Alabama Blogger/Muckraker jailed for writings about ex-Governor’s son.
I’ve said it before but this may be the best story in several hundred years. Yesterday we reported that Toronto police have been investigating Mayor Rob ‘Crackalack’ Ford for months. And among other things, they’ve now got the infamous video – the one Gawker raised two hundred grand for, the one a couple people may have been killed for and so much more. But now it gets better. Read More
If you’ve ever caught yourself rolling your eyes at someone who looks too poor to be buying an iPad or other luxury goods, read this thoughtful post by Tressie McMillan Cottom that might make you think differently about that judgment.
If you want to understand the Obamacare ‘cancelation’ story, you really need to read this piece. Most everyone is either untouched or a winner. But there are arguable losers (people who will have to pay more for what are inarguably better plans). And figuring out who is who has been significantly complicated by the glitches with HealthCare.gov. A sober, non-crazy look at a critical story about which there’s been endless bamboozlement.
Texas struggles to convince Tea Partiers they won’t have to fight the UN for control of the Alamo.
The chart you need to see to understand the Obamacare ‘rate hike’ story.
There’s been so much misinformation swirling about plan cancellations and rate hikes (along with a lot of these that are real and affecting certain people adversely) that it is kind of hard to keep up. But TPM Reader JP focuses our attention on something that I think he is correct is getting very little attention …
One of the most frequent questions we’ve gotten about the relaunch of TPMPrime is why it’s not available yet on our smartphone mobile site. Well, it’s about to arrive. More after the jump.
This is out of the blue. Here at TPM or at least at my desk we’d basically forgotten about crackhead Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto. Basically a bad memory when we thought Canada really had it in him/her? to really roll in the international scandal world. But after all that, maybe it’s actually going to happen. The police now have the goods, include THE TAPE.
So here’s the deal.
Edward Snowden has taken a tech support job at a major Russian website.