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Santa Monica Mass Shooter Planned To Kill Hundreds With Stockpile Of Guns And Ammo →

stfuconservatives:

As I was polishing off my second yard-long frozen margarita at Mandalay Bay on Friday night, I realized I neglected to inform all of you that I was going out of town for a much-needed long weekend and wouldn’t be updating. I thought of you, Tumblr, because I heard about this: another mass shooting. Another AR-15, like at Newtown and Aurora.

And this one hit close to home. Like, six miles from home. I was in Santa Monica last weekend, frying my skin off at the beach. I went to college with tons of transfers from Santa Monica College, where some of the shootings took place. I don’t live in Santa Monica but I don’t live far from it.

4,850 Americans dead from gun violence since Newtown. In four days, it will be the six-month anniversary of Newtown. We’ve sacrificed nearly five thousand more people to our national fetish for guns and gun ownership. We have failed to pass universal background checks. We have failed to ban assault weapons. We have failed to limit ammunition. The price tag for unfettered, unlimited weapons ownership in America tops nearly 5,000 human lives in less than six months. Was it worth it?

#Prolife advocates have their priorities all fucked up. At least I keep it consistent, a #prochoice advocate for the right to bear arms. 

Reblogged 1 day ago from robot-heart-politics (Originally from stfuconservatives) 714 notes

Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians poured into the streets of at least 25 cities across the country Monday, blanketing the streets of major cities like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and climbing to the roof of the Brazilian National Congress in Brasilia, the nation’s capital. The protests, sparked last week by a smaller demonstration against fare hikes on public buses, are taking place around the Confederations Cup, the soccer tournament that began Saturday as a tune-up for Brazil’s 2014 hosting of the World Cup.

The World Cup has become a symbol of corruption and overspending in the country. Brazil, originally slated to spend less than $1 billion in private funding on soccer stadiums, has already spent more than $3 billion, most of which has come from public funds. Meanwhile, schools and hospitals are overcrowded, understaffed, and underfunded, infrastructure is crumbling, and income inequality is rising as Brazil’s minimum wage remains low. The money spent on the World Cup, the protesters say, would be better spent on efforts to help ordinary Brazilians.

Though there were small pockets of violence during demonstrations in some cities, the vast majority of the protests remained peaceful, according to local news reports. Here are pictures from Monday’s protests.

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Dwelling on negative events can increase levels of inflammation in the body, a new Ohio University study finds. Researchers discovered that when study participants were asked to ruminate on a stressful incident, their levels of C-reactive protein, a marker of tissue inflammation, rose. The study is the first time to directly measure this effect in the body.

— New research confirms what we already know about the physical effects of optimism and pessimism.  (via explore-blog)

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weformlikevoltron:

futurastic:

UNLOCKING THE TRUTH “Kriss Kross this isn’t. Lock up your daughters, America: these sixth-grade metalheads from Flatbush, Brooklyn are on a mission to rock your socks off.”

im actually getting kinda emotional watching this because i relate 200%. this pretty much sums up my childhood and teenage years musically and stylistically. its pretty frustrating growing up as a black kid being into alternate forms of music. specifically rock culture because america typically likes to lump the black experience into exclusively hip-hop culture.

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Oil Spilled Into Ecuador's Rivers Reaches Peru | Environment News Service →

climateadaptation:

Interesting oil spill. The state owned pipeline broke from a landslide caused by heavy rain (and, I presume, a very poor site assessment - the line is on the side of an active, landslide vulnerable volcano, which abuts a major river used for drinking water and agriculture. Brilliant.). 

Oil spilled from Petroecuador’s Trans-Ecuador pipeline after a May31 landslide in the Andean foothills has reached the Peruvian Amazon.

The landslide that destroyed a 330-foot section of the pipeline is blamed on heavy rain in the province of Sucumbios near the El Reventador Volcano, one of Ecuador’s most active volcanoes.

The broken pipeline spilled some 11,000 barrels, or 420,000 gallons, of crude oil into the Quijos River, a well-known whitewater adventure river on the eastern slopes of the Andes.

The oil was carried east into the River Coca, a tributary of the Napo River, which flows into the Amazon River.

The oil has polluted drinking water in the city of Puerto Francisco de Orellana, also known as Coca, a city of 80,000 and the capital of Orellana Province. Clean water is being supplied by tanker truck.

Petroecuador has also distributed food rations and cans of drinking water to the residents of 13 other Ecuadorean communities affected by the spill.

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