boniverotica:

The ice cube in his drink cracks and makes a ringing sound as it hit the sides of his glass. ‘My whiskey is singing,’ Bon Iver ponders, ‘a slow, sad song about rural decay and lonesomeness and the grass that grows between the train tracks.’ He runs his fingers along the inside of my arm, and I can see him in his mind’s eye sitting by the tracks, stroking the grass, longingly.

—For those that think poverty is necessary for a society to function, you’re dead wrong.

(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)

socialuprooting:

Support the End Polluter Welfare Act, introduced by Bernie Sanders

At a time when we have a record debt, Congress should not continue to give away taxpayer money to the established, highly profitable fossil fuel industry.

• Fossil fuels are subsidized at nearly 6 times the rate of renewable energy. From 2002 to 2008, the US Government gave the mature fossil fuel industry over $72 billion in subsidies, while investments in the emerging renewable industry totaled $12.2 billion. 
• The fossil fuel energy industry does not need taxpayer subsidies. In 2011, the Big Five oil companies alone made $137 billion in profits. During the first quarter of 2012, the Big Five oil companies earned a combined $33.5 billion, or $368 million per day. 
• Unlike renewable energy incentives which periodically expire and require Congress to approve extensions, the fossil fuel industry has dozens of subsidies permanently engrained in the tax code from decades of successful lobbying. In 2011, the oil, gas, and coal industries spent a combined $167 million on lobbying the federal government. 

(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)

HIS BEAUTIFUL FACE.
I don’t think my obsession is healthy.