Presidents and their children.
(via buzzfeed)
9. And he really doesn’t like Dick Cheney. Despite having Cheney’s biography at his bedside in his Hong Kong hotel room, Snowden says: “Further, it’s important to bear in mind I’m being called a traitor by men like former Vice President Dick Cheney. This is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him, Feinstein, and King, the better off we all are. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.”
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Nine million children die every year before they reach the age of five. Seventeen or so a minute. Any god who would allow children by the millions to suffer and die… and their parents to grieve in this way, either can do nothing to help them, or doesn’t care to. He is therefore impotent or evil.
Sam Harris (via yourmatchmyfire)
Public Shaming: Republican Congressman Reaches Out to Latinos By Tweeting "Illegal Aliens Have Invaded My Office!"
Republicans have a problem. They just can’t seem to get Latinos to vote for them! With the Hispanic population rising in the United States, the GOP has said they realize they need to reach out to the Latino community.
Enter Republican Congressman from Iowa, Steve King!
“20 brazen self…
“Here’s the most powerful image on any front page of a newspaper today—and this one in The New York Times: a DREAMer, Renata Borges Teodoro, reaching for her mother, Gorete, a DREAMer’s Mom. A broken family separated by a fence, divided by a broken immigration system.”
Via United We Dream
(via humanrightswatch)
US government to end effort to restrict morning-after pill
New York Times: The Obama administration told a U.S. District Court judge it would stop trying to block the over-the-counter availability of Plan B One-Step for all women and girls.
The reversal by the government means that anyone, no matter how young, will soon be able to walk into a drugstore and buy the pill, Plan B One-Step, without a prescription.
The Justice Department had been fighting to prevent that outcome, but said late Monday afternoon that it would drop its appeal of a judge’s order to make the drug more widely available. In a letter to Judge Edward R. Korman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, the administration said it would comply with his demands that the Food and Drug Administration be allowed to certify the drug for nonprescription use.
Photo credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images via nytimes.com
npr:
Edward Snowden: ‘I do not expect to see home again’ The whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations speaks out.
The man who leaked NSA information to the press revealed himself over the weekend. Read and listen to analysis from NPR’s Tom Gjelten on NPR’s The Two-Way.
(via humanrightswatch)
(Source: notbrennan)
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Same-sex marriage (top) and acceptance of homosexuality (bottom) around the world.
(via humanrightswatch)
High Marijuana Arrests: Signs of Racism & Over-Policing
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has released a new report on arrests and incarceration…
(Source: fuckyeahdrugpolicy)
[MORE PICS] Save Bradley Manning Rally and March, June 1, 2013 at Fort Meade, Maryland
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