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| Aug 26, 2026 | NEW: Inflation Stays High As Michael Whatley’s Iran War Spikes Gas Prices & Benefits His Big Oil Stocks | New data reveals “inflation remains elevated as energy costs push on prices.” While the Iran War spikes DC insider Michael Whatley’s up to $1.39 million in oil and gas stocks, North Carolina families, farmers and truckers are paying more at... |
| Aug 19, 2026 | DOJ Claimed Blanche Had No Role in Comey Case, Then Argued He Legally Could Have | By Terrence Hill
Published: Aug 19 2026, 1:43 PM EDT
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| Aug 14, 2026 | Michael Whatley’s Iran War Has Cost NC Families An Extra $558 While He Profits | Since the start of the Iran War, North Carolina households have paid over $558 MORE for fuel – yet DC insider and Big Oil lobbyist Michael Whatley is cheering on the Iran War as it spikes his oil and gas stocks.
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| Aug 7, 2026 | As Gas Prices Soar, Big Oil Lobbyist & Stockholder Michael Whatley Reaps “Banner Profits” & Urges “Stay The Course” In Iran | As North Carolina families face sky high gas prices from the Iran War and “feel the pinch,” DC insider and Big Oil lobbyist Michael Whatley is financially profiting from his oil and gas stocks while urging to “stay the course” in Iran. As B... |
| Aug 3, 2026 | NEW: Big Oil Lobbyist & Stockholder Michael Whatley Urges “Stay The Course” In Iran As Big Oil “Reap[s] Rewards” | DC insider Michael Whatley is pushing to “stay the course” in Iran as the war escalates, even as gas prices continue to soar and multiple North Carolina service members have lost their lives.
As Whatley cheers on the escalation of the war, ... |
| Aug 3, 2026 | GOP Staffers Warn Far-Right ‘Groyper’ Strategy Is Eating Republican Party From Within | By Clark Johnson
Published: Aug 03 2026, 6:07 PM EDT
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| Aug 2, 2026 | Kay Granger Dead: Fort Worth’s First Female Mayor Rose to Chair House Appropriations | By William Chan
Published: Aug 02 2026, 10:31 PM EDT
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| Aug 1, 2026 | Max Miller’s Own Lawyer Says He ‘Can’t Control Himself’: New Restraining Order Filed | By Roger Satterfield
Published: Aug 01 2026, 3:09 PM EDT
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| Jul 30, 2026 | Pentagon’s Anthropic Case ‘Gotten Worse,’ Judge Signals; First Amendment Stakes for All AI Companies | By Earl Bensen
Published: Jul 30 2026, 8:48 PM EDT
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| Jul 24, 2026 | NEW: As NC Service Members Are Killed & Gas Prices Spike, Whatley “Absolutely Supports” Intensifying War In Iran | DC insider Michael Whatley is doubling down on his support for the escalating war in Iran, saying he “absolutely supports” it, even as it drives up gas prices and kills multiple North Carolina service members. Big Oil lobbyist Whatley is fi... |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Elon Musk Election Bribery Linked to Tiffany Campaign | Elon Musk Election Bribery Linked to Tiffany Campaign
MADISON, Wis. — New reporting from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reveals two complaints have been filed against Elon Musk by the bipartisan Wisconsin Election Commission for violating s... |
| Jul 14, 2026 | “Texas Is A Mess”: Ken Paxton's Lavish European Vacation Has Texans and GOP Strategists Seeing Red | Fox 26 Houston: “At the 250th anniversary of the founding of our country he’s paying homage to the King. I don’t understand what he’s thinking.”
