Ranking conservative publications not by their politics but by their demeanour.

Ranking conservative publications not by their politics but by their demeanour.

How thoroughly do they embody the worst characteristics of conservative writing? How smug are they? How convinced are they of their own superior intellect? Are they painfully, seethingly horny?

Conservative publications including Breitbart and that piece of shit rag called the New York Times.

The great thing about these devices is that they offer absolutely no benefits to the people who buy them.

The great thing about these devices is that they offer absolutely no benefits to the people who buy them. They are the perfect corporate product.

To use a political analogy, they’re a bit like voting for Theresa May.

Originally shared by David Megginson

1987: Stasi & KGB break in to hide listening devices.

2017: Google & Apple make people pay to bug their own homes.

“They won those seats,” Sanders said of Labour, “not by moving to the right, not by becoming more conciliatory –…

“They won those seats,” Sanders said of Labour, “not by moving to the right, not by becoming more conciliatory — they won those seats by standing (up) to the ruling class of the UK.”

Lamenting Republican control of not just Washington but in state legislatures, Sanders said “the current model and the current strategy of the Democratic Party is an absolute failure.”

His prescription for the party was “fundamental change” and to “knock on every damn door” in search of new votes, even in historically inhospitable regions.

Because slavery really still is a thing in the United States.

Because slavery really still is a thing in the United States. Slaves are needed for exactly the same reason they have always been needed: to keep costs down and to suppress the wages of free workers.

Most of those prisoners now work as groundskeepers, janitors and in prison kitchens, with wages that range from 8 cents to 37 cents per hour. Lawyers for Attorney General Kamala Harris had argued in court that if forced to release these inmates early, prisons would lose an important labor pool.

http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ff-federal-judges-order-state-to-release-more-prisoners-20141114-story,amp.html