14-year-old Joāo Pedro was killed by the Rio de Janeiro police. Joāo was shot at his home and his body was taken by the Rio de Janeiro police. His family waited 17 hours until receiving news of his whereabouts. They finally found his dead body at a medical examiner’s office. The family counted 72 bullet marks on the walls of the house.
George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer.
George was handcuffed and restrained and being completely cooperative when this all went down. The officer put his knee on George’s neck choking him for minutes on minutes while George screamed that he could not breathe.
Bystanders beg for the police officer to take his knee off George’s neck, but the officer didn’t listen and continued to choke him.
Petition for the punishment of Minneapolis police officers after the assassination of George Floyd.
Julius Jones has only 122 days before being executed for a crime he DIDN’T COMMIT. Julius has lived on death row for almost 20 years, and is held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. He is allowed one hour of sunlight a day, and three showers a week. Every minute we wait to take action, Julius is suffering. Every second that goes by brings Julius closer to being executed for a crime he didn’t commit.
Tony McDade was a transgender black man who got killed by police in Tallahassee. No one is talking about it.
A 12-year-old girl has drowned in the River Irwell in Greater Manchester.
Greater Manchester Police said it was treating what happened as a “tragic incident” and did not believe there were any suspicious circumstances.
Ahmaud Arbery was chased and gunned down by Travis McMichael, son of retired Brunswick investigator Greg McMichael, under the father’s and son’s pretenses of witnessing a burglary in Satilla Shores of Glynn County.
Jennifer Jeffley was 15 years old when she was arrested for the murder of Maria Palomina. A murder that she did not commit. Innocent of the crime that she was convicted of, Jennifer has been behind bars more than 20 years serving a life sentence.
Regis Korchinski-Paquet was murdered by Toronto Police. A call was made for a domestic incident and Toronto police officers were present on the 24th floor in a High Park apartment building to “observe” 29-year old, Regis. Shortly after, she allegedly fell off the balcony.
Sean was a victim of police brutality. He was running from the police and was on Facebook live. The police officer tased him while he was going down and then shot the man 14 times in the back.
On October 4th 2016 Amiya was stepping off of her school bus and was hit and killed by a car.
11 months later my family and I met with the District Attorney John Weddle and Sadie Gardener. Neither of them took the case seriously and it showed because shortly after that my family was informed that Karen Carpenter would not be charged.
On June 7th, 2019, Emerald Black a pregnant, black woman, and her fiance were pulled over by police officers after coming from a doctors appointment.
The officers spoke to Ms. Black’s fiance while she stayed in the car.
The officers began to order her out of the car. Ms. Black was clearly pregnant and she had let them know that she had just gotten back from a doctors appointment where she was also informed that she was at a high risk for a miscarriage. Despite this, the officers yanked Ms. Black, still in her hospital clothes, and threw her to the ground. They taunted her, piled on top of her, and stomped on her stomach causing her to miscarry. The stomp had also left a shoe mark.
Chrystul Kizer is an incarcerated trafficking survivor who is being charged with life in prison for acting in self-defense against her trafficker.
The punishment that Chrystul is facing for defending her own life signals that black women and girls have no selves to defend.
Tamir was only 12-years-old when he was shot and killed last year by a Cleveland police officer as he played in a park with a toy gun. Timothy Loehmann, an officer in training, shot and killed Tamir within two seconds of arriving at the park. The police car hadn’t even fully stopped before he began shooting.
Siyanda was racially abused and beaten by a group of people. After defending herself - instead of being protected by the justice system - she was sentenced to 4 ½ years of prision.
One month ago, a division of the Louisville Police Department. performed an illegal, unannounced drug raid on Breonna’s home. Not a single officer announced themselves before ramming down her door and firing 22 shots, shooting Breonna 8 times, killing her.
Alejandro is a innocent 15 year old, African American who got shot 7 times while walking to Boone High School, in December of 2018. NO ARREST HAVE BEEN MADE!!!
We need legislation now that prohibits police officers from shooting unarmed citizens!!!
If you want to help people affected by the explosion, I beg of you please don't donate to petitions! The government will most likely steal it because our lebanese gov is just amazing like that 😒🙃🙃
If you do want to help please donate to the red cross. Also try and find lebanese people asking you to directly help them(kofi patreon and idk what else there is). Our houses, shops, etc... Are all shattered so we need more direct donation to be able to help.
