Posting History for First and Fourth
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| Why Oil Companies can make No Fly Zones Let me start this diary by saying, this is the kind shit that keeps me up at night. Contemplating the outcomes of the subject explored in this diary scares me. It causes me to lose hope for the ... |
GreenMother | 07/08/2013 | 94 | 113 | 16 | - |
| Introducing a new DKos Group: The First and the Fourth Our First Amendment is under siege and our 4th Amendment rights have been forced into providing lapdances in clandestine VIP rooms. Since the eruption of the Snowden-NSA-spying issue/scandal/... |
xxdr zombiexx | 07/06/2013 | 90 | 96 | 3 | - |
| I'm old enough to remember "entrapment". I'm afraid that for younger cohorts of our citizenry the term "predisposition" is, largely, just another fancy word. For others of us, the connection to the erosion of Fourth Amendment rights/... |
oldpotsmuggler | 07/06/2013 | 13 | 21 | 1 | - |
| "The Nation's Surveillance Court" Creates New " Secret Body of Law" Granting NSA Even Broader Powers They're changing the rules on us.
Fundamental structural normalcy in the so-called intelligence community seem to be changing both quickly and [not surprisingly anymore] in secret. Old secret ... |
markthshark | 07/07/2013 | 99 | 193 | 8 | - |
| Greenwald Does NSA and Brazil The NSA's mass and indiscriminate spying on Brazilians
As the headline suggests, the crux of the main article details how the NSA has, for years, systematically tapped into the Brazilian ... |
Richard Lyon | 07/06/2013 | 232 | 134 | 3 | - |
| Anatomy of a dysfunctional Federal District Court district. Hopefully this comes across as something other than only routine sour grapes. "The First and The Fourth" subject matter area is, if anything, at least as important as the most committed proponents ... |
oldpotsmuggler | 07/06/2013 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| NYT: “In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.” FISC almost "...parallel Supreme Court" Mr. Orwell, your day has arrived.
From the front page of Sunday’s NY Times , a story that—despite recent and overwhelming evidence supporting these greater truths—far too many Americans ... |
bobswern | 07/06/2013 | 290 | 314 | 11 | - |
| How Hollywood sold America Total Information Awareness These guys would never violate the 4th amendment unless it was to keep us safe right?
In America people like to think of their hero's as being unimpeachable in character and motivations. That these ... |
Tool | 07/07/2013 | 113 | 124 | - | - |
| PRISM: What It's Really All About Last night we had lots of company - as we usually do this time of year on the ol' homestead - and of course the late night conversation out on the back deck veered into NSA/Spy-State and what in the ... |
Joieau | 07/07/2013 | 196 | 200 | 5 | - |
| Imagine a smiling man, with only a few questions If you want a vision of the future, imagine a smiling man. In body Armor. With A weapon held at the low ready. Who only wants you to answer a few questions.
He's not threatening you, at ... |
detroitmechworks | 07/08/2013 | 21 | 23 | - | - |
| N.C. Moral Monday #10: at least 64 arrested, 746 unique arrests so far
Rev. Frederick Battle is all too familiar with civil disobedience and what spurs people to fight power with peaceful assembly. The mild-mannered minister was arrested 51 years ago in Greensboro, N.... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/09/2013 | 101 | 174 | 2 | - |
| Fooling Americans Abuout FISA Ever since the Edward Snowden story broke, the government has been claiming that the dragnet domestic surveillance done by NSA was, in the words of president Obama and Congress, "approved by a court." |
Jesselyn Radack | 07/08/2013 | 232 | 272 | 9 | - |
| Julian Assange Spills the Beans --> PRISM "Facebook, in particular, is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented, um, here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names ... |
New Minas | 07/08/2013 | 200 | 89 | 3 | - |
| New Snowden video interview plus der Spiegel interview Part 2 of the video interview of Snowden in Hong Kong is now available on the Guardian.
This Guardian video cannot be embedded and has not been published on the Guardian's YouTube channel yet, nor ... |
joanneleon | 07/08/2013 | 927 | 201 | 5 | - |
| Want to know what can go wrong when the government collects data on you?
Here's an instructive look at what can happen when the government compiles massive amounts of personal data from millions ... |
Joan McCarter | 07/08/2013 | 241 | 134 | - | - |
| "Snowden Deserves an Immediate Presidential Pardon" Harvard professor Stephen Walt has called upon President Obama to grant Edward Snowden an immediate presidential pardon.
