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This is the McCain I used to know

May 13, 2011 By irishfury 2 Comments

I've always credited John McCain's primary campaign for the 2000 presidential election as the entity that sucked me into the political realm.  Prior to that I had only been a middle school kid with a geek's interest in history and a largely … [Read more...]

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The actual purpose of the Bush torture policies

March 23, 2011 By kirth 1 Comment

Jessen's notes, prepared for an Air Force survival training course that he later "reverse engineered" when he helped design the Bush administration's torture program, however, go into far greater detail than the Armed Services Committee's … [Read more...]

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Bradley Manning – Hero or Traitor?

September 25, 2010 By AmberPaw 2 Comments

There is a Bradley Manning Support Website which has videos, links to news coverage, and more.  There is also a Congressman from my home state of Michigan calling for Bradley Manning's execution Who is Bradley Manning?  It appears … [Read more...]

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Feds to Probe Canton Torture Chamber

March 1, 2010 By farnkoff Leave a Comment

For those who might have seen the movie or read the book "A Clockwork Orange", the principle underlying the Rotenberg Center is almost exactly the same as that which was behind fictional Alexander DeLarge's treatment. The only difference is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: autism, children, disabled, electric-shocks, judge-rotenberg-center, pain, shock, torture

Underpants bomber cooperating – no waterboarding required!

February 3, 2010 By David 31 Comments

A popular right-wing meme is that you can only get useful information out of alleged terrorists by torturing them. Oh, what's that, Scott? Waterboarding isn't torture? All right, then -- by using "enhanced interrogation … [Read more...]

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Scott Brown’s manly pose on prosecution and torture

February 3, 2010 By Charley on the MTA 2 Comments

This is the latest edition of Scott WRONG Brown.Brown, 1/11/10“To think we’d give people who want to kill us constitutional rights and lawyer them up at our expense, instead of treating them as enemy combatants to get as much … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: brown, scott-brown, senate, terrorism, torture

Scott Brown, Civil Liberties, and ACLU conference

January 21, 2010 By ACLUm blog Leave a Comment

Scott Brown did not respond to the ACLU's Senate candidate survey on civil liberties last year, but statements like the one above give cause for concern.  On the other hand, Brown proposed legislation at the State House to prohibit the … [Read more...]

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This may be the closest we come.

September 26, 2009 By Christopher Leave a Comment

Last night's season premiere of Law & Order had the DA's office attempting to prosecute Bush administration officials for torture.  It reruns tonight at 8:00 on NBC.  Now if only we could bring this into the real world … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bush, national, obama, torture

What was that all about?

September 17, 2009 By farnkoff Leave a Comment

I've been thinking a bit about the recent terror raid in New York City. Obviously it's difficult to form a good opinion or talk too much about this episode because of the limited information we have, but I thought I'd try to post on it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: act, afghanistan, nyc, obama, patriot, queens, raid, rendition, suspects, terror, terrorism, torture

Accountability for Torture, Part Two

August 24, 2009 By driendeau_aclu Leave a Comment

It's a major news day here at the ACLU of Massachusetts - we just found out that Attorney General Eric Holder going to go forward with the previously reported CIA prisoner abuse cases, and he's already appointed a prosecutor. John Durham, a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: accountability., advanced-interrogations, eric-holder, john-durham, torture

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jglarussoJoe LaRusso 🔌 🕳🐇@jglarusso·
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Great threaded summary by @ssteingraber1 of remarks by @howarth_cornell relating fracking to rise in quantities of methane released into the atmosphere. https://twitter.com/ssteingraber1/status/1205901002467106816

Dr. Sandra Steingraber@ssteingraber1

1/ FRACKING THREAD. I’m here at the Ithaca Community School for Music and Arts to hear world methane expert @howarth_cornell present new science on #fracking and the climate crisis. Will try to live tweet. Full house! Lots of legendary grassroots leaders here.@MothersOutFront

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Curt_Nordgaard⛰🏔⛰@Curt_Nordgaard·
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The Massachusetts coastline flooded yesterday.

What happened? A high tide around the full moon. That's all.

Tell people around you that the global humanitarian and ecological crisis of climate change has already started. https://twitter.com/dotmalo/status/1205936919944847363

Dot Malone@DotMalo

It’s fine, I’ll wait til low tide to leave the house #Dorchester

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AlexSteffenAlex Steffen@AlexSteffen·
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Our entire public debate is decades behind the realities we know we face now, and as we understand those realities better, most of our findings will reveal our problems to be even more pressing than we thought they were.

That's just what the 2020s are going be like. https://twitter.com/DrNoelHealy/status/1204204976953626624

Noel Healy@DrNoelHealy

This final slide from @MichaelEMann is devastating. The time for incremental climate policy is over.🚨He estimates annual emissions may have to drop by 15% a year (rather than 7.5%)🚨. In other words we have zero years to tackle climate change. We need a #GreenNewDeal now #GND

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Terrible, Terrible, Terrible https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/terrible-terrible-terrible

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TheViewFromLL2Susan Simpson@TheViewFromLL2·
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The take away of this story doesn't seem to be that impeachment is bad for Democrats. It's that opposing impeachment is so bad for Democrats they can't remain Democrats. https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1205949264515481600

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NEWS: Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a Democrat who opposes impeachment, plans to switch parties and become a Republican.

Staff were informed today. Question now is when, not if, he makes it official.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/14/jeff-van-drew-change-parties-085036

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