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wakeuptobread: I feel like I’m both

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:23:08 -0400

I feel like I’m both

Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him.

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:53:07 -0400

Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him.:

thepoliticalfreakshow:

Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 19, 2013

thoughtnami: “Standing in public in other people’s clothes,...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:05:14 -0400

thoughtnami:

“Standing in public in other people’s clothes, pretending to be someone else. It’s a strange way for a grown man to make a living.”

James Gandolfini (September 18, 1961 – June 19, 2013)

Alain Delon in Tokyo, 1963

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:04:24 -0400

_{Alain Delon in Tokyo, 1963}

welcome2bashment: lasfloresdemayo: hoplophilia: What alcohol...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:03:45 -0400

welcome2bashment:

lasfloresdemayo:

hoplophilia:

What alcohol says about you.

Lol

DEATH

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:34:40 -0400

cantnotmove: i struggle to believe that penguins are even real

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:31:14 -0400

cantnotmove:

i struggle to believe that penguins are even real

Why the GOP Can't Learn

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:31:02 -0400

robertreich:

It’s as if they didn’t learn a thing from the 2012 elections. Republicans are on the same suicide mission as before - - trying to block immigration reform (if they can’t scuttle it in the Senate, they’re ready to in the House), roll back the clock on abortion rights (they’re pushing federal and state legislation to ban abortions in the first 22 weeks), and stop gay marriage wherever possible.

As almost everyone knows by now, this puts them the wrong side of history. America is becoming more ethnically diverse, women are gaining economic and political power, and young people are more socially libertarian than ever before.

Why can’t Republicans learn?

It’s no answer to say their “base” — ever older, whiter, more rural and male — won’t budge. The Democratic Party of the 1990s simply ignored its old base and became New Democrats, spearheading a North American Free Trade Act (to the chagrin of organized labor), performance standards in classrooms (resisted by teachers’ unions) and welfare reform and crime control (upsetting traditional liberals).

The real answer is the Republican base is far more entrenched, institutionally, than was the old Democratic base. And its power is concentrated in certain states — most of the old Confederacy plus Arizona, Alaska, Indiana, and Wisconsin — which together exert more of a choke-hold on the Republican national party machinery than the old Democrats, spread widely but thinly over many states, exerted on the Democratic Party.

These Republican states are more homogenous and conspicuously less like the rest of America than the urbanized regions of the country that are growing more rapidly. Senators and representatives from these states naturally reflect the dominant views of their constituents — on immigration, abortion, and gay marriage, as well as guns, marijuana, race, and dozens of other salient issues. But these views are increasingly out of step with where most of the nation is heading.

This state-centered, relatively homogenous GOP structure effectively prevents the Party from changing its stripes. Despite all the post-election rhetoric about the necessity for change emanating from GOP leaders who aspire to the national stage, the national stage isn’t really what the GOP is most interested in or attuned to. It’s directed inward rather than outward, to its state constituents rather than to the nation.

This structure also blocks any would-be “New Republicans” such as Chris Christie from gaining the kind of power inside the party that a New Democrat like Bill Clinton received in 1992. The only way they’d be able to attract a following inside the Party would be to commit themselves to policies they’d have to abandon immediately upon getting nominated, as Mitt Romney did with disastrous results.

It’s true that by 1992 Democrats were far more desperate to win the presidency — having been in the wilderness for twelve years — than today’s GOP appears to be. Nonetheless it’s doubtful the GOP will be willing to eschew its old base even if it loses the presidency again in 2016, because without its collection of relatively homogenous states, there just isn’t much of a GOP.

The greater likelihood is a steady eclipse of the Republican Party at the national level, even as it becomes more entrenched in particular states. Those states can be expected to become regressive islands of backwardness within a nation growing steadily more progressive.

The GOP’s national role will be primarily negative — seeking to block, delay, and filibuster measures that will eventually become the law of the land in any event, while simultaneously preaching “states’ rights” and praying for conservative majorities on the Supreme Court.

In other words, more of the same.

Black Skinhead- Kanye West

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:30:18 -0400

jazzypom:

iwantarockrightnow:

jazzypom:

I swear, I’ve been listening to this song for the past two days- and nothing but this song for the past two days. To the point where I’m thinking, “Oh okay, leather trousers might be a cool superhero suit to have- uh Jazz, no. No.”

Yeezus is Kanye West’s Molotov cocktail of an album; he’s hurled it in the music midst of 2013, and the reactions are amazingly extreme. Everyone has their own view about the album and the subjects expressed within - although half of those I’ve spoken to have admitted that they haven’t listened to it - just read what some reviews said and went on from there. Then you have the few who are like, “It’s horrible for a rap album,” and I go, *screws face* because it’s not. Not really. Not really a rap album, that is. Then you have older heads really unable to make heads or tales of the album- but I get it. Kanye West is a middle class black kid who got exposed to all sorts of music growing up, and this album is a capsule of his life’s ear- from stirring seventies funk to Jerome from Martin Lawrence. I was surprised at the ache of nostalgia I felt on listening to it.

