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#egypt celebrating
Is Mubarak Still President?
Congratulations, Egypt: 11/02/2011
@MonaEltahawy on CNN (I’m hoping a transcript becomes available, but she’s basically saying “I’m ECSTATIC!!”
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U.S. responds to #Egypt’s #jan24 revolution
Perhaps too little, too late and perhaps somewhat after-the-fact self serving, but he says the right things here. Now the question is, what will we do now that we have done talking? We need to support the protesters, the transitional government, and the new government. We need seize the assets of the Mubarak regime that we may have access/ ( Read more... ) -
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State of the Web (Oatmeal)
From JMG: Iowa Rep. Dwayne Alons: Normal People Live Longer Because They’re Not Gay. The supply of stupid, OTOH, is infinite.
What the right won’t admit about Reagan. What I love about this is that despite the list of Reagan’s deeds that is given to Limbaugh, he can’t get past the one where Reagan raised taxes and ( Read more... ) -
Wael Ghonim, the man who broke the Egyptian regime in one interview
[Audio: Arabic; Captions: none; Transcript: see below]
I was on twitter when he was interviewed, so the tweets provided live coverage and translation for me. The interview is absolutely heartbreaking, and is translated/transcribed here: Wael @Ghonim (thanks to @exiledsurfer who compiled the information from @SultanAlQassemi’s tweets). ETA Also, a ( Read more... )
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