September 2012
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“In working on my book, I went to Rwanda in 2004 to interview women who had borne...”
– “The Legitimate Children of Rape” - Andrew Solomon on the historical relationship between rape and pregnancy: http://nyr.kr/RsAKyQ (via newyorker)
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“Well, you know, Andrea, there’s no delicate way to put this, but he lied. He...”
– Stephanie Cutter, the Obama campaign’s deputy manager, on Paul Ryan’s RNC speech Wednesday night. (via motherjones)
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Monbiot: The rich world is causing the famines it... →
You should by now have heard about the famine developing in the Sahel region of West Africa. Poor harvests and high food prices threaten the lives of some 18 million people. The global price of food is likely to rise still further, as a result of low crop yields in the United States, caused by the worst drought in 50 years. World cereal prices, in response to this disaster, climbed 17% last...
August 2012
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Court rejects Texas voter ID law: It would "impose...
univisionnews:
A court ruled the law would discriminate against the poor.
By EMILY DERUY
A federal court has rejected a Republican-backed voter identification law in Texas.
The law would have required voters to present photo ID to election officials at the polls before being allowed to cast ballots.
Read More
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“All girls continue to be taught when they are young, if not by their parents...”
– bell hooks in Communion: Female Search for Love (via femmenoire)
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“Other frameworks that center around health and rights can miss important...”
– Reproductive Justice 101: Oklahoma Edition | OK4RJ: Oklahomans for Reproductive Justice
Awesome informative post and quick read!
(via fuckyeahfeminists)
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A couple of weeks ago, amid rising tensions,... →
shortformblog:
Prosecutors on Thursday charged the 270 miners, already under arrest on suspicion of murder in a earlier shooting at the mine, with the August 16 murder of 34 co-workers at the Marikana mine of the world’s third biggest platinum producer, Lonmin, using the “common purpose” law.
The 34 were shot in a hail of police bullets in what has been dubbed the “Marikana Massacre” with...
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“Consider labeling the Iran-Venezuela alliance the “biggest threat to hemispheric...”
– On Translating Securityspeak Into English by Kevin Carson (via socialuprooting)
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Here's the fact-check of Huckabee's speech:
thepoliticalfreakshow:
9:54:Huckabee boasts that he’s helped fight AIDS with the ONE campaign, but the homophobia he spews and abstinence-only policies he supports contribute to the HIV epidemic.
9:49: Huckabee accuses Obama of waging a war on Catholics, referring to an Obamacare provision which requires employers and insurers to offer women birth control. But the measure exempts houses of...
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“According to a CBO analysis of Ryan’s 2013 budget, average Medicare spending for...”
– What Ryan-Romney Would Do To Medicare? (via apsies)
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“Herein lies the real function of the American justice system, clearly revealed...”
– Glenn Greenwald
It is this same mentality that has led the US federal judiciary to produce the most disgraceful political fact of the last decade. Not a single victim of America’s “war on terror” abuses – even those now acknowledged by the US government to have been completely innocent – have been...
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Hi followers!
I am flying to Glasgow tomorrow to begin my year abroad at the University of Glasgow!. I’m planning on queuing some posts up, but I’m going to be SUPER busy when I arrive, so my queue might run out. There may be a slight shift of my tumblr to focus on more UK-related stuff, but I will still be covering the election.
Also, there won’t be as many posts (which some of you might be...
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Dad: Have you read the Republican Party Platform yet? There's nothing in there about witches!
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“Telling a guy the real reasons you’re not interested — you don’t find him...”
– No more Mr. Nice Guy (via sluteverbabe)
!!!!!
(via meezyhabeezy)
So fucking true.
(via tallerandblueonline)
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A haiku about how much I want Mitt Romney to be...
stavesofmysymphony:
not at all, not at all, not at all, not at all, dear fucking god, no
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bankuei:
wakeywakey-tea-and-cakey:
You know when you’re playing UNO and someone puts this card down
And it’s like they just punched you straight in the face and you start to wonder if you could ever really trust them at all, if everything was just a game to them and the whole time they’ve just been waiting for their opportunity, for the perfect moment to destroy you.
