Month: June 2016

Tumblr employee: “One time he came to an all-team meeting and told us we were going to be the new PDF”.

Tumblr employee: “One time he came to an all-team meeting and told us we were going to be the new PDF”.

Free-wheeling overpriced Silicon Valley startup, please meet your new floundering bloated zombie corporate overlord. Now go and make us some money.

http://mashable.com/2016/06/15/how-yahoo-derailed-tumblr/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits#JGLJD710skqQ

“America is exceptional, it is asserted, because, with the exception of the abolition of slavery, it has been able…

Originally shared by Jeff Zahari

“America is exceptional, it is asserted, because, with the exception of the abolition of slavery, it has been able to extend the promise of liberal reform mostly peacefully, through its democratic institutions. But there’s a shadow side to this narrative of liberal progress—the fact that every great achievement of civil and social rights in US history has been accompanied by war and expansion.”

http://www.thenation.com/article/why-trump-now-its-the-empire-stupid/

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… one of them is a party that’s committed to Wall Street and to neoliberalism and is deeply and earnestly committed to a notion of diversity and multiculturalism, and a party that’s committed to Wall Street and neoliberalism, and is deeply opposed to multiculturalism and diversity.

And neither is earnestly committed to ending inequality.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/06/adolph-reed-identity-politics-exposing-class-division-in-democrats.html