AUSTIN, TX — Ken Paxton’s latest string of corruption, from being caught on the streets of Lond... |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Paxton Under Fire For Abandoning Texas Ahead Of America’s 250th For Luxury European Vacation With His Mistress | San Antonio Current: “Ken Paxton caught on video jetting off to European vacation with alleged mistress”
Chron: “Flying to Iceland for July 4—especially during America's semiquincentennial—won't exactly score him political points”
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| Jun 26, 2026 | As Inflation Hits A New High, Whatley Keeps Lying About It | New data reveals “price increases continued to grow in May” – with PCE inflation at “4.1%, its highest reading” in years. But DC Insider and Big Oil Lobbyist Michael Whatley has repeatedly lied that inflation is down and promised “a strong ... |
| May 8, 2026 | FBI Raids Office Of Dem Politician Instrumental In Redrawing Virginia Voter Maps… With Fox News In Tow | Maybe this isn’t just another vindictive prosecution by the Trump administration. But we’re going to need a lot more evidence to the contrary to abandon this conjecture:
If you’re not familiar with why Trump might be targeting L. Louise Luc... |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Bari Weiss Pauses Her Pathetic Podcast To Focus Full Time On Ruining CBS | If you’ve been napping, Trump-allied billionaire Larry Ellison and his nepobaby son David hired an unqualified troll named Bari Weiss to “run” CBS News. And by “run” CBS news, I mean destroy what little journalism was left at the media gian... |
| Nov 21, 2024 | OpenAI случайно удалила потенциальные доказательства в иске NY Times об авторских правах | Юристы The New York Times и Daily News, которые подали в суд на OpenAI за то, что она якобы копировала их работы для обучения своих моделей ИИ без разрешения, говорят, что инженеры OpenAI случайно удалили данные, потенциально имеющие отноше... |
| Nov 13, 2024 | Judge: Just Because AI Trains On Your Publication, Doesn’t Mean It Infringes On Your Copyright | I get that a lot of people don’t like the big AI companies and how they scrape the web. But these copyright lawsuits being filed against them are absolute garbage. And you want that to be the case, because if it goes the other way, it will ... |
| Nov 9, 2024 | The Legal Landscape of AI and Copyright: A Shifting Terrain | In a world where technology evolves at lightning speed, the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright law is a battleground. Recent developments, particularly the dismissal of a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, illuminate ... |
| Nov 7, 2024 | OpenAI’s data scraping wins big as Raw Story’s copyright lawsuit dismissed by NY court | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
The Southern District of New York has dismissed a copyright violation lawsuit brought by Raw Story Media, Inc. an... |
| Sep 11, 2024 | Police Union Says Fuck Officers, Law And Order; Tosses Endorsement To Donald Trump | The Fraternal Order of Police isn’t here to protect cops from anything but accountability. It doesn’t actually care about the rank-and-file, not when it can leverage its power to secure even more power. It doesn’t care about law and order, ... |
| Jul 3, 2024 | The Battle for Copyright: CIR Takes on Tech Giants | The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) has filed a lawsuit against tech giants OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of copyright infringement. This legal battle highlights the clash between traditional copyright laws and the evolving l... |
| Jun 28, 2024 | OpenAI, Microsoft Sued by US' Oldest Nonprofit Newsroom for Copyright Violations | By Jace Dela Cruz
Published Jun 28, 2024 5:41AM EDT
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| Jun 28, 2024 | Center for Investigative Reporting Sues OpenAI, Microsoft Over Copyright Infringement | By Inno Flores
Published Jun 28, 2024 11:03PM EDT
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In today's digital world, the intersection of creativity, ownership, and technology is... |
| May 23, 2024 | OpenAI получила разрешение на анализ контента от WSJ и других новостных агентств | OpenAI заключила соглашение об использовании для обучения моделей искусственного интеллекта материалов изданий, входящих в состав медиаконгломерата News Corp. Речь идёт о публикациях Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Daily Telegraph, Time... |
| May 20, 2024 | Open AI заплатит за нарушение авторских прав и «галлюцинации» Chat GPT? | Над OpenAI — разработчиком искусственного интеллекта и Chat GPT, сгустились тучи. С середины 2023 года против компании и её основного инвестора Microsoft было возбуждено более дюжины громких судебных процессов и правительственных расследова... |
| May 6, 2024 | Battle of the Bots: Newspapers Take on OpenAI and Microsoft | A legal showdown unfolds as major newspapers, including the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, sue OpenAI and Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement. The newspapers claim that the tech giants used their articles without permissi... |
| May 3, 2024 | News industry divides over AI | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Major news outlets are taking opposite approaches toward future-proofing their businesses against the threat of AI — some are opting to partner with AI firms, and others are suing them.
