People have always been disgusting to child stars, but the one thing i hate about social media is how much easier it makes it for people to be gross to literal children. Mia Talerico, the then FIVE YEAR OLD star of Good Luck, Charlie got death threats for the show having a lesbian couple in one episode. Lexi Rabe, the SEVEN YEAR OLD actress of Morgan Stark is getting bullied online because she didn’t want to give an autograph to some asshole who accosted her while she was just doing errands with her parents. Grace VanderWaal was ELEVEN when people began posting obscene comments about her. Millie Bobby Brown is THIRTEEN and has had creepers counting down to her eighteenth birthday since she was TWELVE. Emma Watson went through the same from the time she was ELEVEN. Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams went through internet hell about their weight and their looks at the ages of FIFTEEN and FOURTEEN respectively. Boys can’t escape this either, because Finn Wolfhard has also been subjected to the countdown clock since he was FOURTEEN.  

Yep! The man I refer to as my husband? We aren’t actually married. We can’t be.

Disabled people in the UK do not have marriage equality.

Up to 200 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border are being held in this tent city outside Tornillo, Texas:

just in case anyone doesn’t already know what it looked like, this is the aerial view of auschwitz I:

oh hey guys remember that time i and almost every other jewish person i know was like “trump is literally going to make concentration camps” and all the white christian people were like

“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ’70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyper-consumerist, hyper-individualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”

Reminds me of this:

That’s one of the sad things: The wife kept trying to warn him about Trump. She knew he was coming for her, not just ‘the rapists and criminals.’