August 2012
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“If a white candidate said black people don’t feel the heat because they come...”
– Women Who Love Republicans Who Hate Them | The Nation (via sarahchristine)
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WatchThis is the best piece of satire I’ve seen addressing the inconsistencies in Republicans’ conceptions (haha!) of personal liberty. We need to keep forcing the discussion into places that clearly demonstrate the Republican party’s institutional disregard for women’s rights and choices. Samantha Bee is brilliant at the end.
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“[Ann Romney] continued that her husband “was not handed success… He built it.”
– Ann Romney at the RNC - Right Turn - The Washington Post
via robot-heart-politics, who writes:
Anyone who buys for a second that Mitt Romney is the culmination of nothing but bootstraps—that any Joe Schmo from a middle class family could have done what Mitt Romney did career-wise so quickly and so...
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“The fact is, I’m an Obama fan. But I’ve never tried to persuade anyone that he...”
– —Andrew Sean Greer San Francisco, California
Andrew Sean Greer is the author of four works of fiction, most recently The Story of a Marriage. His next novel, The Other Lives of Greta Wells, comes out in June 2013.
90 Days, 90 Reasons: REASON 05
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“At the core of much of the media fever over Pussy Riot lies a fundamental...”
– Vadim Nikitin - The Wrong Reasons to Back Pussy Riot
I don’t like the way people seem to back Pussy Riot because they want them to fit into a narrative of American liberalism. It dismisses their radical activism as something that they could see themselves doing in our country, because it...
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“[Millennials’] shift away from traditional suburbs toward denser, urban-light...”
– The Atlantic: The Cheapest Generation (via caro)
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“TAMPA (The Borowitz Report)—With the threat of Hurricane Isaac hitting Florida...”
– The Borowitz Report: REPUBLICANS MOVE CONVENTION TO SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
The best was yesterday, when I wasn’t sure if the Borowitz Report was actually a real headline. That’s just where we are with the news today, folks.
“In a democracy, so the saying goes, the people get the government they deserve....”
– Fear of a Black President - Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Atlantic
One of the best things you’ll read this year; a really great piece from Ta-Nehisi. (via markcoatney)
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“You used the expression “legitimate” rape as if to imply there were...”
– Eve Ensler: Dear Mr. Akin, I Want You To Imagine…
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A thank you note for Todd Akin - Feministing →
I want to thank Mr. Akin for his remarks.
I want to thank him for demonstrating that the anti-choice movement is so often divorced from scientific facts, like when they claim that the uterus contains a magical anti-rapist semen force field, or when they claim that there’s a causal relationship between abortion and breast cancer. It is not, in fact, “really rare” for rape to result in pregnancy,...
“I have the right to manufacture scientific theories about your body — theories...”
– Rape, Abortion, And The Privilege Of Magical Thinking - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic (via unamiaja)
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“I also recognize that there are those who, like my opponent, support abortion...”
– Rep. Todd Akin, apologizing for “misspeaking” about whether or not he believes rape women can get pregnant.
If you’re a man and you’re running for political office, take a note. THAT IS ALL YOU EVER NEED TO FUCKING SAY. Don’t talk about things you actually don’t...
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Sandra Fluke: Paul Ryan's record on women's issues... →
Since Rep. Paul Ryan was chosen as Mitt Romney’s running mate, I’ve sent out tweets noting that by picking Ryan, Romney has doubled down on his dangerous stance on women’s health. I included links to articles describing Ryan’s abysmal record on the issue.
This being Twitter, supporters of Romney and Ryan responded. But rather than defend Ryan’s record, they instead accusing me of making it up....
My American Dream Sounds Like The White Stripes →
Instead of rebuilding the large factories that were almost always disconnected to the health of the land and the air, many Detroiters are focused on making something instead of manufacturing something.
For a long time I’d been trying to visualize actual, sustainable living in urban cities in this era of economic collapse. Creative solutions that don’t seek bigger rooms, or endless...
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“There is no doubt Obama is pro-choice. He has said so many times. There is also...”
– Nicholas P. Cafardi, for the National Catholic Reporter - Which presidential candidate is truly pro-life?
This is great.
via Jezebel
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“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
– Helen Gurley Brown. The legendary editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, known for writing frankly about women and sex and encouraging young, single women to embrace their sexuality, died today at 90.
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“Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt,...”
– Steven Pressfield - The War of Art
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“He once told me, ‘If you don’t go into the military as a racist, you...”
– Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism Advisory Board member and University of Nebraska at Omaha Criminology professor Pete Simi, who had extensive long term contact with alleged Wisconsin mass killer Wade Michael Page when he was conducting a multi-year study of the hate rock music scene in...
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“White supremacy, as a dominant and dominating structuring, actually necessitates...”
– Harsha Walia: Hate Crimes Always Have a Logic, on the Wisconsin Sikh temple tragedy, and how we can prevent further non-random acts of violence by changing our attitude toward white supremacy.
via Racialicious
kelsium:
I’m keeping all my t-shirts from random shows and friends’ bands in case one of my hypothetical kids wants to be the coolest hipster of 2030 or whenever and wear t-shirts of shit that literally no one has ever heard of.
I don’t even want to have children, but I can’t stop doing this. The memory of learning that my mother threw out a “Lawrence: The Harvard of the...
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“Best avoid the Olympic swimming pool until it’s drained after the games:...”
– Lochte: Relieved (via jelizabethl)
Is it fucked up if I like him more after this? God help me.
(via haygirlhay)
I swam competitively for almost 16 (gross) years, and literally the only thing I learned was that everyone pees in the pool. How are swimmers able to hide this so well from the... 