Thursday, October 13, 2016

RSN: Police Arrest More People for Marijuana Use Than for All Violent Crimes - Combined, Pennsylvania's Shameful Criminal Justice System




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Andy Borowitz | Hillary Releases Twenty Thousand Spam E-Mails From Old Navy 
Hillary Clinton. (photo: Getty) 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "Hoping to quell the controversy over e-mails missing from her private account, the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday released twenty thousand spam e-mails she received from Old Navy." 
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Police Arrest More People for Marijuana Use Than for All Violent Crimes - Combined 
Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post 
Ingraham writes: "On any given day in the United States, at least 137,000 people sit behind bars on simple drug-possession charges, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch." 
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Judge Oversteps Florida Governor to Extend Voter Registration by 6 Days 
Kira Lerner, ThinkProgress 
Lerner writes: "A federal judge on Wednesday extended voter registration by six days in Florida. The ruling is a win for the state Democratic Party, which filed suit after Gov. Rick Scott forced over a million people to evacuate for Hurricane Matthew and then refused to change the registration deadline." 
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Pennsylvania's Shameful Criminal Justice System 
Lara Bazelon, Slate 
Bazelon writes: "Poorly trained police. Underpaid defense attorneys. No support for the wrongly convicted. How did the state's criminal justice system fail so profoundly?" 
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'Locker Room Talk' Isn't Harmless - It Normalizes Rape 
Jaclyn Friedman, Guardian UK 
Friedman writes: "Words matter, Donald Trump. Choosing to joke about causing harm to women plays into a larger narrative where it's OK to go from words to deeds." 
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Five Indigenous Struggles You've Never Heard Of 
Michael McDermott, teleSUR 
McDermott writes: "Recent protests by Native American groups against the construction of a massive oil pipeline in the Dakotas has turned the spotlight on one of the world's more visible Indigenous resistance movements. But Indigenous cultures continue to struggle for self-determination in virtually every corner of the globe. To wit, here are a few you might not have come across." 
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How the FDA Manipulates the Media 
Charles Seife, Scientific American 
Seife writes: "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been arm-twisting journalists into relinquishing their reportorial independence, our investigation reveals. Other institutions are following suit." 
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