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| Apr 30, 2024 | OpenAI, Microsoft Face Lawsuit from Major Newspapers Over Copyright Infringement | Inno Flores, Tech Times 30 April 2024, 11:04 pm
OpenAI and Microsoft face legal action from several prominent newspapers, including the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune, owned by the Alden Capital Group.
The lawsuit alleges delib... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | OpenAI заключила лицензионное соглашение с Financial Times | OpenAI заключила соглашение c Financial Times о лицензировании контента и разработке инструментов искусственного интеллекта для издания.
Теперь пользователи ChatGPT будут видеть цитаты и ссылки на статьи газеты. OpenAI разработает для FT но... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | OpenAI licenses Financial Times’ content for ChatGPT | Discover how companies are responsibly integrating AI in production. This invite-only event in SF will explore the intersection of technology and business. Find out how you can attend here.
Today, OpenAI announced it has signed a strategic ... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | Financial Times firma acordo com OpenAI para treinar IA com notícias antigas | O Financial Times firmou um acordo com a OpenAI, permitindo que a startup apoiada pela Microsoft treine modelos de inteligência artificial usando o conteúdo arquivado do veículo. O FT para o time das organizações de notícias que trabalham c... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Neo-Nazis Rally in Nashville for the ‘Great White South’ | About two dozen neo-Nazis marched through downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday in an event the group billed as a celebration to “the great white South,” according to flyers the group’s leader Christopher Alan Pohlhaus posted to the so... |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Entertainment | What you can do for Banned Books Week 2023 | They weren’t burning the books. Yet.
After a video went viral this month showing two Missouri state senators torching a pile of boxes using flamethrowers, a clarification was issued that, no, they weren’t burning books. Apparently, the fire... |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Trump isn't getting a jury in his $250 million civil fraud trial because his lawyers failed to ask for one | Former president Donald Trump wanted a jury trial. KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images
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| Aug 27, 2023 | Commentary | Guest opinion: David Cuillier: Why most Trump trials won’t be televised | By David Cuillier
Americans will have few opportunities to binge-watch the Donald J. Trump trials.
It is unlikely the four court proceedings facing the former president will be televised live, with the exception of the case in Georgia, whic... |
| Mar 31, 2023 | Violent White Nationalist Rob Rundo Arrested in Romania | The reports indicate that Rundo, 33, was arrested at a gymnasium in the Romanian capital, Bucharest on March 31, after U.S. officials requested his extradition to the United States to face trial on federal rioting charges.
At least one outl... |
| Feb 17, 2023 | George Soros called Donald Trump a 'pitiful figure' who is hemorrhaging support and whose 'narcissism has turned into a disease' | George Soros, left, and former President Donald Trump, right, in a composite image. Getty Images
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| Feb 1, 2023 | Dianne Feinstein's 2024 Senate campaign raised just $558.91 at the end of last year. It may be the clearest sign yet that she won't seek re-election. | Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California at the Capitol on April 26, 2022. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images
Sen. Dianne Feinstein raised less than $600 at the end of 2022, according to new campaign filings.
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| Jan 31, 2023 | A once-in-a-generation race for a Senate seat is brewing in California. The issue? Sen. Dianne Feinstein is still in it | Sign up for notifications from Insider! Stay up to date with what you want to know.
