One Year Ago Today - President Obama Supreme Court Nomination Announcement - March 16, 2016

One Year Ago Today - President Obama Supreme Court Nomination Announcement - March 16, 2016

President Obama announced U.S. Court of Appeals of D.C. Chief Judge Merrick Garland as his nominee to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. He urged the Senate to give Judge Merrick a fair confirmation hearing and a vote.

https://www.c-span.org/video/? 406805-1/president-obama-supre me-court-nomination-announceme nt

RSN: Remember: Scalia Was a Corporate Life Raft Who Hated Science

Antonin Scalia. (photo: Paul Morigi/Getty Images)

Remember: Scalia Was a Corporate Life Raft Who Hated Science

By Charles Pierce, Esquire

29 February 16

And his destructive legacy goes way beyond basic human rights.

ell, it's Monday, so that means the quality of political debate will rise again because Young Marco Rubio's new crew of speechwriters will have to be at school early for first-period gym.

The moonpie crossfire in the candidate's cafeteria has obscured even the importance of this election to the future of the Supreme Court, which is still down a justice since the death of Antonin Scalia. (As we noted yesterday, Tailgunner Ted Cruz is the exception. He thinks Judge Dread is coming to make him gay-marry a gun-grabbing abortionist who vandalizes tombstones in his spare time.) However, when nobody was looking, the loss of Scalia has had one whopping (and, I would argue, quite positive) consequence. It scared the bejesus out of Dow Chemical.

Dow, the largest U.S. chemical maker by sales, said Friday the accord will resolve its challenges to a $1.06 billion award to purchasers of compounds for urethanes, chemicals used to make foam upholstery for furniture and plastic walls in refrigerators. The Midland, Michigan-based company disputed a jury's finding it had conspired with four other chemical makers to fix urethane prices and asked the Supreme Court to take the class-action case on appeal. Scalia, one of the court's most conservative members, had voted to scale back the reach of such group suits. "Growing political uncertainties due to recent events with the Supreme Court and increased likelihood for unfavorable outcomes for business involved in class-action suits have changed Dow's risk assessment of the situation," the company said in an e-mailed statement.

No kidding. Get out the checkbook, gang. Keep writing zeroes until I tell you to stop.

Scalia wrote the 5-4 ruling in 2011 that said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. couldn't be sued by potentially a million female workers. Two years later, Scalia was the author of a 5-4 ruling that freed Comcast Corp. from having to defend against an $875 million antitrust lawsuit on behalf of Philadelphia-area customers. "Class-actions is one of the areas where Justice Scalia's absence is likely to have an impact," said Gregory Garre, an appellate lawyer at Latham & Watkins in Washington and previously President George W. Bush's top Supreme Court lawyer. "Companies will have to be careful what they ask for in seeking review, or at least face an added burden in prevailing at the court on class-action issues."

He was reliably a goon on most human rights and criminal-justice issues. But Scalia's legacy as a corporate life raft is sadly unexamined. If you think that the Republican intransigence on this issue is strictly a matter of being against anything the president supports, or that it's strictly a matter of loony constitutional theorizing, you're missing half the picture. They're stalling because the people who write them the checks need a reliable Supreme Court so that they can make more money and write more checks. Scalia was someone they could count on. He also was extraordinarily strange in many ways.

Antonin Scalia generally detested science. It threatened everything he believed in. He refused to join a recent Supreme Court opinion about DNA testing because it presented the details of textbook molecular biology as fact. He could not join because he did not know such things to be true, he said. (On the other hand, he knew all about the eighteenth century. History books were trustworthy; science books were not.) Scientists should be listened to only if they supported conservative causes, for example dubious studies purporting to demonstrate that same-sex parenting is harmful to children. Scientists were also good if they helped create technologies he liked, such as oil drills and deadly weapons.

