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White America's moral disaster: From Eric Garner to Mike Brown, a destructive view of “justice” — Here's how white victimization is tearing the nation apart — Yesterday a New York police officer named Daniel Pantaleo who was videotaped killing a man named Eric Garner using …
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Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
The NYC Cop Who Strangled Eric Garner to Death Is Free Thanks to a Legal Flaw. Here's How Voters Can Fix It. — Many of the people who took umbrage at the public outcry over a St. Louis County grand jury's decision not to indict Darren Wilson—the now-former police officer who killed Michael Brown …
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
If Eric Garner Were White — Imagine that Eric Garner had been white. Imagine that he'd been living in Idaho. Imagine that the law-enforcement officers who killed him had been federal agents. — His death would be a Tea Party crusade. — Think about it.
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Nick Wing / The Huffington Post:
A Grand Jury Did Indict One Person Involved In Eric Garner's Killing — The Man Who Filmed It
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: GOP leaders betting that conservative rage will sputter out
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Robert Tracinski / The Federalist:
Eric Garner and Omnipresent Police Power
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Albert Burneko / The Concourse:
The American Justice System Is Not Broken
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Politico:
Pelosi flexes muscle in closed budget meeting — With the government set to shut down in a week, Nancy Pelosi is flexing her muscles. — In a closed Democratic whip meeting Thursday morning, the House minority leader warned Democrats not to rush to support the Republican efforts to fund …
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Jacob Fischler / BuzzFeed:
Former Top Senate Republican: McConnell Should Tell Conservatives To “Kiss Off” — Trent Lott said the immigration executive order is something to worry about next year. — AFP / Getty Images JIM WATSON — WASHINGTON — Former Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said Thursday …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
House Republicans scramble to avoid a shutdown ahead of a Dec. 11 deadline
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
A Eulogy for The New Republic — A century-old liberal institution gazes at the end. — Shares — Not long after he purchased The New Republic, Chris Hughes had lunch with me, as he was doing with quite a few journalists around Washington. At one point, he asked me who the best editor had been during my 16 years.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Frank Foer, Leon Wieseltier out at TNR — Franklin Foer and Leon Wieseltier, the top two editors at The New Republic, have just quit amid an editorial shakeup, sources there told POLITICO on Thursday. — Gabriel Snyder, a Bloomberg Media editor who previously served at The Atlantic Wire, has been tapped to replace Foer as editor.
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
INVESTIGATION: LENA DUNHAM ‘RAPED BY A REPUBLICAN’ STORY IN BESTSELLER COLLAPSES UNDER SCRUTINY — In her just-released memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham describes her alma mater, Oberlin College, as “a liberal arts haven in the cornfields of Ohio.”
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
GOP to rebuke Obama on immigration — House Republicans are poised Thursday to rebuke President Obama for acting alone to change the immigration system despite concerns from conservatives that their vote will be largely symbolic. — Rep. Ted Yoho's (R-Fla.) bill would prevent the executive branch …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
WH: Bill to roll back immigration order unfair
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Boehner Won't Commit to Defunding Executive Amnesty Next Year
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The Huffington Post:
Feds Find Shocking, Systemic Brutality, Incompetence In Cleveland Police Department — WASHINGTON — In recent years, Cleveland police officers have punched a 13-year-old boy who was in handcuffs for shoplifting and shot at an unarmed kidnapping victim who was wearing only his underwear …
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Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Feds: Cleveland PD used excessive force
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Allie Jones / Gawker:
Jenna Bush Admits to “Hanky Panky” on the White House Roof — America's favorite tipsy Bush twin Jenna Bush Hager went on Andy Cohen's Watch What Happens Live last night and was predictably great (sorry Barb). When asked if she ever fooled around in the White House, Jen admitted she engaged in some …
Martin Matishak / The Hill:
Navy rescinds Cosby's honorary title — The U.S. Navy is revoking Bill Cosby's honorary title of chief petty officer, the service announced Thursday. — “The Navy is taking this action because allegations against Mr. Cosby are very serious and are in conflict with the Navy's core values of honor …
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Megan Cassidy / Arizona Republic:
Phoenix police: Suspect unarmed when killed by officer — The facts surrounding Rumain Brisbon's death — the ones that could be agreed upon as of Wednesday evening — follow a narrative familiar to a nation still reeling from the racially charged police incidents in Ferguson, Mo., New York City and elsewhere.
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Raw Story, Hinterland Gazette, Colorlines and The PJ Tatler
Chris Moody / CNN:
House Democrats are pranking one another with a cardboard Ronald Reagan cutout — (CNN) — The Gipper is back on Capitol Hill, and this time, he's hanging with the Democrats. — Two House Democrats have stood proudly this week in front of a cardboard cut-out of the late Republican President …
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
Would You Please Click Here to Order John Boehner Some New Balls? — I guess Barack Obama took John Boehner's balls because Boehner is playing with the President's balls instead of his own. — That's sad. I mean, think about this. For the last three months, the GOP actively campaigned …
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Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Chris Christie Says US Treats Canada, Mexico as an ‘Afterthought’ … New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, on a visit to Canada, said Thursday the federal government's delay in approving the Keystone XL pipeline is “no way to treat a friend.” — “This is not about sending your oil across our land.
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Politico
Norm Ornstein / National Journal:
The Pernicious Effects of Gerrymandering — If the Supreme Court decides to stop letting voters take control of the redistricting process away from partisan legislators, polarization can only get worse. — Almost invariably, whenever I speak about our polarized politics, the first or second question I get is about redistricting.
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The PJ Tatler, Washington Monthly and Bloomberg View
Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:
How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide — In March 2011, two weeks before the Western intervention in Libya, a secret message was delivered to the National Security Agency. An intelligence unit within the U.S. military's Africa Command needed help to hack into Libya's cellphone networks and monitor text messages.
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Motorist hits crowd members, pulls gun at Central West End protest — A man was arrested during protests Wednesday evening in the Central West End after he drove through the crowd and later waved a gun at protesters. — The incident happened during a day of demonstrations that brought protesters …
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