Madame Thursday

30-something, she/they, nb woman. Fat white queer mentally ill disabled. Feederists/gainers/fat admirers DO NOT INTERACT. Read the BASIC FACTS, please.

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Carroll said no one took the names of the attendees who threw peanuts at her Tuesday on the convention floor and told her, “This is what we feed animals.” She alerted fellow camera operators, producers and CNN security. The head of the delegation — she was not certain of the state — told her the perpetrators must have been alternates, not delegates.

But Carroll, 34, said that as an Alabama native, she was not surprised. “This is Florida, and I’m from the Deep South,” she said. “You come to places like this, you can count the black people on your hand. They see us doing things they don’t think I should do.”

CNN Camerawoman “Not Surprised” by Peanut-Throwing | The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education (via diegueno)

^ for those of you who are wondering about this quote… (white) people at the RNC (Republicans) conference threw peanuts at an African American camerawoman and told her “that’s what we feed animals.” Yeah, for realz.

#GOPScumbags #FuckRepubliKKKKans

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I hear all this, you know, “Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.”—No! There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there—good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea—God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.

Eschaton: What She Said

Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren on class warfare.

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Amen.

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I want to be Elizabeth Warren for Halloween. She’s my personal hero. Forever and ever.

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Elizabeth Warren is my Patronus.

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Gods damn this is good.

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WOMEN/JUSTICE OTP

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I like this lady!

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all state offices in Georgia are now closed.

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Fax number for the governor: 404-657-4332 you can send faxes 24 hours a day.

some online free faxing websites [up to 2 faxes a day for free]:

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materialworld:
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Awesome. Circulate pretty pls, food & farming followers. 

Florida’s welfare drug testing costs more than it saves | Raw Replay

A WFTV investigation found that out of the 40 recipients tested by Department of Central Florida’s (DCF) region, only two resulted in positive results. And one of those tests is being appealed.

Under the rules of the program, the state must reimburse recipients who receive negative test results. The state paid about $1,140 for the 38 negative tests, while saving less than $240 a month by denying benefits over the two positive tests.

“We have a diminishing amount of returns for our tax dollars,” the ACLU’s Derek Brett told WFTV. “Do we want our governor throwing our precious tax dollars into a program that has already been proven not to work?”

The cost to taxpayers could end up being significantly higher because the state expects to have to defend the law in court.

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Oh, but without drug testing, how will we know what desperately impoverished people really, truly deserve our precious goddamn money?! G-d forbid anyone but the most virtuous low-income citizens get a roof over their heads or food on the table. Come on, Florida, what’s more important—some silly budget, or the very moral bedrock of society?! Go on! Keep testing people for drugs! I hope you pour all your upstanding taxpayers’ money into this program until you bankrupt your own goddamn state and turn into a harsh postapocalyptic wasteland, The Road-style, with vagabonds shanking each other over the last can of beans and burning books for warmth, all because you couldn’t fucking bring yourselves to cast off your smug middle-class self-righteousness that declares poverty a moral failing.

…I’m a little bitter. Can you tell?