It's not all about dick jokes. In a country founded by people as driven to explain the physical world around them as they were driven to reconceive the relationship of governments to the people, in a country dedicated to the empirical rules of evidence in conjunction with the rule of law, it's also about how we choose, as a self-governing people, to view the world.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35475-remember-scalia-was-a-corporate-life-raft-who-hated-science

CLG: Conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Dies at 79, Fukushima clean-up may take up to 40 years, nuclear plant's operator says, Entergy's Pilgrim nuclear power plant is shut over arrival of snow in Massachusetts

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13 February 2016

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Breaking: Conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Dies at 79 --Scalia was key in installing George W. Bush as president in 2000 coup in U.S. and blocked release of Dick Cheney's records on seeds of [illegal] Iraq and Afghanistan invasions/occupations | 13 Feb 2016 | The supreme court justice [sic] Antonin Scalia has died. He was 79. Texas governor Greg Abbott issued a statement confirming the news and paying tribute to Scalia, a noted and staunch conservative. The San Antonio Express News reportedthat Scalia was found dead on Saturday at a ranch in the Big Bend region of Texas, south of Marfa, and said he had been staying at a ranch, for a private party, and was discovered to have died after not attending a breakfast. Local ABC affiliate KVIA reported that Scalia died in his sleep after a day of quail hunting.

 

Fukushima clean-up may take up to 40 years, nuclear plant's operator says | 11 Feb 2016 | Cleaning up Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which suffered catastrophic meltdowns after an earthquake and tsunami hit in 2011, may take up to 40 years...Around 300 to 400 tons of contaminated water is generated every day as groundwater flows into the plant filled with radioactive debris. To contain the tainted radioactive water, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) pumps up the water and stores it in tanks, adding a new tank every three to four days. There are 1,000 tanks today containing 750,000 tons of contaminated radioactive water.

 

Entergy's Pilgrim nuclear power plant is shut over arrival of snow in Massachusetts | 08 Feb 2016 | Operators at Entergy's 728-MW Pilgrim nuclear plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts, shut the unit early Monday morning as a precautionary measure, while a snowstorm swept through the state, a plant spokesman said. Pilgrim spokesman Patrick O'Brien said operators began to reduce the unit's power from 100% at 9 pm EST (0200 GMT) Sunday, noting the "weather might be an issue, with loss of power" possible. Pilgrim shut automatically in January 2015 and in February 2014 during snowstorms when offsite power, provided by a local utility, was interrupted.

 

Syria 'rebels' say get more missiles from Assad's enemies | 12 Feb 2016 | Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's foreign enemies have sent rebels I-CIA-SIS new supplies of ground-to-ground missiles to confront a Russian-backed offensive by the government near Aleppo, stepping up support in response to the attack, two 'rebel' commanders said. The commanders told Reuters the missiles with a range of 20 km (12 miles) had been provided in "excellent quantities" in response to the attack that has cut rebel supply lines from the Turkish border to opposition-held parts of the city of Aleppo.

 

Five U.N. peackeepers killed by truck bomb, mortar fire in Mali | 12 Feb 2016 | Five U.N. peacekeepers were killed when their base in northern Mali was hit by mortars, gunfire and a truck bomb on Friday, an attack that a local separatist group blamed on Islamist militants. At least 30 people were wounded in the attack in Kidal, a town in an unstable desert region that is home to Islamist groups including al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] in the Islamic Maghreb which have staged increasingly bold raids in recent months and have targeted the U.N. base several times. "At about 7 a.m. (0700 GMT) the MINUSMA base in Kidal was the target of a complex attack," said Mahamat Saleh Annadif, the Mali representative of the U.N. secretary general, referring to the mission.

 

Oregon standoff ends after 41 days with dramatic surrender | 11 Feb 2016 | The four holdouts in the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon surrendered on Thursday, with the last protester repeatedly threatening suicide in a dramatic final phone call with mediators before he gave up, ending the 41-day standoff. David Fry, 27, stayed behind for more than an hour and told supporters by phone he had not agreed with the other three to leave the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon. The call was broadcast live on an audio feed posted on the Internet...The protesters told authorities they left behind booby traps but did not say whether the trip wires and other devices would trigger explosions, a law enforcement official told Reuters.

 

Saudi Arabian teacher reportedly opened fire, killing several people | 12 Feb 2016 | A teacher in southern Saudi Arabia has opened fire on colleagues, killing at least six people and wounding two, state television is reporting. The brief reports on the state television channel's website and Twitter account did not elaborate or offer a reason for Thursday's shooting at an education department building. It quoted an unnamed police spokesman for the information and said the suspected shooter was in custody.

 

Machete-Wielding Man Injures 4 at Ohio Restaurant, Is Killed by Police | 12 Feb 2016 | A machete-wielding attacker slashed four people seemingly at random inside a Columbus, Ohio, restaurant Thursday and the suspect was later shot dead by police, authorities said. "There was no rhyme or reason as to who he was going after," Columbus Police Sgt. Rich Weiner said of the 6 p.m. rampage at Nazareth Restaurant and Deli. The suspect "immediately began swinging a machete at customers and employees" upon entering the restaurant, Weiner told NBC affiliate WCMH.