His call, published in the Financial Times , begins thusly :
In his ... |
David Harris Gershon | 07/08/2013 | 739 | 253 | 2 | - |
| Federal Judge Enjoins Walker Administration from Enforcing Wisconsin Capitol Permit Requirements I wish I had more time to analyze and write about this, but let's just say it was a good day for the Wisconsin chapter of the ACLU.
In addition to granting a 10 day injunction barring enforcement ... |
Giles Goat Boy | 07/08/2013 | 50 | 216 | 4 | - |
| The answer to the NSA and the FISA court: James Otis, "On the Writs of Assistance," February 1761 MAY it please your Honors : I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance. I have accordingly considered it, and ... |
Superskepticalman | 07/09/2013 | 9 | 26 | 4 | - |
| NSA Revelations on Australia and Brazil; anti-Clinton warhorse on FISA court New revelations on the role Australia plays in NSA intercepts emerged in RT. New revelations on espionage against Brazil are in O Globo.
Also, separately, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post, ... |
CharlesII | 07/09/2013 | 77 | 143 | 4 | - |
| “Todd Gitlin, Are ‘Intelligence’ and Instigation Running Riot?” Do you want to maintain your constitutional rights to engage in unhindered social protest against Keystone XL, the destruction of our climate, our overwhelming surveillance state, the veritable ... |
bobswern | 07/09/2013 | 14 | 29 | - | - |
| Coleen Rowley has questions for James Comey If you do not remember who Coleen Rowley is, she was an FBI Special Agent and Lawyer in Minneapolis, where she served as chief legal advisor, who became well known because of the paper she wrote for ... |
teacherken | 07/09/2013 | 24 | 84 | 2 | - |
| Abbreviated pundit roundup: Fixing the nation's spying laws We begin today's abbreviated pundit roundup with an editorial from The New York Times :
As Eric Lichtblau reported in The Times on Sunday, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has for years ... |
Georgia Logothetis | 07/09/2013 | 65 | 30 | - | - |
| Young Woman Has EPIC Rant in TX Abortion Hearings. Gets Hauled Off By State Troopers. You've got to listen to the courage of this young woman in confronting the Senate Committee in Texas "hearing" testimony against the anti-abortion bills they are trying to ram through another ... |
annrose | 07/09/2013 | 285 | 559 | 11 | - |
| Former FISA Judge Breaks Ranks US must fix secret Fisa courts, says top judge who granted surveillance orders
A former federal judge who granted government surveillance requests has broken ranks to criticise the system of secret ... |
Richard Lyon | 07/09/2013 | 475 | 366 | 9 | - |
| Obama Orders Federal Workers to Profile & Report Suspicious Colleagues. Here's Why it Won't Work... Originally published in Tikkun Daily |
President Obama's Insider Threat Program , instituted in 2011 as a response to Bradley Manning, essentially orders all federal employees to behaviorally ... |
David Harris Gershon | 07/10/2013 | 203 | 163 | 9 | - |
| Freedom of Assembly on Trial in NYC: Veterans Who Fought for Liberty Are Forced to Fight Again World War II veteran Jay Wenk tolls a bell while Vietnam veteran Tarak Kauff reads the names of the fallen moments before their arrest on October 7, 2012.
“Congress shall make no law… abridging�� |
Richard Riis | 07/10/2013 | 63 | 139 | 3 | - |
| FIGHTING BACK Against NSA Surveillance - Small Independent ISP in Utah Does What Other ISPs Won't "I would tell them I didn't need to respond if they didn't have a warrant, that (to do so) wouldn't be constitutional," the founder and chief executive, Pete Ashdown , said in an interview at his ... |
markthshark | 07/10/2013 | 141 | 251 | 10 | - |
| Quinnipiac: "Massive Shift" as Public Now Says War on Terror Has Gone Too Far How many times have you heard it? Americans are more than happy to submit to constant surveillance in the name of fighting terrorism. They're apathetic about civil liberties issues, which are a ... |
ukit | 07/10/2013 | 459 | 319 | 5 | - |
| Bradley Manning the war on whistleblowers continues Standing up for the principle of righteousness in the face of adversity is a standard rarely encountered. Knowing a crime was committed Manning tried through inside channels to do the right thing. ... |
Horace Boothroyd III | 07/10/2013 | 80 | 60 | 1 | - |
| Why Oil Companies can Declare a No Fly Zone Part II So the last diary was very very long.
