After 14 hours, the gun control filibuster is winding down

coolchicksfromhistory:

There is now a scheduled vote on closing the terror gap and universal background checks.

Some ways you can show support:

The Brady Campaign has an online form you can use to contact 15 key Senators.

Every Town for Gun Safety has an online form you can use to call your specific Senator.

micdotcom:

Senate Democrats are filibustering for gun control

Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, took over the Senate floor on Wednesday to protest what they call a lack of action on gun control in the wake of this weekend’s mass shooting in Orlando, Florida. 

Murphy began speaking at 11:21 a.m. Eastern, and along with his Democratic colleagues will continue speaking until Republicans compromise on gun reform legislation. They are hoping one new law specifically is passed.

now is not the fucking time to tell the world about how upset you still are about Ali dodging the draft

honestly like what an idiotic and asinine thing to be your first contribution to whatever the internet collective grief process is 

that’s really the first thing you could think of to say right now?

“gee, muhammad ali was cool but how dare he not go get shot in vietnam” 

gfbaseball:

Benches clearing brawl between the Rangers and Blue Jays after José Bautista’s hard slide at second after being hit by a pitch - May 15, 2016

tagged → #baseball is fun

Right now we have one comic book movie universe where Batman quotes Dick Cheney un-ironically and a rival comic book movie universe where a character makes a less-than-apolitical Mark Fuhrman reference. I haven’t really been paying attention 100% but I’ve seen less made of that than I would’ve expected 

bitterbitchclubpresident:

i love hearing what people *almost* got named.

my mom almost named me Sheila.

kireiscorner:

Beautiful Animated Women: Kidagakash (Princess Kida) Atlantis: The Lost Empire

I’m kinda sad and anxious but it feels like a useful sad and anxious if there’s such a thing

berningsensation:

Even when he’s furious at billionaires for what they’ve done to this country, Bernie still has compassion for them. I’m inspired every day by the size of this man’s heart.