Month: October 2020

The technology manufacturing company Harris Corporation has fought to keep the public from knowing about how its surveillance devices work—specifically, the controversial cell phone spying tools known as Stingrays—but The Intercept on Monday published about 200 pages of Harris Corp. instruction manuals detailing how to build and use them. Harris has argued that releasing information about…

From youthful to more seasoned athletes, from on the field and off, national anthem protests against racial injustice show no sings of abating since they were sparked by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick one month ago. In fact, according to one observer, “his influence is growing.” On Sunday, dismissing their coach’s stance, four Washington…

As environmental organizations denounce climate change’s near total absence from the second presidential debate, a new analysis highlights the starkly differing attitudes backers of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump hold on the issue. Released by the Pew Research Center and based on surveys conducted May 10-June 6 and Aug. 16-Sept. 12, the breakdown of the…

“I am dangerous not to America but to the people soon to be in charge of it.” So says one of roughly 200 college professors recently named to a conservative website’s “Professor Watchlist”—a round-up of academics accused of “discriminat[ing] against conservative students and advanc[ing] leftist propaganda in the classroom.” The list is based on “pre-existing…

Former President Obama will campaign for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam next week, as the lieutenant governor seeks to edge out Republican opponent Ed Gillespie in the tight race.  Obama will join Northam in Richmond on Oct. 19, according to a Wednesday statement. A spokesman for the former president previously confirmed that Obama would support Northam…

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom PerezThomas Edward PerezClinton’s top five vice presidential picks Government social programs: Triumph of hope over evidence Labor’s ‘wasteful spending and mismanagement” at Workers’ Comp MORE said Wednesday night that he only recently learned about the national party’s role in funding a dossier containing unverified allegations about President Trump’s ties to Russia….

St. Cloud State All-American wrestler Shamus O’Grady talks with SCSU’s Social Media Coordinator John Peterson. Click Here: Geelong Cats Guernsey

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has weighed in on the most expensive statewide ballot measure voters will face November 8—Massachusetts’ Question 2, which would lift the existing cap and allow for as many as 12 new charter schools per year. Referring to the financial industry’s backing of Question 2, the former presidential candidate said in…

A climate activist and two documentary filmmakers were arraigned Thursday in Washington state for their roles in last week’s #ShutItDown act of non-violent civil disobedience.  Ken Ward of Oregon, who was arrested for closing a safety valve on Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain tar sands pipeline in Anacortes, Washington, faces charges of burglary, criminal trespass, sabotage, and assemblages of…

Organizers of the Women’s March on Washington are assuring those that are planning to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 21 that the march is indeed still on. After what was described as an “inaccurate” article by local Washington, D.C. news outlet WTOP reported Monday that march preparations had hit a “roadblock” because…