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Democrats took union support for granted and that may come back to bite them in November

 

Police are inherently authoritarian. They cannot be reformed:

Police in Baltimore and surrounding communities have been using a service that monitors, maps and stores citizens' social media posts — a practice that has drawn the concern of civil libertarians.

Baltimore police say they have used the service, called Geofeedia, to monitor protests, parades and holiday celebrations. In Howard County, police used it to gather information and find people who needed help during the July flooding in Ellicott City, and after the Columbia Mall shooting in 2014.

Posts collected by law enforcement are archived in a secure data warehouse, according to documents obtained by The Baltimore Sun using the Maryland Public Information Act.

Civil libertarians warn that such monitoring can have a chilling effect on political speech. Police emphasize that they monitor only the social media posts that users share publicly.

Police in Baltimore, surrounding communities using Geofeedia to monitor social media posts

 

"The tech may be relatively new, but its targeted use isn’t. Historically, intelligence-gathering and law enforcement agencies have disproportionately surveilled minority communities across the United States-–from COINTELPRO’s targeting of the Black Panthers to the FBI wiretapping and blackmailing Martin Luther King. “Like many areas that are under heavy surveillance and like the other communities where aerial surveillance has been tested, Baltimore has a large black population,” says Jay Stanley, a privacy expert at the American Civil Liberties Union. “The use of surveillance technologies selectively on communities of color is a time-honored police practice.”

The controversy around surveillance programs in Baltimore coincides with a larger discussion about the quality of policing. In the wake of Freddie Gray’s arrest and death from injuries suffered in police custody in April, protests escalated into riots on April 27. The Department of Justice, which declined to comment for this story, published an extensive evaluation of BPD earlier this month detailing excessive force, racially biased policing, and unconstitutional stops, searches, and arrests. Though the report doesn’t address persistent surveillance directly, its extensive reporting on BPD behavior “that violates the Constitution or federal law” hints at a police department that’s also willing to cross constitutional lines in the use of its growing surveillance toolkit. As the FCC complaint from last month notes, “Where BPD focuses its policing power, it also focuses its surveillance technology … and residents in targeted neighborhoods therefore suffer disproportionate harms.”

How Baltimore Became America’s Laboratory for Spy Tech

 

There will be a horse race. Cable news demands it.

 

Guess this goes here

 

The Unrelenting Pundit-Led Effort to Delegitimize All Negative Reporting About Hillary Clinton

 

If the media is so pro-Clinton anti-Trump then why does every Clinton scandal get weeks of coverage and stuff like Trump bribing a judge to throw out his fraud case barely gets any attention

 

ITT Educational Services, Inc. to Cease Operations at all ITT Technical Institutes Following Federal Actions

 

INB4 free college for everyone!

 

trump's campaign has been flooding the public with so many scandals and 'mistakes' made deliberately that by the time someone is ready to report extensively on one theyve already done something dumber or worse.

 

People in the media regularly call Trump out for his racism and his idiocy. I think they can be anti-Trump and critical of Hillary. They're not mutually exclusive, though Hillary does push the narrative that she is being targeted. The problem, however, is when you position yourself as a standard or THE rational candidate, then you leave yourselve open to reporting that is aimed to undercut that.I mean, when she has that speech about the right's racism, nobody asked her about her racism and the super predator comment.

 

Hero.

 

What a moron.

 

Omg I can't take this Chris Collins douchebag on CNN right now.

 

the cyber is so big

 

But his hands are so small.

 

Considering how worthless ITT degrees are nowadays, can't shed a tear for them taking all that money for a product people can't really use. Feel bad for the people who got roped into that though, hopefully they can continue their education after this.

 

Newt Gingrich Has Coughing Fit While Touting Hillary Clinton Cough Story

overall fascinating how people are making up ways to criticize Hillary when there are so many legit ones in front of their noses

 

Number of coughing stories in the NYT: 1 (complete with a Drudge link)
Number on Trump/Bondi: 0