PSA: Help victims of the tornadoes in Oklahoma by donating $10 to the Red Cross. Text REDCROSS to 90999, or visit redcross.org.
Federal officials met with South Dakota’s nine Sioux tribes on Wednesday for a historic summit in Rapid City. A year in the making, it was an effort to address long standing concerns over the high number of Native American children the state places in white foster homes. State officials, however, didn’t show up for the meeting.
State officials, however, didn’t show up for the meeting.
A funding crisis caused the Buena Vista School District to close its schools for the rest of the year—and perhaps permanently.
(Source: thesmithian)
Who took down Stockton? by TYTInvestigates
Stockton, California recently became the largest city to file for bankruptcy in American history. And now we know why. (Spoiler alert: big banks, government corruption, greed.) They interviewed a lot of Stockton employees who got formally screwed over (healthcare cut, retirement accounts wiped out) when the city went bankrupt. It’s really heartbreaking and poignant to see the impact of austerity on human lives up close.
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- I’m here, just busy
- Going to throw some links your way and try to make more time for political ranting tomorrow
- I promise my silence isn’t some kind of anti-Yahoo! protest
- Because honestly, could they really do a worse job than Karp?
- Maybe we’ll be able to reply to replies and reblog Asks now! Fingers crossed!
| — | Joan McCarter at Daily Kos (via thesmithian) |
Guns: Because freedom, or something. (PS: 4,127 Americans have been killed by guns since Newtown.)
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Ted Cruz [R-TX] Guys like Ted are oblivious to how they themselves are destroying the GOP. (via liberalsarecool) C’MON TEXAS MAKE IT HAPPEN |
| — | LOLGOP (via samuraifuckingfrog) |
furthest-city-light said: I love your blog, but I would have to unfollow you if you brought back my French class nightmares by using “vous.”
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Honestly, I would unfollow me for bringing back memories of French class.