Thankfully my house wasn't affected, but there's an artist on Instagram named Audrey (@audreyghousoub)that has put up a kofi link in one of her stories to directly help her rebuild her house. That's the only person ik who needs help (well at least with money) so it would mean a lot to help her. Edit: here's the link.
Other than that, if anyone else needs help, don't hesitate to just say it! Everyone is willing to help💕 stay safe everyone!
Tagged by @isappho! I miss uuuuuuuuuu!
Name: Riley (common so eh)
Pronouns: she/her
Nicknames: Rils, Reelee (thanks Ruby (;¬_¬)) and, if your my lola, baby baket
Zodiac: Taurus (FOOOOOD)
Height: a bit shorter than isappho
Languages: English and Tagalog (native), Spanish(B1), Japanese+ Swedish+ Mandarin(A1) ngyhrrrrr
Nationality 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Favourite season: Summer (way too cold the rest of the year 😅)
Favourite scent: book smell 👌
Favourite color: Pink or blue
Favourite animals: Dogs, Red panda, sun bear,
Favourite fictional characters: Everyone but Lila (in MLB), but my all time favourite character HAS to be Saitama from One Punch Man (dudes hilarious!)
Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: Halo-halo all the way! Never had it? TRY IT ( to answer question, tea/hot chocolate)
Average sleep hours: Uh... Like, 2 hours or 10 hours. No in between
Dog or cat person: PUPPIES!!!
Number of blankets I sleep with: 1 but I have 5 pillows, max comfy
Dream trip: Alcala or Solana in the Philippines. I'll go see my family
Blog established: Uh... I have no sense of time but around late 2019
tagged by @boleyn-falcon (tysm!!!)
Name: Azalea
Pronouns: She/her
Nicknames: Zaley, Azza, Alea, Leelee
Zodiac: Capricorn
Height: 5′8
Languages: English, halfway decent amount of Spanish and ASL, dismal amount of French and German
Nationality: American
Favorite season: Winter! Winter winter winter.
Favorite scent: Lavender or the ocean
Favorite color: Purple or yellow
Favorite animal: Seahorses or stingrays probably
Favorite fictional characters: Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Lex Foster, Ethan Green, Hannah Foster, Emma Perkins, Annabeth Chase, Samirah Al-Abbas, Alex Fierro, Chloe Valentine, Brooke Lohst, Miles Morales, I could go on but I’ll spare y’all
Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: Tea, hot chocolate, coffee, in that order.
Average sleep hours: 05:00-09:00 or 01:30-08:00
Dog or cat person: I’m not a huge animal person in general but I have three dogs at one of my households and I love them all very much
Number of blankets I sleep with: two comforters and one blanket on top
Dream trip: I want to go to California, Louisiana, New York, Alaska, Hawai’i, Greece, London, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia. In that specific order, on one trip.
Blog established: Sometime last year but I didn’t use it for anything other than liking posts until like September lol
Followers: 56 (i just want to say I still don’t know how that happened this is literally just me screwing around and finding stuff I like)
Random fact: oh gosh okay uh one time in third grade I got locked in a classroom for a full two hours (lunch and music, which was a different classroom) and didn’t even notice because I was reading in a corner and didn’t hear my entire class and teacher leaving.
tagging: @sweetestrequiems, @clockwork–frog, @aveasorae, anyone else who wants to do it (also idk if you three have done it or not and you don’t have to if you don’t want)
“Qu xuexi,” meaning to go or be sent to study, is one of the most common expressions in Xinjiang these days. It is a euphemism for having been taken away and not having been seen or heard from since. The “schools” are re-education centers in which the detainees are being forced to take courses in Chinese and patriotism, without any indictment, due process or a fair hearing.
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Colorism isn’t just light skin being preferred.
Colorism is calling a dark skin girl bitter to invalidate her experiences.
Colorism is “we’re all Black at the end of the day” to dismiss the disadvantages of darker skin.
Colorism is “dark skin girls are popular now though”.
Stop.
I've tried! I'm sorry it sucks...
someone should draw finland making sweden wear a fish costume and caliing him a swedish fish i would die happy
please someone do this
I’m really tired of seeing people broken up into labels of absolutes.
People are not just “good” or “bad”.
People are not a list of labels.
People are complex, situations are complex.
I know, that makes it a lot harder when you want to just write off everything someone’s ever done as bad – but that’s not how people actually are, and it would do everyone good to stop pretending they are.