I could have cut it up into pieces, but I figured it was just better to put that out and explain it as best as I was able, the disturbing material I am reading. |
GreenMother | 07/11/2013 | 35 | 35 | 2 | - |
| "I will introduce legislation...to repeal the laws that brought us our current surveillance state." Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ) has announced, in an eloquent op-ed to his constituents, that he plans to introduce legislation which would, among other things, repeal the Patriot Act and establish ... |
David Harris Gershon | 07/10/2013 | 135 | 351 | 4 | - |
| Insider Threats: Desperately Seeking Winston Smith
In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on ... |
billmon | 07/11/2013 | 108 | 180 | 4 | - |
| "So what? Tap my phones; hack my emails. I've got nothing to hide" Except that I'm an idiot. Don't people understand that this is exactly how J. Edgar Hoover and other political thugs have concentrated their power?
Simple illustration and I'm out:
You're spotless. You work at warehouse, ... |
Mike Stark | 07/11/2013 | 492 | 484 | 12 | - |
| Is America An Inverted Totalitarian State? Or, Is It On Its Way To Becoming One? (w/Poll) I’ve referenced the term, “Inverted Totalitarianism,” in many of my recent posts. Knowing that the majority of readers do not click on most of the links in a typical post in this community, I ... |
bobswern | 07/11/2013 | 345 | 249 | 15 | - |
| Chevron Granted Access to Nine Years of Activists' Email Information in Environmental Lawsuit This is another illustrative example of the insidious reciprocal relationships forged between our government and the huge corporations they represent. Frankly, after the Snowden revelations, I ... |
markthshark | 07/11/2013 | 166 | 240 | 3 | - |
| BREAKING: The Guardian Reveals Microsoft's Close Collaboration with the NSA Today the Guardian published a new story on a number of top secret documents which prove that Microsoft--despite its (and other major tech firms recent denials of prior knowledge of the PRISM program- |
The Free Agent | 07/11/2013 | 366 | 264 | 2 | - |
| Exactly when did America become a bunch of out-takes from Catch-22? I first asked myself this question in January, 2013, when I read this story:
Secrecy of Memo on Drone Killing Is Upheld
"I can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that ... |
arendt | 07/16/2013 | 119 | 198 | 13 | - |
| First Amendment Project: Caltrans broke law by confiscating anti-tunnel signs In the latest episode in the Brown administration's "Signgate" scandal, Restore the Delta Thursday released an expert legal opinion finding that the California Department of Transportation’s (... |
Dan Bacher | 07/11/2013 | 6 | 16 | - | - |
| An NSA-proof operating system. Yes, for real. Let's start here: do you use Windows? Or an Apple operating system on your computer? You're hosed. The NSA owns you. They own every thought, all your dreams and aspirations. They own your ... |
Jaime Frontero | 07/13/2013 | 171 | 126 | 30 | - |
| All Access Imagine
A complete file of your medical records.
A complete file of your banking records
A complete record of your credit card transactions
A complete record of all your internet activity
A ... |
LaFeminista | 07/12/2013 | 80 | 36 | 1 | - |
| UPDATED: U.S. Pressures Latin America to Deny Snowden Asylum as He Meets With Human Rights Groups In its desperate attempt to persecute National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden , the U.S. government has taken on the role of oafish bully and is pressuring Latin American ... |
Jesselyn Radack | 07/12/2013 | 920 | 324 | 3 | - |
| Why Are Americans So Passive? This is a brief overview of a lengthy article currently posted at AlterNet. I was shocked and pleased to see it because I ask myself the same thing daily and am always thrilled to find out I'm not ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 07/13/2013 | 263 | 196 | 3 | - |
| U.S. spying on Americans: Unpopular, and unlikely to end The ongoing revelations about the government's spying programs have changed public opinion on the issue, but the institutions responsible for reining them in have no incentive to act.
Cross posted ... |
danps | 07/13/2013 | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| “This is too much, this is just like some third world country that we’re in all of a sudden.” That was a quote from a woman publicly humiliated by a Texas State Trooper her taxes pays the salary of.
