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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Phillip Stucky Twitter users across the country are using the hashtag #HillarysNextBookTitle to guess what the former secretary of state’s next book will be called after her latest book, “What Happened,” was published in July. Democrats and Republicans alike joined the fun. @France4Hillary suggested “The Rightful President” as a potential…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Many Americans are aware of the effort to remove Confederate monuments across America. Whether one believes the effort is a justified action or misguided iconoclasm, there is no question the debate has opened old wounds. There are valid reasons why one may not one wish to have in their city…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Written by Nick Givas MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin called Confederate statues a “big middle finger” to “people who look like me” during a Wednesday “MSNBC Live” segment. “A lot of folks fail to recognize, and maybe they just don’t know that the bulk of these statues, they weren’t put up in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Thomas Phippen The U.S. currently maintains 12,000 service members in Afghanistan, about 3,500 more than the 8,400 the Pentagon has disclosed, the Wall Street Journal reports. The official number of troops is what the Pentagon calls permanent troops, and does not include more than 3,000 troops who rotate through the…
Phillip Stucky Protesters stormed a city council meeting in Charlottesville, Va., Monday evening, forcing the mayor and several other city officials to leave under police protection. The meeting wasn’t supposed to be about the violence on Aug. 12, but residents and protesters stormed the meeting, forcing Mayor Mike Signer to formally cancel the gathering before fleeing. Charlottesville…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Ted Goodman A prominent New York City police union released a video decrying anti-police violence and rhetoric in what it is calling “blue racism.” “The average person doesn’t see those things that make me human,” the video says, referring to police officers. “They don’t even label me based on being African…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Written by Tim Pearce Electricity generators, grid operators, and utility companies are bracing for a once in a lifetime solar eclipse Monday that will drastically cut power produced from solar resources, Bloomberg reports. The eclipse will starve the U.S. electrical grid of about 12,000 megawatts of solar power. Energy companies have prepared…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: The same day neo-Nazis and antifascists clashed in Charlottesville, Michael Oman-Reagan shared on Twitter a 1940s short-film titled “Don’t Be A Sucker.” The film, produced by the U.S. War Department in 1943, depicts an ornery bigot on a soap box seeking to enlist fellow Americans to his cause while…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Written by Amber Randall Protesters in Boston threw bottles of urine at police officers who were patrolling a demonstration against a free speech rally, the Boston police commissioner told the media Saturday. Boston Police Commissioner William Evans held a press conference to address the media in the aftermath of a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Thomas Phippen One police officer was killed and two others wounded after responding to a routine call in what authorities say might have been an ambush in Florida Friday night. Two officers were shot in what officials say may have been an ambush after responding to a routine call in…