From Democracy Now! The Florida State Senate has defeated a measure to privatize at least 27 prisons, which would have created the largest corporate-run prison system in the country. Despite the vote, Republican Gov. Rick Scott could still privatize the prisons through executive authority. According to the U.S. Department of…
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From The Telegraph: Details of every phone call and text message, email traffic and websites visited online are to be stored in a series of vast databases under new Government anti-terror plans. Landline and mobile phone companies and broadband providers will be ordered to store the data for a year…
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Seventy years later, let us never forget FDR’s legacy of shame, Executive Order 9066. See also: 70 Years After FDR’s Japanese Internment Camps (12)
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From Space.com: A NASA spacecraft has captured an amazing video of solar twisters blowing across the surface of the sun. The tornado-like eruptions of super-hot plasma were spotted by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is constantly recording high-definition videos of the sun. The sun tornado video shows swirling fountains of…
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From Colorlines: This Sunday marks the 70th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066, which led to the forced internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans who lived along the West Coast. The order came after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In the wake of the attack, Japanese-Americans…
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From ThinkProgress: Earlier this month, a bill requiring women to receive an ultrasound before they can receive an abortion passed the Virginia senate, and it recently cleared a state house committee with an overwhelming majority. As Dahlia Lithwick explains, the effect of this bill would be to force most women…
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Forty percent of America identifies as conservative, 36 percent as moderate, and 21 percent as liberal. But how people politically “identify” and what people actually believe and practice doesn’t always add up. From CAP: According to a Pew survey released this month, more than half (57 percent) of lower-income Republicans…
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