Wikipedia Sues NSA Over Dragnet Internet Surveillance – The Intercept

Wikipedia is suing the NSA over surveillance programs that involve tapping internet traffic en masse from communications infrastructure in the U.S. in order to search it for intelligence purposes. The lawsuit argues that this broad surveillance, revealed in documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, violates the First Amendment by chilling speech and the open exchange…

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ON BROADWAY

In our project we focus on a single street in NYC: Broadway. Like a spine in a human body, Broadway runs through the middle of Manhattan Island curving along its way. We wanted to include a slightly wider area than the street itself so we can capture also the activities nearby. To define this area,…

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White Christians Are No Longer The Majority In 19 States | ThinkProgress

A new study reports that white Christians, long understood to be the primary shapers of American politics and culture, are rapidly losing their majority status across the country — even in traditionally conservative states. Earlier this week, Jonathan Merritt of the Religion News Service dug into data from the American Values Atlas, a website unveiled late…

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Elementary School Dumps Homework and Tells Kids to Play Instead – Kips Bay – DNAinfo.com New York

P.S. 116’s principal announced that students will no longer be assigned traditional homework. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Heather Holland KIPS BAY — A public elementary school is abolishing traditional homework assignments and telling kids to play instead — outraging parents who say they may pull their kids out of the school. Teachers at  P.S. 116 on East…

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[UPDATE] Delta Flight Skids Off Runway At LGA, Passenger Calls It A “Crash Landing”: Gothamist

[UPDATES BELOW] A commuter aircraft, believed to be Delta, skidded off the runway at LaGuardia airport this morning. No injuries have been reported. Here’s a photo and video:   #delta plane crashed trying to take off in this weather #LGA pic.twitter.com/MrBRKnNL3J — jay money (@jjay149) March 5, 2015   One passenger on the flight described…

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Ferguson Inc. – Sarah Kendzior – POLITICO Magazine

Wednesday’s news from the Justice Department that the Ferguson police are racially biased would not surprise any of the protestors who have kept the faith in this struggling suburb. /.shifty-wrapper It is their daily lives that were coldly recounted in a Justice Department report, six months in the making, that studied 35,000 pages of police…

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