January 2012
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Jan 1st
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December 2011
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“Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their...”
– Voltairine de Cleyre (via petitefeministe) The best part of this essay is when she advocates for children to be brought up with no gender-role stereotyping, and gets in some not-so-subtle digs at heterocentricism and heterosexism in the process. Did I mention this was written over a hundred years...
Dec 31st
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occupyallstreets: 15 Facts About Military Spending That Will Make Your Head Explode 1. America spends more on its military than the next 15 countries combined,  2. By 2033 the U.S. will be paying $59 billion a year to its veterans injured in the wars. 3. In 2007, the amount of money labeled ‘wasted’ or ‘lost’ in Iraq — $11 billion — could pay 220,000 teachers salaries. 4. America’s defense...
Dec 31st
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Partying on New Year's Eve?
Don’t drink and drive-and don’t ride with anybody who does. Tipsy Tow offered by AAA: you don’t have to be a AAA member, from 6pm-6am on New Years Eve/day, they will take your drunk self and your car home for FREE. Save this number… 1-800-222-4357. Please reblog this if you don’t mind.
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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newtgingrich.com hacked by Anonymous →
occupyallstreets: newtgingrich.com hacked by Anonymous Reblog with the link you were redirected to. Tiffany & Co, Freddie Mac, this lovely WaPo article….
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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“If you are a woman, if you’re a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian,...”
– Margaret Cho (via thechocolatebrigade)
Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Prop 8 repeal campaign under way →
gaywrites: The pro-LGBT organization Love Honor Cherish has had a ballot initiative to repeal Proposition 8 cleared by the California Secretary of State. The group is now starting to collect signatures on the initiative in order to qualify for the November ballot. They need upwards of 807,000 signatures before mid-May. The initiative reads: This amendment would amend an existing section of...
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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“If I were going to pit a city ordinance against human rights, I would always...”
– Frank La Rue, U.N. “special rapporteur” for the protection of free expression “U.N. Envoy: U.S. Isn’t Protecting Occupy Protesters’ Rights” HuffPost 12/2/11 (via drwh0) Oh, I know the day that the UN would issue sanctions against the US will probably never come but it’s still nice to see stuff like...
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and...”
– On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone Exactly this. This is why I despise it when men refuse to have a conversation with me about these issues and instead play dumb. (via lookoutsideyourself)
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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The new wall they're erecting between Nogales, AZ...
saaraeliisavaris: Your tax dollar being used to destroy families and dreams, ladies and gents.
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“So, just so we’re clear: a 15-year-old who had unprotected sex and knows that...”
– Teen Girls Can Suck It: No Morning-After Pill Without Doc’s Consent (via marxisforbros)
Dec 12th
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“Doctors in emergency rooms have no right to refuse to provide medical care to...”
– Erin Gloria Ryan, “Nurses Fight For Their Right To Refuse Women Care”, Jezebel. (emphasis mine)
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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17-Year-Old Girl Creates Nanoparticle That Kills... →
fuckyeahfeminists: That’s what Angela Zhang was doing, and now, she’s $100,000 the richer for it. Also, she can say she’s created a nanoparticle, one that kills cancer, for what that’s worth (Spoiler: It’s worth a lot). The $100,000 Zhang earned comes with first prize in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. Her project, “Design of Image-guided, Photo-thermal Controlled...
Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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“Just six members of the Walton family, heirs to the Walmart fortune, possess...”
– The insane wealth of Walmart’s founding family - Salon That’s 92 million Americans. (via trespassnyc)
Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Students 'reclaim' UCSD library →
novazembla: libraryjawn: Students forced open the doors of a shuttered University of California San Diego library Monday and rushed inside, vowing to stay around the clock until the end of final exams Friday. … The library was one of three the university closed over the summer in response to steep cuts in state funding. It had traditionally been open 24 hours a day during finals week. Read...
Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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