September 2011
22 posts
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“The FBI has received substantial criticism over the past decade — much of...”
– Glenn Greenwald, “The FBI again thwarts its own Terror plot”
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“Yet despite our noble intentions, we will not be remembered as heroes or...”
– Cedar Riener, “Deselection of the Bottom 8%: Lessons from Eugenics for Modern School Reform”
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“If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have...”
– Amy Goodman: Why ‘Occupy Wall Street’ makes sense (via pantslessprogressive)
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writer-a: If history has taught us anything... →
writer-a:
If history has taught us anything, it’s that when we as evolved beings allow without protest any system whose integrity is in question to run on unabated, we’re essentially endorsing a system that may ultimately consume any of us at any time, without prejudice.
I wonder if the arbiters who had a hand in allowing tonight’s execution to go forward would drive a city block in an...
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“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a...”
– Elizabeth Warren (via seldo)
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Republicans like Rick Perry are skeptical of... →
…In recent weeks, leading Republicans have made plain they don’t believe in government-run health care (lo, even unto death). They don’t believe in inoculating children again HPV (lo, even unto death). They don’t believe in government-run disaster relief (ditto, re death), the minimum wage, Social Security, or the Federal Reserve. There is nothing, it seems—from protecting civil rights to...
“No newspaper, no politician, no parent or school administrator should ever...”
– Alfie Kohn: Whoever Said There’s No Such Thing As a Stupid Question Never Looked Carefully at a Standardized Test
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“Individual black people/people of color often describe moments where they...”
– bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
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“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via whiporwill)
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“…we are attempting to use the logic of a scarce marketplace to negotiate things...”
– Douglas Rushkoff (via azspot)
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“[W]hile right-wing commentators have often accused African-Americans and other...”
– Dangerous Right-Wing ‘Victimhood’ (via ryking)
You can also see this in transphobic and transmisogynistic, conservative radical feminists and others as they begin to embrace exterminationist rhetoric and claim they are the ones being discriminated against.
(via lucypaw)
Absolutely. I’m pretty...
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Forget Steve Jobs →
culturalmedia:
I can’t stand this tech bubble blowing hagiography that has gone down since Jobs’s retirement as Apple’s CEO. Tech rag Gigaom found Om Malik found out and cried: “It is incredibly hard for me to write right now. To me, like many of you, it is an incredibly emotional moment. I cannot look at Twitter, and through the mist in my eyes, I am having a tough time focusing on the screen...
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Why Political Coverage is Broken →
By the production of innocence I mean ways of reporting the news that try to advertise or “prove” to us that the press is neutral in its descriptions, a non-partisan presenter of facts, a non-factor and non-actor in events. Innocence means reporters are mere recorders, without stake or interest in the matter at hand. They aren’t responsible for what happens, only for telling you about it. When...
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“If there were any justice to be found in this deranged country, Dick Cheney...”
– Dick Cheney, the Ultimate American Terrorist (via azspot) 