370/triggeredmedia-they-literally-wrote-about-the" class="tumblr_blog">dadpat-tactual</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://triggeredmedia.tumblr.com/post/175731438102/they-literally-wrote-about-the-extremist-pick" class="tumblr_blog">triggeredmedia</a>:</p>

<blockquote><p>They literally wrote about the “extremist” pick before it’s been made and forget to put the name in.</p></blockquote>

<p>What’s the news source on this?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The body of the release makes it more hilarious. </p>
<p><a href="https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/9/womens-march-mocked-press-release-opposing-supreme/">https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/9/womens-march-mocked-press-release-opposing-supreme/</a></p>
<p>Erebody gonna be murdered by XX!</p>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="568" data-orig-width="750"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/82bc30665f4e53994939fc3784b3cfd5/tumblr_pbnk6emWsu1svtbld_540.jpg" data-orig-height="568" data-orig-width="750"/></figure></blockquote>

<p>While X merely gave it to us, XX has a far worse fate in store </p>
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                    News, Supreme, and Tumblr: AT&T
 9:46 PM
 KO
 Women's March Statement on Trump's
 Extremist SCOTUS Nominee
 Washington, DC - In response to Donald Trump's
 nomination of XX to the Supreme Court of the United
 States, The Women's March released the following
 statement:
<p><a href="https://imperilysm.tumblr.com/post/175744449789/association-of-free-people-dadpat-tactual" class="tumblr_blog">imperilysm</a>:</p><blockquote>
<p><a href="http://association-of-free-people.tumblr.com/post/175744119299/dadpat-tactual-triggeredmedia-they-literally" class="tumblr_blog">association-of-free-people</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://dadpat-tactual.tumblr.com/post/175743389370/triggeredmedia-they-literally-wrote-about-the" class="tumblr_blog">dadpat-tactual</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://triggeredmedia.tumblr.com/post/175731438102/they-literally-wrote-about-the-extremist-pick" class="tumblr_blog">triggeredmedia</a>:</p>

<blockquote><p>They literally wrote about the “extremist” pick before it’s been made and forget to put the name in.</p></blockquote>

<p>What’s the news source on this?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The body of the release makes it more hilarious. </p>
<p><a href="https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/9/womens-march-mocked-press-release-opposing-supreme/">https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/9/womens-march-mocked-press-release-opposing-supreme/</a></p>
<p>Erebody gonna be murdered by XX!</p>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="568" data-orig-width="750"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/82bc30665f4e53994939fc3784b3cfd5/tumblr_pbnk6emWsu1svtbld_540.jpg" data-orig-height="568" data-orig-width="750"/></figure></blockquote>

<p>While X merely gave it to us, XX has a far worse fate in store </p>
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<p><a href="https://imperilysm.tumblr.com/post/175744449789/association-of-free-people-dadpat-tactual" class="tumblr_blog">imperilysm</a>:</...

            
            
        

    



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                




    Comfortable, Dumb, and Horny: reddit
 2 r/AskReddit
 People who made an impulse decision when
 they found out Hawail was going to be nuked,
 what did you do and do you regret it?

 Fearlessleader85 10h
 I made an impulse decision to stay in bed with my wife.
 Nowhere to go for safety, no time to get there anyway. Might as
 well be comfortable in my bed with someone i love.
 19562

 JesseVentura911 9h
 Did you have"we're about to die so let's make love" sex
 695
 Fearlessleader85 8h
 No, just talked and cuddled. Thinking we're about to die
 didn't make either of us horny, contrary to what cinema
 said should happen.
 1 1256

 cOOyt825 9h
 If this is not too personal, did you believe it and accepted you
 were going to die? Or were you like "Meh, it'll be alright?
 Fearlessleader85 8h
 I didn't believe it at first, because there are several things
 that are supposed to happen, first the push notification,
 then the emergency broadcast system, and then the
 klaxons sound. Only one thing happened.
 But, when the klaxons went off after about 15 minutes, I
 thought I might be wrong. Then I thought about what I
 would do different if I fully did believe it, and decidedI
 wouldn't do anything different. I was where I wanted to
 be, with who I wanted to be with. We didn't call anyone.
 We just were with each other.
<p><a href="http://yg-ou.tumblr.com/post/169729908676/yg-ou-from-this-thread-the-majority-of-the" class="tumblr_blog">yg-ou</a>:</p><blockquote>
<p><a href="http://yg-ou.tumblr.com/post/169729897966/from-this-thread-the-majority-of-the-threaded" class="tumblr_blog">yg-ou</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>from <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7qf7ov/people_who_made_an_impulse_decision_when_they/dsouny7/">this</a> thread, the majority of the threaded comments were dumb sex jokes in response to op’s answers but i felt this was worth preserving</p></blockquote>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="238" data-orig-width="540"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/800ff86de36853da7e04b9a9c324752a/tumblr_inline_p2lggc65Uf1r9icep_540.png" data-orig-height="238" data-orig-width="540"/></figure></blockquote>
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                
                    Comfortable, Dumb, and Horny: reddit
 2 r/AskReddit
 People who made an impulse decision when
 they found out Hawail was going to be nuked,
 what did you do and do you regret it?

