10 Reasons Why #DemExit Is Serious: Getting Rid of Debbie Wasserman Schultz Is Not Enough
Sophia A. McClennen, Salon
McClennen writes: "Here are 10 reasons why the #DemExit movement has a valid reason to want nothing to do with the DNC. Having DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resign is not enough for #DemExit supporters because their concerns run throughout the ranks of the DNC."
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Sophia A. McClennen, Salon
McClennen writes: "Here are 10 reasons why the #DemExit movement has a valid reason to want nothing to do with the DNC. Having DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resign is not enough for #DemExit supporters because their concerns run throughout the ranks of the DNC."
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In Missouri, Ferguson Is Still Burning
Maggie Severns, Politico
Severns writes: "For many people in Missouri, especially the approximately 600,000 Republicans who expect to vote in the GOP primary Tuesday, the lesson of Ferguson is not that the police used too much force, it's that it used too little. Ferguson, to them, was an embarrassment: preventable chaos that tarnished the name of the otherwise orderly St. Louis suburbs."
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Maggie Severns, Politico
Severns writes: "For many people in Missouri, especially the approximately 600,000 Republicans who expect to vote in the GOP primary Tuesday, the lesson of Ferguson is not that the police used too much force, it's that it used too little. Ferguson, to them, was an embarrassment: preventable chaos that tarnished the name of the otherwise orderly St. Louis suburbs."
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Barrett Brown, Freedom of the Press, and the Failed Shield Law
Ali Salaam, Mint Press News
Salaam writes: "The American government has no interest in protecting press freedom. They just want to protect the press that serves the agenda of war and limit the political conversation to only the two parties. "
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Ali Salaam, Mint Press News
Salaam writes: "The American government has no interest in protecting press freedom. They just want to protect the press that serves the agenda of war and limit the political conversation to only the two parties. "
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Three Chicago Officers Stripped of Duty After Teen Shot in Back
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Three Chicago police officers have been stripped of their law enforcement authority after shooting and killing a young Black man with a bullet to his back in an incident where 'departmental policies may have been violated,' police said Saturday."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Three Chicago police officers have been stripped of their law enforcement authority after shooting and killing a young Black man with a bullet to his back in an incident where 'departmental policies may have been violated,' police said Saturday."
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Feminist Writer Jessica Valenti Quits Twitter After "Rape and Death Threat" Against 5-Year-Old Daughter
Women in the World, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Feminist author and columnist Jessica Valenti has announced she is taking a break from social media after waking up this week to 'a rape and death threat' to her young daughter. 'This morning I woke up to a rape and death threat directed at my 5-year-old daughter. That this is part of my work life is unacceptable,' Valenti wrote, in a series of tweets."
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Women in the World, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Feminist author and columnist Jessica Valenti has announced she is taking a break from social media after waking up this week to 'a rape and death threat' to her young daughter. 'This morning I woke up to a rape and death threat directed at my 5-year-old daughter. That this is part of my work life is unacceptable,' Valenti wrote, in a series of tweets."
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Opponents Target North Carolina Transgender Bathroom Law
Colleen Jenkins, Reuters
Jenkins writes: "North Carolina is the only state in the country to mandate that people use multiple-occupancy public restrooms and changing facilities that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate rather than their gender identity, placing it at the forefront of the latest civil rights frontier in America."
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Colleen Jenkins, Reuters
Jenkins writes: "North Carolina is the only state in the country to mandate that people use multiple-occupancy public restrooms and changing facilities that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate rather than their gender identity, placing it at the forefront of the latest civil rights frontier in America."
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Kurt Vonnegut's 1988 Letter to the Future More Relevant Today Than Ever Before
Kick Kennedy, EcoWatch
Kennedy writes: "In 1988, my then Hyannis Port neighbor the late Kurt Vonnegut wrote a prescient letter to the Earth's planetary citizens of 2088 for Volkswagen's TIME magazine ad campaign. His seven points of advice are perhaps more relevant today than at any time in human history. We should keep this advice in mind this election year and adopt Vonnegut's recommendations while we still can."
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Kick Kennedy, EcoWatch
Kennedy writes: "In 1988, my then Hyannis Port neighbor the late Kurt Vonnegut wrote a prescient letter to the Earth's planetary citizens of 2088 for Volkswagen's TIME magazine ad campaign. His seven points of advice are perhaps more relevant today than at any time in human history. We should keep this advice in mind this election year and adopt Vonnegut's recommendations while we still can."
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