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Here’s advice from a congressman on how to actually enact change during the Trump presidency. Rep. Steve Israel sat down with us to lay it all out:

[…] Physician and author Dr. Susanna Way Dodds, who wrote in 1883: “The spices in it are bad, the vinegar is a seething mass of rottenness … and the poor little innocent cucumber … if it had very little ‘character’ in the beginning, must now fall into the ranks of the ‘totally depraved.’” Jews did not get this memo. When Lower East Side public schools let children out at lunchtime, kids ran en masse to the nearest pushcarts. Social service workers were horrified. “Pickles were seen—by a nation on its way to Prohibition—as a compulsion for those too young to drink alcohol,” noted Ziegelman. They were often classified as a “stimulant,” along with coffee, tobacco, and whiskey.

this article is even more hysterical than i suspected (via pipistrellus)

Why You Should Always Wear Your Helmet.

Jacque Fresco, from Zeitgeist: Moving Forward.