Sometimes it's the little things...EPA

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Monday March 13, 2017 · 9:33 AM PDT

2017/03/13 · 09:33

A former colleague at EPA (I’m now retired)

shared what he found on his chair this morning when he arrived at work today. This warmed my heart as I recall how much the public’s support meant to us — and kept us going — during the Reagan years when EPA was also under serious threat.

WaPo long read on Fiorina at HP

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Sunday September 27, 2015 · 10:50 AM PDT

2015/09/27 · 10:50

Fiorina's record at HP, useful for those of us who didn't follow the story at the time..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

awful appointment for police reform commission

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Friday December 05, 2014 · 7:13 AM PST

2014/12/05 · 07:13

President Obama's appointment of Chief Ramsey for head of the police reform commission is nothing short of awful. This Alternet article sets out some of his record of abuse of free speech rights while he was police chief in DC -- for which the city was successfully sued for millions.

http://www.alternet.org/...

Left out of the article's litany of wrongful police actions regarding the IMF demonstrations was that early on the morning of the main demonstration, the DC police raided the central place where posters, t-shirts, and other materials were stored in preparation for the event -- and confiscated them.

It is hard to imagine a worse possible choice for this job.

Something to lift your spirit

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Thursday December 04, 2014 · 5:32 AM PST

2014/12/04 · 05:32

We are outraged. We are heartbroken. We can't breathe.

But this happened, too. We all have lights to shine.

https://www.facebook.com/...

shocking livestream of police assualt, Ferguson

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Thursday August 14, 2014 · 6:51 AM PDT

2014/08/14 · 06:51

This morning, Salon posted this link to a livestream KARG radio video of the police assault on peaceful protesters last night in Ferguson. (Yes, radio--because TV reporters had been forced to move out of the area.) The protesters are doing nothing more than standing in the street with their hands in the air. A line of police vehicles slowly advances on them, then opened fire with rubber bullets and tear gas. Then they fired into the neighborhood. It is shocking. This video leaves no doubt that this was unprovoked police violence.

http://www.argusradio.com/

A few summers ago, we visited South Africa. So many people we met told of how inspired they were in their struggle by the US civil rights movement. At the Apartheid Museum, I was struck by the similarity between the videos of the violence of police against protesters there and TV reports of civil rights protests I saw on TV as a teenager. And now, this.

IRS If it looks like a duck...

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Wednesday May 29, 2013 · 7:37 AM PDT

2013/05/29 · 07:37

If your job is to make sure that ducks do not get any of the free food, does it not make sense to take a closer look at anything with features such as webbed feet, feathers, or a large bill to see whether it quacks?

Skip to the bottom of the (bland) GovExec article below about the IRS response to a Question about the 501(c)4 exemption situation to a link that goes to a PDF list of the nearly 200 organizations that were given approval for the exemption -- and ask yourself which ones jump out as worthy of additional scrutiny for possible political activity using simple common sense. While there are some groups with names suggesting a progressive agenda, rightward-seeming names predominate. (My apologies for not being able to provide a direct link to the list, but it is definitely worth the effort to take a look.)

The facts are not as sexy as calling out the IRS for political bias. It is fair to question whether some of the approved groups (left or right) are really entitled to the exemption and call for greater scrutiny of their activities.

http://www.govexec.com/...

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