February 2012
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In defense of Arkh
face-down-asgard-up:
I wanna talk about the Arkh project.
You may or may not know what the Arkh project is. Read more about it here.
There has been a lot of discussion about this project and it’s mainly centered around whether or not the minds behind Arkh are “doing a good job” or “doing the job right”. A lot of people seem shocked or concerned that Arkh does not yet have a technical team or a...
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Why I Will Always Side With Rape Accusers Before... →
(trigger warning for rape, sexual abuse, rape culture)
14kgoldnyc:
safercampus:
Yesterday, prosecutors decided that they won’t press charges against Greg Kelly, son of police commissioner Ray Kelly. He was accused of raping a woman—I wrote about it here. I sounded pretty sure I believed he was guilty. As far as the courts are concerned, there wasn’t enough evidence to indict him. Am I sorry?...
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Wage War: Employers Stealing Millions from US... →
drinkthe-koolaid:
supersoygrrrl:
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supersoygrrrl:
stfuconservatives:
Breaking news: despite what Republicans and Libertarians would have you think, employers are more concerned about their bottom line than their employees.
-Jess
Posting this to facebook. I can’t wait to see what all the libertarians who argue with me about how abolishing the minimum wage/all...
“I don’t want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there...”
– Rev. Billy Graham, Parade, 1981
I like this quote.
(via theworldisconfused)
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A New Resource: Homosexuality is not a sin →
gaychristian:
On 1 Timothy 9-10
-Ian
Ok, time to do a bit of shilling again →
14kgoldnyc:
thelefthandedwifegonerogue:
So in case you haven’t heard, I’ve got a film blog going. It’s mainly for my mass comm class, but what the hell, I may keep it going after I’m done if I like it enough.
Anyways, I need at least 50 followers for it to count for the grade. I currently have 40. There’s 485 of you following this blog, so I know there’s gotta be some charitable souls out...
Man faces five years for ‘God does not exist’...
unfriendlyatheist:
atheody:
Summary: 31-year-old Alexander Aan faces up to fives years in prison after he declared himself an atheist on Facebook. The Indonesian man is in protective police custody because he fears physical assault. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/man-faces-five-years-for-8216god-does-not-exist-facebook-post/7796
From the link:
31-year-old Alexander Aan faces a maximum...
Contraception Already Covered in Most States →
States that have no exemptions for religious institutions like hospitals and schools include Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.
SkillShare.com is giving away $5,000 to help pay... →
I know a lot of people who are hurting because of student loan payments. This site is giving away 5k to one very lucky and very in debt person. From their website:
“The Project on Student Debt recently reported that, on average, a graduating member of the class of 2010 had $25,250 in debt (and the average amount of student debt is up 5 percent from 2009). For this reason, we’re giving away...
ghoulishgaragegothdeviants asked: My elementary school was the same day. On special days, we would get hot dogs or pizza slices. The boys would automatically get two, but the girls had to pay 50 cents to get a second one. It was such a stupid policy.
adiosblowreador asked: NO, SEE, LAST ASKER, THAT WAS SO THAT YOU GIRLS COULD KEEP YOUR SLIM FIGURE THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE. THE BOYS NEED TO STAY BIG AND STRONG. RIGHT?
justanotherladyinred asked: holy @ the school only allowing the boys to go watch a movie. A similar thing happened my senior year of High School. For our Student for a day everyone had to go to the college nearby and at noon they served food, obviously. The funny thing is, the girls were seperated in one line - the boys in the other, and the girls got one slice of pizza and diet coke, the boys got two slices and pop/soda of...
School District Holds Movie Day, Only Lets The... →
The Dallas school district decided to take all fifth graders to see the movie Red Tails. The fifth graders are learning about WWII and Black History Month, so lesson plans were tailored around that subject matter.
Except they didn’t take any of the female students to see the movie.
Their excuse is that the movie theater wasn’t big enough for all the fifth graders. Yeah, because movie...
Wage War: Employers Stealing Millions from US... →
Breaking news: despite what Republicans and Libertarians would have you think, employers are more concerned about their bottom line than their employees.
