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(via 1930s RARE Art Deco Omop Penguin Eskimo Typewriter Ribbon...
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jlngles: god said adam and eve not matt smith leave
god said adam and eve not matt smith leave
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iardphoto: First snow… Brace yourselves… Bla, bla, bla… If it...
First snow… Brace yourselves… Bla, bla, bla…
If it keeps snowing until April next year, like it did this year, I’m gonna need to learn how to pack a dog sled…
How many DPI
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(2000 px on the long side)Is your new years resolution?
Words my nephew is not allowed to say. I would also add cray...
Words my nephew is not allowed to say.
I would also add cray cray and weirdo.
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wnycradiolab: Speaking of speedy reindeer, check out Atlas...
happy reindeerSpeaking of speedy reindeer, check out Atlas Obscura’s fascinating feature on the little-known (to me, anyway) sport of reindeer racing.
deducecanoe: helllabia: postracialcomments: jennysayshello: p...
When Lugo’s son Edwin Avellanet, 26, went outside to dispose of a bag of garbage, he was approached by police investigating a parking cone. Someone had placed a cone on the street to reserve a parking spot without city permission. Avellanet was stopped and questioned about the suspicious cone, but insisted that he had done nothing wrong.
Not accepting his denial, police demanded identification. Avellanet had nothing to show them. When he was grabbed by the arm by one of the uniformed bullies, he broke free and retreated into the house.
Avellanet went into the residence and closed the door. The NYPD did not take kindly to this, beating on the door, breaking through the windows, and forcing their way into the home. Backup officers poured into the house.
Looking for Avellanet — the suspected cone placer — police went around breaking doors in half, attacking family members with pepper spray, and bludgeoning people with clubs.
“They threw me like a piece of garbage on the floor,” Evelyn Lugo said.
Her son, George Lugo, and family friend Luis Ortega were attacked repeatedly with a baton and suffered severe facial injuries.
Evelyn Lugo’s daughter, Alba Cuevas, was attacked with chemical pepper spray and retreated into a bathroom when she started suffering from an asthma attack. Police ripped her out and arrested her.
As officers stormed the house, they knocked a birdcage off of a dresser. The small green parakeet, Tito, was flung helplessly from the cage, landing on the floor. NY Daily News reported what happened next:
“I screamed, ‘The bird!’ ” Lugo’s daughter Anna Febles told the Daily News, “and he said, ‘F— the bird,’ and he, like, stepped on it.” “I was shocked,” Febles, 30, said. “It was a blue and green bird. It was really pretty.”
This is just another day in the life of being surrounded by NYPD. People are gonna try to dispute that it was his fault because he ran away, but when you’re living while brown in NYC, you run from the cops like you’re running from a murderer because they can assault/kill your ass without cause and you still get in trouble for their bs.
Burn them at the fucking stake.Bolded
This was literally over a misplaced cone. If you don’t think that the average police officer isn’t bred to think abuse of power is not only okay but encouraged then you’re living in a fucking fantasy world.
Dude people put whole fucking chairs to reserve parking spots where I come from.
And I don’t give a shit if he ran. That’s a reason to start busting doors open? He didn’t have a weapon. He didn’t attack anyone. The tiniest bit of investigative work would have told them what unit he was in. But no, they go breaking down doors. they’re bullies with badges.
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gillsmarie: lastrealindians: In November 1862, 1,700 Dakota...
In November 1862, 1,700 Dakota Women, Children and Elders were marched 150 miles in Minnesota from Lower Sioux Agency to Fort Snelling, which became a Concentration Camp where hundreds would die.
On the march that took a week many would die. Women, Children and Elders were attacked with rocks, clubs, and knives by the towns people. Many accounts of people throwing pots of boiling water on the Dakota as they marched through towns. A government employee said a woman in Henderson picked up a baby by the arm, threw it to the ground and murdered the baby.38 Dakota warriors were hung in Mankato, MN on December 26, 1862. It is the largest mass execution in U.S. history.
120 Dakota Warriors that were spared execution in Mankato, Minnesota were imprisoned in Davenport, Iowa.
The Dakota stayed in Fort Snelling till the spring of 1863 and then they were transported by boat, where a hundred or more died, and went to the Crow Creek Reservation where hundreds more died of disease. - Courtesy AIM Twin CitiesI’m embarrassed I never knew this about Fort Snelling, which is about 15 minutes from where I live.
Today, December 26, is a day of remembrance.
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gradientlair: Step 1: Acknowledge Peak Blackness. Step 2: Go...
Step 1: Acknowledge Peak Blackness. Step 2: Go wild over “Theo” the way I did when I originally saw this as a girl; the part 4:01-4:03 = LIFE. Step 3: Acknowledge that “Rudy” might have had the best parts in their routines. Step 4: Go wild over the women’s epic costumes for the time.
I adore this so much. Memory lane. ❤
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allcreatures: Titch the border Collie keeps a close eye on...
Titch the border Collie keeps a close eye on Swaledale ewes being fed on a snowy Christmas morning in the Howgill Fells near Sedbergh, Cumbria
Picture: Wayne HUTCHINSON / Alamy (via Pictures of the day: 20 December 2013 - Telegraph)
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dominiquenicholestyle: "If we had no winter, the spring would...
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, propensity would not be so welcome." ~Anne Bradstreet