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“Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we...”
– Helen Keller (1911)
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Iceland Is Crowdsourcing Its New Constitution -... →
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50 Years of Protein Structure Determination →
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“The FDA recently revealed that factory animal farms now burn through fully 80...”
– Horrifying story from Mother Jones detailing The FDA’s Christmas Present for Factory Farms. In a nutshell, the FDA has decided not to pursue its decades-long quest to limit the routine use of antibiotics on animal farms, ruling instead that now it will support voluntary reform. Now, it should be...
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Massachusetts' New Political Party: Pirates -... →
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Let's play Apples to Apples! →
EVERYONE GET IN HERE NOW
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One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids: “It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
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Scott Walker Kills Women's Cancer Screening... →
cognitivedissonance: In other news, Gov. Scott Walker was taken to task by Forbes magazine for his defunding of cancer prevention programs. Wanna guess why” Here’s his defense: There’s other providers throughout the state who have [services]. Planned Parenthood is not the sole provider of that. There are many clinics that are not as controversial as Planned Parenthood, and our goal was to make...
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AG Holder: Government Has ‘Responsibility’ to... →
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“The math is the math. You can’t lower current (tax) rates and raise revenue...”
– President BARACK OBAMA, responding to Republican charges that he is “fixated” on “raising the tax rates for the wealthiest Americans,” on 60 Minutes. This whole thing, summarized so simply and yet the conservative element in these United States continues to pretend not to understand the sheer,...
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STFU, Conservatives: Just so that you are all... →
dumbthingswhitepplsay: windatyourfeels: thewatchtowerproject: mohandasgandhi: disobey: Dustin R. Snyder Okay, no, this isn’t true. Part of the reason why I downplayed the severity of the NDAA initially is because of all the panic and misinformation the…
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Newt Gingrich's Tax Cut for the Rich in a Very,... →
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“Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the...”
– Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker. (via langer)
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Goodbye Phonies: This App Will Automatically... →
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