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Cheesethesecond’s Follower Giveaway!

So one of the perks of my job is that occasionally, publishers just send me really cool books for free, like the Star Wars Propaganda Art book, which came with a bunch of awesome mini-posters:

Seeing as I’m not planning to hang all these mini-posters up on my wall, I thought I might share the love a little bit with a follower giveaway! Here’s the deal:

You must be following me to win! This is really a thank you for the people who have stuck with me through blog shifting and fandom jumping, etc. (Though you can certainly still win if you just started following me!)

Likes and reblogs count. Feel free to reblog it as many times as you want.

I’ll randomly select seven winners on 12/19. The first winner will get to pick one of the seven posters above, the second winner from the remaining six, and so on. You can only win once.

You’ll have to be comfortable giving me your name and address, since I gotta ship it to you somehow.

That’s it! If you have any questions or want to see any of the posters up close, my inbox is always open! Good luck, friends <3

Lake Siutghiol, a lagoon in Dobruja, Romania.

The Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. [2000 x 1500]

Source: http://i.imgur.com/lXCowB4.jpg

The Numbers Are In: The War on Cops Is a Right-Wing Myth

Policing is safer than it's been in years.

According to the FBI, 2015 was one of the safest years on record to be a police officer in America. Agency data shows 41 officers were killed in the line of duty last year, a drop of 20 percent from one year prior. Only in 2013, when felonious police fatalities hit an historic all-time low, were fewer officers killed while doing their jobs. The year 2015 tied with 2008 for the second lowest death rate for police on record…

The Department of Education will send letters to 387,000 people they’ve identified as being eligible for a total and permanent disability discharge, a designation that allows federal student loan borrowers who can’t work because of a disability to have their loans forgiven. The borrowers identified by the department won’t have to go through the typical application process for receiving a disability discharge, which requires sending in documented proof of their disability. Instead, the borrower will simply have to sign and return the completed application enclosed in the letter. If every borrower identified by the department decides to have his or her debt forgiven, the government will end up discharging more than $7.7 billion in debt, according to the department. Yu commended the collaboration and applauded the announcement, but she said she wished it went one step further by automatically stopping collections and garnishment on borrowers the government identified as eligible for a disability discharge. The department may struggle to reach some borrowers because they don’t have their most updated information on file, she noted. In addition, some borrowers who qualify for discharge because of a psychological reason – such as an Alzheimer’s patient – may not be capable of understanding the materials they receive, she said.

Why Obama is forgiving the student loans of nearly 400,000 people (via shinyandloud)

i just read a whole bunch about the stanford rape case and the sentencing and the father’s statement and the victim’s statement and boy, do i regret doing that.

(via The Magic Swan Geese, Russian folk tale illustraton, E. Polenova 1956, – Soviet Postcards & Vintage Finds)

going out of business 📉

How Jacques Rivette’s first films helped launch the French New Wave.

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Bank robbery in progress in Cyprus