NYTimes: Egypt Sentences Top Islamist and Over 680 Others to Death

The 'double standard' in labeling domestic terrorism | MSNBC

The 'double standard' in labeling domestic terrorism | MSNBC

The 'double standard' in labeling domestic terrorism | MSNBC

The 'double standard' in labeling domestic terrorism | MSNBC

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Said What He Thinks About Race Now That He's Made It, And Almost Nobody Noticed

To set the scene, the (poorly posed) question is referring to comments made by former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, who suggested that genetic differences could explain why there are fewer girls in science. Yup, he really was Treasury secretary and president of Harvard.

Neil deGrasse Tyson's answer is, um, out of this world. There, I said it. Let me have this one.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Said What He Thinks About Race Now That He's Made It, And Almost Nobody Noticed

Panel Discussion: Dawkins, Tyson, Druyan, Stenger, Grothe

Cesar Chavez Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com

Frazier Glenn Miller, longtime anti-Semite, arrested in Kansas Jewish Community Center murders

Frazier Glenn Miller, 73, of Aurora, Mo., was arrested today for the murder of three people at two separate Jewish Community Centers in Overland Park, Kan. Miller, who was arrested using the alias Frazier Glenn Cross, has been in the movement nearly his entire life. Miller is the former “grand dragon” of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which he founded and ran in the 1980s before being sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for operating an illegal paramilitary organization and using intimidation tactics against African Americans.

After subsequently forming another Klan group, the White Patriot Party, he was found in criminal contempt and sentenced to six months in prison for violating the court settlement. He went underground while his conviction was under appeal but was caught by the FBI with a weapons cache in Missouri. He served three years in federal prison after being indicted on weapons charges and for plotting robberies and the assassination of SPLC founder Morris Dees. As part of a plea bargain, Miller testified against other Klan leaders in a 1988 sedition trial.

Southern Poverty Law Center

The US “Southwest” was stolen from Mexicans | Thetruthisfreedom's Blog

"The land stolen from Mexico is bigger than Germany and France combined and considered to be among the riches in the world where an abundance of gold was found after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed. The native Mexicans were forced to become US citizens or leave the area one year after the Treaty was signed. As a result of the invader’s laws, thousands of native Mexicans left but the great majority stayed and became citizens. Throughout the development of the so-called “Republic of Texas” the war against Mexicans was made of grave crimes. The well-known philosopher and historian Jose Vasconcelos wrote that one reason whites perpetrated horrible crimes against Mexicans, was because they believed in the concept known as “manifest destiny” which in practice meant to “kill all the Mexicans and take Mexico.” History has registered thousands of grotesque crimes against Mexicans in that part of the Native American Continent, but more outstanding for having similarities with the grave crimes by whites in Central and South America, are those related to the taken of men by force of arms out of their homes to be murdered, then the white killers would back to the homes and rape women and little girls, murder them, set the homes on fire, and kill all the animals."

Free Health Clinic In Rural Arkansas Is Closing Because People Now Have Coverage Under Obamacare | ThinkProgress

Demographics, conservatism, and racial polarization: Could America become Mississippi?

The country’s demographic trends could lead to racially polarized electorates akin to the Deep South.

Demographics, conservatism, and racial polarization: Could America become Mississippi?

NSA reforms: Obama’s playing a Fourth Amendment shell game.

The National Security Agency’s controversial call-records dragnet has never been much use at finding terrorists, as two separate government panelshave concluded, but technological change has been gradually rendering it completely irrelevant. Now, under the guise of putting an end to that program—which sweeps in the phone logs of millions of innocent Americans for later analysis—President Obama has proposed a new authority that could force private corporations to act as government spies, circumventing constitutional privacy safeguards in the process.



NSA reforms: Obama’s playing a Fourth Amendment shell game.

Justice Dept faults Albuquerque police on excessive force | Reuters

Based on our investigation, we have reasonable cause to believe that APD engages in a pattern or practice of use of excessive force, including deadly force, in violation of the Fourth Amendment and Section 14141. Our investigation included a comprehensive review of APD’s operations and the City’s oversight systems. We have determined that structural and systemic

deficiencies—including insufficient oversight, inadequate training, and ineffective policies— contribute to the use of unreasonable force. At the conclusion of this letter, we outline the remedial measures that we believe are necessary to ensure that force is used in accordance with the Constitution. In some instances, these recommendations build on measures and initiatives that are already underway within the department.

Justice Dept faults Albuquerque police on excessive force | Reuters

Glenn McConnell Began Selling Segregationist’s Products in Wake of Boycott | Hatewatch

Glenn McConnell Began Selling Segregationist’s Products in Wake of Boycott | Hatewatch

Online debate sparked on race and poverty The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks to Melissa Harris-Perry about the online back-and-forth between himself and New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait about the “culture problem” within the African American community.

Other People's Pathologies - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic

"Black culture and the culture of poverty are not the same thing."

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Neil Gaiman - Religion vs. Science, God of the Gaps. This video is profoundly true. These truths seem foreign in the south outside of academia and a few enlightened people.

Execution: a shortage of lethal injections A shortage of one of the drugs that prisons use to execute prisoners has left jails with using other means to kill those on death row. ACLU attorney, Tanya Greene, joins Melissa Harris-Perry to discuss executions in the U.S

Melissa Harris-Perry on msnbc

Mozilla Chief, a Gay-Marriage Foe, Steps Down - NYTimes.com
“Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights — including the right to marry — should not be affected by their sexual orientation,” Apple said in a statement at the time.

Apple donated $100,000 to oppose the measure, and Google’s co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, had also reportedly donated a combined $140,000 to fight the bill."