While major news outlets hyperventilate over not being called on at press conferences, other reporters, as well as activists who exercised their First Amendment rights are facing decades in prison.
Washington DC
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: OPERATION STINGBALLS
"Without warning, Defendant Officer John Doe 150 grabbed Mr. Horse’s testicles and yanked on them."
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: DREAM DARKER
“The fact that we are already here and the amount of resources being spent to get to where we are now leads me to believe we are going to have to sit through all these trials. All this taxpayer money is going to be wasted.”
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: IMPEACHMENT PUNCHLINES
Chaffetz shut Lynch down, declaring his time was up, but Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the committee, took up the cry for an investigation.
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: CPACTIVISTS
I am stoned at CPAC. I am in hell. Here’s how it happened …
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: BEACHHEADS AND THE WAR ON FACTS
“[Trump’s people] want to control message in a lot of different ways, and for that reason I think they have made that a priority,” Brown says. “The Trump transition team devoted a lot more staff resources to communications than transition teams in the past … In the past, communications just hasn’t been a first priority.”
GUEST OP-ED: LOUD MAJORITY
Fighting for civil rights before, during, and after Inauguration Day
ROLLING DEBATE: DISPATCH FROM THE MASSCANN/NORML SONS OF LIBERTY ROAD TRIP
Activists rolled out a 51-foot joint, at which point police stopped the procession.
IT’S SPRING (AND DEMOCRACY IS AWAKENING!)
The jig is up, and my time has come. I’m about to be arrested. They’ll be hauling me away in mid-April.
IN SEARCH OF COMMON UNITY: A CONVERSATION WITH HAWAH KASAT ABOUT YOUTH VIOLENCE EVERYWHERE
Without creative constructive time, we’re just going to keep losing young people in the cracks. These are the bigger questions in these cities where you see high dropout and suicide rates and crazy amounts of bullying—and it’s spread out in the suburbs now too.