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Mon, 13 May 2013 12:00:18 -0700

Dark October by All Seeing on Flickr.

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:19:04 -0700

theatlantic: Why the Media Treats Right-Wing and Islamist...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:03:37 -0700

Why the Media Treats Right-Wing and Islamist Terrorism Differently

There are times when journalists bungle this sort of coverage in ways that are unfair to the right and times when they handle things in ways that are unfair to Muslims. But as a general matter, tolerance is urged when the perpetrator is Muslim, and not when the perpetrator is a white right-winger, not because journalists only value tolerance in one situation, but because when guys like Tim McVeigh perpetrate terrorism, there’s never an irrational backlash against white men.

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theatlantic: When IEDs Come Home: What Boston Looked Like to...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:24:03 -0700

theatlantic:

When IEDs Come Home: What Boston Looked Like to Iraq Veterans

“Wow, that’s some OIF-2 shit right there,” referring to the military’s term for the second year of combat operations in Iraq. “Ball-bearing IEDs would do a number on the old-school Humvees,” Sellars said. “Then we started up-armoring everything… so that generation of IED wasn’t any good anymore.” In Iraq, the American armor and insurgents’ weapons were constantly evolving. That hasn’t happened in America, of course.

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"I like joking about everything. This will sound too lofty because it is. This is going to an extreme..."

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:56:48 -0700

“I like joking about everything. This will sound too lofty because it is. This is going to an...

Scotland from my iPhone’s perspective.

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:09:02 -0700

Scotland from my iPhone’s perspective.

A Grim Hereafter by Crispy Copper on Flickr.

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:11:04 -0700

A Grim Hereafter by Crispy Copper on Flickr.

RIP Jason Molina //...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:31:13 -0700

RIP Jason Molina // http://pitchfork.com/news/50000-rip-jason-molina/

"In every human society there are always ambitious, unscrupulous, cruel men, who, I have already..."

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:51:30 -0700

“In every human society there are always ambitious, unscrupulous, cruel men, who, I have...

Nick Cave // Jubilee Street Video /// NSFW

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:59:57 -0800

Nick Cave // Jubilee Street Video /// NSFW

vicemag: Bradley Manning Pleaded Guilty Yesterday: ‘I Did...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:56:26 -0800

vicemag:

Bradley Manning Pleaded Guilty Yesterday: ‘I Did It’

After a blizzard blanketed the mid-Atlantic in early 2010, a 22-year-old soldier home on leave in Potomac, Maryland, braved the storm in hopes of locating an Internet connection that, unlike the one at his aunt’s house where he was staying, hadn’t been severed by nearly two feet of snow.

When Private first class Bradley Manning made it to a Barnes & Noble bookstore outside of Washington, D.C., he unpacked his laptop, logged-on to the complimentary Starbucks Wi-Fi and searched for some files he had burned onto a disc back in Kuwait before Christmas. It was in that shop, surrounded by comic books and minimum-wage-earning baristas, that the slight and bespectacled soldier uploaded classified and unclassified military files to the website WikiLeaks, an action that remains the target of both a CIA probe and a grand jury investigation three years later—and that yesterday landed Manning in court in Fort Meade, Maryland, where he pleaded guilty to ten criminal charges and will now likely serve twenty years in prison. “I believed that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information,” Manning said yesterday in court, which I attended, “this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general.”

The government’s case—and public opinion about the young soldier’s act—has hinged on the assertion that Manning’s leak put the United States in danger by making sensitive military information public. The files leaked by Manning include the now-infamous “collateral murder” video of an Apache helicopter attack in Iraq, in which US soldiers mistake a group of journalists and civilians for insurgents and then kill them; US diplomatic cables about the collapse of three major financial institutions in Iceland; files on detainees in Guantanamo; and portions of Iraq and Afghanistan war logs. “They capture what happens [on] a particular day in time,” Manning said about the war logs.

Manning was captured by American officials in May 2010—after he’d gone back to Kuwait to continue his service in an intelligence center—when the ex-hacker turned goody-two-shoes Adrian Lamo, who had been in communication about the files with Manning via email, tipped off the FBI. Manning was then accused of an onslaught of charges related to allegations that he supplied material to WikiLeaks. Since then, Pfc. Manning has been imprisoned without trial for over 1,000 days. Only during Thursday’s testimony, though, did he own up to those crimes and explain to the world with his own words why he willingly released materials that have changed history—if not in the way Manning had originally intended.

When he finally finished reading the 35-page statement prepared for the court Thursday afternoon, a handful of supporters and members of the press seated before a closed-circuit stream of the testimony across the Army base erupted in applause. The only other time they ever heard the soldier speak at length was this December when he testified to the conditions he endured while jailed in a military brig after first being detained. His treatment there was so egregious that the presiding judge, Col. Denise Lind, agreed to take four months off of any eventual sentence handed down.

But for voluntarily admitting his crimes during a pretrial hearing on Thursday nearly three years after the fact, Pfc. Manning stands to face upwards of 20 years in prison. After his case is formally court-martialed beginning in June, though, he could be sent away for life. Because he gave classified information to WikiLeaks and, thus, the world, the government says he sent that intelligence into the ether and helped aid anti-American terrorists. The government could legally execute the soldier, now 25, if they convict him on that charge.

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God damn.

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:49:50 -0800

God damn.

DAWN MCCARTHY & BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY DELIVER...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:47:50 -0800

DAWN MCCARTHY & BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY DELIVER WHAT THE BROTHERS SANG

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Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:38:17 -0800

untitled by spassk on Flickr.

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:01:32 -0800

untitled by spassk on Flickr.

How Much Military is Enough?

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:44:34 -0800

How Much Military is Enough?: newyorker: The U.S. once regarded a standing army as a form of...

Northern Life Tower (now known as Seattle Tower), ca. 1929. From...

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:33:00 -0800

Northern Life Tower (now known as Seattle Tower), ca. 1929. From Seattle Historical Photograph Collection. via. Seattle Public Library

gq: LOVE SOSA. …in which we review every look from Sammy Sosa’s...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:44:32 -0800

gq:

LOVE SOSA.

…in which we review every look from Sammy Sosa’s Pinterest page.

I just remembered how beautiful this song is.

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:59:18 -0800

I just remembered how beautiful this song is.

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Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:31:46 -0800