Three dead, one critically wounded in shooting at Jewish Community Center in Kansas City.
Local news video of the alleged perpetrator of that shooting in Kansas City screaming “Heil Hitler” while cuffed in the backseat of a police cruiser. Video after the jump …
Shooter in fatal Jewish Community Center attack was a KKK Leader and well-known white supremacist.
Wisconsin GOP to vote on seceding from the United States.
For those interested in D.C. politics and/or education reform, it’s worth reading EPI’s Elaine Weiss’ column today on whether the next mayor (presumably Muriel Bowser) should keep Michelle Rhee’s successor, Kaya Henderson, as chancellor of D.C. public schools. Whether or not you agree with Weiss’ conclusions about the school system, it’s a question worth considering.
Scott Brown, carpetbagger from Massachusetts trying to get his job back vis New Hampshire, is claiming his opponent would be a third “Senator from Massachusetts.”
I wanted to give you a quick heads-up on one of our upcoming longform Prime pieces. Artist and author Molly Crabapple is currently in Istanbul on assignment for TPM reporting a piece on Erdogan’s Turkey, post-Gezi – talking with dissidents, free-speech and Internet activists, football clubers, Imams and more. (She recently wrote about her visit to the Guantanamo Bay prison facility for Vice. TPM’s Catherine Thompson interviewed her about the piece here.) Prime Recep Tayyip Erdogan just won a convincing round of victories in local elections around Turkey, despite the increasingly polarized state of Turkish society. Turkey still has elections on schedule and even his staunchest opponents don’t question Erdogan’s recent victory was procedurally legitimate. But with his increasingly authoritarian style of governance, reaching his hand deep into the sinews of Turkish society, is Turkey still a democracy? And where is it headed? Stay turned for Crabapple’s piece appearing soon at TPMPrime.
I wanted to take a moment to tell you about an ad campaign we’re starting on Wednesday. Normally I don’t do this. Actually as a matter of policy. But in this case there’s a personal dimension which has inevitably informed how I’ve approached it. So I wanted to share some backstory, which oddly enough ties in to something like a year of reporting I did a decade ago on the Niger uranium forgeries.
The Nevada GOP has stripped both opposition to gay marriage and abortion from its party platform. Given recent developments, dropping opposition to abortion seems the much more surprising of the two decisions.
I totally get the very correct desire to avoid violence. But allowing a bunch of militia freaks and gun-toting thugs to run off federal agents trying to act against a rancher who’s refused to pay grazing fees for using federal lands for 20 years seems like a very, very bad idea. If you’ve missed what happened this weekend, read this.