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| Jan 3, 2023 | Trump invited the press to a 'media availability' slot at Mar-a-Lago. Not a single cable news network covered it. | Former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump address the press at a New Year's event at his Mar-a-Lago home. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Donald Trump invited the press to a "media availability" slot at Mar-a-Lago ... |
| Sep 14, 2022 | Judge Blocks ‘No Recording Cops Within 8 Feet’ Law Even Arizona Cops Don’t Want To Defend | In 2016, Arizona state senator John Kavanaugh tried to make it much more difficult to record police officers. He authored a bill that would create a 20-foot “no recording” zone around cops, supposedly in the interest of officer safety. |
| Jun 24, 2022 | LGBTQ+ Journalists Group Withholds Awards, Keeps Entry Money | Logo for the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists NLGJA |
| May 18, 2022 | White Deputies Search Bus Full Of Black College Students Just Because, Lie About It Later | Will racism ever be over in the United States? Nah. We’re just too damn good at it. |
| Apr 22, 2022 | Water Wars: AUKUS Goes Hypersonic | 2022 National Defense Strategy
On March 28, the Biden administration delivered the classified version of the 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS) to Congress. The strategy, accompanied by a $773 billion budget proposal, outlines the adminis... |
| Mar 24, 2022 | Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn confused the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, and she's getting called out for it | Sen. Marsha Blackburn at the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on March 23 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Blackburn, a Senate Judiciary Committee member, is being mocked for misattributi... |
| Nov 11, 2021 | Why the Justice Department Is Taking So Long to Indict Steve Bannon | Attorney General Merrick Garland is frustrating a lot of people. Congress held Steve Bannon in contempt fully three weeks ago, and the Justice Department still has not yet indicted him. Over at Vanity Fair, Eric Lutz frets that Garland is “... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | 'MAGAcoin' is Growing, Claims it Already Created 75 Million Coins—But Users at Risk for Data Breach | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 22 July 2021, 08:07 pm
MAGAcoin is growing, claiming it already has made 75 million worth of coins for all the users who have purchased its cryptocurrency. It claims to have more than 1,000 signups on its debut la... |
| Jul 17, 2021 | Rudy Giuliani was so ‘incredibly drunk’ on election night that Trump aides worried he’d smash valuable White House china, Michael Wolff says | President Donald Trump’s lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was always ‘buzzed,’ according to Michael Wolff’s new book. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Rudy Giuliani was “incredibly drunk” on election night, according to biog... |
| May 23, 2021 | Republican lawmaker who refused to wear mask is stripped of voting and speaking privileges until she apologizes | Republican lawmaker Annie Black refused to wear a mask on the assembly floor of the . Nevada Legislature
A Republican lawmaker refused to wear her mask on the assembly floor of Nevada’s state legislature.
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| May 7, 2021 | Arizona’s top election official details ‘a constant barrage of harassment’ during unprecedented GOP-backed ballot recounting | Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs reads a statement prior to certifying the election results for federal, statewide, and legislative offices and statewide ballot measures at the official canvass at the Arizona Capitol Monday, Nov. 30, ... |
| Nov 16, 2020 | Video shows ‘USPS whistleblower’ was not alone when swearing to affidavit alleging mail-in ballot fraud | Richard Hopkins appears in a video making voter-fraud allegations while another man stands behind him. Screenshot / Business Insider
The US Postal Service employee Richard Hopkins was not alone when he made his affidavit alleging mail-in ba... |
| Nov 16, 2020 | Video shows ‘USPS whistleblower’ was not alone when swearing to affidavit alleging mail-in ballot fraud | Richard Hopkins appears in a video making voter fraud allegations while another man lurks behind him. Screenshot / Business Insider
USPS employee Richard Hopkins was not alone when he made his affidavit alleging mail-in ballot fraud, video ... |
| Apr 29, 2019 | Texas Senator Pushing A Bill That Would Allow The State To Sue Twitter For Banning Conservatives | Since some conservatives are convinced social media companies are trying to turn their platforms into liberal paradises, weird and ignorant noises are being made by a handful of government figures. I blame Ted Cruz. |
| Jan 25, 2018 | On Trump’s Conflict with the Russia Investigation, His Question for McCabe, and the Defense of Norms | The possibility that the president will reject full cooperation with the special counsel presents the question of how a “norm” is defended or enforced. He has vacillated on his intention to testify, only to “walk it back.” Yesterday he turn... |
| Sep 14, 2017 | DACA Recipient Doxxed by Classmate and Targeted by Hate Campaign | On Sunday, a Kentucky woman posted a tearful video asking for support after a fellow Transylvania University student put her on blast for being undocumented. Paola Garcia, who's stayed in the US because of the Deferred Action for Childhood ... |
