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Inauguration Livestream
I felt like I should build a little web resource for the big day, and so: inaugurationlivestream.com.
Two Asians talk about all of this shit.
Race Invaders is a podcast hosted by myself and my friend Tim Yang, in which we discuss social justice, politics, culture, and probably more geek shit than is necessary, but we like it. [more inside]
On the Responsibilities of White American Women
Ever since the election, I have been obsessed with the possible reasons that many white American women voted for Trump, and the reasons that many white American feminists continue to not support measures that would be beneficial for queer women and women of color. This essay is the result of that obsession.
CallGov.us
CallGov.us is a simple tool for calling your senators and representatives in Congress -- you can create scripts and calls-to-action, track your calls, and share with friends.
Homework for US, a listening project.
That last exam was rough. Real talk, America: if we don’t want to fail, we have to do some serious make-up work. [more inside]
The Trump Mirror
Simple twitter bot that posts insults Trump has lobbed at his opponents. Insults from the NYtimes The 282 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List
Politi.lol
A quick single-serving site encouraging people to register to help keep a certain small-handed politician out of the White House.
Bus to November
A 3000-mile journey across the country by bus, talking to people about theirs lives and the upcoming presidential election. [more inside]
ringkissers.org
I've been working on a simple timeline of Trump's stated positions and comments, juxtaposed to the endorsement of every politician who's come out in support of him. There's still so many endorsements and Trump statements to add, but I think it's a good start. [more inside]
You Are Not Helping
A gallery of people being terrible to one another online, in the name of politics. [more inside]
Progressive Left for a United Kingdom
<In the wake of the UK's decision to leave the EU, an early general election may very well be called. We on the left-of-centre need to get our act together and build a progressive alliance in order to defeat the forces on the right. This site is an attempt to start to build an information portal to assist in the process. All comments welcome! [more inside]
Make Donald Trump say (almost) anything - Mishmasher
In the vein of Talk Obama To Me, we've created a Trump talking machine capable of making gems about Mexico, China, and snake oil. Please enjoy responsibly.
Ballotcraft: like fantasy football, but for politics
I've been making a fantasy game but instead of sports, Ballotcraft is entirely about the weird, wonderful, and terrifying world of American politics. Come place bets on who the nominees will be, challenge your friends to see who can best predict the primaries, get super wonky on the forum; we got all you need to go politi-nuts on Ballotcraft! [more inside]
Hillary Clinton Voted for the War
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This is the worst party I've ever been to.
Photos from the New Hampshire presidential primary. [more inside]
Erowid Sarah Palin
A Markov Twitter bot remixing Sarah Palin speeches and Erowid trip reports.
A Reader on Black Revolutionaries in the United States
In the spirit of our previous reader on European Socialism and Communism (volume 1), the Communist Research Cluster has released a reader on Black Revolutionaries in the United States (volume 2). [more inside]
Think you can tell a Democrat from a Republican?
You are presented with a bill from 2005-2014, and have to decide if that bill was sponsored by a Democrat or a Republican. Some are obvious, some are tricky, and some are really surprising! [more inside]
American History Trump
A friend came up with the idea and I spent a day and a half pulling it off. I think it's both funny and terrifying. Enjoy this little video project.
FACTHOLE: Entirely true news about politics and technology
Facthole makes other news outlets seem mainstream. Join us for stunning exposes that will literally make you wonder what you are reading.
Kim Davis: Christian, Martyr, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE!
Vote Kim Davis: Christian America Needs Me!
Kim Davis has launched her Presidential Campaign on Twitter and Facebook. She's holding a campaign fundraiser, standing in a great tradition of civil disobedience, and getting ready for greatness.
Kim Davis has launched her Presidential Campaign on Twitter and Facebook. She's holding a campaign fundraiser, standing in a great tradition of civil disobedience, and getting ready for greatness.
Countdown to the 2016 US Presidential Election
Countdown to the 2016 US Presidential Election is a daily reminder on Twitter of the number of days until the United States Presidential Election on November 8th, 2016. The election is in 500 days! You can also get an update via Tumblr, Facebook, Google Plus, and Blogger (with the option to subscribe via email or RSS).
