when-did-this-become-difficult:

the text of the bill here

al jazeera article explaining what happened here (article published 11/14/18)

KEY QUOTE FROM THE ARTICLE:

If Congress does not pass legislation protecting the tribe and the legal challenge fails, the Mashpee would be stripped of their right to exercise sovereign jurisdiction over their land.

Jessie Little Doe Baird, the tribe’s vice-chairwoman, told Al Jazeera that loss of jurisdiction would prevent the tribe from running indigenous language schools, tribal courts, and housing projects, as well as its own police.

“We have our own police force, which is important because they’re tribal citizens and since we’ve had our own police force, none of our men have been beaten or shot, which we’ve had before with non-tribal police,” she said.

catastrophicmisfit:

catastrophicmisfit:

I was alone in the art room and had the thought “I wonder how many stools I can get over my head”
Long story short i got stuck and the class walked in to me pathetically trying to wriggle out without being knocked over

stop reblogging this

angrybell:

lj-writes:

fagpunk94:

memes–memes:

virtua92:

thats-tea:

Racist man throws punches at FedEx driver, driver punches back Kills him in One Punch. | That’s Tea

A white man was throwing racial slurs at a Black FedEx Driver. He started Punching the driver, the FedEx driver punched him back one time, killing the man with One Punch.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/nation/2018/11/21/man-hurled-racist-slurs-punch-fedex-driver-then-died-after-he-was-punched-back/

He wont be indicted for the racist scumbags death either! Win!

Magnuson’s death from the fall was precipitated by “extremely poor health,” a medical examiner concluded, and the punch itself was not fatal, Senior Deputy District Attorney Adam Gibbs wrote.

Warren was within his legal right to challenge Magnuson’s “racist vitriol,” Gibbs noted, and said that Warren’s decision to confront Magnuson — rather than ignore him — was not legally significant.

Please keep up this energy of racists dropping dead on my dash.

I feel bad for the driver. Even though the guy was a racist, I’m sure he didn’t wake up that day wanting to kill someone. He just wanted to be left alone to do his job.

secret-soup:

cincosechzehn:

jedi-giraffe:

gothtigger92:

liho907lilo:

Everyone going shopping on Black Friday, be aware of three things:

The retail workers are working 12 hours shifts. We are threatened with losing our jobs if we don’t show up unless we’re dying in the hospital. I had an assistant manager show up with fucking strep because he would’ve been fired otherwise. Yes, he did infect 7 and hospitalize 2 coworkers; who knows how many members of the public he infected.

The stores have, maybe, 5 of that special cheap thing you’re after. Corporate does this on purpose, and stores are not allowed to order enough. The prices aren’t even that much lower. They lie about how expensive something is to fool you into thinking you’re getting a discount. You aren’t.

Most of the workers you will come across will be new hires for the sole purpose of being bodies for about three months before they’re fired. They actually don’t know anything because they’ve been working there for maybe two weeks, and have had no real training. I was once hired at Staples a week before Black Friday and expected to know how to deal with phones, coupons, the online ordering site, and AS400 after five 6-hour shifts. This is the kind of person you will likely be dealing with at Black Friday.

Do me and my retail family a favor and don’t shop Black Friday. Any company that needs a sale day like Black Friday to get their sales out of the red doesn’t deserve to be in business. 

This also goes for anyone that works shipment too. We’re suddenly expected to stay as late as they want you to even if they know you don’t have a car and rely on a ride to get you to and from work and know you can’t stay late. Shipment workers will suddenly start getting berated for not getting things done and it is by far the most stressful time to be a shipment worker for any store. Especially when they throw in new hires that don’t know how to process things and are expected to work at the same pace as the people that have worked there for a while.

Retail is shit around the holidays, especially Black Friday

ok fellow millenials, it’s time to kill black friday

LET’S KILL BLACK FRIDAY

This goes double for Thanksgiving. More and more places are opening late on Thanksgiving; Gamestop is opening at 3 PM on Thanksgiving. My employer is and always has been open 24 hours on Thanksgiving.

Sometimes going out is unavoidable, please be as kind and understanding to the people forced to work as possible.

vandaliatraveler:

Autumn Berries, Volume 9: Northern Spicebush. Of all the berry-producing shrubs of Appalachia, few are as beautiful and desirable as northern spicebush (Lindera benzoin). A member of the laurel (Lauraceae) family, this gracefully-mounded, perennial shrub grows in the shady understory of rich, damp woods, where it reaches a height of up to twelve feet. In the spring, northern spicebush produces dense clusters of yellow flowers on its rangy stems, giving it the appearance of forsythia. The flowers are replaced by green berries in the summer, which turn a deep, rich red

in the fall. They remind me a bit of coffee beans. The berries form a striking contrast to the plant’s alternate, ovate leaves, which turn a lovely yellow-gold from September through October. Northern spicebush is so named because of the aromatic scent of of the plant’s leaves, bark, and berries. Native Americans and wild plant gatherers have long dried and boiled the leaves to make an herbal tea to cure fevers, although its flavor is powerful and warm enough to be enjoyed as a culinary tea. In addition, the berries can be crushed and used as a spice for baked goods – the flavor is similar to allspice. The plant is sometimes referred to as wild allspice for this reason. The berries linger into winter but rarely last long due to their popularity with song and game birds.