| Aug 15, 2017 | Doxxing White Supremacists Is Making Them Terrified | When one of the polo-clad, tiki-torch wielding white supremacists at Charlottesville lost his job at a hot dog restaurant two nights ago, you could almost hear left wing Twitter breathe a sigh of relief. Perhaps the social fabric of our cou... |
| Jun 13, 2017 | Qatar Braces for a Long Fight, Islamic State Loses Ground in Raqqa, and Terrorists Attack on Iranian Soil | Qatar Prepares to Draw out Feud with Saudi Arabia
Qatar is working through intermediaries in Kuwait to try to resolve the current diplomatic crisis in the Gulf, in which Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates, and their allies have moved agg... |
| Apr 12, 2017 | To Split or Not to Split: The Future of CYBERCOM’s Relationship with NSA | U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) is the U.S. armed forces command charged with offensive and defensive cyber operations. Since 2010, it has coexisted with NSA as two organizations under one director. It is simultaneously embedded within U.S. S... |
| Mar 22, 2017 | Portland Bar Receives Support and Attacks After Kicking Out 'Nazis' | Things are only escalating two weeks after the staff of a Portland bar kicked a group of "national socialists" out of their establishment.
Video of the incident emerged last week, showing a man in a red "Make America Great Ag... |
| Mar 22, 2017 | Portland Bar Receives Support and Attacks After Kicking Out 'Nazis' | Things are only escalating two weeks after the staff of a Portland bar kicked a group of "national socialists" out of their establishment.
Video of the incident emerged last week, showing a man in a red "Make America Great Ag... |
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| Feb 24, 2017 | Arizona Legislators Approve Bill That Would Allow Government To Seize Assets From Protesters | Building legislation on top of the political equivalent of an urban myth is never a good idea. Fold in something routinely abused by law enforcement and you’ve got a proposed bill whose short name should be “Shit Sandwich.” |
| Jan 4, 2017 | Facebook Censors Art Historian's Photo Of Neptune's Statue-Penis | It’s probably time for Facebook to give up trying to be the morality police, because it isn’t working. While nobody expects the social media giant to be perfect at policing its site for images and posts deemed “offensive”, it’s shown itself... |
| Dec 1, 2016 | Pushback begins against controversial HHS pick Tom Price | On the surface, Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia) has the right experience to head the Department of Health and Human Services in the incoming Trump administration.
Healthcare background? Price is an orthopedic surgeon. Policy chops? He has been i... |
| Nov 9, 2016 | Election Day CyberFest: Hackers, Hacking, 'Journalism,' The FBI, And Jiveass Baloney | As this election’s perfect argument for the dismantling of the two-party system has shuddered to a halt, the overriding issue appeared not to be a race run pretty much on no issues at all, but an unhealthy amount of paranoia. |
| Aug 22, 2016 | Police Unions To City Officials: If You Want Good, Accountable Cops, You'll Need To Pay Them More | Three police unions in different cities have come forward to insert their feet in their mouths following changes to department policies. The thrust of their terrible arguments? Cops should be paid more for doing their job properly. |
| Jul 5, 2016 | TSA Scores Another PR Win With Assault Of Nineteen Year Old Brain Tumor Patient On Her Way To Treatment | The TSA — still reeling from an investigation showing agents couldn’t find explosives in a fireworks factory and mounting complaints about long screening lines stemming from its unofficial work slowdown, one that began shortly after the age... |
| Jun 8, 2016 | How the upcoming election might shape cannabis law | Not only do the different candidates have varying views, but numerous states are voting as well
Note: The CannaVator accelerator, which includes a 10-week online and in-person program, is accepting applications until August 15, 2016 for its... |
| Jun 1, 2016 | Airbnb bans racist host | Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has come out and said that racism and discrimination is not allowed on the platform. This comes after an Airbnb host in North Carolina canceled on a black person and sent her a slew of racist insults. Chesky also sai... |
| Mar 14, 2016 | DEA's Definition Of Evidence Control Apparently Doesn't Include Recording Gross Weight Of Seized Substances | Let’s start out with this story, which is graphically (and tragically) illustrative of the problem discussed later in this post. |
| Dec 3, 2015 | NY Governor Announces App Version Of State's 'See Something, Say Something' Program | Seizing on a terrorist attack halfway around the world, the governor of New York has vowed to make his state safer by adding more bodies to the NYPD’s overstuffed counterterrorism units and, as is the style of the time, introduced an app th... |
| Nov 2, 2015 | Hackers Release Personal Information of Alleged KKK Members | Last week, hackers claiming to be affiliated with the hacktivist group Anonymous (as well as a lone vigilante) threatened to publish personal information and "dox" members of the racist group the Ku Klux Klan.
