December 2011
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In case SOPA is passed
occupyallstreets:
Here is how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown.
Tumblr: 174.121.194.34/dashboard
Facebook: 69.171.224.11
Twitter: 174.121.194.34
LiveJournal: 209.200.154.225
Wikipedia: 208.80.152.201
Reddit: 72.247.244.88
Google: 74.125.157.99
Youtube: 74.125.65.91
Hotmail: 65.55.72.135
ThePirateBay: 194.71.107.15
Demonoid.com: 62.149.24.66
Demoniod.me:...
Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with... →
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tellwiddit:
State-sanctioned rape by deception in the UK.
That’s fucking disgusting.
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“Cis gay men have a history of marginalizing and degrading trans women. Whether...”
– Morgan Page, thanks to Grey for sharing this piece
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Colorado Asks DEA to Reschedule Marijuana, DEA... →
The head of the Colorado Department of Revenue has written a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration asking that federal controls on marijuana be loosened slightly to account for its “potential medicinal value.”
Colorado is the third state with a medical-marijuana program to ask the DEA to reschedule marijuana…
The letter asks that the DEA consider moving marijuana...
You know that's what they're scared of, right?
abaldwin360:
So, I just shared that article about how Louis CK made a million dollars in twelve days with DRM-free downloads.
Then, earlier this month, Universal had a video Megaupload owned taken off of youtube, then claimed that they couldn’t be sued for it.
I wonder how much of the million Louis CK would have seen had he gone though a label. I’m guessing they would have gotten a pretty big...
joonyong:
“he’s so sexy!!!! I wanna rape hi-“
America becoming a nation of renters →
With U.S. unemployment at a lofty 8.6 percent, home foreclosures rising and property prices under pressure, more and more Americans have given up the dream of owning, opting instead to rent, a shift that is remaking the face of the U.S. housing industry.
The percentage of Americans who own their home dropped from a peak of 69.2 percent in late 2004 to a 13-year low of 65.9 percent in the second...
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“In the instances when POC say shit like ‘Oh I can’t stand white folk’ or ‘Damn...”
– Briana (via absinthedisco)
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Oklahoma mother gets 10 years for $31 marijuana... →
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robot-heart-politics:
Hey, I have an idea for how we can cut the budget…
Finally, this criminal posing as a functioning, contributing member of society will be added to our permanent underclass. And to think, it will only cost the tax payer $162,020.
But wait a moment- what about her children? We can’t have a relative of the children raising them,...
White Supremacy + Autism
liquornspice:
Here’s an excerpt from a NYTimes piece (Navigating Love and Autism) about a young man with Asperger’s Syndrome:
A chemistry whiz, he had spent much of his adolescence teaching himself to make explosives and setting them off in the woods in experiments that he hoped would earn him a patent but that instead led the state police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and...
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Reasons to say 'fuck you' to the Salvation Army. →
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strawberryfaerie:
“The Salvation Army has refused assistance to gay couples unless they break up and “go straight”, Muslim families who refuse to attend “Christian Bible classes”, kids who can’t prove their immigration status, and more.”
Admittedly, i only skimmed the article, but this quote alone should give you a pretty good idea of how awful they are.
EDIT: I also...
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Why do people find sexism funny
And by ‘people’ what I mean is ‘male Americans ages 14-24’. I just honestly don’t get the unending entertainment from it. Is it some sort of cognitive dissonance release, like by actually vocalizing the sexism that’s present daily they get some sort of psychological satisfaction? Jokes about women being bad drivers just aren’t funny. Jokes about women in...
Christopher Hitchens, angry white guy →
youarenotyou:
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fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report
There was nothing witty, cute, or endearing about the late Christopher Hitchens, a racist to the core whose association with the Left served only to discredit it. Beneath his mutterings against ‘Islamofascism’ he was nothing more than an angry white guy who wanted brown people to be conquered or...
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FBI lied in court after FOIA request →
In 2005, a group of California Muslims called “The Shura Council of South California” took notice of the FBI’s racially discriminatory investigations and sued them. During the course of the lawsuit, they filed a request for some documents involved in the FBI’s investigation, using the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA for short. They got some documents, but the FBI said...
so the 'save bradley manning' FB page admins said...
youarenotyou:
what a fucking crock of shit
no the chats weren’t meant to be made public but she stated quite fucking clearly that she isn’t a man and that the thought of the entire world misgendering her was way more upsetting than the thought of execution
doesn’t that fucking tell you anything
This has bothered me for a long time too, she was very very specific about how much it bothered...
Awesome things we lost this year
Politifact
The Good Men Project
Habeas Corpus
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There Were Some Who Saw This Coming →
vulgartrader:
Senator Byron Dorgan on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, the act that repealed Glass–Steagall. Hedge Funds, bailouts, “too big to fail,” (remember that term he says) all of it, right there in 1999 and yet no one listened.
“I’ll bet we’ll look back one day and say, ‘How on earth did we think it made sense to allow the banking industry to concentrate, to merger and acquisition,...
#FBI Says #Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms... →
leekfixer:
cultureofresistance:
The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has kept files on activists who expose animal welfare abuses on factory farms and recommended prosecuting them as terrorists, according to a new document uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act.
This new information comes as the Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a lawsuit challenging the Animal Enterprise...
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Justice Department: Sheriff Arpaio Engaged in... →
After three years of investigation, the Justice Department has finished it’s investigation of Joe “America’s Sheriff” Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO for short). It’s conclusion?
[The MCSO], through the actions of its deputies, supervisory staff, and command staff, engages in racial profiling of Latinos; unlawfully stops, detains, and...
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Obama Breaks Promise to Veto the NDAA →
There was a brief moment when civil libertarians were stunned to see President Barack Obama actually take a stand in favor of civil liberties after years to rolling back on basic rights of citizens and moving beyond the Bush Administration in building up the security state. Obama said that he would veto the defense bill that contained a horrific provision for the indefinite detention of American...
“My wife and I are thinking of adopting and shockingly found in Texas, the cost...”
– The price of babies, by color | Chris Blattman (via abbyjean)
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“I’m the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a...”
– Langston Hughes, excerpt from “Let America Be America Again”
“Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his...”
– George Orwell, Looking Back on the Spanish War (1943)
“When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn’t...”
– Former Senator and current head of MPAA Chris Dodd, describing how internet censorship is feasible because China has already done it.
Japan Admits Tsunami Funds Used to Defend Whaling... →
shortformblog:
Well, it seems that Depressing Headlines sure lives up to its depressing name.
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“If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs, it is because you have...”
– Newt Gingrich in 1996, defending his proposed bill that would have required the death penalty for anyone found carrying more than two ounces of Marijuana. You read that right, Gingrich tried to kill pot smokers even though he smoked pot himself. Here’s how Gingrich justifies the hypocrisy:...
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35 Facts That Demonstrate Higher Education is a... →
#1 After adjusting for inflation, U.S. college students are borrowing about twice as much money as they did a decade ago.
#2 According to the College Board, college tuition is absolutely soaring. The following comes from a recent CBS News article….
Average tuition and fees at public colleges rose 8.3 percent this year and, with room and board, now exceed $17,000 a year, according to...
Iran rejects US calls for return of spy drone →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Defence minister demands apology from Washington for invading Iranian airspace and says plane is now its property.
Does anyone think they’re wrong? I mean, isn’t it illegal to violate foreign airspace? If an Iranian spy plane crash landed in the US, there is no doubt that we’d see it as an act of war.