 Fearlessleader85 10h
 I made an impulse decision to stay in bed with my wife.
 Nowhere to go for safety, no time to get there anyway. Might as
 well be comfortable in my bed with someone i love.
 19562

 JesseVentura911 9h
 Did you have"we're about to die so let's make love" sex
 695
 Fearlessleader85 8h
 No, just talked and cuddled. Thinking we're about to die
 didn't make either of us horny, contrary to what cinema
 said should happen.
 1 1256

 cOOyt825 9h
 If this is not too personal, did you believe it and accepted you
 were going to die? Or were you like "Meh, it'll be alright?
 Fearlessleader85 8h
 I didn't believe it at first, because there are several things
 that are supposed to happen, first the push notification,
 then the emergency broadcast system, and then the
 klaxons sound. Only one thing happened.
 But, when the klaxons went off after about 15 minutes, I
 thought I might be wrong. Then I thought about what I
 would do different if I fully did believe it, and decidedI
 wouldn't do anything different. I was where I wanted to
 be, with who I wanted to be with. We didn't call anyone.
 We just were with each other.
<p><a href="http://yg-ou.tumblr.com/post/169729908676/yg-ou-from-this-thread-the-majority-of-the" class="tumblr_blog">yg-ou</a>:</p><blockquote>
<p><a href="http://yg-ou.tumblr.com/post/169729897966/from-this-thread-the-majority-of-the-threaded" class="tumblr_blog">yg-ou</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>from <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7qf7ov/people_who_made_an_impulse_decision_when_they/dsouny7/">this</a> thread, the majority of the threaded comments were dumb sex jokes in response to op’s answers but i felt this was worth preserving</p></blockquote>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="238" data-orig-width="540"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/800ff86de36853da7e04b9a9c324752a/tumblr_inline_p2lggc65Uf1r9icep_540.png" data-orig-height="238" data-orig-width="540"/></figure></blockquote>
                    
                
            

            
            
<p><a href="http://yg-ou.tumblr.com/post/169729908676/yg-ou-from-this-thread-the-majority-of-the" class="tumblr_blog">yg-ou</a>:</p><blockqu...

            
            
        

    



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                




    Asian, Children, and Life: Dr. Farrah Gray
 Asian Interviewer: "Can you address their concems Mr.Chang?
 | MR CHANG: "The concerns of Black people? Yes l can. The fact is, that we all
 ive under a system of White Supremacy. We Asian people look back at our long
 history of confict with the European. We observe their strategies and develop our
 own, in response and in kind. There is no need for loud mass movements on our
 part, because we intend to overtake them in time, through action and personal
 sacrifice
 Asian INTERVIEWER: And the Black man?
 MR CHANG: "He does not count into our situation. He is simply here. We do not
 hate the Black man. We just love the Asian man most. Real love-not cliche. We
 want to see Asian man happy, so we employ him. We eat together. We spend time
 with each other. We want his kids to be educated, so we invest in our own schools
 that offer our children the technical abilities to change the world's power structure
 in our favor. We want to see the Asian man safe, so we purchase and organize our
 own communities. We want him to remain Asian, so we reduce the outside
 nfluence of others ideologies and cultures. While he fought to sniff behind the
 White man, the Black man has had the opportunity and every right in the world to
 do the same, but he chooses to indict people like me for not hiring him over my
 own brothers. For me to do this would be foolish and that would not be Asian love
 In contrast, the Black man will fight for the right to be up under everyone else
 other than other Black people who he should feel the most love for. If our
 indifference to their situation make us racist, then what would you call the Black
 lilduval Friendly reminder: nobody is holding black people
 back but BLACK PEOPLE! And it's nobody's responsibility to
 make life better for you but YOU! So stop complaining about
 obstacles you have to overcome WE ALL HAVE THEM ain't
 shit equal on earth. Not even in the ocean
 cthagod Stop Cooning!
 2h 230 likes Reply
 lilduval @cthagod don't make me call
 Monique to read u again
 BALL
Ballerific Comment Creepin 🌾👀🌾 lilduval charlamagnethagod commentcreepin
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                
                    Asian, Children, and Life: Dr. Farrah Gray
 Asian Interviewer: "Can you address their concems Mr.Chang?
 | MR CHANG: "The concerns of Black people? Yes l can. The fact is, that we all
 ive under a system of White Supremacy. We Asian people look back at our long
 history of confict with the European. We observe their strategies and develop our
 own, in response and in kind. There is no need for loud mass movements on our
 part, because we intend to overtake them in time, through action and personal
 sacrifice
 Asian INTERVIEWER: And the Black man?
 MR CHANG: "He does not count into our situation. He is simply here. We do not
 hate the Black man. We just love the Asian man most. Real love-not cliche. We
 want to see Asian man happy, so we employ him. We eat together. We spend time
 with each other. We want his kids to be educated, so we invest in our own schools
 that offer our children the technical abilities to change the world's power structure
 in our favor. We want to see the Asian man safe, so we purchase and organize our
 own communities. We want him to remain Asian, so we reduce the outside
 nfluence of others ideologies and cultures. While he fought to sniff behind the
 White man, the Black man has had the opportunity and every right in the world to
 do the same, but he chooses to indict people like me for not hiring him over my
 own brothers. For me to do this would be foolish and that would not be Asian love
 In contrast, the Black man will fight for the right to be up under everyone else
 other than other Black people who he should feel the most love for. If our
 indifference to their situation make us racist, then what would you call the Black
 lilduval Friendly reminder: nobody is holding black people
 back but BLACK PEOPLE! And it's nobody's responsibility to
 make life better for you but YOU! So stop complaining about
 obstacles you have to overcome WE ALL HAVE THEM ain't
 shit equal on earth. Not even in the ocean
 cthagod Stop Cooning!
 2h 230 likes Reply
 lilduval @cthagod don't make me call
 Monique to read u again
 BALL
Ballerific Comment Creepin 🌾👀🌾 lilduval charlamagnethagod commentcreepin
                    
