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FOIA Documents Reveal Massive DEA Program to Record American’s Whereabouts With License Plate Readers | American Civil Liberties Union

Bennet Stein & Jay Stanley, ACLU10 years ago10 years ago016 mins

By Bennett Stein, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project & Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project at 7:15pm The Drug Enforcement Administration has initiated a massive national license plate reader program with major civil liberties concerns but disclosed very few details, according to new DEA documents obtained by the ACLU…

Holy Shit, I Interviewed the President — Medium

Hank Green10 years ago10 years ago024 mins

For the past six years, Google has been hosting post-State of the Union interviews with the President on YouTube. Some of these used pre-recorded questions, others incorporated Google Hangouts. My brother John even asked a couple of questions during the Hangout they did in 2013. My brother and his wife ask Obama if he could…

Man Shoots Self Outside News Corp Saying ‘Fox Ruined His Life:’ Sources Say – Midtown – DNAinfo.com New York

Heather Holland and Trevor Kapp10 years ago10 years ago02 mins

A man in his 30s was shot in an apparent suicide attempt outside the News Corp. building at 1211 Sixth Ave. on Jan. 26, sources said. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Trevor Kapp MIDTOWN — A man fatally shot himself outside the News Corp. building Monday, police sources said. Philip Perea, a 41-year-old Texas resident, shot himself…

Google released emails of three Wikileaks members to the FBI | Circa News

Circa10 years ago10 years ago01 mins

Wikileaks sent a letter to Google on Jan. 26 asking details on what materials Google handed over to the the FBI after a warrant was issued in March 2012. Wikileaks also wants to know why Google did not inform Wikileaks employees of the request until Dec. 23, 2014. Google released emails of three Wikileaks members to…

America’s Tolerance Problem – Bloomberg View

Clive Crook10 years ago10 years ago08 mins

For the next two years, the chances are good that the U.S. government will be almost completely paralyzed. After the midterm elections, power is more perfectly divided between a president and Congress that detest each other. Each sees its main job as blocking the other’s ambitions. The Republican majorities on Capitol Hill will pass bills…

Actually, young people like the NSA more than old people do, Pew says — Fusion

Alexis C. Madrigal10 years ago10 years ago03 mins

Actually, young people like the NSA more than old people do, Pew says After the Edward Snowden revelations about the National Security Agency’s wide-spread spying on the Internet, one might have expected the web-loving masses of young people to develop a poor impression of the agency. But, according to a new Pew Research Center poll, nothing…

House Passes Anti-Abortion Bill On Anniversary Of Roe v. Wade

Laura Bassett10 years ago10 years ago04 mins

Speaker of the House John Boehner and Republicans passed a bill Thursday that would codify a ban on federal funding for abortions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) | ASSOCIATED PRESS Entry Text On the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark abortion rights decision in Roe v. Wade, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 242-179 to…

Doomsday Clock Set at 3 Minutes to Midnight

Megan Gannon10 years ago10 years ago07 mins

A gigantic mushroom cloud billowed over Nagasaki, Japan, when an atomic bomb was dropped on the city in 1945. Credit: U.S. National Archives The world is “3 minutes” from doomsday. That’s the grim outlook from board members of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Frustrated with a lack of international action to address climate change…

Boston Bars City Employees From Criticizing The Olympics

Barry Petchesky10 years ago10 years ago03 mins

Nobody who lives in Boston actually wants the city to win its bid for the 2024 Olympic games. And yet, in a joinder agreement between the city and the United States Olympic Committee, mayor Marty Walsh has signed a contract that forbids city employees from speaking negatively about the big, the IOC, or the Olympic…

Joni Ernst: Let Them Wear Bread Bags | Wonkette

Doktor Zoom10 years ago10 years ago02 mins

<br /> Sen. Joni Ernst did her best in her robotic SOTU response to let us know that she empathizes with folks facing hard times: You see, growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry….

Andrew Tate, charged with rape and trafficking in Romania, returns to the U.S.

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Government Workers Cannot Be Fired for Their Political Views – The Atlantic

Birthright Citizenship Is a Sacred Guarantee – The Atlantic

Comic Book Publisher Drops Neil Gaiman Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations – The New York Times

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FOIA Documents Reveal Massive DEA Program to Record American’s Whereabouts With License Plate Readers | American Civil Liberties Union

Holy Shit, I Interviewed the President — Medium

Man Shoots Self Outside News Corp Saying ‘Fox Ruined His Life:’ Sources Say – Midtown – DNAinfo.com New York

Google released emails of three Wikileaks members to the FBI | Circa News

America’s Tolerance Problem – Bloomberg View

Actually, young people like the NSA more than old people do, Pew says — Fusion

House Passes Anti-Abortion Bill On Anniversary Of Roe v. Wade

Doomsday Clock Set at 3 Minutes to Midnight

Boston Bars City Employees From Criticizing The Olympics

Joni Ernst: Let Them Wear Bread Bags | Wonkette