WTF Michigan?

What, union-busting wasn't enough? Now Michigan's lame-duck, GOP-controlled legislature is set to allow concealed weapons in former "gun-free" zones like schools, churches, hospitals and sports stadiums, because, really, what goes together better than armed yahoos and The Big House on a football afternoon packed with thousands of raging, screaming fans? Lawmakers did some other stuff to make it even easier to pack; evidently that's just the beginning of their opportunistic lurch to the right.

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Falling Is Still Flying: A Eulogy for #Occupy

A raw, bleak, ultimately hopeful look back at the season of Occupy - the inspiration it sparked, its dirt and darkness, its cause of economic justice coupled with its fierce need "to serve each other, to keep each other whole and safe," its role as "messenger from the future, not so much fighting the system as explaining to the old way of doing things that it had already lost," its gutting by both internal and external forces but also its enduring spirit as seen in Occupy Sandy and elsewhere. From Wired.

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