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…readers not only want to know what we know, they also want to know how we’ve come to know it, and the practical limits of our knowledge.

Roy Peter Clark, in an essay about transparency in narrative journalism, on Poynter today.  (via poynterinstitute)

Dig this.

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When I watch a show like House of Cards, my faith in humanity is reaffirmed: inherent self-destruction.

Celebrate National Poetry Month with us!

staff:

Join Tumblr, ABRAMS, and the Academy of American Poets at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe:

Tuesday, April 30th, 7pm
126 Crosby St
New York, NY

Featuring Paul Muldoon, Melissa Broder, Leigh Stein, Cathy Park Hong and selected poets from the Tumblr community, Faith Hahn & Kevin Grijalva.

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criminalwisdom:

NATHAN FIELDER ASKS FOLLOWERS TO TEXT THEIR PARENTS PRETENDING TO BE A DRUG DEALER, HILARITY ENSUES»

Earlier this month, Nathan Fielder told Post reporter Ben Kaplan that, while he questions his abilities as an actor, “I think I have a clear idea of how I can make something funny.” Case in point: the Canadian comedian’s Thursday prank, in which he asked his Twitter followers to text their parents pretending to be a drug dealer, then send a followup text saying “Sorry ignore that txt. Not for you.”

(Source: nparts)

My mom is on the right

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shortformblog: And he wasn’t the only one: Three other politicians who are outspokenly opposed to marriage equality voted for the “Marriage for All” bill. Guaino was mocked by his colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and subsequently changed his vote. However, it didn’t matter; the bill passed by over 100 votes and now heads François Hollande, the country’s Socialist president, who campaigned on the issue of gay marriage and will sign the bill. source HA! View high resolution

shortformblog:

And he wasn’t the only one: Three other politicians who are outspokenly opposed to marriage equality voted for the “Marriage for All” bill. Guaino was mocked by his colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and subsequently changed his vote. However, it didn’t matter; the bill passed by over 100 votes and now heads François Hollande, the country’s Socialist president, who campaigned on the issue of gay marriage and will sign the bill. source

HA!

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latimes:

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mypubliclands:

The Federal Government on Tumblr

Increasingly, Federal agencies (like us here at the Bureau of Land Management) are using Tumblr to share photos, science, events, initiatives, and other great content with the Tumblr community.  Here’s a list of some awesome Federal government blogs you should be following on Tumblr.  It’s probably not exhaustive, but these are the ones we know about that post more than occasionally.  

Reblog and help share the word:

America’s Great Outdoors: The Department of the Interior (our parent agency) shares an amazing photo a day of your public lands.

Archivist of the United States: The Tumblr of our “collector in chief” at the National Archives, David S Ferriero.

Bureau of Reclamation: Reclamation, and Interior Dept agency, is the largest wholesale water supplier and the second largest producer of hydroelectric power in the United States, with operations and facilities in the 17 Western States.

Congress in the Archives: Since the First Congress in 1789, the records of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have documented the history of the legislative branch.  The National Archives helps you explore this history.

Conservation at Work: The Natural Resources Conservation Service, part of the Department of Agriculture, posts photos of conservation on farms and other private lands across the nation. 

Fish and Wildlife Service: The Pacific Region of the FWS encompasses extraordinary ecological diversity.  Photos, science, and more.

Internal Revenue Service: Because who doesn’t want tax information on Tumblr?  Useful tips, videos, etc., straight from the IRS.

My Public Lands: The awesomeness of the Bureau of Land Management, which manages more than 245 million acres of amazing lands, as told by students, interns, and newer employees.

Our Presidents: One space to bring the past 13 Presidents together. Discover behind-the-scenes history here.  Managed by the National Archives.

National Archives: News and current events from the United States National Archives and Records Administration whose holdings include the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, military records, Presidential records, and millions of other documents related to the Federal Government.

Peace Corps: Life is calling.  How far will you go?  Get up close with the amazing work done by peace corps volunteers.

U.S. Department of State: Videos, photos, testimony, and updates from the State Department.  Foreign policy updates on Tumblr—how cool is that?

Today’s Document: Highlighting interesting documents the National Archives’ holdings—both the well-known and the obscure—to observe historical events (usually the significant events but sometimes just the curious ones). 

