Fifty Years of (SCOTUS-legitimated) Stop-and-Frisk
I meant to write about this last weekend, but was traveling for a wedding and didn't get to it. In any case, this past Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Terry v.
Category Archives: Liberal Political News
Journalists Remain Incapable of Dealing with Trump
Greg Sargent has been on a tear for the past forty-eight hours as he discusses the non-partisan media's inability to handle Trump. Yesterday, he wrote that: the Justice Department's inspector general is expected to release a report scrutinizing the FBI's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email arrangement.
TV We Didn’t Know We Needed
Werner Herzog is coming to television as the director and executive producer of "Fordlandia," a new series set in the 1920s and based on Henry Ford's attempt to built a Utopian society in the heart of the Amazon. The series is being developed by Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment Group, which acquired the rights to Greg Grandin's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.
“She Can Take It”
Seriously, that's it. I've said this before, but leaving aside malicious interference on his behalf , Trump's election comes down to an unconscionable number of men in positions of power abdicating their responsibilities in the belief that it doesn't matter how badly they shit on a woman, she'll always be there to clean up the mess.
Today Would Have Been Anne Frank’s 89th Birthday Had She Not…
Today would have been Anne Frank's 89th birthday. The Auschwitz Memorial and the Anne Frank Center have the details: Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt.
All Present and Accounted For
Finished watching tv downstairs, grabbed my phone, and took pictures of the sights on the way upstairs. Lily on her bed right next to my chair downstairs: After I am done messing around here for a little bit, I will brush my fangs, wash my face, and the nightly ritual begins.
Ultimate Mopar swap: Installing a 700hp Hellcat engine in a 2017 Ram Rebel
Ever since Mopar released its Hellcat V-8 as a crate engine last year, Ram enthusiasts have considered the possibility of another supertruck that could revive the performance passions the iconic SRT-10 models produced from 2004 to 2006. If you remember, those regular-cab models came with a 500hp, 8.3L, all-aluminum Viper V-10 engine and six-speed manual transmission.
Seth Meyers Amazed Kim Jong-un Brought Own Toilet To Summit
Really if you want to watch the nightly news one of the best outlets is Seth Meyers' late night show. Last night he marveled at the fact that Kim Jong-un brought his own portable toilet to the summit so that Western spies won't use the sewer system to check on his health.
Yeah, Ex-Sheriff David Clarke Really ‘Owned The Libs’ This Time
Remember Sheriff David Clarke, the guy who resigned as the sheriff in Milwaukee County to join the Trump administration as assistant secretary of Homeland Security? Then it came out that he plagiarized his master's thesis, so he couldn't get approval. Now that he stopped plagiarizing, he has become a Twitter sensation.
Trump Leaves 28,000 Troops Hanging In South Korea
That seems to be Trump's order coming out of the North Korean summit. Also, "Gimme my Peace Prize, Bitches!" CNN Pentagon reporter Barbara Starr is as confused as anyone at the Pentagon, and you can tell it's leaving her a little shaken.
North Korea: What Trump Gave Up For A Weak Deal And Photo-Op
Trump gave the North Korean leader his moment in the sun, a presidential handshake against he backdrop of the U.S. flag on equal footing with the DPRK flag. With all the pomp and circumstance surrounding the North Korean summit in Singapore, it wasn't a stretch that some sort of cursory agreement would be made.
Hey MAGA: Trump Gave Everything To A Forced Abortionist Who Hates Christianity
The New York Times reminds us today that Kim John-un is a ruthless dictator who commits crimes against humanity. In North Korea, these crimes "entail extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation," concluded a 2014 United Nations report that examined North Korea.
Trump Showed Kim Jong-un Propaganda Trailer Portraying Them As Heroes
Trump was so certain that he would sign some kind of an agreement that he had produced a propaganda picture show to the North Korean leader on an Ipad depicting them both as other worldly figures of colossal stature. Destiny Pictures presents a story of opportunity.
She Said
Edward Curtin is a writer whose work has appeared widely. He teaches sociology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. His website is http://edwardcurtin.com/
Trump takes aim at China’s tech sector. That could hurt U.S. innovation.
Visitors to the 21st China Beijing International High-tech Expo look at robots and a helicopter drone on display on May 17. The U.S.-China tech rivalry looks likely to intensify, despite ongoing efforts to avoid a tariff war . Among other targets, the Trump administration has taken aim at two aspects of China's presence in the United States: high-tech investment and students.
Tony Tony
I like live theater and see a lot of it though because I do not live in NYC and do not have infinite money and time I do not usually see the productions that Mr. Tony sees. But I have actually seen many of these this year! Farinelli and the King.
Interview with Ehud Barak (former Prime Minister of Israel) and Steve Zunes’ response
Editor's note: this interview took place before the killings of over 100 Palestinians and the wounding of several thousand at the fence separating Israel from Gaza in late April and May so this interview focused on the book by Ehud Barak which was about to be released in the US in May with its representative presentation of how many in the Labor Party in Israel continue to think. I did not press Barak on many points because I had been told by many who know how he operates that doing so would likely have ended the interview at that point and in any event would not have convinced him of the Tikkun perspective.
Stabbed in the Back – Kudlow and Navarro
Both Larry Kudlow and Peter Navarro said something on this morning's news programs that bothered me a lot. My tweet thread is going viral, so I thought I'd share it.
Mitch McConnell Whines That Democrats Are Obstructing Trump
The man who famously said that making President Obama a one-term president was their "single most important goal" and who spent eight years while Obama was in office obstructing absolutely everything, even if it was something Republicans used to be for, actually had the gall to complain about Democrats obstructing Trump at this year's "Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington D.C. MCCONNELL: Now look, the Democrats are not making any of this easy. They've decided it's more fun to be the resistance than to do their job and help us govern the country.
John Kelly Hacked, Complains Bitterly About Transparency
The breach, which the White House has previously declined to comment on, was confirmed by Kelly in an email obtained by BuzzFeed through a Freedom of Information Act request. Ironically, the email in which Kelly confirmed the hack was a message urging staff to limit email communications to avoid surrendering information via FOIA.