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Industry city, bk

1927 version of “Call Me Maybe”

New Yorkers Aren't Rude. You Are.

Privilege is when you think something is not a problem because it’s not a problem to you personally.

– David Gaider 

(source: it was tweeted by @femfreq)

We’re post-traumatic as a regular mode of living,” she said. “I’m 65 years old, I was born with the state, and it’s 65 years of living post-trauma. We don’t move from trauma to trauma. We don’t get over anything.
Amid Chaos, Israelis Take a Stoic View, NYT, 8-29-2013

nprmusic:

Today, follow @todayin1963 to remember the March on Washington and hear the music inspired by the Civil Rights Movement. 

Photo: Joe Alper

I don’t want solidarity if it means I have to tolerate your 301.83.

but I should be ashamed
cause I let
you treat me this way
cant lie, it’s unfortunate to say that love
never lets me use….
the right side of my brain

This week in photos

I am an orphan on God’s highway
But I’ll share my travels if you go my way
I have no mother no father
No sister no brother
I am an orphan girl

I have had friendships pure and golden
But the ties of kinship I have not known them
I know no mother no father
No sister no brother
I am an orphan girl

sometimes nuthin’s a real cool hand.

“we all believe, republicans and democrats alike, that the purpose of govt is to provide protection. no one disputes that the govt should maintain a military, or police force, or try to stop terrorists, but democrats believe that the govt should try to protect its citizens from another form of violence as well: The violence of a pink slip on a friday afternoon that says you’ve been laid off and now you don’t have enough money to take care of your family. you know, job insecurity, the inability to get health insurance, that you have to choose should I take my medicine this month, or do I buy my kid a coat for the winter? so the democratic party exists in america today to provide protection for middle and low-income america, particularly against economic violence as well as military violence.”- Jerry Springer, 1974, radical opinions that shouldn’t be so radical

she taught me how to wage a cold war
with quiet charm
but i just want to walk
through my life unarmed
to accept and just get by
like my father learned to do
but without all the acceptance and getting by
that got my father through

night falls like people into love
we generate our own light
to compensate
for the lack of light from above
every time we fight
a cold wind blows our way
but we learn like the trees
how to bend
how to sway and say