The woman was treated so poorly by these troopers she broke down in tears.
The indignity ... |
Horace Boothroyd III | 07/13/2013 | 270 | 285 | 1 | - |
| DOJ Excludes Bloggers & Independent Journalists from New Protections Much praise was heaped upon the Department of Justice yesterday when it announced its new media policies , which shield journalists from being classified by the FBI as "co-conspirators" in criminal ... |
David Harris Gershon | 07/13/2013 | 199 | 142 | 3 | - |
| White house warning russia to not give Snowden a propaganda platform Hi,
I don't write too often here, but I should really do it more often.
Living outside the US I can often see things that don't get much attention in the states and maybe a different reflection of ... |
tyfon | 07/14/2013 | 26 | 19 | - | - |
| If the Security of Our Country Rests on Secrets, We've Got a Problem I was just reading this provocative diary entry and musing ...
If the security of our country rests on secrets, we've got a problem.
A big one. |
bink | 07/13/2013 | 362 | 267 | 4 | - |
| Greenwald refutes reports on NSA/Snowden Glenn Greenwald has refuted a Reuters report that suggested that he or Snowden were blackmailing or threatening the US government with leaks of classified materials. |
CharlesII | 07/14/2013 | 631 | 137 | - | - |
| Greenwald: Snowden Delivered "Thousands" of Docs, They “Contain NSA ‘Blueprint’” AP's breaking this story via the NY Times, within the past hour...
[http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/07/14/world/americas/ap-lt-nsa-surveillance-greenwald.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Greenwald: ... |
bobswern | 07/14/2013 | 789 | 210 | 5 | - |
| NSA Director Wants to "Collect it all" The Washington Post has published a truly disturbing, if not accurate, profile of the man behind the NSA's massive surveillance infrastructure: Gen. Keith B. Alexander.
The central narrative ... |
David Harris Gershon | 07/14/2013 | 239 | 232 | 8 | - |
| Contrary to WaPo, NSA Massive Domestic Spying Predates 2005 The Washington Post has a front page story featuring embattled National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith Alexander's hoarding complex.
“Rather than look for a single needle in the ... |
Jesselyn Radack | 07/15/2013 | 149 | 174 | 1 | - |
| Big Data and Big Brother The controversies surrounding the revelations about the NSA are bringing a lot of background information about recent developments in technology onto the radar screen. 20 years ago when internet ... |
Richard Lyon | 07/15/2013 | 79 | 42 | 1 | - |
| N.C. Moral Monday #11: 101 unique arrests, things heat up Hundreds of observers crowded onto the third-floor balcony of the N.C. General Assembly to peacefully support the 101 civil-disobedience volunteers being arrested one floor below.
Amid sweltering ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/16/2013 | 31 | 65 | - | - |
| Take 2. Taking The Freeway. Taking It Down as Oakland Rises Up For Trayvon Martin. At about 7:30 PM this evening, after one of the most idiotic manuevers by the Oakland Police I have yet seen, Trayvon Martin verdict protesters went up the down ramp onto an already backed up I880, ... |
jpmassar | 07/16/2013 | 23 | 40 | - | - |
| Greenwald “Blasts Media, MSNBC Over Edward Snowden Stories” (w/fmr. Sen. Humphrey's Update) ( UPDATE 7/16/13, 3:00PM EDT: Former Senator Gordon Humphrey (R-NH) has had a fascinating email exchange with Edward Snowden. See farther down, below.)
