PAY ATTENTION.

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sagerabelaissoul:

This image is unspeakably sad.

Even as a non-American it gave me pause for thought.

Surely we can do better?

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villa-kulla:

Reporter: I have a question to Robert and to Scarlett. Firstly to Robert, throughout Iron Man 1 and 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but learns how to fight as a team. And so how did you approach this role, bearing in mind that kind of maturity as a human being when it comes to the Tony Stark character, and did you learn anything throughout the three movies that you made?

And to Scarlett, to get into shape for Black Widow did you have anything special to do in terms of the diet, like did you have to eat any specific food, or that sort of thing?

Scarlett: How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?

The respect given to you if you’re a man in the entertainment business, and the respect given to you if you’re a woman in the entertainment business: all perfectly summed up in one idiotically thought out line of questioning.

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mzlrod:

theweekmagazine:

Has mankind outgrown Earth?

A new report from the World Wildlife Fund says we’re gobbling up the planet’s resources at such an alarming rate that by 2030, even a second Earth wouldn’t be enough to sustain us

Which resources are we depleting?
Renewables like fish, water, timber, and food are being used up much faster than previously thought. According to experts, mankind’s “ecological footprint” is now over 50 percent higher than it was in 2008, meaning it takes 1.5 years for Earth to regenerate the natural resources we use up annually. 

Why is our ecological footprint growing?
The world’s population, which according to the U.N. surpassed 7 billion last October, is getting too big, and the average individual is using more than he or she needs. “The excessive demands that we are putting on the planet will inevitably lead to acute water shortages, a chronic food crisis, and rising prices for energy, metals, and minerals,” says Robert Walker at the Huffington Post.

Keep reading

this is scary to me.

good:

91 percent of companies included in a recent survey say graduating college students should have at least one internship on their résumé. Yet half of them don’t hire interns. 

If Companies Value Internships So Much, Why Don’t They Hire Interns?

oisinnow:

yesixicana:

U.S.- Mexico Border

This wall is what keeps my family and friends apart. This wall is what creates fear in my community. This wall kills me every single day. This wall is hate.

most Americans don’t understand what and how this wall destroys communities and peoples lives.

this wall is violence and hate. 

my friends and i live in one of the most policed regions of the United States. yet, San Diego is sold as a sunny tourist town. in fact, as i sit in my home and type, police helicopters are flying overhead patrolling…and reminding us that they are here…reminding us that they currently control the skies along with the streets… the border patrol too makes itself known by blocking our freeways and asking for identification, having computers take pictures of our cars, and asking us where we were born or from…they are looking, looking for Brown bodies or bodies that don’t fit the ideals of White Supremacy. it reminds me how the people of color, queers, trans, and female body is policed…we also have the military in almost every part of our city… war and it’s machines are a daily reminder of where we are…

i can walk to the end of my street which is on a hill and see battleships being bult by a defense contrator. i look slightly farther to the left and i can see Mexico. if i look to the far right i can see one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city…

down the street the homeless are made to be invisible, but they stay under the freeway bridges only blocks away, because they know they wont be harassed by police or other people looking for trouble…

 my neighborhood has so many contradictions. i live in a war zone, but you would never know it by the way many people act… these contradictions resemble the city of San Diego and they resemble the violence of that wall only 15mins away from me… 

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