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Photographer Being Sued By A Monkey Over Its ‘Selfie’ Is Now Broke

thewittiestpartition:

tinysaurus-rex:

zoologicallyobsessed:

THIS is what i mean when I say animal rights groups are absolute garbage that waste time, resources and money, all whilst doing nothing for animal’s welfare. 

peta have ruined a person’s life and career over a fucking photo. This is what peta does with it’s donated money and resources. This is what you’re supporting when you support animal rights groups.

It’s even worse because the photographer was working towards macaque conservation and welfare.

Animal RIGHTS groups are shit.

Support Animal WELFARE groups instead.

Go look up the difference and educate yo self.

Photographer Being Sued By A Monkey Over Its ‘Selfie’ Is Now Broke

seriesofnonsequiturs:

iron-sunrise:

Jesus Harold Cheezits

Remember all that stuff with the Revenant?

“Leaving little time for the crew to prepare, Inarritu decided that a naked character should be dragged along the ground. The director remembers being concerned about the actor’s genitals and laying down plastic sheeting to protect him. “I asked him several times, ‘Are you fine?’ ” says Inarritu. Each time he asked, he says the actor replied that he was prepared to try another take. “I was super considerate because he was a nice, 22-year-old guy,” says Inarritu. While crewmembers say the actor was in pain, Inarritu dismisses that as “a lie.”“

“If we ended up in greenscreen with coffee and everybody having a good time, everybody will be happy, but most likely the film would be a piece of shit.” Revenant is about survival, he says, and the actors and crew benefited from having to make it in nature.” x

seriesofnonsequiturs:

black-to-the-bones:

Was Scarlett Johansson not available?

Disgraceful. Hollywood wants to profit off the story of this man of color receiving the highest civilian honor of the time for his actions during Pearl Harbor while erasing his ethnicity. Kanahele is one of the few people to be so honored, let alone people of color. Hollywood has not learned *wtf*

Also, they’re making a movie about the Niihau Incident – I’m sure they’re not going to erase the people of Japanese heritage. I’m pretty dubious about a movie like this coming out right now during record high xenophobia when the incident that occurred is about first and second-gen Japanese Americans helping a downed Japanese national pilot – and then the incident was used as part of the justification for Japanese internment. 

So of course they’re putting a white man against the Japanese while erasing Kanahele’s heritage – and probably his wife’s and his entire family’s and the folks’ on the island and so forth. Great, just lovely.

advanced-procrastination:

beranu:

stachionalgeographic:

clara-the-slytherin-graduate:

lolwhyyoumaddoe:

heartnovaxiii:

a-polite-melody:

letsplaysocialjustice:

gotinterest:

This article made me never want to read anything ever again.

why are cishets like this

“Girls’ defence mechanisms are temporarily deactivated”

…How can someone type that, or even think that, think this is a good thing to take advantage of, and not feel disgusting about themselves? It’s straight up preying on women.

Can straight men stop?

Holy shit no

…Can we keep cishet straight men out of gay bars to begin with.

anyway, i hate straight men

I legitimately feel so bad for straight women. Like. This is what you have to deal with I’m so shocked our population is growing.

How can you be so overtly fucking predatory and still be able to live with yourself. I don’t understand at all

This entire article is literally “Hey straight bros, I found out where the straight girls go when they want to feel safe. Let’s invade and attack, bitches love when they lose the few safe havens they have left.”

justsomeantifas:

justsomeantifas:

Here’s your dose of “What the Fuck Is Going On” News (2/9/2017 edition)

