A black NYPD highway cop claims in a new lawsuit that superiors retaliated against him after saying “racism is routine” in the elite unit.
Black NYPD cop claims superiors retaliated after exposing racism – NY Daily News
Sigh…
Category: Domestic Affairs,
Co-owner of NYC pizzeria that nearly stirred mob war shot dead
The co-owner of the famed L&B Spumoni Gardens restaurant was shot dead in the backyard of his Brooklyn home.
Co-owner of NYC pizzeria that nearly stirred mob war shot dead – NY Daily News
wild!
RNC Event Zone: Water Guns Banned, Real Guns Allowed
Citizens for Trump organizer says precautions will be taken against ‘The Purge.’
RNC Event Zone: Water Guns Banned, Real Guns Allowed
Oy!
Madison Bumgarner ignites six-run 3rd inning with double as Giants decline DH
Madison Bumgarner won’t get to compete in the Home Run Derby, so he’ll have to settle for the rare privilege of taking his hacks in an American League ballpark.
Madison Bumgarner ignites six-run 3rd inning with double as Giants decline DH
cool
FBI Urges Law Enforcement Agencies to Withhold Orlando Attack Records
The FBI is imploring agencies who responded to the recent massacre at the Orlando Pulse nightclub not to release records to the public.
FBI Urges Law Enforcement Agencies to Withhold Orlando Attack Records
Um, fuck you FBI.
Typical federal agency demonstrating its inability to be straightforward with taxpayers and prioritizing PR over people.
New Documents Question Timeline in Orlando Nightclub Massacre
City officials were asked why it may have taken nearly three hours after the shooting stopped to take down the gunman who killed 49 and injured more than 50.
New Documents Question Timeline in Orlando Nightclub Massacre – The New York Times
hmmmmmmmm
Second Boston City Hall Official Charged With Extortion, Released On $25K Bail
A second official has been charged in a federal corruption probe at Boston City Hall.
…The U.S. Attorney’s Office says [City Chief of Staff of Intergovernmental Affairs, Tim Sullivan] and Kenneth Brissette withheld city permits in the summer of 2014 for the Boston Calling Music Festival on City Hall plaza last September until the production company hired union members.
Second Boston City Hall Official Charged With Extortion, Released On $25K Bail « CBS Boston
hmmmm
Dozens of Rikers staffers get paid to do nothing – YouTube
Jeezus Kerrr-eyest!
Jurors Are Refusing to Serve the Judge Who Sentenced Brock Turner | TIME
Prospective juror told Judge Aaron Persky, “I can’t believe what you did”
Jurors Are Refusing to Serve the Judge Who Sentenced Brock Turner | TIME
good for the jurors!
Nine face discipline for errors that led to U.S. sailors’ Iranian arrest
A report found shoddy navigation, maintenance shortfalls and a lack of oversight created errors that led to the debacle.
Nine face discipline for errors that led to U.S. sailors’ Iranian arrest
hmmmm
Mike Lee On Why He Hasn’t Endorsed Trump
“We can get into the fact that he accused my best friend’s father of conspiring to kill JFK. We can go through the fact that he’s made statements that some have identified correctly as religiously intolerant. We can get into the fact that he’s wildly unpopular in my state, in part because my state consists of people who are members of a religious minority church. A people who were ordered exterminated by the governor of Missouri in 1838. And statements like that make them nervous.”
GOP Senator Mike Lee Goes Off On Radio Host Who Asks Why He Hasn’t Endorsed Trump – BuzzFeed News
There is not a single part of that that isn’t completely hilarious.
Oh Shit, Brexit | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube
Yay, Southern Baptist Evangelicals!
…Wait, did I just say that without any implied irony or sarcasm?
Yep, yep, I did.
Whoa… It’s a new day, America. A new day.
(Let’s leave racism, where it apparently belongs… In the mother country!)
Mark Zuckerberg Really, Really Loves Walls
Mark Zuckerberg is building a wall on his 700-acre Hawaii parcel of land, and his neighbors are pissed. Somewhere, Donald Trump is thrusting his tiny fists in the air, furious that he’s been ousted as the world’s resident wall-loving entrepreneur.
Mark Zuckerberg Really, Really Loves Walls
You want block the view and the ocean because you have an inflated sense of self-importance and zero Aloha? You got planny money so you wen cockaroach da kine from everybody else? Aznutz!
If your neighbahs boddah you so much, why you live there den? Try move!
Benghazi report faults security; no new Clinton allegations
Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee harshly faulted the Obama administration Tuesday for lax security and a slow response to the deadly 2012 attacks at the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya. But they produced no new allegations about then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Benghazi report faults security; no new Clinton allegations
hmmm
Louisiana judge to stop jailing defendants over fees – Houston Chronicle
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana judge accused by a rights group of running a modern-day debtors prison agreed Monday to temporarily stop jailing defendants for nonpayment of fees and assessing certain costs on defendants, according to a court filing. Last week, the organization filed a lawsuit accusing Black of sending poor defendants to jail when they can’t pay fines and fees and charging them a questionable “extension fee” to avoid jail time.
…Civil rights lawyers in September filed a similar lawsuit in New Orleans alleging that hundreds of people had been locked up because they lacked the money to pay court fees and thousands more are threatened with arrest each year for nonpayment of court debts.
Louisiana judge to stop jailing defendants over fees – Houston Chronicle
hmmm
The Secret Power Behind Local Elections
Because of Citizens United, corporations and PACs have an outsize influence on elections for city councils and utility commissions.
The Secret Power Behind Local Elections – The New York Times
sigh…
California unarmed white teenager is shot dead by police in Fresno triggering protests
Dylan Noble, 19, was gunned down by cops in Fresno, California, on Saturday night after he allegedly failed to comply when they pulled him over for speeding.
oh my…
Ex-DHS head: Gun control wouldn’t have stopped Orlando attack
Ex-DHS head: Gun control wouldn’t have stopped Orlando attack | TheHill
Even if this was the result of a lone-wolf radicalization via the web (denial, it’s not just a river in Egypt!) where the hell he’s gonna get the guns, dipshit?!
My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard: A Mother Jones Investigation
This is the biggest investigation we’ve ever published.
My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard: A Mother Jones Investigation | Mother Jones
Nothing surprising and all seriously horrifying.
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