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By LINDY WEST of Jezebel: I’ve been doing some scholarly research, and I noticed this thing that’s been really dragging society down for the past few millennia: it’s that everything is wrong with you. You are gross. First of all, your hair is gross, because it is not long and thick enough. But don’t strap fake hair to your head! […]
By Evan Burger of Jacobin: In his excellent recent essay “Revolutionizing Ethics,” David V. Johnson calls on leftists to reclaim the moral high ground from those he labels “moral sentimentalists.” He goes on to catalogue an impressive litany of such sentimentalists, from usual liberal suspects like New York Times columnists and Barack Obama to no less a personage […]
By Brandon Kiley of The Stranger: For the past couple of years, anti-war protesters from Olympia and Tacoma have been fighting a legal battle with the US Army, alleging in a lawsuit that a civilian named John Towery had been working as an undercover agent for the military to spy on them for political—not criminal, simply […]
From our friends at Creativity Not Control: On Thursday Aug 8th, I attended a packed meeting at the Horace Mann school building on 24th and Cherry in the Central District of Seattle. People gathered to discuss the fate of this building, which the African/Black community has turned into a vibrant educational facility called the Africatown Community […]
Breaking: The Seattle Free Press News Team went to the Kshama Sawant Primary Election Night Party. After inquiring about where to find the free food, one of the party attendees waved their hands and stated “There’s a noodle-thing near the back,” before quickly darting out of the room. “What keeps you going?” reporters asked in […]
Report by NYU and Fordham law schools found ‘shocking level of impunity’ and department that acted beyond its powers, from The Guardian: The first systematic look at the New York police department’s response to Occupy Wall Street protests paints a damning picture of an out-of-control and aggressive organization that routinely acted beyond its powers. In a report that followed an eight-month […]
From July 26th to 29th, Management at Mobile Rail Solutions fired three workers actively engaged in unionizing efforts. The termination of these organizers is a direct attack on their Union drive and apparent retaliation for their recent OSHA filings. Management then threatened to continue firing workers showing no respect for their employees or labor law. […]
By BJORN CAREY of Standford News: Not only is the planet undergoing one of the largest climate changes in the past 65 million years, Stanford climate scientists Noah Diffenbaugh and Chris Field report that it’s on pace to occur at a rate 10 times faster than any change in that period. Without intervention, this extreme […]
By Amanda Wills of CNN You’ve never heard of XKeyscore, but it definitely knows you. The National Security Agency’s top-secret program essentially makes available everything you’ve ever done on the Internet — browsing history, searches, content of your emails, online chats, even your metadata — all at the tap of the keyboard. The Guardian exposed the program on Wednesday […]
By Kristian Williams, originally from CrimethInc: George Orwell, in his classic essay, “Politics and the English Language,” makes the case that “the English language… becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.” The vices Orwell catalogued—vague phrases, dying metaphors, […]