February 2012
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WatchMe on the teevee!
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Our associate editor Nona Willis Aronowitz was on the new Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC this weekend talking identity politics. In the above clip, she reps for all the secularists out there who’ve been irked by the GOP’s “religious freedom” rhetoric. She asks, “What about secular freedom?…What about those of us who don’t want to be governed by religion?”
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Amanda on "sensitivity training" →
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There’s something sad, but also kind of hopeful, about a boomer who deploys a “sensitivity training” joke when called on some sexist bullshit. There exists in the history of work a specific place and time where a fancy guy could live out his days engaging in lazy sexism until some loathsome bureaucrat stuck him in a room and made him a watch a poorly-acted VHS tape about not talking...
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This House Panel on Birth Control Consists...
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The GOP’s explanation: The fight over birth control coverage mandates is “not about women.” It’s about “religious liberties.”
Really? Or is it just easier to wage a culture war with the language of “freedom” and “big government?
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Me on the culture wars. Nice spin, fellas! #atleastbehonest
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“I am a logical liberal who also happens to be Catholic. I am embarrassed by the...”
– Georgia Rep. Tom Price dared us to bring him “one woman” who had been unable to afford birth control. Within hours, we found 25. Share your own story at #priceiswrong (via amandahess)
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