Congressman John K. Delaney (D-Maryland) has introduced HR 5334, to require all elections for U.S. House to use the top-two system. The bill also mandates that election day in November would be a federal holiday, but the bill does not require primary voting day in each state to be a holiday, nor does the bill(More)… …read more
“It’s a pretty powerful clip,” says McEnroe.
Los Angeles, CA (September 2, 2014) – Former Wimbledon champ JOHN McENROE gets waterboarded in “Clockwork,” a controversial new video from electronic rock band FUTURE USER centered around police militarization.
Shot at an undisclosed location in Los Angeles, CA, the disturbing clip sees McEnroe being abducted, bound to a bench and tortured after dismissing a defeated tennis opponent with an obscene gesture.
There were no stunt doubles or visual effects used during the visceral and unnerving scenes; the outspoken tennis legend was immobilized, had a towel placed over his nose and mouth and then had …read more
“Get the f*** out of my house!” screams the homeowner for the tenth time right before he’s thrown to the ground, roughed up, pepper sprayed, handcuffed and arrested for “resisting.”
A video posted to youtube shows a blood boiling assault by a police department in Romeo, MI. Despite being told they cannot enter, the video allegedly shows Romeo police barging in and assaulting people.
According to the publisher of the video, the police were responding to an “unknown complaint.”
The content below was shared by Ryan Noone via CopBlock.org/Submit which documents out of control Romeo (MI) police employees. While it’d have been best …read more
As I settled into the camp life, I started to feel a deep sense of calm and satisfaction. I hadn’t realized how much stress I was feeling in dealing with …
A major security breach in Apple’s iCloud network occurred this week, leaking nude photographs and private information from a number of celebrities. One detail about this case that has been largely overlooked by the mainstream media is the fact that this security breach was made possible by police software that was highjacked by hackers.
According to Wired, hackers openly discussed using a piece of software called EPPB or Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker to download their victims’ data from iCloud backups.
These details were revealed on the web forum Anon-IB, one of the primary sites that is used for hosting hacked material …read more
Police in Mason City, Iowa recently arrested two children and charged them with felony criminal mischief for stripping bark from a tree in front of their school. A neighbor with nothing better to do with their time witnessed the children peeling the bark from the tree and felt the need to call the police.
The police actually took the call seriously, and showed up to treat the children like criminals. The police interrogated the children, who eventually admitted to peeling the bark off of the tree. When they confessed, the police arrested them and charged them with second-degree …read more
Vermont held primaries on September 2. Dean Corren, the Progressive nominee for Lieutenant Governor, won the Democratic nomination as well, via write-ins in the Democratic primary. He will be on the November ballot as, “Progressive, Democratic.” See this story, which reveals that in the Republican gubernatorial primary, the Libertarian nominee for Governor received 13% of(More)… …read more
On September 2, a lower state court in New Orleans removed two Democrats from the November 2014 ballot for U.S. House, 2nd district. See this story. They were removed because they owe unpaid fines from the past to a state campaign finance agency. The removal of these candidates clearly violates the U.S. Constitution. For almost(More)… …read more
ThinkProgress.org | by Alice Ollstein
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA—The stars of North Carolina’s Moral Mondays movement took the stage on Labor Day at Charlotte’s Marshall Park to condemn the state’s record on voter suppression and racial profiling, and urge the community to organize and turn out at the polls this November. Just a few hundred feet away, police cuffed and arrested local LGBT activist and former State Senate candidate Ty Turner as he was putting voting rights information on parked cars.
“They said they would charge me for distributing literature,” Turner told ThinkProgress when he was released a few hours later. “I asked …read more