                
            

            
            
Ballerific Comment Creepin 🌾👀🌾 lilduval charlamagnethagod commentcreepin

            
            
        

    



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                




    America, Friday, and Guns: SO HOW ABOUT EVERY BLACH
 MAN IN AMERICA GOES OUT
 TOMORROW AND BUYS AND AR-15
 ASSAULT WEAPON. THEY'LL BE
 BANNED BY FRIDAY
WORD!! TRUTH 💯 Repost @kendrick38: On the anniversary of the death of the Revolutionary MalcolmX, I figured I’d give a little radical proposal. 🤓😏✊🏽🖤 It wouldn’t be the first time. BlackHistoryMonth Lesson: “The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that repealed a law allowing public carrying of loaded firearms. Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford, the bill was crafted in response to members of the BlackPanther Party who were conducting armed patrols of Oakland neighborhoods while they were conducting what would later be termed copwatching.[1] They garnered national attention after the Black Panthers marched bearing arms upon the California State Capitol to protest the bill. AB-1591 was authored by Don Mulford (R) from Oakland, John T. Knox (D) from Richmond, Walter J. Karabian (D) from Monterey Park, Alan Sieroty (D) from Los Angeles, and William M. Ketchum (R) from Bakersfield,[5] it passed both Assembly (controlled by Democrats 42:38) and Senate (split 20:20) and was signed by Governor Ronald Reagan on July 28. The law banned the carrying of loaded weapons in public. [6] Both Republicans and Democrats in California supported increased gun control. Governor Ronald Reagan was present when the protesters arrived and later commented that he saw "no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons" and that guns were a "ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will." “ BlackPanther GunControl Bipartisan GunReformNow
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                
                    America, Friday, and Guns: SO HOW ABOUT EVERY BLACH
 MAN IN AMERICA GOES OUT
 TOMORROW AND BUYS AND AR-15
 ASSAULT WEAPON. THEY'LL BE
 BANNED BY FRIDAY
WORD!! TRUTH 💯 Repost @kendrick38: On the anniversary of the death of the Revolutionary MalcolmX, I figured I’d give a little radical proposal. 🤓😏✊🏽🖤 It wouldn’t be the first time. BlackHistoryMonth Lesson: “The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that repealed a law allowing public carrying of loaded firearms. Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford, the bill was crafted in response to members of the BlackPanther Party who were conducting armed patrols of Oakland neighborhoods while they were conducting what would later be termed copwatching.[1] They garnered national attention after the Black Panthers marched bearing arms upon the California State Capitol to protest the bill. AB-1591 was authored by Don Mulford (R) from Oakland, John T. Knox (D) from Richmond, Walter J. Karabian (D) from Monterey Park, Alan Sieroty (D) from Los Angeles, and William M. Ketchum (R) from Bakersfield,[5] it passed both Assembly (controlled by Democrats 42:38) and Senate (split 20:20) and was signed by Governor Ronald Reagan on July 28. The law banned the carrying of loaded weapons in public. [6] Both Republicans and Democrats in California supported increased gun control. Governor Ronald Reagan was present when the protesters arrived and later commented that he saw "no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons" and that guns were a "ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will." “ BlackPanther GunControl Bipartisan GunReformNow
                    
                
            

            
            
WORD!! TRUTH 💯 Repost @kendrick38: On the anniversary of the death of the Revolutionary MalcolmX, I figured I’d give a little radical propos...

