September 2011
HuffPo blogger and author says "Women Had It...
jessicavalenti:
There are so many things wrong with Anna David’s post, “Women Had It Better in the Sixties,” it’s hard to know where to begin. First of all, it really should have been titled “Straight White Women Had It Better in the Sixties,” cause you know…fucking civil rights and all that. But even if David had included a caveat about race, sexuality, etc - this post simply reeks.
David says...
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“The phrase the discovery of America is obviously inaccurate. What they...”
– Noam Chomsky, American philosopher and activist (via survivalinternational)
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A Review Of One Decade's Worth Of Murder Cases In... →
letterstomycountry:
Those are all false confessions. Undoubtedly coerced by police investigators.
UPDATE: this paper suggests that a particular 9-step interrogation technique convinced innocent people to confess to crimes they didn’t commit at a rate of 43%.
fourty-three percent.
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“The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to hear a case...”
– The New York Times, “Obama Administration Asks Justices to Rule Quickly on Health Law” (via inothernews)
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NY TIMES: "Thousands of sexual assaults that occur... →
inothernews:
Ugh.
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No, but seriously: al Qaeda wants Iranian... →
well. Never thought Ahmadinejad and I would agree on something….
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NYC cops arrested, detained reporter for 9 hours... →
As more people spilled into the street, police started to demand that protesters stay on the sidewalk. But as people seemed to be retreating from harm’s way, police began pushing the protesters. I saw police use large nets to corral people en masse. I watched as police pepper sprayed several young women in the face. (An NYPD spokesperson confirmed the use of pepper spray to MetroFocus.) I saw...
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“Major health insurance companies have been charging sharply higher premiums this...”
– The New York Times, “Health Insurers Push Premiums Sharply Higher.”
Insurance company scumbaggery at work, folks. This is why we need reform.
(via inothernews)
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Violent Attacks on Transgender People Raise Alarm →
A series of shootings and violent attacks put Washington, D.C.’s transgender community on edge this summer. Police hesitate to call the attacks hate crimes, but they’ve stepped up their patrols.
In late July, Lashai Mclean was murdered. A few days later, another transgender woman was shot. September 12, another transgender woman was shot. But the most shocking one: August 26 an...
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“In prison, every time we complained about our conditions, the guards would...”
– Shane Bauer, one of the two American hikers released last week after 781 days of detention in Iranian prison. (via seaofgreen)
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“In the future, your role in the defense force will be determined on your...”
– Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith, announcing today that Australia will now allow its female servicemembers to serve on the front lines in all possible combat roles. Amen to that. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
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“We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who...”
– Carl Sagan (via wespeakfortheearth)
i think it’s the lorax
(via mortauxvaches)
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LRA Crisis Tracker →
Invisible Children has just launched a new website with real-time updates on the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda. If you are unfamiliar with the LRA, the video below gives you a history on them. Invisible Children has been working in Uganda since 2005, and have been making great headway in improving situations in the country (even though it’s still awful there).
Who is the LRA from...
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Household Vinegar Being Used To Detect Cervical... →
letterstomycountry:
Nurses using the new procedure, developed by experts at the Johns Hopkins medical school in the 1990s and endorsed last year by the World Health Organization, brush vinegar on a woman’s cervix. It makes precancerous spots turn white. They can then be immediately frozen off with a metal probe cooled by a tank of carbon dioxide, available from any Coca-Cola bottling plant.
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Convict Finds Freedom Overwhelming, Commits Arson... →
letterstomycountry:
This is probably Comedy at first glance to some people. But it is only Comedy due to its absurd Tragedy. It is a symptom of just how ineffective and broken our current model for “corrections” is.
Because if you want a person to behave like a civilized human being, you lock them in prison for 26 years inside an insular community of anti-social, dangerous people, then...
“Rather than making them – or talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work...”
– Ronald Reagan - during a 1980 Republican presidential primary debate.
The immigration debate, circa 1980 - Ben Smith
(via zainyk)
STOP TAKING RONALD REAGAN’S QUOTES OUT OF CONTEXT, LIBERALS!!!
(via inothernews)
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An Open Letter from Black Women to the SlutWalk... →
grrrlvirus:
“As Black women, we do not have the privilege or the space to call ourselves “slut” without validating the already historically entrenched ideology and recurring messages about what and who the Black woman is. We don’t have the privilege to play on destructive representations burned in our collective minds, on our bodies and souls for generations. Although we understand the valid...
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Five Banks Account For 96% Of The $250 Trillion In... →
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“Has anybody been watching the debates lately? You’ve got a governor whose state...”
– President Barack Obama
Obama says GOP debates ‘not reflective of who we are’ - latimes.com
(via zainyk)
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“You wanna add another candidate? It’s like the Republican primary is like a...”
– JON STEWART, on media-fed rumors that New Jersey governor Chris Christie may enter the GOP presidential race — as well as the hypocritical sentiments of the Republican party — on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
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Tomorrow's College: American RadioWorks →
While driving home last night, the second in this series “Don’t Lecture Me” was on, and I was totally fascinated. I only caught like, 5 minutes of if. So now, at work, I’m listening to the whole series.
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“Being gay is natural. Hating gays is a lifestyle choice.”
– John Fugelsang (via liberal-life)
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Please reblog this, Tumblr.
rosinhabela:
My name is Kelly Schomburg, I’m the girl with the red hair in these pictures. I was protesting at the Occupy Wall Street march yesterday when I and several other women were sprayed with mace and subsequently arrested. Many have already seen the video, which has been spreading like wildfire over twitter, Facebook, tumblr, and other video feeds, along with hundreds of other photos...
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“[W]e shouldn’t execute people. We shouldn’t execute mass murderers. We shouldn’t...”
– Matthew Yglesias (via letterstomycountry)
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“Anyone with eyes open knows that the gangsterism of Wall Street — financial...”
– MIT Professor Noam Chomsky, the most-cited living author in the world and one of the most staunchly anti-capitalist intellectuals in the United States, has sent a “strong message of support” to the organizers of the Occupy Wall Street protests (via cantorknox) 