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Ayn Rand on 23rd Street
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- Andrews says he heard racist strategy from Clinton camp – The Star-Ledger – Today’s top news story – NJ.com
He says he received a call from a top member of Clinton’s organization and that the caller explicitly discussed a strategy of winning over Jewish voters by exploiting tensions between Jews and African-Americans.
tags: hillaryclinton politics racism
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Categories: Linkage - Andrews says he heard racist strategy from Clinton camp – The Star-Ledger – Today’s top news story – NJ.com
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- Bruce Schneier: Are photographers really a threat? | Technology | The Guardian
Given that real terrorists, and even wannabe terrorists, don’t seem to photograph anything, why is it such pervasive conventional wisdom that terrorists photograph their targets? Because it’s a common movie plot.
tags: photography terrorism security civilliberties - humble arts foundation | solo show | jesse burke
online solo photography show by long-time bloggy favorite
tags: photography jesseburke
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Categories: Linkage - Bruce Schneier: Are photographers really a threat? | Technology | The Guardian
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- Triple Canopy
Beautiful design for this new site that "presents writing, art, video, and other creative projects in forms that work with and against the Internet."
tags: art zine magazine video culture politics criticism designwelike - Stumper : Clinton’s Popular Vote Claim? Close–But Not Quite
it’s not true that she won the popular vote with any math that makes sense
tags: hillaryclinton politics
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So glad it’s over
I’m so glad the primary season is over. Here are a couple of video highlights explaining why.
Last night (from AMERICAblog):
Newsweek’s Howard Fineman just said on MSNBC at 8:35pm Eastern that the Clinton campaign is demanding that Hillary be offered the VP position, which she will then decline, and then Fineman quotes the Clinton campaign as saying “don’t you dare offer it to another woman.” Isn’t that special. Apparently, Hillary was only planning on breaking her own personal glass ceiling. For the rest of you, you can break you own.
From HuffingtonPost in March, in which Hillary Clinton says McCain is more qualified to be President than Barack Obama.
I’m not really interested in hearing how the wife of the President who gave us the Defense of Marriage Act and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and who herself voted for both the Iraq War and the PATRIOT Act, is some kind of hero for women, liberals, or queers. She’s not even showing up for some pretty important Senate votes on abortion.
Plus, don’t even get me started on white women from privileged economic backgrounds talking about how they are second class citizens unlike black people.
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Genius podcast from Minneapolis
I just found this great podcast via googling for Elliott Durko Lynch. The April 6 episode is amazing. The story about New Orleans by Rik Reppe (roughly 20 minutes in) made me cry.
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“Catch 30” on the Movement Research blog

Elliott Lynch and Sara Shaylie. Photo by Usry Alleyne
I’m doing a little writing about the Movement Research Festival going on right now on their Critical Correspondence site. I wrote about the appearance at Catch 30 of my new favorite dance / theater artist working in Minneapolis: Elliott Durko Lynch.
The photo above is of a performance in Minneapolis from the amazing mnartists.org website. He has a YouTube channel too.
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My Yard Our Message
Via Eyeteeth I learned about the My Yard Our Message project in honor of the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis.
As a stark counterpoint to the “scripted democracy” of this fall’s GOP nominating convention, a project by mnartists.org, the Walker Art Center and the UnConvention is inviting people of all political stripes and artistic abilities to create yard signs to coincide with the RNC — and, fittingly, the 50 designs getting the most online votes will be produced and distributed around the Twin Cities and near the convention site.
Here are two of my favorites.

by awesome designer Andy Pressman

by Barry McMahon
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Linkage
- New York Begins to Alter Policy on Gay Marriage – NYTimes.com
Gov. David A. Paterson has directed all state agencies to begin to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, like Massachusetts, California and Canada.
tags: queer marriage civilrights newyork
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Categories: Linkage - New York Begins to Alter Policy on Gay Marriage – NYTimes.com
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Holocaust-related news roundup
So, if Barack Obama says Auschwitz when he meant Buchenwald it’s a major story.
When wacko Senator Joe Lieberman agrees to be the headline speaker at an event of evangelical Christians headed by an equally crazy man who says the Holocaust was the will of God (to get Jews to move to Palestine and help bring on the end times at which point they all get converted), the story is confined to progressive blogs such as Sadly, No!.
Yes, there are stories appearing in the media now about this, but it’s not a top story on any news website I’ve seen, e.g., CNN.
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