            
            
        

    



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                




    Black History Month, Church, and Period: EDOM FROM WANT FREEDOM FROM
<p>Black history month day 7: Sculptor Selma Hortense Burke.</p>

<p>Selma Burke was born in 1900 in Mooresville North Carolina. The 10th child of an AME church minister, she grew up attending a one room segregated schoolhouse and playing with the riverbed clay near her home. This was what first piqued her interest in sculpture. Her mother thought she should pursue a more financially stable career than one as an artist, but her grandmother was a painter and encouraged her interests.</p>

<p>Burke attended Winston-Salem University and graduated from St. Agnes Training School for Nurses in Raleigh in 1924. She moved to Harlem to become a private nurse, and it was there that she began a tumultuous relationship with Jamaican poet Claude McKay and was first exposed to the Harlem Renaissance. </p>

<p>Twice Burke traveled to Europe in the 1930s. Once on a Rosenwald fellowship to study sculpture in Vienna for a year, and once to study in Paris with Aristide Maillol. One of her most significant works from this period is &ldquo;Frau Keller&rdquo; (1937), a portrait of a German-Jewish woman in response to the rising Nazi threat which would convince Burke to leave Europe later that year.</p>

<p>We she returned to the United States, Burke enrolled at Columbia University, where she earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1941.</p>

<p>She is pictured here with two of her most famous pieces: A bust of Booker T. Washington, given to Frederick Douglass High School in Manhattan in 1936, and a relief sculpture of President Franklin D. Roosevelt that serves as the template for the American dime to this day.</p>
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                
                    Black History Month, Church, and Period: EDOM FROM WANT FREEDOM FROM
<p>Black history month day 7: Sculptor Selma Hortense Burke.</p>

<p>Selma Burke was born in 1900 in Mooresville North Carolina. The 10th child of an AME church minister, she grew up attending a one room segregated schoolhouse and playing with the riverbed clay near her home. This was what first piqued her interest in sculpture. Her mother thought she should pursue a more financially stable career than one as an artist, but her grandmother was a painter and encouraged her interests.</p>

<p>Burke attended Winston-Salem University and graduated from St. Agnes Training School for Nurses in Raleigh in 1924. She moved to Harlem to become a private nurse, and it was there that she began a tumultuous relationship with Jamaican poet Claude McKay and was first exposed to the Harlem Renaissance. </p>

<p>Twice Burke traveled to Europe in the 1930s. Once on a Rosenwald fellowship to study sculpture in Vienna for a year, and once to study in Paris with Aristide Maillol. One of her most significant works from this period is &ldquo;Frau Keller&rdquo; (1937), a portrait of a German-Jewish woman in response to the rising Nazi threat which would convince Burke to leave Europe later that year.</p>

<p>We she returned to the United States, Burke enrolled at Columbia University, where she earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1941.</p>

<p>She is pictured here with two of her most famous pieces: A bust of Booker T. Washington, given to Frederick Douglass High School in Manhattan in 1936, and a relief sculpture of President Franklin D. Roosevelt that serves as the template for the American dime to this day.</p>
                    
                
            

            
            
<p>Black history month day 7: Sculptor Selma Hortense Burke.</p>

<p>Selma Burke was born in 1900 in Mooresville North Carolina. The 10th ch...

            
            
        

    



            

        

        
        

            

                




    Black History Month, Church, and Girls: <p>Black history month artistic figures day five: Singer, pianist, and activist Nina Simone.</p>

<p>Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina in 1933. She started playing piano when she was three years old and dreamed to one day become an a concert pianist. Her first official recital performance was it a classical recital when she was 12. Her parents, who had taken front row seats for the recital, were forced to move to the back due to segregation at the venue. When Simone found out about it, she refused to play until her parents were allowed to move back to the front. This event sparked her later activism.</p>

<p>With the help of scholarship money, Simone was able to attend Allen High School for Girls in Asheville, North Carolina. After her graduation she spent the summer of 1950 at the Juilliard School, as a student of Carl Friedberg, preparing for her addition at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Despite a fantastic and well received audition, Simone was denied admission to the school. She suspected racial prejudice was to blame.</p>

<p>In order to make ends meet, Simone ended up taking a job as a resident pianist and singer at a bar. This is when she changed her name from Eunice Waymon to Nina Simone, in order to disguise her identity from her minister parents who did not approve of her playing “the devil’s music“ in bars and clubs. Her mixture of genres, including jazz, blues, and classical music in her performances at the bar earned her a small but loyal fan base.</p>

<p>Though she had always drawn on her African-American roots in her music, in the 60s and 70s Simone became very active in civil rights and anti-Vietnam causes. She wrote her now well known song “Mississippi Goddam” in response to racist attacks and murders, including the high profile Birmingham church bombing that killed for little black girls and partially blinded a fifth. She considered it her first civil rights anthem.</p>

<p>Later in life Simone moved Barbados and then France, where she lived out her days until passing of breast cancer in 2003. Her ashes were scattered in several African countries and she is survived by one daughter, an actress and singer who uses the stage name Simone.</p>
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                
                    Black History Month, Church, and Girls: <p>Black history month artistic figures day five: Singer, pianist, and activist Nina Simone.</p>

<p>Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina in 1933. She started playing piano when she was three years old and dreamed to one day become an a concert pianist. Her first official recital performance was it a classical recital when she was 12. Her parents, who had taken front row seats for the recital, were forced to move to the back due to segregation at the venue. When Simone found out about it, she refused to play until her parents were allowed to move back to the front. This event sparked her later activism.</p>

