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She did the Secretary of State job, she was a G, she held it down, she didn’t cry.

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Ice-T, on why Hillary Clinton will be the first female president 

The best part about this story is that the Huffington Post (via the AP) decided to explain to us what a “G” is. In case you didn’t know — it’s “the hip-hop term for gangster (a positive thing)”. 

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(Source: jessbennett, via newsweek)

I didn’t think much about the dire warnings of an approaching hurricane called Katrina…. I attended a Homeland Security principals meeting on Thursday, August 30, and returned to the State Department to check once more on plans for securing our offices in the Gulf of Mexico. Then I flew to New York…. That evening, upon arriving at the Palace Hotel, I flipped on the television. Indeed, the hurricane had hit New Orleans. I called Secretary of Homeland Security Mike Chertoff, inquiring if there was anything I could do. “It’s pretty bad,” he said. We discussed the question of foreign help briefly, but Mike was clearly in a hurry. He said he’d call if he needed me. I hung up, got dressed, and went to see Spamalot…. The next morning, I went shopping at the Ferragamo shoe store down the block from my hotel, returned to the Palace to await Randy and Mariann’s arrival, and again turned on the television. The airwaves were filled with devastating pictures from New Orleans. And the faces of most of the people in distress were black. I knew right away that I should never have left Washington.

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The Wounds of Katrina —Condoleezza Rice, in her new memoir, writes about the racially charged disaster that was Katrina and how she failed to anticipate its magnitude.

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occupyhistory: Police versus protestors in downtown Oakland, during the anti-Vietnam “Stop the Draft Week.” October 20, 1967. Photograph by Bill Crouch. Courtesy of the Oakland Museum of California. With police brutality at Occupy Oakland all over the news, it’s worth remembering that Oakland has a rich history of protest. On October 20, 1967, four thousand people marched through the streets, blocking Army buses, clashing with police. This was the biggest demonstration against the Vietnam War up to that point. At a sit-in at the Oakland Army Induction Center, even Joan Baez got arrested. Then, as now, police violence turned the streets into a warzone. In the 1960s, however, the Oakland mayor didn’t have a Facebook page where people could leave thousands of angry comments.  

occupyhistory:

Police versus protestors in downtown Oakland, during the anti-Vietnam “Stop the Draft Week.” October 20, 1967. Photograph by Bill Crouch. Courtesy of the Oakland Museum of California.

With police brutality at Occupy Oakland all over the news, it’s worth remembering that Oakland has a rich history of protest. On October 20, 1967, four thousand people marched through the streets, blocking Army buses, clashing with police. This was the biggest demonstration against the Vietnam War up to that point. At a sit-in at the Oakland Army Induction Center, even Joan Baez got arrested. Then, as now, police violence turned the streets into a warzone. In the 1960s, however, the Oakland mayor didn’t have a Facebook page where people could leave thousands of angry comments.

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Ned Hepburn: Obama got a Tumblr.

cheatsheet:

newsweek:

nedhepburn:

  • Really?
  • Why?
  • Is he stoned?
  • I give it a week until he drunk-blogs something.
  • Will he add only hot girls, SoCal creativebros, and New York media jagoffs?
  • Because that’s what I did.
  • Will he just use it to reblog pictures of twee landscapes with some shitty quote about first…
  • Is Obama the first “Hipster” president? 
  • Oh god. If he is, I’m voting Huntsman. The last thing I fucking want is a President “liking” “posts”. 
  • Do bulleted lists make things easier to read? 
  • I give it two weeks until his first really long entry about an ex.

YES HE DID.

From the ‘Hello’ post:

There will be trolls among you: this we know. We ask only that you remember that we’re people—fairly nice ones—and that your mother would want you to be polite.

Obama knows the Internet so well.

cheatsheet: Tehran, Iran: Shiite Muslims beat themselves and participate in the mourning ritual of Ashura at the Karbala mosque to commemorate the killing of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammed in the 7th century. (Dec. 6, 2011) Abedin Taherkenareh, EPA / Landov More Photos of the Day.

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Tehran, Iran: Shiite Muslims beat themselves and participate in the mourning ritual of Ashura at the Karbala mosque to commemorate the killing of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammed in the 7th century. (Dec. 6, 2011)

Abedin Taherkenareh, EPA / Landov

More Photos of the Day.