paxamericana:

“Get out and vote next year, this November, I mean!” said Romney, wiping beads of sweat off his brow. At one point, stopping to guzzle a glass of lemonade, Romney was asked how it tasted, to which he replied, “Lemon. Wet. Good.”

imjoshmacedo:

next time you see a kony tag out in public, just add a little dash to the o and put an e on the end

i think we’d all be a bit more okay with “kanye 2012” hanging around out there

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real-news:

 sexismypatronus:

“The twin boys were identical in every way but one. Wyatt was a girl to the core, and now lives as one, with the help of a brave, loving family and a path-breaking doctor’s care.”

By Bella English

Globe Staff / December 11, 2011

This article was on the front page of The Boston Globe today; it is a great story cataloging the journey a family took to ensure the happiness of their transgender child.

How Occupy is Transforming Our National Conversation

Pay no heed to what the self-serving mainstream pundits of the 1 percent say about the Occupy movement. The reality is this: Occupy has already succeeded. It has succeeded in shaking us as a society out of our hypnosis. Occupy has already succeeded in its role as a social movement in challenging the old, faulty dominant story spread by the 1 percent and replacing it with another one that resonates with what most Americans know to be true.

The truth: The policies and practices of giant corporations and the U.S. government over the past three decades have rigged the system to benefit the 1 percent. The truth: The resulting inequality has grown to grotesque levels not seen since the first “Gilded Age” 100 years ago. Inequality is crushing millions, while destroying our democracy.

Ignore also what the pundits of the 1 percent are telling you about who is at Occupy. The Occupy sites are not filled with partying spoiled rich college kids. There are ordinary people, some who have lost jobs, some who have lost homes, some who cannot find jobs, most who had lost hope. People who are tired of being blamed, tired of feeling alone, and tired of not being heard.

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thepoliticalnotebook:

UC Davis. Students wait outside Chancellor Katehi’s press conference yesterday to call for her resignation after police pepper sprayed and arrested protesters on campus on Friday. They lined the walkway to create a “walk of shame” when she emerged, celebrating after she drove away. Brian Nguyen, photographer for UC Davis’s newspaper The Aggie, has once again offered his photography for publication here on The Political Notebook.

Visit his Flickr page and his Tumblr.

Court Order Allows Protesters to Return to Zuccotti Park

…the National Lawyers Guild obtained a court order allowing Occupy Wall Street protesters to return with tents to the park. The guild said the injunction prevents the city from enforcing park rules on Occupy Wall Street protesters.

(Source: occupywallstreet)

OWS has (temporarily) taken root in a new park at 6th and Canal in lower Manhattan. It is owned by Trinity Church, with a delegation of faith leaders en route to support.

barackobama:

If you’ve got student loans, you’re going to want to watch this video. 

President Obama just took two major steps to make life easier for people with student loans, and there’s a good chance you or someone you know will benefit from them really soon. After you’ve watched, tweet/re-blog/Facebook it to get out the good word.

House Democrats Ask For Support of Occupy Wall Street

cultureofresistance:

Chris Scully, my DGR MA friend’s brother, said it best:

Dear Democrats in Congress,

You wish this was about left vs. right. You wish you could point across the aisle and say “See, the people are with us, not you!” But before you point and lie, please kindly turn that finger on yourselves, and then stick it up your asses. You are half of a bought congress. You are the other side of a counterfeit coin. You are half of the problem. You have pretended to speak for the voices of people who have a shred of goodwill for the world for too long. You have lost your privilege to be that voice. You are completely incapable of bringing about the drastic and profound changes we need in this country. You have failed. And don’t you dare try to associate your actions and trajectory with the intentions of a revolutionary society that is rejecting you. Your endorsement of a movement trying to oust you is pathetic at best. Please resign and play sudoku and solitaire on your own time. In short - fuck off.

So yeah if you think that protesting isn’t going to do anything, I say 
BOOM MOTHER FUCKAAA 

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occupywallstreet:

socialismartnature:

Thanks #OccupyWallStreet, for successfully refocusing media attention.

This is addressed to everyone who says the movement will be useless and not yield any real change: we’ve already started. Just by defining the arguments on the people’s terms.

China Calls Out US Hypocrisy

emmtotheatt:

wheremarymeetseve:

In response to the Occupy Wall Street movements-

Xinhua (China’s state news agency) said they showed “a clear need for Washington, which habitually rushes to demand other governments to change when there are popular protests in their countries, to put its own house in order.”

DAMN. When CHINA calls you out, you know there’s something wrong.

luckylobos:

An intense moment of truth with mainstream media.

(Source: reddit.com)

occupywallstreet:

VIDEO 3: In Belgium, a plainclothes police officer kicks an “indignant” protester associated with the Spanish movement full-on in the face during an occupation of a bank there. The police officer was later arrested. This is the difference between police brutality in the US and in the EU…

In America they’re allowed to run us over with motorcycles. Now that’s freedom!