January 2012
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Obama for America: “An anonymous coworker—to this... →
barackobama:
“An anonymous coworker—to this day, I don’t know who—had left a pencil-written note on a torn piece of paper with some numbers on it. It showed how much more my male coworkers were making, even though they had less education, training and experience.
I’d been at Goodyear almost 20 years, and was…
Chris Christie: Blacks' Voting Rights Should Have... →
Chris Christie has vowed to veto any gay marriage bill that passes his desk—causing him political headaches since it looks like he may have to put that vow to the test. Also giving the roly-poly governor of New Jersey headaches? A comment he made earlier this week suggesting white Southerners should have been allowed to vote civil rights gains for blacks during the 1960s. Let’s just say some...
Other Stuff: Romney's Tax Returns Show How Laws... →
kateoplis:
From the NYTimes:
Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, made $27 million in 2010. They held millions of dollars in a Swiss bank account and millions more in partnerships in the Cayman Islands. His family’s trusts sold thousands of shares in Goldman Sachs that were offered to…
“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”....”
– (via thechocolatebrigade)
After 12 years of battling to stop Monsanto's... →
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Feel the Love: What oppression looks like: →
agirlcalledhome:
For the oppressed:
you are expected to be familiar with and abide by the rules and customs of your oppressors, regardless of how this harms you or your culture
crimes committed against your community go unnoticed by the mainstream culture; crimes committed by members of…
NY TIMES: Tea Party mayor of Troy, Michigan, who... →
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REBLOG: Cognitive Dissonance Replies To The Brave...
nobody cares about your fucking uterus. get over it. Ron Paul is not taking away anyone’s right to reproductive freedom. This country is fucked in so many ways and you can’t look past a wedge issue like this that will NEVER effect anyone directly.
Anonymous
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Feel the Love: kelly-butter-tarts: We’ll be short... →
#ProChoice #p2 #P21
kelly-butter-tarts:
We’ll be short on food money for a while - Leila’s Story
onlytowardschaos:
bebinn:
My son is 11 months old with a serious birth defect. He’s been in and out of intensive care for his whole life and has three or four doctor’s appointments every…
foreverliberal23-deactivated201 asked: It's all good. (:
purv-dawg-deactivated20120207 asked: In no way am in insinuating that institutionalized racism was not a factor in the US Civil War but what I've discovered in my studies, that you don't have to agree with but you may if you reexamine the subject, is that time was very similar to today. The extremely wealthy southerns had grown so greedy and immoral that they wanted more power. The only way they could do that is to convince...
SALLIE MAE: FORGIVE STUDENT DEBT →
brosephstalin:
In 2010 something unthinkable happened – student debt surpassed credit card debt as the largest form of debt in this country, passing $800 billion dollars. In 2012 more history will be made as the amount of unpaid student debt climbs to $1 trillion dollars, with an additional $1 million dollars added to that number every 6 minutes. The ripple effect that this has on our economy is...
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“Our growth is generally dependent upon our ability to obtain new contracts to...”
– Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison operator in America, statement to stockholders, 2005.
In other words: ending the Drug War and eliminating federal mandatory minimum sentences is bad for business. Adam Gopnik notes that CCA “spends millions lobbying legislators.”...
deceitfulgovt asked: the civil war was not about slavery.
Cain drops out of race because of accusations of...
occupyallstreets:
*Scratches head*
“Facebook does massive surveillance. If there is a ‘like’ button in a page,...”
– Richard Stallman (via azspot)
“Republicans want to win in 2012. They have to. They’ve spent enough time, energy...”
– The wingnut test of wills (via ryking)
