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meggielynne:

this.

“The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.” Exodus 14:14

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Photojournalists Sharing the World through Instagram

Photojournalists from around the globe have begun using Instagram as an important part of their storytelling, using the intimacy and immediacy of mobile photography to open up new avenues of engagement with their audiences.

From Hurricane Sandy’s destruction to baseball’s opening season, photojournalists are capturing and sharing the world’s stories with people in real time through Instagram.

To tune into the news as it unfolds, be sure to follow these photojournalists:

• Michael Christopher Brown, documents life in Congolese refugee camps — @michaelchristopherbrown
• Ben Lowy, a conflict and feature photographer based in New York City — @benlowy
• Phil Moore, a British photojournalist based in East Africa — @philmoorephoto
• Kevin Frayer, the chief photographer for the Associated Press in South Asia — @kevinfrayer
• Ivan Kashinsky, a freelance photographer based in Quito, Ecuador — @ivankphoto
• Michael Yamashita, a documentary photographer for National Geographic specializing in Asia — @yamashitaphoto

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kateoplis:

“Here are some broad descriptions about the generation known as Millennials: They’re narcissistic. They’re lazy. They’re coddled. They’re even a bit delusional.

Those aren’t just unfounded negative stereotypes about 80 million Americans born roughly between 1980 and 2000. They’re backed up by a decade of sociological research. The National Institutes of Health found that for people in their 20s, Narcissistic Personality Disorder is three times as high than the generation that’s 65 or older. In 1992, 80 percent of people under 23 wanted to one day have a job with greater responsibility; ten years later, 60 percent did. Millennials received so many participation trophies growing up that 40 percent of them think they should be promoted every two years – regardless of performance. They’re so hopeful about the future you might think they hadn’t heard of something called the Great Recession.”

The Me Generation

Well, they’re right about the “save us all” part, anyway.

Seconded. But Alyssa Rosenberg asks an interesting question: Why did Time put a woman on the cover?

“One avenue the choice of cover suggested is that there might be a gendered component to the irritation with Millenials. Dependence, interiority, and the careful construction of fantasy lives aren’t solely the provenance of girls and women of course, but they’re traits that are coded as feminine.”

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Russians speak out on Boston bombing (VIDEO)

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cognitivedissonance:

So what? His wife and child are American citizens, and he was here legally.

Isn’t that how public assistance ideally works? A temporary safety net, right? Relevant: “The state says both Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — his brother and the other bombing suspect — received welfare benefits as children through their parents while the family lived in Massachusetts. Neither was receiving benefits at the time of the bombing.”

Is that the story, the system operated as intended? Or is this non-news dressed up as news just so we hate the bomber (and by extension, his family) a teensy bit more?

I mean, we’re so generous to people living in poverty in this country, and we have no homeless or hungry people ever, so obviously this is big important news — it’s in no way related to some sort of stigma associated with welfare, nope, no sir. /sarcasm

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