March 2012
RIP 4th amendment
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the... →
beautifulbrwn:
On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on her impressions of Frederick Douglass’ first autobiography the Narrative of the Life. This was part of an essay contest, but her essay was never entered. It offended...
Watchoccupyallstreets:
NYPD arrests Occupiers for no apparent reason and hassles press. Video provided by Gothamist.
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– ― Isaac Asimov (via whomadewho)
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“What does it say about the college coed Susan [sic] Fluke, who goes before a...”
– Rush Limbaugh, on law student Sandra Fluke, who was denied the ability to testify before the all-male panel considering contraceptive coverage.
Fuck. You.
As ThinkProgress states: “While it’s probably not even worth engaging with Limbaugh on the facts, Fluke’s testimony was about a friend who is a...
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Top 5 Stratfor Revelations →
Up to 12 Pakistani active-duty and retired officers from the Inter-Services Intelligence agency knew that Usama Bin Laden was in Abbottabad and were in regular contact with him. The Pakistani chief of staff is denying the report.
Dow Chemicals hired Stratfor to spy on activists in Agra who continue to protest over the Bhopal environmental disaster that blinded many workers and destroyed...
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TIME: In Exchange for Food, North Korea Says it...
crisisgroup:
AUSTIN RAMZY
When Glyn Davies, the the U.S. special representative for North Korean policy, left Beijing last week after two days of talks with North Korean envoys, he would only say their discussions produced “a little bit of progress” but refused to call it a breakthrough. Today we can see what he meant. The U.S. State Department announced that North Korea has agreed to...
IRIN: Libya - what the analysts are saying
crisisgroup:
DUBAI, 29 February 2012 (IRIN) - One year after a popular uprising toppled its former dictator, Libya’s new transitional government has failed to provide coherent state leadership and control, analysts say. A continuing power struggle with hundreds of militias threatens Libya’s transition towards a secure and democratic state. In the absence of national institutions, rebels...
I'll stop calling it rape when it stops being rape →
jessicavalenti:
Also, WTF with the headline? “Crying rape”? For real?
Scott Walker's New Defense: Recalling Me Hurts... →
motherjones:
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday morning, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker trotted out a new talking point as he defends himself from a well-organized recall campaign hoping to oust him from office. In a nutshell, Walker said: Think of the children! Think of the seniors!
How ironic. In his first budget, Walker slashed public education funding by $800 million to $900 million. Walker and...
DECONNICK AND NOTO RESURRECT DARK HORSE'S "GHOST" →
kellysue:
Could not be more excited to be working with Phil Noto and Patrick Thorpe on this. Can’t wait for you to see more!
Does government hurt the poor?
squashed:
LA Liberty has responded to my request that somebody explain the too-common assertion that government efforts intended to assist the poor cause more harm than good or that efforts to assist the poor have generally had the opposite effect.
Minimum wage laws ostensibly exist to offer poorer workers better pay, but tend to leave the lower-skilled workers unemployed instead.
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“Sadly the propaganda campaign launched in the 1960s has taken root. The radical...”
– Republican presidential candidate RICK SANTORUM, writing in his 2005 book It Takes A Family, essentially saying that women have no role in the workplace.
They’re just good for heterosexual sex, making babies and cleaning up the house, right, Rick?
Amazingly, about half of half of the country is...
The position in favor of the construction of the... →
mohandasgandhi:
What are we doing? What a horrific and ridiculous concession from Obama.
The Multi-Touch Chinese Finger Trap
kohenari:
I wrote this piece on my MacBook Air and I proofread it on my iPad, devices which are dear to me and which power much of my work and recreation. Like many happy Apple customers, though, I’ve been forced to consider the very unhappy conditions under which these gadgets – and others like them – are produced. How should those of us who love and depend upon our electronics feel about the...
ubergrid:
In a decent world, Davy Jones’ body would be laid in a bed and pushed through the streets to the cemetery by the surviving Monkees.
“People who don’t have money don’t understand the stress.”
– Actual quote from a partner at an accounting firm for the wealthy
Well then. We cover other injustices endured by Wall Street traders over on Pinterest. (via think-progress)
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Obama issues new guidelines for indefinite... →
rtamerica:
President Obama issued a policy directive on Tuesday that was quickly portrayed as a resolve to his right to detain US citizens without trial. In reality, the plan is a carefully crafted PR move that doesn’t strip his absolute power over Americans.
February 2012
Fashion: Senator Accuses Obama of Wearing 'Hipster... →
According to Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, “President Obama has traded in the hard hat and lunch bucket category of the Democratic Party for the hipster fedora and a double skim latte.” Fair enough.
No, Mister “I Cleared Over Two Million Dollars in 2010”; tell me more about how the big bad Islamofascist Kenyan usurper occupier in the Oval Office is putting on airs.
Looking Back With Shrillness - NYTimes.com →
Brad DeLong notes that the GOP we now see in the primaries has been building for a couple of decades; I can’t help thinking of my own decade-plus in the journalistic trenches.
Early on in my tenure at the Times, I felt I had no choice but to point out the inconvenient truth that the official line of the commentariat was all wrong. George W. Bush was not a nice, blunt, honest guy who happened to...
“In 2011, Wisconsin’s Republican-led Legislature enacted a new law that requires...”
– Voter ID laws keep citizens from voting Ashley Lopez (via manicchill)
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Everyone hates regulation, everyone loves... →
jonathan-cunningham:
Asked whether they believed that government regulation of business was necessary to protect the public or that such regulation usually does more harm than good, just 40 percent answered that regulation was necessary, while 52 percent said it did more harm than good.
But then came the specifics. Pew asked whether federal regulations should be strengthened, kept as is, or...
19 Things That School Children Are Being Arrested... →
ethiopienne:
lost-and-searching-in-america:
19 Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For In America
#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.
#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.
#3 Another student down in...
