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  • Ill Doctrine Exclusive: McCain’s Latest Attack Ad

    Jay Smooth has posted an exclusive leak of McCain’s latest attack ad over at Ill Doctrine. Check it out: Too funny, except in that sad “rings of truth” way…

  • Blacks, Latinos, and the precariousness of “middle class”

    Today I listened to a segment on Democracy Now! about a new report that’s out from Demos and Brandeis University on the state of the Black and Latino middle class in the United States. The study, entitled “Economic (In)Security: The Experience of the African American and Latino Middle Classes,” finds that three-out-of-four Black and four-out-of-five…

  • Convictions overturned for 2 of the Newark 4

    Two of the four young Black lesbians who were convicted after defending themselves from a homophobic attack in 2007 have had their convictions overturned. From the New York Times article: An appeals court on Thursday overturned the convictions of two women accused in the beating and stabbing of a man who they said made unwanted…

  • An Important Announcement from Your Neighborhood Angry Brown Butch

    I think I came to an important realization today. I think it had something to do with some of the comments on this thread. REVELATION: Believe it or not, I try to exercise restraint with white people on the internet. But I’m feeling pretty much over it. And I’m okay with that. In that spirit,…

  • The honeymoon is officially over.

    Towards the beginning of the primaries, I kinda fell for Barack Obama. I feel quite a bit harder than I ever expected I’d fall for a front-runner for the Democratic nomination. My girlfriend and I were glued to the TV during the first primaries and especially on Super Tuesday, cheering every time Obama won a…

  • live blogging at the scene of police violence

    East village. Mostly queers, lots of trans folks, lots of people of color. Peaceful celebration of a right on organization. Police called. Violent arrests of two peaceful people. Mace in many people’s eyes and throats, including mine.. At the precinct now. More soon.

  • holy shit.

    Saddam Hussein was executed. Immediate reaction? Now it’s time to brace ourselves for what will happen within Iraq, and beyond. It’s huge. And somehow, just really fucking weird. Whoa.

  • Surprise! Rush Limbaugh is a total fucker.

    Yes, not the most eloquent critique, but hey, it’s 12:53am, and I haven’t blogged in months, so I’m sleepy, lazy, and rusty all at once. But anyhow, this from an ABC News article on Michael J. Fox’s commercial in which he endorses Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democratic congressional candidate who backs stem cell research: …conservative…

  • The Onion: spot on.

    Sometimes I Feel Like I’m The Only One Trying To Gentrify This Neighborhood When I moved into this neighborhood, I fell in love right away. Not with the actual neighborhood, but with its potential: It’s affordable, there are nice row houses all around just waiting to be filled up by my friends, there’s lot of…

  • random thoughts on race

    This morning, I stopped by the Barnes & Noble in Chelsea on my way to work to see if they had any Jean Grae CDs. I walked round and round that CD section for some time until I found the miniscule “Hip Hop” section. Shelving sections upon shelving sections of “Pop Rock” and “Classical” and…