August 2012
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“June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That...”
– Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math | Politics News | Rolling Stone (via robot-heart-politics)
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“You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary...”
– Antonin Artaud; General Security: The Liquidation of Opium (1925)
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every BBC essential mix ever →
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A list: Why you should be against the Obama...
yourmomisapastiche:
I made a not-out-of-the-ordinary status update on Facebook yesterday about how the Obama administration is just as bad, if not worse than the Bush administration and as expected, I received the backlash from the pseudo-progressive Obama apologists. I started putting together a list of links to show someone when they argue with me on this because I take no prisoners. I am...
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“Caucasian students receive more than three-quarters (76%) of all institutional...”
– The Distribution of Grants and Scholarships by Race
i am so sick of white people coming to me talking about “affirmative action” and how there aren’t any scholarships for white kids. let me get my fucking violin out
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These statistics speak of “merit-based scholarships”, as in:...
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“Our question is: Does this concept of ideology as a naive consciousness still...”
– Slavoj Zizek, Cynicism as a Form of Ideology (via hollovv)
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Fort Lauderdale man wins $30,000 settlement after...
abaldwin360:
In the police report, it looked like an open-and-shut case: A Fort Lauderdale police officer responded to a complaint of a man blasting loud music in his back yard, the homeowner refused to turn it off and walked away when the officer tried to arrest him.
Winston Dudley was arrested on misdemeanor charges of disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest without violence shortly...
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“Supplying large parts of populations with mirrors only really began in the...”
– Peter Sloterdijk, Bubbles (via hollovv)
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“You see, what I said was, “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways...”
– Rep. Todd Akin: I Misspoke—What I Meant To Say Is ‘I Am Dumb As Dog Shit And I Am A Terrible Human Being’ | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source (via rhizombie)
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“This is precisely for the same reason that non-military means have limited...”
– Roi Maor, The 9 most important questions (and answers) on Iran strike
The reason I really don’t like +972mag is because first, it’s too liberal and very pro-Israel, however I do enjoy their support for Palestine. Also, I don’t like how the majority of the writers are Israeli/Ashkenazi and there... 