The Top 10 Most Startling Facts About People of Color and Criminal Justice in...
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View Article"According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll, 60 percent of respondents said...
“According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll, 60 percent of respondents said they had a favorable view of the president, while only 37 percent said they had an unfavorable view.” - Obama Popularity...
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View Article"29 days from now Austin’s Single-Use Bag Ordinance goes into effect. If all...
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whitewhine:Context from the submitted: “My little brother posted this on FB today. Our father is a retired millionaire. That is why my family has ‘no income.’”…Are you serious?
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View Article"Many years ago, I was accused by a reader/reviewer of having a “homosexual...
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this is why if you don't have a certain disability, then you should not talk about what they do, and SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!:...
View Articleexistentialcrisisfactory: amypond: “Khaleesi,” whispered Irri, “you must not...
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“I think that President Obama just like President Bush has made a conscious decision to allow the torturers, to allow the people who conceived of the tortures and implemented the policy, to allow the...
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ihearttseliot:kemetically-afrolatino:The U.S. Government Stopped a Minimum Wage Increase in Haiti (read more)According to Wikileaks:“In 2009, the Haitian parliament unanimously passed a measure that...
View Article"Everything we feared about communism - that we would lose our houses and...
“Everything we feared about communism - that we would lose our houses and savings and be forced to labor eternally for meager wages with no voice in the system - has come true under capitalism.” - Jeff...
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maarnayeri:I wish white women would stop trying to project their restrictive, elitist and exclusive feminist ideals onto black and brown women’s bodies.Black women are regarded as welfare queens doomed...
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thepeoplesrecord:Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on AmericansFebruary 5, 2013A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing...
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