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Hurricane Matthew

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PSA for those on the Coast: BE SAFE, and BE SMART! 

This one is going to be a gnarly one.  It’s not expected to make landfall, but ride the coast all the way up. This means it probably won’t reduce in strength like most storms do.  Mother Nature is a terrifying force and sometimes we cannot stand against her. 

If you are in Evacuation Zones please heed warnings and the advice of Emergency Responders. If demanded to evacuate, please comply.  Things can be replaced, you can’t.

The National Guard has been mobilized, but not evacuating when you should puts their lives at risk as well as yours. 

To those outside the danger zones, but still in the path- Hunker down.  Make sure you have: 

  • Dry Food
  • Candles
  • Flashlights
  • Batteries
  • window/door seals
  • pull in all outside decor/furniture not cemented down (they’ll become projectiles). 
  • Your Bathtub filled with water in case they shut off the city water
  • FIrst Aid supplies, benedryl, epipen, bandages, antiseptic, etc
  • Duct Tape (You never know what this stuff is good for)
  • emergency radio
  • An emergency plan should you get separated from family (keep in mind cell towers may be out)

For more information on how to get through this thing, take a look at FEMA’s website—it’s packed with resources, including tools through which you can help first responders get to those in need. Stay safe down there, Tumblr, and be sure to check in with your loved ones. 

If you’re looking for ways to help Haiti out, check out our earlier post, and also add Sow a Seed to that list. They focus on orphans in the Caribbean, and they’re currently directing their efforts to hurricane relief.  

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We went to New York Comic Con!

We took a camera and these goofs jumped in front of it. So here you go—the best cosplay in New York City: Rick, Morty, Bus, Bill Cipher, Silver Banshee, and cardboard Gundam.

Then this guy came to life and tried to kill everyone!

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…but this guy stopped him.

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It was all very thrilling. See you again tomorrow!

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Musicians in the Celeb list, celebs in the Music list. So many lane changes in this week’s…

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Television: Three out of three stars.

☆ Big Brother Over the Top gets close to the top at No. 6.
☆ Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo, the first Korean drama to make the list, debuts at No. 18.
☆ Hero in a hoodie, Luke Cage, debuts at No. 9.

Movies: Coming soon, in one way or another.

☆ With the release of its third trailer, Doctor Strange returns at a perfectly normal No. 8.
☆ Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them (No. 16) dropped its final trailer before release.
⬆ Star Trek Beyond’s (No. 5) commentary track will be found exclusively on iTunes.

Music: A Fandometrics shake up!

☆ Niall Horan debuted his solo single, which lead to his debut as a solo artist at No. 1.
☆ Hayley Kiyoko (No. 8) switches lists from Celeb to Music with arrival of her new EP.
☆ Solange (No. 10) bestowed us with the gift of two new music videos and we are forever grateful.

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Celebrities: These One Direction boys are all over the place.

☆ Harry Styles (No. 1) is an easy, breezy, beautiful cover boy for Another Man.
☆ Rob Kardashian’s debut is fueled entirely by getting revenge on Kylie. Find him at No. 4.
☆ Emma Watson comes back at No. 16 after photos of her as Belle leak.

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Games: Play it again, Sam.

☆ Can’t keep Danganronpa 3 down. It’s back at No. 13.
☆ Stardew Valley gets an update with new maps and questions, earning it a spot at No. 17.

Web stuff:  Not many have dethroned danisnotonfire like these vampires.

⬆ Carmilla takes back No. 1 this week. What about next?
⬆ RWBY jwmps to No. 5 in anticipation of season 4 and their Answer Time.

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Hey you nighttime freaks

Yeah, you dang ghouls. It’s Halloween, which is your favorite month, because you’re squirmy slidey creepos who call skeletons friends.

Here are some Tumblrs you might enjoy, you fear-guzzling bozos:

Maryland Paranormal Research
(@marylandparanormal)

has some cool historical & technological perspectives on spooky happenings in—where else?—Maryland, the Ghosts State.

Look: it’s an image but it says “VIDEO.” Spooky.

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Nightmares Fear Factory (@nightmaresfearfactory)

is an attraction in Niagara Falls that warns visitors that they will forever be haunted by snapshots of their screaming hockey puck mouths on the internet.

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Originally posted by nightmaresfearfactory

Ask an Undertaker (@ask-an-undertaker)

is a Tumblr run by an actual person-burier who will undertake to answer your queries. That’s a little burying people joke : )

UFO Activity Log: Starts 4/12/2016
(@ufoactivitylogstarts412016)

is a UFO Activity Log. Nobody knows when it started.

UFO or eyeball of cartoon cat looking downward?

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Originally posted by ufoactivitylogstarts412016

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Haiti is in deep, deep trouble tonight.

