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Arkansas plans to execute 7 people this month, continuing long tradition of assembly-line killing
EDITED TO ADD: I hope the lack of response to this was due to people fleeing LJ in a panic and therefore not being around to read it. Otherwise, I'll be forced to believe that people here don't care that 7 men may be tortured to death later this month in Arkansas. :-((((N APRIL 17, the state of Arkansas plans to kill Don Davis and Bruce Earl Ward, ( Read more... ) -
NPR: Vibrator Maker To Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use
The makers of the We-Vibe, a line of vibrators that can be paired with an app for remote-controlled use, have reached a $3.75 million class action settlement with users following allegations that the company was collecting data on when and how the sex toy was used ( Read more... ) -
Sneaky House Republicans To Gut Ethics Watchdog Under Cover Of Night
Republicans themselves defended the changes Monday night as necessary adjustments to protect members (ie mostly Republicans, and The Tangerine Turd) from "political witch hunts".
WASHINGTON ― As one of their first actions in the new Congress, House Republicans are planning to significantly change the Office of Congressional Ethics, removing the ( Read more... ) -
U.S. lawmakers demand investigation of $100 price hike of lifesaving EpiPens
EpiPen maker Mylan has become the new boogeyman of the pharmaceutical industry.
Following complaints from consumers that the company had hiked the price of the emergency auto-injector by $100 in recent months for no obvious reason, members of Congress are calling for an investigation. The price has increased 450 percent since 2004, when a dose ( Read more... ) -
Gaps in Melania Drumpf's Immigration Story Raise Questions
Nude photographs published this week are raising fresh questions about the accuracy of a key aspect of Melania Drumpf’s biography: her immigration status when she first came to the United States to work as a model ( Read more... ) -
Hacking Trial: how live tweeter found himself investigated by the press.
Over eight months of live Tweeting Peter Jukes covered every moment of the hacking trial. He has now gathered all the evidence he published, and much more that remained secret at the time because of reporting restrictions, to publish what may turn out to be the definitive account of one of the biggest criminal trials in British legal history ( Read more... ) -
The Collapse of Anti-Gay Religion(?)
Polls, pastors, and theology are shifting toward same-sex marriage, even among conservatives ( Read more... ) -
White House Official Fired for Tweeting Under Fake Name
Jofi Joseph, an official in the National Security Staff at the White House, was fired last week after being caught as the tweeter behind @natsecwonk, a feed that’s been leaking internal information since 2011.A White House national security official was fired last week after being caught as the mystery Tweeter who has been tormenting the foreign ( Read more... )
