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Why isn't New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting a 'national tragedy'?

"Shame on you! Shame on you!"

-Lori Haas, whose daughter was wounded in the April 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, and Patricia Maisch, who knocked an ammunition magazine out of the hands of Jared Loughner in Jan. 2011, to U.S. senators after they voted 54-46 to defeat an amendment on gun background checks. (via washingtonpoststyle)

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“I was covering the finish line at the ground level at the marathon. Everything was going on as usual. It was jovial — people were happy, clapping — and getting to a point where it gets a little boring as a photographer. And then we heard this explosion.
“It was sort of like, ok, what’s that all about? It wasn’t super loud but all you saw was the smoke. There was this big cloud of smoke and people screaming. The percussion from that explosion threw my cameras up in the air. Right in front of me, one of the runners fell on the ground — he was blown over from the blast. My instinct was…no matter what it is, you’re a photographer first, that’s what you’re doing. I ran towards the explosion, towards the police; they had their guns drawn. It was pandemonium. Nobody knew what was going on.
“The first thing I saw were people’s limbs blown off. Massive amounts of blood. It looked like BB holes in the back of some people. And a lot of anger. People were just angry. What’s going on? Why is this happening at the Boston Marathon?
“Maybe 15 seconds after the first explosion, while I was still shooting pictures, another explosion went off. And then there was panic. The cops told everybody to get off the street, that there could be another one.
“I can’t compare it to anything else I’ve ever been to. The horror. And the anger.”

— Boston Globe photojournalist JOHN THUMACKI, on witnessing — and documenting — the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.
(via Time magazine)

"We don’t do good television, we do the news."

-MacKenzie McHale (via takethisnight-wrapitaroundme)

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ness-pas:

This is how you do a news April Fools.

BBC »> all other news orgs

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Anti-rape video in response to Steubenville trial coverage goes viral
(Photo via YouTube)
A young man hovers over a passed-out girl and invites his “bros” to see what he’ll do next. But the conclusion of this anti-rape video made in response to the Steubenville rape trial may surprise you.
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via AZ DAILY STAR: "Show your birth certificate before using that restroom"

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North Dakota passes toughest anti-abortion package in US; bills await governor
(Photo: James Macpherson / AP)
North Dakota lawmakers approved measures Friday that would effectively ban abortion in the state, including a ballot referendum that would let voters declare that life begins at conception.
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Conservatism is such hypocrisy sometimes. How can a party, that repeatedly shouts about government being “too big” and how they want less government in the lives of citizens, then be like “oh but wait let me regulate your uterus though…” No. You’re argument is invalid. Just stop.

via CNN: Bachmann dodges question on CPAC remarks

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Guns.

inothernews:

On the same day Colorado governor John Hickenlooper signed a bill into law requiring background checks for private gun sales and limiting the capacity of ammo clips, the head of the state’s prison system was shot dead answering the door at home.

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CNN's Dana Bash asks Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann to back up her claims that the Obamas live a "lavish" lifestyle. Michele Bachmann, of course, cannot.

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#priorities

Why can’t News Night with Will McAvoy be real? WHY?

thedailywhat:

Weird Lawsuit of the Day: Sweet Brown Sues Apple Inc.

Kimberly Wilkins, better known as Sweet Brown, is suing Apple for unauthorized use of her likeness after a song using samples from her April 2012 local news interview was sold on iTunes. Produced by the staff of the Seattle-based radio show The Bob Rivers Show, the mashup song in question (shown above) was originally put up for sale without her express consent on April 10th, 2012.

ohdeargod

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