March 2012
February 2012
“The truth is, sex is both more important and less important than our culture...”
– Jean Kilbourne (via frass)
“What counts as activism? Why didn’t the kind of emotional self-care me and my...”
– Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “A Time to Hole Up And a Time to Kick Ass” in We Don’t Need Another Wave (via kru-pa)
“Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out...”
– Paul Krugman in response to this quote by Rand Paul (via anticapitalist)
“We used to say “You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts.”...”
– David Frum, “When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?” New York Magazine (via liberalsarecool)
“When the conservative financier Charles Koch sent out invitations for a...”
– Advocacy Group Says Justices May Have Conflict in Campaign Finance Cases
That headline is a perfect example of the media’s bullshit “he said, she said” reporting. There is no “may” about that conflict of interest; Scalia and Thomas should have recused themselves. Period.
(via ryking)
“The language of GOP racial politics is heavy on euphemisms that allow the...”
– Juan Williams, not backing down from the question he posed to Newt Gingrich. (via liberalsarecool)
“Apple overwhelmingly purchases components from Asian suppliers that are criminal...”
– Prof. William Black:
Apple creates a criminogenic environment in its supplier selection process that leads it to, pervasively, hire criminal suppliers. Honest manufacturers cannot compete with firms that force their workers to work more than the maximum 60 hour work week and fraudulently refuse to...
“Stay out of my body, stay out of my bedroom and stay out of my marriage! I mean...”
– My mom in our phone conversation today on the state of politics. Like mother like daughter.
Romney’s Wife Had $3 Million in Secret Swiss Bank... →
“Another notable text removed from Tucson’s classrooms is Shakespeare’s play “The...”
– Salon.com, on Arizona’s state-wide ban on ethnic studies (via vaginawoolf)
What the ever loving fuck?!?!
(via feministhistorian)
“Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...”
– Amy Poehler (via moonbrains)
“I’m not going to comb over that.”
– White House press secretary Jay Carney, when asked about Donald Trump’s endorsement. (via theatlantic)
“So, instead of writing about choice I needed to pause and examine my anger. This...”
– Tiger Beatdown- Flavia Dzodan
“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity, it is an act of justice.”
– Nelson Mandela (via azelie)
“There is a revolution happening, but there are no guns or knives, and very few...”
– It Starts with a Guess and Ends with a Revolution | Dances With Fat (via transformfeminism)
Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. This should be...
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