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The Kickstarter Blog:
We were wrong — On Wednesday morning Kickstarter was sent a blog post quoting disturbing material found on Reddit. The offensive material was part of a draft for a “seduction guide” that someone was using Kickstarter to publish. The posts offended a lot of people — us included — and many asked us to cancel the creator's project.
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ThinkProgress, Guardian, The Verge, Feministing, TechCrunch, Casey Malone …, Mashable, AllThingsD and Mediaite
Politico:
Inside the border deal that almost failed — Sen. Chuck Schumer spent Tuesday privately urging President Barack Obama and the entire Democratic caucus to just be patient — a border security deal they could accept was still within reach. — But after a testy, 45-minute call that night …
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Business Insider, Weasel Zippers, ABCNEWS and The Hill
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BREITBART.COM:
AFTER PHONE CALL WITH RUBIO, O'REILLY OFFERS FULL-SCALE SUPPORT OF IMMIGRATION BILL — Thursday night on Fox News's “The O'Reilly Factor,” host Bill O'Reilly came out in full-scale support for the immigration reform bill currently making its way through the Senate.
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Yahoo! News, The Huffington Post, The Gateway Pundit, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air and Joe. My. God.
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
70 votes now possible for immigration deal
70 votes now possible for immigration deal
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The Hill, The Fix, AL.com, Right Wing News and msnbc.com
Yahoo! News:
The top 9,486 ways Jay Carney won't answer your questions (interactive) — Jay Carney doesn't have an answer for that. He hasn't discussed that subject with the president. He will refer you to the Department of [insert agency here]. He refuses to speculate on that. He'll have to get back to you.
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BuzzFeed, American Prospect, Michelle Malkin, FishbowlDC and Conservative Intelligence …
Deanreddington / CBS Boston:
Source: Arrest Warrant Issued For Aaron Hernandez — BOSTON (CBS) - Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez will be charged in connection with the shooting death of a 27-year-old Dorchester man, a law enforcement source told WBZ NewsRadio 1030 on Friday. — According to that source …
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Deadspin, Scared Monkeys and CBS New York
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Michele McPhee / ABCNEWS:
Aaron Hernandez Arrest Warrant Prepared on Obstruction of Justice Charge, Sources Say
Aaron Hernandez Arrest Warrant Prepared on Obstruction of Justice Charge, Sources Say
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Above the Law, The Week and ViralRead
Michele McPhee / ABCNEWS:
Aaron Hernandez Destroyed Home Security System and Phone, Sources Tell ABC News
Aaron Hernandez Destroyed Home Security System and Phone, Sources Tell ABC News
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AL.com, Sports Illustrated and Deadspin
Andy Pasztor / Wall Street Journal:
FAA to Relax Rules for Gadgets in Flight — Airline passengers irritated at having to turn off their devices could soon see some reprieve, with regulators set to allow wider use of gadgets in flight. — The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to relax the ban on using some types …
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Yahoo! News, TechCrunch, The Verge, Outside the Beltway and Mashable
Jake Sherman / Politico:
The dysfunctional House — Someone in House leadership screwed up again. — The defeat of the farm bill — after both parties were privately bullish it would pass with large margins — shows, once again, how massively dysfunctional the House and its leadership has become.
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The Plum Line, The Hill, Daily Kos, NewsBusters, Taylor Marsh and Hullabaloo
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Emma Dumain / Goppers:
Farm Bill's Failure Poisons Well in House
Farm Bill's Failure Poisons Well in House
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The Mahablog, The Week, Hawkings Here, The Plum Line, msnbc.com, BuzzFeed, The Fix, Yahoo! News, PoliticusUSA, The Daily Caller and National Review
CNN:
McConnell: Obama administration marked by ‘culture of intimidation’ — (CNN) - The Obama administration is eager to defend progressive efforts to dismantle conservative causes, and it stands ready to “shut up anybody who challenges it,” Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday in a hard-hitting speech.
