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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Why Do I Read the News?

Some mornings it's just not copacetic.

From Digby, a photo essay on the Ferguson police.

Follow that up with this image from TPM:


As for how the police are reacting to the demonstrations in Ferguson, read this from John Cole.

Oh, and another shooting by police in suburban St. Louis.

And our president's strong stand on torture:


Be sure to read Digby's commentary on that one.

And Maha on how "free speech" is strangling American democracy.

Political campaign advertisements have never been famous for candor or veracity. But it seems to me we’ve hit a perfect storm of circumstances in which our cherished value of free speech could be our undoing. Citizens United; extreme wealth concentrated in the hands of a few people with extreme views and no scruples; Fox News; media technology that quickly spreads unfiltered disinformation to targeted audiences — these things have contributed to an unprecedented corruption of political discourse.

That's about all I can take this morning.

Yes, I know it's a link dump. Deal with it.

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