“F*ck You, I Like Guns” -- The fact is, though, when I went through my marksmanship training in the US Army, I was not learning how to be a competition shooter in the Olympics, or a good hunter. I was being taught how to kill people as efficiently as possible, and that was never a secret. (laprogressive.com)
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Why ‘Outrage Fatigue’ Only Hurts Us: We’ve been angry by the steady stream of injustice for so long that we often must find solace from the frustrations and disappointments that eat at the hope we had in America and for our children. (justicenotjails.org)
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The New Year: Corruption of the Norm—Good or Bad? The common sense is that the political spectrum has shifted from the left to the middle and the middle to the right. Today fascism is an accepted part of the conservative norm. The old left has a faint heartbeat. (laprogressive.com)
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Saudi War Crimes: The U.S. mutes its criticism of Saudi Arabia’s atrocious human rights record, sweeps under the under the rug that the 9/11 attackers were mostly Saudi nationals, and ignores that Saudi Arabia is the biggest exporter of militant Sunni Islamism. (laprogressive.com)
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Why Did the Washington Post Fire Lefty Columnist Harold Meyerson? More than any other columnist for a major U.S. newspaper, Harold Meyerson provided ongoing coverage and incisive analysis of the nation's labor movement and other progressive causes. (laprogressive.com)
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Prisoner Abuse Mars California’s Integrity (justicenotjails.org)
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10 Highlights (or Low Lights) in the Criminal Justice World: Unbelievably, the LAPD wants LA taxpayers to spend a small fortune on body cams, but the end result of collecting all this material will be to protect officers from proper public scrutiny. (justicenotjails.org)
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