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Politico, Washington Free Beacon and The Raw Story
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Guardian:
GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications — Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal
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TechCrunch, The Verge, The Hinterland Gazette and The Agonist
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Preemptive Strike: Conservatives Vow To Defy Supreme Court If It Rules For Marriage Equality — George Wallace defied a federal court order to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963 — Drawing what they called a line “we cannot and will not cross,” more than 200 conservative activists released …
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The Raw Story
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Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Hundreds Of Texans Stand Up Against Sweeping Anti-Abortion Bill, Block It From Coming To A Vote — Protesters projected “End the War on Women” onto the building where the hearing on SB 5 was held. (Credit: @TaneneAllison) — Texas lawmakers are currently rushing an omnibus anti-abortion bill through …
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RH Reality Check, Associated Press, Taylor Marsh, The Raw Story, The Moderate Voice and Dependable Renegade
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Profits Without Production — One lesson from recent economic troubles has been the usefulness of history. Just as the crisis was unfolding, the Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff — who unfortunately became famous for their worst work — published a brilliant book with the sarcastic title “This Time Is Different.”
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Firedoglake and Paul Krugman
Michael Hastings / Rolling Stone:
The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis — It's long been suspected that ratings agencies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's helped trigger the meltdown. A new trove of embarrassing documents shows how they did it — By — W — hat about the ratings agencies?
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Crooks and Liars
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Exclusive: NSA contractor hired Snowden despite concerns about resume discrepancies — (Reuters) - Hiring screeners at Booz Allen Hamilton, a contractor for the National Security Agency, found possible discrepancies in a resume submitted by Edward Snowden, but the company still employed him …
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Mediaite, The Week, CNN and Wall Street Journal
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uml.edu:
Democrats Advantage Over Republican Rival Gomez is Even Greater Among Women Voters — Detailed poll results and analysis are available at www.bostonherald.com and www.uml.edu/polls. — UMass Lowell representatives are available for interviews about today's poll.
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The Moderate Voice, Yahoo! News, Post Politics, The Fix and Outside the Beltway
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
New documents reveal parameters of NSA's secret surveillance programs — The National Security Agency may keep the e-mails and telephone calls of citizens and legal residents if the communications contain “significant foreign intelligence” or evidence of a crime, according to classified documents …
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The Hill, Post Politics and Prairie Weather
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Guardian:
Revealed: top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant
Revealed: top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant
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The Hill, Washington Post, Scared Monkeys, News Desk, The Week, Gawker, CANNONFIRE, TechCrunch, Techdirt, LewRockwell.com Blog, Boing Boing, Government Accountability …, New York Times, Firedoglake, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, Poynter, The Verge, Liberal Values, The Plum Line, Wonkblog, Politico, Mediaite and GigaOM
Nick Wing / The Huffington Post:
Russ Tice, Bush-Era Whistleblower, Claims NSA Ordered Wiretap Of Barack Obama In 2004 — Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst who in 2005 blew the whistle on what he alleged was massive unconstitutional domestic spying across multiple agencies, claimed Wednesday that the NSA had ordered wiretaps …
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Firedoglake, Mediaite, AL.com and The Daily Caller
David A. Lieb / Associated Press:
FEDERAL NULLIFICATION EFFORTS MOUNTING IN STATES … JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Imagine the scenario: A federal agent attempts to arrest someone for illegally selling a machine gun. Instead, the federal agent is arrested - charged in a state court with the crime of enforcing federal gun laws.
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Washington Monthly and LewRockwell.com Blog
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Obama hits a wall in Berlin — The question of whether Barack Obama's second term will be a failure was answered in the affirmative before his Berlin debacle, which has recast the question, which now is: Will this term be silly, even scary in its detachment from reality?
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Power Line
Neil Irwin / Wonkblog:
This is why global markets are freaking out — Around the world, markets were frazzled by the latest out of the Fed. (Kin Cheung/AP) — A wave of selling washed across the financial world Thursday, driving the stock market down, interest rates up, and bringing new tremors of concern …
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Washington Monthly