May 2013
76 posts
Groundhog's Day: DOJ Tracks Fox Reporter's Phone... →
futurejournalismproject:
Last week’s news was that the Justice Department seized two months of Associated Press phone records.
This week’s begins with a report that the DOJ surveilled Fox News’ chief Washington correspondent James Rosen, tracking his visits to the State Department in an apparent attempt to link a 2009 leak of classified information about North Korea to government adviser...
How to Legalize Pot →
futurejournalismproject:
Kleiman is leading the team hired to advise Washington State as it designs something the modern world has never seen: a fully legal commercial market in cannabis. Washington is one of the first two states (Colorado is the other) to legalize the production, sale and consumption of marijuana as a recreational drug for consumers 21 and over. The marijuana debate has entered...
Syria: Atrocities on both sides?
aljazeera:
We look at whether the abuses allegedly committed by Syrian opposition fighters are merely isolated incidents.
Congratuations Yahoo!, you bought $1 billion worth of gifs, cute animals, angst and pr0n.
5 tags
Matt Rooney: I'm not optimistic. →
misterdaikon:
With the imminent purchase of Tumblr by Yahoo! - I find I can summon little optimism about the service’s future. Marissa Mayer may still be considered “new blood” - but I’m assuming the people tasked to execute whatever vision she has for the company will most likely do it in the same awkward,…
4 tags
7 tags
theqstew:
equisollux:
zombiecthulu:
basedkuroko:
my friend is hiding under this bean bag in the library so he doesnt have to go to PE
the only way you can see him is if you get on the floor behind the bean bag and see the light of his phone
I bet he’s on Tumblr
I am
better question: has anyone sat on him?
“Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the...”
– Norman Vincent Peale (via elige)
7 tags
Back to the future: Cloning human stem cells
aljazeera:
Will a new scientific achievement to produce human stem cells eventually lead to human cloning?
Medic says Guantanamo force-feeding 'inhuman'
aljazeera:
As hunger strike reaches 100 days, head of World Medical Association criticises “degrading” practice.
8 tags
What do you think about the IRS targeting... →
current:
On Friday, officials from the Internal Revenue Service publicly acknowledged and apologized for singling out conservative political groups for additional scrutiny regarding their tax-exempt status. Roughly 300 groups were targeted, though none had their tax-exempt status revoked. The IRS said its system automatically flagged groups that registered with words like “tea party,” “9/12” and...
“The first immigrants to Europe arrived thousands of years ago from central Asia....”
– Indigenous History: “What if people told European history like they told Native American history?” (via stfuconservatives)
Nearly Half Of Recent College Graduates Are In... →
stfuconservatives:
Remember that little shit who said people who work at Taco Bell are high school dropouts who want handouts from the government? Yeahhhh.
“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the...”
– Gary Pruitt, President and CEO of the Associated Press, in a letter (PDF) to US Attorney General Eric Holder.
The News, via the AP:
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top...
Nearly Half Of Recent College Graduates Are In... →
stfuconservatives:
Remember that little shit who said people who work at Taco Bell are high school dropouts who want handouts from the government? Yeahhhh.
The Worst Room →
futurejournalismproject:
drewvigal:
A blog about trying to find affordable housing in New York City.
One might think that this is an exaggeration. But I remember checking out an apartment in Chinatown years ago and I was just dumbfounded for how little you get for so how much you pay. These images may be the worst of the worst but it’s not far from the truth.
FJP: Eeeek. Filed under...
Bangladesh finds building collapse survivor
aljazeera:
Woman garment worker found alive in rubble of Dhaka building 17 days after it collapsed, killing more than 1,000 people.
Pakistan's AQ Khan eyes political role
aljazeera:
Just two days before general elections in Pakistan, Al Jazeera caught up with the man who is a national hero for transforming Pakistan into a nuclear power. But to many in the West, Abdul Qadeer Khan is a rogue scientist who sold nuclear secrets to North Korea, Libya and Iran. He tells Al Jazeera he never set foot on Iranian soil and even casts doubt on Iran’s nuclear weapons...
North Carolina House representatives, vote No on... →
stfuconservatives:
On Tuesday, the NC General Assembly approved a bill that would require teenagers to provide notarized parental approval in order to access STD testing, STD treatment, mental health counseling, pregnancy care or substance abuse treatment. This bill, House Bill 693, will take away crucial human rights of any number of at-risk children. If this bill passes, who will children of...
6 tags
“She argues there’s another way to fight crime. “We ought to invest a lot more in...”
– County board prez: Why are we closing schools and packing the jail? | Bleader
that first paragraph up there—the stuff about investing in after school activities and keeping the schools open until 9pm, etc. —I’m thinking about that in context to of the Emergency Managers in Michigan. And how if they... 