Continuing his efforts from the past few ... |
bobswern | 07/16/2013 | 582 | 152 | 2 | - |
| Detroit Free Press photographer arrested while filming another arrest
Another day, another incident of police arresting someone for filming them in public. This time it was Mandi Wright, a photographer from the Detroit Free Press :
As two officers ... |
Jen Hayden | 07/16/2013 | 100 | 185 | 2 | - |
| New suit challenges NSA surveillance
A large coalition of religious groups, privacy advocates, free speech, human rights and environmental organizations have joined with other groups in the Electronic Frontiers Foundation'... |
Joan McCarter | 07/17/2013 | 47 | 71 | 1 | - |
| The NSA - Hiding a Shadow Government Behind a Haystack, "To Keep Us Safe" The enormous service that a certain whistleblower has provided to Americans and the world at large, is becoming clear even in the face of shrill cries of "traitor" and histrionic accusations of "... |
joe shikspack | 07/25/2013 | 397 | 254 | 38 | - |
| The National Security Agency's Captive Audience 1972 Supreme Court Dissenting Opinion re
Government Surveillance
This case [ Laird v. Tatum] involves a cancer in our body politic. It is a measure of the disease which afflicts us. Army ... |
Lynne Vogel | 07/16/2013 | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| In Congressional Hearing Today, NSA and DOJ Admit Surveillance Goes BEYOND What Snowden Revealed I'm not seeing this reported in any of the big media outlets yet (big surprise), but only at the Guardian:
NSA warned to rein in surveillance as agency reveals even greater scope
Apparently, this ... |
The Free Agent | 07/17/2013 | 330 | 301 | 8 | - |
| Long before anyone ever heard of Edward Snowden, it was already time to fight the good fight Long before anyone ever heard of Edward Snowden…
… Bill Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe , both being whistleblowers and former senior NSA employees, told us the U.S. government was [http://www.... |
bobswern | 07/18/2013 | 481 | 245 | 18 | - |
| Jimmy Carter Defends Snowden and Says, "America does not have a functioning democracy." According to Der Spiegel , former President Jimmy Carter railed against NSA surveillance and defended whistleblower Edward Snowden at a closed-door affair in Atlanta.
The German publication ... |
David Harris Gershon | 07/18/2013 | 447 | 430 | 9 | - |
| NSA Extends Surveillance Program NSA surveillance program extended by court, intelligence officials say
A secret court on Friday extended the National Security Agency’s authority to collect and store the phone records of tens of ... |
Richard Lyon | 07/19/2013 | 102 | 46 | 1 | - |
| Ex-NSA Chief Michael Hayden is SO mad at Snowden... There was an opinion piece on CNN yesterday by former NSA chief, Ret. General Michael v. Hayden. In it he bristles with outrage over Edward Snowden, comparing him to Benedict Arnold.
Before we ... |
Dumbo | 07/20/2013 | 167 | 212 | 3 | - |
| Landmark Ruling Has Turned Investigative Journalists into Whistleblowers A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that the First Amendment does not protect investigative journalists who receive unauthorized information from whistleblowers.
The unprecedented ruling, ... |
David Harris Gershon | 07/20/2013 | 216 | 241 | 7 | - |
| Disturbing News on the Early Opening of the NSA's Utah Datacenter and the FBI It’s amazing what our inverted totalitarian government can accomplish when they focus their collective institutionally paranoid minds upon a project. Take the NSA’s massive surveillance data ... |
bobswern | 07/20/2013 | 404 | 349 | 31 | - |
| Warrior Cops--The New Men in Black If you hear someone banging on your door at about three in the morning, yelling, POLICE, SEARCH WARRANT. It’s unlikely you will be able to get up, put on something decent and get to the door ... |
ATexican | 07/20/2013 | 18 | 19 | - | - |
| 17-Year-Old Who Blew The Lid Off Racial Profiling W/iPod There is a large segment of society that cannot understand why African American and Latinos don't like and/or trust the police or government in general. They can't understand it because they don't ... |
shevas01 | 07/21/2013 | 117 | 221 | 6 | - |
| Obama’s Escalating War on Freedom of the Press The part of the First Amendment that prohibits “abridging the freedom … of the press” is now up against the wall, as the Obama administration continues to assault the kind of journalism that ... |
NormanSolomon | 07/22/2013 | 372 | 162 | 3 | - |
| BREAKING: N.C. Moral Monday #12: Spontaneous sit-in shuts down Gen. Assembly buildings When NAACP-NC President Rev. William Barber suggested from the N.C. General Assembly building's second floor (where civil-disobedience arrests were beginning to take place) that people sit down if ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/23/2013 | 84 | 171 | - | - |
| Under 300 Unique Phone Metadata Searches in 2012
That is a screengrab from a letter sent from the United States Department of Justice to the Judge hearing the NSA case. It illustrates the title to this diary with the following sentence: "In ... |
Tortmaster | 07/23/2013 | 43 | 9 | - | - |
| Defund the NSA - ACTION (Now!)
Caucus Diary
This is a Caucus diary, a community diary created by The Caucus Project group at DailyKos.
