We were there

Inside, And Kicked Out Of, ALEC’s Secretive Policy Summit
"I don't know why some people are allowed in and others aren't." The American Legislative Exchange Council, the right-wing corporate lobbyist group, has its annual D.C. summit this week.
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Where do we go from here?

Rolling Stone, Journalistic Integrity, And The Fight Against Campus Rape
The magazine says that its central source in an explosive story about gang rape may not be totally credible.
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Such a disappointment!

‘Peter Pan Live!’ Too Good To Hate-Watch
How do you snark at a show that's just okay?
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How low is the bar to join the Cleveland Police?

In one incident, a 300-pound officer sat on a 13 year-old boy and punched the boy in the face repeatedly while the boy was handcuffed in the back of a police car

Justice Department Uncovers Absurd Levels Of Police Brutality In The Cleveland Police Force
Some of the incidents laid out in the report reflect such questionable judgment that they would almost be comic if they did not end so tragically.
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He was delivering fast food to his kids

White Officer Shoots And Kills Unarmed Black Man In Phoenix
Protesters took to the streets on Thursday in response to the death of Rumain Brisbon.
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Some GOOD news!

7 Victories For Reproductive Freedom You May Not Realize Happened This Year
Believe it or not, there have been some bright spots in 2014.
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BREAKING: The economy added 321,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate is 5.8% thkpr.gs/3600053

A 4.3 mile RIVER OF OIL.

PHOTOS: Israel Hit With Massive 600,000 Gallon Oil Spill
Israeli media is reporting that a nature reserve has been flooded and more than 80 people have been hospitalized due to the spill.
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A movement is born

MAP: Watch How Low-Wage Worker Strikes Spread To 190+ Cities
In barely two years, fast food worker strikes have spread from New York City to 190 others, jumping to other low-wage industries in the process.
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Listen up

Campus Gang Rapes Aren't As Uncommon As You Think
The backlash to a recent story about a gang rape at UVA has been partially based on the notion that the story is too horrific to be true. Research says otherwise.
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Facts.

Critics Who Predicted Huge Premium Increases Under Obamacare Get Proved Wrong
Premiums will decrease, on average, in at least 14 states.
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We read it so you don't have to

5 Remarkable Figures Buried In A $585 Billion, 1600 Page Defense Spending Bill
The bill affords $63.7 billion to “overseas contingency operations” in Afghanistan and Iraq. Didn't President Obama promise to end those wars?
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Yes, this can happen

This Week In South Carolina, A White Ex-Cop Was Actually Indicted For Shooting A Black Man
South Carolina is a reminder that indictment is possible, albeit rare.
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The real reason Google stopped renewable energy research

The Strange Thing About Google’s Decision To Stop Renewable Energy Research
Two Google engineers have written a confusing article explaining why Google stopped its advanced R&D effort into renewable energy back in 2011. The answer they offer makes little sense. Here's why -- along with an answer that does make sense.
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Needed now more than ever

Beyond Body Cams: Emerging Technologies That Could Help Make Police More Accountable
Body cams are a great start, but there is other emerging technology that can help curb police abuse.
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Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it

How The Supreme Court Helped Make It Possible For Police To Kill By Chokehold
The tragic tale of Eric Garner's death bears a striking resemblance to another police chokehold case that reached the Supreme Court in 1983.
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It's not pretty...

Here’s What Happens To Sewage On Cruise Lines
One billion gallons just this year
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"Kids will be kids?"

The St. Louis County Police’s Shockingly Insensitive Tweet About A 12-Year-Old Gunned Down By Cops
If your 12-year-old son is holding a toy gun, a Facebook post instructs, “[p]olice will respond as though it is a real gun until it can be confirmed one way or the other."
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Read it.

#CrimingWhileWhite Is The Only Thing You Need To Read To Understand White Privilege
The latest digital protest in response to police brutality highlights how well white people are treated by cops.
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Take a seat

Giuliani Suggests Bill DeBalsio Is The Real Racist
The former NYC mayor had strong feelings about the current one.
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Missouri: YOLO

Missouri Bill Would Punish Insurers Who Participate In Obamacare
Why repeal a law through the legitimate constitutional process, when you have other means at your disposal?
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It's time to face reality

The Christian Terrorist Movement No One Wants To Talk About
While the impetus for McQuilliams’ onslaught remains unclear, local authorities recently announced that he may have been motivated by religion — but not the one you might think.
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The time to start caring is yesterday

We can expect more of this as climate change gets worse. thkpr.gs/3598719
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We can expect more of this as climate change gets worse. thkpr.gs/3598719

Repulsive.

Congressman Says Eric Garner Is Responsible For His Own Death: He ‘Was So Obese’
"If you can't breath, how can you speak."
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Maybe it was the killing of prostitutes that sent them over the edge

Australian Retailer Pulls ‘Grand Theft Auto’ For Promoting Violence Against Women
The video game is being pulled from 300 store shelves after a petition against it garnered tens of thousands of signatures.
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Yes, he really said that...

Rand Paul Blames Cigarette Taxes For The Death Of Eric Garner
"I think it is important to know that some politician put a tax of $5.85 on a pack of cigarettes," Paul explained.
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It makes no sense. So how did it happen?

Strange bedfellows

Why Today’s Supreme Court Case Unites People On Both Sides Of The Abortion Debate
The justices are once again turning their attention to reproductive rights -- but pro-choice and pro-life groups are rooting for the same outcome.
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“The brave man lives, while the cowardly man just survives.”

Two Guatemalan Teens Explain Why They Traveled 2500 Miles, Without Their Parents, To America
“We couldn't go outside anymore,” the younger brother said. "The cartels would get us. They shoot up houses. They shoot people on the streets."
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Tone deaf.

‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬

Yikes

A Huge Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Three Times Faster Than Previously Thought
"The mass loss of these glaciers is increasing at an amazing rate," the study's co-author said.
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*headdesk*

Disgusting

Former Zillow Employee Says Boss Texted Her Penis Photos, Company Did Nothing
The company behind the country's most prominent real estate website allegedly operates under a culture more akin to a frat house than a professional workplace.
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BREAKING

Grand Jury Won’t Charge Cop Who Killed Eric Garner With Illegal Chokehold
A grand jury voted not to file any charges against David Pantaleo, the New York Police Department cop who took the life of Eric Garner after putting him in a chokehold — a maneuver banned by the police department.
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The Ferguson police cannot get it together

Legal Experts Blast Public Investigation Of Michael Brown’s Stepdad For ‘Incitement’
Police took to the media this week, saying they may charge Michael Brown's stepdad with a crime.
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Uh oh

2014 Headed Toward Hottest Year On Record — Here’s Why That’s Remarkable
2014 is on track to be hottest year on record, according to new reports. This is remarkable since such records are typically set in years where the long-term manmade warming trend and the El Niño warming pattern combine. But this year, it's pretty much all global warming.
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BREAKING UPDATE: 5th Circuit halts the execution of mentally ill Texas man who thought he’d been sentenced to death over a war with ‘demons’ http://thkpr.gs/3598350

Good news for all the married couples out there!

Feminism, Cohabitation And How Marriage Was Brought Back From The Brink
Divorce is so three decades ago.
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The crazy year that is 2014

The 18 Moments In Pop Culture That Got Us Thinking This Year
From Donald Sterling to butts...
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It's a strange world we live in

The Supreme Court Will Decide If A Woman Has The Right To Work While Pregnant
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that will decide whether many women must choose between having a job and having a family -- or, at least, whether these women must put their jobs and their income on hold during their pregnancy.
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It's a great time to be a kid

Google Launches A Santa Tracker To Teach Kids How To Code
Google is using the excitement of getting presents on Christmas Day to get kids interested in computer coding.
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Put that in your pipeline and smoke it!

“This is 100 percent, bar none, a First Amendment issue”

Georgia Town Bars Muslims From Renting Worship Space
It wasn’t immediately clear why the majority of the council voted against the motion, but their actions were celebrated by opponents of the mosque, including many who protested outside the city council building before the vote.
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At his trial he attempted to subpoena Jesus Christ, JFK, and the Pope

Texas Is About To Execute A Mentally Ill Man Who Thinks He’s Being Killed Over A War With ‘Demons’
In the mid-1980s, according to Panetti's wife, he became "convinced the devil had possessed their home and that, in an effort to cleanse their surroundings . . . buried a number of valuables next to the house and engaged in other rituals."
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“This is why I am saying my name. This is why I am not shutting up.”

Why These Rape Survivors Want The World To Know Their Real Names
The media has a longstanding practice of avoiding printing the names of rape victims. But some survivors want to take a different approach.
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“Unfortunately what we see is elected officials trying to determine the outcome of the next election"

Proposal To Rig The Electoral College Triggers Backlash From Michigan Residents
"Elected officials are trying to determine the outcome of the next election before we even know who the candidates are," Sharon Dolente with the Michigan Election Coalition told ThinkProgress.
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Not so much...

Top Uganda Lawmaker: Foreigners Adopt Kids To Recruit Them Into Homosexuality
The lawmaker who forced the last Anti-Homosexuality Law through in Uganda is fear-mongering again in support of another anti-gay bill.
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Powerful.

Black Lawmakers Bring Ferguson Protest Symbol To House Floor
The Ferguson protests came to the House floor Monday night, when a group of black lawmakers raised their hands in the gesture that has come to symbolize the movement. "'Hands up, don't shoot' is a rallying cry of people all across America wh...
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Green energy is on the rise in Canada!
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Green energy is on the rise in Canada!

Sometimes the truth just slips out

McConnell Admits What The Supreme Court’s Obamacare Case Is Really About
McConnell claimed that he would use the Court to accomplish what Republicans have failed to achieve legislatively: undo the law.
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There is no upside

Utah’s Insanely Expensive Plan To Seize Public Lands
A study released Monday found that transferring national forests and other public lands to the state of Utah would cost taxpayers at least $280 million per year.
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It's time.

Supreme Court Takes On Major Case On Police Shootings
The case involves an all-too-common scenario: deadly force against the mentally ill.
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How she could do it. And how ordinary people could help her decide.

Inside the little-noticed, highly-sophisticated group that's making it much more difficult to get an abortion in America.

The ALEC Of Abortion
The sly anti-abortion organization responsible for 1/3 of the abortion restrictions that have passed since 2010.
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We sure do know how to pick 'em

Newly-Elected Congressman: Anti-Poverty Programs Are ‘A Bribe Not To Work That Hard’
The Congressman-to-be's use of the word "bribe" caught his interviewer’s attention, but a different, less-inflammatory phrase in his remarks is concealing an even larger deception.
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Mocking is easy. Too easy.

What The Media Doesn't Understand About Black Friday Shoppers
Shoppers who stampeded into gigantic retail outlets on "Black Friday" are easy targets for sarcastic sniping in the media, but they are also evidence of the larger failings of the U.S. economy.
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But are the cops telling the truth?

UPDATE: Police Say Rams Exec Called Them To Apologize For Players' Ferguson Protest
Five Rams players held their own "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" protest Sunday; now the local police union wants them punished.
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