Socialism Going Mainstream: Rolling Stone magazine points out five ways Marx predicted the future, on the heels of another article describing the five major economic changes young people should be "fighting for," which was all but a call for massive wealth redistribution.

Friday Night News Dump, Part I: The Washington Senate passed the State Dream Act! That means kids of undocumented immigrants can now seek financial aid for college. "It was very challenging," a UW student who's been fighting for this for five years told KING 5. "Because in high school I had a staff member tell me that college wasn't meant for students like myself."

Friday Night News Dump, Part II: The Keystone XL pipeline—which would pump crude oil extracted from Canadian tar sands to Texas—took another step forward last night with the State Department's approval of the project. The Department claims the pipeline's construction would have no significant impact on climate change. Which apparently is not a joke. NASA's climate scientist James Hansen says the Keystone XL would be "game over for the planet."

Nancy Pelosi Makes The Case Against the Democratic Party: And she does so exceedingly well, because throughout her interview yesterday with Jon Stewart, she acts like an out-of-touch moron who can't understand, much less answer, straightforward questions about lobbyists and corporate money.

This Story Has An Amazing Lede: The Afghans who make their way into hospitals look like suicide bomb victims. Instead, they're casualties of an expensive US-built hazardous highway that's been left unmaintained by the US and Afghan governments.

Foul Prison Mattress Constitutes Cruel and Unusual Punishment: A Connecticut prison inmate sued over the shitty mattress in his prison cell and won. Now imagine all the inmates in our world's-largest prison population who don't have the wherewithal or resources to sue over their conditions. Yeah.

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