<p>With the help of scholarship money, Simone was able to attend Allen High School for Girls in Asheville, North Carolina. After her graduation she spent the summer of 1950 at the Juilliard School, as a student of Carl Friedberg, preparing for her addition at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Despite a fantastic and well received audition, Simone was denied admission to the school. She suspected racial prejudice was to blame.</p>

<p>In order to make ends meet, Simone ended up taking a job as a resident pianist and singer at a bar. This is when she changed her name from Eunice Waymon to Nina Simone, in order to disguise her identity from her minister parents who did not approve of her playing “the devil’s music“ in bars and clubs. Her mixture of genres, including jazz, blues, and classical music in her performances at the bar earned her a small but loyal fan base.</p>

<p>Though she had always drawn on her African-American roots in her music, in the 60s and 70s Simone became very active in civil rights and anti-Vietnam causes. She wrote her now well known song “Mississippi Goddam” in response to racist attacks and murders, including the high profile Birmingham church bombing that killed for little black girls and partially blinded a fifth. She considered it her first civil rights anthem.</p>

<p>Later in life Simone moved Barbados and then France, where she lived out her days until passing of breast cancer in 2003. Her ashes were scattered in several African countries and she is survived by one daughter, an actress and singer who uses the stage name Simone.</p>
                    
                
            

            
            
<p>Black history month artistic figures day five: Singer, pianist, and activist Nina Simone.</p>

<p>Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Wa...

            
            
        

    



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                



            

        

        
        

            

                




