January 2011
Back Alley Abortions in 2011: How Anti-Choice... →
rabbleprochoice:
Another freaking AWESOME article from Alternet! Seriously, go read it NOW!
Clinics like the one in Philadelphia that had an unlicensed staff and a shady, fraudulent, and neglectful doctor exist because of the disgusting amount of anti-choice rhetoric and the recent waves of anti-choice legislation sweeping across the country. Anti-choicers are being able to restrict our rights...
“I have concluded that it is exceedingly difficult for this statute to be...”
– Justice Paul E. Pfeifer, Republican
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Calls for End to Death Penalty
(via caraobrien)
“Most of the wounded veterans I know have waited more than six months to get...”
– Torrey Shannon: The VA Joins Big Banks in the Foreclosure Business: A New Wave of Veteran Homelessness
another appalling bit of news.
(via radicallyhottoff)
Some of the big banks (say, GMAC) like to dummy up fake affidavits in order to make foreclosing on Veterans go faster.
(via squashed)
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Amsterdam's heroin-addict population has been... →
mohandasgandhi:
We have countries and cities who are successfully deterring drug use and yet, with all of the problems the United States has, we continue to do the complete opposite of what works. What is the result? The highest incarceration rate in the world and thousands of deaths in Mexico.
Which is worse: Giving free heroin to people safely or locking up/killing every drug user?
Glenn Beck targets a female college professor as... →
robot-heart-politics:
Frances Fox Piven is a distinguished professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
At 78, she has taught several generations of students about how and why poor people don’t get a fair shake in the United States and how to increase their organizational power and encourage voter registration.
…
[Beck] accused...
“But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs...”
– MLK quotes you are unlikely to hear on Fox News or Glenn Beck’s show today - National Political Buzz | Examiner.com (via stfuglennbeck)
Gabrielle Giffords and the rightwing hate machine... →
blackenedbutterfly:
drwh0:
Here is an eloquent treatise against the “false equivalence” of right and left which the corporate-owned media purvey.
We do not yet know whether the Arizona massacre was directly fueled by rightwing rhetoric. But we do know this: one of the most dangerous myths promulgated by the media and political establishment is that there is a comparable level of extremism...
Group decides it's OK to use hormones and surgery... →
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
madamethursday:
thehumorlessfeminist:
so-treu:
stuffsickpeoplehavetoputupwith:
You think I am making this one up, but I am not.
jesus.
Wow.
If you feel the need to stunt or alter your disabled child’s growth to make them “easier to care for,” then you shouldn’t be a fucking parent. You are a shame to parents everywhere, and I don’t care how difficult your life...
“You know, there’s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I...”
– President Barack Obama (via mohandasgandhi)
The Green State: stfuglennbeck: Glenn Beck’s Ten... →
stfuglennbeck:
Glenn Beck’s Ten Worst Quotes of 2010:
“God will wash this nation with blood if he has to.” (August 25, 2010)
Putting “the common good” first “leads to death camps.” (May 28, 2010)
“Women are psychos” (January 20, 2010)
Beck’s election-coverage goal was to “make…
P2PU - Learning for Everyone, By Everyone →
Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of people sharing their knowledge through university-level courses.
Experts volunteer their time and resources to create and facilitate courses in their areas of expertise. The courses and their associated materials are free. However, enrollment in each course is limited in order to provide an environment in which the course facilitator and...
“— July 2008: A gunman named Jim David Adkisson, agitated at how “liberals” are...”
– Eighteen examples of right-wing domestic terrorism detailed by freelance journalist and author David Neiwert (via Digby)
“Lets say we use Scalia’s preferred solution to laws we don’t like: amendment.
...”
– Scalia and the 14th Amendment : Dispatches from the Culture Wars (via greaterthanlapsed)
Eff you Scalia. Hated you since I knew bout’cha 