The absurd defense Trump rioters are using to justify their behaviorBy theGrioAnd why it probably won't work.
JezebelTaylour Paige Taylour Paige and Zoë Kravitz Are 'a Thing,' the Latter Confirms Jezebel - Harron Walker What a weekend for celesbianism! First, Angel Olsen debuted her partner on Instagram and publicly confirmed that she is, in fact, gay, and now Taylour …
Conservative View Unhinged Cuomo: White Kids Need to Be Killed for Gun/Police Reform newsbusters.org - Nicholas Fondacaro News Analyst For months, NewsBusters has been documenting the disturbing tailspin of CNN Prime Time host Chris Cuomo as he descended into darker and darker levels …
SalonLiberal View Robert Reich: How corporations crush the working class verified_publisherSalonThis originally appeared on Robert Reich's blog. The most dramatic change in the system over the last half-century has been the emergence of corporate giants like Amazon and the shrinkage of labor unions....
The Washington PostOpinion & Analysis Doug Ford must resign verified_publisherThe Washington Post - By David MoscropAs Ontario Premier Doug Ford sat down at a Friday afternoon news conference to announce his plans to extend the province’s covid-19 measures, social media feeds erupted with posts from around the province,...
Business InsiderCivil RightsInsurrectionists who posted social media footage of the Capitol riots are claiming to be journalists in their legal defenses,... verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Joshua ZitserSeveral defendants charged in the Capitol riots have self-identified as journalists in a bid to justify their attendance at the deadly insurrection, according to the Associated Press. Individuals who have...
USA TODAYPolicing Police in Minnesota round up journalists covering protest, force them on the ground and take pictures of their faces verified_publisherUSA TODAY - Adrianna RodriguezJournalists covering a protest in a Minneapolis suburb Friday night were forced on their stomachs by law enforcement, rounded up and were only released after having their face and press credentials photographed....
NewsOneMerrick Garland Merrick Garland Restores DOJ Powers Investigating Police Departments NewsOne - Anoa Changa The attorney general effectively enacts the Justice Department’s investigation power to levels set by Obama's administration. U.S. Attorney General …
Guns No more GOP nonsense about gun rights suntimes.com - Letters to the Editor Someone needs to tell Republicans we are not living in 1870’s America, when cowboys with holstered guns supposedly roamed the prairie on …
Constitutional Law What AOC Just Got Wrong About the Supreme Court and Separation of Powers fee.org - Brad Polumbo Like every new member of Congress, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pledged to uphold the Constitution when she was sworn into office. But the socialist …
Storyful1:15Policing Reverend Jesse Jackson Meets Protesters Outside Brooklyn Center Police Department Storyful - flipboard.comCivil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson visited Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on April 17, on the seventh night of protests against the police shooting of Daunte Wright.Footage of the reverend, captured...
Culture Hollywood’s Beguiling Queen of Pre-Code Cinema neatorama.com - Miss Cellania Norma Shearer was the supremely confident early Hollywood star whose career survived both the advent of "talkies" and the censorship of the Hayes …
MSNBCMichigan Fmr Detroit Chief of Police on policing: “defund it, deconstruct it, and rebuild it from scratch." MSNBC Nekima Levy Armstrong, civil rights attorney and former president of the Minneapolis NAACP, and Ralph Godbee, former Detroit police chief, join Ali …
HuffPostLiberal View Anthony Fauci On Viral Exchange With Jim Jordan: 'This Has Nothing To Do With Liberties' HuffPost - Hayley Miller“We’re talking about the fact that 560,000 people in our country have died," the country's top infectious disease expert told CNN. Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday addressed the tense exchange he had with Jim...
India News PM Modi working 18-19 hours to tackle coronavirus surge: Piyush Goyal livemint.com - ANI He said after an elaborate meeting with 12 worst-affected states and union territories, the central government did mapping on medical oxygen …
Refinery29Lesbian “Oh, So You’re Straight Now?” Biphobia In The Lesbian Community verified_publisherRefinery29 - Jasmine AnderssonWhen Stevie spotted her ex-girlfriend across the room at a mutual friend’s house party, six months after they split, she made a beeline for her. She thought, on balance, that enough time had passed for...