On the approach of Hurricane Matthew – currently a category 4 storm threatening a country still recovering from a 2010 earthquake – National Hurricane Center meteorologist DENNIS FELTGEN

(via inothernews)

If you’re in Haiti, if anyone you love is in Haiti, our hearts are with you tonight.

And no matter where you are in the world, here’s how you can help:

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the-movemnt: “ • Schools are six times more likely to suspend Black girls than white girls. • Schools are three times more likely to suspend Black boys than white boys. • There are more security officers than counselors in three of the five largest...

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The statistics won’t come as a shock to those aware of the “school-to-prison pipeline,” a series of policies and practices that push students, especially those most at-risk, from classrooms to the criminal justice system at a young age. 

It’s time we change the conversation and the policy that leads to more incarceration, inequality and hopelessness for so many.

Join the Issue Time discussion on the school to prison pipeline. 

Ask our experts a question by Wednesday 10/5 and follow @the-movemnt for the answers this Friday 10/7!

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Anonymous asked:

How do voter ID laws impact people of color?

historicallyblack answered:

Abby Phillip: Several studies suggest that people of color are less likely to have the forms of identification required by some voter ID laws. And in some cases, voter ID laws themselves might not have disproportionately affected minority groups, but subsequent changes to access to IDs do. For example, in Alabama. The state’s voter ID law went into effect in 2014, and the following year, a government agency announced that it would close 31 Department of Motor Vehicle offices, where most people would get a state-issued license. The closures effected 8 of 10 of the counties with the highest percentage of black voters.

The public outcry after the closures were announced forced the state to backtrack, making changes so that people in those counties would still have access to a state-issued license. Still, these are the kinds of consequences — intended or unintended — that critics point to when they raise concerns about how voter ID laws might affect the ability of people of color to exercise their constitutional rights.

All the answers from last week’s voting rights Issue Time are now up on Historically Black (@historicallyblack​)

This week: The school-to-prison pipeline with Mic.

The “school-to-prison pipeline” refers to policies and practices that push students—especially those most at-risk—from classrooms to the criminal justice system at a very young age.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, schools are six times more likely to suspend black girls than white girls, and three times more likely to suspend black boys than white boys. And there are more security officers than counselors in three of the five largest school districts in the U.S. 

It’s time we address the problems that lead to mass incarceration, inequality, and hopelessness for so many. 

Submit your questions by Wednesday 10/5 to Mic’s The Movement (@the-movemnt)

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Fresh off the proverbial presses, it’s Fandometrics.

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Television: Never

⬆ Miraculous experiences the divine No. 1.
☆ How to Get Away with Murder returns at No. 8. All hail Shonda Rhimes.
⬇ Gravity Falls and so do good TV shows. Down six to No. 13.

Movies: Gonna

⬆ Ghostbusters (No. 3) busting moves as well as those ghosts.
☆ Beep beep! Passengers debuts at No. 8.
☆ Warcraft is losing the battle, clinging to the bottom at No. 20.

Music: Give

★ Twenty One Pilots is keeping steady at No. 2.
☆ The Weeknd dropped a new single, the last e in his name, and into No. 14.
⬆ There’s only One Direction (No. 4) for those guys this week, and it’s up.

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Celebrities: You

☆ Angelina Jolie is No. 3…
☆ …But Brad Pitt is only No. 6. 👀
⬆ Tatiana Maslany comes back to us at No. 17 after her rightful Emmy win.

Games: Up

⬆ Flight Rising reaches an altitude of No. 11
☆ An update titled Rise of Iron earned a certain video game No. 19. It was Destiny.

Web stuff: (…Sorry)

⬆ How-ell does he do it? Danisnotonfire is back at No. 1.
⬆ Check, Please! (@omgcheckplease) is at No. 5 after it won Kickstarter and Answer Time.
☆ The Adventure Zone, a D&D playthrough podcast, debuts at No. 20.

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historicallyblack: “ historicallyblack: “ Poll tax exemption, 1898. Photo courtesy of Johnson family. “Voting and civic participation has always been important to my family, as shown through my great-great-grandfather’s poll tax exemption. Years...

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historicallyblack:

Poll tax exemption, 1898. Photo courtesy of Johnson family.

Voting and civic participation has always been important to my family, as shown through my great-great-grandfather’s poll tax exemption. Years later, in 1899 the NC state legislature passed laws requiring literacy tests (but included grandfather clauses that allowed poor whites who couldn’t read to continue to vote.)  I look at this image often to remind me of where I come from, and to never take my rights for granted.

Story from Michelle Lee

Washington Post’s Historically Black Ask Box is open for Tumblr’s next round of Issue Time on Voting Rights. Washington Post reporters, columnists and other experts (including Michelle who submitted above!) will be answering your questions on the history of voting rights in the U.S., voter suppression and the current political landscape. 

We’ll be accepting questions until Wednesday, Sept. 28 and publishing the responses here on Saturday, Oct. 1.

Ask away!

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