September 2009
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Attorney General Plans Reshaping of Civil Rights... →
Music to my ears.
notthatkindagay:
Seven months after taking office, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is reshaping the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division by pushing it back into some of the most important areas of American political life, including voting rights, housing, employment, bank lending practices and redistricting after the 2010 census.
As part of this shift, the Obama...
August 2009
125 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-30) →
Will Oldham (66)
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (40)
Portishead (22)
Calexico (17)
Jeff Beck (16)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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4 Years After Hurricane Katrina →
New blog post on Hungry Blues.
I’ve never heard Ellington do Rhapsody in...
4 years after Katrina, New Orleans only has 17... →
claytoncubitt:
(in other news, private for-profit insurance industry sick of Dealing With Being the Health Care ‘Villains’)
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Bonnie Prince Billy - Babylon System (rare,...
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Will Oldham and Tortoise - Daniel
By a slim...
Which Bonnie Prince Billy cover tune should I upload to Tumblr today? Daniel (Elton John) or Babylon System (Bob Marley)?
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Bonnie Prince Billy - Brokedown Palace (rare...
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The Best Muppet Show Beatles Covers | Saturday... →
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“One of the more disturbing appendices to the 2004 CIA inspector general’s report...”
– The Washington Independent » Physicians for Human Rights Working on Torture Report Critique
How LinkedIn's Founder got started →
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Al Gore: See Tipper’s photography →
You didn’t read the About page. She got her chops old school:
Tipper Gore’s love of photography began in the early 1970’s with the gift of a 35mm Yashica. She soon became a part-time photographer for the Nashville Tennessean, and after moving to Washington freelanced for newspapers and various trade organizations. In 1996 she published a book of her photographs called Picture This:...
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“One of the psychologists/interrogators acknowledged that the Agency’s use of the...”
– The IG’s report on torture, about the difference between waterboarding in the SERE training program and as implemented by the CIA. (TAPPED) (via abbyjean)
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““Attorney General Holder’s decision to appoint a special prosecutor...”
– Rights Group Applauds Appointment of Prosecutor in CIA Torture Cases
(I work for Physicians for Human Rights (PHR).)
“The IG Report is not for the faint of heart. The details of abuse are so graphic...”
– publius | Obsidian Wings (via retropolitics)
this is not my america. i want my america back.
(via abbyjean)
Watchmatthewb:
Amazing fan-made video by Gabe Askew for Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks”. Someone hire this guy. (via Mike Harding)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-23) →
My Morning Jacket (60)
Miracle Legion (40)
Broken Social Scene (32)
Portishead (27)
Jeff Beck (16)
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WatchThe Waiting Room Trailer on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Highland Hospital, perched in the hills of east Oakland in a sprawling old building, provides an intimate portrait of place. It is witness to the most poignant moments in the lives of thousands of Oakland citizens every year. Inside its walls the unpredictable spectrum of human life unfolds; illness & healing, death & birth. The Waiting Room...
“I really don’t get it. We have a Democratic president in the White House....”
– Robert Reich (via retropolitics)
Um.
thecurvature:
So I just got an email from Barack Obama’s team asking me to attend one of those house party things for health care reform. And then I noticed something in the email — they didn’t refer to it as health care reform, they refer to it as health insurance reform.
Is this disconcerting and distressing to anyone else? That is a shift in framing that I can’t really get behind. Since, you...
The Birthers and Jim Crow 2.0 →
claytoncubitt:
“The manufactured anger driving the birthers and health care town halls is the same white rage that has divided poor white people from poor black people for all of our history…
That sounds absurd, but it’s a heck of a lot easier to assert than, say, explaining that a small, white aristocracy has spent centuries robbing America, poor whites included. Slavery made a tiny sliver of...
EXACTLY.
Betsy McCaughey: You're so rich. You can afford to provide care for anybody in your family, whatever they need.
Jon Stewart: That's right. That's why I don't mind being taxed a little more to help people who are not in as favorable a situation. I don't mind that. In fact, I welcome it, because it's a way for me to give back to the country that has allowed me to come this far.
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Miracle Legion - Say I Had a Lovely Time
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bijan:
Blue Tulip - Bon Iver
I was going to...