March 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-27) →
Matt & Kim (10)
Radiohead (8)
Muse (1)
Rebel Diaz (1)
Arcade Fire (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
February 2011
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My big research paper this semester?
I met with my professor for the class the research paper is for, and after hashing out some of my ideas and examining our mutual fascination with violence and governance, it looks like I’m going to be focusing my paper on rape as a weapon of war. (We started talking about violence in DRC, and we eventually focused in on that.)
In my research process, I might need to narrow this down, but...
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IRAN: Opposition leaders reportedly moved from... →
mohandasgandhi:
Iranian opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi may have been moved from house arrest to a prison in Tehran.
According to reformist website Kaleme.com, the two men and their wives were believed to have been taken to Heshmatieh prison after two weeks of house arrest, the Associated Press reported Monday.
The semiofficial Fars News Agency denied that Mousavi...
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“We very much regret that you were detained.”
– Philip H. Lynch, chief of the civil division in the U.S. attorney’s office in Seattle, in a letter to an Army veteran (and American citizen) who was detained for more than seven months by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on suspicions that he was an illegal immigrant. ICE has agreed to pay...
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“Meanwhile, Capitol Police staff are welding the windows shut. The lack of access...”
– Capitol Building Still Closed, Windows Welded Shut, Other Shenanigans (via radicallyhottoff)
I’m glad this Republican Governor is reacting so responsibly and reasonably to his constituents’ peaceful protest. Constituents who have already publicly accepted his financial terms. I’m glad he’s decided...
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Libyans begin to run Libya →
jonathan-cunningham:
In the liberated city of Benghazi, where pro-Gaddafi forces have been ousted, Libyan people are now organizing a self-government structure to manage the city. One group calling itself the Coalition of the February 17 Revolution—which is made up of doctors, lawyers, teachers, professors, workers, students—just established a city council to manage the day-to-day activities of...
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“If that seems like a lot of fuss over a Twitter account, you probably...”
– Revealing the Man Behind @MayorEmanuel
Mostly posting this for my friend Jay Bushman, who has been using Twitter (and other platforms) to tell stories for a couple of years now.
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Imagine no government.
missdaisyvo:
Imagine REAL freedom. I can’t stop dreaming.
It will be glorious! Just like Somalia!
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Regulation Lax as Gas Wells’ Tainted Water Hits... →
[…] With hydrofracking, a well can produce over a million gallons of wastewater that is often laced with highly corrosive salts, carcinogens like benzene and radioactive elements like radium, all of which can occur naturally thousands of feet underground. Other carcinogenic materials can be added to the wastewater by the chemicals used in the hydrofracking itself.
While the existence of the...
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Important update w/ correction from Glenn... →
UPDATE/CORRECTION: Looking over the language of the U.N. Resolution again, I think it’s quite possible that The Telegraph — and therefore me — got a big part of this story wrong. There’s language in Paragraph 6 defining the scope of the immunity that is easy to overlook because of the strange way it’s drafted — “arising out of or related to operations in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya established...
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“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via anotherdeadhead)
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U.S. shields foreign mercenaries in Libya to... →
vruz:
Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com
It has been widely documented that many of the worst atrocities on behalf of Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi have been committed by foreign mercenaries from countries such as Algeria, Ethiopia and Tunisia. Despite that, the U.N. Security Council’s sanctions Resolution aimed at Libya, which was just enacted last week, includes a strange clause that specifically...
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Insulting Chuck Lorre, Not Abuse, Gets Sheen... →
Is Mr. Sheen excused because he manufactures laughs, not widgets, for a living? For years on the show, Mr. Sheen has been playing to type as a naughty boy in a man’s body: the result was often scabrous and funny and a hit in the ratings. It also fits another depressing pattern. From “Animal House” to Howard Stern, from “Pretty Woman” to “The Hangover,” Hollywood has long had a soft spot for male...
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“First they convinced the blue collars to scapegoat the Welfare Queens. Then the...”
– ginandtacos.com » Blog Archive » SELF PRESERVATION ENTERS THE BUILDING (via robot-heart-politics)
Good read.
(via stfuconservatives)
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Angry Arizona, Again →
turnabout:
Many states are doing urgent business: jobs, the economy, broken budgets. Arizona’s legislators are trying to give government new powers to strip away individual rights, to extend immigration enforcement into schools, public housing, hospitals and doctor’s offices.
Arizona made itself ground zero for a new nativism last year with a radical policing law that encouraged racial...
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“We Americans spout bromides about freedom. Democracy campaigners in the Middle...”
– Unfit for Democracy? | Nicholas Kristof, NY Times
This is hands down my favorite op-ed this weekend.
(via pantslessprogressive)
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I think I want a James Franco/Anne Hathaway buddy...
I would so support this.
(I finally tuned in, once I finished my French homework.)
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What you say actually does matter
On my way to the Bowery Ballroom last night to see White Rabbits, I ended up walking behind some loud mouthed preppy dude bros for a block or two. Something about them immediately made me uneasy when I walked up behind them (which is why I didn’t pass them, but hung back a bit), and that was before I started to pay attention to what they were saying.
