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• The Criminalization of Black Homelessness

  06-12-2016 23:20
  
  Click here for reuse options!White supremacy systematically creates poverty with one hand while violently punishing it with the other. In communities all over the country, police are strongly incentivized — by federal grant conditions and local budgetary constraints alike — to make arrests and issue fines as frequently as possible. The federal programs that distribute funding to states and cities often emphasize quantifiable results over meaningful engagement with those individuals a
  
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• Van Jones Blames 'Hurricane Trump' on Unexpected Culprit

  06-12-2016 16:54
  
  Click here for reuse options!In an interview, the CNN commentator says dialogue is still possible—and that liberal elitism really did enable Trump. Donald Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton has fully broken open the many fissures that separate red and blue America. These divides existed before Trump’s victory. Conservatives and liberals do not live in the same communities or neighborhoods. The United States is an extremely segregated society, by race and class. This too amplifie
  
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• Hero Muslim Cop Assaulted, Suspect Charged Following Hate Crimes Unit Investigation

  06-12-2016 16:32
  
  Click here for reuse options!The attack on NYPD officer Aml Elsokary and her son was the second Islamophobic incident in just a few days.An NYPD officer and her son were the subjects of a second reported hate crime targeting Muslims this past week in New York City. the first was when Yasmin Seweid, 18, was called a "terrorist" and bullied during a traumatic subway ride last week. Over the weekend, Officer Aml Elsokary and her family were assaulted by a stranger outside their home in Brooklyn.&nb
  
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• AlterNet Comics: Jen Sorensen on Social Movements That Try Not to Offend

  06-12-2016 16:22
  
  Click here for reuse options!Can you imagine if we told MLK to "knock off the identity politics thing"?  Click here for reuse options! Related StoriesAlterNet Comics: Brian McFadden on Republicans' Safety Net CutsAlterNet Comics: Brian McFadden on the Slim Chances of Real News Going ViralAlterNet Comic: Tom Tomorrow on America's Great Divide
  
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• Paper Owned by Trump's Son-In-Law Runs Alarming Op-Ed Calling for FBI Crackdown on Anti-Trump Protests

  06-12-2016 16:03
  
  Click here for reuse options!From the outset, Jared Kushner's New York Observer has been an instrument of the Trump campaign. The New York Observer, a newspaper owned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, published an opinion piece Friday calling for the FBI to launch a coordinated crackdown on nationwide anti-Trump protests, mobilizations and recount efforts.Titled “Comey’s FBI Needs to Investigate Violent Democratic Tantrums,” the article was written by Austin Bay
  
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• Republican Elector Won't Vote for Trump—'He Shows Daily That He Is Unfit for Office'

  06-12-2016 15:14
  
  Click here for reuse options!In scathing op-ed, the former firefighter urges other electors to rebuke Trump. Christopher Suprun, a Republican elector in Dallas, cannot in good conscience cast his vote for Donald Trump. One down, 538 to go.In a scathing op-ed in Tuesday's New York Times, Suprun lays out the reasoning for his unusual decision. He writes that he has been asked to change his vote in the past because of policy disagreements or the fact that someone won the Electoral College but not t
  
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• Colbert Dismantles Trump's Pick of Unqualified 'Coma Patient' Ben Carson as Housing Secretary

  06-12-2016 14:58
  
  Click here for reuse options!Even the one thin pretext for this appointment turns out not to be true."Late Show" host Stephen Colbert is getting a kick out of president-elect Trump's strategy for appointing Cabinet members. For weeks, Trump has been busy filling his Cabinet, when he's not on his "thank-you" tour or taking congratulatory (and controversial) calls from foreign leaders. “Today, he named former neurosurgeon and current coma patient Ben Carson to be Secretary of Housing an
  
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• Samantha Bee Lays Into Trump's Big Lie and the GOP-ers Who've Aided and Abetted Him

  06-12-2016 13:19
  
  Click here for reuse options!"If Trump manages to smash America's institutions, it will only be because GOP termites have been gnawing away at the foundation for years."This week, “Full Frontal” host Samantha Bee unloaded on Trump in transition—the first president-elect to brand lies like a signature property."In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally," the president-elect tweeted
  
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• The Map of Physics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Physics Fit Together

  06-12-2016 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From Newton’s mechanical calculations to Einstein’s general and special relativity to the baffling indeterminacy of quantum mechanics, the discipline of physics has become increasingly arcane and complex, and less and less governed by orderly laws. This presents a problem for the layperson, who struggles to understand how Newtonian physics, with its predictable observations of physical forces, relates to the parallax and paradox of later discoveries. “If you don’t already
  
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• Culture Machine collaborates with Scout Media, to boost the media firm's U.S presence - ETBrandEquity.com

  06-12-2016 09:13
  
  Culture Machine collaborates with Scout Media, to boost the media firm's U.S presence
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  Culture Machine collaborates with Scout Media, to boost the media firm's U.S presenceCulture Machine collaborates Image souce: Thinkstock Culture Machine, technology enabled media firm, is strengthening its foothold in the U.S market through a ...and more »
  
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• Hard currency, soft power: Poly Culture rolls into B.C. - Business in Vancouver

  06-12-2016 09:00
  Hard currency, soft power: Poly Culture rolls into B.C.  Business in VancouverA division of one of China's biggest state-owned corporations, which has links to the military, opened a downtown Vancouver art gallery gallery November 30, ...
  
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• People Seek Revenge by Sending Their Ex's Immigration Status and Address to Trump

  06-12-2016 02:38
  
  Click here for reuse options!Heartbreak finds new lows, inspired by the president-elect's penchant for vengeful petty tweets.Over the course of his 2016 White House bid, President-elect Donald Trump promised to deport undocumented immigrants. Trump spoke to his supporters at a Phoenix, Arizona rally earlier this year where he said he would triple the amount of ICE agents and set up a “special deportation task force.”Since Trump won the election, some individuals have taken
  
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• Deals With the Devil: Vulnerable Senate Democrats Rush to Slam Anti-Donald Trump Plans

  06-12-2016 02:13
  
  Click here for reuse options!While many Democrats prepare to fight Trump, some facing re-election in 2018 are already willing to appease him.While congressional Democrats were certainly slow to come to grips with Donald Trump’s election and therefore appeared hesitant to back the calls for resistance that flooded the streets in major American cities in the immediate aftermath, they’ve since embraced their role as the loyal opposition. But even as most Senate Democrats
  
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• Fighting Back Against the White Revolt of 2016

  06-12-2016 01:56
  
  Click here for reuse options!Trump’s real triumph was his ability to shift Republican politics to straight racism, misogyny and xenophobia. On the left and within progressive movements there were two immediate responses to Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential elections. First shock, frequently accompanied by despair. How could an openly racist, misogynist authoritarian—personally unstable to boot—be elected president? Second, anger with the Democrats for the sort of
  
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