June 2012
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Female Fox Anchor Walks off Fox & Friends after... →
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Thursday morning, Steve Doocy interviewed members of the U.S. Navy Band about the band’s recent inclusion of women. Reacting to the segment, Brian Kilmeade remarked, “Women are everywhere. We’re letting them play golf and tennis now. It’s out of control.” Visibly upset, Gretchen Carlson, the only female host, walked off of the set. “You read the...
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Texas billionaire Stanford sentenced to 110 years... →
kateoplis:
His attorneys had wanted a sentence of less than four years.
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Call Your State Senator In Support of Medical... →
drugpolicyreform:
The NY State Assembly just overwhelmingly approved medical marijuana for New York, 90-50. The legislation now moves to the NY Senate, where it faces tougher opposition, but could still very well pass.
Call your state senator and ask him/her to support bringing medical marijuana to patients in New York.
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“I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the...”
– Robert M. Sapolsky (via wonderwanderpolarbear)
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Parents protest surge in standardized testing →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
A backlash against high-stakes standardized testing is sweeping through U.S. school districts as parents, teachers, and administrators protest that the exams are unfair, unreliable and unnecessarily punitive - and even some longtime advocates of testing call for changes.
The objections come even as federal and state authorities pour hundreds of millions of dollars into...
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“There is an aggressiveness out there among the ruling class of this country,...”
– Bernie Sanders
Referring to Wisconsin as a “testing ground” for the no-limits campaign spending that has been ushered in by the US Supreme Court’sCitizens Unitedruling, Sanders said, “I have a deep concern that what we saw in Wisconsin can happen in any state throughout this country and in the...
“I mean, imagine opening The Sun every day and finding page three adorned with a...”
– Alan Moore, Invisible Girls and Phantom Ladies, 1983 (via ikenbot)
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