Another woman, dressed up to go out, was...
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Tell Facebook to Unfriend Dictators →
Here are the changes Facebook needs to make:
*Anonymize. Repressive regimes of the world love Facebook because if an activist wants to use Facebook they have a choice: reveal their identity or be deleted by Facebook
*Secure. Facebook should install HTTPS (as opposed to HTTP) – a simple, cheap, and highly effective security solution – as a default feature across the entire platform
*Protect....
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“As Orenstein and others point out, little girls take their cues about what is...”
– Hugo Schwyzer, “Men And The Sexualization of Young Girls: Encouraging princess culture—however innocently—contributes to the sexualization of girls. Men can be part of the solution to the ‘princess problem.’” via The Good Men Project (via lostgrrrls)
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Yemen: Security Forces, Gangs Attack Reporters: At... →
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“Iraqi security forces detained about 300 people, including prominent...”
– After Iraq’s Day of Rage, a Crackdown on Intellectuals (via rubenfeld)
Democracy is only prescribed under strict supervision, to be taken only as directed — otherwise it is a dangerous and illegal substance.
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“Tripoli is a civil city no weapons here; we just fight with stones, even the...”
– an al Jazeera source, descibing the purest kind of tyranny now fighting for its life in Tripoli. (via liberalsarecool)
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Watchfuturejournalismproject:
If things are demonstrably untrue, should you continue with truthiness?
John Stewart interviews Anderson Cooper.
By way of background, an overview of the criticism leveled against Cooper for calling liars liars can be read here.
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“I’ve had several cases over the years in which the anti-abortion patient...”
– “The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion” (h/t lostgrrrls)
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“I know it’s been a long week here; some of you have been here from the beginning...”
– The Wisconsin Police Union, announcing solidarity with demonstrators occupying the WI State House. According to Ryan Harvey, the police also announced, “We have been ordered by the legislature to kick you all out at 4:00 today. But we know what’s right from wrong. We will not be kicking anyone out,...
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BREAKING: Wisconsin Police Have Joined Protest... →
mondosmusicbox:
drinkthe-koolaid:
kateoplis:
From inside the Wisconsin State Capitol, RAN ally Ryan Harvey:
“Hundreds of cops have just marched into the Wisconsin state capitol building to protest the anti-Union bill, to massive applause. They now join up to 600 people who are inside.”
From his Facebook page earlier today:
“Police have just announced to the crowds inside the occupied...
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A Busy Saturday in NYC
Here in NYC it’s going to be a busy day.
At 11am:
#walk4choice rally and march meeting at Foley Square
solidarity rally/protest for Wisconsin at City Hall Park
At 1pm:
Planned Parenthood’s Rally For Women at Foley Square
If you live in NYC, please go to at least one of these. These are really important. And if you think these issues don’t impact you, guess again, because...
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Implicit Association Test →
abbyjean:
i also suggest trying these tests to measure your own underlying implicit attitudes - the judgments that your brain makes instantly and unconsciously before your cognition kicks in. the vast majority of people display implicit bias - i myself demonstrate an unconscious bias associating women with family and men as professionals, even though my conscious mind rejects this because i’ve...
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Watchmykeymykes:
We are Wisconsin
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a #walk4choice playlist [click to download!] →
lostgrrrls:
I’m getting this up later than I’d have liked, but I just threw it together and wanted to share so some of you could (hopefully) download before tomorrow if you want some rally-worthy music.
For everyone walking for choice tomorrow (even if just in spirit), I’ve put together a playlist to amp us up! None of that Ben Folds Five, Verve Pipe, Underoath or Dogwood pro-life bullshit...
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Trigger Warning* According to some studies, a... →
handgrenade2:
motherjones:
“Tips for Kicking Ass Before Yours Gets Grabbed…Or Worse”
This makes me really mad. It’s things like this that people see and get the idea that people who are targets of rape should have to fight back, or that the person doesn’t fight back, they’re to blame. This shouldn’t even be a thing. The situation is already horrifying enough, most victims in that situation...
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According to some studies, a woman who fights back... →
motherjones:
“Tips for Kicking Ass Before Yours Gets Grabbed…Or Worse”
Investigative reporter Mac McClelland is taking one of the IMPACT self defense courses, which is what I recently took. Another worthwhile article on her experience with the class.
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“A couple of books ago, I put a tip jar on my signing table and I made over...”
– David Sedaris, via Marginal Revolution (via abbyjean)
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“The Catholic Church in Rome made the extraordinary admission yesterday that it...”
– Vatican confirms report of sexual abuse and rape of nuns by priests in 23 countries
(via Alternet)
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“At a hastily organised news conference at the United Nations in New York, Libyan...”
– Libya crackdown ‘escalates’ with thousands feared dead | BBC (via pantslessprogressive)
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But how has the GOP fucked me lately? →
