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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:14:27 -0500

unsexual: jesus had only 12 followers his blog must have sucked so much omfg

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:28:08 -0500

unsexual:

jesus had only 12 followers

his blog must have sucked so much omfg

feministhistorian: sanityscraps: darthempress: LOL! While...

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:24:31 -0500

feministhistorian:

sanityscraps:

darthempress:

LOL!

While I’m waffling on whether the Disney one is slut-shamey or not, the fucking History Channel. Completely accurate. XDD

I would say the Disney one is slut-shamey.

The history one is so fucking funny and true.

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Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:24:12 -0500

"So when the Irish, when Germans, when Italians were coming, and they didn’t speak the language and..."

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:38:19 -0500

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So when the Irish, when Germans, when Italians were coming, and they didn’t speak the language and they didn’t know the culture, the idea was they will assimilate into Americanhood; they will become American, which in the American tradition has meant white American.

But that melting pot never included people of color. Blacks, Chinese, Puerto Ricans, etcetera, could not melt into the pot. They could be used as wood to produce the fire for the pot, but they could not be used as material to be melted into the pot.

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- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Race-The Power of an Illusion (via volviomarilia)

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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:18:34 -0500

"Language of the ghetto" comment comes back to bite Gingrich

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:42:54 -0500

univisionnews:

By JORDAN FABIAN
Channel: Politics

Newt Gingrich is infuriated that a controversial inference he made about Spanish five years ago has become one of the chief attacks against his credibility with Latino voters.

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"Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans are indigenous. So,..."

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:35:30 -0500

“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans are indigenous. So, in a strange way, I’m pleased that the racist folks of Arizona have officially declared, in banning me alongside Urrea, Baca, and Castillo, that their anti-immigration laws are also anti-Indian. I’m also strangely pleased that the folks of Arizona have officially announced their fear of an educated underclass. You give those brown kids some books about brown folks and what happens? Those brown kids change the world. In the effort to vanish our books, Arizona has actually given them enormous power. Arizona has made our books sacred documents now.”

- Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and filmmaker. His book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto’s Fist Fight in Heaven,” was on the banned curriculum of the Mexican American Studies Program.

http://progressive.org/sherman-alexie

(via chicanainchoos)

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Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:42:04 -0500

kevinxzeleous: Protect yourself online with these services....

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:39:14 -0500

kevinxzeleous:

Protect yourself online with these services. Reclaim your data from the big media companies.

The irony is I’m sharing this on Tumblr.

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Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:05:56 -0500

How to become anonymous

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:16:06 -0500

How to become anonymous:

solitaryforager:

(Thanks to citizensanonymous)

Step 1:

Encrypt

Truecrypt

dm-crypt

GnuPG

Step 2:

Anonymize

Tor

Tails

Liberte

Tips:

Use encryption (https://) on every website!

Use fake email services such as mailinator dot com

Download the AnonPackage for a suite of tools and extras!

Stay Anonymous!

This Is Just Great of the Day: Appearing in the latest Target...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:04:19 -0500

This Is Just Great of the Day: Appearing in the latest Target circular is 6-year-old Ryan: A happy, gregarious, photogenic rising star in the world of child modeling — who happens to have Down syndrome.

Ryan has also appeared in a recent Nordstrom catalog among other clothing ads.

On the Daddyblog of a father whose child also has Down syndrome, Ryan’s mother writes:

The whole process of modeling is an extreme confidance booster for him. He received so much warmth and caring from the Nordstrom crew that he thought they were there just for him! We are honored that Ryan is making the Down syndrome community proud. He is a beautiful boy inside and out. He makes us better parents, and a better family.

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Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:17:06 -0500

"Let’s be clear — I am an engineer; I am not telling you we shouldn’t build pipelines. We just should..."

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:27:05 -0500

“Let’s be clear — I am an engineer; I am not telling you we shouldn’t build pipelines. We just should not build this one.”

- Mike Klink, engineer and TransCanada pipeline inspector, calling Keystone XL a potential disaster.

Whistle, blown.

