tastefullyoffensive:

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If wolves were aware of the politics being played over their lives by the idiots in Congress, the wolves would pack their wolf bags and leave Wyoming, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan and settle in a friendlier state (if there is one) or Canadian province.

First, the excerpt from this story about the appellate court decision to protect the wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan:

A federal appeals court is keeping gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region on the endangered species list.

A panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday upheld a district judge’s 2014 ruling that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had acted prematurely by removing federal protections from wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Wolves had nearly disappeared from the region when they were designated as endangered in the 1970s. They now total about 3,800.

Federal and state regulators say they’ve recovered and should be returned to state management, which could include allowing wolf hunting.

Environmental groups say they’re still vulnerable.

The appeals panel said the government hadn’t reasonably considered factors including loss of the wolf’s historical range.

Nothing about the Wyoming wolves……….so far.

Then this lousy bill has recently emerged from the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee to advance the new Senate Sportsmen’s bill (S.1514) with its “War on Wolves” rider – an amendment proposing to permanently remove federal Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Wyoming, to allow trophy hunting of wolves to resume. To add insult to injury, the language on the rider prohibits judicial review thus preventing any legal challenge.

See what I mean………courts say: the law protects the wolves. The politicians say: so we change the law.

Court Keeps Great Lakes Wolves on Endangered Species List

mswaterbears:

chamfrons-checques-n-champignons:

brydeswhale:

chescaleigh:

micdotcom:

Celeb weight loss teas won’t give you a flatter belly or a firmer booty. They’ll give you diarrhea.

If you’re a woman and have a Facebook and/or an Instagram account, you’ve come across someone celebrating their supposed weight loss due to some combination of the words “tea,” “tummy,” “flat,” “booty” and/or “fit.”

That’s because someone in your life or your follow list, eager to figure out “the secret” to a leaner body, has decided to plunk down an exorbitant number of dollars for a product that promises to “detoxify your intestinal tract free of built-up toxins and reduce water weight,” claiming that these are “two of the main reasons why some days you look and feel five months pregnant.”

These teas are often little more than an overpriced version of the exact same tea sold in your local grocery store (for 10% of what it sells for online), and that’s if you’re lucky. The ingredients — often a blend of black tea and green tea with something called either cassia or senna — are always the same, because those three ingredients are the key to the only actual effect of the tea, which is the water weight loss and extreme amounts of toilet time. Read more. (7/18/2017 3:10 PM)

it’s bad enough this crap is a scam but i’m really sick of people being PAID to promote this garbage on instagram and not disclosing. no check is worth lying to your audience. i wish more people would call this out and flag folks who don’t disclose sponsored posts.

So… it’s basically the same stuff my mom gets at the Chinese grocery store, but you pay more.

Anything that says ‘lose weight fast’ means ‘shit yourself and/or starve’. Everything.

Also, using laxatives for weight loss is literally disordered eating behavior. If you have so much anxiety about your physical appearance that you are using laxatives for weight loss, you likely have an eating disorder.

The first “toxin cleanse” I remember trying involved drinking water mixed with lemon, cayenne pepper, and a small amount of maple syrup. You weren’t supposed to eat at all, and you were supposed to drink a gallon of this stuff every day for a week. I saw it in a magazine targeted for teens, and I was probably 14 years old. It promised to make my skin glow, clarify my mind, and help me drop all that unnecessary fat I had developed as part of, you know, growing into an adult human.

It seems like some people think that since we no longer glorify super-skinny bodies *quite as much* as we did in the 80s-00s, we must be moving in a healthier direction. But we’ve just shifted to promoting lifestyles where average people (i.e., not professional athletes) are encouraged to spend hours at the gym every day, obsess over every ounce of fat lost or muscle gained, and drink tea that makes them shit out all their water weight. This lifestyle is aspirational.

We label this behavior as “healthy”, and tie that health to our morality – Your body is a temple and you need to honor your temple by keeping it “clean”, meaning free of “excess” fat, free of “bad food”, free of “toxins”. You need to “stay active and centered”, meaning hours of squats & running & yoga. If you don’t do those things, well no wonder you’re depressed, no wonder you’re sick, no wonder you can’t find love. If you’re “honoring your temple” and you’re still unhappy, you just need to try harder.

This is bulimia dressed up with pretty athlesiure wear and a good contour. Reject this shit.

Source: mic.com

17 States Investigate Dicamba Damage Complaints Spanning 2.5 Million Acres

rjzimmerman:

Excerpt:

Complaints of crop damage from the powerful and volatile weedkiller dicamba have increased rapidly around the country.

According to weed scientist and University of Missouri associate professor Kevin Bradley, 17 state governments are investigating more than 1,400 official complaints of dicamba-related injuries this year covering 2.5 million acres.

“This is a substantial problem that needs to be addressed,” Bradley wrote.

Reports suggest that farmers applied the herbicide to Monsanto Co.’s new dicamba-tolerant soybean and cotton crops to beat back ever-resistant weeds, but the drift-prone chemical can be picked up by the wind and land on neighboring non-target fields, crops and native plants. Fruits and vegetables, as well as other crops that are not genetically engineered to withstand dicamba, are often left cupped and distorted when exposed to the chemical.

The current rash of complaints echoes the similar devastation last summer, when 10 states reported hundreds of thousands of crop acres adversely impacted by the apparent misuse of the herbicide.

