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This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see.

Reminder: this is how you steal an election.

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Watch: In a powerful Congresional speech, Sandra Bland’s mother called people who think they’re woke “the walking dead” because of how little we still know

The speech included a rousing call to action before the newly formed Congressional Caucus On Black Women & Girls. And her words were incredibly resonant, even if you think you know the whole story.

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I love 2016, The year that women have Had Enough

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i have a massive issue with the jurassic park universe. they have the scientific technology to clone dinosaurs and create new species, does that mean they’ve mastered the genome to the extent where the cure for cancer has been discovered? or aids? ebola? or did jurassic park just not share their discoveries and just built a theme park???

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"The thing that people were chasing was to be not an object, but the five wives. I needed a warrior...."

“The thing that people were chasing was to be not an object, but the five wives. I needed a warrior. But it couldn’t be a man taking five wives from another man. That’s an entirely different story. So everything grew out of that.”

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“Initially, there wasn’t a feminist agenda,” director George Miller insisted.

This quote about Mad Max: Fury Road made me want to gnaw on my own knuckle in cartoonish excitement because DO YOU SEE WHAT HIS LOGIC DOES THERE? Too many directors and writers would stop at “I needed a warrior.” They never take that next step to understand that it couldn’t be a man taking five wives from another man. 

For most action movies, the first half of this quote is enough. It’s enough to be Liam Neeson or Jason Statham or Clive Owen as a good man rescuing the poor women from the bad man. Easy money, right?  But Miller had the instinct to realize that a woman helping other women is not only a more interesting story to tell–it’s the story we should be telling all along.

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We exist for a mere blink of an eye in astronomical terms.

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