I am tired of hearing about the fear people have in putting themselves out there. And it is a scary thing! Putting yourself out there means subjecting yourself to people who want a really good reason to tear you down, who will jump at the first chance to feel “good” by labeling someone else as “bad”.
I reject this. I reject the idea that there should be fear in speaking up and talking about experiences and trying to reach an understanding of a situation.
I’m unhappy to see people spitefully urging others to cut off ties with their friends under the guise of “well, that person’s just inherently bad, so if you talk to them you’re bad too.” That is fucked up. You definitely have the right to let the friend know you don’t want to hear about whoever troubles you, but you do not at all have the right to decide who their friends should be. This includes guilt trips.
Anyway, just try to be more aware of others. Everyone else is a person like you. They might not have the same experiences as you. They might not understand how their words are harmful, or how what they’re doing is wrong. They certainly won’t if you never tell them.
Most people are trying to be good, but they’re going to mess it up sometimes. Try to keep that in mind. Even when people do really fucked up shit, sometimes they are trying to do good. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” and all that.
Nothing gets solved, no growth happens when you put people into a box from which you’ll never let them escape.
Yes, you absolutely must be careful about people who have tendencies and patterns that are harmful to you. Sometimes people try to overcome those patterns and they fail, and you have to distance yourself from them: that is the sad reality of life. Sometimes though, they can overcome it. But they certainly won’t if the first thing you do is write them off after a fuck up.
Be sincere. Use your best judgment.
im trying this again, i hope the gofundme helps with visibility. please reblog, i dont have a large social circle to help signal boost. thank you so much everyone!
This list is so long, I don't know how people could POSSIBLY ignore it
Korryn Gaines
Renisha McBride
Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones
Miriam Carey
Messy Mya
Sandra Bland
Shelly Frey
Shelley Amos
Cheryl Blount-Burton
Dawn Cameron
Sandra Bee Wilson
Juliette Alexander
Alberta Spruill
Latanya Haggerty
Annette Green
Lenties White
Tameka Evette Anthony
Octavia Suydan
Andrena Kitt
Marcella Byrd
Emma Mae Horton
Angel Chiwengo
Guanda Denise Turner
Andrea Nicole Reedy
U’Kendra Johnson
Annie Holiday
Shonda Mikelson
LaVeta Jackson
Mary Williams
Tesha Reena Collins
Darneisha Harris
Nuwnah Laroche
Clanesha Rayuna Shaqwanda Hickmon
Ciara Lee
Dijon Senay Jackson
Denise Michelle Washinton
Keara Crowder
Tyra Hunter
Clara Fay Morris
Stacey Blount
Tanisha Anderson
Gabriella Monique Nevarez
Keisha Redding
Kendra Diggs
Laquisha Turner
Keoshia L. Hill
Kindra Chapman
Audwyn Fitzgerald Ball
Rosette Samuel
Makiah Jackson
Demetria Dorsey
Jameela Yasmeen Arshad
Joyce Quaweay
Mariah Woods
Jameela Cecila Barnette
Raynetta Turner
Bianca Davis
Patricia Hartley
Martha Regina Donald
Eulia Love
Sophia King
Joyce Curnell
Redel Jones
Tessa “Teesee” Hardeman
Tamara Seidle
Alicia Griffin
Shulena Weldon
Gina Rosario
Remedy Smith
Emily Marie Delafield
Jacqueline Culp
Delois Epps
Jacqueline Nichols
Queniya Tykia Shelton
Latoya Smith
Jacqueline Reynolds
Makayla Ross
LaTricka Sloan
Ralkina Jones
Elaine Coleman
Iretha Lilly
Gynnya McMillen
Malissa Williams
Janisha Fonville
Mya Hall
Patricia Thompson
Michelle Cusseaux
Janet Wilson
Latandra Ellington
Aubrey Zoe Brown
Terry Pittman