The Mercury NewsNorthern California Suit claims Vallejo cop who tackled man for filming was part of ‘vigilante police gang’ that bent badges to mark kills The Mercury News - Nate Gartrell VALLEJO — In new court filings, attorneys for a Bay Area man who was tackled by a Vallejo officer as he filmed a traffic stop accuse the officer of …
WYFF0:44Greenville (N.C.) Union man fatally shot while driving, causing car to crash into home, starting fire, deputies say WYFF - flipboard.com
POLITICOJim Watkins The Secrets of QAnon's Appeal verified_publisherPOLITICO - Derek RobertsonHere's what QAnon documentaries reveal about how conspiracies flourish. A media suddenly bereft of the eye-popping right-wing extremism once peddled daily by the 45th president has found its methadone:...
FOX BusinessCalifornia Kroger closes 2 Southern California stores over $4 per hour 'hero pay' ordinance verified_publisherFOX Business - Peter AitkenRetail chain Kroger closed two California stores Saturday after Long Beach City approved a coronavirus "hero pay" ordinance. Hero pay ordinances bump pay for workers in retail stores and pharmacies with...
National ReviewConservative View Progressives Are Overreacting to a Startling Crime Study | National Review National Review - Charles Fain Lehman Every year, something like 13 million misdemeanor charges are filed in the United States. These charges, ranging from traffic violations to serious …
Travis Air Force Base 'I felt hate more than anything': How active-duty airman Steven Carrillo tried to start a Civil War lookout.co - by Gisela Pérez de Acha, Kathryn Hurd and Ellie Lightfoot, Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program It was 2:20 p.m. on June 6, 2020, and Steven Carrillo, a 32-year-old Air Force sergeant who belonged to the anti-government Boogaloo Bois movement, …
LGBTQ NationTrans Women Two men are under arrest & facing murder charges after allegedly targeting trans women LGBTQ Nation - Juwan J. Holmes Police have charged two previously-convicted people after issuing a "critical warning" following two known murders of Black trans women. After issuing …
Chicago TribunePolicing Why police can stop motorists with air fresheners hanging in their cars Chicago Tribune - Mike Baker and Nicholas Bogel-BurroughsPhil Colbert was on his way to meet his father for lunch before his shift at an Arizona auto dealership in 2019 when he saw the flashing lights of a sheriff’s patrol car in his mirror. He made sure his...
Reason.comRights & Freedoms Court Order Protecting People Displaying Press Passes and Covering Protests in Minnesota Reason.com - Eugene Volokh From Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright's decision Friday in Goyette v. City of Minneapolis: The individual Plaintiffs are journalists, photographers, and …
Scotland Flagpole flying Union Jack at Falkirk area war memorial snapped in half and thrown onto road scotsman.com - Jonathon Reilly A memorial dedicated to the brave sons of a Falkirk district village who gave their lives for their country has been vandalised. A flagpole flying a …
Rights & FreedomsHow a Japanese immigrant stood up to the injustices of his day with a pioneering civil rights message that resonates in... seattletimes.com - Steven Goldsmith Takuji Yamashita, a 1902 University of Washington Law School graduate, voiced with rare clarity why America must improve — to live up to its own …
New York CityQueens man’s recent death, 13 years after son beat him into coma with baseball bat, deemed homicide — but son now calls ‘a... nydailynews.com - Morgan Chittum After spending eight years in prison for an unthinkable crime — beating his own father into a vegetative state with a baseball bat in their Queens …
JezebelPublishing Simon & Schuster Has Decided to Drop the Book by One of the Cops Who Shot Breonna Taylor Jezebel - Harron Walker Following public outcry, Simon & Schuster has decided not to distribute a forthcoming book by one of the Louisville police officers involved in …
Labor Movement America’s Unions Are More Popular Than You Think jacobinmag.com In the wake of this month’s (at least provisional) defeat in Bessemer, America’s labor movement has a significant opportunity in the form of the PRO …
