February 2012
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Georgia Democrats to propose limitations on... →
historicalupstart:
As members of Georgia’s House of Representatives debate whether to prohibit abortions for women more than 20 weeks pregnant, House Democrats planned to introduce their own reproductive rights plan: No more vasectomies that leave “thousands of children … deprived of birth.”
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'Pepper Spray Cop' Suit Filed - NPR →
brooklynmutt:
Some of those Occupy protesters who famously got face fulls of pepper spray last November on the campus of University of California Davis have now filed suit in federal court.
They allege “the university used excessive force to break up the demonstration,” The Sacramento Bee writes. “The Occupy UC Davis students were sprayed as they sat on the ground.”
The American Civil...
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“If the unions win the recall, there will be no stopping union power.”
– Billionaire David Koch • Speaking about the Wisconsin recall efforts against Gov. Scott Walker. Koch made the comments during a recent speech after a benefit dinner, and were quickly backtracked by his spokeswoman, who clarified, “[Koch Industries thinks] the best workplace relationships are...
Dear society, can we get over that Rihanna wants...
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"Chink In The Armor," ESPN? Seriously? Fucking... →
A cautionary tale for Chris Brown fans (and...
drdonnaatx:
When I was 19, I married my high school sweetheart. He had never hit me in anyway. Never had yelled at me. He was in the Navy and we moved nearly 1000 miles away from home. We had been married one week when he first slapped me. I forgave him. We had been married about a year when he first punched me in the stomach. I forgave him. After about a year and a half it became common for him...
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“I keep thinking about the extraordinary conservatism of the people running the...”
– What We Owe to Each Other – provocative Boston Review interview with David Graeber, “anti-leader of Occupy Wall Street” and author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years. (via curiositycounts)
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Mike D gets respect, opportunity to vote on AT&T's...
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They didn’t say anything about cash or jewelry, but the SEC did side with three AT&T investors — including the Beastie Boys’ Michael “Mike D” Diamond — who believed that shareholders should have a vote in the company’s net neutrality policy, because it has become part of the national debate. AT&T argued that the vote would “directly interfere with its network management...
The Republican Party is the only party that minds...
Willie Nelson and 300,000 Other Activists Sue... →
occupyonline:
Little did Willie Nelson know when he recorded “Crazy” years ago just how crazy it would become for our cherished family farmers in America. Nelson, President of Farm Aid, has recently called for the national Occupy movement to declare an “Occupy the Food System” action.
Nelson states, “Corporate control of our food system has led to the loss of millions of family farmers,...
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Hey Tumblr, there are deeds to be done and...
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beezelbubbles:
So Budget Travel has a poll up for the 15 places kids should see before 15, and the creation museum is spamming the poll. So can we tumblr bomb this thing? Not that it’s a huge thing, but still. I can’t believe the creation museum has over 3k votes at this point while actual museums have 300 votes or fewer.
For The Love of Sanity, Tumblrs, you secular elitists need...
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Hai guise
Been very busy. Finals are approaching and shit is going down in New York City. Been trying to get in to some ones show this week and failed. Milton Glaser hates me and I have a nude shoot this weekend, but no biggie. Just trying to get through these last two weeks so then I can figure out the rest of this year in the big city.
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To give you an idea of Tumblr's massive scale,...
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500 million page views go through Tumblr every single day
40k requests added each second at Tumblr’s peak usage hours; and it’s growing, too
50GB of posts added each day; follower list updates are roughly another 2.7 terabytes daily
1M number of writes made through the dashboard each second, and 50,000 reads per second source
» It’s tough to scale, too: According to Blake...
the Grammys are not a real award show.
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thethirdshift:
West Coast tape delay in the age of social media remains complete bullshit.
Even the Academy Awards understand this now.
Shit, music industry, get it together.
WHATEVER YOU DO DON’T ILLEGALLY DOWNLOAD IT BUY IT OFF ITUNES INSTEAD.
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