January 2012
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BREAKING: Obama administration approves a rule... →
think-progress:
A MAJOR WIN for women’s health!
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First Mitt won Iowa, then he lost Iowa? It’s a classic Romney flip-flop.
– STEPHEN COLBERT, being brilliant, on The Colbert Report (via inothernews)
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(Although the thought of Apple pushing $499 iPads...
There’s a good This American Life episode about this. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory Definitely worth a full listen. Also it’s important to ask what the alternative is. Do other manufacturers have better practices? Doubtful, but it’s certainly worth it to yell at apple to be the company with ethics we support
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According to lawyers… (SOPA) doesn’t shut down your website and remove it from...
– JON STEWART, The Daily Show (via inothernews)
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The rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by Congressional Republicans...
– President Obama rejects Keystone XL Pipeline (via kateoplis)
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An Open Letter to Washington from Artists and... →
popculturebrain:
We, the undersigned, are musicians, actors, directors, authors, and producers. We make our livelihoods with the artistic works we create. We are also Internet users.
We are writing to express our serious concerns regarding the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
As creative professionals, we experience copyright infringement on a very personal level....
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The Wikipedia blackout presents a horrifying picture of a world with no...
– Andy Daglas (via kateoplis) Quote of the night. (via shortformblog)
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Public Policy Poll: Perry support plummeting in... →
brooklynmutt:
Mitt Romney leads in Texas at 24 percent, followed by Newt Gingrich at 23 percent, Perry at 18 percent, Rick Santorum at 15 percent, and Ron Paul at 12 percent.
Please let this be the end of perry as governor…
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Regarding Newsweek's cover, “Why are Obama’s... →
kateoplis:
Andrew Sullivan writes:
None of these critics shows any sign of having read the actual article. Is it too much to ask that they rip me apart after thinking rather than before?
It’s not a book, for Pete’s sake. It’s less than 3,000 words, and has strong criticism of the left in it. Maybe the headline, which I didn’t write, set them off. So a simple challenge: show me where I’m wrong...
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The great conservative bugaboo, Obamacare, is also far more moderate than its...
– Andrew Sullivan absolutely kills this. He defends Obama’s first term as remarkably prolific, moderate and true to principle. Hear, hear. (via thecallup)
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