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Fuck Jan Brewer and the Friday Night News Dump

May 5, 2012
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Pulsers, I know I’ve been critical of Planned Parenthood before, boorishly so, but this, is some bullshit, and it does pose an existential threat to Planned Parenthood in the state of Arizona. Jan Brewer knows it’s some bullshit because she signed it Friday night, the time when executives sign all the pieces of legislation of which they’re ashamed. It’s likely to be blocked and ruled unconstitutional, just like all the other laws in all the other states that try to do the same thing. News reports from the Arizona state legislature are practically disaster porn at this point, and I try to stay away from them lest I develop hypertension at age 25, but I never issued an apology of sorts for failing to properly recognize the climate of fear and antagonism that Planned Parenthood has to live in...

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Hungry People Don’t Stay Hungry For Long: MayDay

April 30, 2012
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Cross-posted from occupygoddamnit.wordpress.com. I don’t know if there are May 1st actions in Columbus. I hope that there are. My brother said “I hear there’s supposed to be a general strike” with a fatalist inflection that was two steps away from an exhortation to return to watching reality television. “I haven’t really heard anybody talking about it anymore.” The Chronicle called the movement “mostly moribund” re: the SF Commune. MSNBC.com (who’s just a puppet for the socialist far left, right?) called the Wells Fargo shareholder occupation as “an attempt to revive the Occupy movement.” The narrative has been cast. The movement is dead. Time to move on. Time for MoveOn. You want to fight the 1%? Vote for Obama. Electoral politics, politics as usual, they’ve got this under control. No cause for alarm, for emergency, mayday. From Thomas Friedman...

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Why This Isn’t An Article About White Crime Victims

April 2, 2012
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Pulsers, It’s been a while, but once you awaken the writing monster, it can be hard to stop. Over the past month, the country has sturdily begun the process of losing its damn mind over the Trayvon Martin case. When I first heard about it, I honestly didn’t think it was going to be this big, but that’s because I had the folly of putting it with the likes of Oscar Grant, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo, not O.J. Simpson, Laci Peterson, and Casey Anthony, which is where it is now. Now the vitriol is spewing and depending on the verdict, we stand on the verge of proving to the world that our history of race riots is not over, no matter who’s President. There’s been stupidity and “extra”-ness on both sides, but I’m here to address a particular...

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Privatized Libraries: Not An April Fool’s Joke

April 1, 2012
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Privatized Libraries: Not An April Fool’s Joke

Friends, As you may know, the Columbus Metropolitan Library system is among the best library systems in the country, and throughout my adolescence I used that system for all its worth. The moment I discovered that libraries carried graphic novels, it was all over. To this day, I still have my card number memorized. Libraries are the most benevolent of all institutions, and every time I go into a public library, one thought recurs through my brain “Public libraries have to be the worst business model of all time, which is exactly the point. They are the one institution that no sane person could argue for privatizing.” Well, I guess my definition of sanity is going to have to be readjusted. Ladies and gentlemen and formally-dressed genderqueer folk, meet the kinder, more sensitive little brother to Corrections Corporation of...

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Andrew Breitbart and Derrick Bell: Rage, Rage Against the Coming of the Light

March 9, 2012
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Andrew Breitbart and Derrick Bell: Rage, Rage Against the Coming of the Light

Hey there you Pulsating activists you, I’m trying to be less active in the next coming weeks as I focus all my energy on subtly trying to remake cultural norms by script-doctoring a horror movie (what is so anathema about a sex-positive horror movie?), but “every time I thought that was that, they call me right back,” or something like that. I feel ashamed every time I quote a Jay-Z lyric. Anyway, what draws my attention today is the latest non-bombshell to be dropped by the late Andrew Breitbart (may he not rest in peace), which shows Obama hugging Derrick Bell, aka a pioneer in the development of critical race theory (aka the thing that every person in the country needs to know about). Watching the conservative establishment attempt to contort this man’s ideas into being worthy of outrage...

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TPCIPMFIE Deleted Scenes: We in

March 8, 2012
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TPCIPMFIE Deleted Scenes: We in

GA is starting in the rotunda of the capitol, which  CHP has closed. The room is not at capacity, according to the officers

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The Present Curriculum, I Put My Fist In ‘Em: Calm Like A Bomb

March 6, 2012
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There’s a picture I couldn’t take because my phone died, but if you look around the internet, you can find it. It’s a picture of 150-200 riot cops on the front steps of the California state capitol. It’s the visual indication of the police state we live in, an indication of the forces of intimidation won me over today. I’m pissed. I didn’t even wait for the dispersal order. I could have handled a trespassing charge. The people arrested were processed and released in five hours. I got scared by the state, even though the absence of fear is the only effective way to scare the forces of repression. The difference between M5 and the Wisconsin occupation just one year ago is quite illustrative. What I was part of on Monday really was some sort of history in the making....

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March 5, 2012
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Gas masks are not allowed in the state capitol. Sorry sac media tv

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TPCIPMFIE: A Modicum Of Clarity

March 5, 2012
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Let it always be known that California Highway Patrol will lie right to your face. The building security are holding to their word. The building will close at 5, and we are allowed in until then. The California Highway Patrol are the source of the rumors. Typical shitty intimidation tactics. That is the role the police will occupy. Spreading false rumors is an act of suppression, not protection. I will try to get the cop’s badge number.

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TPCIPMFIE: The chaos hits

March 5, 2012
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The rally is over. Rumors start flying that the police are trying to close the building at 1. Hundreds of people are trying to get into the capitol. The degree to which America is a security state first and foremost is being decided right now.

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