The New Poor
Been thinking a lot about how Millennials are always written about in the media, how gentrification works, and how student loans are affecting our current economy. Here is the result.
Speaker of the House
I think there comes a time in everyone's life when they feel compelled to draw picture after picture of Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner. I started this blog to catalog my experiments in the medium.
Ignoranti
Website and podcast where the hosts confess their ignorance in a range of topics and ask intelligent people to explain things to them. [more inside]
Same Rat, Different Hat
The debut record from Out of System Transfer, a neo-old-timey band who sing punk-influenced folk songs about the assassination of William McKinley, hitting cops in the head with a brick, and riding the subway. Their sound has been compared to the Holy Modal Rounders, Mojo Nixon, and Mischief Brew.
With physical media sales becoming less viable, it made little sense to get CDs printed (plus, no one in the band even had a working CD player), but it also felt wrong to forego the great potential offered by album covers and liner notes, not to mention the feeling of having a tangible thing for fans to have. Thus, the record was released as a zine, (also bundled with the download as a pdf) with original artwork commissioned for each song by various Brooklyn-based artists. [more inside]
thinkContext: Progressive Browser Extension
thinkContext is a web browser extension which adds contextually relevant, politically progressive information to your web browsing. It works by matching the URL of search engine results, sites you visit or text advertising against a database of progressive campaigns. If it finds a match it inserts unobtrusive icons into the browser.
Currently it pulls information from a Union Hotel Guide, an Ethical Restaurant Guide, the Stop Rush Limbaugh advertiser database, The Green Pages, the Bechdel Test Movie database, and the B Corporation directory.
A One-PDF History of European Socialism and Communism
Some friends and I compiled a 500-page PDF that does the following (from the Introduction): "We present here a history of twentieth-century communism through primary sources, divided into fourteen chapters arranged in chronological order. Each chapter deals with a historical moment or theoretical debate, and contains an amount of reading appropriate for one week’s time. We hope that this reader will provide the foundation for seminars and reading groups." [more inside]
Local mom discovers one weird old tip to stop wars
Prevent intractable wars in the Middle East with this 1 weird old trick.
Uses HTML5 geolocation and the Sunlight Labs congress API, which are both pretty rad tools.
Star Wars is the most deceptive and seductive pro-fascist narrative ever written
I used to be a huge fan of Star Wars, but I can no longer ignore the ugly truth. This is a video of a performance, part comedy, part political analysis of the Star Wars universe, wherein I present my take on the Star Wars mythology. Can you be leftist and pro-monarchy?
Shit Old Guys Who Get Us Into Wars Say
I'm building a compendium of videos of warmongering chickenhawks saying stupid shit.
Our Oregon Mobile Voter Guide
The Our Oregon Mobile Voter Guide is an app for iPhone and Android that presents progressive ballot measure recommendations for your location (Oregon only). Where do progressive groups that promote conservation, equal rights, reproductive health, senior care, and economic fairness stand on the ballot measures that matter most to Oregonians? Always up-to-date and relevant, the Our Oregon Mobile Voter Guide gives you the information and news you need.
I Bought Ad Space in the DC Metro to Tell Politicians the Harm Their Incessant Rancor is Producing
I'm tired of the spin and the half-truths. While politicians jockey for position and influence, Americans are suffering. I'm taking my Chamomile Tea Party posters to the public! I've rented ad space in Washington, DC's Metro and I've posted the first of two ads on their back-lit signs. [more inside]
Washington, DC Police Tweets
An open-ended research tool for everything that the DC Police Department writes on their twitter feed. The department made the controversial decision to encrypt all radio communications last year, with no allowance for journalists, and thus have devoted more time to twitter. The site allows you to view the last three thousand tweets and quickly analyze factors like age, city quadrant, gender, etc., though a clever regular-expression-based interface.
Who's More Full of Shit?
Ranking politicians by their fact check rulings. I made it after wanting to compare the overall truthfulness of the big names this election cycle. Hope you find it interesting!
Religion and the 2012 U.S. Election
Here's an editorial in The Guardian I wrote with a political scientist on the role of religion in this year's presidential election. We aimed for reasoned analysis rather than fulmination. Hope you find it insightful.
