livehanny:

President Obama hugging Gabrielle Giffords.

(via thequietworld)

barackobama:

Ashleigh B., a member of our Field department, packages up cell phones to be sent out to staff in our Ohio offices. Fun fact: we also refer to our Field department as 270, for reasons politics nerds will immediately appreciate (and the rest of y’all may end up Googling).

(via squintyoureyes)

winterwinds- | leighway | weightofallthings:

GOP Attacks Women : Weiner Responds

“You think 435 fairly well-to-do mostly white men should make that decision?”
“I think the elected representative - “
“Should make - for that woman, and that child.”
“May I finish my answer?”
“Well, it doesn’t sound terribly enticing, no.” 

OHMYGOD NEW HERO RIGHT HERE.

(via hulking)

pielettes | world-shaker:

Why Save PBS?

via Chris Bishop

tbh PBS was what “raised” me when I was younger. I mean, I enjoyed Nick and Disney to an extent but, when I came home from school, I watched PBS for hours while doing my homework or stealing snacks from the Kitchen.  PBS shaped my interests in history and astronomy and gave me access to television programs I would not known existed.  The fact that the GOP wants to kill PBS (and the NPR) is a testimony that they do not care about the citizens of country they were elected to serve their best interest.  PBS is free education.  Education breeds awareness.  Awareness limits power.  So, like, of course they want it go.

(via formerlyaeraspais)

mollay:

Soldiers in Libya are using .50 bmg bullets on civilians.  That’s the one on the left.  

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wingspans:

I don’t mean to get all first-world, but there is something so heart-stopping, so awe-inspiring about revolution that I feel you have to be a robot to not feel anything about what’s going on in Libya and Bahrain, and what’s happened in Egypt and Tunisia. It’s a bloody and terrible moment in history, when a people decides that they cannot and will not stand for oppression any longer and rises up in revolt against a powerful dictator. But it’s also incredible. A nation that says: I can’t take it anymore. That says, I want to be free. And of course that leads to complicated discussions of what freedom truly means, but that sentiment, that desire to be uncaged, to walk the streets without fear and to live without shame—that is everywhere. It can only be tempered for so long before it bursts out.

(Source: cartographies, via futurisms)

JON STEWART, reacting to the news media and pundits comparing the protests in Wisconsin to the anti-government protests in Egypt and Tunisia, on The Daily Show.

He is correct.

(via inothernews)

(via reallyfoxnews-deactivated201110)

fujiidom (via betternovembers)

Libyan Soldiers Burned Alive for Refusing to Shoot Protesters

massavantgarde:

Video has been posted on YouTube of what CNN is told are six badly burned bodies of Libyan soldiers in open body bags.

(Source: mylifeisabsurd, via americanite)