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plannedparenthood:

We were deeply saddened to hear the news about Savita Halappanavar – a woman who died after being denied a life-saving abortion in Ireland. There are too many stories like Savita’s out there and many countries – other than Ireland – where abortion remains illegal. Remember Savita and the importance of access to safe and legal abortion in the United States and around the world. Please share this in support.

We were deeply saddened to hear the news about Savita Halappanavar – a woman who died after being denied a life-saving abortion in Ireland. There are too many stories like Savita’s out there and many countries – other than Ireland – where abortion remains illegal.

Remember Savita and the importance of access to safe and legal abortion in the United States and around the world. Please share this in support.

7 months ago

sesamestreet:

In honor of Veterans Day, Louis Mitchell, our Associate Design Director of Special Projects, created the painting above, and presented it to the United War Veterans Council. There’s a really cool gif of it being created, but it’s too big for tumblr, so go here.

7 months ago

(Source: iamachilles, via david)

7 months ago

Hurricane Etiquette: How to Act When No One Knows How to Act

jezebelcom:

So you’re having a hurricane.

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7 months ago

Sandy’s Aftermath: A Dispatch From the Live Zone

jezebelcom:

Monday evening I was watching the hurricane coverage on TV while reading my Twitter feed on my laptop and talking to my friend Workhorse on the phone. It’s getting crazy out there, we agreed, but he said he was making pasta and about to watch some stuff on his DVR. Then the lights flickered. “Uh oh,” I said. “The light just…” He interrupted: ”Oh my god. Oh no.” And then the phone went beep beep beep and we were disconnected. I texted him: Is your power down? are you ok? He replied: lost power… you? The tweets on my timeline came fast and furious: “all the power just went out below 34th street.” Workhorse, like many of my friends, was now in the Dead Zone. My lights, my TV, my computer, my power was still on. I didn’t realize it then, but I’d become a “have” in a city of have-nots.

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7 months ago

Jezebel.com Updates: Everyone, Don't Worry, THE PONIES ARE OKAY

jezebelcom:

Probably my favorite part of watching the storm coverage yesterday (for hours, obsessively, swaddled cozily in survivor’s guilt out here in Seattle) was when CNN, scrambling for new Sandy updates, took a lengthy detour to discuss adorable ponies.

At one point, the field reporter—I think it…