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Texas Gov. Rick Perry, on income inequality. But maybe you knew that already. (via motherjones)
Researcher tries to get to grips with what it means to be ‘un-American’ | Education | The Guardian (via stealthbananas)
(via stealthbananas)
Sad but this is so true.
A superintendent or principal in Michigan had actually written the Governor’s office requesting that his school be turned into a prison so his students could get the funding they needed.
(Source: thelittlethingsarelove, via elvisgodzilla)
(Source: workingoninteresting, via sleeplesssiren-deactivated20120)
California State Senator Leland Yee, demonstrating governance by giving a fuck.
He’s running for mayor of San Francisco and is down at Occupy San Francisco. The actual mayor, Edwin M. Lee, has been predictably AWOL.
Mayor Lee may have been a little busy with this. He is 2 Legit 2 Quit after all.
Disclaimer: I know nothing about either Lee or Yee I’m just really entertained by that video. Props to Senator Yee though.
(Source: twitter.com, via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)
just because you don’t call it fascism doesn’t mean it’s not fascism.
by: Mike Lofgren, Truthout | News Analysis
http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult/1314907779
Barbara Stanwyck: “We’re both rotten!”
Fred MacMurray: “Yeah - only you’re a little more rotten.” -“Double Indemnity” (1944)
Those lines of dialogue…
4 Police State Brutality Made Apparent Tonight @OCCUPYOAKLAND
Occupy Oakland: Iraq war veteran in critical condition after police clashes / guardian.co.uk (via rachelfershleiser)
This is truly atrocious. Scott Olsen, 23, served in Iraq twice with the Marines and is currently under sedation with a skull fracture and brain swelling after the Oakland police threw a tear gas canister at him. They threw a second as fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid.
(via thepoliticalnotebook)
