Ricky Jackson was just released from prison after his main accuser recanted the testimony that sent him to prison for murder in 1975. Yes, after almost 40 years behind bars. Look at the picture in the article. I can almost can’t bear to look at it.
Our brief history of those iconic moments of awful when blithering racists break through into the civic arcadia of CSPAN’s Washington Journal.
(Special thanks for headline inspiration to this gentleman.)
Tonight Obama challenged the GOP. Don’t like what I’m doing? Pass a bill. Here’s also everything you need to know about Obama’s executive action on immigration.
Voter suppression kingpin and anti-immigrant hardliner Kris Kobach predicts “ethnic cleansing” in America because of Obama immigration executive order.
Republican Congressman says Obama will not only be impeached but also serve time in prison for executive order.
Yesterday, Sen. Tom Coburn suggested that President Obama’s immigration executive order might lead to “civil disobedience”, “anarchy”, or even political “violence.” I asked just what that civil disobedience might look like and TPM Reader FS has an idea of what anti-immigrant forces might have in mind …
My suggestion for what civil disobedience should look like is to move to Phoenix, trade their imitation Army rifles for shovels, and do a protest march through the residential subdivisions, pulling weeds as they go.
They should march into restaurant kitchens, offering to wash dishes for free. Or volunteer to man the drive through at any of a hundred fast food joints. Maybe ask a California cabbage farmer if they have anything needs harvesting. Those are the jobs illegal immigrants might be taking away.
I first noticed this in a New York Review of Books report about a month ago. And I’ve wanted us to do a piece on it since. Put simply, as we in America lost in interest in Ebola, the situation in West Africa was actually improving dramatically. Public health workers rightly include all sorts of caveats. People are still dying and people are still getting infected. But the outbreak in Liberia actually in steep decline. While the situation in Sierra Leone remains acute, the nightmare outlook we were hearing about in September and October looks very different now. Here’s our report. Really a must read.
We wanted to see who the advisors and operatives were inside the Ted Cruz brain trust. It turned out it makes it even more obvious how determined Cruz is to win the presidency in 2016. Here’s what we found.
With President Obama poised to take action via executive order because of Republican inaction, it’s worth taking a moment to remember how we got here – here’s a good rundown of how, after almost a year and a half of pushing by President Obama, Democrats and a lot of Republicans, immigration reform died and how the GOP killed it.