January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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Watchthenearsightedmonkey:
I was a kid growing up in a troubled household. We didn’t have books in the house but we did have the daily paper and I remember picking out Family Circus before I could really read.
There was something about the life on the other side of that circle that looked pretty good. For kids like me there was a map and a compass hidden in Family Circus. The parents in that comic...
decolonize your heart: wtfwhiteprivilege: For... →
wtfwhiteprivilege:
For those who think blacks in America are imagining racism or blowing things out of proportion:
feedmerevolution:
Fact: Black youths arrested for drug possession are 48 times more likely to wind up in prison than white youths arrested for the same crime under the…
October 2011
13 posts
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Occupy San Francisco: the teenager who was refused... →
jonathan-cunningham:
socialistscum:
Occupy San Francisco protester Miran Istina stands outside the US Bank building on Market Street, San Francisco. Photograph: Martin Lacey
As Miran Istina puts it, she has been living on borrowed time since she was 14. Diagnosed with cancer, she was given just months to live after her health insurer refused to provide her with life-saving surgery.
Now 18,...
UN report says all states should provide access to... →
prolongedeyecontact:
A groundbreaking new report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Anand Grover, was released yesterday. And it is big!!
In the new report, Grover calls for the immediate removal of all impeding restrictions to abortion, full access to modern contraceptive methods, and complete and accurate information on sexual and reproductive health.
As the International...
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“My part of Oakland is full of poor people. There’s at least one murder a week....”
– @el_gallo on BoingBoing.com (via monkeyknifefight)
occupywallstreet:
On January 29, 2011, Hillary Clinton told Hosni Mubarak: “We urge the Egyptian authorities not to prevent peaceful protests.”
On October 25, 2011, Oakland Police told peaceful protesters: “I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly. If you refuse to go now, chemical agents will be used.”
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Strike Out Beck →
ryking:
Tell Major League Baseball to end its new partnership with this racist, treason-spewing hatemonger.
baseball is my favorite sport, bar none.
i have not watched a single mlb game since this partnership was announced.
i miss it, but i have a thing about boycotting companies that pander to and support right wing lunatics whose version of an ideal america is complete with regression,...
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Who Really Owns The NYPD? →
theriverwanders:
politicore:
It’s called the Paid Detail Unit and it allows the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street corporations, including those repeatedly charged with crimes, to order up a flank of New York’s finest with the ease of dialing the deli for a pastrami on rye.
The corporations pay an average of $37 an hour (no medical, no pension benefit, no overtime pay) for a member of...
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September 2011
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Liliana Segura: The Killing of Troy Davis →
lilianasegura:
If the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has its way, Troy Anthony Davis will be killed by lethal injection at 7 pm on September 21. His body will be carried out of the maximum-security prison in Jackson, the word “homicide” printed on his death certificate—the thirty-fourth US prisoner put to…
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“We kissed, we held each other, we lay on top of each other in bed… and there...”
– John Barrowman on ‘Torchwood’ (via roseandthebeast: cocknbull)
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Three graphs from Krugman
blissandzen:
Exhibit 1 is “deep poverty”, people living below 50 percent of the poverty line:
Exhibit 2 is real income of non-elderly households:
And Exhibit 3 is employment-based health insurance, whose decline has luckily been offset by public provision:
Things were getting worse for lots of Americans even before the slump. Now they’re getting worse faster.
via Paul Krugman
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'That was my brother's death you were cheering... →
rafaelmarquez:
robot-heart-politics:
jonathan-cunningham:
When he had a pain in the butt, he had to wait until early in the morning of December 3rd to present himself at the ER of Highland Hospital, the Alameda County medical facility. There are guards at Highland, and a football field full of plastic chairs for the indigent to use while they wait treatment. He was sent home with a...
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“Here’s why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly...”
– Andrew Sullivan on the debate crowd’s positive response to the large number of executions that Perry resided over while governor of Texas. (via liberal-life)
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Champagne Candy: relationship ed →
isabelthespy:
going off this - definitely not meant to be standard or even close to widely applicable! but here are some lessons i would maybe try to teach relatively wee isabel, if i could (relatively grown isabel meanwhile is, um, still working on these).
-pretending problems are not…
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Serfs up: how coddling the rich is destroying the... →
In 1947, the income of one wealthy person at the 95th percentile was enough to purchase the annual labor of just over five people living at the 20th percentile. For the next 34 years, that relationship stayed almost the same. However, in the 25 years that followed the relationship altered much more radically. Now the income of one person at the 95th percentile is enough to buy the work of...
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“[The rich] want immortality. They want so much money that their names are all,...”
– Nancy Pelosi, on the class warfare being waged by the wealthy via the GOP. (via ryking)
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August 2011
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“Let me tell you some things.
I used to investigate child abuse and neglect. I...”
– STFU, Conservatives: When I say I’m pro-life…
(via stfuconservatives)
wow. amen to this.
(via thegeorgemott)
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“When someone works for less pay than she can live on…she has made a great...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (via squeetothegee)
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July 2011
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An Open Question to Rich Americans:
motherjones:
Wouldn’t you be willing to pay some more in federal taxes, if it prevented a US debt default…which could trigger another financial crisis…which could reduce your net worth by a whole lot more than if you paid some more in federal taxes?
Just askin’.
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i could not find this version of this song...
June 2011
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May 2011
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“Children who are victims of failed personal responsibility are not my problem,...”
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Tim “Not My Problem” Pawlenty explaining why providing healthcare to children under the protection of juvenile court for abuse and/or neglect isn’t something the government should do. (via jonathan-cunningham)
nope. taking care of children should definitely not be a priority.
(via...
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Executive salaries: Blue Shield CEO Bruce Bodaken... →
sarahlee310:
In its report to the state, Blue Shield said that its 10 highest-paid executives earned more than $14 million total last year. The insurer identified the executives only by number, saying each earned $749,643 to $4,601,226. The top earner was listed as “chief executive officer,” Bodaken’s title.
More evidence as to why our healthcare costs are so high and why we need to cut...
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“If lower taxes and less regulation was such good policy, then George W. Bush’s...”
– Larry Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, quoted by Ezra Klein (via ryking)
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Vermont, the Land of Healthy Firsts →
Vermont is a land of proud firsts. This small New England state was the first to join the 13 Colonies. Its constitution was the first to ban slavery. It was the first to establish the right to free education for all—public education.
This week, Vermont will boast another first: the first state in the nation to offer single-payer health care, which eliminates the costly insurance companies that...
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Senate Republicans Vote Overwhelmingly To End... →
Senate Republicans voted in support of the House GOP budget, and its plan to phase out and privatize the popular entitlement program.
The test vote failed by a vote of 57-40. But the roll call illustrates that Medicare privatization — along with deep cuts to Medicaid and other social services — remains the consensus position of the GOP despite the growing political backlash against them.
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