Politics

New York has worked to reform its policing practices but has a long way to go. Police reform advocates have been working at federal, state and local levels to increase police accountability and transparency. There have been a series of wins at all levels over the last few years—though with …

Felony loves company? James O’Keefe has made a semi-lucrative career for himself cobbling together “undercover” videos of himself and his compatriots attempting to get groups that he deems enemies of the conservative movement to do illegal or unethical things that James O’Keefe and his allies show up to propose they …

Gabriel Kristal at In These Times writes—A Working-Class Strategy for Defeating White Supremacy: Ever since the earth-shaking election of Donald Trump, there have been innumerable articles arguing that Democrats brought this upon themselves by losing white, working-class voters in the Midwest. These articles have been met with a torrent of …

Friday Aug 11, 2017 · 2:50 PM PDT 2017/08/11 · 14:50 Stephen Miller is only 31, but that’s like 58 in eugenics-years. Hopefully this ghoul won’t become White House communications director because that large forehead messes up the layout of my comics. Follow me on Twitter @BrianMc_Fadden {{backgroundUrl avatar_large}} Joined: …

(image via youtube.com) by Hazel Cills via jezebel.com After Fox 2000‘s space race drama “Hidden Figures” was released last year, an unprecedented amount of United States embassies were reportedly calling the State Department requesting the film. Eventually the movie was screened to nearly 80 locations overseas and because of all …

Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is: A Hole in Un: Here’s what’s coming up on Sunday Kos… • Canada proves Americans’ gullibility is costing us dearly—Here are my solutions, by Egberto Willies• ‘Freedmen,’ an alternative to HBO’s alternative history, ‘Confederate,’ by Jon Perr• Poking a cornered animal with a stick is …

Yes, they do Donald Trump’s neo-Nazi endorsed “legal” immigration plan—his effort to make America white by slashing non-white immigration—would slow economic growth and cost the nation 4.6 million jobs by 2040, according to a report from his beloved alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School: Economists say the U.S. economy …

Donald Trump continued to demonstrate that his only “deal making” skill is ramping up the level of threats. x Military solutions are now fully in place,locked and loaded,should North Korea act unwisely. Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 11, 2017 “Locked and …

Mike Brown was killed by Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014. On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown was killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. His death began an uprising in the city of Ferguson that lasted for over two weeks. On August 14, 2014, a National Moment of Silence …

Well, at least today’s Friday! Ha ha! Oh, wait. It is Friday. Well, at least today is Friday at Netroots Nation. So we might luck out and get a call from Armando, reporting live from on the ground. And I mean literally on the ground. He will by lying prone …