There is truth,...
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“Terms such as “culturally deprived,” “economically disadvantaged” and...”
– Robert B. Moore, “Racism in the English Language”
Why people of color > “minorities” or “non-white”
(via wretchedoftheearth)
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Paul Ryan’s brazen lies
“Paul Ryan gave a feisty anti-Obama speech that will have fact-checkers working for days. His most brazen lie accused President Obama of “raiding” Medicare by taking the exact same $716 billion that Ryan and the House GOP notoriously voted to slash. It was stunning.
But that’s not all. He attacked Obama for failing to keep open a Janesville GM plant that closed under Bush in 2008. He hit...
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Free Public Health Courses I Would Take If I Could...
likelyhealthy:
Nutrition for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention - UCSF - Katie Clark
Contraception: Choices, Culture, and Consequences - UCSF - Jerusalem Makonnen
Principles of Obesity Economics - Johns Hopkins University - Kevin Frick
An Introduction to the U.S. Food System: Perspectives from Public Health - Johns Hopkins University - Robert S. Lawrence, Keeve Nachman
The Social...
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Welcome, new followers!
shcommatothetopdynasty - I’m a triplet too!!
r50ddy
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“What is a publisher anymore, anyway? A blog is a magazine. A magazine a blog. A...”
– Craig Mod, Our New Shrines (via explore-blog)
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“Why don’t you tell me that ‘if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via endorfins)
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Join Kiva and Get a Free Loan (Seriously) →
fishingboatproceeds:
The kiva nerdfighters are already at $1,008,000.
A MILLION DOLLARS.
I mean, I will get over this at some point, but a million dollars is a lot of money. And we’re doing it $25 at a time.
If for some reason you haven’t already joined us, click Paige’s link above and become part of the awesome.
A MILLION DOLLARS. I AM SO HAPPY. I’M GOING TO DO A LIVE SHOW TOMORROW. THAT’S...
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“We do not publish “reverse discrimination” stories. ”Reverse discrimination”...”
– excerpt from the submission guidelines for Expanded Horizons, a magazine that has the goal of expanding diversity in speculative fiction.
The editor of the magazine writes:
“I’ve been REGULARLY getting plots pretty much like this in the Expanded Horizons slush pile for the four years we’ve...
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theamburglar:
It’s going to be quite a day when I finally catch up with y’all and am on the seasons where Castiel is in Supernatural.
I don’t know what he sounds like. I don’t even know how his personality is. He’s just a mysterious entity.
All he is to me is a .gif
This is why I watched Supernatural. I wanted to know what was behind all of those gifs.
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“Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and...”
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The Problem With Men Explaining Things, by Rebecca Solnit (Mother Jones)
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“Through Obamacare, the current Administration has promoted the notion of...”
– The 2012 GOP platform • Laying out the party’s official position on abortion rights, which RNC chairman Reince Priebus sought to distance from the Romney campaign last week. As had been reported in the days leading up to the platform’s release, it includes no exceptions for victims of rape or...
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Republicans to teachers:
No, you can't have money for your schools.
No, you can't have scholarships to train new teachers.
No, you can't have pay raises to attract talented people to the profession.
No, you can't teach cutting edge science and history because its got a "liberal bias."
No, you can't have decent retirement or health benefits.
No, you can't have unions that fight for your rights.
No, you can't open a new school to lower class sizes.
No, you can't have busing to allow for diverse school populations and increased opportunity for everyone.
What? What do you mean your kids aren't passing? You must be a shit teacher.
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“Young Americans, don’t lose your hope. Don’t take their cynicism. Don’t give up...”
– President Obama in Colorado
August 28, 2012
(via demnewswire)
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“Young Mitt Romney took full advantage of every opportunity he was granted and is...”
– Larry Womack: Ann Romney Addresses the Common People (via apsies)
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“I will not be attending this year’s convention, nor any Republican convention in...”
– Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who was far and away the best candidate in the GOP presidential primaries this year, quoted in Jon Huntsman Will Skip Republican National Convention (via bohemiansouth)
