Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton, in Cleopatra (1963).

ICE vs. Caring Family, Responsibility, Compassion and Human Decency. #BordersAreStupid #Not1More #NiUnaMas

#Not1More #NiUnaMas #EndDeportation #BordersAreStupid

National borders are a military phenomenon, not a natural or a social or a cultural one. The “nations” they circumscribe are political lies, and the fortified frontiers they impose are bloody scars cut across the face of the earth. #AbolishBorders #DestroyAllNations

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http://ift.tt/1j0Zw9h No. #AbolishTheDeathPenalty

Don’t call the police. #AbolishThePolice

Of course, “reaching into the past” actually means that they are recording everything in the present, and keeping it around until they decide to look at it later. You should assume that literally anything you say over an open telephone line is being recorded and can be retrieved at the pleasure of the U.S. federal government.

I wish that Facebook gave me a way to like this post 1,000,000 separate times. http://ift.tt/1gJoQcx “This photo came from ‘Being Liberal’ on Facebook. My friend posted it with some comments about how problematic it is for liberals to denigrate the rural poor who are then scooped up by the republican party. But I am going to be waaaay more harsh. I am so tired of liberal/democratic/progressive classism. “What is your evidence that the democratic party is so great for poor people? You know who are in prison right now? Poor people. You know who put a whole lot of them there? Democrats like Bill Clinton, ‘the incarceration president.’ When one of the political parties suggests dismantling the prison industrial complex and the military industrial complex, you let me know. . . . The truth is that liberal, ‘educated’ people need the low-class, ignorant hick meme. So long as they exist to denigrate, nobody has to acknowledge that racism, classism, and sexism are systemic and will require a complete upheaval of the systems that give so many liberals the privileges they currently enjoy. . . . Our problems are not going to be resolved through party politics. They sure as hell aren’t going to be resolved by shitting all over people you have never met. In fact, I would think a prerequisite to democracy would be actually speaking to the other people involved. . . .” ~Melanie S. Pinkert

* was wondering why my WordPress site was being such a drag-ass no matter how much I upped the size of the VPS it was running on * SHOW PROCESSLIST showed an overwhelming tendency to hang on queries for comments on just a couple of articles * checked, found that the spam trap had 433,427 comments in it (O.K., that may have had something to do with it.)