July 2010
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Neo Nazi Leads Vigilante Arizona Border Patrol:... →
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A bunch of armed Neo-Nazi’s organize and start hunting people and the cops say, “Dang! Sure hope they don dun hurt nobody…”
But a couple of Black guys stand outside of a voting precinct with sticks and scowls on their faces and people shit their pants??
Can you imagine the carnage if a group of Black or (gasp!) Mexicans organized and went hunting neo-Nazis? There would...
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Obama Administration Considers Bypassing Congress... →
Excerpt via Propublica:
by Marcus Stern
The Obama administration, anticipating that Congress might not pass comprehensive immigration reform this year, is considering ways it could act without congressional approval to achieve many of the objectives of the initiative, including giving permanent resident status, or green cards, to large numbers of people in the country illegally.
The ideas were...
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“…And you sit there when they’re putting the rope around your neck saying,...”
– ~ Malcolm X, 1965 (via abagond) (via nezua)
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“For far too long white Americans have been told that diversity is something...”
– Ryan J. Murdough, a Republican candidate for the New Hampshire State House (via)
Wow.
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I see your “wow” and raise you a “what the fucking fuck?”
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And Republicans wonder why it’s so easy to compare them to nazis.
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Obama Administration Considers Bypassing Congress... →
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dominickbrady:
Excerpt via Propublica:
by Marcus Stern
The Obama administration, anticipating that Congress might not pass comprehensive immigration reform this year, is considering ways it could act without congressional approval to achieve many of the objectives of the initiative, including giving permanent resident status, or green cards, to large numbers of people...
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Nicholas Riccardi at the Los Angeles Times: ... →
meloukhia:
“The business is broken,” said Katchi, who has operated his shop at this intersection for 14 years. “After the 29th of July, what happens? Maybe I have to close the store.” For the last 20 years, Arizona has been one of the fastest-growing states in the nation. It depends on an expanding population to power its economy, which relies heavily on the construction of new houses. At...
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1 Soldier or 20 Schools? →
claytoncubitt:
“The war in Afghanistan will consume more money this year alone than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War — combined.”
and
“We won our nation’s independence for $2.4 billion in today’s money, the Congressional Research Service report said. That was good value, considering that we now fritter the...
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“Also, Winfrey made this huge speech at the ball praising Lady Gag about how she...”
– MIA on Oprah snubbing her and praising Lady Gaga
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Marbury: breaking up is very hard to do →
Wow. This extraordinary piece by Andrew Cohen is a verbal car crash unfolding in slow motion - horrifying and transfixing. I’ll let its author explain:
The great love of my life marries today and I am not the groom. I had my chance, a few years ago, but did not realize until too late how fleeting my moment with her was meant to be….The present I humbly send her today is this...
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““Priests frequently leveled accusations of sexual magic at European women. The...”
– Herbs, Knots, and Contraception at Suppressed Histories
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Tim Elfrink at Miami New Times: Communist High... →
meloukhia:
Nathan Turner, an avowed Communist and teacher at a renowned New York prep school, took a boatload of his kids to Cuba to see El Jefe Supremo “one more time before he died.”
So says the New York City School District, which released a report today saying that Turner knowingly defied the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba to take dozens of students there in 2007 after telling his...
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ManPig Arpaio: I'll jail immigration protesters →
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suburbananarchist:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The sheriff of the most populous county in Arizona says he’s “not going to put up with any civil disobedience” when the state’s new immigration law takes effect.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says that if protesters want to block his jail, he’ll put them in it.
The Arizona law, which takes effect Thursday, requires officers...
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Federal judge blocks key parts of SB 1070 →
nezua:
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton has issued a preliminary injunction preventing several sections of Arizona’s new immigration law from becoming law, at least until the courts have a chance to hear the full case.
Key parts of Senate Bill 1070 that will not go into effect Thursday:
• The portion of the law that requires an officer make a reasonable attempt to determine the...
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“In Iraq, we were outside of Baghdad. We got called out to do some manual labor....”
– The War Project - George Zubaty
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"I don’t know what all of my fellow soldiers... →
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