Learnin' With Vermin: Episode 1, Chapter 1
My good friend Mike Fitzgerald's comedic web series about political issues, featuring none other than noted political expert Vermin Supreme. I have Story credit, and many of my dear, sweet, delicious friends are actors in this.
Obamacare Info-comic
This is a comic I made Detailing the ACA and Obama's health care reform. It is part of a larger series of news related comics I am working on in the style of the Strand Bookstore Labor Dispute Comics, previously featured on Metafilter in April, which can be read here: strandaskus.blogspot.com
Public Books
A curated monthly review devoted to spirited debate about books and the arts, created by and for a transnational community of writers, artists, and activists. Inaugural contributors include Tobias Kelly, Bruce Robbins, Lawrence Weschler (interviewing Errol Morris), Laura Norén, David Henkin, Adam Morris, and Sharon Marcus. Brought to you by the editors of Public Culture and NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge. [more inside]
Newt Santorum
A site that collects links from around the Web showing the intellectual and cultural decline of the GOP.
Free Occupy Wall Street - WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER- poster
Show your Solitary with the 99% via a free-use Poster by Molly Crabapple and myself as a reminder that anyone who can't afford to buy a politician is a part of the cause.
Oregon Ballot Drop Box Locator
Since the official locator for ballot drop sites in Oregon is pretty hard to find, not super user-friendly, and doesn't work in mobile browsers, I worked with Scott Duncombe at the Bus Project to develop a friendlier site that Oregon voters can use to find the nearest place to drop off their ballots. Locations are provided by Data.Oregon.gov. We're still looking at features to add over the next days/weeks, but the site is live.
Close Guantanamo Bay
In response to this post, I have started a website and petition.
I refuse to give up and just let this news be one more thing that depresses me and makes me feel powerless. I'm trying to do something for the better. Try with me!
Chamomile Tea Party Posters
I had always been interested in the power and intersection of propaganda and graphic design. And World War II was a fertile era for both. So I started to remix old propaganda posters from the era with contemporary messages about the rancor that is prevalent in American political discourse. I have now published 19 of these posters under the moniker of The Chamomile Tea Party.
The two most recent posters: Our Latest No Fly Zone and America's 4th Front: War on the Middle Class.
Comments always welcomed.
Harper WTF
A blog chronicling how invincible the current government of Canada--the Harper government--thinks it is. Inspired by this thread.
Rebel's Nest Political T-shirts
Norway-based t-shirt collective with political prints. Site up in (fully functional) beta version. It's mainly aimed at Norwegians, but most of the t-shirts have an international appeal. I would love to hear what other MeFites think of our site.
WTF Has Obama Done So Far?
Often the question is asked, "What the fuck has Obama done so far?". For those unimpressed people, we made this site.
NoTruePatriot.org - Full documentation of the "Digg Patriots" movement
As described by this article, this post, and this comment, the Digg Patriots were an organized corps of conservatives operating out of an invitation-only Yahoo! group for the purpose of gaming social news giant Digg -- suppressing left-leaning content, spamming right-wing stories, and using dirty tactics to harass and ban political enemies. While their exposure made waves online, the lack of concrete evidence raised questions about their very existence. Now, after taking time to redact and format the data, the evidence is here. NoTruePatriot.org documents nearly a year of Digg Patriots activity, 12,900 posts in all, in a sortable, searchable database. Take your time to peruse their posts and judge for yourself the seriousness of their actions. [more inside]
Polygraph 22: Ecology and Ideology
The subject of my previous two projects (1, 2) has finally reached completion; the special issue of Polygraph on "Ecology and Ideology" is out and ready for order. The Polygraph website has PDFs of the introduction, a lengthy interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, and two book reviews. Other contributors to the issue include contributors to the issue include Slavoj Žižek, Michael Hardt, John Bellamy Foster, Timothy Morton, Joachim Radkau, Imre Szeman, Kathy Rudy, and Ariel Salleh; more of the articles will show up there following the usual delay.
Winnipeg Election 2010 - Know Your Candidates!
WinnipegElection.ca is a citizen driven website we created for the upcoming October 2010 civic election in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The site lists all the candidates by ward along with their contact info, websites, social media details, and related news articles. [more inside]