Stan Lee Said This In 1968. It’s Been 50 Years And It Still Applies.

Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles.

But something else happened.

Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half.

“So it’s really been a mystery — why do children stop dying at such high rates from all these different infections following introduction of the measles vaccine,” says Michael Mina, a postdoc in biology at Princeton University and a medical student at Emory University.

Scientists Crack A 50-Year-Old Mystery About The Measles Vaccine Photo credit: Photofusion/UIG via Getty Images

...overheard enough legal updates on B.A.P.'s fight with TS Entertainment to produce a Law & Order spin-off.

Hey y’all.

Old cishet white lady here. I’m going to lecture at you, and not just because it’s my day job.

Vote for the guy you can persuade.

Don’t vote for the guy who will fuck with 9/10ths of the country and half the planet.

Don’t vote for some third-party rando. That’s a vote for Orange Man.

And don’t sit this one out, due to apathy or despair.

FIGHT.

Fight hard. Fight now. Give money, even $1. Post signs. Write postcards. Get your friends and acquaintances to register to vote. Then make sure they DO vote.

I’m more afraid than I was during Reagan/Bush. And I was terrified then.

I’m afraid for my queer kid, for my students, for my friends.

AND I AM GOING TO FIGHT, because I am a cranky old bitch who loves this country, as flawed and crazy as it is and can be.

Also, I’m fighting because I am enraged that the powerful, the oligarchs, the rich white dudes, think that a rapist racist homophobic felon with no discernible ethics has the right to lead us.

They aren’t going to save us. We have to save ourselves.

So start. Register people to vote. Doublecheck your own registration status. Sign up to be an election monitor. Write letters and tweets and posts to the big newspapers whose editors are acting like the felon is going to win. Call. Write. Speak. Post signs. Protest. Write postcards to undecided or lapsed voters.

My ancestors fought in two revolutions and I will too, if I need to.

Old lady out.

Having a SO being big into #Kpop means hearing about every country's music awards a K-group gets nominated in. *sigh*

September 26th is National Voter Registration Day.

For many states, it’s the last day you can register to vote on the upcoming November local ballots.

Voting local is voting for issues that impact you directly—quality of roads and public transportation, education for the next generation of voters, parks, public safety, minimum wage laws, local healthcare access, and so very much more.

Don’t let this deadline slip by. Millions of Americans were unregistered for last year’s presidential election. Millions of voices went unheard. We can’t let that happen again.

Missed it last year? Register. Changed your name or moved in the past year? Update your registration. Completely prepared and feeling good? Great. Now tell a friend to register.

This is how we take care of each other, Tumblr. This is how we start to change what needs to be changed. Get ready to vote.

So much "spiritual' incest in #kdrama 's. So many 1-sided crushes via adopted siblings. Kinda disturbing.

how you can help palestine

Donations

palestine children's relief fund

palestine red crescent society

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

save palestine - islamic relief canada

click to donate - arab.org

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

Petitions

petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military

demand ceasefire - amnesty.org

open call for immediate ceasefire

american government call for immediate ceasefire

american government to stop funding israeli military

ceasefire and increase humanitarian assistance - oxfam au

location specific petitions

gaza call for ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

call congress and demand a ceasefire - uscpr (USA - they provide a script of what you should say, so don't worry about it)

australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)

sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)

ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)

cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)

write to your député - assemblée nationale (FRANCE)

skydda civilbefolkningen i gaza! - mittskifte (SWEDEN)

singaporeans call for immediate ceasefire (SIN)

contact your elected reps and demand a ceasefire (GERMANY)

write to the EU demanding a ceasefire (EUROPE)

Campaigns

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

urge your MP to speak up for palestine

hands off al-aqsa

stop administrative detention

petition for UK to stop arming israel

❥ International

boycott puma — email them to end their partnership with israel

boycott coca-cola

palestine action

join the resistance

islamic relief canada

urge your MP to rally for ceasefire

text campaign for people living in USA

text CEASEFIRE @ 51905 to call for a ceasefire

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them to a follow up post.

UPCOMING PROTESTS

Loony Toons?

Ugh, seriously cartoon wacky sound fx for falls and slapstick?

MRW when SO is freaking out about the new EXO videos