    Being Alone, America, and Apparently: I brought this
 in because the
 School cannot
 OFord soap.
 ess you
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<p>ladies and gentlemen, the american education system</p>
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<p>My school apparently ran out of toilet paper a few weeks ago and my Spanish teacher was telling the girls to keep a roll in their purses and the guys to keep a roll in our backpacks. North American Education system.</p>
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<p>this is basically any public school in the world tbh</p>
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<p>bet the football teams have new equiptment though</p>
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<p>Whoop there it is</p>
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<p>No I’m not even kidding I bet my life that there is equipment and a well managed field for the football team. Probably a good baseball and basketball team for guys. Other sports not so much.</p>
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<p>This is NOT any public schooling system in the world! Australian public schools do not have this problem! How the fuck does a school not afford basic bathroom amenities?! If that happened here there would be an immediate school funding revision campaign! I assume you guys are joking about the football teams because there’s no way overblown American sports movies are real. Does your government just… not fund schools? </p>
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<p>A running joke in my high school is “…but we can’t afford paper!” because a few years ago, my entire school system had us recycling each and every scrap and refusing to pay to get teachers copier paper. We were all asked to bring in our own paper, because school just wasn’t going to provide paper anything. Ironically, same year the football field was renovated.</p>
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<p>That…</p>
<p>That can’t possibly be right. </p>
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<p>My high school had chunks of the ceiling falling down periodically, because of water and mold damage. I remember being in the gym for basketball practice and a huge grate fell down and scared the crap out of us. No one was ever hurt, and the state health department declared the levels of mold to be “not immediately dangerous” and so it was left alone. <br/><br/>They once had to close down an entire section of hallway and stairs because one year, the toilets flooded on the second floor and soaked into the ceiling and walls. The next year, a chunk of ceiling fell out right below that, and the toxic variety of black mold was found. Again, the levels were “not dangerous” so they blocked off the area for a few weeks (making it impossible to get to class on time) until it was “cleaned up”. There were no windows, because when the school was built it was right next to an international airport (that has since moved) and the noise was too much at the time. So in order to keep the air flowing, they pumped air conditioning year round, including winter. <br/><br/>And yes- the football field was in fact completely renovated before the buildings were even touched. 5 years prior to the original start date of high school building renovations. Also, while the football field was built with out a single hiccup, the school renovation was actually stopped after it started and halted for 4 years because the town didn’t want to spend the money on it. People argued that taxes shouldn’t be raised for that since they felt the buildings were fine as they were. Welcome to American public schools. </p>
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<p>WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOUR SCHOOL SYSTEM??</p>
<p>FOOTBALL</p>
<p>OVERT RELIGIOUS LOBBYING</p>
<p>SCHOOL SHOOTINGS</p>
<p>CRUMBLING BUILDINGS AND NO SOAP</p>
<p>DO YOU LIVE IN A SEMI-DYSTOPIAN NOVEL</p>
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<p>A few years ago the music program lost funding for all things musical and we have to raise all our money ourself. And in addition to that, in the music hall the ceiling started to fall in and flood the band lockers and there are still whole tiles not in the ceiling from the water. But you know what the football team got all new uniforms.</p>
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<p>American schools have always sucked ass. Now you all know why.</p>
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<p>I remember one year we were all walking around for a week or so with all the hallway lights turned off so we could save money. School lunch was a joke. There weren’t enough text books for everyone. I got a D in calculus because I had no book. The theatre department had to have car washes on Sundays to raise money. But of course football was the only concern. I remember the yearbook had like the first 20 pages dedicated to sports and then the rest of us had one page, if that. My senior year, our theatre page had to share with the foreign exchange students.</p>
<p>You know in Glee when all the glee kids have to raise money for everything and Sue spends a shit ton of money on the cheerleaders? Not even an exaggeration.</p>
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<p>Our theater program funding was cut to send our football team to St. Louis. They didn’t win anything but they tried really hard so they deserved a team trip.</p>
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<p>If this shit happened in England there would uproar</p>
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<p>I went to a private school where I was the French Club President, and our advisor was privately informed that all of the money we had been raising all year long would be absorbed into the Athletic Fund if there was anything left at the end of the school year. In response to this injustice, we decided to make an annual event a month before school ended where we would all go the Refectory (aka a fancy French restaurant in the city) and spend every single cent of our hard earned treasury. Like, this was just ONE instance that affected me personally. Things like this happen all the time in the United States.</p>
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<p>All throughout my experience with public schools in America (all 14 years of it), I always remembered that when we had to buy our own school supplies, and we were always told to buy classroom supplies like kleenexs, soap, hand sanitizers, and more. Because once the classroom ran out of this stuff we had nothing. And once I got into high school no one ever brought this stuff for the classrooms so I always found mucus rubbed on the walls in some classrooms and bathrooms and it’s was absolutely disgusting.</p>
<p>And guess where all our money from the state went to? The high school football team. Within the past year or so our taxes went up because my old high school expanded the football field’s bleachers/seating. Also, despite all of our signatures in our town for a petition to prevent a ‘student activity center’ being built next to the school where it would be for the most important student athletes, the school got their way. And guess who doesn’t have enough money to support their programs? The fine arts programs. I had friends who were in choir, band, etc. that had to find ways to raise money for their programs since the school never cared to fund them. It’s either that, or the teachers pull money off of their paycheck to provide supplies for their students (and public school teachers don’t have good salaries anyways in the US), whereas the school uses all their state funds for the football team. It’s ridiculous, and I’m glad I’m no longer in high school having to deal with a school who worships their football team, while all the other programs suffer to remain in the school.</p>
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<p>I haven’t been in highschool in 7 years but my brother is currently in highschool. Apparently the school is in much worse condition than when I left, with some classes having lessons outside because the a/c was busted and the school refused to fix it. Programs related to art are royally screwed and have to raise their own money or find their own supplies. We had to go DUMPSTER DIVING for art supplies. In Pom (dance team) we had to raise our own money for a Disney trip despite Disney having invited us to perform after we had won multiple state championships. Same happened to the cheer team the following year after I graduated. Performing arts often has to make their own sets from whatever scrap gets donated or gets found by teachers/students. We had to raise all kinds of money and were forced to reduce prices of tickets for performances because “people shouldn’t have to pay that much for a show” by the school (our shows were $10). Band is still in the same shitty facility as it was when I was there with shitty acoustics and shittier uniforms. But you can bet your ass the football team got all kinds of goodies. Like new equipment, new uniforms, new gym equipment and A FUCKING INDOOR FOOTBALL FIELD! Our team sucked when I was in highschool and they still suck now. The school is letting teachers go due to budget cuts but they’re STILL hiring a new coach just because the last one (who had only been there a year) didn’t win a championship (which football hasn’t won a championship in almost 30 years). Coaches get paid more than regular teachers even if they don’t teach a subject aside from football. They also often bully other teachers into boosting a students’ grade just so they won’t be ineligible to play an upcoming game. This is why I hate highschool football. In America it’s seen as a religion. Football takes priority before EVERYTHING even though hardly any students have a career in football after highschool or college. Even though most scholarships are based on academics and OTHER extra curricular activities. But fuck that, the football team gets all the money. Fuck football.</p>
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<p><a href="http://deadspin.com/infographic-is-your-states-highest-paid-employee-a-co-489635228">Infographic: Is Your State’s Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably)</a><br/></p>
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<p>My school was the same as all this shit. Not enough books to go around, not enough teachers, no enough caregivers for the mentally handicapped, but hey, we got a new half million dollar track and field for no fucking reason. </p>
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<p>I’m still surprised by this, because I believed it was normal to spend 300€ each year in textbooks, and high school is even more expensive, maybe 400€. (I live in Southern Europe). </p>
<p>How it works? The textbooks are school property? </p>
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<p>Yeah textbooks are paid for and provided by the school </p>
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<p>See my school was always the opposite of this… Well funded in pretty much every area except sports lol. In fact the departments that got the most funding were the arts, theater especially. I guess it’s just a school full of nerds? I mean our best varsity team was always robotics if that tells you anything… Honestly though the problem isn’t how much money the school’s being given usually, it’s how that money’s being spent. If all your money’s going towards sports while the rest of the school is falling apart, there’s a problem.</p></blockquote>

