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And the Home of the Brave

Regardless what you may think about whether or not Chelsea Manning deserves to be in jail, this is straight up ridiculous: The fourth charge, “medicine misuse”, follows an inspection of Manning’s cell...

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A Very Sick Society

If you have never viewed a real life sociopath, click below the fold and watch Louisiana DA Dale Cox on 60 Minutes. The man is distilled evil. View More: Newsmakers News|60 Minutes News|Live News|More...

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Long Read: “How Jeb Bush Enlisted in Florida’s War on Black Voters”

(Jack Ohman via GoComics.com) . Before anyone starts feeling a little sorry for John Ellis “Fredo” Bush (that’s the worst of being a leftist, it saps your capacity for raw hatred), here’s Mother Jones...

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Post-Racial America Update, Alabama Edition

So it turns out that even Southern state cops have their limits when it comes to racism, and that the systematic planting of evidence by cops on black men in Dothan, Alabama for the last couple of...

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Some Good News on Prison Reform

First, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that juveniles sentenced to life in prison without parole must have the right to challenge the sentence: The Supreme Court ruled Monday that those sentenced as...

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How’s This For A Solution For Mass Incarceration?

Pay folks decently? Here’s a new report that concludes, as The Washington Post reports, that: ..raising the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour could prevent as many as half a million crimes annually,...

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Late Night Creepshow Open Thread: Nothing Says FREEDUMB Like Locking People Up

United States Senator upset that more Americans aren't in jail https://t.co/yvqElsQbP1 pic.twitter.com/rFflNDVrxv — Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 19, 2016 (via Oliver Willis) Would-be seditionist and...

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Because We are a Nation of Sociopaths Is Why

We’re really a disgraceful group of people: Ramen noodles are overtaking tobacco as the most popular currency in US prisons, according a new study released on Monday. A new report by Michael...

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Open Thread: Taking the High Road

I hope President Obama unilaterally pardons Melania on his last day in office. https://t.co/n4KujbsYrP — Wyeth Ruthven (@wyethwire) August 30, 2016 Trump's modeling agency employed models without work...

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Long Read: “Edward Snowden makes ‘moral’ case for presidential pardon “

The Guardian‘s Ewen MacAskill, valiantly soldiering on: Edward Snowden has set out the case for Barack Obama granting him a pardon before the US president leaves office in January, arguing that the...

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So Very TIMELY Open Thread: Stop & Frisky Trump

.@realDonaldTrump wants to take the controversial stop-and-frisk policy nationwide: https://t.co/N7E3yUVwK8 — Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) September 22, 2016 Trump will propose nationwide stop-and-frisk...

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Depraved Leprechaun Open Thread: AG Jefferson Beauregard Sessions Pines for...

Private prisons filled with recreational marijuana users is a hell of a vision for America. pic.twitter.com/rLcKYNGHtF — Schooley (@Rschooley) February 23, 2017 WASHINGTON (AP) – Attorney General Jeff...

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AG Jeff Sessions: The 21st Century Klan Grand Wizard Issues a Decree

NAZI garden gnome and all around evil prick Jeff Sessions has put out some truly awful guidance today: Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former...

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Murder, Plain and Simple

*** The dashcam video of the public execution of Philando Castile has been released, and it is actually worse than I imagined it would be: Yanez met with two special agents from the BCA at 1:42 the...

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(Possible) Good News About Tonight’s Phoenix White Supremacy Trump Campaign...

No Trump pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio today, @PressSec tells the WH travel pool on Air Force One. — Steve Holland (@steveholland1) August 22, 2017 NEW Just talked to Joe Arpaio about AF1 gaggle on...

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