外国人登録制度、7月9日に廃止へ 60年の歴史に幕
hmmmmm... goodbye gaijin cards, hello gaijin-marked ID cards? weird last sentence, too, never heard about that...

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summertime

JUAN GONZALEZ: On Monday, El Libro-Traficante is set to launch a small caravan to bring carloads of ethnic studies books into Arizona that were banned by public school officials in Tucson after the city suspended its acclaimed Mexican American Studies program due to a state ban on the teaching of ethnic studies. The banned books include Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years, edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson; Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire; Occupied America: A History of Chicanos by Rodolfo Acuña_; and Chicano: The History of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement by F. Arturo Rosales.
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TONY DIAZ: Evidently, he wanted to replace Mexican-American studies with a real, live class on doublespeak, because that’s all doublespeak. Huppenthal knows that Americans would not tolerate a direct ban on literature. So he has actually taken oppression and updated it. At the end of the day, yes, there is actually a law, America, in Arizona, to prohibit courses in high schools. Let that sink in.

people who can't stop thinking about spending but can't see what they are spending on

AMY GOODMAN: Ah, Billy Bragg.

"FiveThirtyEight’s mission is to help New York Times readers cut through the clutter of this data-rich world."

"I thank you for playing the ... clip of Congressmen Issa explaining that I was not an appropriate witness. I can’t think whose voices would be more appropriate than the women who are affected by this policy."

distracted driving

FoxConn...

year by year...

on the my mind

"[I]ts stance on pseudonyms is more than a stupid policy. It's part and parcel of Facebook's noxious vision for the future of the Internet, where privacy—rather than hard-earned cash—becomes the currency of the day."
searching for Ahmed Rushdie ^_-

"The nomenclature surrounding 'sex crimes' is already hopelessly sterile, and the media routinely refers to cases of rape and sexual assault as 'sex scandals,' but that makes it no less important to call them out every time they do it.

"Sandusky is not accused of 'having sex' with little boys, he is accused of raping them. In our civilization, 'sex' with a child is not possible, since a child cannot consent to sex."

"Anti-immigrant agitation, racial and religious prejudice, rancorous public discourse, political stalemate and paralysis, eroding generosity toward the disadvantaged—all are the predictable pathologies that ensue from stagnating incomes and living standards... This latest round of such pathologies simply reminds us that even those societies whose citizens talk the best game of having advanced beyond caring about further gains in material living standards—the Dutch, the Swiss, even the Scandinavians—are no less subject to this familiar frustration than their more transparently materialistic American cousins."

Can't believe the real "guitar hero" Carlos Santana is dead

hope Dan Treacy is okay --

弟と彼氏は２人とも日本滞在終わってアメリカに帰っちゃったから私やっとインタネットの遅れを取り戻し…「デモクラシーナウ」日刊ポッドキャストを７月６日の分から聴いてる。英語での進歩的な論調が好きだったらこれがニュースおすすめ！：