 

Speaker Ryan: Not enough votes for TPP 'trade' deal | 11 Feb 2016 | House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, said Thursday that the landmark Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal corporate takeover doesn't have enough votes to pass Congress right now. "I don't think the votes are there right now because of the concerns about what's in the TPP," Ryan told reporters at his weekly press conference...Even with Republican help, the president will face opposition from Democrats. Both Democratic presidential candidates oppose the trade [sic] deal, as does Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts.

 

Special counsel: Manslaughter charge possible in Flint water poisonings | 09 Feb 2016 | Todd Flood, special counsel for the state attorney general’s office investigation into the Flint water crisis, said Tuesday the probe could lead to a variety of criminal charges or civil actions. "We're here to investigate what possible crimes there are, anything to the involuntary manslaughter or death that may have happened to some young person or old person because of this poisoning, to misconduct in office," he said..."It's not far-fetched" to imagine involuntary manslaughter charges in the case, Flood told reporters, if the investigation links "gross negligence" or a "breach of duty" to a death in Flint, where at least nine people have died of Legionnaires' disease after the city switched to Flint River water in April 2014.

 

Unless It Changes, Capitalism Will Starve Humanity By 2050 | 09 Feb 2016 | Capitalism has generated massive wealth for some, but it's devastated the planet and has failed to improve human well-being at scale...These trends support the need to build a new system: one that will balance economic growth with sustainability and human flourishing. In response to consumer demand and pressure from Wall Street, public corporations have been willing to ravage the environment and ignore employee opinion as part of their relentless pursuit of growth. A new generation of companies recognize these shortcomings and are tweaking the current form of capitalism by pioneering distributed ownership structures and agile management styles.

 

Trump mocks Jeb Bush for bringing brother on campaign trail | 11 Feb 2016 | Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is mocking rival Jeb Bush for bringing his brother, former President [sic] George W. Bush, to help campaign. "Don't fall asleep when I mention the name," Trump said, when he brought up Jeb Bush during a rally in Louisiana on Thursday...Trump said he'd refrain from saying too much until after the former president makes a statement, adding "there's plenty to say about what happened."

 

Ted Cruz pulls online ad featuring a PORN STAR on the same day he speaks to conservative Christian 'values' group in the Deep South --Cruz unveiled new ad titled 'Conservatives Anonymous' on Thursday | 11 Feb 2016 | Republican Ted Cruz's presidential campaign quickly pulled its latest online ad - a spot promoting his conservative Christian values - off YouTube on Thursday after it emerged that a soft-core porn actress was among its stars. The Texas senator's ad, titled 'Conservatives Anonymous', accused Florida Sen. Marco Rubio of duping tea party voters who carried him into office in 2010. It features a woman cautioning Marco's supporters to 'vote for more than just a pretty face next time'. The ad came down within hours after The Daily Caller identified the woman as Amy Lindsay, whose IMDb filmography lists acting 74 credits dating back to 1994,

 

Chris Christie suspends his presidential campaign | 10 Feb 2016 | Chris Christie -- the brash New Jersey governor whose fast rise in Republican politics was undone by a petty scheme to clog traffic on a bridge -- has decided to suspend his presidential campaign, according to two Republicans briefed on his deliberations. Christie held a meeting and conference call with campaign staff at 4 p.m. to inform them of his decision, the Republicans said. Christie finished sixth in Tuesday’s primary in New Hampshire, the state on which he had pinned his last presidential hopes.

 

Chris Christie is taking a surprise trip back to New Jersey after a disappointing finish in New Hampshire[But New Jersey doesn't want him back...] | 09 Feb 2016 | New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going back to New Jersey after a disappointing showing in the New Hampshire Republican primary Tuesday night. With a majority of precincts precincts reporting, Christie had less than 8% of the vote. He was projected to finish sixth, behind Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), and other competitors.

 

Carly Fiorina Suspends Campaign for President | 10 Feb 2016 | Former [failed] Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina announced Wednesday she will suspend her campaign after disappointing showings in the two opening contests of the GOP presidential primary. Fiorina finished with just four percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday after an equally tough showing in the Iowa caucuses. She originally told supporters her campaign would continue on, but her prospects in South Carolina, Nevada and beyond looked bleak.

