To Be Perfectly Honest

January 17, 2013 • 173,119 notes • caesoxfan04

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caesoxfan04:

Anderson Cooper saving a boy in Haiti during a shooting. A slab of concrete was dropped of the boys head.

Anderson fucking Cooper, everyone.
Some journalists like to be strictly observers. they don’t intervene, they don’t participate. they just document what they see, even if what they see is terrible. But the way I see it, journalists don’t exist in a vacuum. They are human beings, living and working in a very human environment. And that humanity is essential in relating to their stories. When you lose your humanity, you lose any kind of journalistic integrity you have left.

#nevernotreblog

He is a badass among badasses.

I love him so much

jesuislegrandefromage:

harvey-swick:

flowers-without-reason:

caesoxfan04:

Anderson Cooper saving a boy in Haiti during a shooting. A slab of concrete was dropped of the boys head.

Anderson fucking Cooper, everyone.

Some journalists like to be strictly observers. they don’t intervene, they don’t participate. they just document what they see, even if what they see is terrible. But the way I see it, journalists don’t exist in a vacuum. They are human beings, living and working in a very human environment. And that humanity is essential in relating to their stories. When you lose your humanity, you lose any kind of journalistic integrity you have left.

#nevernotreblog

He is a badass among badasses.

I love him so much

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November 20, 2012 • 128 notes • whisperingwordsofwisdom

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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June 25, 2012 • 23 notes • thesmithian

'In a long awaited decision, the Supreme Court today upheld the most controversial part of Arizona's SB 1070, the "show me your papers" provision. The decision allows Arizona law enforcement officers to question anyone they suspect may be undocumented. Immigrants in Arizona may now face broad targeting by police and advocates warn that Latinos in general are likely to be profiled on the basis of their race.'

June 18, 2012 • 987 notes • theagitator.com

So if I’m understanding all of this correctly, today the president said that if you were brought to this country at a young age, by no choice of your own, which is to say that if the United States has been your home for as long as you can remember … . we will no longer put you handcuffs, put you on a bus or plane, then dump you in a country where you might have been born, but that is otherwise completely foreign to you. Somehow, this is controversial? In a humane, sane world, the country’s collective reaction to today’s announcement would have been, You mean until now, we were actually doing this to people? What the hell is wrong with us?

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June 18, 2012 • 292 notes • think-progress

think-progress:

TODAY: A huge crowd protested stop and frisks in NYC.

Just one reason why people are protesting: 85 percent of those stopped last year were black or Hispanic, even though those groups make up about half of NYC’s population.

There are 9 other need-to-know facts on the policy.

June 16, 2012 • 35 notes • peacecorps.gov

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June 16, 2012 • 186,141 notes

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No words…

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June 16, 2012 • 454 notes • think-progress

Think Progress: 5 reasons why Obama's decision to stop deporting Dreamers is great news

think-progress:

… aside from protecting roughly 1 million young people, which is great news in itself:

1. Taking this step will increase the federal budget by an estimated $1.7 billion over ten years.

2.This move will reduce federal deficits by an estimated $2.2 billion in the next ten years.

3….

June 16, 2012 • 23 notes • commondreams.org

Our country is dominated by large corporations. Their lobbyists and their PAC contributions shape how Congress spends large chunks of the federal operating budget to enrich the giant military-industrial complex and expand corporate welfare programs. These same corporate pleaders oppose an inflation-adjusted minimum wage. In fact, corporate lobbies have tied the hands of presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to Barack Obama. To blame Mr. Obama so completely for the state of the economy is more than Mr. Romney trying to drape amnesia on the public about the role of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. It is to assume Mr. Obama has the power to control the Federal Reserve and the stubborn, corporate indentured members of Congress who constitute most members of Mr. Romney’s party.

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finally, a breath of fresh intelligence.

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June 16, 2012 • 23 notes • tedx

TEDx: Compassion kills: Nolan Watson

tedx:

Charitable organizations are almost alway driven by a desire to do good and save lives, but they often focus us on short-term solutions that can create multi-generational cycles of dependency. At TEDxVancouver, Nolan Watson asks you to ensure the those who benefit from your charitable donations…