Right-wing extremism is on the rise, but the original cross-burners can’t get their shit together. “Today’s groups remain small and operate independently,” the AP reports on the state of the KKK. “Kept apart by disagreements over such issues as whether to...wear the KKK’s trademark robes in colors other than white.”
The controversy surrounding Israel and the Boycott Divest and Sanctions movement continues to tear at the fabric of America’s most hallowed institutions. This spring, it was the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign; last week, it was the University of California. Now, it’s the venerated aisles of the Park Slope Food Co-Op.
Earlier this morning, President Obama arrived in Canada to meet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto for Obama’s final North American leaders’ summit. And as the three men went to shake hands, the moment every U.S. citizen has been waiting for finally arrived: Justin Trudeau fucked up.
For two-and-a-half years, New Jersey governor Chris Christie has maintained that he provided federal investigators looking into the 2013 George Washington lane closures with complete access to both his personal and government email accounts. According to WNYC, however, new court filings show that this was not actually the case, supporting earlier allegations from two defendants indicted in the scheme that Christie’s lawyers destroyed and withheld evidence.
Earlier today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a brand new video “showcasing security tips for U.S. travelers abroad.” And what a showcase it is. The seven-minute clip, while full of helpful little tidbits, can actually be boiled down to a single sentiment: TRUST NO ONE, AND GET A BURNER PHONE, FRANK.
In a lawsuit filed this week, an inmate at Clinton Correctional Facility claims he was beaten by guards, improperly held in his cell for 23 hours a day, and deprived of water and electricity after the escape of Richard Matt and David Sweat.
In the High Court in London on Tuesday, a former lawyer for the Libyan Investment Authority testified that the country’s sovereign-wealth fund was “astonished to learn” it hadn’t bought any actual shares through nine equity derivatives trades arranged by Goldman Sachs in 2008 that expired, worthless, three years later. The LIA is suing Goldman for $1.8 billion in losses.
Medically-trained sloth Ben Carson, who declared his support for Donald Trump because there was no one else to support, is back in the news with a tasteful little joke about his mother’s Alzheimer’s disease.
Nick Pinto at the Village Voice takes a look at the history of broken windows policing in NYC, and the implications of a report that called the efficacy of the NYPD’s governing philosophy into serious question. The question, he writes, “is whether the mayor and City Council are prepared to rise to the occasion.”
“Men,” the less popular version of women, have shorter life spans, more violent tendencies, and less academic success. Are acronyms the solution to our national masculinity crisis?
