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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT49ghJ7aGA)

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My Politics

In 1992, I cast my ballot in Kellar Primary School’s mock presidential election.  I told my first-grade teacher that I’d be voting for George H.W. Bush because my dad had informed me Bill Clinton would be bad for business.  A Democrat and a member of the teacher’s union, she was unimpressed. Twelve years later, after voting in my first actual president election, I watched the results come in on…

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An #immigration story, found on the streets of Manhattan:

“I emigrate from Fudian in “China.”  I emigrate on 24, June 2000.  I was 27 years old  When I Come to U.S. I came because I had political asylum.  I took the airplane, then I took a ship.  When I took the ship, I felt terrible because I was seasick.  I came by myself.  I didn’t bring anything.  Yes, my school is big and tall building.  I learn Chinese, Maths, English, Physical and Chemical.  I sold TV, refrigerator and Washing machine.  I liked soccer and basketball.”

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Found this mystical gazelle on my dirty chessboard.

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A+, internet. 

—sean, sideshow

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"With outstretched arms, Christ blesses our city and its people."

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Iraqi traffic uniforms, a photoshop masterpiece.

[derasso]

Die-hard Wilson supporters share a specific terminology. The protesters are called “terrorists,” sometimes “treasonous terrorists.” Groups of black protesters are described as a “lynch mob” targeting whites. Looting, which has been rare during the months of protest, is emphasized. The characterization of the protesters by Wilson supporters reflects both whites’ rationale for fleeing St. Louis and Wilson’s for killing Michael Brown: fear of black crime.

“I am Darren Wilson”: St. Louis and the geography of fear (via derasso)

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Radical Hostipitality

For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.

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"Ebola"

Illustration by André Carrilho.

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Alex Goldman: Have you thought about bringing in, say, like an ethicist to, to vet your experiments?

  Christian Rudder, founder of OkCupid: To wring his hands all day for a hundred thousand dollars a year?

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TLDR interviews OkCupid founder Christian Rudder about experimenting on its users without informing them.

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Once upon a time in the 1910s, my great-great-grandpa allegedly tried to run over a man on a horse with his automobile.

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