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coolguyerrant: motherfuckerofbabylon: lyryt-fire: ginnungegap:...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:55:28 -0500

motherfuckerofbabylon:

lyryt-fire:

ginnungegap:

loch-ness-hamster:

soufex:

cornwankies:

erinkyan:

bearfromipanema:

coldarrow:

doktorbedlam:

leashamariel:

theinteriorstylist:

kaychante:

lucindasaxon:

deeeeeeeeeeejackfrostaaaaaaaaaan:

fairly oddparents

yeha

Vampire Diaries

I…am ok with this

glease

criminal minds… I am fine with this as long as I am one of the BAU members, specifically Reid!

How I met your mother. OMG I’m lily!

Well, shit. Revenge. This bodes.

The Mentalist… Uhhh…

The View. Ugh.

Archer.

oh dear.

Avatar the last Airbender

*dibs waterbending*

once upon a time….? does that mean that my biodad is secretly royalty and stinking rich and is gonna come back for me BY MAGIC? well shit

STORAGE WARS

MONEY OWNS THIS TOWN BA NA NA BA NA NA

the wire

aw fuck I’m dead

30 Rock.

I’ll be a writer who never talks

Good Eats.

FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can spend all day being a science nerd who prepares delicious food!

wait that already is my life.

Law & Order, Special Victims Unit. ‘Nough said.

The Newsroom. I can deal with being the voice of reason in an unreasonable industry.

"Chicagoans can choose to drive" per Mayor Emmaneul

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:26:23 -0500

"Chicagoans can choose to drive" per Mayor Emmaneul:

rouxfully:

sunny1:

monasequeda:

chockfullahootleetlebitonanny:

There was a time that I thought he was an OK mayor. Now I’m starting to think he’s a far bigger douche than Daley ever was.

What a fucking privileged, entitled prick. Especially considering how much he banked on the ethnic and racial votes when he was elected…and how a large chunk of that voter block doesn’t take public transportation because they have a choice. They take it because they don’t make enough damn money which means it’s an absolutely NECESSITY!

Fucker.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!?

damn

This elitist-ass union-busting shithead can go fuck himself.

People wonder why I wasn’t jumping on the Rahm-love bandwagon. Granted I didn’t know this about him at the time, but I didn’t want his smarmy “whatever” attitude to be in City Hall.

"For better or for worse, we have a black Muslim in the White House."

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:46:51 -0400

“For better or for worse, we have a black Muslim in the White House.”

- Madonna “endorses” Barack Obama.
I… What? Is she trolling us?

"In a searing commentary, political analyst Joshua Foust notes that the unpaid internships that were..."

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:45:07 -0400

“In a searing commentary, political analyst Joshua Foust notes that the unpaid internships that were once limited to show business have now spread to nearly every industry. “It’s almost impossible to get a job working on policy in this town without an unpaid internship,” he writes from Washington DC, one of the most expensive cities in the country. Even law, once a safety net for American strivers, is now a profession where jobs pay as little as $10,000 a year - unfeasible for all but the wealthy, and devastating for those who have invested more than $100,000 into their degrees. One after another, the occupations that shape American society are becoming impossible for all but the most elite to enter.”

- The closing of American academia - Opinion - Al Jazeera English (via mmmightymightypeople)

Working without any compensation except ‘experience,’ meaning the ability to work in the future, is exploitation.

Painful reality. The law, where I thought I could make a living merging policy and social change with advocacy, now seems impossible to move further in.

canarycoal: todayinlaborhistory: Today in labor history,...

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 08:38:57 -0400

canarycoal:

todayinlaborhistory:

Today in labor history, September 3, 2012: Today is Labor Day. In 1894, after sending in the Army and U.S. Marshals to break the Pullman strike, President Grover Cleveland’s popularity was in the toilet. In the immediate wake of the strike, legislation designating a federal Labor Day holiday was rushed unanimously through Congress and arrived on Cleveland’s desk for his signature. [Image: Poster by Ricardo Levins Morales: http://bit.ly/SbecoR]

I’m pretty happy about Chicago’s presence in Labor Day and May Day history.

Built This City

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:17:00 -0400

Built This City:

I’m not the only one who thought of Jefferson Starship when the RNC announced their convention theme was “We Built This,” right?

theatlantic: How the U.S. Gymnastics Team Crushed the Russians:...

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:47:56 -0400

theatlantic:

How the U.S. Gymnastics Team Crushed the Russians: A GIF Guide

We kept joking last night that the Russians were crying because they were going to have to walk home.

motherjones: theatlantic: How Romney’s Tax Plan Could Raise...

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:45:15 -0400

motherjones:

theatlantic:

How Romney’s Tax Plan Could Raise Taxes on 95% of the Country

The Romney plan begins by cutting marginal rates by 20 percent and eliminating the estate tax and Alternative Minimum Tax, which would decrease federal tax revenue by $360 billion by 2015. A new report from the Tax Policy Center and the Brookings Institution considered what would happen if Romney eliminated tax expenditures to make his plan revenue-neutral, so that it wouldn’t blow an enormous hole in our budget. Here’s what they found: The revenue-neutral Romney plan would raise taxes on a typical family by more than $600. A household making between half-a-million and $1 million would get a tax cut equal to almost twice the disposable income of the poorest 20 percent.

Read more. [Image: Derek Thompson]

Yeesh, when America already has the world’s luckiest billionaires.

This is what bothers me. You do percentage comparisons, and the top tax bracket has been making out like bandits the past few years. I’ll need to upload my graphs from the tax cut extension Obama caved to in 2010.

fuckyeahgooglevoicetranscripts: Hey —, This is one of the Jefferson giving you a call from jobs for...

