The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Private Prison Stocks Are Shooting Up After Trump Win
They had declined sharply after the Obama Justice Department announced it would stop using private prisons.
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‘Vote Trump’ painted on wall of burned-out black church in Mississippi
As firefighters neared the 110-year-old church Tuesday night in Greenville, Miss., they saw flames in the windows and smoke pouring from the roof.
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People Vs Big Oil, Part II: A Mosaic of Oil and Attack Dogs
Few things appear more threatening to the economic order than the demand to accelerate oil’s demise – and the most robust democracies will suspend civil liberties when the people, particularly indigenous people, voice that demand.
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Private Eyes: The Little-Known Company That Enables Worldwide Mass Surveillance
Endace helped governments across the world harvest vast amounts of information on people’s private emails, online chats, social media conversations, and internet browsing histories.
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How Far Will North Dakota Go to Get This Pipeline?
They’ve already tried intimidation and humiliation, and the number of arrests are increasing. The latest tactic is to toss around the word “riot” as if saying it often enough will change its definition.
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Court Rules U.K. Mass Spying Was Unlawfully Conducted for Nearly Two Decades
Decision is called "long overdue indictment" of government's bulk collection of citizens' private information.
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Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Surveillance Tool was Used to Arrest Baltimore Protestors
For years, the social media giants have provided data to Geofeedia, a company marketing surveillance tools to police, creating real-time maps of activity in protest areas that were later used to identify and arrest protestors.
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Filmmaker Arrested At Pipeline Protest Facing 45 Years In Felony Charges
Deia Schlosberg, the producer of an upcoming climate change documentary, has been slapped with three felony conspiracy charges for filming in North Dakota.
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“Do Not Resist”: The Police Militarization Documentary Everyone Should See
Filmmaker Craig Atkinson began the project three years ago in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, where images of armored cars and commando cops in the streets resonated for him on a personal level.
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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence
The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency and the FBI.
