Best. Birthday. Card. Ever.

From Ashley Foxx on Essence.com. Have you read any of these books to your little one?

1000 Words

(Source: crunchybutgentlemama)

purenting:

I really like this. Never force feed a child.

Totally agree. It’s one of the reasons we have an obesity problem. We’re taught early that cleaning our plates is more important than listening to our bodies. Eventually, we can’t hear it anymore.

(Source: leastwicked)

jtotheizzoe:

How to win a climate change argument, in one chart.

(via Slate Magazine)

Two things I love: Flowcharts and rational explanations.

Yeah, I’m extra late. Thanks, Ebony.com, for reposting my story.

You definitely need to place the baby on a pillow to prevent hunching over to get your breast in the correct position. We got a Boppy from our registry, which was good for all holds except football. But a regular old pillow will suffice.

thiswearyhead:

gingermommax3:

I guess because the baby should be skin to skin or whatever.

(She said this in our breastfeeding class. Not directly to me. lol)

Buut…. Someone said they’re going to get me one. So oh well. lol

That seems strange. Yes, skin to skin is very important, but so is being comfortable. You aren’t going to want to nurse frequently if you’re uncomfortable every time you do it! My daughter is 9 months old, and I still use my Boppy at least a couple of times a day. I would say give it a try with and without the pillow and do it however you’re most comfortable. You can do skin to skin at other times, too, it doesn’t just have to be when baby’s nursing.

browngurlwfro:

“For a quarter-century, Antonin Scalia has been the reigning bully of the Supreme Court, but finally a couple of justices are willing to face him down. As it happens, the two manning up to take on Nino the Terrible are women: the court’s newest members, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

The acerbic Scalia, the court’s longest-serving justice, got his latest comeuppance Wednesday morning, as he tried to make the absurd argument that Congress’s renewal of the Voting Rights Act in 2006 by votes of 98 to 0 in the Senate and 390 to 33 in the House did not mean that Congress actually supported the act. Scalia, assuming powers of clairvoyance, argued that the lawmakers were secretly afraid to vote against this “perpetuation of racial entitlement.”

Kagan wasn’t about to let him get away with that. In a breach of decorum, she interrupted his questioning of counsel to argue with him directly. “Well, that sounds like a good argument to me, Justice Scalia,” she said. “It was clear to 98 senators, including every senator from a covered state, who decided that there was a continuing need for this piece of legislation.” …

Sotomayor allowed the lawyer for the Alabama county seeking to overturn the law to get just four sentences into his argument before interrupting him. “Assuming I accept your premise — and there’s some question about that — that some portions of the South have changed, your county pretty much hasn’t,” she charged. “Why would we vote in favor of a county whose record is the epitome of what caused the passage of this law to start with?” Moments later, Kagan pointed out that “Alabama has no black statewide elected officials” and has one of the worst records of voting rights violations. Scalia and Justice Samuel Alito tried to assist the Alabama county’s lawyer by offering some friendly hypotheticals, but Sotomayor wasn’t interested in hearing that. “The problem with those hypotheticals is obvious,” she said, because “it’s a real record as to what Alabama has done to earn its place on the list.” Sotomayor continued questioning as if she were the only jurist in the room. “Discrimination is discrimination,” she informed him, “and what Congress said is it continues.””

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DANA MILBANK, writing in The Washington Post, “Sotomayor, Kagan Ready for Battles.”

Has someone started fuckyeahelenaandsonia.tumblr.com yet?

(via inothernews)

For future reference: Next time anyone tries to tell you that Presidential elections don’t matter/candidates are all the same.

Barack Obama put both these women on the SCOTUS, and I can barely begin to start thanking him enough for that. They aren’t as progressive as I may wish on some things, but hot damn—someone’s finally sticking it to Scalia in session.

(via aka14kgold)

They don’t teach you this in school. They don’t show you the beauty of existing, they don’t show you the wonder of the earth, they don’t show you the unity that human beings are. They show you who’s better, who’s worse. They show you what they need to show you in order for their system to survive.

(Source: moon-in-a-dewdrop)

Stumbled upon this duvet cover while furniture hunting. Love the ladies of all shades! So does Babygirl. Image search was unsuccessful in turning up the manufacturer (guess I should have check in-store, huh), but it was spotted at ValueCity.