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A grown man accosted this mom’s 3-year-old son because she let him wear a tutu in the park. Her Facebook post about the incident is going viral – and shows why she’s anything but a “bad mommy.”

Read the full text of the Facebook post below the break:

Just about the one good, pure thing going right now is the Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary, but some of its neighbors have taken offense and now it is being forced out— in only 60 days. I wish I were a lawyer so I could offer my services to fight this and at least buy them ample time to find and build a sanctuary equivalent to what they have now or better. Since I’m not, it’s time to dig deep and give, and not let 2016 get even worse. These dogs were promised a comfortable home for the rest of their lives. Their people need some help to keep that promise.

Please donate if you can at all, even a few dollars, and signal boost this until every set of dog-loving eyes on this site knows about what’s going down here. There’s a lot of cruel and scary things happening in the world that we can’t do a lot to fix or prevent, but we can stop the worst from happening here, and give these dogs who have finally found much-needed stability and peace a smooth transition to what will be an even better, more stable place to call home.

From OFSDS:

“I was born with glass bones and paper skin, every morning I break my legs, and every-”

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You know

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This guy

The guy that ardently believed so much in the idealism of freedom and lasting peace that he was willing to destroy his own ‘brothers’ (though as a last resort and fought as hard as he could to avoid such a conflict until no other option remained.) A being that was a paragon and beacon of hope on a world that had known nothing but war, trauma, and terror for millennia. Who had become the self imposed protector of an undeniably inferior race hell bent on it’s own destruction because he believed ALL LIFE was capable of doing better. A being who beleived every one deserved equal respect, treatment, and consideration even when his closest friends and allies were contesting him. A being that so beleived in his persoanl convictions that it some times put him at odds with his own “family.”

In other words, one of the greatest heroes ever written in fiction…and “sluttyblackboy” thinks his name is some kind of insult…

Black History Month!

My favorite parts of history (as might be obvious from my choice of subject matter when making books) are the ones that fall into easily-categorized genres, genres with associated visual iconographies. This is the sort of stuff I loved as a kid: pirates, knights, cowboys, explorers, romans and Egyptians and flying aces. Stuff you could find featured in a bag of toys or a generic costume. For Black History Month, I thought I might visit some of these adventure-leaning periods and pick a few historic black people from those eras to draw, just for fun. If you’re doing a project or report in school this month, you could do worse than to tackle one of these toughies.  Feel free to share some of these with youngsters that you know.  And call them youngsters, they LOVE that.

french: :)

english: oh boy

french: :)

english: oh no

french: :)

english: oh geez

english: :)

french: don’t

german: :)

english: oh dear

spanish: :)

english: no don’t

russian: :)

english: oh no

maltese: :)

english: pls no

italian: :)

every other language: oh no

#JamychealMitchell

Youth Jailed Since April For Alleged $5 Grocery Theft, Found Dead In Jail Cell

A young man was arrested by Portsmouth, Virginia police over a mere $5 in groceries that he stole because he was hungry.

The arrest came on the same day a Portsmouth cop shot and killed an unarmed African American 18-year-old.

But now, Jamycheal Mitchell, 24, has been found dead in his jail cell, after spending four months behind bars with no conviction and no bail.

Mitchell had no muscle mass left by the time he died. As a registered nurse, she said she believes he was starving himself, apparently to pressure the “justice” system to  stop locking him up indefinitely.

Mitchell was accused of stealing a $1 bottle of Mountain Dew, a Snickers bar and a Zebra Cake. Combined, these amounted to a total of $5 he is accused of stealing from a 7-Eleven.

For that, he has been locked up for months, awaiting trail, and it is not even clear that he committed those crimes. There may have, perhaps, been a dispute about payment. Or perhaps he began consuming the food in the store and his credit or debit card was declined. Both of these scenarios could result in the same charges.

Perhaps still, he was poor, hungry, and stole food from time to time. Are we really in the business of locking people in cages for months over stealing food?

Mitchell’s death has not been covered by national, or even local media in Virginia, aside from a brief mention on the 11 o’clock news. Help us SPREAD THE WORD before the police start shaping the narrative of this young man’s death!

you’re still trans if you sometimes slip up your own pronouns

you’re still trans if you dont correct people who misgender you, because you’re scared or you just can’t be bothered 

you’re still trans if you haven’t felt ‘trapped in the wrong body’ since childhood

you’re still trans if you only started questioning after discovering the internet

you’re still trans if you dream of yourself with your birth name

you’re still trans if getting misgendered doesn’t feel like a stab in the gut because it happens so often that you’re used to it

you’re still trans if you’ve changed your name and pronouns 5000 times