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jaa mata ashita.

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:08:21 -0700

jaa mata ashita.

Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a "Terrifying" Step in State Assault on Press Freedom

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:06:12 -0700

Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a "Terrifying" Step in State Assault on Press Freedom:

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Chris Hedges

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nbaoffseason: Do-or-die game in Oakland tonight. Time for Steph...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:53:09 -0700

nbaoffseason:

Do-or-die game in Oakland tonight. Time for Steph Curry to bust out the bullet fedora.

This is Water. David Foster Wallace via AntiSquare

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:19:49 -0700

This is Water.

David Foster Wallace via AntiSquare

Imprisoned men and women can be reformed if they’re around...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:07:00 -0700

Imprisoned men and women can be reformed if they’re around human beings that don’t treat them like a disposable part of the dream.

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Mon, 13 May 2013 21:02:00 -0700

I come here from classrooms where children with melanin love themselves so much and are so fearless that they hock green loogies in the faces of authority figures who request their suicide

I come here from teacher education classrooms where professors get tenure if and only if they pretend that pretending is the pretense for success

I come here detoxing anesthesia

With shoulders in knots, neck in a vice, back in a chrysalis state, aching to be beaten and tenderized from the beating its taken every time I sit in front of my macbook and make my back crooked:

The hunchback of novacaine

I traveled here leaving behind a woman who knows me better than I know myself and whose eyes tell me who I am:

Looking glasses whose reflections offer entrance to a world where complacency, conformity and cowardice are neither acknowledged nor rewarded and where the vulnerable are regarded as high priests

I come here from what Gloria Anzaldua calls “La Frontera” and what I call “fuck my life” and “Thank you God.”

I bring with me Koans from master teachers, chanting sutras that would be capable of murder if they only possessed the courage and the time to plan

In my pockets I carry breakbeats and a flask filled with poison so sweet, it sent death to the dentist to get his teeth cleaned

I arrive with vices and victories from histories of misery and company that’s structurally in love with me

I’m fucking free

Chance the Rapper feat. Vic Mensa & Twista - Cocoa Butter...

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:57:12 -0700

Chance the Rapper feat. Vic Mensa & Twista - Cocoa Butter Kisses

great debut album

thedailywhat: False Alarm of the Day: FBI Questions Saudi...

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:45:34 -0700

thedailywhat:

False Alarm of the Day: FBI Questions Saudi Student for Possession of a Pressure Cooker

Last Friday, the FBI surrounded the home of Saudi student Talal al Rouki after his neighbor tipped off the authorities that he has been seen around the residential area with a pressure cooker, a household kitchenware that recently made the headlines after it was used by the Boston Marathon terrorists to set their deadly bombs off in April. When questioned by the FBI, the frightened Michigan resident showed FBI agents the cooking apparatus, informing them he had used it to make the Saudi Arabian rice dish kabsah before taking it over to a friend’s house, to which they replied “You need to be more careful moving around with such things, Sir.” …Welcome to ‘Murica, Talal!

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thepeoplesrecord: There are now more Americans in jail than...

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:57:42 -0700

thepeoplesrecord:

There are now more Americans in jail than were in Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago
May 9, 2013

There are now more Americans in jail — 6 million — than there were in Stalin’s Gulag, reports Fareed Zakaria, in a column called “Incarceration Nation.”

And it’s not just a relative population thing.

The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. How does that compare to other countries?

It’s 7-10X as high:

Japan has 63 per 100,000,

Germany has 90 per 100,000

France has 96 per 100,000

South Korea has 97 per 100,000

Britain has 153 per 100,000

And it’s a rapidly exaggerating trend: In 1980, the U.S. only had 150 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. More than half of America’s 6 million prisoners are in jail for drug convictions, with 80% of those in jail for “possession.”

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The Death of Truth

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:40:00 -0700

The Death of Truth:

The world has been turned upside down. The pestilence of corporate totalitarianism is spreading rapidly over the earth. The criminals have seized power. It is not, in the end, simply Assange or Manning they want. It is all who dare to defy the official narrative, to expose the big lie of the global corporate state. The persecution of Assange and Manning is the harbinger of what is to come, the rise of a bitter world where criminals in Brooks Brothers suits and gangsters in beribboned military uniforms—propped up by a vast internal and external security apparatus, a compliant press and a morally bankrupt political elite—monitor and crush those who dissent. Writers, artists, actors, journalists, scientists, intellectuals and workers will be forced to obey or thrown into bondage. I fear for Julian Assange. I fear for Bradley Manning. I fear for us all.

conceivethedream: throwbacksongs: Tevin Campbell - Can We...

Thu, 09 May 2013 23:49:01 -0700

conceivethedream:

throwbacksongs:

Tevin Campbell - Can We Talk

This song never gets old to me *closes my eyes and sways to the music*

jus came from the karaoke bar so…

"What makes a really great person, a really great writer, a really great rebel? Someone who listens...."

Thu, 09 May 2013 23:45:18 -0700

““What makes a really great person, a really great writer, a really great rebel? Someone who listens. Someone listens more than he or she talks. Someone who goes to find where the silence is, and tries to understand why the silence is there.””

- - Alice Walker, introducing Arundhati Roy (via amiiira)