February 2012
5 Reasons You Should Never Agree to a Police... →
fromthemitten:
1. It’s your constitutional right.
The 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects us against unreasonable searches and seizures. Unless police have strong evidence (probable cause) to believe you’re involved in criminal activity, they need your permission to perform a search of you or your property.
You have the right to refuse random police searches anywhere and anytime,...
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“Sometimes if I stay in New York too long, I get, like, reversed? I don’t wake up...”
– Conor Oberst
December 2004 (via oberstingwithconor, lovemonsters)
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When I think about books I touch my shelf.
Georgia Democrats to propose limitations on... →
historicalupstart:
As members of Georgia’s House of Representatives debate whether to prohibit abortions for women more than 20 weeks pregnant, House Democrats planned to introduce their own reproductive rights plan: No more vasectomies that leave “thousands of children … deprived of birth.”
HOORAY GEORGIA!
every once in a while we get one.
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ShortFormBlog: Meet the billionaires funding the... →
shortformblog:
five donors find themselves in the spotlight: Texas billionaire Harold Simmons, casino moguls Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, Paypal co-founder (and Fabebook investor) Peter Thiel, and Houston home-builder Bob Perry
$30.4 million donated by the five people, the largest donations going to the…
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“This is the worst war we’ve ever seen. And they’re getting away with it.”
– The late journalist Marie Colvin, as written in a personal obituary penned by Channel 4’s Lindsey Hilsum. Colvin, a reporter for the Sunday Times, was one of two western journalists killed after the shelling of a neighborhood in Homs, Syria on Wednesday. [Channel 4] (via lewisandafrisbee)
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“Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through...”
– Jeff Valdez (via catp0rn)
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How the government reads your emails without a... →
solitaryforager:
rtamerica:
Worried that the US government might be able to read your emails? Don’t be — they already can! The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the feds to come clean on why — and what — they do with the personal correspondence of its citizens.
ACLU article: Is the Government Reading Our Email, Texts and IMs Without a Warrant? You Bet.
this shit makes me furious
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“Cakes have gotten a bad rap. People equate virtue with turning down dessert....”
– Jeanne Ray (via shetakesflight)
team dessert always (via theoccasionalitalic)
“Some may blackly (angrily) accuse me of trying to blacken (defame) the English...”
– Robert B. Moore, “Racist Stereotyping in the English Language” (via supporterleschenilles)
Brilliant.
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Yep.
(via dumbthingswhitepplsay)
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“Officials in key parts of the Obama administration are increasingly convinced...”
– US officials believe Iran sanctions will fail, making military action likely by Chris McGreal, the guardian. (via bookoflead)
“People sometimes ask me, ‘If things are so bad, why don’t you just kill...”
– Derrick Jensen (via solitaryforager)
this is perfect
“He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
– Francis Bacon (via absurdlakefront)
“I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks...”
– M.I.A. (via transformfeminism)
“Object sexual penetration is a serious sex crime in Virginia. It is very...”
– David Englin, Democratic delegate from Virginia • Explaining the new tactic taken by Democrats in Virginia, in their effort against a bill expected to pass the state legislature that could mandate unwanted, penetrative ultrasounds for women seeking abortions. That happening under any other...
“If an elementary school student has an excellent teacher even for a single year,...”
– Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a co-author of the study with Harvard Kennedy School’s John Friedman and Columbia Business School’s Jonah Rockoff. (Harvard Gazette)
AKA why teachers should be paid more and we should be working to retain the best and...
“Mitt Romney tries to be a regular guy. Like, he puts on jeans, but you know he...”
– Jon Stewart (via lucasshanks)
So true. Romney is the most awkward automaton guy ever. It would be entertaining to watch him try to talk like a “regular joe” if it wasn’t so painful.
(via foulmouthedliberty)
“Tiger got to hunt,
Bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder, “Why, why,...”
– Bokononist Proverb (via docislegend)
Truly, my favorite Vonnegut quote.
(via libraryland)
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“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...”
– - Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
I might have reblogged this already but it’s so good I don’t care.
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Kyriarchy in action.
(via transstingray)
Also the study where they had women and men talking in a discussion and when women...
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fromthemitten replied to your photo: Happy Mardi Gras tumblets! I’m back from NOLA….
I’m not going to ask how you got so many beads
from standing next to cute little kids that were already blinged out at parades OBVIOUSLY, hater.
