Politics
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Gov. LePage
Dear Paul LePage, Governor of the great state of Maine: Go fuck yourself. (Link via MeFi, sentiments purely our own.)
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The NY Times’ online subscription price is way more than other online subscription services, so why would people pay for it? Facebook removes around 20,0009 underage people from the site per day. Apple pulled the “gay cure” app after an…
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Roundup
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; as a person partaking in the national Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan that was implemented as part of the package, I see today as a day to celebrate.…
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Trans-Love Energies and the MC5: The Blazing Revolution According to John Sinclair
“Poetry never sleeps.” -John Sinclair The best music and art erupts from immense suffering and revolutionaries are guided by great feelings of love.
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Libya, Today
Conditions are deteriorating in Misrata. The NY Times is also updating regularly via The Lede. So is The Guardian. I suspect this is the way future newspaper reporting will be done–quick updates akin to the television news tradition of Breaking…
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An App To Cure The Gay
Apple has approved an iPhone app that encourages LGBT people to take part in “conversion therapy,” a practice that has been scientifically disproved and that can be quite dangerous to LGBT people, particularly young LGBT people, who are at high…
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Look Back in Horror: The Rumpus Interview with David Sirota
David Sirota writes a weekly column that appears in dozens of newspapers. He has his own radio show. And he’s a frequent guest on cable TV gabfests. These facts should qualify Sirota as a pundit. But it feels wrong –…
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A Better Response
The New York Times public editor critiques the paper’s coverage of the gang rape story. Click here to read more on the Times‘ “response” to the justified public outrage around this story. Update: Latoya Peterson of Poynter goes even deeper…
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Whole Foods, Empty ‘Hood
“My first thoughts when I saw the solar-powered Whole Foods sign go up in my neighborhood were: My life just got a million times better. The convenience! The consistent quality! The $11 half-pint of curried chicken salad! My second thought?…
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On Law, Zines and Trans Politics
“. . .there has been widescale attacks on social movements over the last thirty or forty years in response to the very meaningful social movements in the sixties and seventies that had very transformative demands, that were seeking a redistribution…
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The Careless Language of Sexual Violence
There are crimes and then there are crimes and then there are atrocities. These are, I suppose, matters of scale.