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:32:50 -0400

fuckyeahgooglevoicetranscripts:

Hey —, This is one of the Jefferson giving you a call from jobs for in partner’s actually specialize in placing designs and developers here in Chicago, and I’d come across a copy of your resume on mine. It looks really good and I’d love to talk to you about more about it, so if you could just give me a call back. My number is (xxx) xxx-xxxx. Again, blimpie’s Jefferson from Catherine Partners (xxx) xxx-xxxx. Thanks. Have a great day.

Hahaha definitely a top transcript :)

coolguyerrant: Walmart, you are so Japanese! Haha what.

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:32:05 -0400

coolguyerrant:

Walmart, you are so Japanese!

Haha what.

theatlantic: What Women Get From Watching Beach...

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:29:19 -0400

theatlantic:

What Women Get From Watching Beach Volleyball

Women shouldn’t be fooled by the sexy outfits (and the panting male response to them). Beach volleyball is an empowering sport. And the U.S. team in particular dispels a host of tired stereotypes about women athletes, female friendship, and the tricky dance of work-life balance.

Read more. [Image: AP]

The fascination with the outfits bothers me. When watching beach volleyball, it’s amazing to see the coordination, teamwork, and foresight involved.

poptech: All the American Flags On the Moon Are Now White NASA...

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:50:31 -0400

poptech:

All the American Flags On the Moon Are Now White

NASA has finally answered a long-standing question: all but one of the six American flags on the Moon are still standing up. Everyone is now proudly talking about it. The only problem is that they aren’t American flags anymore. They are all white.

So America f*ck yeah, right? Not quite. While the $5.50 nylon flags are still waving on the windless orb, they are not flags of the United States of America anymore. All Moon and material experts have no doubt about it: the flags are now completely white. If you leave a flag on Earth for 43 years, it would be almost completely faded. On the Moon, with no atmospheric protection whatsoever, that process happens a lot faster. The stars and stripes disappeared from our Moon flags quite some time ago.

Photo

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:44:56 -0400

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Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:42:16 -0400

anticapitalist: What happens if a state opts out of Medicaid,...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:42:33 -0400

anticapitalist:

What happens if a state opts out of Medicaid, in one chart

If a state opts out, poor people get fucked over.

Ezra Klein describes the situation concisely:

If governors opt their states out of the health law’s Medicaid expansion — as many are now threatening to do — it’s the poorest Americans who would find themselves getting the rawest deal.

[…]

People who earn less than 100 percent of the Federal Poverty Line (about $11,170 for an individual) are ineligible for tax credits to purchase health insurance.

Basically, the poor lose the minimal health coverage they already have.

"As one member of the ISO put it to me, the overarching theme of Socialism 2012 was “how Capitalism..."

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:42:17 -0400

“As one member of the ISO put it to me, the overarching theme of Socialism 2012 was “how Capitalism causes a diversity of oppressions.” And I saw how the exploitive, racist redlining of black families in the Chicago housing market led to a social circumstances making multibillion-dollar sports industry a popular way of escaping economic circumstances for thousands of black men. How billionaires simultaneously funded campaigns against organized labor and NGO’s focused on solving the world’s problems through the salvation of individuals, rather than social and economic classes. How workers and activists all across the country were frustrated with union leadership and the Democratic Party for getting in the way of their own well-being for the sake of electoral victory. How systematic oppression and fear of authorities ranged from police monitoring and entrapment of Muslim American communities and NATO protesters to outright police brutality and murder of unarmed men. Throughout all these discussions, I saw how politically, economically, and socially-disadvantaged, disunited people were systematically exploited and oppressed. And on the flip side, I saw how lessons and ideas from the past were relevant today, from Marx’s observations on the working class, to Martin Luther King Jr.’s advocacy of civil rights alongside worker rights, and countless situations where people uniting in solidarity against any given form of oppression were able to challenge the powers that be and change their lives for the better.”

- Jason Prechtel on the Socialism 2012 conference in Chicago (via jonathan-cunningham)

motherjones: When Hani Ahmad left his home in Colorado Springs...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:41:34 -0400

motherjones:

When Hani Ahmad left his home in Colorado Springs as the Waldo Canyon fire raced down the mountainside, he expected to return. When he did, the house where his family has lived for two decades was a smoldering hole in the ground. The only recognizable remnant was a melted hunk of stove. As the family rounded the corner for the first time, Hani’s daughter captured the horror on her phone. The family agreed to share the footage with Climate Desk, offering an exclusive look into the heart of the destruction.

Got five minutes? Watch this.

theatlantic: A Interactive Visualization of China’s Air...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:39:22 -0400

theatlantic:

A Interactive Visualization of China’s Air Pollution

When a ranking Chinese government official slammed the U.S. embassy and consulates in China earlier this month for measuring local air pollution data, calling it “violating diplomatic conventions,” Chinese web users snapped back. “Can’t you see the bad pollution yourself?” asked one typical comment.

China’s censors have tremendous power in print, online, and even in public spaces such as Tiananmen Square. But when it comes to air pollution, even the Chinese government can’t obscure the facts. People see and breathe it every day.

Read more.

China doing wonders with covering up its waste.

mittvennandnow: Source. Yet another sign this is going to be...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:36:23 -0400

mittvennandnow:

Source.

Yet another sign this is going to be a good campaign season! :)

askinnyblackman: this pun is worthy of a million notes

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:34:45 -0400

askinnyblackman:

this pun is worthy of a million notes