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While this is a funny gifset, I really think it illustrates the contrasting styles of Stewart and Colbert. With Stewart, it’s all in the delivery, and he often lets the material speak for itself, and only has to give an incredulous look or a facepalm to elicit laughs. Colbert, however, has more of a parody style, and he ends his observation with slightly more of a punchline.

Colbert has also always been the King of staying in character, but I like how you can see him almost breaking a little here.

April 23rd
12:31 AM

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I am tired of trying to have an intellectual discussion about dog-whistle sexism in a culture where prominent politicians are still trying to grasp what rape is. I am tired of being called a shrieking harridan for pointing out inequalities so tangible and blatant that they are regularly codified into law.
I am tired of being asked to “cite sources” proving that sexism is real. Allow me to point at the fucking library. What are you supposed to say when the 8,000th faux-incredulous jackass throws you the same argument about the wage gap or the draft or bumbling dads in Tide commercials—as though holding each of their hands individually through the empirical facts of the world around us is a worthwhile use of my time.

I’m not a feminist by choice, I’m a feminist because this is the world.

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Lindy West for Jezebel, Sexism Fatigue (via seelions)

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caseychinaski:

If everyone could just direct their attention to this for a second

You know, if anybody ever wonders why I find it almost impossible to feel any sort of attachment to this country it’s because our country treats help-seeking humans like a disease. The fact that none of the major political parties will stand up for asylum seekers sort of makes me sick and I don’t want to live here anymore. Imagine what kind of place Australia would be if we turned on the TV and heard our politicians talking about doing everything they can to protect these people and help give them a better life.

^^^ this.
It literally brings tears to my eyes to think that there are so many people against the protection of other human beings. It just doesn’t make sense to me.

April 10th
11:43 PM

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insearchofanhonestman:

7:30 just did a story on Australian fashion week with an intro referencing zoolander and a soundtrack which consisted solely of flight of the concords ‘fashion is danger’. It was odd.

I am so glad I’m not the only one who saw that.

February 23rd
12:03 PM

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thechocolatebrigade:

This is a photo of the first Black girl to attend an all white school in the United States—Dorothy Counts—being jeered and taunted by her white, male peers. This photo encompasses a lot of things that I really hate: prejudice, ignorance, racism, sexism, inequality…

I’ve reblogged this photo a few times before but it always needs to be reblogged again.

This picture makes me really sad. I am unbelievably impressed with her bravery.

Hero

yeah and after four days of harassment that threatened her safety, her parents forced her to withdraw from the school.

needed to be reblogged

One does not simply scroll through this…

look at the grown up man on the right. look how he is laughing at her. this is making me cry

poor girl

February 20th
9:20 PM

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bluenutburgers:

thedandyunderworld:

Caddisfly larvae build protective cases using materials found in their environment. Artist Hubert Duprat supplied them with gold leaf and precious stones. This is what they created.

Neat.

reminds me of my sburb planet :o

February 19th
10:13 PM

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And when it happens...: David Bowman interviews Christine Milne

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David Bowman: Are Green parties logical? Wouldn’t it be ultimately better not to have a Greens party but just to have very strong environmental principles in all political parties? Do you see the Greens as just a transitional stage, rather than really a significant new…

February 15th
10:50 PM

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vasundharaa:

it’s funny how when a white person decides to learn a foreign language and move to another country, he’s lauded for his sense of adventure, multiculturalism, appreciation of diversity and god knows what else

but when a person of colour does the same thing it’s all “fucking immigrants stop stealing our jobs go back to ur own country!111!!!”

January 30th
11:45 PM

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fairmanrants:

A lift out from The Age in 1988. Only a little bit depressing we were “planning for climate change” 25 years ago and… How far have we gotten?

December 25th
6:25 PM

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The Micallef P(r)ogram(me) looks at Australian Parliament (by OberstStrese)

November 25th
1:25 AM

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applesandibexes:

Crikey cartoonist First Dog on The Moon draws on Melbourne Metro’s [frankly weird] ‘Dumb Ways To Die’ safety campaign to highlight the many ways that asylum seekers risk their lives when they seek refugee protection in Australia - only to find themselves languishing in one of our many inhumane detention centres.

November 18th
11:51 AM

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November 9th
11:42 AM

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roahnari:

the-danimal:

Rachel Maddow explains the 2012 election and its result

“Ohio really did go to President Obama last night. And he really did win. And he really was born in Hawaii. And he really is legitimately President of the United States. Again. And the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not make up a fake unemployment rate last month. And the Congressional Research Service really can find no evidence that cutting taxes on rich people grows the economy. And the polls were not skewed to oversample Democrats. And Nate Silver was not making up fake projections about the election to make conservatives feel bad. Nate Silver was doing math. And climate change is real. And rape really does cause pregnancy sometimes. And evolution is a thing. And Benghazi was an attack on us, it was not a scandal by us. And nobody’s taking away anyone’s guns. And taxes have not gone up. And the deficit is dropping, actually. And Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. And the moon landing was real. And FEMA is not building concentration camps. And UN election observers are not taking over Texas. And moderate reforms of the regulations on the insurance industry and the financial services industry in this country are not the same thing as Communism.” —Rachel Maddow

November 7th
4:46 PM

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nobleknope:

America continued to chant “speech, speech, speech” to no one in particular.

November 1st
4:49 AM

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Licia Ronzulli, member of the European Parliament, has been taking her daughter Vittoria to the Parliament sessions for two years now.