Think Police Can’t Use Illegally Obtained Evidence Against You? Think Again. | The Nation
hmmmmm
Category: Domestic Affairs,
Listen In As New Hampshire Judges Send Poor People To Jail
“Being poor is not a crime in this country,” says the ACLU.
Listen In As New Hampshire Judges Send Poor People To Jail
Oh but it is. Debtors prison is real and no one who enters a court – be they innocent, victim or guilty perpetrator – is safe from having to pay court fees.
Don’t have the cash? Well then the public has to foot the bill for the justice system’s petulant over-reach.
Race and Class Collide in a Plan for Two Brooklyn Schools
Race and Class Collide in a Plan for Two Brooklyn Schools – The New York Times
Race and Class Collide in a Plan for Two Brooklyn Schools – The New York Times
hmmmm
GOP: Prisons Key To Defeating Rep. Corrine Brown
After first checking to make sure no reporters were in the room, Adkins explained why Brown’s new prison-heavy district could be key to defeating her. Though Brown would still have a large percentage of black constituents, Adkins said, many of them aren’t eligible to vote.
Fernandina Beach GOP Lawmaker: Prisons Key To Defeating Rep. Corrine Brown | WJCT NEWS
hmmmm
Bride hailed the prettiest in China after trying to save a drowned man in her wedding dress
It’s sad that her efforts did not succeed in saving the man but I do always like seeing stories about human behaving like human beings to each other.
The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson
A new portrait of the founding father challenges the long-held perception of Thomas Jefferson as a benevolent slaveholder
Source: The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson | History | Smithsonian
Stupidest premise ever. Why the fuck would anyone have thought owning slaves is benevolent? Benevolent slave owner. LOLololololol
Red Sox honor David Ortiz for 500th career home run –
Big Papi is back at Fenway on Monday night, and the Red Sox are honoring his recent history-making homer.
WATCH: Red Sox honor David Ortiz for 500th career home run – CBSSports.com
cool!
Review of The WikiLeaks Files: the World According to the US Empire
How cable-gate rattled the “American empire” and ushered years of a US-led “WikiLeaks fatwa” , writes Alison Broinowski.
Review of The WikiLeaks Files: the world according to US empire
Man, Americans are assholes sometimes.
The WikiLeaks Files review: the truth will set you free – or put you to sleep
A collection of analytical essays on WikiLeaks’ US diplomatic bombshells is a damp squib, with little that is new or revealing, writes Ed O’Loughlin
The WikiLeaks Files review: the truth will set you free – or put you to sleep
hmmmm
Poll Reveals that White America Views Black Lives Matter Movement as a Distraction
And 41 percent of whites think it advocates violence.
Poll Reveals that White America Views Black Lives Matter Movement as a Distraction | Colorlines
Poll reveals White America is populated by a lot of douchebag assholes.
The most intriguing thing about the FBI recovering Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails
The most intriguing thing about the FBI recovering Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails – Yahoo Finance
Actually there is nothing interesting about email gate.
The longer it goes on the more obvious it is that this is a bizarre witch-hunt with absolutely no American security interest involved.
At all.
Snore!
Sooooo bored of this trite nonsense.
If she is in trouble then the preceding Sec of States need to be raked over the coals with her. Since they are nowhere to be seen this farce needs to go the fuck away already.
TSA screeners – not only useless and intrusive but overtly corrupt, grrrrrrreat!
A TSA screener has been fired after security camera footage showed him stealing $61 in cash from a traveler’s wallet at New York’s JFK International Airport. Recent complaints against the agency have included theft, sexual assault and fraudulent fondling.
Sticky fingers: TSA dogged by thefts, groping and fondling by screeners — RT USA
Sighhh
In Unit Stalked by Suicide, Veterans Try to Save One Another
Members of a Marine battalion that served in a restive region in Afghanistan have been devastated by the deaths of comrades and frustrated by the V.A.
In Unit Stalked by Suicide, Veterans Try to Save One Another – The New York Times
The war, how it was executed, the VA….
Everything about this is so fucked.
Ben Carson suggests doing away with Department of Veterans Affairs
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson suggested eliminating the Department of Veterans Affairs in a talk radio interview Wednesday, leading to swift condemnation from one veterans group.
Ben Carson suggests doing away with Department of Veterans Affairs – Baltimore Sun
What a douche
First all-female Honor Flight
First all-female Honor Flight to show 72 Tri-State veterans WWII Memorial – Story
A better article with comments from some of the veterans on the flight.
Mother Brings Toddler To Class And Professor Holds Him While Lecturing
Single Mother Brings Toddler To Class And Professor Holds Him While Lecturing
cool
First all-female Honor Flight
For the first time, 72 female veterans from World War II, The Korean and Vietnam Wars took part in an all-female Honor Flight. …The veterans toured Washington, D.C. on Tuesday
very cool
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis is meddling with county’s marriage licenses, again.
Four Kentucky couples are questioning whether altered licenses distributed after Kim Davis returned to work are valid.
ACLU: Kentucky clerk Kim Davis is meddling with county’s marriage licenses – The Washington Post
Sig…
End food deserts.
No matter their ZIP code, people deserve fresh food options.
From the top-down and the bottom-up, communities are coming together to end food deserts.
cool
Native American boy pulled from class over Mohawk haircut
“It’s a symbol of who we are,” said the boy’s father, who called it ironic that the Utah school is named Arrowhead.
Native American boy pulled from class over Mohawk haircut – The Washington Post
sigh….
Virginia school suspends an 11-year-old for one year over a leaf that wasn’t marijuana
A Virginia 6th grader was suspended for bringing pot to school — even though authorities know he didn’t.
what a bunch of unneeded drama.
Fact-Checking the GOP Debate
With 11 candidates on stage on Wednesday night, there were bound to be some misstatements, stumbles, and exaggerations.
Fact-Checking the GOP Debate – NBC News
hmmmmmm
2+2=What? Parents Rail Against Common Core Math
2+2=What? Parents Rail Against Common Core Math | NBC4 Washington
The explanations and defenses of this method are bullshit. There is no justification for complicating simple concepts or making math even harder to understand. People need to stop defending this failure. Period.
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