Yearly Archives: 2016

Police nationwide are secretly exploiting intrusive technologies with the Feds’ complicity.

Paris leads the pack in monthly car-free days, but several large metro cities participate in international car-free day on Sept. 22 every year, including Washington, DC, Seattle and Long Island, New York.

Either we recognize our own responsibility and demand better of ourselves AND our political leaders, or one day soon we will wake up and discover that the country we know and love is gone forever.

How the Raid on Malheur Screened a Future Raid on Real Estate.

Connecticut becomes the fifth state to adopt this policy to make it easier to vote.

Just as the protean Donald will say anything to win votes, the Party of Hypocrisy now confirms its mind-blowing hypocrisy, willing to support a partial, perceived winner who says anything to win power. Is that how to to make Republicans, let alone America, great again? Or just Trump, the perfect, modern media candidate, talking in such empty constructs angry campers can project whatever they want? Now we understand why rightwingers will embrace the Trumpster, less for unity than desperation: it's not pretty to see a national party cornered, then nullified, or worse.

Instead of rebuilding trust between police and the community, Simmons has reportedly caused irreparable harm for his own personal gain.

“We are humans—we have great big brains that are hard-wired for all possible responses, from violent to nonviolent, which makes us the unique species neurologically capable of infinite, illimitable choice. Let’s be wise about it.”

Alaska has followed in the footsteps on Maine and has abolished the superdelegate system.

“Tens of thousands of activists took to the streets, occupied mines, blocked rail lines, linked arms, paddled in kayaks and held community meetings in 13 countries, pushing the boundaries of conventional protest to find new ways to demand coal, oil and gas stay in the ground.”