November 2011
50 posts
Uhhhh Santorum, you need to check yourself cause...
stfusexists:
No one WANTS a late term abortion. Don’t downplay the horrible choice that people have to make when they find out that they are carrying babies who are going to either die in the womb, or be born, suffer horribly for a while whilst requiring bankrupting medical care. Not everyone wants to take home their newborn and watch it die, and they shouldn’t be forced to just because you...
“Like most women, I currently live in a society where violence, harassment and...”
– Tiger Beatdown (via pnasty)
This is so relevant to everything.
(via mindyshabibti)
THIS THIS THIS.
This is what rape culture looks like.
(via silverqueen)
And so many men fucking do not get this.
(via northerndownpour)
Militarization of Campus Police →
leftcoastjane:
This UC Davis prof,
Bob Ostertag
Composer, historian, journalist, and Professor of Technocultural Studies and Music at UC Davis
responds to the violence on the Davis campus, I saw it via OhPauline and alyson-noele, it appeared first in HuffPost.
alyson-noele:
Yesterday, police at UC Davis attacked seated students with a chemical gas.
I teach at UC Davis and I personally know...
Rep. Deutch Introduces OCCUPIED Constitutional... →
Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, today introduced an amendment that would ban corporate money in politics and end corporate personhood once and for all.
Deutch’s amendment, called the Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the Public Interest in our Elections and Democracy (OCCUPIED) Amendment, would overturn theCitizens United decision, re-establishing the right...
“TW: Police brutality
When students covered their eyes with their clothing,...”
– Open Letter to the Chancellor of UC Davis, calling for her immediate resignation. (via evanfleischer)
WHAT?
read the entire letter its powerful
(via thepoliticalnotebook)
UC Davis police chief defends use of pepper spray →
stfuconservatives:
maritsa-met-esq:
Shortly before 4 p.m., about 35 officers from UC Davis and other UC campuses as well as the city of Davis responded to the protest, said Annette Spicuzza, UC Davis police chief. They were wearing protective gear and some held batons.
The protest initially involved about 50 students, Spicuzza said, but swelled to about 200 as the confrontation with police...
15 Tea Party Caucus freshmen rake in $3.5 million... →
stfuconservatives:
A joint analysis by iWatch News and the Center for Responsive Politics has found that the 15 freshmen members of the Tea Party Caucus have embraced many of the same special interests that have supported Republicans for years. The fifteen combined have received over $3,450,000 during the first three quarters of this year from almost 700 different PACs.
It’s easy to rage...
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newsweek:
theweekmagazine:
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing there, some African-American woman goes up to a police officer and says, ‘I need to get in. My daughter’s there. I want to know if she’s OK.’ And he said, ‘Move on, lady.’ And they kept pushing with their sticks, pushing back. And she was crying. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, he...
“But when a saga popular with pre-adolescent girls peaks romantically on a night...”
– NPR’s Linda Holmes reviews Twilight Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1 (via diandrabird)
Oh thank you sweet baby jeebus...
stfuconservatives:
cognitivedissonance:
It’s over.
Summary:
Rick Perry had a meltdown. His train of thought derailed multiple times and he was slurring his words slightly.
Mitt Romney’s hair was jauntily tousled and he probably gets a boost from this.
Herman Cain proved he’s not a misogynist by referring to Rep. Nancy Pelosi as “Princess Nancy” and gave Jim Cramer a stroke by referencing...
“At around 9:00 a.m. on May 5, 2011, officers with the Pima County, Arizona,...”
– Cops With Machine Guns: How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police - The Atlantic
This is a terrifying trend, and not at all how any country with any semblance of “civilization” operates.
Just in case you’re not furious yet, here’s the official verdict from Pima County Attorney Barbara...
michelle-my-belle:
None of you fuckers are going to be president. WHY ARE WE EVEN DOING THIS?
If Herman Cain calling Nancy Pelosi "Princess...
THIS
US totally loses by being ranked #31 (of 43... →
greenstate:
srslylauren:
UK is #13.
from HuffPo:
The scores were determined by measuring seven indicators for women in each developed country: risk of maternal death, how many women use modern contraception, life expectancy, years of schooling, maternity leave benefits, how much women earn as compared to men and the percentage of women in government. The study also measured three...
Many things make me feel this way.
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Skiiing Ostrich
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In UK, blood donation ban for gay men has been... →
Gay men will now be able to give blood as Government restrictions are officially lifted, the Department of Health (DoH) said.
A lifetime ban on blood donation by men who had had sex with another man was put in place in the UK in the 1980s as a response to the spread of Aids and HIV.
But following a review by the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs (Sabto), men who have...
There is no such thing as a "pro-life" feminist
ginger—gal:
greengrey:
nunmoreblack:
home-of-amazons:
You can’t be pro-woman and support legislation that not only deprives women of rights to their own bodies but also results in thousands of women dying.
It completely and utterly contradicts what feminism stands for.
“Feminists for Life” (a.k.a “Feminists for Forced Pregnancy & Childbirth”) has about as much meaning as...
Brooklyn judge 'shocked' by 'cowboy culture' of... →
A Brooklyn judge declared himself shocked by the “cowboy culture” of narcotics cops Tuesday when he convicted a detective of planting crack on an innocent couple.
“Having been a judge for 20 years, I thought I was not naïve regarding the reality of narcotics enforcement,” said Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach.
“But even the Court was shocked, not only by the...
“For all the girls who think tradition should be continued, go back to the...”
– Rebecca Arrellano to the girls who were against her getting crowned homecoming king (her girlfriend was crowned homecoming queen) because it went against tradition (via feministfairytale)
NYPD arrests college student for not having ID... →
Early in the morning on Oct. 22, a Saturday, Ms. Zucker, 21, and her friend Alex Fischer, also 21, were stopped by the police in Riverside Park and given tickets for trespassing. Mr. Fischer was permitted to leave after he produced his driver’s license. But Ms. Zucker, on a visit to New York City with a group of Carnegie Mellon University seniors looking for jobs in design industries, had left her...
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“What’s infuriating is this administration’s refusal to have a serious debate...”
– Andrew Sullivan on the Obama administration’s public stance on marijuana legalization, er, their “regurgitat[ing] the standard prohibitionist crap.” (via newsweek) 