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What I’m Reading – January 30, 2014

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I can tell you what I’m NOT reading – enough books to hit my Cannonball Read VI targets. Damn you, George R. R. Martin, and your excellent but extremely long books!

Stop and frisk continues to be utterly unacceptable. Police Assault Teen So Violently During Search That His Testicles Burst

So many problems with Jezebel, but still this article made me smile. Dudes, Stop Putting Women in the Girlfriendzone (h/t @AllisonKilkenny)

One of the more thoughtful posts on Macklemore, I think. Finding a Place in the Hip-Hop Ecosystem

I voted for her. Sawant to give back 2/3rds of her city councilmember salary

It’s a step. 2nd Grand Jury Indicts Officer in Fatal Shooting of Unarmed Man

Sexism? In politics? No! Painting Wendy Davis as a bad mother is political sexism at its worst (via @scATX)

Yeah, money doesn’t seem to correlate so closely with how hard people actually work. $10.10

The Nation wrote a pretty shitty article this week. Here is a response. Interlopers on Social Media: Feminism, Women of Color and Oppression

They threw out elementary school kids’ lunches. The FUCK. Lunches seized from kids in debt at Salt Lake City elementary