This is for those idiots that always tell folks to get more education so that they can get a better job.
me.
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Travel back in time.
1. Oliver Slams Mandatory Minimums and Mass Incarceration
Just last week, Oliver piggybacked off the news of President Obama’s 46 commutations and pivoted to our country’s insane mandatory minimums and their role in making the US the world leader in incarcerating its people.
2. Oliver Blasts the U.S. Bail System for Locking up Poor People Regardless of Guilt
Oliver recently took on the U.S. bail system pointing out that it has increasingly become a way to lock up the poor, regardless of guilt. Oliver referenced a report by the Drug Policy Alliance that found nearly 40 percent of the jail population in New Jersey is held solely because they don’t have the money for bail, which can be a little as a few thousand dollars. The average length of time people wait in jail is 10 months. It won’t surprise you that the vast majority of those locked up are poor people of color.
3. Oliver Shows How Law Enforcement Can Steal Your Stuff: Civil Assets Forfeiture
Oliver brilliantly showed how the police, thanks to the war on drugs, can basically steal your stuff, even if you have never been convicted off a crime. And then it is up to you to prove that you are innocent. Law enforcement gets to keep everything they seize.
The Drug Policy Alliance released a report, Above the Law: An Investigation of Civil Asset Forfeiture Abuses in California, which looked at asset forfeiture abuses in California that revealed the troubling extent to which law enforcement agencies have illegally used the practice to pad their budgets.
4. Oliver Explains How Racist Drug War Fuels Mass Incarceration
Oliver delivered a devastating critique on our racist drug law enforcement, the role it plays in fueling mass incarceration and the inhumane treatment and abuse people face behind bars. The U.S. has less than five percent of the world’s population, but nearly 25 percent of the world’s people behind bars.
Read the full article.
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10 YEARS AGO TODAY: A fish-eye view of the Space Shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station, July 29, 2005. (NASA)
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“When lobbyists want something, when a giant oil company wants the Keystone pipeline, or when Citibank wants to blast a hole in Dodd-Frank, the Republicans move faster than lightning,” Warren said at a Capitol Hill news conference.
“But when it comes to things that will help families, the Republicans refuse to move.”
“If the Republicans won’t move, then we should move them out of the way,” she added.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)
“If the Republicans won’t move, then we should move them out of the way,” she added.”
— Senator Elizabeth Warren (via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)
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Beatrix Potter, mycologist – for the beloved children’s book author’s birthday, her little-known scientific studies and illustrations of mushrooms.
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A lot o’ love goin’ around tonight, I like it.
Chuck C. Johnson: Journalist (In Three Images)
Earlier this year, Chuck C. Johnson got me suspended from Twitter for posting his personal information, in the form of a screenshot that included his telephone number. This is a telephone number he guards zealously:
Chuck had no problem characterizing this information as…
Find the link to the tweet at the bottom and report it as harassment.
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Some of the most extreme right-wing radicals got elected to Congress Tuesday.
Let’s begin with Glenn Grothman, who won Wisconsin’s 6th District. Grothman wants to eliminate weekends, and believes “no people…care about Kwanza, just white left-wingers.” He co-sponsored a bill that equated single-parenthood with child abuse.
He calls Rick Santorum his “soul mate” and labor union activists “slobs.” He wants to end not only the minimum wage but weekends and paid sick leave and called for the elimination of municipal water disinfection, calling it “big government.”
He opposes abortion for any reason and wants to make it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion even to save the life of the mother.
He has said that the “gals” are running the nation and ruining it and that the “country is not going to survive if we continue this war on men.”
Grothman has called Planned Parenthood “the most racist organization” in the country while supporting the Ugandan law that makes homosexuality a crime.
Alan Colmes, “Meet the Newly Empowered Right-Wing Radicals” (via holygoddamnshitballs)
good god almighty, what have they done?
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this took embarrassingly long to do, but here you go, your dash is snowing
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