Two young men, Arron Keahey and Brice Johnson met on the mobile app Meetme and decided to get together for sex. Or that’s what Keahey thought. Now Johnson, 19, faces federal hate crimes charges for beating Keahey within an inch of his life. “I invited this guy over, right, at first it was basically like a joke that went too far and too wrong,” Johnson told a relative in a jail house phone call. “I invited him over because he was a fag or whatever.” Here’s the story.
From one of Ted’s biggest hits “Stranglehold“
You ran the night that you left me
You put me in my place
I got you in a stranglehold, baby
You better trust your fate
…
You ran the night that you left me
You put me in my place
I got you in a stranglehold, baby
That night I crushed your face
Daniel Strauss reports, is Scott Walker’s secret email club his Troopergate?
After several horrific days and hanging on the brink of a true international crisis, Ukraine’s contending factions took a first step back from the brink last night. This is a big deal.
Can liberals admit that John Roberts was right about the Voting Rights Act and actually move forward with fixing it? University of Massachusetts-Amherst professor Amel Ahmed explains how.
The first thing you need to know about the battle in the Arkansas legislature to fund Medicaid expansion is that getting it done requires a whopping 75-percent supermajority. The second thing you need to know is that Democrats were willing to give Republicans just about anything to get those votes — and Republicans obliged.
TPM Reader KR sends in this note about Chris Christie’s town hall meeting yesterday:
I grew up in Middletown, and return a few times a year to see family and friends. It’s true that it’s a reasonably (though not overwhelmingly) Christie-friendly town. Middletown has a lot of people who work in finance; it lost more residents than any other town in the state on 9/11, and built a memorial garden next to the train station. It also continues to have a large (if shrinking) working class population. The two communities send their kids to different high schools and are actually, literally separated by the train tracks that run through town.
Twice Tea Party absolutism cost Republicans the Senate; now it cost them a huge win on cutting Social Security too.
A surreal, blood curdling report from an AP reporter witnessing Ukrainian security services unleashing snipers on unarmed protestors.