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Ask Macy's To Dump Trump

Every time Donald Trump opens his mouth to spew political nonsense, he gets free publicity for his numerous business endeavors. It’s time his hateful foolishness becomes unprofitable. Ask Macy’s to sever their ties with him - he certainly does NOT reflect the values they claim to have.

Here’s a link directly to the correct customer service contact form for public & community relations, as well.

The SignOn petition was started by @goangelo - premier defender against hate, vitriol, and foolishness of all flavors.

http://www.macysinc.com/contact-us/default.aspx

11/11/12

11/10/12

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There’s one big, but overlooked, development from the election last night: In Montana, a referendum to state that corporations don’t have constitutional rights has unofficially passed by a 75 percent to 25 percent margin. Initiative number 166 stated that “corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights because they are not human beings,” and thus is a blow to the Citizen’s United ruling that helped make this presidential election the most expensive one ever.

Montana Quietly Passed a Measure That Says Corporations Aren’t Humans | Motherboard (via sarahlee310)

(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)

11/8/12

Blacker than the Blackest Black Times Infinity: Unfuck your Election day by getting your ass to the polls. Here's some useful shit for your epic journey on November...

tikistitch:

noiselesspatientspider:

lord-kitschener:

Where the fuck is my polling place?

What the fuck does my asshole state want me to bring with me to prove I’m not a zombie voter or some shit? Calm your tits and just choose your asshole state from this fucking list,…

(via blackfireuponus)

11/4/12

Absentee Ballots in FLA Being Thrown Out : "Her signature on the ballot didn’t match the one on file in the elections office"

other-stuff:

While signature problems impact a relatively small number of votes, they illustrate the perils of casting absentee ballots, said Charles Stewart III, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In a report published last year, he estimated as many as 21 percent of absentee ballots requested nationwide never are counted. In the 2008 presidential election, 3.9 million of the 35.5 million ballots requested never reached voters. About 2.9 million that were received by voters never made it back to election offices. Another 800,000 were rejected for other reasons, such as signature problems and not being mailed in time.

Possibly an argument for a traceable voting number.

When I heard the Washington officials interviewed they indicated an amazing number of ballots are not counted because they don’t have a legible cancellation date.

11/4/12

caffeinatedfeminist:

schwoozie:

[x]

YES

11/4/12

sarahlee310:

election:

Women of Protest: A Feminist History Refresher

It wasn’t until 1920 that women were granted suffrage, but it was 1917 when members of the National Women’s Party — Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and others — picketed outside the White House, burning copies of Woodrow Wilson’s speeches and demanding the right to vote. What resulted — mass arrests (most for “obstructing traffic”), unlawful imprisonment and bloody beatings — became known as the Night of Terror, though it’s fair to say most among my generation don’t know it.

The Night of Terror took place on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Workhouse Prison, in Occoquan, Virginia, ordered his guards to teach the suffragists a lesson. For weeks, the women’s only water had come from an open pail. Their food had been infested with worms. But on this night, some 40 prison guards wielding clubs beat the women senseless — grabbing, dragging, choking, kicking and pinching them, according to affidavits recounting the attacks.

Read More

For the ladies.

—Jess Bennett

HBO’s movie, Iron Jawed Angels, with Hilary Swank and Anjelica Huston, does a decent (while entertaining) job telling this story.

(via other-stuff)

11/4/12

Brown Nosing the Banks

theyoungturks:

I can’t believe that the Scott Brown-Elizabeth Warren race is still uncomfortably close. Do the people of Massachusetts realize that Scott Brown took $20 billion of taxpayer money and handed it straight to the banks? How could anybody vote for the guy who basically asks the big banks, “What can Brown do for you?”

(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)

11/4/12

liberalforever:

hannahology:

Perfect.

Speaks for itself!

(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)

11/4/12

Obama for President pass it on

(via mommapolitico)

11/4/12

VOTING IS TUES NOV 6 no matter WHAT you hear

allisticntprivilege:

miseriavolare:

URGENT PLEASE REPOST:

Robocalls are occurring in Massachusetts saying to vote Warren/Obama WEDNESDAY due to Sandy:

LIES. WE VOTE TUESDAY NOV 6

#RomneyLiarLiarLiar #Fraud #Desperate #Disgusting

Not privilege, but REBLOG IT FOR YOUR MASS FOLLOWERS, BLAST IT.

(via mommapolitico)

11/4/12

peterfeld:

Romney staff is holding children hostage at a frostbitten rally right now, according to NY Times reporter Michael Barbaro and USA Today’s Jackie Kucinich.

(via randomactsofchaos)

11/4/12

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Mitt Romney kept quiet last week when the subject was rape and God’s will. He remained silent the week before when the news was all about Illinois factory workers pleading with him to stop his alma mater Bain Capital from offshoring their jobs.

At no time this year did Mitt denounce Republican employers who threatened their workers if President Obama is re-elected or condemn repeated Republican legislative attempts to suppress Democratic votes.

Throughout the campaign, Mitt Romney confronted numerous George Washington moments — opportunities to establish an aura of honor. It takes moxie to tell fellow Republicans that voter suppression is un-American. Only a guy with strongly held principles would stand up to the firm he founded and insist they stop the morally bankrupt practice of offshoring jobs from profit-making American factories. At every turn, Romney chose the ignoble path. He kept his mouth shut rather than speak up for what’s right.

Leo W. Gerard of the United Steelworkers in Leo W. Gerard: Romney Willing to Win Without Honor (via tartantambourine)

(via silas216)

10/31/12

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The Romney strategy has been to swamp us with so many flat-out lies that refuting them all would take a lifetime. And so they remain out there unrefuted. And if someone did spend that lifetime refuting each lie, there would of course be a dozen lifetimes worth more lies waiting.

Dave Johnson, What Does Romney’s Campaign of Lies Say About Our Country?

I recently found out that there’s a name for this tactic of overwhelming people with lies—it’s called, ‘the Gish Gallop’ and it’s a favorite tactic among creationists:

The Gish Gallop, named after creationist Duane Gish, is the debating technique of drowning the opponent in such a torrent of half-truths, lies, and straw-man arguments that the opponent cannot possibly answer every falsehood in real time. The term was coined by Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education. Sam Harris describes the technique as “starting 10 fires in 10 minutes”

(via downlo)

(via stfuconservatives)

10/31/12

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10/31/12

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Women of Protest: A Feminist History Refresher

Obama for President pass it on

VOTING IS TUES NOV 6 no matter WHAT you hear

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