“As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008. Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop of GOP governors and state legislators has passed a series of seemingly disconnected measures that could prevent millions of students, minorities, immigrants, ex-convicts and the elderly from casting ballots.”

Rolling Stone, The GOP War on Voting (via wisconsinforward)
danielholter: rollingstone: Is the SEC covering up for Wall Street’s crimes? That’s what Matt Taibbi explores in the latest issue of Rolling Stone. In a shocking expose, Taibbi writes of one whistle-blower who claims that over the past 20 years the Securities and Exchange Commission has knowingly destroyed documents from thousands of investigations. These actions, Taibbi writes, essentially wiped the slate clean for some of America’s worst financial crooks. Taibbi adds, “We’ll never know exactly who got away with what, because federal regulators have weighted down a huge sack of Wall Street’s dirty laundry and dumped it in a lake, never to be seen again.” Read the entire piece on RollingStone.com. —Colin Jones Important. As in : IMPORTANT.

danielholter:

rollingstone:

Is the SEC covering up for Wall Street’s crimes?

That’s what Matt Taibbi explores in the latest issue of Rolling Stone. In a shocking expose, Taibbi writes of one whistle-blower who claims that over the past 20 years the Securities and Exchange Commission has knowingly destroyed documents from thousands of investigations. These actions, Taibbi writes, essentially wiped the slate clean for some of America’s worst financial crooks.

Taibbi adds, “We’ll never know exactly who got away with what, because federal regulators have weighted down a huge sack of Wall Street’s dirty laundry and dumped it in a lake, never to be seen again.”

Read the entire piece on RollingStone.com.

—Colin Jones

Important.

As in : IMPORTANT.

(via apoplecticskeptic)

markcoatney: rollingstone: The new issue of Rolling Stone—the Playlist Issue—started with an idea from Roots drummer ?uestlove. We asked him to tell us his favorite songs, but he said he wanted to go deeper. “In my eyes, what defines a true artist is their filler,” he said. “I happen to like the Stevie Wonder songs that aren’t hits. I can say the same thing for Springsteen and Bob Dylan. Prince’s hits are like a red carpet that he lays out to lead you to the good stuff.” I love this, especially because the same thing applies to journalism; I judges media outlets by their filler as well. So far, the RS Tumblr is at Prince-like levels.

markcoatney:

rollingstone:

The new issue of Rolling Stone—the Playlist Issue—started with an idea from Roots drummer ?uestlove. We asked him to tell us his favorite songs, but he said he wanted to go deeper. “In my eyes, what defines a true artist is their filler,” he said. “I happen to like the Stevie Wonder songs that aren’t hits. I can say the same thing for Springsteen and Bob Dylan. Prince’s hits are like a red carpet that he lays out to lead you to the good stuff.”

I love this, especially because the same thing applies to journalism; I judges media outlets by their filler as well. So far, the RS Tumblr is at Prince-like levels.