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Special Snowflake Syndrome

vendredi 10 avril 2015 à 14:00

US right-wingers believe their religion legitimizes bigotry.

Kansas Cracks Down on Welfare Recipients

vendredi 10 avril 2015 à 14:00

Kansas plans to limit welfare benefits spending to $25 per day.

So if a poor person faces debtor's prison if she doesn't pay a $50 fine, she will go to jail.

If she needs to get her nails done to apply for a job, that will be excluded too. Kansas legislators would rather she stay unemployed.

Climate Change in the Tropics

vendredi 10 avril 2015 à 14:00

The greatest damage from a global heating disaster will come in the tropics, as a changes in rain will eliminate entire ecologies such as the Amazon rain forest. The millions of species that live in them will go extinct.

Urgent: Pull Back the Curtain on "American Commitment"

vendredi 10 avril 2015 à 14:00

US citizens: call on your federal legislators to thwart plutocrats' dishonesty and stand up for network neutrality.

Derrick Wheatt, Laurese Glover, and Eugene Johnson

vendredi 10 avril 2015 à 14:00

Cleveland thugs disregarded all the witnesses to a shooting and prosecutors convicted three innocent men for the murder. The three have been exonerated after 20 years in prison.

I wonder what motivated this gross injustice. This case is far from unique; the explanation might teach us something about how to prevent more such cases.