December 2011
An 'Inconvenient Truth': Income Inequality →
newwavefeminism:
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Is income inequality becoming the new global warming? In other words, is this another case where the facts of an existential threat lose traction among a weary American public as deniers attempt to reduce them to partisan opinions?
It’s beginning to seem so.
A Gallup poll released on Thursday found that, after rising rather steadily for the past two decades, the...
That awkward moment when you inquire about an...
Cactus Tree Motel: amodernmanifesto: US pushes... →
amodernmanifesto:
US pushes ahead with $11bn arms deal to Iraq | Al-Jazeera
socialismartnature:
The U.S. is like a pathological weapons-pusher. It continuously peppers the entire world with more lethal weapons than any other nation on the planet, and then ostentatiously shakes its…
“Disdain for “political correctness” is often positioned as a concern that some...”
– by Tami at whattamisaid.com (via femfreq)
thank you.
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“Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done...”
– Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d inquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. source (via marxisforbros)
Eh this is completely wrong. He was actually quite fond of the Reagans. It was at a White House dinner however. Here is what...
Debtors' Prison is Back! →
Hey, guess what? Debtors’ prison is back! Not the fetid and dreary kind from Dickens novels, of course, but a shiny, impersonal, high-volume, 21st century variety. It all revolves around something called “in personam” debt collection, which has two stages: discovery and collection.
Welcome to Debtors' Prison, 2011 Edition →
From the Wall Street Journal…
Read it.
Whatever follows, "Occupy" has changed the rules →
“Then Occupy arrived and, as if swept by some strange pandemic, a contagious virus of truth-telling, everyone was suddenly obliged to call things by their real names and talk about actual problems.”
"What if the baby you abort could have cured... →
samberryblogz:
martybumm:
jenerally:
“WHAT IF THE BABY YOU ABORT COULD HAVE CURED CANCER?”
What if the trans* person beaten to death could have cured cancer?
What if the gay teen who committed suicide from bullying could have cured cancer?
What if that young girl sold into the sex trade and died from untreated STIs could have cured cancer?
What if one of those hundreds of thousands of...
shove ya hope where it don't shut: Dear fellow... →
yummydick:
Things we should internalize about racism:
We can be “nice,” “smart,” “compassionate,” “caring” and racist at the same time. None of these are mutually exclusive.
It doesn’t matter if we didn’t mean to be racist. Intentions don’t matter. Actions & consequences do.
Just…
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“You want to show solidarity with women? Acknowledge their right to be sexual...”
– Unknown. (via rosenplantzandguildenfern
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I’m so sick of people not getting this
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Word.
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WatchOccupy Philadelphia - The Beginning Images I have taken since two days prior to the occupation through the first march after the eviction.
This is being described as powerful and moving on FB. All I know is I like it.
“Now a particularly ironic fact has come to light — it appears that IP addresses...”
– DailyTech - Congress Plugs Anti-Piracy Legislation By Day, Pirates Porn by Night (via robot-heart-politics)
Jon Stewart Crushes Fox News In The 2011 Ratings →
mamaatheist:
The reason why Fox News feels so threatened by Jon Stewart is because his program is more popular than anything not named Bill O’Reilly on the network. Not only is Stewart popular, but he is popular with the coveted young demographics that Fox News struggles with. The average Fox News viewer is 65 years old. For years, the Fox News model of success has been powered by viewers...
“Whether there is a sexism problem within the atheist community is really not up...”
– “You Are Awful, Too,” Kate Harding
Click through to read the whole thing; it’s great.
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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must...”
– Elie Wiesel (via theworldsgotmedizzyagain)
“You killed my son and now you are giving me a tree?”
– An Iraqi farmer to Peter Van Buren of the US State Department after his team tried to give away fruit tree seedlings to replant ruined orchards. (via ambitioussurvival)
reblogged this before but i no curr. love.
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The death perpetuated by these fucking wars is going to haunt the U.S....
[BAMF of the Day] To Tramps →
itsyourhomegirl:
To Tramps by Lucy E. Parsons Alarm, October 4, 1884. Also printed and distributed as a leaflet by the International Working People’s Association.
TO TRAMPS, The Unemployed, the Disinherited, and Miserable.
A word to the 35,000 now tramping the streets of this great city, with hands in pockets, gazing listlessly about you at the evidence of wealth and pleasure of which you...
“The best evidence of how capable candidates are of fruitfully interacting with...”
– Gary Gutting (via kohenari)
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“Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.”
– R. Stevens (via decaying-organic-matter)
“Now, There is nothing really novel about the idea that free markets are the very...”
– Stop Picking on the Poor Plutocrats (via azspot)
Baxtavius: 11 Facts From 2011 →
think-progress:
1. The CIA is monitoring up to 5 million tweets per day.
2. Income inequality in America is worse than in Ancient Rome.
3. Twenty-three straight polls find Americans overwhelmingly want to raise taxes to pay down debt.
4. 68% of millionaires support raising…