wehonights:

LAPride 2013: Nat’l Guard openly recruited for the 1st time.  The recruiters visited The Abbey- as they left, the entire bar stopped to applaud & thank them for their service.

HOMONATIONALISM: definition (see everything above)

queerdesi:

vivalamujerindocumentada:

young undocumented students aka “dreamers” are always like “this country is all I know/ I didn’t have a choice to come here/ ect give me citizenship” 

but fuck that shit. I don’t owe ANYONE an explanation as to why I’m in this country and why i deserve citizenship. it doesn’t fucking matter if you were born in a different country and lived there for 60 yrs, if you want U.S. to be your new home then that’s what it should be. 

until every single u.s. born citizen (this includes POC, cuz you all are fucked up too) gets background checked, questioned and writes a fuckin paper/book as to why they deserve their citizenship, I will NEVER owe anyone a fucking explanation. 

Word.

(via bare-life)

(Source: queeraspie, via rcabbasi)

kittiesinqueerland:

US Embassy in Israel bans gay Palestinian speakers

wtf

Excerpt:

Although Aswat, a Palestinian organization for Gay Women, was invited to attend, their representative was not allowed to make a speech at the Ambassador’s Tel-Aviv residence tonight (16 May).

mehreenkasana:

ladybrun:

Hey remember all those Pakistani children saying they were afraid to go to school because they feared being attacked by US drone strikes? no? you only know about Malala Yousafzai? because she was attacked by the Taliban instead of your taxes? oh, okay. 

More than 3000 Pakistanis have been killed by US drone strikes. Less than 2% of Pakistani victims under US drone strikes are high-profile targets. The remaining are children, civilians and alleged combatants. I wish targets of both kinds of violence received the same support but alas.

News: Speaking at Washington Institute for Near East Policy, defense secretary says Israel’s security further enhanced by America’s defense cooperation with Arab nations. On Iran: No option off the table

The DOJ and the FBI appear to think no warrant is needed to access emails, Facebook messages, or Twitter DMs, according to newly released documents.

The US is tightening its screening of international students, its first security change in response to the Boston Marathon bombings last month.

and so it continues

Excerpt:

The new survey finds that 34 percent of adults would favor establishing Christianity as the official state religion in their own state, while 47 percent would oppose doing so. Thirty-two percent said that they would favor a constitutional amendment making Christianity the official religion of the United States, with 52 percent saying they were opposed.

Excerpt:

Right now, government agencies can force ISPs and phone companies to install surveillance gear in their networks thanks to a law passsed in 1994 called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. But that doesn’t include access to email, cloud services, or chat programs, and because of how some services like Google Talk are set up, many can’t be accessed network-side anyway. FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann said in a talk to the American Bar Association last week that the intelligence community has made getting the power to monitor those types of services in real time a “top priority this year.”

Iraq War ‪Veteran’s Last Letter to Bush ‬&‪ Cheney‬ “I hope you will be put on trial.”

U.S. to let spy agencies scour Americans’ finances (Reuters)