THEY (singular)

don’t fall for their bullshit. you have the right to speak up and make yourself heard. a local superintendent doesn’t overrule the first amendment, much as they might like to.

and here’s an open invitation: I’m a teacher, recent PhD, one-time educational administrator (although not in a public school), and hopefully soon to be a college professor. if you need advice on navigating the crap your school is giving you or minimizing the impact they can have on your chances of getting into the college of your dreams, message me. I’ll help you find legal resources, write admissions essays, find ways to argue for your right to protest to your school board - whatever I can do.

“I see you got suspended. Why?”

“I got suspended for organizing/participating in a direct action initiative to address gun violence in American schools in the wake of the Florida Shooting.”

Living With The Pet.

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet providers like Comcast & Verizon should not control what we see and do online. In 2015, startups, Internet freedom groups, and 3.7 million commenters won strong net neutrality rules from the US Federal Communication Commission (FCC). The rules prohibit Internet providers from blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization—"fast lanes" for sites that pay, and slow lanes for everyone else.

John Oliver on the danger of ending net neutrality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU

On what ending net neutrality means for us:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/fcc-moves-to-roll-back-net-neutrality?utm_term=.ds0OQ5QM#.djMoxJxy

“feminists reacted with outrage”

“the only way to liberate others is to liberate yourself first”

NOT 👏🏼 ALL 👏🏼 TRANS 👏🏼 PEOPLE 👏🏼 ARE 👏🏼 TRANS 👏🏼 WOMEN 

I suppose it also depends on your chest size but maybe a swim shirt? A full length binder that looks like a tank top? Or just a t-shirt, if your chest is small and you tape your nipples (make sure to do so safely!!!!!!!!! look up how to do it!)

I hope you find something that works!

http://www.underworks.com/sleeveless-swim-top is DABOMB, I have one, I feel badass in it bc it’s faintly superheroesque. However, take it from someone who definitely didn’t but also maybe did this - when you put it on, make sure you don’t tuck it in to do anything. Otherwise you will push through the water and your shorts will start to come off and lemme tell you, nobody needs that.

Or if you don’t need a tonne of support and just want the coverage in a way that’s comfortable, look at a “tankini”. I have longer shorts, but to me it feels like wearing a workout shirt and I don’t have to think about anything else.

Look at the cure rates compared to mortality rates in universal health care countries and compare them to ours, then talk shit.

You don’t seem to understand about how it works. Firstly, operations are prioritised. If someone comes in with an emergency, such as a ruptured aorta and bleeding out - of COURSE they will get an operation STRAIGHT AWAY. Like what do you think doctors do here, twiddle their thumbs while patients die? 

And if someone has something that is not quite an emergency, but is serious, such as a bowel cancer, they will have their surgery within 1-2 weeks of seeing a specialist. And it’s free. The poor patient who is already stressed and worried sick about their cancer, will NOT also have to worry about insurance and bills and going bankrupt.

Sure, some operations that are not quite as urgent will have waiting lists. My gran just had her cataract operation - this is something that isn’t life-threatening, not causing her pain at all, but of course is still affecting her life because she couldn’t see very well. She had to wait a few months, which of course in an inconvenience, but she still got her operation, and she definitely didn’t have to wait years (and I have never heard of anyone waiting years for an operation, and as a med student I have talked to a LOT of patients) so I don’t know where you got that from (probably some right-wing american media, I assume). And like, I’m sure most people would rather wait a bit longer than have to pay, or not ever get their operation because they can’t afford it?

Oh and about the talking shit thing…

But sure, the US wins it over in one thing: healthcare spending!

(Source here: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2015/oct/us-health-care-from-a-global-perspective )

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Look up how much acoustic neuroma surgery costs in the US. Wait no, I’ll save you the trouble – it’s $100,000 USD. My mother would have lost her house, be hugely in debt, and I would have had a lifetime of guilt. 

Except! I wouldn’t have even KNOWN I had a tumor in the first place, because in the US the doctor would have gone “I can’t justify an MRI for these symptoms on your insurance plan” (yes, even if I’d been insured) and that would have been that, unless I felt like coughing up thousands for the test myself, which I wouldn’t have done because eh, if the doctor thinks the symptoms are nbd then it’s fine, right? 

I would be dying of a totally treatable disease right now if I lived in the USA, and I wouldn’t even know it. Or if by some miracle I did find out, my 68-year-old single mother would have no savings and no home now so that her daughter could have surgery. 

and this

until I did my hair this morning and 

oh

welp

And here’s some pictures of the Afar people, who still live on the horn of Africa today.