Today in 1954 the Supreme Court declared public school segregation unconstitutional in unanimous Brown v. Board decision via Newseum.
Five major scandals the media isn’t obsessing about
Are these things more important than edits to talking points? Judge for yourself.
1. Carbon pollution reaches historic highs, threatening human existence
2. The devastating impact of sequestration on kids, cancer patients and first responders.
3. Massive cuts to food stamps for the most vulnerable.
4. 1,100 workers die in a Bangladesh factory collapse, and American retailers continue business as usual.
5. 4,150 gun deaths from gun violence since Newtown.
According to data from the Social Security Administration and the CBO, passing Comprehensive Immigration Reform would be a great benefit to our economy, increasing GDP growth by almost 1/3 by 2021.
The economy with immigration reform vs. without.
4,127 people have been killed by guns since Newtown.
And that number is growing rapidly. Just yesterday afternoon, the number was 4,099.
Your Justice Department is continuing to put people in jail, for sale, and use, on occasion, of marijuana. That’s something the American public has finally caught up with. It was a cultural lag. And it’s been an injustice for 40 years in this country to take people’s liberty for something that was similar to alcohol.
Congressman Steve Cohen tears into Attorney General Eric Holder over marijuana.
“We like watching Mad Men — but we don’t want to live in it.”
In North Carolina, women don 1960s attire to protest a “vintage” bill threatening birth control access.