<p>At the school where I teach we are always running out of things. Once we ran out of paper towels and we were out for like half a month.</p>
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                
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<p>ladies and gentlemen, the american education system</p>
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<p>My school apparently ran out of toilet paper a few weeks ago and my Spanish teacher was telling the girls to keep a roll in their purses and the guys to keep a roll in our backpacks. North American Education system.</p>
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<p>this is basically any public school in the world tbh</p>
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<p>bet the football teams have new equiptment though</p>
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<p>Whoop there it is</p>
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<p>No I’m not even kidding I bet my life that there is equipment and a well managed field for the football team. Probably a good baseball and basketball team for guys. Other sports not so much.</p>
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<p>This is NOT any public schooling system in the world! Australian public schools do not have this problem! How the fuck does a school not afford basic bathroom amenities?! If that happened here there would be an immediate school funding revision campaign! I assume you guys are joking about the football teams because there’s no way overblown American sports movies are real. Does your government just… not fund schools? </p>
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<p>A running joke in my high school is “…but we can’t afford paper!” because a few years ago, my entire school system had us recycling each and every scrap and refusing to pay to get teachers copier paper. We were all asked to bring in our own paper, because school just wasn’t going to provide paper anything. Ironically, same year the football field was renovated.</p>
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<p>That…</p>
<p>That can’t possibly be right. </p>
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<p>My high school had chunks of the ceiling falling down periodically, because of water and mold damage. I remember being in the gym for basketball practice and a huge grate fell down and scared the crap out of us. No one was ever hurt, and the state health department declared the levels of mold to be “not immediately dangerous” and so it was left alone. <br/><br/>They once had to close down an entire section of hallway and stairs because one year, the toilets flooded on the second floor and soaked into the ceiling and walls. The next year, a chunk of ceiling fell out right below that, and the toxic variety of black mold was found. Again, the levels were “not dangerous” so they blocked off the area for a few weeks (making it impossible to get to class on time) until it was “cleaned up”. There were no windows, because when the school was built it was right next to an international airport (that has since moved) and the noise was too much at the time. So in order to keep the air flowing, they pumped air conditioning year round, including winter. <br/><br/>And yes- the football field was in fact completely renovated before the buildings were even touched. 5 years prior to the original start date of high school building renovations. Also, while the football field was built with out a single hiccup, the school renovation was actually stopped after it started and halted for 4 years because the town didn’t want to spend the money on it. People argued that taxes shouldn’t be raised for that since they felt the buildings were fine as they were. Welcome to American public schools. </p>
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<p>WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOUR SCHOOL SYSTEM??</p>
<p>FOOTBALL</p>
<p>OVERT RELIGIOUS LOBBYING</p>
<p>SCHOOL SHOOTINGS</p>
<p>CRUMBLING BUILDINGS AND NO SOAP</p>
<p>DO YOU LIVE IN A SEMI-DYSTOPIAN NOVEL</p>
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<p>A few years ago the music program lost funding for all things musical and we have to raise all our money ourself. And in addition to that, in the music hall the ceiling started to fall in and flood the band lockers and there are still whole tiles not in the ceiling from the water. But you know what the football team got all new uniforms.</p>
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<p>American schools have always sucked ass. Now you all know why.</p>
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<p>I remember one year we were all walking around for a week or so with all the hallway lights turned off so we could save money. School lunch was a joke. There weren’t enough text books for everyone. I got a D in calculus because I had no book. The theatre department had to have car washes on Sundays to raise money. But of course football was the only concern. I remember the yearbook had like the first 20 pages dedicated to sports and then the rest of us had one page, if that. My senior year, our theatre page had to share with the foreign exchange students.</p>
<p>You know in Glee when all the glee kids have to raise money for everything and Sue spends a shit ton of money on the cheerleaders? Not even an exaggeration.</p>
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<p>Our theater program funding was cut to send our football team to St. Louis. They didn’t win anything but they tried really hard so they deserved a team trip.</p>
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<p>If this shit happened in England there would uproar</p>
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<p>I went to a private school where I was the French Club President, and our advisor was privately informed that all of the money we had been raising all year long would be absorbed into the Athletic Fund if there was anything left at the end of the school year. In response to this injustice, we decided to make an annual event a month before school ended where we would all go the Refectory (aka a fancy French restaurant in the city) and spend every single cent of our hard earned treasury. Like, this was just ONE instance that affected me personally. Things like this happen all the time in the United States.</p>
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<p>All throughout my experience with public schools in America (all 14 years of it), I always remembered that when we had to buy our own school supplies, and we were always told to buy classroom supplies like kleenexs, soap, hand sanitizers, and more. Because once the classroom ran out of this stuff we had nothing. And once I got into high school no one ever brought this stuff for the classrooms so I always found mucus rubbed on the walls in some classrooms and bathrooms and it’s was absolutely disgusting.</p>
<p>And guess where all our money from the state went to? The high school football team. Within the past year or so our taxes went up because my old high school expanded the football field’s bleachers/seating. Also, despite all of our signatures in our town for a petition to prevent a ‘student activity center’ being built next to the school where it would be for the most important student athletes, the school got their way. And guess who doesn’t have enough money to support their programs? The fine arts programs. I had friends who were in choir, band, etc. that had to find ways to raise money for their programs since the school never cared to fund them. It’s either that, or the teachers pull money off of their paycheck to provide supplies for their students (and public school teachers don’t have good salaries anyways in the US), whereas the school uses all their state funds for the football team. It’s ridiculous, and I’m glad I’m no longer in high school having to deal with a school who worships their football team, while all the other programs suffer to remain in the school.</p>
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<p>I haven’t been in highschool in 7 years but my brother is currently in highschool. Apparently the school is in much worse condition than when I left, with some classes having lessons outside because the a/c was busted and the school refused to fix it. Programs related to art are royally screwed and have to raise their own money or find their own supplies. We had to go DUMPSTER DIVING for art supplies. In Pom (dance team) we had to raise our own money for a Disney trip despite Disney having invited us to perform after we had won multiple state championships. Same happened to the cheer team the following year after I graduated. Performing arts often has to make their own sets from whatever scrap gets donated or gets found by teachers/students. We had to raise all kinds of money and were forced to reduce prices of tickets for performances because “people shouldn’t have to pay that much for a show” by the school (our shows were $10). Band is still in the same shitty facility as it was when I was there with shitty acoustics and shittier uniforms. But you can bet your ass the football team got all kinds of goodies. Like new equipment, new uniforms, new gym equipment and A FUCKING INDOOR FOOTBALL FIELD! Our team sucked when I was in highschool and they still suck now. The school is letting teachers go due to budget cuts but they’re STILL hiring a new coach just because the last one (who had only been there a year) didn’t win a championship (which football hasn’t won a championship in almost 30 years). Coaches get paid more than regular teachers even if they don’t teach a subject aside from football. They also often bully other teachers into boosting a students’ grade just so they won’t be ineligible to play an upcoming game. This is why I hate highschool football. In America it’s seen as a religion. Football takes priority before EVERYTHING even though hardly any students have a career in football after highschool or college. Even though most scholarships are based on academics and OTHER extra curricular activities. But fuck that, the football team gets all the money. Fuck football.</p>
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<p><a href="http://deadspin.com/infographic-is-your-states-highest-paid-employee-a-co-489635228">Infographic: Is Your State’s Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably)</a><br/></p>
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<p>My school was the same as all this shit. Not enough books to go around, not enough teachers, no enough caregivers for the mentally handicapped, but hey, we got a new half million dollar track and field for no fucking reason. </p>
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<p>I’m still surprised by this, because I believed it was normal to spend 300€ each year in textbooks, and high school is even more expensive, maybe 400€. (I live in Southern Europe). </p>
<p>How it works? The textbooks are school property? </p>
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<p>Yeah textbooks are paid for and provided by the school </p>
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<p>See my school was always the opposite of this… Well funded in pretty much every area except sports lol. In fact the departments that got the most funding were the arts, theater especially. I guess it’s just a school full of nerds? I mean our best varsity team was always robotics if that tells you anything… Honestly though the problem isn’t how much money the school’s being given usually, it’s how that money’s being spent. If all your money’s going towards sports while the rest of the school is falling apart, there’s a problem.</p></blockquote>

