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Kanye West getting deep on twitter

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:10:49 -0400

Kanye West getting deep on twitter

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Wed, 22 May 2013 09:05:11 -0400

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Wed, 22 May 2013 09:03:42 -0400

official310: Beautiful.

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:03:35 -0400

official310:

Beautiful.

crystalshades: woah!

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:01:56 -0400

crystalshades:

woah!

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Tue, 21 May 2013 23:46:15 -0400

tamaralynna: Untitled #323 by tamaralynna featuring fuschia...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:04:35 -0400

tamaralynna:

Untitled #323 by tamaralynna featuring fuschia earrings

La Petite S stretch dress
$1,055 - net-a-porter.com

Jessica Simpson high heel pumps
heels.com

Henri Bendel leather crossbody handbag
henribendel.com

Fossil necklace
fossil.com

Fuschia earrings
boticca.com

Wallis stretch ring
wallisfashion.com

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Tue, 21 May 2013 23:01:30 -0400

nosdrinker: this is my favorite picture on the internet

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:00:37 -0400

nosdrinker:

this is my favorite picture on the internet

setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain: thepeoplesrecord: Prison Labor...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:15:48 -0400

setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain:

thepeoplesrecord:

Prison Labor Exposed: From Starbucks to Microsoft - A sampling of what US prisoners make & for whom
May 21, 2013

Tens of thousands of US inmates are paid from pennies to minimum wage—minus fines and victim compensation—for everything from grunt work to firefighting to specialized labor.

The breaded chicken patty your child bites into at school may have been made by a worker earning twenty cents an hour, not in a faraway country, but by a member of an invisible American workforce: prisoners. At the UnionCorrectional Facility, a maximum security prison in Florida, inmates from a nearby lower-security prison manufacture tons of processed beef, chicken and pork for Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises (PRIDE), a privately held non-profit corporation that operates the state’s forty-one work programs. In addition to processed food, PRIDE’s website reveals an array of products for sale through contracts with private companies, from eyeglasses to office furniture, to be shipped from a distribution center in Florida to businesses across the US. PRIDE boasts that its work programs are “designed to provide vocational training, to improve prison security, to reduce the cost of state government, and to promote the rehabilitation of the state inmates.”

And Each month, California inmates process more than 680,000 pounds of beef, 400,000 pounds of chicken products, 450,000 gallons of milk, 280,000 loaves of bread, and 2.9 million eggs (from 160,000 inmate-raised hens).Starbucks subcontractor Signature Packaging Solutions has hired Washington prisoners to package holiday coffees (as well as Nintendo Game Boys). Confronted by a reporter in 2001, a Starbucks rep called the setup “entirely consistent with our mission statement.”

Texas inmates produce brooms and brushes, bedding and mattresses, toilets, sinks, showers, and bullwhips.

In Texas, prisoners make officers’ duty belts, handcuff cases, and prison-cell accessories. California convicts make gun containers, creepers (to peek under vehicles), and human-silhouette targets.

A stitch in time: California inmates sew their own garb. In the 1990s, subcontractor Third Generation hired 35 female South Carolina inmates to sew lingerie and leisure wear for Victoria’s Secret and JCPenney. In 1997, a California prison put two men in solitary for telling journalists they were ordered to replace “Made in Honduras” labels on garments with “Made in the usa.”

Open wide: At California’s prison dental laboratory, inmates produce a complete prosthesis selection, including custom trays, try-ins, bite blocks, and dentures.

Constructive criticism: Prisoners in for burglary, battery, drug and gun charges, and escape helped build a Wal-Mart distribution center in Wisconsin in 2005, until community uproar halted the program. (Company policy says, “Forced or prison labor will not be tolerated by Wal-Mart.”)

On call: Its inmate call centers are the “best kept secret in outsourcing,” Unicor boasts. In 1994, a contractor for gop congressional hopeful Jack Metcalf hired Washington state prisoners to call and remind voters he was pro-death penalty. Metcalf, who prevailed, said he never knew.

Federal Prison Industries, a.k.a. Unicor, says that in addition to soldiers’ uniforms, bedding, shoes, helmets, and flak vests, inmates have “produced missile cables (including those used on the Patriot missiles during the Gulf War)” and “wiring harnesses for jets and tanks.” In 1997, according to Prison Legal News, Boeing subcontractor MicroJet had prisoners cutting airplane components, paying $7 an hour for work that paid union wages of $30 on the outside.

Full article

AND THIS

IS WHY

THE WAR ON DRUGS

AND REAGAN

CAN FUCKING BURN FOREVER

FOR FUCKING EVER

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Tue, 21 May 2013 22:13:15 -0400

i-am-royalty: my baby sister

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:12:21 -0400

i-am-royalty:

my baby sister

I still can barely watch Martin..

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:06:54 -0400

jumpstart-therevolution:

Because of the relationship between Martin and Pam.

It’s difficult for me to watch a black man shit all over a black woman every episode.

…she gave it right back tho.

sesamestreet: Today Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:06:10 -0400

sesamestreet:

Today Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, announced a multi-year partnership with Teaching Strategies, the educational company that publishes The Creative Curriculum and Teaching Strategies GOLD.

Learn more at http://sesameworkshop.org/school

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Tue, 21 May 2013 22:01:58 -0400

gaaabamoa:

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:01:20 -0400

gaaabamoa:

THE POWER OF THE VAGINA look at the gravitational pull of her...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:00:24 -0400

THE POWER OF THE VAGINA

look at the gravitational pull of her vagina! he gets sucked right into it

setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain: simonefiasco: marlhon: i’m a...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:59:55 -0400

setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain:

simonefiasco:

marlhon:

i’m a groooown wom

an

Filed under: Dances that really make you put in work

"The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth…she is the only flower on earth…that..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:54:02 -0400

“The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth…she is the only flower on earth…that grows unwatered.”

- Kola Boof, Egyptian-Sudanese-American novelist and poet (via chelebelleslair)

pulloutmethodwrks: solarsaturation: “Some 12 year old at...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:48:20 -0400

pulloutmethodwrks:

solarsaturation:

“Some 12 year old at target gave me some cash to buy him black ops. I told him to wait for me outside in 5 minutes otherwise if he’s with me it would have looked too suspicious. Put the game back, went out the other exit and laughed my ass off. Easiest $55 I ever made. Lesson learned? Don’t give your mom’s money to strange guys, kids.”

My hero

Terrible smh