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After Columbia….
Now back to your regularly scheduled news.
#Charleston
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One year ago on October 1, 2013, the GOP forced a government shutdown to stop Obamacare from going into effect.
Now if they had just let it happen they could’ve really exploited the real problems with Healthcare.gov, but instead they drew attention to...
Via The Guardian: "Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years, says WWF"
It's immoral on so many levels to work so hard to deny women access to safe birth control. "Religious Conservatives Finally Admit What They Really Want Out Of Hobby Lobby"
From Leonardo DiCaprio's speech before the UN: "I stand before you not as an expert but as a concerned citizen, one of the 400,000 people who marched in the streets of New York on Sunday, and the billions of others around the world who want to solve our climate crisis." "Leonardo DiCaprio at the UN: 'Climate change is not hysteria – it's a fact,'" via The Guardian
From Archbishop Desmond Tutu: “There’s a word we use in South Africa that describes human relationships: ubuntu, which says “I am because you are. My success and my failures are bound up in yours. We are made for each other, part of one family, the human family, God’s family, with one shared earth.” VIDEO: Archbishop Desmond Tutu Calls for End of Fossil Fuel Era
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#ProudToBe #NativeAmerican - “Native Americans call themselves many things … the one thing they don’t …”
#ChangeTheMascot NFL Washington Redskins for I am #NotYourMascot #SuperBowl hall of shame - #NFL #Redskins is #Racist / #Racebased.
Photos by Michael Pecosky, Ivy Vainio and Wendi Kent - Madison, Wisconsin.
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Is Glenn Grothman asshole of the day for trying to pass a law that lets your mother-in-law keep you from getting an abortion?
According to the progressive blog Uppity Wisconsin, the fear is that a section of the bill paves a way for family members to obtain an injunction from the court...
From "Extending a Critical Lifeline for the Long-Term Unemployed," by U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez
In a society dominated by consumerism and materialism, it's shockingly easy to forget the simple but powerful truth that people -- and that includes you and me -- are more important than things or tasks or time. The dominant culture urges us to forget. It is a powerful act of resistance to remember that people are more important than things -- and to live accordingly.
"Please Don’t Call it ‘Rape Insurance’: Michigan’s Anti-Choice Bill Hurts All Women," by Jessica Valenti, The Nation Magazine.
No doubt the GOP should have checked with Stephen Colbert about how to address its lady troubles! WATCH: "The GOP's Lady Troubles."
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Right now capital has effectively purchased the government, and you witnessed it again with the healthcare debacle in terms of the $450m that was heaved into Congress, the most broken part of my government, in order that the popular will never actually emerged in any of that legislative process.
David Simon (via azspot)