<p>At the school where I teach we are always running out of things. Once we ran out of paper towels and we were out for like half a month.</p>
                    
                
            

            
            
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Judge Blocks Trump’s Efforts To End DACA Program - blogged by @MsJennyb ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Just four months after the Trump Administration moved to end the program that protected young undocumented immigrants who came to the US illegally as children from deportation, a judge has blocked the efforts. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ According to CNN, Judge William Alsup ruled to temporary stop the rollback of the DACA program on Tuesday, saying the decision to end the program was made on unreasonable grounds or without any proper consideration of circumstances. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In the 49-page ruling, the federal judge also said the administration must resume receiving renewal applications for the program. However, the administration is not required to process new applications. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In response, the Administration condemned the Alsup’s ruling with the White House press secretary calling it “outrageous.” Meanwhile, Trump took his frustrations to Twitter, tweeting, "It just shows everyone how broken and unfair our Court System is when the opposing side in a case (such as DACA) always runs to the 9th Circuit and almost always wins before being reversed by higher courts.” However, others believe this is a huge step in the right direction.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                
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Judge Blocks Trump’s Efforts To End DACA Program - blogged by @MsJennyb ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Just four months after the Trump Administration moved to end the program that protected young undocumented immigrants who came to the US illegally as children from deportation, a judge has blocked the efforts. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ According to CNN, Judge William Alsup ruled to temporary stop the rollback of the DACA program on Tuesday, saying the decision to end the program was made on unreasonable grounds or without any proper consideration of circumstances. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In the 49-page ruling, the federal judge also said the administration must resume receiving renewal applications for the program. However, the administration is not required to process new applications. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In response, the Administration condemned the Alsup’s ruling with the White House press secretary calling it “outrageous.” Meanwhile, Trump took his frustrations to Twitter, tweeting, "It just shows everyone how broken and unfair our Court System is when the opposing side in a case (such as DACA) always runs to the 9th Circuit and almost always wins before being reversed by higher courts.” However, others believe this is a huge step in the right direction.
                    
                
            

            
            
Judge Blocks Trump’s Efforts To End DACA Program - blogged by @MsJennyb ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Just four months after the Trump Administration moved to end...