Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, Trump’s replacement for
fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions, thinks that if you’re not
Christian, you shouldn’t be a federal judge. Judges should be “people of
faith” and need to have a “biblical view of justice,“ and Whitaker
would like to see a person’s “world view,” because if they have a
secular world view, he’d be “very concerned with how they judge.”
Whitaker revealed his ignorance with these remarks during a 2014
conservative forum while vying for the Republican US Senate nomination
in Iowa.
The takeaway from this: According to the acting Attorney General of the United States, if you’re open-minded, don’t be a judge.
“There is a tendency after big electoral victories such as the one last night to grow a bit complacent, to imagine that a semblance of normalcy has been restored. In multiple ways, Trump reminded us today that we can’t relax even for a second.”
1. WE TOOK BACK THE MOTHERFUCKING HOUSE. Look, in a perfect world we would have flipped the Senate too BUT this means that things are not just going to materialize for our dear friend Donald McTrump. This means oversight and investigations and a better grip from our legislative branch on a system wide check and balance. BOOM.
2. The fact that we got so close in states that Republicans have been gerrymandering the fuck out of for YEARS now is actually really impressive and it just means that we have to keep working but we’re whittling away at things. It can be done, is what I’m saying.
3. SO. MUCH. DIVERSITY. Women in record numbers! People of different faiths, younger people, native people, LGBT people, gang’s all here! We’re slowly dissolving the old white dudes in power thing.
4. So many AMAZING proposals are passing. Massachusetts upheld trans rights. Florida restored voting rights. Michigan legalized marijuana AND took the most comprehensive voting reform IN THE FUCKENING COUNTRY AND MADE IT LAW!
Funfax my birthday and name have some ridic hilarious levels of “chosen one” bullshittrey bc my name literally means “universe tree” in mandarin like. If I had to read about a girl named universe tree who was born on the darkest day of the year with a bloodline that traced back to an ancient
Xiongnu prince I’d immediately start to not care
All hail the savior, for the prophecy has been fulfilled
please no my life is enough of a clusterfuck of tomfuckery enough without ancient destinies please let me hoard my swords and pens in peace
We have met…my antithesis…
In other words, this summer solstice baby said waddup
Legends tell of the 4 children of destiny, cardinal beacons who are to protect existence as it is understood. They are each born on their hallowday, with their armies pulled from the masses of the universe to the wombs of mortals destined to bear them. When they are of age, they shall ride with their armies into the shroud of battle, laying down the very spiritual effervescence they are blessed with on the line to keep the balance of the worlds steady.
And until that day comes I plan to stay in my fucking goblin cave with as many bags of doritos as goddamn possible.
for a quick change of pace–i know we’ve all seen a thousand posts about voting, but what i haven’t seen (not yet) is one saying thank you.
thank you for those who made it out in the rain and the cold, who organized and canvassed and took on the onerous task of working with non-voting & conservative friends/family to change their stance if at least just this once. thank you for those who stood in line for hours, who had to travel because your voting place was moved, who had to jump through ridiculous fucking hoops to register, who weren’t inspired but showed up anyway for the disenfranchised and the greater good. thank you as well to everyone who voted early, absentee, and provisional.
has taught us there are so many planets out there, they outnumber even
the stars. Here is a sample of these wondrous, weird and unexpected worlds (and
other spectacular objects in space) that Kepler has spotted with its “eye” opened to the heavens.
Kepler has found that double sunsets
really do exist.
Yes, Star Wars fans, the double sunset on Tatooine could really exist.
Kepler discovered the first known planet around a double-star system, though
Kepler-16b is probably a gas giant without a solid surface.
Kepler has gotten us closer to finding
planets like Earth.
Nope. Kepler hasn’t found Earth 2.0, and that wasn’t the job it set out
to do. But in its survey of hundreds of thousands of stars, Kepler found planets
near in size to Earth orbiting at a distance where liquid water could pool on
the surface. One of them, Kepler-62f, is about 40 percent bigger than Earth and
is likely rocky. Is there life on any of them? We still have a lot more to
learn.
This sizzling world is so hot iron would
melt!
One of Kepler’s early discoveries was the small, scorched world of
With a year that lasts less than an Earth day and density high enough to
imply it’s probably made of iron and rock, this “lava world” gave us the first
solid evidence of a rocky planet outside our solar system.
If it’s not an alien megastructure, what
is this oddly fluctuating star?
When Kepler detected the oddly fluctuating light from
were born 11 billion years ago when our galaxy was in its youth. Imagine
what these ancient planets look like after all that time?
Kepler found a supernova exploding at
breakneck speed.
This premier planet hunter has also been watching stars explode. Kepler
recorded a sped-up version of a supernova called a
“fast-evolving
luminescent transit” that reached its peak brightness at breakneck
speed. It was caused by a star spewing out a dense shell of gas that lit up
when hit with the shockwave from the blast.
