June 2012
In media reports on women’s issues—abortion, birth... →
stfusexists:
Shocker.
Openly gay Latina wins Texas congressional seat
nbclatino:
(Courtesy Mary Gonzalez)
Mary Gonzalez told them she was the best candidate to represent them and El Paso voters agreed, but along the way, the 28-year-old doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin broke her share of barriers.
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Crossing U.S.-Mexico Border Can Be Deadly →
indiancountry:
The homemade videos are damning: A man on the ground, possibly handcuffed, begs for his life as he’s beaten by a dozen U.S. Border Patrol officers. The man, Mexican-born Anastasio Hernández-Rojas, died soon afterward in a San Diego hospital, but not before his family took more footage of the injuries he’d received from the beating.
“A federal appeals court Thursday declared that the Defense of Marriage Act...”
– The Huffington Post, “DOMA Ruled Unconstitutional by Federal Appeals Court” (via inothernews)
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Say it with me now:
thisgingersnapsback:
Dr. George Tiller’s killing was not justifiable homicide, it was murder.
Blowing up abortion clinics is terrorism.
Defacing and covering abortion clinics in graffiti is vandalism.
Chanting “You’re next!” at doctors and clinic administrators is threatening them.
Preventing patients from entering a clinic by shouting at them, distracting them, walking in front of them,...
stfu-moffat:
I love you so very very much for this blog. Do you think the reluctance to criticise Moffat comes partly from his Sherlock/DW audience being, on the whole, geeks? We as geeks tend to see ourselves as outsides, the ‘good’ against the ‘bad’, so to have one of our own be…well, as blind to the issues as Moffat is doesn’t make us feel good, so we ignore it?
- cockleshells
I think...
Things that go away if you ignore them:
translunar:
warts
spiders (maybe…)
rainy days
pets that want to be pet (usually)
terrible fads
well-kept nails
holiday hype
commercial breaks
Notice how “bullies” and “harassment” are not on this list. Notice how there are no “isms” on this list (racism, sexism, cissexism, etc…). Notice how there are no mental illnesses on this list (depression, eating disorders, etc…). And notice how...
Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal →
transawareness:
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your...
Former Justice Stevens criticizes court over... →
White, Hispanic, and Black Incarceration Rates.
walkingthenarrowway:
1 in every 106 white males 18 or older are incarcerated
1 in every 36 hispanic males 18 or older are incarcerated
1 in every 15 black males 18 or older are incarcerated
http://www.aclu.org/combating-mass-incarceration-facts-0
“Why should the public believe what the Obama administration says about the...”
– Will Americans Speak Out Against Obama’s Drone Warfare? by Medea Benjamin
“When women and children in Waziristan are killed with Hellfire missiles, Pakistanis believe this is what the American people want. I would like to ask Americans, ‘Do you?’
Pakistani lawyer Shahzad Akbar
(via...
The wealthy aren't the 'Job Creators'
anticapitalist:
An article by Paul Buchheit illustrates what the rich REALLY do with their money:
Marketwatch estimates that over 90% of the assets owned by millionaires are held in a combination of low-risk investments (bonds and cash), the stock market, and real estate. According to economist Richard Wolff, about half of the assets of the richest 1% are held in unincorporated business...
“After interviewing more than 20 tribal leaders, victims’ relatives, human rights...”
– Medea Benjamin
h/t anticapitalist
(via letterstomycountry)
I wanted to post this quote too, but LTMC beat me to it.
(via anticapitalist)
“The only way to ensure [global] food security is by creating decent jobs, paying...”
– UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Calling for a “transition to sustainable agriculture” the report,Towards The Future We Want, says that will entail world governments making “fundamental changes in the governance of food and agriculture and an equitable sharing of the transition costs...
May 2012
“When someone works for less pay than she can live on - when, for example, she...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America”
I recently read this book, and while several observations and statistics stuck out to me, this quote, on the last page, I believe really sums things up quite well.
(via lostgrrrls)
Forget the billionaire “job creators” — our...
“The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me....”
– Noted conservative GEORGE WILL, on Romney’s campaign appearance with Donald Trump, on ABC News This Week
(via The Colbert Report)
How To Build Your Own Mind Palace
anotherboywholived:
I’ve been using a mind palace since my teens and never thought it odd until I saw tumblr’s reaction to Sherlock’s use of the technique. A couple days ago I found myself building an extension in order to cram for my philosophy exam the following day and I figured I’d use this as an example and get you all exploiting the genius of this method.
Because, frankly, that one on...
“A fanatically micro-managed fiefdom where my own far-right agenda and personal...”
– Jon Stewart, on what Fox News’ tagline should be in the eyes of Roger Ailes, in response to Ailes’ comments that Stewart is a socialist who wouldn’t do well without Fox. (via reallyfoxnews)
“Plenty of oppressive bullshit goes down under the guise of nice. Every day,...”
– The Revolution Will Not Be Polite: The Issue of Nice versus Good (Social Justice League)
I’ve been thinking about niceness a lot lately. I’m not sure it’s as beneficial as I used to think it was.
(via meganwest)
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“The big difference between Bill Maher and Donald Trump, though, is that the...”
– MSNBC’s Chuck Todd responding to a Romney Spokesperson arguing that Obama has not renounced stuff that Bill Maher has said.
This is the biggest key of the whole Trump argument. I don’t expect you to stand behind or refute every single person who happens to be a supporter. But if you’re hosting a...
UN observers uncovered evidence of another... →
Maj Gen Robert Mood, the chief United Nations observer, was “deeply disturbed by this appalling and inexcusable act,” after being shown the bodies in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour, a statement said.
However, he was careful not to ascribe the killings to either side in the conflict, calling on “all parties to exercise restraint and end the cycle of violence.”
Opposition activists...
