May 2011
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PROTEST THE ACQUITTAL OF TWO NEW YORK CITY COPS... →
tigersmilk: On Thursday May 26, New York police officers Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata were found not guilty of charges that Moreno raped a woman in her apartment while Mata kept guard, despite the fact that the amount of evidence against the officers in this case was overwhelming. Instead, the jury convicted both officers of official misconduct for entering the woman’s apartment, but found...
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Black Culture: Untold story of U.S. slave... →
black-culture: By Mitch PotterWashington Bureau DESTREHAN PLANTATION, LA.—A long-lost chapter in American history is being written anew today, as southerners begin to come to terms with the previously untold story of the continent’s largest slave revolt. And while historians today debate the…
May 26th
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WatchWatch
findyourwaytouglyplaces: **TRIGGER WARNING FOR POLICE BRUTALITY ** holokaust: cwnl: Everyone needs to watch and reblog. This man is thrown from his wheelchair by two NYPD police officers to the ground and handcuffed. He is unable to walk and not a threat to public as he cannot run or physically attack anyone without difficulty. The video progresses and you can see the man is helpless on the...
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May 20th
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“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is...”
– James Baldwin (via black-culture) My friends don’t understand this quote. They think I am too money oriented. But their families have never been on food stamps. They’ve never been homeless.
May 20th
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May 18th
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Dinner Conversations.: Garry Shandling must feel... →
valluhree: Christiane Amanpour was right. She was right about Osama bin Laden’s location. BACK IN 2008. Of course, though, no one listened to her. Here’s a clip from the Oct. 3rd, 2008 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher. Check it out: SHANDLING: So, isn’t Osama bin Laden laughing his ass…
May 18th
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“Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear...”
– (via creatingaquietmind)
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“I’ve decided to stop caring about things. If you care, you just get disappointed...”
– Calvin (via calvinnhobbes)
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May 15th
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“The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants...”
– Noam Chomsky (via cwnl)
May 15th
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Lapham's Quarterly: Mike "Dirty Jobs" Rowe and... →
laphamsquarterly: Excellent post about skilled manual labor from carpentrix. carpentrix: Last week, Mike Rowe, the guy who hosts the show Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel, spoke in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, making a lucid, clear-eyed case for a…
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Blatant evidence the FCC is in bed with big...
shortformblog: January After a long year of hand-wringing, including much complaining by consumer groups, the FCC approved the merger of NBC Universal and Comcast by 4-1. There was much teeth-grinding. May One of the four commissioners who voted for the merger, Meredith Attwell Baker, has a new job. Wanna guess where? It rhymes with “bombast.” Or, perhaps, “total conflict of...
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Raising Hell: A Citizens Guide to the Fine Art of... →
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Undocumented Man in Coma After Taser Incident With... →
findingagency: U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in Arizona tased an undocumented man into a coma, and two ICE officers are currently guarding his hospital room 24 hours a day, ready to re-deport him should he recover, the LA Weekly blog reports. Jose Gutierrez was a longtime L.A. resident and film engineer, married to U.S. citizen Shena Wilson, with whom he had two children. He was...
May 10th
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A Veteran of SEAL Team Six Describes His Training →
We arrived at the pool located at Building 164 and stripped down to our UDT swim shorts. An instructor said, “You are going to love this. Drown-proofing is one of my favorites. Sink or swim, sweet peas.” I tied my feet together, and my swim partner tied my hands behind my back. “When I give the command, the bound men will hop into the deep end of the pool,” Instructor Stoneclam said. “You must...
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