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Ferguson, MO — A petulant public servant is now playing the role of ‘victim’ after he pointed his AR-15 at Free Thought Project live streamer, Rebel Z, aka John Zeigler.
The entire incident was caught on film, showing St. Ann police officer, Ray Albers with his gun raised pointing it directly at Zeigler, who was live streaming at the time.
“Oh my God, gun raised, gun raised,” stated Zeigler.
“My hands are up bro, my hands are up,” he says before Albers responds, “I’m going to f***ing kill you, get back, get back!”
“You’re going to kill him?” asks another individual before Zeigler asks, …read more

On Friday, December 18, the Bernie Sanders campaign filed a federal lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee, charging that the party was in breach of contract for cutting off the campaign’s access to the party’s voter list. On the evening of December 18, the party said it would restore Sanders’ access to its voter list. The case is Bernie 2016, Inc. v DNC Services Corporation, d/b/a/ Democratic National Committee, 1:15cv-2211. The case had been filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., and is assigned to Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee. Sanders has not dismissed …read more

Two lawsuits are pending that relate to who can be invited into the general election presidential debates. The case that was filed first, Level the Playing Field v FEC, 1:15cv-1397, now has a briefing schedule in the U.S. District Court in D.C. The first brief is due March 6, 2016, and the final brief is due June 15. This case had been filed on August 26, 2015. …read more

Pittsburgh, PA – A Pittsburgh city police officer is under investigation after a video was released which showed him mocking and yelling at innocent bystanders while officers were responding to a report of a fight.
According to reports, the fight began around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, along Wood Street. Police had the street blocked off to traffic as they tried to break up the skirmish. The fight resulted in two arrests and, as caught on video, several tense moments with nearby onlookers.
When a journalist for the PGH City Paper witnessed the events that were transpiring, he began to record on his cellphone. …read more

We recently hosted our second internal hackathon at Coinbase HQ. While we are committed to making it easy for people to buy bitcoin, we also spend a lot of our free time thinking about the new behaviors that an open, global payment protocol can uniquely enable. This 48-hour hackathon gave us a few work days to explore some of these possibilities.

Teams of Coinbase engineers, designers and business ops people came together to work on a variety of different projects; the only requirement was that we had to do work outside the bounds of our normal work. After a couple sleepless …read more

Los Angeles, Ca — In 1991, a neo-Nazi, white supremacist gang was terrorizing the streets of Lynwood in Los Angeles County. The reason these violent thugs could run amok was because they were deputies at the Lynwood Sheriff’s station, having the power of blue privilege.
A federal judge acknowledged that the gang of deputies carried out “systematic acts of shooting, killing, brutality, terrorism, house-trashing and other acts of lawlessness and wanton abuse of power.”
These maniacs were not the sudden appearance of a unique group of individuals among law enforcement, but the progeny of a decades-long effort by the Ku Klux Klan …read more

December 16 was the deadline for candidates running for the vacant U.S. House seat in Ohio’s 8th districts. Twenty candidates filed. See the list here. James J. Condit, Jr., who was the Constitution Party’s nominee for that seat in 2014, filed to run in the Green Party primary. …read more

Fourteen Republican presidential candidates, and three Democratic presidential candidates, will appear on the Tennessee major party presidential primary ballots. See the list here.
The most crowded past Republican presidential primary ballot had ten names on it. Tennessee presidential candidates are put on the ballot automatically if they are discussed in the news media. Also candidates can submit 2,500 signatures, but no one did that this year. …read more

The conviction of Daniel Holtzclaw last week was a massive victory for his victims as well as those in the police accountability movement. The evidence against this serial rapist was so damning that he was unable to beat all of the dozens of charges levied against him.
However, mounds of evidence, even video evidence, is no guarantee that a criminal cop will face justice.
While the media plastered the face of Holtzclaw across newspapers and websites alike, a tragedy of justice was unfolding in the darkness.
In the shadow of a single act of justice, at least six cops, 5 of which were …read more

Some devices stand out seemingly for all time (as short a time frame as a device class me exist for). Consider the Thinkpad T60. The iPad 2. The 2013 Nexus 7 tablet. The ASUS 900HA netbook. The Commodore 64. Anything from Amiga. The Sega Dreamcast. The original iMac (I know of at least one of these that has been functioning since 1998…it’s mine). The LG Optimus V. These are mobile devices, desktop PC’s, consoles, tablets, and even some smartphones that if one took proper care of would still be in full functioning order to this day, and allow you to …read more