USA.gov:  Government made easy.  On Tumblr.  Enough said.

US National Archives Exhibits: Images and stories from the National Archives related to “Searching for the Seventies: the DOCUMERICA Photography Project,” the newest exhibition on display at the Archives’ facility in Washington, DC.

But wait, there’s more!

Preservation at the National Archives: All things preservation at the National Archives and Records Administration. Posts to this site come from all of the Preservation Programs departments, including: Conservation, St. Louis Preservation, and National Preservation Programs. 

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library:  Dedicated to the memory of our nation’s 35th president and to all those who through the art of politics seek a new and better world.

LBJ Time Machine: Taking a trip through time, from the birth of Lyndon Johnson in 1908 through 2013 at the LBJ Library and Museum.

FDR Library: Follow the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum as we count down to the rededication of the Roosevelt Library and the opening of the new permanent museum exhibits.

The Tumblrweed Times from the National Archives at Riverside, CA: We are the National Archives at Riverside—a unit of the U.S. National Archives. Our records document the Federal government in the western states of Arizona, southern California and Clark County, Nevada.

Talk about your comprehensive lists!

Great source of info

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humanrightswatch: Thailand: Defamation Charges Chill Labor Rights Inquiries Criminal defamation charges against Andy Hall, a prominent labor activist, violate his right to free speech and will have a chilling effect on investigations of alleged rights abuses by companies in Thailand.  The charges stem from a defamation complaint filed on February 14 by the Natural Fruit Company Limited for an investigative report about serious labor rights violations at the company’s factory.  If convicted, Hall faces up to two years in prison and civil damages of 300 million baht (US$10 million). Hall’s report, “Cheap has a high price: Responsibility problems relating to international private label products and food production in Thailand,” alleged that Natural Fruit Company Limited had committed serious labor rights abuses, including poor working conditions, unlawfully low wages, confiscation of workers’ official documents, use of child labor, and excessive overtime. View high resolution

humanrightswatch:

Thailand: Defamation Charges Chill Labor Rights Inquiries

Criminal defamation charges against Andy Hall, a prominent labor activist, violate his right to free speech and will have a chilling effect on investigations of alleged rights abuses by companies in Thailand. 

The charges stem from a defamation complaint filed on February 14 by the Natural Fruit Company Limited for an investigative report about serious labor rights violations at the company’s factory.  If convicted, Hall faces up to two years in prison and civil damages of 300 million baht (US$10 million).

Hall’s report, “Cheap has a high price: Responsibility problems relating to international private label products and food production in Thailand,” alleged that Natural Fruit Company Limited had committed serious labor rights abuses, including poor working conditions, unlawfully low wages, confiscation of workers’ official documents, use of child labor, and excessive overtime.

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As social phenomena, languages are tied up in world of unequal power relations, gaining or losing status not based on technical linguistic grounds but on social judgement, biases, and stereotypes that are based on the status of their speakers. As such, we argue that white America’s love-hate relationship with black modes of communication can only be interpreted within a framework that considers language a primary site of cultural contestation. It should be clear by now that it’s about more than a mothafucka, right? Our analysis of Black Language forms that the dominant culture considers inflammatory, controversial, or stigmatized allows us to make several observations. First, building off what anthropologist and linguist Arthur Spears noted in his discussion of uncensored speech, Black verbal culture, like all cultures is “a complex network of predispositions, values, behaviors, expectations and routines.” Language practices, in their varying sociocultural contexts, can only be understood if read within the full range of the community’s speech activities, and that requires rigorous ethnographic search and analysis. Second the community’s beliefs and ideas about language- it’s language ideologies- should be the primary point of departure for investigation and interpretation.
H. Samy Alim (via hagereseb)
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The traditional metaphor of language as the mirror of nature, a means for representing what is real, has lost all viability. It used to seem that language obeyed human command with the same absence of resistance or will demonstrated by a screwdriver or a knife and a fork. No more. In a very real sense, language uses us: we have become the utensils. Language is no longer our tool, but the very crucible of our experience.
Donnel B. Stern. (2003) Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis. (p. 9). (via aheartwithmanygenders)
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