BREAKING: Durham NC protesters topple, destroy Confederate courthouse statue
WNCN TV reports: about half-an-hour ago a raucous group of protesters outside the old Durham County Courthouse tied a rope around a bronze Confederate soldier statue atop a tall stone pedestal and...
View ArticleWe need to talk. What part of "Forward Together, Not One Step Back" don't you...
A few of the less enlightened comments elicited by my article of last night, reporting on the anarkids-led downing of a confederate statue in our dearly beloved Durham, NC:Beautiful sight.Oh those...
View ArticleNorth Carolina extremists' heated rhetoric sets stage for "a rough few days...
In the aftermath of the Charlottesville terrorist attacks, this week’s provocative destruction of a confederate statue by anarkids in Durham, NC has many Tar Heels waiting for the other shoe to...
View ArticleDurham NC braces as KKK rumored to march today (now with updates)
Local news sources report:The Durham County Sheriff’s Office is preparing for a possible march by white supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan marching in Durham today.“The Sheriff’s Office is...
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The Shot Heard Round the World? Decisive battle looms in war against NC...
A new — and decisive — phase has just been entered in the Southern Coalition for Social Justice’s brilliantly successful battle against racially gerrymandered state legislative district maps in North...
View ArticleEquifax just broke the US consumer finance industry AND the internet. Here's...
First, an apology: this diary will not be up to my usual authorial standards, as I’m writing it in a hurry. You can have fast, or you can have pretty. In this instance I’d go with fast if I was you.By...
View ArticleEquifax security is STILL criminally negligent. How I discovered that...and...
It appears that my diary of yesterday advising folks to freeze their credit reports in the wake of the recent Equifax hacking had the desired effect. Many of you did the smart thing and rushed online...
View ArticleStrike the head, not the tail. While you're boycotting Motel 6 hit its parent...
The twitterverse is on fire today with calls to boycott Motel 6 (@motel6), the roach-motel chain whose Phoenix-area properties were revealed to be turning their undocumented guests in to ICE...
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GOP bagman Art Pope's racist, anti-semitic, LGBT-phobic Civitas Institute...
News today from Raleigh NC’s News and Observer reports that one of NC-GOP financier Art Pope’s shadowy network of web sites has promoted an article branding state attorney general Josh Stein (D) a...
View ArticleICYMI: Anita Earls' keynote address to the Data & Democracy for 2018...
I’m proud, pleased — and you can’t imagine how relieved— to report that Insightus’s groundbreaking conference in Durham, North Carolina last week, Data & Democracy for 2018, was a great success....
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Cold Comfort: Trump's refusal to send hospital ship tips his plan to abandon...
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.- U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Grace Murray HopperEight hundred and ninety-four feet long, 106 feet wide, and weighing 69,360 tons, USNS...
View ArticleHurricane Maria's next victims may be U.S. patients who rely on drugs...
Puerto Rico’s single largest and most important export isn’t rum or sugar cane. It’s pharmaceuticals— the prescription drugs we all count on being there when we need them.Spurred by a favorable U.S....
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BREAKING: USNS Comfort now underway to Puerto Rico. Fair winds and following...
Real-time vessel monitoring provided by MarineTraffic.com reveals the hospital ship USNS Comfort has just cast off from its berth in Norfolk VA, and is currently making 11 knots as it exits the harbor...
View ArticleBreaking the silence: Groundswell of Christian evangelical leaders demand...
Perhaps no Americans have been more stained by their fellows’ support for the Racist In Chief, Donald Trump, than American evangelical Christians — a demographic widely credited with putting the...
View ArticleTrump's Katrina: Puerto Rico recovery update for the week of October 2-8
The Puerto Rican government deserves high marks for excellence in public communication with its highly informative web site, www.status.pr. Monitoring it daily, I’ve gained far more insight into the...
View ArticleTrump's Katrina: Puerto Rico recovery update for the week of October 9-15
This is the second installment in a continuing series. Previous installments:Week of Oct. 2-8The Big PictureOur ongoing tracking of the Puerto Rican government’s excellent recovery data site revealed...
View Article101 more reasons why mainlanders should be concerned by the slow pace of...
If human decency alone isn’t enough reason for mainland American citizens to be concerned by the glacially slow pace of Puerto Rican recovery ‘led’ by FEMA, Insightus has just published 101 additional...
View ArticleCivil rights champion Anita Earls to run for North Carolina Supreme Court...
Amid a recent barrage of nothing but bad news for the rule of law in North Carolina, this just in: modern-day civil rights icon Anita Earls has announced her bid for a seat on the North Carolina State...
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Got Intel inside? Your computer is about to get a lot slower
As I write, chipmaker Intel’s stock is tanking, having already shed $11 billion in value in just four hours, and still falling:The drop comes on news, broken this morning at The Register, that a major...
View ArticleA huge loss for vote suppressors in North Carolina last week - thanks to a...
Democracy dodged a near-extinction level event in North Carolina last week.By a 4-to-3 decision along party lines, on Friday the State Supreme Court overturned a law that had been rushed into being by...
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