TILTON, NH — The daughter of the high school principal who died during the Sandy Hook shooting walked out of a town hall with Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) on Tuesday after the event erupted in chaos over the lawmaker’s answer to a question about gun regulations.
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Category: Africa, author, Economy, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, politico, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War | Comments OffEarlier this month Gov. Nathan Deal (R-GA) called a request for him to support integrating a still-segregated school prom in Wilcox County, Georgia a “ silly publicity stunt ,” and he later labeled the segregated prom quesiton a “ private issue [], and not something that the state government needs to have its finger involved in.” Perhaps he would feel differently if he surrounded himself with more diverse appointments
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Category: Africa, Arizona, author, Economy, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War | Comments OffSen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warned on Sunday that the immigration reform debate could be choked off if his Senate colleagues submit bill-killing amendments. As a member of the Senate’s so-called “Gang of Eight” devoted to immigration reform, Rubio has taken the spotlight as the GOP’s point person on the issue.
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Category: author, CNN, Economy, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Media, Politics, ThinkProgress, War | Comments OffAccording to a report in the New York Times on newly released federal data, roughly 300 immigrants are currently being held in solitary confinement at the 50 largest facilities throughout the United States immigration detention system — the largest such system of any in the world. Many of these detainees are being held on civil as opposed to criminal charges, and thus are “not supposed to be punished; they are simply confined to ensure that they appear for administrative hearings.” On any given day, about 300 immigrants are held in solitary confinement at the 50 largest detention facilities that make up the sprawling patchwork of holding centers nationwide overseen by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, according to new federal data. Nearly half are isolated for 15 days or more, the point at which psychiatric experts say they are at risk for severe mental harm, with about 35 detainees kept for more than 75 days.
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Category: author, Economy, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, ThinkProgress, Tweets, Video | Comments OffFox News Guest Receives Racist Rape And Death Threats After Arguing Guns Aren’t The Solution To Rape
Zerlina Maxwell is a feminist writer and frequent guest on Fox News. Last week, while a guest on Sean Hannity’s show, Maxwell argued that arming women is not a way to solve the problem of rape. Among other things, she pointed out that “if firearms were the answer, then the military would be the safest place for women, and it’s not .” You can watch her full segment below: In the wake of her appearance, Maxwell was bombarded with harassing messages calling for her to be raped or murdered, often in explicitly racist terms.
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Category: author, Congress, Economy, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War | Comments OffWomen are physically unfit to serve in combat, Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) claimed during a Tuesday appearance on the Laura Ingraham radio show
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Category: Afghanistan, Articles, author, Congress, Department of Defense, Economy, Feeds, Health, Iraq, Justice, LGBT, Media, ThinkProgress, Tweets, Washington | Comments OffAlthough the overall U.S. prison population declined slightly in 2011, the federal prison population continued to rise, with rates of drug and immigration offenders that eclipse those held for violent crimes
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Category: Alternet, Arizona, author, Department of Justice, Economy, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War | Comments OffConsidering that the United States spends more than any other developed nation on its health care — the U.S.
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Category: author, Economy, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Medicare, Planned Parenthood, ThinkProgress, Tweets | Comments OffTomorrow, I go on the road for both the Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour and the Sundance Film Festival. Posting will continue generally apace, with some interruptions allowable for travel days. And guest bloggers will back me up while I’m holed up in movie theaters at Sundance, after which I’ll be back in action on the 23rd.
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Category: author, Economy, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Pennsylvania, Slate, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War, Washington | Comments OffRep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) On his way out of a House Republican Conference meeting, Rep
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