Andy Borowitz | ISIS Confused by Trump's Hotel Analogies
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "A spokesman for ISIS said on Tuesday that its leaders were 'genuinely confused' by the abundant hotel analogies in Presidential candidate Donald Trump's announcement speech, acknowledging that they were having a difficult time understanding how his colorful anecdotes about running a hotel empire translated into a strategy to defeat the terror group."
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Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "A spokesman for ISIS said on Tuesday that its leaders were 'genuinely confused' by the abundant hotel analogies in Presidential candidate Donald Trump's announcement speech, acknowledging that they were having a difficult time understanding how his colorful anecdotes about running a hotel empire translated into a strategy to defeat the terror group."
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Yanis Varoufakis, Former Finance Minister of Greece | Germany Won't Spare Greeks Pain - It Wants to Break Us
Yanis Varoufakis, Guardian UK
Varoufakis writes: "Greece's financial drama has dominated the headlines for five years for one reason: the stubborn refusal of our creditors to offer essential debt relief."
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Yanis Varoufakis, Guardian UK
Varoufakis writes: "Greece's financial drama has dominated the headlines for five years for one reason: the stubborn refusal of our creditors to offer essential debt relief."
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David Swanson | Read Mumia
David Swanson, David Swanson's Blog
Swanson writes: "Yes, I also want to say Free Mumia. In fact, I want to say Free all the prisoners. Turn the prison holding Mumia Abu-Jamal into a school and make him dean."
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David Swanson, David Swanson's Blog
Swanson writes: "Yes, I also want to say Free Mumia. In fact, I want to say Free all the prisoners. Turn the prison holding Mumia Abu-Jamal into a school and make him dean."
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Obama to Visit Federal Prison in Push for Criminal Justice Reform
Jordan Fabian, The Hill
Fabian writes: "Obama will travel to the El Reno Correctional Institution outside of Oklahoma City, becoming the first sitting president to visit a federal prison, White House press secretary Josh Earnest announced Friday. While at the prison, the president is likely to commute the sentences of dozens of non-violent drug offenders, The Washington Post reported."
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Jordan Fabian, The Hill
Fabian writes: "Obama will travel to the El Reno Correctional Institution outside of Oklahoma City, becoming the first sitting president to visit a federal prison, White House press secretary Josh Earnest announced Friday. While at the prison, the president is likely to commute the sentences of dozens of non-violent drug offenders, The Washington Post reported."
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Is the US Government Lying About the Number of Wiretaps It Implements?
David Kravets, Ars Technica
Kravets writes: "The government published its latest Wiretap Report on July 1. The headline finding was that encryption wasn't foiling federal and state law enforcement officials, despite a growing chorus of people suggesting that we're all gonna die unless the tech sector builds backdoor access into their products to enable government access."
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David Kravets, Ars Technica
Kravets writes: "The government published its latest Wiretap Report on July 1. The headline finding was that encryption wasn't foiling federal and state law enforcement officials, despite a growing chorus of people suggesting that we're all gonna die unless the tech sector builds backdoor access into their products to enable government access."
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Immigrant Detainees Sue Private Prison for Paying Them $1 Per Day for Forced Labor
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress
Lee writes: "The complaint charged that the contractor GEO Group, a privately-owned prison operator, randomly picked six detainees and forced them to clean rooms at the Aurora Detention Facility, where they were housed by 'threatening to put those who refused to work (for no pay) in 'the hole,'' or solitary confinement."
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Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress
Lee writes: "The complaint charged that the contractor GEO Group, a privately-owned prison operator, randomly picked six detainees and forced them to clean rooms at the Aurora Detention Facility, where they were housed by 'threatening to put those who refused to work (for no pay) in 'the hole,'' or solitary confinement."
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Fossil Fuel Industry Must 'Implode' to Avoid Climate Disaster, Says Top Scientist
Damian Carrington, Guardian UK
Carrington writes: "Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, an adviser to the German government and Pope Francis, said on Friday: 'In the end it is a moral decision. Do you want to be part of the generation that screwed up the planet for the next 1,000 years?'"
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Damian Carrington, Guardian UK
Carrington writes: "Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, an adviser to the German government and Pope Francis, said on Friday: 'In the end it is a moral decision. Do you want to be part of the generation that screwed up the planet for the next 1,000 years?'"
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