Devin Nunes' Cow Has a First Amendment Right to Call Rep. Nunes a 'Treasonous Cowpoke'
Brian Hauss | aclu.org | 2019-12-11
You might think that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the | Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee, would be too busy to file baseless | defamation lawsuits against anonymous Twitter accounts. But you'd be wrong. | Last year, Rep. Nunes sued a number of people who were | mean to him online, including the Twitter parody accounts Devin Nunes' Mom and | Devin Nunes' Cow. Now, he's trying to unmask the Cow by subpoenaing the | author's identity from a local law firm. The ACLU and Public Citizen have filed…
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Pelosi Backs Down After House Progressives Push to Strengthen Drug Pricing Bill
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-11
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, faced with a united front of progressive Democrats pushing back against a drug pricing bill seen as insufficient, blinked on Tuesday and handed her party's left flank a rare victory. | "This is what happens when progressives in Congress, backed by the grassroots, use their power to push for real change," political advocacy group Indivisible said on Twitter. | This is a BIG deal. We're glad to see that H.R. 3 has been improved to protect millions more people from…
truthout.org/articles/pelosi-backs-down-after-house-progressives-push-to-strengthen-drug-pricing-bill/

With one photo, Jeremy Corbyn sums up 'nine years of Boris Johnson's Conservatives'
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2019-12-11
Just hours before we go to the polls, Jeremy Corbyn summed up nine years of Tory rule in one picture. | "Boris Johnson's Conservatives": | The Labour leader shared a heartbreaking image of Boris Johnson and a gaggle of Tory aides walking past a homeless man: | Nine years of Boris Johnson's Conservatives, summed up in one picture. pic.twitter.com/CXWCih0pkC | — Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 11, 2019 | And he's spot on. This really does sum it all up. Not least b…
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Profit problem: If they can't kill it, capitalists will co-opt Green New Deal
Donald Donato | peoplesworld.org | 2019-12-11
This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Sen. Bernie Sanders recently tweeted, "A Green New Deal is not radical or extreme. What's radical and extreme is allowing fossil fuel companies to cause the displacement and deaths of millions of people in order to turn a profit." The Vermont senator's tweet encapsulates the urgency of …
peoplesworld.org/article/profit-problem-if-they-cant-kill-it-capitalists-will-co-opt-green-new-deal/

Guess What Happened After ICE, Which Has Torn Thousands of Families Apart, Tried to Honor Human Rights Day on Twitter
Jenna McGuire, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-12-11
In 2019, a record-breaking 70,000 children were held in ICE custody. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/abolishice.jpeg …
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Aung San Suu Kyi appears at ICJ as UN rights expert urges greater protection for Myanmar activists
news.un.org | 2019-12-10
Authorities in Myanmar and social media companies are being urged to take greater action to protect activists in the south-east Asian country who are fighting for justice and accountability for crimes committed against the minority Rohingya population in 2016 and 2017.
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Jeremy Corbyn reading out mean tweets about himself is f*cking hilarious
Kerry-anne Mendoza | thecanary.co | 2019-12-10
A very unmerry christmas election has been cheered up a bit by Jeremy Corbyn. A fireside video shows the Labour leader reading out and responding to mean tweets about himself. And with almost 2 million views in 24 hours, it looks like Corbyn is onto a winner.Mean Tweets: Normally we see celebrities doing YouTube stints on their mean tweets. But none of them have faced the abuse that Jeremy Corbyn handles on the daily. And it's hard to imagine having such a sense of humour about it. But Corbyn manages to somehow. | This was surprisingly fun. pic.twitter.com/Tjl60l70bl…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/12/10/jeremy-corbyn-reading-out-mean-tweets-about-himself-is-fcking-hilarious/

Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Is an Engine of Anti-Muslim Hate the World Over. Don't You Care?
Mehdi Hasan | theintercept.com | 2019-12-07
What happened to the guy who told his Muslim employees in 2015 that he would "fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment"?
theintercept.com/2019/12/07/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-muslims-islamophobia/

CAP's Topher Spiro Is Trying to Deceive Journalists By Lying
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-17
It's been fun to see how the Center for American Progress (CAP) navigates this year's presidential election. For insider political reasons, they can't support Biden or Sanders. But for a long time, it was unclear who the alternative candidate they could support would be. | When Kamala Harris was rising, CAP's staff was doing overtime boosting her on Twitter and in the press, including boosting Harris's absurd health care proposal. But Harris's collapse put an end to that strategy. Recently Warren has risen as the alternative and so CAP has been working to promote her campaign, which puts CAP in the comical positi…
peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/11/17/caps-topher-spiro-is-trying-to-deceive-journalists-by-lying/