August 2009
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Cleveland, OH Police Scanner →
Listen to Cleveland police, fire and EMS scanner [via]
Now if I could just get a Cleveland police blotter so I could figure out why there are always cops in front of my building in the middle of the night…
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"Inquisition in Knoxville: The Case of Dr. Janice... →
Within a short space of time, the dean of the college opposed her bid for tenure. Her departmental colleagues, including junior faculty whom she had recruited, began to spread rumors about her mental instability. This is another way that many professional women, who don’t seem to play by certain unstated “rules,” are stereotyped. In fact, Janice is actually one of the sanest people I know. But, in...
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I think the idea of seeing a situation and replacing the races with white people...
– sully75 commenting on How do I combat my knee-jerk racist responses?
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If you are walking down the street, and a black guy is walking toward you, you...
– santaliqueur commenting on How do I combat my knee-jerk racist responses? I find it kind of bizarre that its ‘not racist’ to have your example of predator-white-people be white people that look ‘urban’. In this context, isn’t that just a synonym for black?
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Man on death row for East Cleveland slaying fails... →
The Ohio Parole Board on Friday unanimously recommended against sparing the life of Romell Broom, who was sentenced to death for abducting, raping and fatally stabbing a 14-year-old East Cleveland girl in 1984. The board, which held a clemency hearing Aug. 20, sent its recommendation to Gov. Ted Strickland. Strickland does not have to follow the recommendation. Broom, 54, is trying to escape his...
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AIDS denialism →
Kind of surprised to see the father of some kid i went to high school with is an AIDS denialist
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Smack Bad Politics, Abolish the White Race →
Race is a biological myth, but a social fact. We don’t need to “smack” individual white people (although I can think of many who deserve it). APOC needs a strategy that attacks whiteness itself. A strategy that breaks up the system of white privilege and forces white workers to join people of color united as a class instead of holding us down to prop themselves up.
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Anarchists are lazy researchers. Many prefer religion to research. Objective,...
– The Difference between Anarchy and the Academy
Rapists on patrol (#6) / Men in Uniform (#4) →
Trigger warning. This post includes narrative descriptions of sexual violence, sexual coercion, assaults, stalking, and harassment by police officers against women, men, and children, including several cases of extreme violence. It may be triggering for past experiences of sexual assault. It is certain to be extremely grim reading for anyone. All of these news stories appeared in my feed reader at...
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What if the white skin lost its usefulness as a badge of loyalty? What if the...
– When Does the Unreasonable Act Make Sense? [via]
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Let’s be honest. I don’t want the government to control healthcare. But I also...
– Of Tea-Parties and Patriots: Liberty for Who?
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The blunt reality is that for the last five hundred years on this continent,...
– Of Tea-Parties and Patriots: Liberty for Who?
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When we stop hoping that capitalism—a system that is overtly based on...
– Obama, Health Care “Reform”, and the Terminal Illness of Hope
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If they’d asked my dad his biggest fear when I went off to college,...
– Are Wal-Mart Moms Single Moms?
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We are living in the same state that regularly boasts 15% unemployment. When you...
– My dearest Michiganders…
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