workingclasshistory:

On this day, 27 October 1970, the Nixon administration passed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, as part of their “war on drugs”. A Nixon adviser, John Ehrlichman, later admitted “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
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buddhaprayerbeads:

ABS Workout

mostlysignssomeportents:

Apple pioneered the use of dirty tricks and lobbying to kill Right to Repair legislation, but they’re not the only tech player who’s putting lobbying muscle into ensuring that you can’t decide who fixes your stuff (and when it is “unfixable” and must be sent to the landfill).

Rep. Jeff Morris told iFixit Repair Radio that national Right to Repair legislation was killed by Microsoft, in a piece of horse trading that saw Microsoft backing funding for STEM education in exchange for Right to Repair (and unrelated privacy rules) dying.

https://boingboing.net/2019/04/15/ssdd.html

everythingfox:

Baby Arctic fox tries to eat man alive

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johnnythehorsepart2: