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shortformblog:

Awesome: Obama writes absence note for fifth-grader
Missing school to see the president? Be sure you get one of these. Ryan Sullivan, an employee at a Honeywell plant in Minnesota, got the chance to introduce Barack Obama Friday, which led to his fifth-grade son, Tyler, missing school. Fortunately, Barack came though with this. Awesome. (thanks HyperVocal, which is also on Tumblr)

Awesome: Obama writes absence note for fifth-grader

Missing school to see the president? Be sure you get one of these. Ryan Sullivan, an employee at a Honeywell plant in Minnesota, got the chance to introduce Barack Obama Friday, which led to his fifth-grade son, Tyler, missing school. Fortunately, Barack came though with this. Awesome. (thanks HyperVocal, which is also on Tumblr)

brooklynmutt:

The sweetest and most amazing marriage proposal, ever. - @nickbilton

think-progress:

There are exactly three countries on Earth that do not provide guarantees for paid maternity leave. Papua New Guinea and Swaziland are two of them. Care to guess the third?

Read the article here.

think-progress:

Meet Maureen Russo: An eligible voter who couldn’t vote, thanks to a voter purge being conducted by Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

More at ThinkProgress

Why would musical theater be the only culture that resists newness? It doesn’t make sense. Bands become successes on tumblr. Where’s the tumblr of musical theater? [The problem is] older people are willing to pay for it, and they’re the same audience that’s not going to want something new. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. I’d rather go see our future than most musicals. The theater is simply not democratized in any way, and other art forms are.

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—	Scott Rudin on musical theater. Newsies is on Tumblr. How Can Musical Theater Be Saved? Broadway Veterans Give Their Advice \| Vulture (via popculturebrain)

When you’re president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot… And so if your main argument for how to grow the economy is ‘I knew how to make a lot of money for investors,’ then you’re missing what this job is about.

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—	President Obama on why Mitt Romney’s record in the private sector matters (via barackobama)

barackobama:

All the cool kids are doing it.

npr:

Friday cute overload. — tanya
loveyourchaos:

They’re Valais Blacknose Sheep from Switzerland.

npr:

Friday cute overload. — tanya

loveyourchaos:

They’re Valais Blacknose Sheep from Switzerland.

BREAKING: A whole bunch of lawmakers just dropped out of ALEC, the right-wing group behind "Stand Your Ground" »

think-progress:

Bringing the total legislators dropping it to 39, and organizations to 16.