October 2011
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Fuck yeah, feminists!: Submission: Fox News has... →
fuckyeahfeminists:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPed4XtgzEk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I was linked to this through the excellent Occupy Wall Street thread on the Something Awful forums. I found this video pretty disturbing; they’ve literally decided to just target individual protestors, share their names,…
U scared, Fox?
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“Think, for just a moment, about the irony. We are the most media-saturated...”
– SLATE: Occupy the No-Spin Zone: One of the best things about Occupy Wall Street is the way it confuses and ignores the shrill pundit class.
(via megrobertson)
This is a really fabulous article, you should read it.
(via dancinginthetrees)
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“Before gas goes into a crowd shield bearers have to be making no progress moving...”
– A Marine talking about the cop who opened fire on veteran Scott Olsen (via logicallypositive)
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“[Changing the underlying values that govern our society] is hard to fit into a...”
– Naomi Klein, in her speech to Occupy Wall Street. (via fuckyeahfeminists)
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“I have no particular love for the idealised ‘worker’ as he appears in the...”
– George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia.
Basically sums up my feelings about Occupy Wall Street.
(via sarahstocracy)
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“Your premise that abortion is bad and should be reduced, lacks vision and fails...”
– Joyce Arthur, founder of Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (via anangryblog)
I <3 her.
(via stfuhypocrisy)
At the heart of every G-damn anti-choice argument is basic, ingrained, systemic misogyny.
True story - my supposedly otherwise liberal brother accidentally got his ex-girlfriend...
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Boing Boing: Egyptians March in Solidarity with... →
Gorgeous.
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20 Billion Reasons To STFU
“I, like you, get a little incensed when you think about how much good all of you do, whether it’s volunteer hours, charitable giving we do, serving clients and customers well…. To the bank’s critics, I say, ‘You ought to think a little about that before you start yelling at us.” — Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, to BoA employees …
“Nobody cares how upset you are at being yelled at,...
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“In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, students of magic battle a boggart,...”
– Hot Chicks, Cold Sexists and Occupy Wall Street (via ocarinaofthyme)
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nefariousnewt:
Activate the Mechanism!: BOMBSHELL - Massachusetts Supreme Court Rules That Most Foreclosure Sales From Previous 5 Years Are VOID
abaldwin360:
From Cheyenne:
The only thing surprising about this ruling is that it took so long to be made. This is black letter law, folks, the logical extension of the Court’s Ibanez decision. Without a promissory note, a foreclosing plaintiff...
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“My part of Oakland is full of poor people. There’s at least one murder a week....”
– @el_gallo on BoingBoing.com (via lordmoudemort)
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Everything the Media Told You About Occupy Wall... →
stfuconservatives:
hello-ampersand:
This is the article we’ve been waiting to be written. Important comments, important pictures, just…important.
Please spread this.
Everybody needs to read this.
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“Understand that the police and laws are part of a system that is anti-poor,...”
– - Syed Hussan in #OccupyTogether in the age of conspiracy | rabble.ca
now this is a rallying cry i can get behind.
(via garconniere)
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Solidarity Statement From Cairo →
occupywallstreet:
Posted Oct. 25, 2011, 2:39 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
To all those in the United States currently occupying parks, squares and other spaces, your comrades in Cairo are watching you in solidarity. Having received so much advice from you about transitioning to democracy, we thought it’s our turn to pass on some advice.
Indeed, we are now in many ways involved in the same...
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“Officers closed in on the camp within 20 minutes after donning gas masks, firing...”
– Flashbang grenades used to clear Occupy Oakland. (via evanfleischer)
Hell of an over-reaction, don’t you think? But then, we already knew Oakland PD has a problem with excessive force.
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“A massively popular two-term governor and former ambassador to China with a tax...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via jonathan-cunningham)
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Watchoccupywallstreet:
“We The People Have Found Our Voice” - by Iva Radivojevic and Martyna Starosta
True story - I almost yelled “mic check” in a meeting yesterday. That would not have gone well.
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Watchstfuconservatives:
cognitivedissonance:
From Crooks & Liars:
Just before the start of GOP presidential debate in Nevada, Erin Burnett and her panel had a little bit of trouble broadcasting from their outdoor studio as they were drowned out by the Occupy Wall Street protesters and chants of “Banks got bailed out! We got sold out!”
After TeaNN’s relentless promotion of the AstroTurf “tea...
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“AN: Yes, that’s absolutely right. The Party appreciated that clothing could be...”
– On the Black Panther Party’s Free Clothing Program: Q&A with Alondra Nelson « threadbared
this whole interview. read it. it’s amazing.
also this is what I keep thinking about with OWS. it’s not the marches, it’s the services. it’s the infrastructure. this is what we forgot to do, somehow,...
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GOP Debate Watch →
wtfwhiteprivilege:
nomoretexasgovernorsforpresident:
The Obama campaign has put together a debate watch game to make sure there’s a real cost to all the attacks and nonsense. Here’s how it works: You pick a word or phrase from the list below to sponsor, and pledge to give $3 or $5 (or however much you’d like) for each mention. So tonight, as the Republican candidates prattle on about defunding...
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Reblog with Urban Dictionary's top definition of... →
1. amy 8576 up, 2386 down to take, hold, or steal your heart. a person who is a soulmate. a good lover.she pulled an amy on my heart. (she stole or holds my heart) my heart was amyied. (my heart was stolen) watch out she will amy you. (she will steal your heart) you have yourself an amy. (you have yourself a soulmate) Well that was better than expected.
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Insert "cuckoo" sound here →
notsodarling-:
maritsa-met-esq:
rodmanstreet:
maritsa-met-esq:
“One of the things I will talk about that no president has talked about before is, I think, the dangers of contraception in this country,” Santorum told interviewer Shane Vander Hart. “It’s not OK. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”
…according to Santorum, sex “is...
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“Next time I see a group of white people gathered around, I’m gonna call the...”
– LeVance Rucker (via levanceruckerhasissues)
haha. YES
(via somewhitenonsense)
LOL! Make sure to mention that “they look suspicious.”
(via eshusplayground) Stress on the fact that they are wearing Abercrombie and Fitch, that’s hoodlum wear rite thurr.
(via dumbthingswhitepplsay)
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