“Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. And the answer to what’s next depends on people like you. Nobody else can answer it.” — Noam Chomsky (via themarsupial)
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“When you’re president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot… And so if your main argument for how to grow the economy is ‘I knew how to make a lot of money for investors,’ then you’re missing what this job is about.” —
President Obama on why Mitt Romney’s record in the private sector matters (via barackobama)
Amen.
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Lebron had 40 pts, 18 reb, and 9 ast yesterday. Elgin Baylor was the only other person to do this. (In a playoff game)
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In caces with no black people in the jury pool (typically consisting of around 27 people) blacks were convicted 81 percent of the time, and whites were convicted 66 percent of the time.
When the jury pool included at least one black person, the conviction rates were nearly identical.
(Source: gagweed, via highlifebrooklyn)
(Source: heat-sheet)
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“Labor flexibility” is a fancy way of saying that when you go to sleep at night, you don’t know if you have a job tomorrow morning. ..and that’s supposed to be a very good thing.” — Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
