If you haven’t heard, the police are supposed to be moving in on Occupy SF at midnight: #OccupySF – City of San Francisco Notification. The City and County of San Francisco and its police department celebrate and protect the right of an individual to engage in free speech and of the right to assemble. However, this… [Read more…]
September 22, 2011
If there is any social/political issue millenials can get behind, it’s legalizing weed: Marijuana question sky-rockets to top of new White House petition site | The Raw Story. The petition, on the White House’s “We the People” site, asks: “Isn’t it time to legalize and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol? If not, please… [Read more…]
September 13, 2011
Mississippi to vote on reversing abortion rights by redefining ‘person’ | World news | guardian.co.uk.: Another flyover state is on the “Repeal Roe V. Wade” Bandwagon. Not so shocking. What is really bugging me though is this idea that life and personhood begins at “conception”: Mississippi voters will be allowed to vote on an initiative that… [Read more…]
September 1, 2011
U.S. Said to Be Ready to Sue Banks Over Mortgages – NYTimes.com. There’s a lot to this article, but i found this part particularly interesting: Besides the angry investors, 50 state attorneys general are in the final stages of negotiating a settlement to address abuses by the largest mortgage servicers, including Bank of America, JPMorgan… [Read more…]
August 13, 2011
United States v. Marijuana: Dispatches from the Field: War Without End. Check it: California was the first state to outlaw “loco weed.” At the time, 1913, Congress lacked the power to outlaw drugs or alcohol at the federal level. Alcohol prohibition, which lasted from 1919 to 1933, required an amendment to the Constitution, while drug… [Read more…]
August 11, 2011
Not Mindless | No Vacation. Check it: To say “This act was mindless” is to say there was no causeworth caring about. The very laws of science tell us that for an effect, there must be a cause. So this approach is to so belittle that cause as to deem it irrelevant. But look what… [Read more…]
August 10, 2011
If Rick Perry is seriously a presidential front-runner there’s something wrong with all of us – War Room – Salon.com. as if Rick Perry hasn’t already proven to be a wanker… The GOP “establishment” prefersthisevangelical nitwit with fringe tendencies tothatevangelical nitwit with fringe tendencies, sure. This Dominionist purposefully evoking some of the most radical far-right… [Read more…]
August 10, 2011
S.F. gay married couple loses immigration battle. is so shit like this doesn’t happen anymore. There is no logical excuse for two life partners to have to go through this: Citing the Defense of Marriage Act, the Obama administration denied immigration benefits to a married gay couple from San Francisco and ordered the expulsion of a man… [Read more…]
August 10, 2011
“I’m sick of the race card” — Feministe. Nothing makes for the crazies quite like these kinds of stories.. at least from my perspective: But the big problem, of course, isn’t that a man is dead because a bunch of white racists decided to go hunting for human beings. The problem is The Race Card….… [Read more…]
August 6, 2011
‘Anonymous’ Hacks Into US Law Enforcement Sites – News Story – KTVU San Francisco. Anonymous said in a statement that it was leaking “a massive amount of confidential information that is sure to (embarrass), discredit and incriminate police officers across the US.” The group added that it hoped the disclosures would “demonstrate the inherently corrupt… [Read more…]
October 5, 2011
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