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Seriously, stop everything you’re doing for the next twenty minutes and watch this video:

If I could rise up and applaud I would. THIS! fucking THIS.

“White men from prosperous families grow up with the expectation that our voices will be heard. We expect politicians and professors to listen to us and respond to our concerns. We expect public solutions to our problems. And when we’re hurting, the discrepancy between what we’ve been led to believe is our birthright and what we feel we’re receiving in terms of attention can be bewildering and infuriating. Every killer makes his pain another’s problem. But only those who’ve marinated in privilege can conclude that their private pain is the entire world’s problem with which to deal. This is why, while men of all races and classes murder their intimate partners, it is privileged young white dudes who are by far the likeliest to shoot up schools and movie theaters.” 

While Pence and evangelicals have refrained from judging Trump’s personal immorality, they’ve backed the administration’s efforts to put average Americans at the mercy of the whims of people in positions of power based on claims of religious belief.   A rule from the Department of Health and Human Services insists that your employer should be able to decide if you’re worthy of birth control coverage. Because your boss may have deeply held religious beliefs about whether your endometriosis should be treated.    And another HHS policy would let health care workers decide whether they want to treat patients based on their religious or moral beliefs. The new policy could allow doctors and nurses to deny a wide array of services, from birth control prescriptions to basic care of children of gay parents.    Oddly enough, these discussions of using religious objections to deny care rarely venture into, say, denying treatment of sexually transmitted diseases to serial adulterers.   The right’s fixation on abortion and health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people —while ignoring the moral aspects of adultery — is especially baffling considering that Jesus actually mentions adultery, over and over, but never clearly states his views of gay marriage or the morning-after pill.   This hypocrisy isn’t new but it’s never been more obvious.

Can we take a moment to celebrate Candice Patton?

“Simply put: It’s a stipulation that actors and actresses can ask (or demand) to have inserted into their contracts, which would require a certain level of diversity among a film’s cast and crew.”

here he comes now