February 2012
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter...”
– Malcolm X
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“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via occupyallstreets)
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“The President should come out for marriage equality, and he should issue an...”
– John Aravosis’ advice to the President (via ryking)
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“[Wisconsin Republican governor Scott Walker] is a clear asshole. There’s just no...”
– John Cole, And People Tell Me I Overuse the Word “Asshole”
The nation’s five largest banks just agreed to compensate home owners in 49 states who were improperly foreclosed on or who were otherwise screwed by shady mortage-servicing. Walker has announced that he’ll be taking some of that money away...
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Watchoccupyallstreets:
Occupy protesters crash the CPAC. Protesters and CPAC members are being arrested by police.
Update: A Washington Post journalist was falsely arrested for assaulting a police.
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“Anti-liberal propaganda has been ramping up for years. Former Fox News host...”
– Online ‘Hit List’ Targets Liberals (via ryking)
“The effect of this consolidation of economic power is that the two most...”
– Why economic inequality leads to collapse (via azspot)
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“Interesting how the media narrative can change really fast. This morning Obama...”
– Did Obama Thread the Needle on Contraception Mandate? (via ryking)
Watchoccupyallstreets:
Occupy Cal tents return to UC Berkeley
Occupy Cal members were back at UC Berkeley on Thursday, setting up tents on Sproul Plaza in the same spot where police forcibly removed them last fall.
Six tents went up in the afternoon along with a giant red mushroom sculpture.
Kate Ryan, 22, who was at Sproul Plaza supporting the occupiers, said the university has raised tuition but...
“They don’t like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker.”
– Scott Walker — on why he’s facing a recall election. (h/t Think Progress.)
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Four Tips for Male Journalists Who Want to Discuss... →
cognitivedissonance:
Some advice to male talking heads on covering reproductive rights…
Of the 146 guests who have come on cable news shows to discuss the decision between Monday and Thursday, 91 were men. MSNBC’s Morning Joe has come under fire from Democratic congresswomen for not inviting women, other than show co-host Mika Brzezinski, who disapproved of the Obama administration’s initial...
"What Conservatives say they want is “Small...
leftish:
What they are working on this year is Government that prohibits you from using contraception, that forcibly collects your urine, hair and blood, and that puts you in prison or deports you if it does not like the speeches you attend. This stuff is happening all over, all the time now. This is what Conservative Government is like this year. It sort of seems to me that this ought to be a...
What's your tax rate? Zuckerberg's is 7%. →
Before we start talking about the Facebook Windfall and all the nice new tax dollars the company will pour into the state treasury, let me take a moment to put this in perspective. Before Jerry Brown’s finance director goes to Mark Zuckerberg’s house to wash his windows and mow his lawn (which wouldn’t work anyway; according to its SEC filings, Facebook pays for a home security service for its...
“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human...”
– Former US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bowman, in Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States”.
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I want this emblazoned on my forehead for all of the American entitlement people out there.
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Total Health Care Costs Fall When Poor Are... →
The concept of support for universal health care is taboo among Republicans who scrutinize the Affordable Care Act — dubbing it the “Job-Killing Health Care Law Act” — and call for its repeal. But a new UC Irvine study challenges the GOP argument that the health care law is too costly, with data illustrating that health care costs on the whole fall when poorer, uninsured patients are provided...
Corporate Education Reformers Plot Next Steps at... →
Thursday, hundreds of state legislators from across the nation headed out to an “island” resort on the coast of Florida to a unique “education academy” sponsored by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). There were no students or teachers. Instead, legislators, representatives from right-wing think tanks and for-profit education corporations met behind closed doors to channel...
8,000 instances of abuse alleged in Archdiocese... →
Sealed documents filed in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee bankruptcy identify at least 8,000 instances of child sexual abuse and 100 alleged offenders - 75 of them priests - who have not previously been named by the archdiocese, a victims’ attorney said Thursday.
Archdiocese spokeswoman Julie Wolf said she did not have enough information to respond to the assertion, made by attorney Jeffrey...
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GOP Won’t Yield on Millionaire Surtax in Payroll... →
House Speaker John Boehner today urged Democrats to come to terms with Republicans on a year-long extension to the payroll tax cut, as negotiations between conferees struggle to yield progress on a path towards a deal.
At his weekly news conference, the speaker once again suggested that Democrats should give up on a proposed tax hike on millionaires to pay for the extensions, which...