April 2012
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Retroactive state law lets GOP chairman's brother... →
Wells Fargo bank will file a court challenge to a new state law signed by Gov. Rick Snyder that overturned a $2.4-million judgment against the brother and business partner of Michigan Republican Party Chairman Bobby Schostak, the bank’s attorney said Friday.
The law Snyder signed Thursday, which says a lender can recover only the real estate offered as collateral when a certain type of...
March 2012
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Georgia Senate Votes to Cut Jobless Benefits →
stfuconservatives:
racetothestoneage:
Georgians who lose their jobs next year could see fewer unemployment checks under a bill passed by the state Senate. Supporters say it will help re-pay $700 million Georgia borrowed from the federal government to cover unemployment reserves. The bill would cut the amount of benefits jobless workers receive by as much as half. And it would mandate a...
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The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth... →
Perhaps greater lies have been told in the past century, but they can be counted on one hand. Racial caste is alive and well in America.
Most people don’t like it when I say this. It makes them angry. In the “era of colorblindness” there’s a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we as a nation have “moved beyond” race. Here are a few facts that run counter to that triumphant racial...
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STFU, Conservatives: Set Off Your Medical Pendant,... →
amaditalks:
A 68 year old black Marine veteran was shot and killed in his own home in White Plains, NY after police responded to a “medical emergency” call when the man accidentally activated his medical assistance pendant device.
In the middle of the night, police banged on his door…
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“There is a young America and there is an old America, and they don’t form a...”
– “The War Against Youth” (via climateadaptation)
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"It's outrageous that immigration detention... →
motherjones:
In February, DHS unveiled a new set of guidelines designed to crack down on sexual assault and inhumane conditions at immigrant detention centers. On Wednesday, House Republicans held a hearing to accuse the Obama administration of coddling detainees.
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“He used bad words! He maybe smoked pot! He was suspended from school for...”
– Breaking: Trayvon Martin a normal teenage boy (via notemily)
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“Think you’ve already heard every possible argument against the health-insurance...”
– Outside Supreme Court, conservatives sound like liberals - The Washington Post - The Washington Post
Well, there you have it: old white conservative men have zero sense of irony.
(via shorterexcerpts)
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Ideas and Opinions.: Woman Dies After Being... →
rubyshimmer:
BTW THE ENTIRE INCIDENT IS ON VIDEO!
Anna Brown, 29, died on the floor of a jail cell within an hour of being dragged from St. Mary’s Hospital. As blood clots spread from her legs to her lungs the hospital staff was busy refusing her further treatment. She was arrested…
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Oklahoma legislators pass drug-tests-for-welfare... →
stfuconservatives:
“The Oklahoma Senate has dropped legislation that would require politicians throughout the state to be drug tested along with people receiving temporary public assistance.
The bill, passed by the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services on Monday, would still require applicants for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to undergo a mandatory drug...
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Missouri Republicans suggest budget that literally... →
stfuconservatives:
In $24 BILLION budget, Missouri GOP members are cutting $28 million for a program that supplies aid for the blind. And naturally, experts are predicting that it will actually cost taxpayers more in the long run.
“Christopher Gray, executive director of the Missouri Council of the Blind, said lawmakers are focusing on numbers instead of the impact their decision will have on...
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Bohemian Arthouse: tw ableism: A school bans a kid... →
disabledtalk:
Sign the petition here
E-mail the school officials here
A mom of a kid with cerebral palsy is gearing up to file a lawsuit against her school district, because a special education director is saying her little girl can’t use her walker. Pick your jaw up off the…
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“We executed children in this country until long after the rest of the world —...”
– Charles P. Pierce (via azspot)
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FBI informants seduce, bribe, and trick people... →
jonathan-cunningham:
Craig Monteilh says he did not balk when his FBI handlers gave him the OK to have sex with the Muslim women his undercover operation was targeting. Nor, at the time, did he shy away from recording their pillow talk.
“They said, if it would enhance the intelligence, go ahead and have sex. So I did,” Monteilh told the Guardian as he described his year as a confidential FBI...
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“Let me tell you some things. I used to... →
feminisminapapercup:
““Let me tell you some things. I used to investigate child abuse and neglect. I can tell you how to stop the vast majority of abortion in the world. First, make knowledge and access to contraception widely available. Start teaching kids before they hit puberty.
Teach them about domestic violence and coercion, and teach them not to coerce and rape. Create a strong, loving...
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: socialuprooting: After Bradley Manning was... →
socialuprooting:
After Bradley Manning was arrested on charges that he leaked documents to WikiLeaks, he was held in intense solitary confinement for ten months until political pressure finally forced his transfer to more humane conditions in Fort Leavenworth; the top U.N. torture official…
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How Government Hurts The Poor →
Just a few quick examples, as to elaborate on this question:
Minimum wage laws ostensibly exist to offer poorer workers better pay, but tend to leave the lower-skilled workers unemployed instead. 1
Tariffs and tough anti-immigration laws purportedly protect American citizens - poor, lower-skilled individuals in particular - from the “unfair” competition of cheap foreigners. Instead, it drives...
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“As for national security, the U.S. now spends almost as much on the military as...”
– James Gustave Speth (via azspot)
ALWAYS reblog. By cutting our military down to a sane size, we could balance our budget, educate our citizens, rebuild our infrastructure, protect the health and well-being of all Americans. What the heck is stopping us? Why is this never even discussed by “serious”...
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Ninth-grader says teacher told him to read... →
reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
A veteran Fairfax County high school teacher has been accused of using racially insensitive language by telling a student to read a Langston Hughes poem in a “blacker” style.
Jordan Shumate, a ninth-grader at George C. Marshall High School in Falls Church, Va., told the Washington Post that he was reading Hughes’ “Ballad of the Landlord” when the English teacher...
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Cops Didn't Test Zimmerman for Drugs or Alcohol →
fearandwar:
A self-appointed neighborhood watchman who pursued and then shot dead an unarmed 17-year-old boy outside his stepmother’s home last month in Sanford, Fla., reportedly wanted to be a police officer and had called 9-1-1 50 times in the last year.
Trayvon Martin, a black high-school junior, was making his way home with a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea on Feb. 26 when Zimmerman...
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“We bombed your wedding, slaughtering three dozen of your guests — sorry, that...”
– Only the West gets to kill who they want
(via anticapitalist)
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STFU, Conservatives: Seriously, though, at least,... →
rabbleprochoice:
As a woman, I am on the same level as a barn yard animal. I am on the same level as livestock, not believed to make decisions for myself because I lack the ability of high-functioning cognitive thought.
I guess if I ever have children I should just call the FUCKING VET….
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