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What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- The next Eric Cantor is lurking out there. Here's who it might be, by Jeff Singer
- Are liberals living in their own bubble, by Egberto Willies
- The sad pathology of the GOP frontrunners, by Frank Vyan Walton
- Why aren’t the Republicans serious about the presidential race, by Susan Grigsby
- Don’t blame Carly. No Republican can defend their party’s job creation record, by Ian Reifowitz
- Enslaved African ancestors and Wall Street, by Denise Oliver Velez
- By enabling Donald Trump, ‘Saturday Night Live’ delegitimized itself, by Laurence Lewis
- Vigilante justice, by Mark E Andersen
- The Republicans’ dynamic deception for 2016, by Jon Perr
SD Supreme Court overturns order keeping Oglala Lakota County residents off juries
The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled on November 4 that former Seventh Circuit Presiding Judge Jeff Davis had no authority to deprive Oglala Lakota (Shannon) County jurors of the right to sit on jury trials that arise in that county. Judge Davis had issued a standing order 2009, which was vacated today by the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court ruled Judge Davis “exceeded his statutory and constitutional authority in issuing the standing order effectively changing venue in all Shannon County cases.”
Rogue emu caught after 60 days as fugitive.
Arnold Schwartzenegger blew up an elephant tusk. He had a good reason:
In an effort to raise awareness about elephant poaching, Arnold Schwarzenegger recently took an elephant tusk, laced it with explosives, set it on a bale of hay, and blew it to smithereens.
“Hey, stop killing 96 elephants every day just because of this ivory,” said the 68-year-old Terminator star and former California governor, who is roughly the size of a small elephant, while brandishing a large tusk in front of a tank in a video of the stunt.
Nearly half of American workers make less than $15 an hour:
According to the think-tank National Employment Law Project, over four in 10 workers nationwide earn less than $15 per hour. Food services have the greatest percentage of ultra-low-wage earners of any industry, with a whopping 96 percent of fast-food workers earning sub-$15 wages. About 3 million cashiers and 2 million retail sales people—a large chunk working for some of the world’s most lucrative chains—currently earn less than $15 an hour. That wage is roughly the bare minimum needed to live decently anywhere in the country.
But more disturbingly, low wages are a symptom of more systemic, structural oppression across the labor force. Ultimately, while policies to raise hourly pay have drawn populist energy, they will not directly improve the lot of workers stuck in the informal economy, undocumented laborers, people who are part-time and erratically employed, or those trapped in jobs where wage theft and overtime violations are rife.
Data-grabbing "stingrays" are bad news for civil liberties:
A recent report by the American Civil Liberties Union revealed that Michigan police have been using portable cellphone tracking devices—so-called Stingrays and Kingfish among them—to investigate crimes since 2006. These devices are designed to imitate cell phone towers in order to gather metadata from cellphones in their vicinity. Police departments claimed to have purchased the equipment as a counterterrorism measure, but in fact it has been used for 128 “run-of-the-mill” investigations in Michigan, including burglaries and robberies.
One reason this is concerning is that police agencies have been required to sign contracts with Harris Corp., the company that makes the devices, saying they will not reveal they are using them. The devices are being used by police departments across the country, as well as the IRS.
Meet the Millennial who is determined to purge GOP of moderates.
Team Blackness discussed increased security on the Howard University campus and nearby metro stations after a racist death threat was posted on an online forum. Yup, just another day in post-racial America. Team Blackness also discussed a nationwide walkout planned by students calling for free tuition, Obama's historic cover shot on LGBT magazine Out, and Missy Elliot returns and she's hot like fire.
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On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Liz Cheney for Congress? As long as it coincides with renewed interest in the Bush/Cheney pre-9/11 lapses, torture and detainee policies, I’m OK with that! Armando weighs in on torture part. Plus, have we finally reached “Peak Trump?” Or is this just another Faux-Peak “Peak Trump?”
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