: Under pressure from a court order and amid worries over public outrage over the sheer brutality of the incident and why it took so long to do so (see below), Chicago officials on Tuesday evening released dash cam footage of the 2014 fatal shooting of seventeen-year-old Laquan McDonald by police officer Jason Van Dyke […]
Offering fresh evidence of the widespread institutional failures and public policies that forsake those in need of healthcare, adults with untreated mental illnesses are 16 times more likely than other civilians to be killed during a police encounter, according to a new report released Thursday by the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC). Click Here: Rugby league […]
Click:小型工作室 Heavy-handed security efforts at the Mall of America and elsewhere did not deter Black Lives Matter protesters, who disrupted holiday shopping and travel on Wednesday to call attention to systemic racism and police brutality in Minneapolis and beyond. After police at the mall threatened to arrest hundreds of peaceful protesters, Black Lives Matter activists […]
Bernie Sanders has won the presidential endorsement of progressive advocacy group MoveOn.org by the largest margin in its history, the organization announced on Tuesday. With a record-setting 79 percent of 340,665 votes cast by the group’s members, MoveOn Political Action officially endorsed Sanders for president in 2016. “His refusal to accept the status quo of […]
Senator Bernie Sanders put a hold on President Barack Obama’s nominee to take over the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday, joining with two other senators who have also objected to Dr. Robert M. Califf’s nomination, citing his ties to corporate drug manufacturers. “Dr. Califf’s extensive ties to the pharmaceutical industry give me no […]
Click:Crystal Chandeliers Why isn’t it easier to prepare and file your tax returns? Because, according to new report (pdf) from the office of Sen. Elizabeth Warrren (D-Mass.), the tax preparation industry has successfully lobbied the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to keep it that difficult, ensuring corporate profits and unfair expenses and hassle for taxpayers. This […]
Republican lawmakers are criticizing their party’s congressional candidate in Montana after he was charged Wednesday with assaulting a reporter — one day before his special election for a House seat. GOP lawmakers leaving their weekly policy meeting could be overheard discussing the Greg Gianforte assault with each other. Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-N.C.) called Gianforte’s behavior […]
Rallies will take place at Apple stores nationwide at 5:30pm local time on Tuesday to support the company in its staunch defense of privacy rights. The tech giant is currently embroiled in a civil liberties battle with the U.S. government, which has asked the company to create a “master key” that would allow it to […]
The United States and the 27 other NATO-member nations on Wednesday agreed to a new multinational force that will patrol the eastern European border setting up what many believe is “a dangerous dynamic…that has every possibility of spiraling out of control.” During a press conference on Wednesday, alliance ministers, who are meeting this week for […]
Leading environmental groups are throwing their weight behind the growing call for Congress to “do its job” and hold hearings and a vote on President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court. “There is ample precedent for a nominee to be confirmed in election years, even when the Senate and White House are controlled by opposite […]