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"Semantic Infiltration"

“But what do we cut when we cut government, or public, spending? We don’t just cut the disbursement of funds. We cut what those funds purchase. And what do they purchase? They purchase goods and services. National parks. The U.S. Navy. Some slight assurance that our air, food, and pharmaceuticals won’t poison us. Public safety (not “government safety”). Education. Highways. Air traffic control. Bridges that don’t fall down. Enforcement of the rules that make a “free market” free, sort of. Basic research. The Smithsonian.”

19 Jul - pm

Man is a ship on woman’s ocean.

—Twitter / Clayton Cubitt (via claytoncubitt)

O, I’m the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home–
For I’m the one who left dark Ireland’s shore,
And Poland’s plain, and England’s grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa’s strand I came
To build a “homeland of the free.”

The free?

Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we’ve dreamed
And all the songs we’ve sung
And all the hopes we’ve held
And all the flags we’ve hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay–
Except the dream that’s almost dead today.

O, let America be America again–
The land that never has been yet–
And yet must be–the land where every man is free.
The land that’s mine–the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME–

—Lanstong Hughes, via today’s dose of misappropriated literature.

17 Apr - pm

"This very way of recording our world, this tension between an automated camera and a human who seeks meaning, reflects our modern experience. As social beings we want to matter and we want to matter to someone, we want to count and be counted, but loneliness and anonymity are more often our plight."

(Source: claytoncubitt)

8 Apr - pm

There are 15 to 20 dead I think. I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s like something in the United States.

—A Brazilian rescue worker, after surveying the carnage from Rio de Janeiro’s worst-ever school shooting yesterday for The Guardian. (via motherjones)

(Source: Guardian, via motherjones)