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Anarchy isn't working.

We need to get over this insane obsession with leaderlessness. The hive mind doesn't work. Even bees have queens. It's what killed the occupy movement. People need leaders. You can be a leader in one part of your life and still need a leader in another. Literally everyone needs a leader in something. So we need to stop being ashamed of it. It's stunting our ability to organize effectively.

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-Suheir Hammad

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-Suheir Hammad

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-Zaatar Diva, Suheir Hammad

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Is this real life...

I'm sitting here trying to come up with next months budget so that come the end of August I don't have to choose between visiting my boyfriend or paying off my debt and taking the cat in to get his vaccines. Sorry babe. I'm so close to not owing the bank the entire content of my bank account anymore, and now I have money from my internship and I'll actually be able to buy myself curtains so I won't feel like I'm sleeping in a crack den. Is this what being an adult feels like? It kinda blows.

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I guess that since all fetuses are female before sex organs develop and that's when the majority of abortions are performed, then statistically far more aborted fetuses are female than male. But being pro choice means we value an adults rights and decisions more than a non sentient fetus which COULD turn into a girl. But to be a girl, you have to have bodily autonomy first.

Do feminists realize that half of the babies that are aborted are girls?

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At least 10,000 Palestinian protesters marching against Israel’s military offensive in Gaza clash with soldiers and border police at the Israeli Qalandiya checkpoint, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, early on July 25, 2014. (Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images)

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Canadian music festival takes huge step against Native appropriation

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So weird seeing your everyday life things turned into a trendy photo set.

An evening in Gainesville, Florida | 2012

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What’s in the hearts and minds of young University of Florida students? Let the concrete wall of Gainesville, FL speak. Each year the wall announces historic events, political views and personal revelations.

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Imagine J.K. Rowling pulling a Beyoncé and releasing another Harry Potter book at midnight on July 31 with no warning can you even imagine the chaos that would ensue

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seven percent. yeah, that's about how much I trust them.

America, we know you hate Congress, but this makes no sense

Americans don’t show their political anger through passion. They show it through apathy.

Only 7% of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in Congress according to a Gallup poll released last month. That’s the lowest it’s been since Gallup started asking in 1973 — meaning it might be the lowest it’s ever been.

And it’s worse for Democrats | Follow micdotcom

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Bernie Sanders re-envisioning the social security cap for today’s capitalism. The markets must adjust.

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Fuck you

A vast majority of Republicans say they would not be able to live off the current federal minimum wage, but they still don’t support raising it, according to a new poll.

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I think the shock is wearing off, and now her dying seems too real and too impossibly sad.

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Overdraft Fees at Banks Hit a High, Despite Curbs | WSJ

Squeezed by falling revenue on deposit accounts, banks are turning to a familiar source of income: overdraft fees.

Nearly four years after regulators tried to curb the fees, banks are lifting them to new heights. The median fee for withdrawing more from a checking account than a customer has on deposit increased to an estimated $30 in 2013—a record—up from $29 in 2012 and $26 in 2009, based on a survey of 2,890 banks and credit unions by Moebs Services Inc., an economic-research firm in Lake Bluff, Ill.

"Banks have a revenue gap that needs to be recouped," said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.com, which tracks overdraft fees and other charges.

Banks’ fee revenue from checking, savings and other deposit accounts has been sliding since several regulations took effect. The Federal Reserve in 2010 stopped banks from automatically charging customers overdraft fees on debit-card and automated-teller-machine transactions. In addition, the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law included an amendment that went into effect in 2011 lowering a debit-card fee large financial institutions charge merchants.

The recent regulations “have forced banks to raise fees where they ordinarily would not have done so,” said Richard Hunt, chief executive of the Consumer Bankers Association, which represents retail banks with more than $1 billion in assets and is based in Washington.

At the same time, years of low rates on mortgages and other loans have eaten into the income banks collect from interest charges, an important driver of bank earnings.

To help make up for lost revenue, experts say banks are raising overdraft fees and pitching related services, hoping to increase the pool of customers who can incur such fees.

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Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means — to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal — would bring terrible retribution.

Louis Brandeis (via azspot)