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I really appreciate this fleshed-out review of Yeezus. I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. I don’t outright love it and I don’t hate it. I think I need to give it some more time. It’s definitely not “bubblegum” though.

Not going to lie, the first time I heard Yeezus I was like, “WTF, Kanye?! Son, just really?” But, Yeezus help me (lol), I couldn’t stop listening to it, and I appreciate it more on every listen. Like his comment on how society sees the interracial relationship he’s in (they see a black man with a white woman/ at the top floor they gone come to kill King Kong). West’s persona in this album seems to be angry black male, but every time you think you have him pegged, he changes.

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"By and large, CPCs are not medical facilities, and most CPC volunteers who work directly with women..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:26:24 -0400

“By and large, CPCs are not medical facilities, and most CPC volunteers who work directly with women are not medical professionals. Their main qualifications are a commitment to Christianity and anti-choice beliefs. Although CPCs historically have not employed medical staff, there is an emerging trend on the part of CPCs to gain validity by hiring part-time anti-choice medical providers and purchasing ultrasound equipment.”

- Crisis Pregnancy Centers: An Affront to Choice

CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS ARE NOT MEDICAL CLINICS

CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS ARE NOT MEDICAL CLINICS

CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS ARE NOT MEDICAL CLINICS

(via feminismandbubblebaths)

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:25:45 -0400

tigersandcompany: Snow leopard yawning (by Tambako the Jaguar)

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:19:00 -0400

tigersandcompany:

Snow leopard yawning (by Tambako the Jaguar)

celob: Dave Matthews, Dave Matthews Band - New on DMB’s...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:18:47 -0400

celob:

Dave Matthews, Dave Matthews Band - New on DMB’s official Youtube today: Dave Matthews Band Summer T

aliasvaughn: prettysunsets: olitzforthewin: baronessvondengler...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:54:48 -0400

aliasvaughn:

prettysunsets:

olitzforthewin:

baronessvondengler:

ms-opinion:

gladiatorfiles:

kronosinasuit:

mochamajesty:

liberiangirl85:

gladiatorfiles:

Kronos, I think you’re a celebrity now!

Your going to be famous, Kronos.

Presser don’t change. People seem to lose their minds once they receive recognition from the stars of the show.

CHANGE??

What dost thou mean, peasant?

Now continue basking in my monkey gloriousness while I tell you that all your opinions are wrong because you are not a true fan!

lol hahahahahahah

wow! lol congrats on the fame. Stay away from the botox and don’t date any Kardashians please.

Awww, you’ve always been a star to me, Kronos!

Kronos wins the internet!

LMAO!

never change kronos.

LMAO!!! Kronos for the win!!! YAY!! This is so great!!

This man talks about KW like Brad talks about Angelina - #ImDone...Somebody please, please give me an example of other co-stars talking about each other like that...PLEASE...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:54:37 -0400

aliasvaughn:

fitzisgold-win:

bronzekat:

highlyscandalised:

colbertaust:

I’m waiting…crickets anyone…??

Adds MORE crickets to this post because…..

how about a tumbleweed lol

Awkward silence.

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:53:22 -0400

trumpetnista: Don’t stop, get it, get it…

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:44:42 -0400

trumpetnista:

Don’t stop, get it, get it…

aliasvaughn: prettysunsets: olitzforthewin: baronessvondengler...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:43:45 -0400

aliasvaughn:

prettysunsets:

olitzforthewin:

baronessvondengler:

ms-opinion:

gladiatorfiles:

kronosinasuit:

mochamajesty:

liberiangirl85:

gladiatorfiles:

Kronos, I think you’re a celebrity now!

Your going to be famous, Kronos.

Presser don’t change. People seem to lose their minds once they receive recognition from the stars of the show.

CHANGE??

What dost thou mean, peasant?

Now continue basking in my monkey gloriousness while I tell you that all your opinions are wrong because you are not a true fan!

lol hahahahahahah

wow! lol congrats on the fame. Stay away from the botox and don’t date any Kardashians please.

Awww, you’ve always been a star to me, Kronos!

Kronos wins the internet!

LMAO!

never change kronos.

LMAO!!! Kronos for the win!!! YAY!! This is so great!!

This man talks about KW like Brad talks about Angelina - #ImDone...Somebody please, please give me an example of other co-stars talking about each other like that...PLEASE...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:42:38 -0400

aliasvaughn:

fitzisgold-win:

bronzekat:

highlyscandalised:

colbertaust:

I’m waiting…crickets anyone…??

Adds MORE crickets to this post because…..

how about a tumbleweed lol

Awkward silence.

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:35:46 -0400