The goal of this diary is not to debate the policy position of the diarist; it is for ... |
joanneleon | 07/23/2013 | 177 | 117 | 2 | - |
| NSA Responds To ProPublica FOIA Request: We Don't Have The Technology To Search Our Own Emails ProPublica, without question, one of the most reliable sources for solid news anywhere on the planet, IMHO, is a little late to the table on this round of the NSA-surveillance-state stories. But, I’ |
bobswern | 07/23/2013 | 128 | 175 | 4 | - |
| Dream Defenders Occupy Florida's Capitol - Day Eight They're still at it and they aren't going away. The Dream Defenders and their supporters have been occupying the capitol building in Tallahassee, FL since the Tuesday after George Zimmerman was ... |
nancyjones | 07/23/2013 | 21 | 35 | - | - |
| The White House Has Killed Irony The House will vote tomorrow on an important amendment that would limit the NSA's ability to engage in secret, bulk surveillance . It will be the first such piece of legislation to be voted upon ... |
David Harris Gershon | 07/23/2013 | 501 | 375 | 6 | - |
| The White House is Trolling Democracy with its Statement on the Amash-Conyers Amendment Reps. Justin Amash, John Conyers, Jr., Thomas Massie, Mick Mulvaney, and Jared Polis are proposing an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill that would curtail funding for the implementation ... |
Liberty Equality Fraternity and Trees | 07/23/2013 | 141 | 199 | 4 | - |
| One Nation Under Borg The source is a quick read so I encourage everyone to take a look . Just a teaser here:
DARPA insists that Atlas is not being designed for adversarial military tasks, but for humanitarian reasons—... |
Words In Action | 07/24/2013 | 180 | 61 | 3 | - |
| Mass Arrest of Singers in Wisconsin Capitol Wisconsin Capitol Police arrested and cited around 20 people today after declaring their singing of protest songs in the rotunda an "unlawful event."
Many of those arrested were senior citizens ( ... |
Giles Goat Boy | 07/24/2013 | 142 | 262 | 3 | - |
| A giant sucking sound
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MattWuerker | 07/25/2013 | 39 | 44 | 2 | - |
| Takeover of NC Speaker Thom Tillis' office Moments ago, a group of students and other North Carolinians moved into the office of N.C. Speaker of the House Thom Tillis and initiated a sit-in a la Wisconsin and Florida.
Those of us not at the ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/24/2013 | 17 | 72 | 1 | - |
| Wisconsin Capitol Arrests Continue for a 2nd Day
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s administration ordered its Capitol Police force to arrest singing citizens for a second consecutive day. Singers participating in the daily, noon-hour ... |
Giles Goat Boy | 07/25/2013 | 67 | 174 | 4 | - |
| Songs in the Key of Resistance: The Police Came in Waves Today. The police come in swarms today, in predator waves, jackals culling antelope, scanning the room not for the easy efficient takedowns, but for the ones they most begrudge. They lope into the large ... |
noise of rain | 07/25/2013 | 239 | 514 | 19 | - |
| UPDATED: North Carolina Gen. Assembly takes back 100 years of voters' rights Democratic members of the N.C. House of Representatives joined hands and bowed their heads in an emotional show of unity as votes on HB 589 were counted in a late-night session on July 25.
It is ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/26/2013 | 189 | 280 | 7 | - |
| Songs in the Key of Resistance: "Nitro, Nitro: This Man Needs Nitro!" (Update) UPDATE on Reverend Dary's condition: He is resting comfortably at UW Hospital - he has had heart issues in the past and things are looking O.K. for now. He will have a stress test tomorrow - He is ... |
noise of rain | 07/26/2013 | 92 | 138 | 4 | - |
| Republicans Bum Rush the democratic process and lay siege to your future. This originated as a comment in LaFeminista's We're not amused post from yesterday. I was surprised by the reaction and elected to post it as a diary, fleshed out and spell-corrected.
In this ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 07/27/2013 | 17 | 28 | - | - |
| There's Good News and Bad News about the NSA and your Personal Passwords The Good News: apparently the NSA doesn't yet have the know-how (or more likely the horsepower), to quickly crack our personal passwords.
The Bad News: apparently the NSA wants this no-road-... |
jamess | 07/27/2013 | 189 | 174 | 2 | - |
| Harry Belafonte Visits the Dream Defenders WE FIGHT THE CRIMINALIZATION OF OUR GENERATION BY DIRECTLY CONFRONTING THE SOURCES, SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS OF IT.