(via onearth)

eyehatedann: Seuss was one hard ass mother fucker.

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:38:05 -0500

eyehatedann:

Seuss was one hard ass mother fucker.

Opium Poppies: DIY Pearl Embellished Tights

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:48:06 -0500

Opium Poppies: DIY Pearl Embellished Tights:

opiumpoppies:

What you’ll need:

1. A pair of tights. I chose to use thicker cotton tights because I can never seem to keep a pair of sheer tights run-free for very long.

2. Beads/Pearls. I found mine at one of the many bead stores here in the city, but they can also be found at most craft stores. They’re…

mohandasgandhi: Iran’s Revolutionary Court has sentenced an...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:58:06 -0500

mohandasgandhi:

Iran’s Revolutionary Court has sentenced an Iranian-American man to death for spying for the CIA, the student news agency quoted a judiciary official as saying, a move likely to aggravate U.S.-Iranian tension

“Amir Mirza Hekmati was sentenced to death…for cooperating with the hostile country America and spying for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency),” ISNA news agency quoted judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei on Monday as saying.

“The court found him Corrupt on the Earth and Mohareb (one who wages war on God). Hekmati can appeal to the Supreme Court.”
Iran’s highest court must confirm all death sentences. When it will rule in Hekmati’s case was not known.
Hekmati, a 28-year-old of Iranian descent born in the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona, was arrested in December and Iran’s Intelligence Ministry accused him of receiving training at U.S. bases in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq.
Iran’s judiciary said Hekmati admitted to having links with the CIA but denied any intention of harming Iran, which has had no relations with the United States since its 1979 Islamic Revolution. Mutual antagonism has reigned since.
Hekmati’s family said earlier this month in a statement that the former U.S. military translator was visiting his grandmothers in Iran when he was arrested.

“We have struggled to provide Amir with an attorney in Iran. We have sought to hire at least 10 different attorneys to no avail,” the family’s statement said. It said Hekmati’s “only advocate in Iran was a government-appointed lawyer who he met on the first day of his trial.”

The U.S. government has demanded Hekmati’s release, saying he has been “falsely” accused. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said last month that Iran had not permitted diplomats from the Swiss Embassy, which represents American interests in Iran, to see him before or during his trial.

Hekmati graduated from a Michigan high school. His father Ali is a professor at a community college in Flint, Michigan.

Hekmati, whose trial ended on January 2, was shown on Iranian state television in December saying he was a CIA operative sent to infiltrate the Iranian intelligence ministry.

Iran also said on Monday it had broken up an alleged U.S.-linked spy network that planned to “fuel unrest” ahead of the March parliamentary election, the first nationwide vote since the country’s 2009 disputed presidential vote.

“The detained spies were in contact with foreign countries through cyberspace,” Intelligence Minister Haydar Moslehi was quoted by state television as saying. He gave no information about the nationalities and the number of those detained.

(Continue reading…)

[Image courtesy of Hekmati family/Yahoo News]

The U.S. arms Egypt's new military dictators

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:09:05 -0500

The U.S. arms Egypt's new military dictators:

socialismartnature:

Aaron Petcoff describes the warped priorities of a system that has millions to spare for the repressive Egyptian military but nothing for the poorest cities in the U.S.

… Not only does the Obama administration stand by silently while police departments across the U.S. brutalize peaceful Occupy demonstrators, but the U.S. military recently awarded a weapons manufacturer $395 million to build 125 new tanks for the Egyptian military dictatorship. Talk about saying one thing and doing another!

This particular contract is a part of an estimated $1.3 billion tank package for the Egyptian military. Since the February 2011 revolution, the Egyptian military continues to be one of the Pentagon’s closest allies.

We have the power to change our society from one that is more concerned with military dominance and private profits, to one that plans democratically how we utilize the enormous resources we produce as a society, and serves and benefits everyone equitably. Harnessing that power lies in escalating and deepening our collective action and militancy, and building solidarity between the emerging global struggles.

thereluctantrawfoodist: Pretty!

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:20:06 -0500

thereluctantrawfoodist:

Pretty!