Judges Uphold Most Of NY’s Gun Control Law, Gun Lover Says “NYC Is A Problem”: Gothamist

A federal appeals court has upheld the “core provisions” of New York’s SAFE Act and a Connecticut gun control law, both passed following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut and challenged in court by gun-rights activists on constitutional grounds. A three-judge panel from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on…

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Survivor-count for the Chicago PD’s black-site/torture camp climbs to 7,000+ / Boing Boing

In February, the Guardian reported stories about the Holman Square, the Chicago Police Department’s off-the-books black-site, where (mostly black and brown) suspects are denied counsel while being brutalized into forced confessions. Now, Spencer Ackerman is back with news of the Guardian’s spectacular lawsuit against the Chicago PD, in which they are seeking transparency about Holman…

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Over 700 people killed by police this year. But who’s counting? – Columbia Journalism Review

During the summer of 2014, as the Black Lives Matter movement flared amid a spate of questionable police killings, the little known hashtag #every28hours began appearing with increasing frequency on social media. The hashtag is shorthand for the statistic, drawn from a 2013 report by the black activist group Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, that an…

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Raising Republican Hackles, Trump Takes On George Bush’s 9/11 Record – First Draft. Political News, Now. – The New York Times

Photo Donald J. Trump at the No Labels Problem Solver Convention in Manchester, N.H., on Monday.Credit Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times Conservatives have criticized Donald J. Trump for expressing liberal views on health care, abortion and taxing the rich. On Friday, Mr. Trump, who is leading most Republican presidential polls, offered his…

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Stephen Colbert just did the impression that could forever define Bernie Sanders – Salon.com

Stephen Colbert thinks Tuesday night’s Democratic debate was different. There were no personal attacks, no salty language — except, from the back wall, which for some reason kept repeating ‘f CNN’” (the debate was cosponsored by Facebook and displayed its logo before CNN’s). Colbert played a video splicing all of times Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders…

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