Carulus Hines
Lana Morris
Dominique Hurtt
Michelle “Vash” Payne
Tiffini Kuuipo Tobe
Yvette Henderson
Tameka Huston
Leronda Sweatt
Kisha Michael
Portia Southern
Kisha Arrone
Jessica Williams
Jessica Nelson-Williams
Vernicia Woodward
Alexia Christian
Tyisha Miller
Kourtney Hahn
Lamia Beard
Tarkia Wilson
Deshanda “Ta-Ta” Sanchez
Sharon Rebecca McDowell
Ricky Shawatza Hall
Glenda Moore
Danette Daniels
Shontel Edwards
Sharmel Edwards
Lashonda Ruth Belk
Zoraida Reyes
Natasha Renee Osby
Kathryn Johnson
Rekha Kalawattie Budhai
Natasha McKenna
Shontel Davis
Nizah Morris
Duanna Johnson
Asia Roundtree
Darnisha Harris
Shereese Francis
Alesia Thomas
Tracy A. Wade
Yvette Smith
Lnaaar Edwards
Gabrielle Lane
Varez Michelle Cusseaux
Taneisha Anderson
Aura Rosser
Raynette Turner
Tarika Wilson
Eleanor Bumpurs
Kendra James
Ahjah Dixon
Shantel Davis
Alberta Pruill
Marjorie Domingue
Bessie Louise Stovall
Margaret Mitchell
Darnesha Harris
Frankie Perkins
Monique Deckard
Kayla Moore
Queonna Zophia Edmonds
Sheneque Proctor
Kyam Livingston
Wanda Jean Allen
Kimberly McCarthy
Meagan Hockaday
Litvishma Millerr
Summer Marie Lane
Antoinette Griffin
Desseria Whitmore
Adebusola Tairu
Erica Stevenson
Halley Simone Lee
Erika Tyrone or Erica Rhena Tyrone
Lanaka Lucas
Breeonna Mobley
Antonia Martines Lagares
Delicia C. Myers
Tameika Carter
Dana Larkin
Kassandra Perkins
Rekia Boyd
Stacey Wright
Dorothy Smith Wright
BreeAnne Green
Adaisha Miller
Bettie Jones
Catrell Ford
India Kager
Deresha Armstrong
Chanda White (Pickney)
Sahlah Ridgeway
Marlene Rivera
Lashondria Rice
Brandy Martell
Marquesha McMillan
India Beaty
Chandra Weaver
Teikeia Dorsey
Deanna Cook Patrick
Ashley Sinclair
Zella Ziona
Tiara Thomas
Papi Edwards
India Clarke
Constance Graham
Shade Schurer
Erica Collins
Rosann Miller
Lonfon Chanel
Sonji Taylor
Malaika Brooks
Ashton O’Hara
Vida DeShondrell Byrd
Maria Tripp
Eveline Barros-Cepeda
Rosa Flores Lopez
Sarah Ann Riggins
Ty Underwood
Yazmin Vash Payne
Kandis Capri
Elisha Walker
Keonna Redmond
Rikessa La’Shae Lee
Charquissa Johnson
Fatou-Mata Ntiamoah
MOVE bombing victims
Kristina Grant Infiniti
Ariel Levy
Yolanda Thomas
Marquita Bosley
Barbara Lassere
Taja Gabrielle DeJesus
Tamara Dominguez
Vionique Valnord
Linda Yancey
Amber Monroe
Brianna Elaine Carmina Ford
Kendrinka T. Williams
Arabella Bradford
Loretta Gerard
Hanna Abukar
Talana Salissa Cain
Diane Kemp
Amber Nashay Carter
Pearlie Golden
Brenda Williams
Catawaba Tequila Howard
Beverly Kirk
Tamu Malika Bouldin
Denise Gay
Anita Gay
Laura Felder
Alice Faye DeFlanders Clausell
Uteva Monique Woods Wilson
Marnell Robertson Villarreal
K.C. Haggard
Derrinesha Clay
Milinda Clark
Angela Beatrice Randolph
Denise Nicole Glasco
Mercedes Williamson
Dominique Battle
Demetra Boyd
Francine Sonnier
Angelique Styles
Linda Joyce Friday
Shari Bethel Cartmell
Ashaunti Butler
Laniya Miller
I personally think they just rise from the ground like it was water. Like a child coming out of the ground, vertically, and when they are fully emerged, awaken into the world. There isn't even a hole in the ground or indents to show where they rose. There are just footprints from nowhere
Ok so, I think the nations just crawl out of bushes and trees.
Like Alfred crawled out of rose bush and boom badda bing you have a child, not a grown child, but a child.
Matthew came from a tree, landing right ontop of Alfred.
They also respawn at the same plant(or similar because that one might be extinct). So China crawls out of a bush, dusts himself off and runs back to where ever he was last and screams at who ever executed him.
Feel free to add in your own interpretations of how the nations came into existence