January 2011
nicenfroosh asked: Tumblr deleted a bunch of ppl I was following and I only just recently realized this. I'm glad I got you back on my dash though.
Have a great one.
Have a great one.
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“Williams-Bolar is a teacher’s assistant in Akron, and was enrolled in college...”
– Over 50,000 Sign Petition for Ohio Mother
FUCKING SHIT. FUCKING SSSSSSHITT FUCKING SHIT FUCKING SHIT. You see that up there? That little sentence thrown in there?????? SHE MAY LOSE HER HOME.
THIS IS WHITE FUCKING SUPREMACY. THIS IS HETEROPATRIARCHY. THIS IS CLASSISM. THIS IS NATIONALISM.
(via...
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“This is a dream come true,” Mohamed said, sitting in the middle of the...”
– Live From Egypt: The Rebellion Grows Stronger By Sharif Abdel Kouddous
This gives me hope.
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“House Speaker John Boehner defended his aptness to cry and habit of smoking...”
– John Boehner Defends Crying & Smoking
Funny!
Funny because abortion is a legal medical procedure, and yet John Boehner cannot stop bringing it up! For a vote!
Because I’m sure John Boehner thinks that health insurance should cover him, even though he smokes! And I agree! It should! Smoking is...
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ekswitaj:
champagnecandy:
teasing this out from my foggy brain this morning:
most theorists say that capitalism ran amok once the USSR fell and “communism” was discredited.
the New Deal came about because the specter of revolution was real and possible. it had just happened in Russia.
what does the specter of revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, other countries we’ve basically used as...
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I wish
that I could go back in time to the lonely girl I used to be and tell her, someday you will be surrounded by brilliant, wonderful, funny, supportive, caring people who will blow your mind on a regular basis with the fact that they care about you.
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“Reverberations extended across the Middle East on Saturday. King Abdullah of...”
– Egyptian soldiers show solidarity with protesters as Mubarak appoints VP
this.
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teasing this out from my foggy brain this morning:
most theorists say that capitalism ran amok once the USSR fell and “communism” was discredited.
the New Deal came about because the specter of revolution was real and possible. it had just happened in Russia.
what does the specter of revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, other countries we’ve basically used as our...
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“But even if for the sake of argument we say that the Hyde Amendment is...”
– My Annual Lecture on the Hyde Amendment and “Positive Rights” : Lawyers, Guns & Money
THIS.
I don’t like to reduce public policy to numbers for various reasons, but in this case: The amount of money that those opposed to the Iraq war still contributed in taxes to funding it so...
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sometimes
I need pretty things; I need clothes that make me feel beautiful and excesses of smudgy black eyeliner. I want the streets to be clear enough for me to wear ridiculous shoes, just because.
Sometimes I like the way a boy smiles at me across a room and I think about him for days mostly because it’s easier to think about that than it is to think about the rest of the world.
Sometimes I sit...
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“You’ll make me feel like I can do anything. This is a very different...”
– In Which This Makes You Dangerous - Home - This Recording
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Revolution Porn
radicallyhottoff:
spiegelman:
I get a sense that there’s a lot of rah-rah revolution going on by American observers of the Egyptian protests and the Tunisian overthrow, with a lot of knee-jerk criticism of the United States for supporting the “wrong” side in the conflict. It all seems very Tea Partyesque to me, salivating over the spectacle of radical change without any real thought whether...
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“Just as in the case of Tunisia, we’ve been caught off guard by the rapid pace of...”
– 4 Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Not Islamic | Religion Dispatches
This is an excellent piece, I do encourage you to click through and read.
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“Deibert says the international online community is watching the situation in...”
– CBC News - Technology & Science - Busting Egypt’s web blackout
isabelthespy:
The Trouble with Bright Girls (Psychology Today)
psychotherapy:
Successful women know only too well that in any male-dominated profession, we often find ourselves at a distinct disadvantage. We are routinely underestimated, underutilized, and even underpaid. Studies show that women need to perform at extraordinarily high levels, just to appear moderately competent compared to...
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Vivir Latino: Tear Gas, Rocks, Rubber Bullets.... →
As we have been writing about, in Puerto Rico protests continue against rising fees in the university system but there are also protests against the violence being used against students and journalist attempting to do their jobs and cover the struggle.
Yesterday about 30 students were arrested during acts of civil disobedience carried out by the colonial Capitol Building. Originally ...
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meredithclark:
sadydoyle:
barthel:
I am doing my damnedest to read the Wikileaks documents, but I really wish I didn’t have to deal with Assange eyebanging me at the top of every page.
Well, of course! You have to keep US strong. Meaning you have to keep THIS GUY strong. Meaning you don’t have to look at the actual potentialities of WikiLeaks: A widely, (hopefully) anonymously-sourced...
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“#5 Don’t talk about the need for a “narrative.” Outside of literary theory, that...”
– 5 Things Progressives Should Do—and Not Do — In These Times
Barbara Ehrenreich is my fucking hero. Call it what it is and then do something about it.
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“The new UAW drive, based on an offer to cooperate with the companies to make...”
– Union Membership, and Power, Slip Further in Great Recession - Working In These Times
Sort of sounds like Democrats’ political strategy, no?
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“Of course, the demonstrators have an offline networking tool: the mosques....”
– Egypt’s Internet Shutdown Can’t Stop Mass Protests | Danger Room | Wired.com
On the train to work yesterday, I was thinking about this—I’m always looking for the places where repressive/conservative/classwar coalitions break down. Where the business and religious despots are at cross...
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Bachmann Or Ryan? | The New Republic →
This is similarly fascinating—think Michele Bachmann’s speech was wildly more right-wing than Paul Ryan’s “mainstream” response? Can you tell them apart? (I mean, they even have the same eyes!)
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Compare Obama’s SOTU with Past Presidents’, in Tag... →
This is fascinating.
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“There remains little glimmer of hope for dairy farmers within the capitalist...”
– Shadow Labor: Migrant Workers on Vermont’s Dairy Farms | People Of Color Organize! (via radicallyhottoff)
This.
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hitrecordjoe:
The Social Network & My Generation an open letter to my friend Peter Travers Peter, Hey man! So, I finally watched The Social Network the other night, and today I read your review of it, curious about your claim that this film defines my generation. First let me say, I agree that the movie is impeccable, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I have nothing but praise and...
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tonight
reading things and watching things that tear my heart out to remind me how to feel things that aren’t just stress.
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After the State of the Union speech last night, my...
I am going to hashtag every awful administration policy #WTF
Korea trade deal! #WTF
Lower corporate tax rate! #WTF
Praise teachers while busting their unions! #WTF
And on and on and on.
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“champagnecandy asked: I’m seeing news reports of protests, teargas, etc....”
– guerrillamamamedicine
Good to hear everything’s OK—keep us posted on how it goes!
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