May 2012
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“The Republican bedroom crowd doesn’t want to talk about the nation’s boardrooms...”
– Robert Reich (via azspot)
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My Weekend in America's So-Called "Rape Capital" →
This article is definitely one of the more disturbing articles I’ve read in a long time. I was completely flabbergasted, and yet I wasn’t all that surprised.
April 2012
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“The Vatican has appointed an American bishop to rein in the largest and most...”
– The New York Times, “Vatican Reprimands a Group of U.S. Nuns and Plans Changes.”
Yeah, we can chalk this up to religious freedom and not outright sexism and misogyny and oh yeah what was that again about the Catholic Church being “vagina managers”?
Fuck this shit.
(via inothernews)
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March 2012
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The only thing that’s ever trickled down was feminism.
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“I am sick to death of people who celebrate “the family” making excuses about why...”
– Charles P. Pierce (via azspot)
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Five Million Voters May Lose Rights in the 2012... →
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, as many as five million eligible voters could meet difficulties this Election Day due to these new, imposing voter laws.
Looking at those stipulations, it’s not hard to imagine how low-income citizens, African Americans, Latino Americans, college students, and elderly voters—groups the Brennan Center has identified as the most burdened by new voter...
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Tell KSCO to Dump Rush Limbaugh →
Poll closes at 7pm today.
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February 2012
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Georgia Democrats to propose limitations on... →
historicalupstart:
As members of Georgia’s House of Representatives debate whether to prohibit abortions for women more than 20 weeks pregnant, House Democrats planned to introduce their own reproductive rights plan: No more vasectomies that leave “thousands of children … deprived of birth.”
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Palestinian on Hunger Strike to Be Freed Without... →
“A Palestinian who fasted for 66 days to protest his detention without charge ended his hunger strike on Tuesday after the Israeli authorities agreed to release him in mid-April, if no major new evidence is brought against him.”
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“Babaamr is facing a genocide right now. I will never forgive you for your...”
– One of Syrian citizen journalist Rami Al-Sayed’s last messages. The 27-year-old Al-Sayed, who bravely documented what was going on in the wartorn city of Homs, was actively targeted by the regime’s shelling according to activists. He ran a live feed of the bombardment of his city, out of the...
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Raise the Crime Rate →
Statistics are notoriously slippery, but the figures that suggest that violence has been disappearing in the United States contain a blind spot so large that to cite them uncritically, as the major papers do, is to collude in an epic con. Uncounted in the official tallies are the hundreds of thousands of crimes that take place in the country’s prison system, a vast and growing residential...
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Ryan Gosling On Demand →
Now you can have Ryan Gosling in your home all day errdayy!
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support... →
January 2012
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Obama Approves Rule for Universal Contraception →
Today is a monumental day for women.
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Shit Republicans Say About Black People →
This is a must-see.
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Can You Tell The Difference Between A Men’s... →
An incredibly disturbing research study shows most people can’t distinguish between quotes found in some men’s magazines and interviews with convicted rapists.
December 2011
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13 Fantastic Female Comics Creators of 2011 →
This made me happy, as I’ve always been discouraged by becoming involved in comics because I’ve perceived it as a male-dominated arena. I hope these women continue to make comics and gain more support.
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BP Accuses Haliburton over Gulf of Mexico Oil... →
Are we seriously still playing the blame game, BP?
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NYPD Members Call West Indians "Animals" and... →
“They called people ‘animals’ and ‘savages.’ One comment said, ‘Drop a bomb and wipe them all out.’”
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Bomb Attacks in Iraq on Shiite Holiday →
“BAGHDAD — Bomb blasts ripped into throngs of religious pilgrims on Monday as they streamed through Iraq’s streets to honor one of the most sacred holidays of Shiite Islam, in what has become almost an annual spilling of blood and stirring of sectarian anger.”
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Attacks on Shiites Kill Scores in Afghanistan →
“KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 58 people were killed and scores wounded after bombers struck Shiite religious observances on Tuesday in three cities, detonating explosives amid crowds of worshipers in the first such sectarian attacks in a decade of war in Afghanistan.”
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November 2011
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“In any case, the success of modern Republicanism isn’t all that hard to...”
– Deconstructing the Right-Wing Alternate Reality (via azspot
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STFU, Conservatives: Tell Obama to Condemn Police... →
stfuconservatives:
*** Click here to sign the petition at Change.org***
Dear Mr. President,
All around the country, police departments are using violence and coercion to rid cities of peaceful protesters who are practicing the very universal rights that you referenced when addressing the protests in Egypt.
…
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10 Ways the Occupy Movement Changes Everything →
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“[TW: street harassment] When my confident, curious, adventurous 12-year-old...”
– Soraya Chemaly: Street Harassment is Everywhere; What do We Tell Our Daughters? (via heavenearthandhoratio)
October 2011
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“Good news for the wealthy classes who might have worried that the recession...”
– CBS Radio commentator DAVE ROSS. (via inothernews)
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TIME MAGAZINE: "(Los Angeles) passed a resolution... →
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“To be fair, the reason why some mainstream news journalists and many of the...”
– Douglas Rushkoff (via azspot)
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BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER.: Things I find amusing: →
inothernews:
Mets fans telling us Yankees fans that the Yankees choked
because the Mets have had relevant playoff baseball experience in the years between 2000 and the present
while the Yankees only didn’t have relevant playoff baseball experience in 2008
and are those Mets fans still enjoying that 1986…
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“American government is often a kind of elective dictatorship, where politicians...”
– Juan Cole (via azspot)