January 2011
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Suzanne Mubarak, First Lady of Egypt, may have... →
None of this is confirmed yet. Still waiting for other news sources to investigate.
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Mubarak doesn't realize HE'S the one people want...
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Appointing a new cabinet won’t help one bit.
Dude needs to step. The fuck. Down.
THIS. HENCE THE WHOLE PROTEST THING.
Ah, so the whole “appointing a new government” means everybody BUT Mubarak.
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“10.27 GMT: Mubarack appears on television and says the government will resign tomorrow and a new government will be appointed. More details to follow.”
»Guardian Live Feed
I’m not sure what to think about this. It’s either a good step, or all hell is REALLY about to break loose from the new government.
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Journalists in Egypt Protests Targeted, Beaten,...
“Assad Sawey, a BBC journalist, was beaten by Egyptian police and then went on air in his bloodied shirt. When the police saw his camera, he was beaten and electrocuted with steel bars. Although he argued for transportation to a hospital, he said that other foreign journalists were being carted off in trucks to an unknown location.”
“At least six Al-Masry al-Youm staffers...
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“But already I have started getting reports from citizen journalists that government-hired thugs will make sure that nothing about tomorrow is peaceful. They say that in several low-income parts of Cairo and Alexandria, government-hired thugs were seen to be splashing petroleum over parked cars. This to prepare for protests in which they’ll light vehicles on fire when the time is...
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Anger in Egypt - Al Jazeera's English Egypt... →
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Protests in Egypt - Live Updates from The Guardian →
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Coalition to Stop Gun Violence: Insurrectionism... →
“On June 26, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court embraced the National Rifle Association’s contention that the Second Amendment provides individuals with the right to take violent action against our government should it become “tyrannical.” The following timeline catalogues incidents of insurrectionist violence (or the promotion of such violence) that have occurred since that...
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Fuck you, Bloomberg →
“Today, a woman could walk in virtually every neighborhood in this city during the day and not look over her shoulder, and most neighborhoods at night.” - NYC Mayor Bloomberg
Really? I mean…really? Look, when I’m at school in New York, I live in a relatively safe neighborhood. But while in that neighborhood, I have been harassed. I have been touched against my will. I...
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“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle, because we do not live...”
– Audre Lorde (via xthread)
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“The decade-long hysteria over a “hookup culture,” imperiling young women who...”
– The Atlantic Weeps For The Sad, Slutty Drunk Girls (via sexisnottheenemy)
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"I Feel Fantastic" by Jonathan Coulton, in ASL →
I think I love this guy.
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“Good morning, Portland! Up here in Seattle, we… well, we hate you. We hate you...”
– Claire Dederer, author of Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses. She’s guest-blogging over at Powells.com this week. (via powells)
See? It’s true: Portland > Seattle.
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"Forever Lazy" Adult One-Piece Pajamas →
Finally! The perfect outfit in which to watch sports and stick crochet hooks into already-made blankets!
They get points for honesty with that name, though.
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Anger is never "cute." Stop trying to invalidate...
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Sociological Images: Two News Stories About... →
“But really: a woman had a person walk up to her in a crowd and shoot her in the head, also shooting other people and killing some of them. I would hope that, even if she weren’t a member of Congress, that in and of itself would be sufficient material for a headline, regardless of who the victim’s husband was.”
Okay, their wording isn’t the best there (“a woman had a...
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everything we are all the time: pity the... →
jessicamargueriteglennonzukoff:
“The people who encourage women to treat their virginity as precious property do not see themselves as anti-woman, though feminists generally do. They are so invested in the commodity framework that, from their perspective, trading the commodity for the best possible gain is the best outcome a…
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NYT: Bloodshed Puts New Focus on Vitriol in... →
People need to realize that when they create a culture of violence, utilizing violent rhetoric and imagery, it begets violence. This goes doubly for you, Ms. Palin. Posting images that depict liberal congresspeople’s districts with gun crosshairs over them? Yeah, that’s not cool.
And of course the left is going to point towards the Tea Party in the aftermath of the tragic shooting in...
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BBC News: Germany Weather: Ice Causes Transport... →
I would like this madness to end before February, please and thank you.
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I...what? →
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Jezebel: What Women Want from Comics →
I’m not much of a comic reader, but I find much of this article can apply to sci-fi and fantasy novels/TV series/movies and so on. For example, I was out buying some more sci-fi books the other day (I have an especially long plane ride to Berlin coming up), trying to find books that were (1) written by women (who weren’t Ursula K. Le Guin or Anne McCaffrey, since it can be a bit more...
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