Over the weekend, th... |
| Oct 15, 2015 | Creating New Privacy Expectations For Body Camera Footage Will Only Carve More Holes In Police Accountability | As police body cameras head towards becoming as commonplace as dash cams, privacy concerns still remain mostly unaddressed. It’s not that law enforcement officers are in need of privacy protections, but the people they interact with — espec... |
| Oct 13, 2015 | James Comey Says 'Dozens' Of Terrorists Have Eluded The FBI Thanks To Encryption | The administration won’t back FBI Director James Comey’s push for encryption backdoors. Neither will Congress, at least not at this point. (But just give ’em one terrorist attack…) Former intelligence officials have written off backdoored e... |
| Jun 10, 2015 | Apple can’t rely on numbers alone to make streaming a success | Apple has finally launched its own music streaming service at its Worldwide Developers’ Conference in San Francisco. The move should not come as a surprise. Last year, Apple bought the audio products company Beats by Dr Dre for US$3bn (£2bn... |
| May 13, 2015 | 10 Ben Carson quotes: The GOP presidential candidate hasn’t always had a way with words | Republican presidential candidate and former Johns Hopkins Hospital neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson has faced quite a bit of heat for saying many things that just might be considered offensive to some. There’s no doubt that the man knows what h... |
| Mar 26, 2015 | CyberNadir: Former Pilot Randomly Speculates (Incorrectly) That Recent Airbus Crash Could Be The Work Of Hackers | CNN and Fox had the market cornered on ridiculous airplane crash theories, up until recently. When Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 just up and vanished, CNN produced wall-to-wall coverage seemingly cribbed from low-rent conspiracy theory sites.... |
| Feb 17, 2015 | CNN produces HUD Secretary Castro ad, er, interview | Remember that tagline CNN used to have: “It’s not news. It’s CNN.”
Never has that been more appropriate. Just not in the way they hoped for it, anyway.
CNN has been circling the drain for quite a while now, hanging on to its last, tattered ... |
| Feb 9, 2015 | Magistrate Judge Shoots Down Government's Attempt To Gag Yahoo Indefinitely Over Grand Jury Subpoenas | California judge Paul Grewal continues to hold up his end of the “Magistrates’ Revolt.” Grewal was the magistrate who shot down the government’s open-ended request to grab every email in a person’s Gmail account and sort through them at its... |
| Dec 2, 2014 | St. Louis Police Claim It's Their 'First Amendment' Rights Not To Protect Football Players Who Supported Protestors | It’s been pretty obvious that law enforcement in the St. Louis area has a rather tenuous grasp on the concept of the First Amendment. Obviously, they’ve done a fairly terrible job recognizing the right to “peaceably assemble” for quite some... |
| Nov 18, 2014 | Russian TV Channel Blames Internet For Suckering It Into Running A Fake Photo Of A Ukrainian Jet Shooting Down Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 | Chasing eyeballs but catching internet infamy. That’s Russia’s Channel One, which took an unsourced photograph from an online forum and turned it into a complete embarassment. |
| Sep 11, 2014 | Ferguson PD Lies About Why It Released Videotape Of Store Robbery, Lies Some More When Confronted With The Facts | In the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown, the Ferguson Police made several ill-advised moves. The biggest was the paramilitary force that greeted protests, looking for all the world like a unit flown in from Kabul, followed shortly ther... |
| Sep 4, 2014 | Texas Religious Leaders Try To Get Public Libraries To Ban Vampire Books For Them | Public libraries: they’re important. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, somebody is going to have to explain to me why we occasionally see people attempt to take books out of libraries on either religious or decency grounds. It seem... |
| Jul 31, 2014 | Trolls bring down the launch of conservative social network “Reaganbook” | A number of the profiles created on Reaganbook and cached by Google before the site was closed to the public, some of them NSFW. reader comments 253 with 122 posters participating
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| Jul 28, 2014 | Finding Private Bowe Bergdahl - Part 2 | Bowe Bergdahl. AP Photo/US Army
This is the second installment of Robert Young Pelton's account of his involvement with the 2009 search for Private Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan. Read the first part here, and skip ahead to the third part her... |
| Jun 3, 2014 | NSA Chief: Snowden “Probably Not” A Russian Spy | Despite Congressional bloviation, the NSA doesn’t think that Edward Snowden is a foreign spy. NSA Chief Admiral Michael Rogers doesn’t think it likely that Snowden is working for Russia, or any other country’s intelligence apparatus.