 

First case of Zika identified in Alabama as it emerges virus has now spread to 20 U.S. states and DC --59 cases have been reported in the U.S. and all were infected abroad | 10 Feb 2016 | The first case of the Zika virus has been confirmed in Alabama. Officials in Alabama said the person had recently traveled to a country affected by the virus and returned infected...The worst affected areas are Florida, with 14 cases of Zika, Texas, with 11, California, with six, and New York, with five. Hawaii, Illinois, Nebraska, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC, have all seen at least two cases, while 10 other states have each seen one infection.

 

U.S. Justice Dept. sues Ferguson, Missouri, over police reforms | 10 Feb 2016 | The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil rights lawsuit against Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday to enforce a police and court reform plan after the city said it wanted to amend some aspects of a consent decree it had reached with the federal agency. The Justice Department initiated a civil rights investigation into Ferguson's policing after an unarmed black teenager was killed by a white police officer in 2014. It resulted in a report that was extremely critical of Ferguson's police and court systems.

 

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Justice Antonin Scalia: Racist

'nuff said!

Lawrence Hamm's post.

RSN: In Greenpeace Sting, Professors Agree to Produce Research for Fossil Fuel Industry Without Disclosure, Muhammad Ali Hits at Trump and 'Misguided Murderers' Sabotaging Islam

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | What Donald Trump and ISIS Have in Common 
 
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, TIME 
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "Trump's latest enemy du jour are Muslims. He's the schoolyard bully rallying classmates to make fun of the skinny kid with glasses." 
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A Year After Torture Report, CIA and Its Accomplices Still Free 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "A year ago the United States Senate published the product of a five-year investigation into the torture tactics employed by the Central Intelligence Agency. One year later, nothing has happened." 
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Where Justice Scalia Got the Idea That African Americans Might Be Better Off at 'Slower-Track' Universities 
Yanan Wang, The Washington Post 
Wang writes: "Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, no stranger to controversy, drew fire Wednesday after suggesting that African American students might be better off attending 'slower-track' universities." 
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Muhammad Ali Hits at Trump and 'Misguided Murderers' Sabotaging Islam 
M. Alex Johnson, NBC News 
Johnson writes: "Like the champion fighter he is, Muhammad Ali took jabs Wednesday at 'so called Islamic Jihadists' and those who would 'use Islam to advance their own personal agenda.'" 
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bell hooks: Feminism Is the Social Change Movement That Has Been Most Honest With Itself 
George Yancy and bell hooks, The New York Times 
Excerpt: "We cannot have a meaningful revolution without humor. Every time we see the left or any group trying to move forward politically in a radical way, when they're humorless, they fail. Humor is essential to the integrative balance that we need to deal with diversity and difference and the building of community." 
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Terrorists Want You to Be Very Afraid. So Don't Be. 
Gershom Gorenberg, The American Prospect 
Gorenberg writes: "The original meaning of words is washed away by overuse. So a reminder: Terrorism is intended to make you feel terror, to make fear flood your mind and keep you from thinking straight. That's true whether it takes place in Paris, San Bernardino, or Jerusalem. The first step in defeating terrorism, therefore, is to chill out." 
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In Greenpeace Sting, Professors Agree to Produce Research for Fossil Fuel Industry Without Disclosure 
Zaid Jilani, The Intercept 
Jilani writes: "'How much have you taken from Peabody Coal?' That was the question Greenpeace researcher Jesse Coleman asked prominent climate change skeptic and Princeton physicist William Happer in a Senate hearing room Tuesday afternoon, just as Happer was preparing to testify before Senator Ted Cruz's Commerce subcommittee." 
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RSN: Bernie Sanders Fights Hard for Votes in South Carolina, Another Aylan: 4-Year-Old Syrian Refugee Found Dead

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Scott Galindez | Bernie Sanders Fights Hard for Votes in South Carolina 
 
Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News 
Galindez writes: "Declaring that 'the killing of African-Americans has got to stop' during a forum on criminal justice reform in Charleston, South Carolina, on Saturday, Bernie Sanders put police reform at the top of a list of proposals to remake the criminal justice system in the United States. 'Too many African-Americans and other minorities find themselves subjected to a system that treats citizens who have not committed crimes like criminals,' Sanders said." 
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The Fate of Over 4 Million People Could Rest With Justice Scalia 
Ian Millhiser, Think Progress 
Millhiser writes: "After a slow crawl through the lower federal courts, the fate of President Obama's long-delayed immigration programs is finally before the Supreme Court. But because of a quirk of the Supreme Court's scheduling process, the fate of these programs could rest with one of the justices who is least likely to be sympathetic to the undocumented immigrants who will benefit from the programs: Justice Antonin Scalia." 
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In Conversation: DeRay Mckesson 
Rembert Browne, New York Magazine 
Browne writes: "After a year spent in the eye of a storm of protests across America, activist DeRay Mckesson talks about the new civil-rights movement he helped launch, the conspiracy theories he's inspired, and that blue vest." 
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Belgium Police Arrest 21, Paris Fugitive Still at Large 
Lorne Cook and Sylvie Corbet, AP 
Excerpt: "Belgian police launched more raids in Brussels and beyond early Monday, detaining five more people as they continued their hunt for a fugitive suspect in the Paris attacks." 
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Another Aylan: 4-Year-Old Syrian Refugee Found Dead 
Dogan News Agency 
Excerpt: "Turkish fishermen found the dead body of a 4-year-old Syrian migrant girl off Turkey's Bodrum coast on Nov. 22, four days after a migrant dinghy capsized. The girl's fate was reminiscent of that of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi, whose lifeless body washed up on the shore of Bodrum in September, triggering worldwide outrage." 
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Democrats Get Speck of Blue in Deep South as Louisiana Rejects Vitter for Governor 
Daniel Politi, Slate 
Politi writes: "State Rep. John Bel Edwards trounced Republican Sen. David Vitter at the polls on Saturday in an astounding political upset that saw a relatively unknown Democrat beat a man who was once seen as a shoo-in for the job." 
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Stopping Illegal Logging Will Protect Endangered Species While Saving American Jobs 
Eric Parfait Essomba and Jesse Prentice-Dunn, EcoWatch 
Excerpt: "Second in size only to the Amazon, the Congo Basin rainforests are a hotbed of biological diversity. From lowland gorillas to African teak, more than 10,000 species of tropical plants are found alongside 400 species of mammals and 1,000 species of birds. Unfortunately, these rainforests and the communities that depend on them are under attack from illegal logging." 
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This, that..... Jon Stewart shreds Scalia’s dissent: He had no problem telling voters to ‘f*ck off’ in Citizens United

Jon Stewart shreds Scalia’s dissent: He had no problem telling voters to ‘f*ck off’ in Citizens United

'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart on June 29, 2015. [YouTube]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/jon-stewart-shreds-scalias-dissent-he-had-no-problem-telling-voters-to-fck-off-in-citizens-united/



Dear Maine Neighbors:

Hope you regain your sanity at the polls.  

This was a link long ago, nothing new: 
Maine Gov. Paul LePage's administration [of lunatics]



The Republican governor of Maine has earned the name Paul "LeRampage." After saying he wants to shoot a political cartoonist he said he wanted to round up lawmakers and execute them in the public square.

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Maine GOP Governor Loses It, Threatens To Shoot A Cartoonist And Execute Lawmakers

The Republican governor of Maine has earned the name Paul "LeRampage." After saying he wants to shoot a political cartoonist he threatened to round up...

IFYOUONLYNEWS.COM|BY CHARLES TOPHER

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Somehow I don't think that would work.

This, that....removing the Confederate Flag and all it stands for

Zinn Education Project with Loretta M. Hill

"I removed the flag not only in defiance of those who enslaved my ancestors in the southern United States, but also in defiance of the oppression that continuesagainst black people globally in 2015, including the ongoing ethnic cleansing in the Dominican Republic. I did it in solidarity with the South African students who toppled a statue of the white supremacist, colonialist Cecil Rhodes. I did it for all the fierce black women on the front lines of the movement and for all the little black girls who are watching us. I did it because I am free." Bree Newsome. Continue reading:http://bit.ly/1FLvz1M

The Rachel Maddow Show

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Last week, it seemed as if Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had reached some kind of peak -- his antics couldn't get worse.

Today, the far-right justice appears to have kicked things up a notch.

http://on.msnbc.com/1GLtSTz

Is it still possible to reach Peak Scalia?

Just when it seems his antics couldn't possibly become more ridiculous, Justice Antonin Scalia finds a way.

