No need to be sheepish.

Here to pay attention. There is a lot going on and we live in interesting times. Distractions include dogs, TV, soccer, cats, music, Liverpool Football Club,

[liverpuddle]

Hm. I think I forgot how to tumbr.

[salon]

If ever you doubted that our obscene campaign finance regime constitutes a form of legalized bribery, consider this: Reuters reports today that officials at top Wall Street banks recently convened to discuss how they could convince Democrats “to soften their party’s tone” toward the financial industry, and among the options now under consideration is halting campaign donations to Senate Democrats unless they rein in progressive populists like Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH).

Wall Street is trying to silence Elizabeth Warren

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Saudi Arabian blogger 'flogged'

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Deadly attack on satirical magazine in Paris - Europe - Al Jazeera English

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What not to say to a transgender person

Author T. Cooper outlines what you should not say to a transgender person.

[liverpuddle]

There was a simpler time in America, a time when racists wore white hoods and carried torches, when Nazis wore swastikas and a skinhead could shave his scalp without being mistaken for a metrosexual. But those days are long behind us. Now, apparently, white supremacists hold conferences with guest speakers and video hookups to their colleagues overseas, kind of like a Davos for the intellectually vacant.

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[mediamattersforamerica]

Sean Hannity’s panel on ‘Race Relations’ was three white people and Geraldo.

[justice4mikebrown]

#AskACop 

[inothernews]

If Fox “News” chyroned their commentators correctly. (via The Daily Show)

[beingliberal]

From our friends at Liberal Identity, at www.facebook.com/LiberalIdentity

[worldofthecutestcuties]

I woke up feeling like I was being watched….

[norweiga]

all I want for Christmas is every single lush bath product there is available

[sandandglass]

TDS December 8, 2014

Jon Stewart responds to criticism for a factual mistake he made last week on The Daily Show where he listed Dante Parker as one of a number of black men shot and killed by police. 

[liverpuddle]

I saw sheep flying in. That gives me smiles.

[feniceargento]

From the Providence protest in solidarity with Ferguson on Tuesday 11/25. 

This is what the Providence Journal called “zero physical contact” when reporting about how the police cleared protesters from the highway. 

This is what police brutality looks like.