This is disturbing. Iva Barmina/Shutterstock Washington Post: Last year, a Washington Post analysis found that toddlers were finding guns and shooting people at a rate of about one a week. This year, that pace has accelerated. There have been at least 23 toddler-involved shootings since Jan. 1, compared with 18 over the same period last […]
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The Invasion of Iraq Was a Roaring Success
Hillary Clinton voted for the war and didn’t acknowledge she got it wrong until 2014. She stood by her vote when she ran for president in 2008. Melih Cevdet Teksen / Shutterstock.com The Intercept: More than 90 percent of young people in Iraq consider the United States to be an enemy of their country, according […]
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One Hundred and Forty-Seven FBI Agents Are Investigating Hillary Clinton’s E-mails
That’s a fuckton of FBI agents. GOP.Gov The Washington Post has a massive story out today diving into Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail scandal—that’s the Post‘s word—including this revelation regarding the FBI investigation into whether crimes were committed and whether her server was hacked: One hundred forty-seven FBI agents have been deployed to run down leads, […]
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How College Students and Veterans of the Occupy Movement Shut Down Trump in Chicago
Student protesters in Chicago last week. Marie Kanger-Born / Shutterstock.com There’s a lot of encouraging stuff in this report by Alex Seitz-Wald delving into the community organizing behind last Friday’s shutdown of a Trump rally: When Ja’Mal Green, a prominent black activist and Bernie Sanders supporter in Chicago, saw that Donald Trump was coming to […]
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The Closest Thing We Have to an Illuminati Secretly Met on a Private Island to Plot Against Trump
It doesn’t sound real, but it is. Gail Johnson/Shutterstock The Huffington Post reports: Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Institute’s annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering. The main topic […]
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Bernie Sanders Has a Stronger Lead Over Trump Than Hillary Clinton in a New National Poll
Respondents to CNN’s new poll are feeling the Bern. A KATZ / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM A new CNN poll today shows Bernie Sanders has the highest favorability rating among all presidential candidates, and it shows him trouncing Republican candidates by wider margins that Hillary Clinton: In the scenario that appears most likely to emerge from the primary […]
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Report: Apple’s Chinese Workers Are Paid Less Than Two Dollars Per Hour
The Apple Store in Shanghai. August_0802 / Shutterstock.com New York Magazine: In depressing news that should shock absolutely no one, an investigative report into labor practices of Apple contractors in China found, among other things, that workers at factories run by Foxconn and Pegatron, both major suppliers of Apple, work over 60 hours a week—Apple’s […]
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Meet Chibatman, the Real-Life Batman of Japan’s Chiba Prefecture
Chibatman—a 41-year-old welder who donned a Batman costume in order to make people smile after the Fukushima earthquake—has a CHIBATPOD!!!! I am smiling so damn hard right now. Mission accomplished!
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Gazans Launch Their Own Rubble Bucket Challenge
What do you do when the ALS ice bucket challenge is going viral, but water and ice aren’t easy to come by? “It came to my mind that it’s good idea to show the whole picture—how Gaza looks now, rubble, destruction, cement with sand, small rocks,” says journalist Ayman Al-Aloul, explaining to NBC News how […]
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St. Louis Police Killed Kajieme Powell in a Barrage of Bullets
“Over two fucking sodas,” says a witness who caught the incident, which occurred on Tuesday, on camera. Twenty-three-year-old Kajieme Powell, who is alleged to have stolen a few drinks and pastries from a nearby store, reportedly had a history of mental illness. This video, released by the police, is not easy to watch: The video […]
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Monkey Owns Copyright on Selfie, Wikimedia Foundation Says
And the selfie is amaaaazing. Wikimedia Stands Up for Monkey Photographer Rights, Refuses to Take Down Monkey Selfie – http://t.co/kmue8A9lH5 pic.twitter.com/6XTpm7E9wa— kimberly (@kimberlyintn) August 6, 2014 “A monkey pressed the button, but I did all the setting up,” grouses British nature photographer David Slater to The Telegraph. He’s suing.
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Israel Invades Gaza
The Israeli ground invasion has started on Gaza Strip, here the borders of Gaza. #GazaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/ny7sEjhar0— Jehad Saftawi (@Jehadsaftawi) July 17, 2014 Disgracefully, award-winning correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin will not be on the ground to cover it. When Israel invaded Gaza in 2008, Al Jazeera’s Mohedin and Sherine Tadros were the only English-language correspondents on the […]