MSNBC.COM

"Because of intensifying civil strife over the recent killings of unarmed black men and boys, many Americans are wondering, “What’s wrong with our police?” Remarkably, one of the most compelling but unexplored explanations may rest with a FBI warning of October 2006, which reported that “White supremacist infiltration of law enforcement” represented a significant national threat.
Several key events preceded the report. A federal court found that members of a Los Angeles sheriffs department formed a Neo Nazi gang and habitually terrorized the black community. Later, the Chicago police department fired Jon Burge, a detective with reputed ties to the Ku Klux Klan, after discovering he tortured over 100 black male suspects. Thereafter, the Mayor of Cleveland discovered that many of the city police locker rooms were infested with “White Power” graffiti. Years later, a Texas sheriff department discovered that two of its deputies were recruiters for the Klan.
In near prophetic fashion, after the FBI’s warning, white supremacy extremism in the U.S. increased, exponentially. From 2008 to 2014, the number of white supremacist groups, reportedly, grew from 149 to nearly a thousand, with no apparent abatement in their infiltration of law enforcement."

FBI's warning of white supremacists infiltrating law enforcement nearly forgotten

Because of intensifying civil strife over the recent killings of unarmed black men and boys, many Americans are wondering, "What's wrong with our police?"...

THEGRIO.COM

The Hill

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“I acknowledge the right to contract in all economic and personal spheres, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a danger that a government that involves itself in every nook and cranny of our lives won’t now enforce definitions that conflict with sincerely felt religious convictions of others,” Rand Paul said. “I for one will stand ready to resist any intrusion of government into the religious sphere.”

Rand Paul: Government has no business defining marriage

The GOP candidate is ending his silence over the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision.

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The Supreme Court Just Delivered A Victory To Coal Plants That Want To Emit Unlimited Mercury

The decision doesn't mean power plants will never be subject to regulations on toxic air pollutants. But the rule is effectively delayed.

THINKPROGRESS.ORG

"At least 10 members of the group, which authorities described as a militia-styled, anti-Semitic domestic terrorist organization, have been arrested in Florida since the weekend, including at least three people on Tuesday.
The felony arrest charges include paramilitary training, attempting to shoot into an occupied dwelling, and evidence of prejudices while committing an offense. The last charge falls under Florida's hate-crimes law."

White supremacists accused of planning for 'race war' in Florida

Members of a white supremacist skinhead group called American Front trained with AK-47s, shotguns and explosives at a fortified compound in central Florida...

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Enjoli Robin

Give em hell BERNIE SANDERS because WE'VE HAD IT!
We're tired of being lied to.
‪#‎tired‬ of being told we aren't worth a ‪#‎fairwage‬ because we aren't smart enough, or don't have the right parents, or race.

We're tired of being blamed for the failed economy while CEOS make 300xs the pay of their workers.

WE'RE tired of the ‪#‎Walton‬, the ‪#‎Koch‬ the ‪#‎rothschild‬ FAMILIES getting fat from OUR labor and letting us STARVE.... then plotting and putting us against eachother.
We're TIRED to the ‪#‎CORRUPT‬ ‪#‎POLITICALAGENDA‬ of the media!!

WE WILL :
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WE ARE THE 99% and WE WILL VOTE. WE WILL WIN.
WE WON'T LET YOU CONVINCE US THAT WE DON'T MATTER.
YOU WILL HEAR US.

WE want ‪#‎FREEDOM‬ that was promised.
WE want ‪#‎OPPORTUNITY‬ that you only give to your ‪#‎cronies‬.

We want Affordable college & health care. We want pensions. We want our‪#‎unionstrong‬ ‪#‎labormovement‬ to be heard loud and strong!

We want a President who supports ON RECORD all forms of ‪#‎civilrights‬ and‪#‎humanrights‬, including ‪#‎LGBTRights‬ since entering office.
We want someone who ‪#‎CANTBEBOUGHT‬ or bullied

We want a ‪#‎President‬ that is just as DISGUSTED with your greed as we are.
We want ‪#‎REVOLUTION‬ ‪#‎progressive‬ ‪#‎socialist‬, sweet ‪#‎liberal‬ #liberal!!

‪#‎wearethe99percent‬ ‪#‎potus‬
‪#‎feelthebern‬ ‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬ ‪#‎equality‬ ‪#‎justice‬ #womenforBernie

Take this and BLOW UP social media!! #feelthebern
The storm is coming.

AlterNet

The Second Amendment should extend to wedding cakes