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newsweek: Progress. High-res

newsweek:

Progress.

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theatlantic:

Newspaper Front Pages After the Oklahoma Tornado

[Images: New York Times/The Oklahoman/Tulsa World/New York Post]

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littledirtyprettythangs: I’m absolutely fascinated by the story of the 3 women in Cleveland that were able to escape from their kidnappers after years of being held against their will (with the help of Heroic Charles Ramsey). While all of Cleveland was familiar with their disappearances, I don’t think the rest of the world was. Issues around class/gender/race definitely didn’t leave them to be considered the “right kind of missing girls”. And what’s up with Mr.Ramsey, clearly a Hood Hero, being ridiculed for his interview? I guess he wasn’t “polished” enough, huh? Well, HE WAS THE ONE THAT FREED THE WOMEN. Who knows, today might have been the day the ladies were scheduled to die. Lives were saved! I will applaud Charles Ramsey as the hero that he is!  High-res

littledirtyprettythangs:

I’m absolutely fascinated by the story of the 3 women in Cleveland that were able to escape from their kidnappers after years of being held against their will (with the help of Heroic Charles Ramsey). While all of Cleveland was familiar with their disappearances, I don’t think the rest of the world was. Issues around class/gender/race definitely didn’t leave them to be considered the “right kind of missing girls”.

And what’s up with Mr.Ramsey, clearly a Hood Hero, being ridiculed for his interview? I guess he wasn’t “polished” enough, huh? Well, HE WAS THE ONE THAT FREED THE WOMEN. Who knows, today might have been the day the ladies were scheduled to die. Lives were saved! I will applaud Charles Ramsey as the hero that he is! 

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“
Congratulations on the opening of your library. Now maybe you’ll go inside one. You have long held that history will be the ultimate judge of the decisions you made while president. But with the Decision Points Theater exhibit at your library, it looks like you are planning to give history a little nudge in a direction you find favorable.

Melissa Harris-Perry, President Bush, a library exhibit can’t fix your Katrina decisions (via msnbc)

The shade in the first couple of sentences »»»

This is why I’ll love Melissa Harris-Perry forever.

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newsweek: Daily Mail: “Nike has been forced to drop t-shirts emblazoned with ‘Boston Massacre’ after outcry over their insensitivity in the wake of the city’s bombings.” Uh, yeah. Smart move. High-res

newsweek:

Daily Mail: “Nike has been forced to drop t-shirts emblazoned with ‘Boston Massacre’ after outcry over their insensitivity in the wake of the city’s bombings.” Uh, yeah. Smart move.

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thesmithian: [look of the day] High-res

thesmithian:

[look of the day]

(Source: liberalsarecool)

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newsweek: President Obama’s full statement on the Boston Marathon bombings. High-res

newsweek:

President Obama’s full statement on the Boston Marathon bombings.

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Streets Ahead: If I see one more post memorialising Margaret Thatcher I am going to scream

50pointstoravenclaw:

  • She supported the apartheid regime in South Africa and called Nelson Mandela a “terrorist”
  • She was best pals with the Chilean dictator Pinochet
  • She sent the SAS to Cambodia to train the Khmer Rouge, who had engaged in a genocide that killed A QUARTER OF THE POPULATION
  • She introduced Section 28, which made it illegal to discuss homosexuality in British schools EVER
  • She hated feminism and said ‘I owe nothing to women’s lib’
  • She authorised state murders of Catholics in Northern Ireland

And that is not even STARTING on the enormous evil she did in Britain by systematically targetting the poor and marginalised and championing the rich. We are all still suffering today because of her.

Evil has left the world. Good riddance.

I’m ashamed to admit it, but I thought she had died a while ago. Oh well, good riddance to old and evil rubbish.

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badassgirlz: 113th Congress sworn in today with a record number of women High-res

badassgirlz:

113th Congress sworn in today with a record number of women

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Turning your back on people who are starving and freezing is not a Republican value.

Peter King, a Republican congressman from New York, has gone on an epic tirade against members of his own party for failing to pass a Senate package that would provide $60 billion in relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Watch.

(via theweekmagazine)

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