September 2011
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An astrophysicist and his scientist friends have... →
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(via NPR)
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“In the summer of 2004, after Tropical Storm Gaston slammed into Richmond,...”
– The Hill, “Cantor In Tricky Spot On Disaster Aid.”
I think they meant “dicky.” As in “dickshit fucker.”
(via inothernews)
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“The total damages from Hurricane Irene have yet to be assessed, but already the...”
– USA Today, “Obama, Republicans Tussle Over Paying For Hurricane Aid.”
You’re telling me there’s no metaphorical hostage-taking here? Fuck that.
For shame, Republican party. This is a new low.
(via inothernews)
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I Will Not Shave My Vagina: Forget about the... →
iwillnotshavemyvagina:
Your local government is important. Be informed about the candidates in your county, and participate in the local elections. Your judges and your school board can directly affect you and your family. Who is your mayor?
Let’s go a little larger now.
Put more time and focus into researching your…
August 2011
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“When you’re Vice president, you better be prepared to be a punchline.”
– DICK CHENEY, on The Today Show, when asked if he regrets shooting his good friend in the face whilst hunting — thus becoming a punchline for late-night comics.
While Cheney said he felt bad about the hunting accident, he was unapologetic about pretty much everything else.
(via inothernews)
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CEO Pay Exceeds Corporate Federal Tax Burden →
At least 25 top United States companies paid more to their chief executives in 2010 than they did to the federal government in taxes, according to a study released on Wednesday.
The companies — which include household names like eBay, Boeing, General Electric (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft Corp. and NBC Universal, which is jointly owned by Comcast Corp. and General Electric) and...
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“In a shift of tactics that has alarmed American officials, the antisecrecy...”
– The New York Times, “Wikileaks Leaves Names of Diplomatic Sources In Leaked Cables.”
This is so fucking outrageous and sickening and is an asshole move on Julian Assange’s part. He knows full well that he is now putting lives in danger and simply doesn’t give a fuck.
(via inothernews)
i support...
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“(Conservative commentator Glenn Beck) questioned the use of “African-American”...”
– The New York Daily News, “Glenn Beck, Conservative Ex-Fox Host on Radio Show: The Term ‘Colored’ Is ‘Not a Bad Thing.’”
Glenn Beck, inept-American.
(via inothernews)
glenn beck is an idiot. with that said, i agree with him on the term black (not colored. i’d argue all skin tones are...
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Why Can't U.S. Students Compete With the Rest of... →
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infoneer-pulse:
“We know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time,” President Obama said in his State of the Union address this year. “We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and outbuild the rest of the world.” Yet despite the economic crisis facing the country, the U.S. educational system remains frozen in place, unable to adapt to contemporary global...
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In Limbo At Guantanamo →
letterstomycountry:
Tyler Cabot tells Noor Uthman Muhammed’s story:
It is a strange population, the 171 men still left at Guantánamo. There is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and another two dozen hardened militants, who will never be released. This class of prisoner represents a small minority of the population. Then there are the others — about a hundred men, mostly Yemeni, who have been cleared...
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Rape Crisis Education
letterstomycountry:
In a 1990 article examining Rape Crisis feminism, Stephanie Guttman claims that modern date-rape education “fosters confusion, undermines personal responsibility, and trivializes sexual violence.” She points to the Koss survey which established that 1 in every 4 women on college campuses are raped:
In general, surveys such as Koss’s encourage women to reinterpret sexual...
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the incredible edible emerald: Safe Streets AZ... →
skeeba:
TUCSON, AZ (KOLD) – It’s the kind of street violence that goes unreported: public sexual harassment, the kind that haunted Glenn Robert Shambach in high school.
“It reinforces that shame that we have to work through to try to overcome by suggesting violence is acceptable because of who we…
the incredible edible emerald: Tyler the Creator... →
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Lyrical example: “rape a pregnant bitch and call it a threesome.”
With that as my introduction to this guy, I don’t want him to have a career.
Oh come on. You at least need to listen to a song before you reject an entire person’s musical output.
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TAL #322: Shouting Across the Divide →
Act One covers this awful story of this [awful] Christian teacher preaching hatred in her 4th grade class against the one Muslim girl. This story is heartbreaking.
I hate religion.
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Rape Culture Pro Tip
pantslessprogressive:
If someone is not strongly and widely chastised for using “I’ll rape a pregnant bitch and call it a threesome” in song lyrics, then our society has a giant fucking problem.
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Michele Bachmann Says Hurricane Irene And... →
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann told Floridians Sunday that Hurricane Irene and the earthquake felt along much of the East Coast last week were messages from God to warn “politicians” to start heeding divine guidance, which she suggested is being channeled through small government conservatives.
“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians....
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“The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be...”
– Preamble of the IWW Constitution (via trevorhultner)
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Nation's Top Climate Scientist, 140 Others... →
gravewisdom:
“NASA’s Dr. James Hansen, perhaps our nation’s preeminent climate scientist, was arrested with over 140 others at the White House today. Scientists, environmentalists, farmers, students, and other concerned citizens were gathered in the nation’s capitolto protest the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that threatens to ruin many pristine habitats and spell certain disaster for...
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“It took me 18 years to learn that sex could be on my own terms.
Until then, my...”
– Carmen Rios, SlutWalk D.C. (via consentual)
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USA TODAY: Gadhafi's family, including wife and... →
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The First Jello Shot Disinhibits, The Sixth Jello... →
This just in: American college students get shitfaced drunk because it allows them to have sex without having to admit to themselves, their peers, their parents, or their pal Jesus that sex is something they want:
Students in her studies described alcohol as emboldening and said it offers “liquid courage,” a phrase other researchers also have cited. Drinking allows young women to “act out...
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Letters To My Country: Rape Culture And... →
letterstomycountry:
Logicallypositive shares a story worth everyone’s time:
Here me out here. By no means do I consider my self a Social Justice Activist, a feminist, or whatever have you. I’m your run-of-the-mill libertarian. Okay, maybe not run-of-the-mill, but you get the point. But all this talk of rape…
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“Capitalist bourgeois shitbag that doesn’t accept evolution as true and thinks...”
– socialistictendencies on ron paul (via akagoldfish)
Exactly
(via anticapitalist)
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