February 2011
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Feb 1st
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January 2011
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WatchWatch
bbook: SNL Digital Short: Do The Creep Three babes, Nicki, and John Waters…what could be better? Nicki and John Waters make this one.
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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EFF Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence... →
EFF has uncovered widespread violations stemming from FBI intelligence investigations from 2001 - 2008. In a report released today, EFF documents alarming trends in the Bureau’s intelligence investigation practices, suggesting that FBI intelligence investigations have compromised the civil liberties of American citizens far more frequently, and to a greater extent, than was previously assumed.
Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 27th
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Timothy Karr: Verizon Loves Net Neutrality to... →
Like Comcast before it, Verizon is arguing that we simply need to trust that it will keep its promises and protect the Internet’s democratic nature. It’s the same kind of trust that BP asked for when the oil company spent millions to lobby Washington for regulatory leniency in advance of last April’s Deepwater Horizon disaster. It’s the same kind of trust that...
Jan 21st
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The Most Emailed 'New York Times' Article Ever |... →
It’s a week before the biggest day of her life, and Anna Williams is multitasking. While waiting to hear back from the Ivy League colleges she’s hoping to attend, the seventeen-year-old senior at one of Manhattan’s most exclusive private schools is doing research for a paper about organic farming in the West Bank, whipping up a batch of vegan brownies, and, like an increasing number of American...
Jan 21st
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Jan 19th
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“I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail. (Is it a More Convenient Season yet? | The Angry Black Woman)
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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“Of all forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (via stuffsickpeoplehavetoputupwith)
Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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“I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as...”
– Andy Borowitz (via kateoplis)
Jan 12th
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“It’s my belief, though, that American political violence is a direct legacy of...”
– Our permanent culture of political violence (via azspot)
Jan 11th
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Vaughn Bell at Slate: Crazy Talk →
Shortly after Jared Lee Loughner had been identified as the alleged shooter of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, online sleuths turned up pages of rambling text and videos he had created. A wave of amateur diagnoses soon followed, most of which concluded that Loughner was not so much a political extremist as a man suffering from “paranoid schizophrenia.” For many, the investigation will stop...
Jan 9th
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“Government whistleblowers are part of a healthy democracy and must be protected...”
– Candidate Obama (via azspot) So let Bradley Manning go. *crickets* (via savagemike)
Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
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