Earlier this month we sent artist and writer Molly Crabapple to Istanbul to report on the aftermath of last year’s Gezi Park protests and the mix of secularists, dissidents, artists, football fans, internet free speech activists, anarchists and Kemalists who now continue the undercurrent of street protest in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s increasingly authoritarian Turkey. They plan to return to the streets tomorrow on May Day. Today we’re publishing her account and her drawings of what she saw as our latest TPMPrime longform “mini”: Istanbul: Before the Tear Gas. (sub req.)
That Scientific American editor who wasn’t allowed to mention climate change on Fox this morning tells TPM he won’t be appearing on the network again.
Justice Scalia’s goof in his dissent from yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling on the EPA has been corrected as of this morning. See update at the bottom.
You can’t beat the set-up: Scientific American editor goes on Fox and Friends …
The administration of lethal drugs in the first of two highly controversial executions in Oklahoma went awry Tuesday evening. The inmate ultimately died of a heart attack, and the second execution was postponed for two weeks. The gruesomely ironic twist is that these two executions have been the focus of a titanic legal battle in the state over the drugs used in lethal injection executions.
On day five of the scandal, the burgeoning Sterling Truth Movement explodes on the right. Did Magic set him up?
Local GOP Chair apologizes for referring to President Obama as combo Zebra-Donkey.
NBA commissioner bans Donald Sterling from the NBA for life and will try to force him to sell his ownership interest in the Clippers.
From NBC News:
BREAKING: NBA suspends LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling indefinitely, fines him $5 million, senior NBA official confirms to NBC News
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) April 29, 2014
Late Update: NBA commish goes further than NBC reported: bans Sterling from NBA for life and will move to force sale of his ownership in Clippers.