“Could... |
| May 20, 2014 | After Two Officers Are Indicted For Shooting Citizens, Dallas Police Dept. Decides Body Cameras Might Be A Good Idea | Mandatory body cameras for police officers may not fix everything (see also: Albuquerque, NM), but it’s a step in the right direction. The problem is that this directive usually follows preventable tragedies or years of systemic abuse (see ... |
| May 16, 2014 | For the Delicious Irony Files | A report from the cyber underground where most of my Lawfare colleagues don't normally follow: File this one as a delicious irony (or, if you prefer, a delightful irrationality). Many will recall that back in 2010 when WikiLeaks first start... |
| Apr 21, 2014 | Is Obama Finally About to Use His Pardon Powers to Correct the War on Drug's Injustices? | Photo via Flickr user Beth Rankin
Last week, President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentence of a man who had spent three extra years behind bars because of a typo. This was a nice use of the executive privilege of pardons, but it was a... |
| Apr 11, 2014 | DOJ Issues Scathing Review Of Albuquerque Police Department' Use Of Force, Tempers It By Prioritizing Officer Safety | The Albuquerque, New Mexico police department has been a mess for quite some time now. Recently, it has gained national attention for two seemingly unjustified shootings of New Mexico residents. This is in addition to the 37 people the poli... |
| Apr 10, 2014 | Adding Condoleezza Rice To Dropbox's Board Seems Incredibly Tone Deaf Following NSA Concerns | Dropbox is probably the most well-known of the cloud storage providers out there, and it’s angling for an IPO. As such, it recently made some changes in its management, including a bit of news that is getting a fair bit of attention: adding... |
| Apr 9, 2014 | Dropbox adds new Mailbox clients, photo syncing, and Condoleezza Rice | Screenshots from Dropbox's new photo syncing app, Carousel.
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| Mar 12, 2014 | Why Won't Senator Feinstein Call Torture Torture? | There’s been a lot of great commentary already about the brouhaha between the Senate and the CIA regarding Senator Dianne Feinstein’s allegations that the CIA has, in essence, spied on the activities of the Senate’s intelligence oversight c... |
| Mar 12, 2014 | Big Data And Privacy: An Uneasy Face-Off For Government To Face | By Andy Oram |
| Feb 24, 2014 | Police Chief To Critics Of Controversial Arrest: Hey, At Least My Officers Aren't Sexually Assaulting Arrestees | When it takes four officers to apprehend a jaywalker — a very tiny jaywalker at that — how do you defend your department’s actions? Well, if you’re the Austin police department, you try several diversionary tactics ranging from bad to horre... |
| Feb 18, 2014 | The DHS Sends Out The Call For A National License Plate Database | In what reads like bad news all over, the DHS has just requested quotes for national automatic license plate reader (ALPR) database. There are currently several ALPRs in use and law enforcement agencies have been working hard to link system... |
