There are two major angles to the Chris Christie bridge scandal. The most important angle here is the public safety hazard Christie’s staffers, and perhaps Christie himself deliberately created...
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Who Wants to Violently Overthrow the President Today?
It’s the egregious return of radio host Pete Santilli and psychonaut Jim Garrow. Not immediately familiar? You might recall Santilli’s remarks about wanting to shoot Hillary Clinton...
Chart of the Day
NASA brings us this chart showing international consensus on the climate crisis: Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due...
Activists Who Revealed COINTELPRO Surveillance Finally Emerge, Twitter Explodes with Comparisons to Snowden
On Tuesday, the activists/burglars who stole top secret J. Edgar Hoover-era FBI files including documents about what’s known as COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program), and subsequently...
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That Bizarre Q&A With Julian Assange
During a video-conferenced presentation, Wikileaks leaders Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum and Sarah Harrison were asked by an attendee, “What was the most difficult part on getting Snowden out...
California Begins Legislative Fight Against NSA
TPM reports: A pair of California state senators, one Democrat and one Republican, have introduced legislation to prevent the state from helping NSA mass surveillance. “The National Security...
Cold Weather Doesn’t Disprove Global Warming. Global Warming is Why It’s So Damn Cold.
Every now and then, it’s worth reminding ourselves that much of the national political discourse operates based upon a script, and, usually, script cues are driven by the news media. For...
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Consistency, Glenn Greenwald Style
In response to an article in The Daily Beast by Gordon Chang, Greenwald tweeted (among other things): DailyBeast: we're giving platform to a Glenn Beck regular to spew evidence-free innuendo based on...
Yes, Of Course NSA is Collecting Metadata from Members of Congress
The New Year seems to have resurrected the slow fade-to-black of the Edward Snowden saga. First, there’s a roiling case for the Justice Department to offer Snowden clemency or some kind of plea...
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Disney World: The Real Surveillance State
It’s a small world after all: The MyMagic+ “vacation management system” can track guests as they move throughout Walt Disney World and analyze their buying habits. If parents allow...
The Daily Banter Mail Bag: The Rejection of the Tea Party, Clemency for Snowden and Our New Year’s Resolutions
This week’s questions. Answers here. 1) Do you think the establishment Republican plan to stop the “fools” in the Tea Party will actually work or will it only hasten a rift in the...
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Super Stupid
In his ongoing effort to waste his taxpayer-funded salary by trolling on Twitter, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) tweeted this: Smart. Try spraying salt-water into your firearm on a regular basis, then...
Six Million Newly Insured Americans. Thanks, Obama.
The latest round of good news regarding the ACA: 2.1 million people have signed up for private coverage through the exchanges. That was the biggest news out of today’s conference call, where...
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