  • A federal appeals court has refused to reinstate Trump’s ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations. An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is now possible where much of the ban could expire and run it’s course before a decision is made. However, the administration also could change the executive order, including changing its scope or duration. (source)
  • After Nordstrom (and other clothing stores) pulled Ivanka Trump’s fashion line, Donald Trump went to Twitter to complain about the company. Today, Kellyanne Conway went on Fox News to speak about the incident and went on to officially endorse Ivanka’s line. “This is just wonderful line. I own some of it. I fully — I’m going to give a free commercial here. Go buy it today, everybody. You can find it online.” Being a federal employee, this is an outright violation of federal ethics laws. However enforcement measures are largely left to the head of the federal agency and in Conway’s case this means the White House so chances are she will receive little to no punishment. (source)
  • A Phoenix woman, Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, was taken into custody late last night by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reflecting the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants. Guadalupe came to the U.S as a young teen with her parents and hasn’t lived in Mexico since she was 14. Now, 36 she has two children and has attended her scheduled meetings with the ICE every 6 months. This is an indication of the reach that Trump’s executive order has received and that it will no longer prioritizing violent offenders. Protesters tried to help Guadalupe by blocking the ICE vans from taking her away, several were arrested and Guadalupe has officially been deported to Nogales, Mexico. (source)
  • A New York judge has ordered the NYPD to divulge files showing how it’s been surveilling Black Lives Matter demonstrations over the last two years. (source)
  • Trump has signed another series of executive orders, this time dealing with crime, police, and cartels. One order tasks the attorney general with setting up a “Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety,” that will work to reduce crime, particularly “illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and violent crime.” The second tasks the attorney general with developing a strategy, in coordination with local, state, and federal agencies, to prosecute individuals who commit violent crimes against police, as well as reviewing whether existing laws go far enough in protecting police from violent crimes.The third tasks the secretary of state, attorney general, secretary of homeland security, and director of national intelligence to co-chair and direct the existing interagency Threat Mitigation Working Group with a broad review of policies to make sure the US is adequately detecting and prosecuting international drug cartels. (source)
  • In a call with Vladimir Putin, Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States. Trump said that the 2010 treaty, known as New START was a bad deal – but only after he paused the conversation to ask his aids what the treaty even was. (source)
  • After Sen. Richard Blumenthal relayed some of his conversation with Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch, Trump attacked Blumenthal. According to Blumenthal, Gorsuch called Trump’s regular criticisms of the federal judiciary “disheartening” and “demoralizing,“ comments that were later confirmed. Trump claims that Gorsuch never made these comments and then went after Blumenthal’s military record and how he misrepresented himself. Later Trump attacked CNN for never asking Blumenthal about this misrepresentation in the past, which they quickly debunked. (source) (source)
  • Construction crews have resumed work on the final segment of the Dakota Access pipeline, and the full system could be operational within three months. However, the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes are still working hard to oppose the efforts and have filed a legal challenge to block the work and protect their water supply. (source)
  • The Global Gag Rule – which cuts U.S. aid funding to charities that provide, support or discuss abortion is already causing major problems worldwide. This is an article that really should just be read in it’s entirety, warning for graphic content. 
  • Chuck Cooper, the conservative Supreme Court litigator, is withdrawing his name from consideration to be the next solicitor general. His withdrawal means that Kellyanne Conway’s husband, George Conway, might be appointed to the role. (source)
  • Rep. Tom Price is Trump’s pick for health and human services secretary and he’s receiving a lot of push back due to his actions in Congress. Price spent the last 12 years in Congress writing legislation on health care issues, he also bought and sold health care stocks whose value was affected by the legislation he was working on. This isn’t an illegal move, but it does raise a lot of concerns regarding ethics. Despite this concern, Price is headed towards his final confirmation vote. (source)
  • Today Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb pardoned a man named Keith Cooper. Back when Mike Pence was the governor of Indiana, he denied a pardon requested by Cooper after he spent nearly a decade in prison for a crime he did not commit. DNA evidence eventually found Cooper innocent but his record still showed he committed the crime, making life outside prison very difficult. (source)
  • The Trump administration is still reviewing Dodd-Frank Wall Street regulation, and there are plans to introduce new legislation to quash many bank regulations and regulators’ enforcement authority in Dodd-Frank. However, the acting Securities and Exchange Commission Chair, Michael Piwowar, is quickly trying to target one rule. The regulation under attack is one that require corporations to disclose the discrepancy between what their CEOs earn and what their ordinary workers take home. (source) (source)
  • A senior national security official, Michael Anton, in the Trump administration has be outed as a writer using the pseudonym Publius Decius Mus. He gained popularity for penning works that are anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, anti-immigration, and promoting white nationalism. Anton’s works have noted that diversity is “a source of weakness, tension and disunion,” and asked “What good has immigration done for the United States and the American people?” Anton also defended the America First Committee, a group that urged the U.S. to stay out of World War II by invoking anti-Semitic stereotypes, by claiming it was “unfairly maligned.” (source) (source)

Update: To the surprise of nobody, Trump tweeted in response to a federal appeals court has refusing to reinstate Trump’s ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations. He used all caps, so we know it’s serious:

Oddly enough he recently admitted that he did not want to enact the travel ban so quickly and instead give notice first. Stating that he wanted to wait a bit, but was told no. “The law enforcement people said to me, ‘Oh, you can’t give a notice. I suggested a month. And I said, ‘What about a week?’ They said you can’t do that because then people are gonna pour in before the toughness.“ 

wickedclothes:

His lawyer: “Von Keyserling playfully gave a lady who he knew for 30 years a pinch is what the accusation is,” Russell says. “And somehow, everybody’s wringing their hands and carrying on that this is a crime, and it just isn’t.”

Following the incident, von Keyserling allegedly told the woman that “it would be your word against mine and nobody will believe you.” Unfortunately for him, police said that video footage from a nearby surveillance camera is consistent with the woman’s charges.

Christopher von Keyserling was charged with fourth-degree sexual assault.

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micdotcom:

Michael Jackson once told Oprah he didn’t want a white actor to play him

In the middle of a controversy over white actor Joseph Fiennes’ new role as Michael Jackson in an upcoming British TV movie, who better to hear from than the King of Pop himself? In 1993, Jackson explained his vitiligo and his pride in being black. That didn’t stop Fiennes from coming up with an excuse for his casting.

“[Jackson] was probably closer to my color than his original color.”

Really, Fiennes? That is your defense of your being cast to play a black man? How gross can you get?

It’s blackface, I don’t care if they even lighten Fiennes’ skin. Michael was eviscerated over a condition he could not control. Even after his autopsy confirmed that he was telling the truth about his vitiligo, people still don’t get it. He was Black. He NEVER passed as white, was never treated like a white person, and he never tried to pass. He is not interchangeable with a white person because he had a condition he was open about but was denied by the media.