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"We view ourselves as the cop on the beat" to get DEI discrimination out of higher ed

Crybully Tucker Carlson Claims Detained At Ben Gurion Airport - US Embassy and Israelis Deny

Democrats to Defy Leadership With Protests for Trump's State of the Union

Full Transcript of Q&A session with NSA leaker Edward Snowden

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 17, 2013 22 Comments

A full transcript of the Guardian's live online Q&A session with NSA leaker Edward Snowden is provided below. The contents of the session were transcribed as is, without any edits or corrections to content, only formatting edits. You can also download it via PDF. (Note: We cannot...

NSA Leaker Edward Snowden to Take Questions From Public – Live Online

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 17, 2013 3 Comments

Whether you think he's a hero, a traitor, or something in between, he's taking your questions today live at 11am EST. Edward Snowden Q&A: NSA whistleblower answers your questions The Guardian issued this mysterious James Bond-ish caveat...

Turkey Protests: Labor Unions Call Work Strike Over Brutal Crackdown

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 17, 2013 2 Comments

As protests in Turkey near their third week, two major union federations have called a work strike to oppose the eviction of protestors and demand an end to police violence. The Confederation of Public Workers' Unions (KESK) and Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DISK) will organize...

Zimmerman Trial LIVE – Jury Selection Day 6 All-Day Coverage

Posted by Andrew Branca on June 17, 2013 5 Comments

Today we will again be covering the Zimmerman Jury Selection Day Six live, all day, along with a separate end-of-day wrap-up post. To catch up on the lastest events in State of Florida v. Zimmerman, click here and take a look at our re-cap of last...

After passing immigration amnesty, Republicans should go on an overseas apology tour

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2013 32 Comments

If Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio and others in the Republican Party want to reward adults who broke the immigration laws with citizenship, they should have the guts to announce it as such. And then go on an overseas apology tour to apologize to the millions if...

DePaul U. Investigating Alleged Harassment of Jewish Students at Coffee Shop

Caltech Astrophysicist Gunned Down on His Front Porch

UC-Davis Holds ‘Know Your Rights’ Workshop on Encounters With ICE

Stanford Newspaper Sues State Dept. Over Free Speech Rights for International Students

UCLA Cancels Campus Talk by Bari Weiss After Students Petition Against It

UC-Davis Hosting Workshop on How Microaggressions 'Perpetuate Stereotypes'

Polygamy Pennsylbama style

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2013 8 Comments

This one is weird. A follow up to Oil field trash never had it so good …, with another photo from Kevin from the Alabama part of Pennsylvania: I took this photo on the main drag In Wellsboro, PA. The dude had a mannequin riding with him and his...

Is Hassan Rouhani Really a Reformer?

Posted by David Gerstman on June 16, 2013 23 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler - 06/16/2013...

Zimmerman Trial: Jury Selection, Week One Recap

Posted by Andrew Branca on June 16, 2013 3 Comments

Tomorrow begins the second week of jury selection in Florida v. Zimmerman, and we here at Legal Insurrection will once again be following the process on an all-day, live coverage basis. We'll host a live stream of the courtroom and a rolling Twitter feed of...

Turkish protests — Erdogan supporters joyously bused in, opponents gassed and beaten

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2013 6 Comments

Via Sky News: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rallied thousands of his supporters in Istanbul, just hours after a crackdown on anti-government protesters in Taksim Square. The rally came as riot police continued to fire tear gas and jets of water at pockets of demonstrators...

Book Review: James O’Keefe’s Breakthrough (Update – new video)

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 16, 2013 9 Comments

James O'Keefe's book, Breakthrough: Our Guerrilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy, should really come with the following warning for summer readers: CAUTION: Compelling book causes intense concentration; sunburn is possible. As I recover from being toasted by the California sun, I wanted to share the...

Company PRISM Reports Reveal Extent of NSA Requests

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 16, 2013 11 Comments

Last week, the Guardian and Washington Post published several slides from a leaked Powerpoint presentation in its stories about the NSA’s domestic surveillance policies and its PRISM program. Separate from phone carriers, nine internet companies were named in the story as participants in the PRISM...

Cause that’s just the way it is

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2013 17 Comments

Go ahead, complain about the weather. There's nothing you can do about it. https://twitter.com/sasha_cresswell/status/346054323475714048 https://twitter.com/realmyiq2xu/status/346055854455390209...

Arab Spring snapshot

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2013 12 Comments

Looks like we're heading for a good old fashioned Sunni-Shia showdown in Syria. From The Times of Israel (article links here and here): ...

Oil field trash never had it so good …

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2013 7 Comments

as in fracking country. Good thing it's being kept out of New York State's Southern Tier, or there might be a booming economy and jobs for the young people. From Kevin: I have friends that live in Horseheads who get all apoplectic over the Marcellus Shale drilling down here...

Saturday Night Card Game (Playing the race card in the Zimmerman case to the bitter end)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2013 33 Comments

If you have been following Andrew Branca's excellent coverage of the jury selection in the George Zimmerman case, you know that many of the prospective jurors were aware of race being injected into the case by the media and others. Those initial media and activist narratives...

Turkey’s ‘Tiananmen Square’ moment?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2013 6 Comments

We are covering Turkish police renew assault on Gezi Park protesters. This video stands out (warning, graphic): https://twitter.com/vassdan/status/345991520224149506 I wonder if it will be compared to this video: Probably not, as the whole world is not watching Gezi Park....

Live stream: Turkish police renew assault on Gezi Park protesters

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2013 3 Comments

As reported by the L.A. Times:

Hundreds of riot police surrounded a park in central Istanbul on Saturday, firing tear gas and water cannons in a renewed push by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to restore order after two weeks of demonstrations that have exasperated his government and exposed the country's deepening political divide. Police forces surrounded Gezi Park shortly before nightfall. They moved beneath sycamore trees toward tents and crowds of hundreds of protesters. Some demonstrators reportedly threw rocks but the dissidents appeared to be overwhelmed by security forces, whose lines spread into adjoining Taksim Square. Ambulances arrived outside the park as tear gas enveloped the trees.

Live Stream

Watch live streaming video from revoltistanbul at livestream.com

https://twitter.com/OccupyGeziUK/status/346053511697559552 Another video stream here -- is autorun so didn't embed -- street level. https://twitter.com/NewsBreaker/status/345978793367855104 https://twitter.com/Aut_Omnia/status/345988473376866304 https://twitter.com/RedHack_EN/status/345988842127491072