-Jess
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Student faces six months in jail and $1000 fine... →
“Denver authorities detained Smith for questioning on Tuesday night, and he was cited on misdemeanor charges of creating a disturbance, throwing a missile and an unlawful act on school property, Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson said.”
A missile? Throwing a missile? What the fuck, laws. Anyways, this article also has the video of Romney getting missile-attacked glitter-bombed, so...
End the Use of "Ex Gay" Ministries on Minors --... →
gaychristian submitted:
I am truly sorry if this is not of interest to you,as I don’t mean to bother you, but I’m sure you have heard of “Ex-Gay” Ministries(such as Exodus International).
In short, they aim to “cure” homosexuality by prayer and/or “reparative therapy”. Often this leads to severe mental and emotional damage and it has...
“I’m glad that you played the Rachel Maddow clip because I think she is the best...”
– A Fox pundit, acting like a first grader. Take a guess, did anyone at the Conservative Political Action Conference condemn the comment? (via think-progress)
DO HO HO, UGLY PEOPLE ARE UGLY! LAWL! - Fox News
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Birth Control Action Plan
iamateenagefeminist:
Upset that it’s 2012 and we’re still fighting over birth control in the US legislature?
Here’s what you can do to help:
Tweet using the hastags #MyFreeBC and #Iusebirthcontrol
Write letters to your local newspaper with the subject line “I scream because”.The goal is to get every major newspaper in the country to receive hundreds of letters entitled “I scream because”....
The Vote
racismschool:
At the end of 2011, there was a story about a Kentucky church that voted to have white only members. Well, to not have interracial couples. Whatever.
Anyway, the vote was overturned after the media got a hold of the story. The really interesting part of this story for me was the actual vote. Look there are shit places all over America (and the world) that still have these fucked...
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somuchdependsupon reblogged your quote: A Republican State Representative in New Hampshire…
But, as slave labor has shown us, it’s NOT actually in the employer’s interest to treat workers well.
Oh THAT! Psh, don’t let history and facts get in the way of Republicans and Libertarians shitting all over employee rights.
-Jess
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“For our corporation, which employs some 60 people, this mandate goes into effect...”
– Father Frank Pivone, “Why we’re suing over the HHS birth control mandate”
So here’s the funny part: you’d only be paying for this stuff if one of your employees wanted it. The only reason a pro-life organization would end up subsidizing EVIL BIRTH CONTROL is if one of...
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“A Republican State Representative in New Hampshire has found a way to create a...”
– New Hampshire Republican proposes end to lunch break law | The Raw Story (via oswaldofguadalupe)
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I'm just so frustrated!
iamateenagefeminist:
I don’t know if y’all are aware, but awhile back the Obama administration made the decision that since birth control is considered preventative medicine it should be covered by insurance plans with no copays. This is because the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) forces insurance companies to cover the cost of preventive medicine.
Now,
There was some hoopla over whether...
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Reblog if you think mohandasgandhi should be an...
unknowablewoman:
um YES
MG is the best. MG for editor of everything!
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“Really, conservatives just hate women. They resent the fact that we work, go to...”
– hunnichild (via brienne—of—tarth)
inb4 someone changes this all to “uterus-bearers”
(via unknowablewoman)
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“Some people think that you can’t let same-sex couples get married without...”
– California attorney and semi-professional cynic Bill Smith on today’s Ninth Circuit decision regarding Proposition 8. Read the full decision here. (via cognitivedissonance)
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“One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr And this is what really got Dr. MLK killed. (via black-culture)
THIS
(via killthemass)
…anti-poverty, anti-war, pro-Black and Brown unity agenda (re: “beyond vietnam”)
Now this is truth.
(via somepolitics)
'Blow away' text lands Muslim in jail
rcabbasi:
MONTREAL — A Muslim businessman in Canada became a terror suspect for telling his sales staff in a text message to “blow away” the competition at a New York City trade show, a religious association said Friday.
Moroccan-born Saad Allami, who works as a telecommunications company sales manager, was arrested three days after he sent the message in January 2011 and detained while police...
“A recent study by the Yale University Child Study Center shows that Black...”
– Study: African-American Boys Receive Less Attention, Harsher Punishment And Lower Grades In School | News One (via omchomsky)
But racism don’t exist tho….
(via sourcedumal)
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