Although dicamba has been around for decades, Monsanto, DuPont Co. and BASF SE sells new formulations of the herbicide that’s said to be less drift-prone and volatile than older versions when used correctly.

In recent months, states such as Arkansas, Tennessee and Missouri—Monsanto’s home state—have imposed temporary bans or restrictions on the use of dicamba to curb further damage. Farmers in several states have filed lawsuits against BASF, DuPont and Monsanto over damages.

unflatteringcatselfies:

This is Amilie and this was her first time sitting in the chair outside

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marcitlali:

kompajunior:

Blacker Sheep. The brilliant project of Lernert & Sander who trimmed a sheep just like a poodle.

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i went to see a psychoneurologist to see if she could diagnose me with adhd but she said that even though it seemed like i have it and that the questionnaire i filled out definitely pointed in that direction, i can’t have Pure adhd because i got good grades when i was a kid?? what do i do i’ve spent years of my life thinking i have this and i STILL think i have it but she says i don’t because of my past grades (i still had the symptoms back then too) i’m just so confused

emmeetslawschool:

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actuallyadhd:

What.The.Everloving.Fuck.

I feel like I should write an open letter to everyone everywhere about this whole school performance thing in regards to ADHD. In fact, I’m going to do that. Next week on one of my personal blogs. I’ll link it here for you guys to spread around. I am absolutely fed up with this attitude, especially among the professionals who should fucking know better.

Anyone who has a story about this that I can quote (either anonymously or with links to your tumblr or whatever), please send me your story! It can be about doing well in school or not doing well in school, and please include when you were diagnosed (like, how old you were) and what kind of difficulty you had regarding getting diagnosed. I’ll do some research (like, with studies) but if you already know of some papers, please let me know about those as well.

Sorry for the swearing, you guys know I try not to do that, but this is really pissing me off.

-J

I was diagnosed in college. I had As and maybe an occasional B all the way until my junior year of high school. I was in every gifted and accelerated program there was. But then I failed Algebra 2 because I had never been given support to keep up with math (not my best subject, while history and English were both special interests). After I got diagnosed in college I was able to learn studying techniques and graduated with a 3.9 and honors. I still struggle with executive function for mundane tasks I haven’t planned for and anything that I don’t know how to do automatically. And I’ve struggled with anxiety and depression related to RSD.

I was diagnosed at age 26. After entering college at 17 with almost a full year of college credits from advanced classes in high school. After graduating with a 3.9/4.0 GPA from undergrad with a dual major in Economics and Public Relations and a minor in Business. After attending a top 20 law school and graduating with honors.

For someone like me (and I know there are a lot of ADHDers in this camp) who are above-average in terms of academic ability, sometimes school isn’t the weak point. School has deadlines, it has reminder emails, it has friendly professors who will let you turn in an assignment late when you forget because they know you’re a good student. I don’t mean to say I didn’t struggle with school. I definitely left things off til much too late, I needed reminder after reminder to get stuff done, I lost stuff constantly, etc. but I could compensate for that with being able to do it really fast and really well.

That doesn’t change the fact that I was struggling every day with symptoms. I was losing keys and unable to finish projects and completely unable to remember a list that was longer than three things. And I was feeling those symptoms in my schoolwork, too (and, now, my professional work), but I was able to adequately cover up the struggle in the final product, so it didn’t show in my grades and evaluations.

actuallytimdrake:

This is my cat Pidge and I love him

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fierceawakening:

soilrockslove:

To take a quote by Julia Serrano that was mentioned in this article (in a different context):

the “activist language merry-go-round” is fueled by stigma: Trans
people are stigmatized in our culture, and this stigma latches onto the
words that are used to describe us and our experiences. As a result,
many activists may feel compelled to focus on changing language (i.e.,
swapping out “bad” words with new words that feel more neutral or
empowering). However, so long as trans people remain stigmatized, these
newer terms will eventually become tainted by that stigma, and there
will be even further calls for newer and supposedly better replacement
terms. I argue that there are no magical “perfect words” that will make
everyone happy. And the “activist language merry-go-round” will not stop
until trans people are no longer stigmatized, at which point there will
be no compelling need to replace existing trans-related terms.

Also applies a lot to disability.

See how “special” and “special ed” quickly became insults soon after they were coined and used for “special education kids” to keep from having to speak about their disability more bluntly. To the point where one of the worst things I remember being called as a kid was “Special” with that certain pattern of intonation.

And now we use the words “exceptional education” and I can already see that starting to being re-purposed for insults in the schools I’ve worked in.

The merry-go-round will continue until the underlying prejudice that’s driving it goes away. So I think it makes more sense to work on addressing that than getting into language fights.

“Twice exceptional” sounds like an insult to me and I wince whenever I hear it.

Don’t call someone exceptional unless they did a good job on something, imo.

twentythreeyearoldelusivemimi:

butchcommunist:

Also hot take on the military thing: glad fewer people will be included in the murderous machine of the US military, but also this is an indicator that he’s currently got a weird focus on lgbt people and I guarantee you other things (likely LGB things) are coming very soon because who even was concerned about this? Anyway fuck the military.

Yeah it just comes off as exploitative of the hate already lobbied at trans people for the purpose of bolstering his status with the religious right. which is even more despicable to me because it doesn’t seem to be a genuine belief, just a willingness to take advantage of a people who already face high level of persecution.