The Dream Defenders are in their 12th day of standing their ground in the offices ... |
JoanMar | 07/28/2013 | 21 | 31 | - | - |
| Greenwald on ABC: Low-Level NSA Analysts Read, Listen Via Database of "Trillions" of Emails, Calls After [http://www.dailykos.com/search?story_type=&search_type=search_stories&text_type=any&text_expand=contains&text=surveillance&usernames=bobswern&tags=%28tags%29&time_type=time_published&... |
bobswern | 07/28/2013 | 770 | 263 | 9 | - |
| NYT Lead: House Dems “Increasingly Unified” As “Momentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance” Jonathan Weisman's lead story in Monday's New York Times reports that as many as 61 of the [http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/must-read/house-democrats-who-voted-against-amashconyers-amendment-rein-... |
bobswern | 07/29/2013 | 295 | 226 | 5 | - |
| FISA Court: "To date, no electronic communications provider has challenged a 702 directive" See FISA Court Presiding Judge Reggie Walton's letter in response to queries from Senate Judiciary Committee Chariman Patrick Leahy .
The FISA court is described as working much as described in my ... |
Armando | 07/29/2013 | 82 | 66 | - | - |
| Dream Defenders and The Special Session Is Happnin NOW, y'all Pay attention.
The Dream Defenders are a diverse group of progressives led by brown and black youth. As such, they have a special expertise in things like racial profiling and the school to prison ... |
nancyjones | 07/29/2013 | 11 | 19 | - | - |
| Songs In the Key of Resistance: Dueling Sing Alongs, Guns, Trombones, and American Resilience. I sit on the hard marble floor of the elegant Wisconsin State Capitol building, listening to America The Beautiful, God Bless America and other "patriotic" songs being sung by about 50 rightwing ... |
noise of rain | 07/30/2013 | 74 | 134 | 6 | - |
| As Manning Faces Life in Jail, Architects of Torture & Extrajudicial Murders Face Talk Show Circuit While Bradley Manning has been found not guilty of the most serious charge he faced – aiding the enemy – he has been 'convicted' by a military court on 19 counts, several of which fall under the ... |
David Harris Gershon | 07/30/2013 | 368 | 323 | 2 | - |
| Protest arrests at New England coal plant I went to the Brayton Point coal plant protest down near Fall River in Massachusetts on Sunday and I diaried about my experience here:
New England coal plant protest
Rugbymom also diaried here:
... |
cordgrass | 07/30/2013 | 11 | 18 | - | - |
| While the N$A is all up in your Internet, the TSA is having your car searched at the airport 2 .. 3... quick posts, side-by-side, showing the rabid onslaught against the 4th Amendment and the protections is is supposed to provide:
The Internet As We Know It Is On Its Deathbed The Snowden ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 07/31/2013 | 277 | 310 | 5 | - |
| Heroes of the Day Sing Truth To Power Closing down the building singing truth to power for an hour, after consecutive weekday noon-hour Solidarity Sing Along #624, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, day #4 of the illegal mass arrests of peaceably ... |
Wisco Wherls | 07/31/2013 | 19 | 61 | 3 | - |
| New Guardian Report: NSA Can Use XKeyscore to Track All of Your Internet Activity The Guardian has another bombshell report on the NSA, based on the documents leaked by Edward Snowden. The headline says it all: XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the ... |
Lost Left Coaster | 07/31/2013 | 278 | 136 | 2 | - |
| N.C. Moral Monday #13: What happens now? As many as 10,000 protesters took to the streets of downtown Raleigh to protest the repressive bills that made their way through the NC General Assembly this legislative session. Protesters wore red ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/31/2013 | 66 | 115 | 3 | - |
| Love him or hate him, Glenn Greenwald Nails It Against a Beltway Insider Who Only Has Excuses. Watch this video. Nine minutes. |
gooderservice | 07/31/2013 | 384 | 157 | 2 | - |
| US Senate IP Caught Defacing Edward Snowden's Wikipedia Entry Republished from Voices on the Square by permission because I wrote it.
Usually the only wiki we associate with Edward Snowden is WikiLeaks. However, in a hilarious turn of events, an IP address ... |
aigeanta | 08/04/2013 | 433 | 361 | 6 | - |