NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, will soon become the first vessel to push past the edge of our solar system. And 76 year old Ed Stone, the project’s chief scientist, tells TPM it is the mission’s “crowning achievement.”
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In early May, well-known Arizona border vigilante and Neo-Nazi JT Ready, armed to the teeth and clad in body armor, walked into his girlfriend’s house and fatally shot her, her daughter, her daughter’s boyfriend, and her daughter’s baby.
It was a gruesome and shocking crime, but to those who had watched Ready’s rise in Arizona over the years, his life ending in a burst of violent rage was not entirely surprising.
And so the question has remained: With Ready so well known to law enforcement across the state, were chances missed to take him off the streets before something like May’s massacre could happen?
Records obtained by TPM through a public records request show that border agents referred multiple cases — as recently as 2011 — to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Phoenix after encountering Ready and his band of border “guards” holding migrants in the desert.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office, records show, declined to take up the cases.
Nick Martin has our story.
Joe Scarborough is sick of you talking yourselves down, America.
No big surprise that a politician pre-tapes various different reactions to the SCOTUS decision on ‘Obamacare’, depending on how the decision comes down. More of a surprise when an inept campaign posts them all on Youtube before the decision comes down.
Texas man, Javier Alan Correa, charged with violating the civil rights of members of a Murfreesboro, Tenn. mosque by saying the mosque would bombed on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. “Listen up you fucking Muslim bitches, go back to your fucking dirty fucking country, fucking Muslim fascists, get the fuck out of here,” he allegedly stated.
The Obama administration’s legal claim to secrecy around the U.S. drone program buzzes toward the absurd.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer calls out the GOP: “…there are a lot people in Washington who want to drown the captain and are prepared to sink the ship in order to do so.”
At his speech today to the National Association of Latino Elected Officials Mitt Romney managed to duck the roiling question of what he would do about President Obama’s mini-Dream Act, pushed through last week by administration directive. Romney says he would “replace” and “supersede” it with something better but declined to say what the better thing would be. Watch the video.
Mitt did restate his support for a path to citizenship for people who came illegally as children and later served in the military.