shipwrecktrain: Yeah, pretty much.
Author: Stable Genius
I am the very model of a Stable Genius Liberal.
High-income kids who don’t graduate from college are 2.5 times more likely to end up rich than low-income kids who do get a degree
The American Dream isn’t dead. It’s just moved to Denmark.
The argument that we should tolerate growing inequality because of our great mobility is based on fiction. We have growing inequality and shrinking mobility.
Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance
Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance
The programs of the past can be characterized as “proximate surveillance,” in which the government attempted to use technology to directly monitor communication themselves. The programs of this decade mark the transition to “oblique surveillance,” in which the government more often just goes to the places where information has been accumulating on its own, such as email providers, search engines, social networks, and telecoms.
Worth a read. The defender of the NSA policy seem to think this is a simple matter of privacy. It isn’t.
Lindsey Graham: ‘If I thought censoring the mail was necessary, I would suggest it’
Lindsey Graham: ‘If I thought censoring the mail was necessary, I would suggest it’
Censoring the mail is ok, but restricting gun purchases for people on the terror watch list is not?
James Clapper must go
according to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Clapper was given a full day’s advance notice that the question was coming, and yet he nonetheless still opted to lie.
Wyden Cites Contradiction In National Intelligence Director’s Eavesdropping Answer
Wyden Cites Contradiction In National Intelligence Director’s Eavesdropping Answer
Clapper needs to resign.
Senators push bill to declassify secret FISA surveillance rulings
Senators push bill to declassify secret FISA surveillance rulings
“Americans deserve to know how much information about their private communications the government believes it’s allowed to take under the law,” said Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), who is spearheading the effort with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
The legislation has a powerful backer in Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and Sens. Dean Heller (R-Nev.), Mark Begich (D-Alaska), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have also signed on as co-sponsors.
Time to call your senator again.
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(via Good Guy Russ – under the usa patriot act the government can go on a fish)
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Scumbag Congress
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Obviously, a program called “BOUNDLESS Informant” is entirely limited and modest in scope. Obviously. — David Sirota (@davidsirota) June 10, 2013