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DeWayne Craddock, a longtime Virginia Beach employee, identified as shooter who killed 12 in city building

www.washingtonpost.com - By Michael E. Miller , Michael E. Miller Local enterprise reporter covering immigration, poverty, inequality and crime Email Bio Follow Lynh Bui and Lynh Bui Reporter focusing on public safety and cr…

Rebecca Solnit: 'Every protest shifts the world's balance'

www.theguardian.com - Scale it up and it’s revolution; scale it down and it’s individual non-cooperation that may be seen as nothing more than obstinacy or malingering or not seen at all. What we call protest identifies o…

Royals to serve as extras in Donald Trump’s victory lap of UK

www.theguardian.com - Donald Trump’s state visit this week to the UK is being promoted as a celebration of a close alliance tempered through war. It could be more accurately described as a personal lap of victory for the …

In January, Virginia GOP killed bill to ban sales of large-capacity magazines

www.washingtonpost.com - By Robert McCartney Robert McCartney Senior regional correspondent covering government and politics Email Bio Follow June 1 at 5:43 PM A Virginia bill designed to ban sales of large-capacity magazine…

The intelligence community needs a house-cleaning

taibbi.substack.com - It’s been a tired pop-cliché meme for ages. Way back in 2000, when Adam Garcia tried to lay it on Piper Perabo in Coyote Ugly, she groaned, “That’s original.” It drew eye rolls in Top Gun in 1986. Go…

Turkey puts novelists including Elif Shafak under investigation

www.theguardian.com - Turkish prosecutors have launched investigations into writers of fiction including the award-winning novelist Elif Shafak, in what campaigners are describing as a serious threat to free speech. The m…

How a California Community Helped Hundreds of Migrants the Border Patrol Dropped at a Greyhound Station

theintercept.com - The vans started coming on May 14, depositing their passengers into an alley by the Greyhound station in San Bernardino, California, and then taking off. The first night, the station’s small lobby qu…

Say goodbye to Dow 25,000: Mexico tariffs spook Wall Street

www.cnn.com - The Dow and S&P 500 declined nearly 7% apiece in May, their first losing months since December. The Nasdaq tumbled 8% on the month, its worst May since 2010. The United States imported $346 billion o…

US Farms Flood, Tariffs on Imported Food - The Organic Prepper

www.theorganicprepper.com - If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! There’s little doubt that the US is headed into a food crisis. Here’s the bottom line. While American farmers are de…

God, Gas, and Cash: How Texas Fell in Love With Israel — and Then Trampled on the Constitution

theintercept.com - On the afternoon of April 19, 2018, a group of Texas Republicans received an email confirming their upcoming all-expenses-paid trips to Israel. An orientation packet filled with background on their d…

How a resort weekend for judges made courts more conservative

www.vox.com - That’s the title of a recent paper by economists Elliott Ash, Daniel Chen, and Suresh Naidu, and depending on your political beliefs, the consequences they’re talking about are either heartening or d…

Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions Into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change

www.nytimes.com - Bird strikes on angle-of-attack sensors are relatively common. A Times review of two F.A.A. databases found hundreds of reports of bent, ****, sheared-off, poorly installed or otherwise malfunctio…

Those Who Rise and Those Who Disappear | Current Affairs

www.currentaffairs.org - Imagine a place where work and income are insecure; where wealthy businessmen/criminals collude with police and politicians to exploit and abuse workers; where family relationships deteriorate into v…

To the ends of the Earth

www.revealnews.org - The story from Antarctica was produced by Carolyn Beeler, an environment reporter at PRI’s The World. The story from Alaska’s Bering Strait was produced by Michael de Yoanna, an investigative reporte…

Mission Creep: How the NSA’s Game-Changing Targeting System Built for Iraq and Afghanistan Ended Up on the Mexico Border

theintercept.com - At Area 82, it seems safe to say, the sort of extensive intelligence-sharing exemplified by RT-RG became a cornerstone of U.S. intelligence strategy. In his SIDtoday interview, Goodman, the former NS…

Are We Fighting a War on Homelessness? Or a War on the Homeless?

www.nytimes.com - While legitimate concerns have been raised over the shelters—Will the nearby school be able to successfully accommodate new children? Shouldn’t the city be focusing on permanent supportive housing ra…

New US Ambassador to Uzbekistan – You Just don’t Wanna Know | New Eastern Outlook

journal-neo.org - The ever increasing influence of Russia and China in Central Asia is keeping the United States fairly agitated. Predictably enough, over the last couple of years Washington has noticeably stepped up …

Ecological Importance and Human Rights Be Damned, Trump Admin Says Fossil Fuel Pillaging in Arctic Refuge Coming Soon | naked capitalism

www.nakedcapitalism.com - Jerri-Lynn here. Trump has pledged to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to fossil fuel drilling, and as this post describes, Interior Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Joe B…

Why Mitch McConnell Outmaneuvers Democrats at Filling the Supreme Court

www.newyorker.com - The boundless cynicism of Mitch McConnell is again on display. The Kentucky Republican, who is the Senate Majority Leader, told a home-state audience that, if there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court …

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