An appeals court has overruled a territory judge who dismissed the example last year Taylor Swift in the video for her 2014 single ‘Shake It Off’. A lawsuit filed against Taylor Swift alleging she stole the lyrics of her 2014 song’ Shake It Off’ has been resuscitated by an appeals …
Read More »The Problem With Treating Far-Right-Extremist Attacks as Isolated Incidents
Updated at 2:34 p.m. ET on August 4, 2019. There was, it seems , no time to avert the massacre. The anti-immigrant, white-nationalist manifesto heralding an imminent onslaught was uploaded to the online message board 8chan merely minutes before a crap-shooter killed at least 20 people out shopping on a …
Read More »This week in the war on workers: Happy Labor Day
If you’ve got a minute before you go shop for that union-made-in-America barbecue, let’s check out a few recent working people’s wins for Labor Day 😛 TAGEND * Last-place weekend, a federal magistrate limited Trump’s ability to fire federal workers. * Brooklyn wireless employees vote to save their union. * …
Read More »Former federal prosecutor lays out why a presidential pardon for Michael Cohen could actually increase Trump’s risk of exposure
Shannon Stapleton/Reuters A former federal prosecutor explained why it would be “stupid” for President Donald Trump to pardon his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen. Cohen split with the president in an interview with ABC News, breaking his silence on the criminal investigation he’s at the center of. The interview fueled speculation …
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