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Trump directs Homeland Security to monitor domestic news media and journalists

Posted by Syndicated | Apr 12, 2018 |

U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesman Tyler Q. Houlton dismisses “tinfoil hat wearing” reporters who question the government’s motives in an official tweet. The DHS is looking to compile a database of journalists, bloggers and social media “influencers” here and overseas, Bloomberg reported. A request filed on April 3 sought a contractor to gather information on people posting across all platforms — radio, print, digital, and television — in 100 languages. Bids are expected on April 13. According to Bloomberg, the request came amid “heightened concern” about accuracy in media and the potential for foreigners to influence U.S. elections...

After Marching for Our Lives comes Marching to the Polls in November

Posted by John Pavlovitz | Apr 8, 2018 |

Marches are powerful things. They are a necessary visual reminder that we are not alone. They help provide a sense of scale in dark days; to right size the threats that seem so towering and overpowering. They give us a chance to stand with a tribe of affinity and be a tangible response to the things that burden us. Marches are awe-inspiring and goosebumps-inducing and breathtakingly cathartic moments. But marches don’t vote. They can’t craft legislation and they won’t protect people in danger. Marches won’t jettison corrupt leaders from their well-fortified perches of power. They can’t reach into the...

Federal proposals under consideration to regulate Facebook

Posted by ProPublica | Apr 7, 2018 |

For years, Congress and federal regulators have allowed the world’s largest social network to police itself — with disastrous results. Here are four promising reforms under discussion in Washington. A recent gathering in a Washington DC ballroom for an annual “tech prom,” hundreds of tech industry lobbyists and policy makers applauded politely as announcers read out the names of the event’s sponsors. But the room fell silent when “Facebook” was proclaimed — and the silence was punctuated by scattered boos and groans. These days, it seems the only bipartisan agreement in Washington is to hate Facebook. Democrats blame the...

Rebecca Dallet’s Wisconsin Supreme Court win seen as a bellwether for midterm elections

Posted by Guest | Apr 5, 2018 |

Liberal Judge Rebecca Dallet defeated conservative judge Michael Screnock, who was endorsed by Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker, narrowing conservative control of the state Supreme Court to 4-3 from 5-2. Judge Dallet positioned herself as a staunch opponent of President Trump, and defeated her GOP-backed rival on April 3, in what is seen as another bellwether for the upcoming midterm elections. “I’m so proud to say that our hard work has paid off. It will be my immense pleasure to serve the state of Wisconsin as a justice on our Supreme Court,” said Judge Dallet in the Twitter post...

Open housing loopholes remain in Milwaukee 50 years after assassination of MLK

Posted by Margaret Rozga | Apr 4, 2018 |

Seven months to the day before he died, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. sent a telegram to Milwaukee civil rights leader Father James Groppi at St. Boniface Catholic Church, the headquarters for Milwaukee’s 1967-68 fair housing marches. “Your actions inspire me deeply,” Dr. King wrote in support of these marches led by Father Groppi and members of the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council. I was one of those marchers. We needed the support Dr. King’s message provided. On Aug. 28, 1967, our intrepid group of 200 to 250 marchers crossed what was then the 16th Street Viaduct from...

Tony Cragg’s “Mixed Feelings” sculpture to be installed outside City Hall

Posted by Staff | Apr 2, 2018 |

An anonymous donor is providing a grant to Milwaukee Downtown BID #21 to acquire Tony Cragg’s “Mixed Feelings” for an undisclosed amount, and donate the art to the community. The work is being gifted to the City of Milwaukee and will go before the Common Council for approval on April 17. Sculpture Milwaukee, an outdoor urban sculpture experience that debuted last year along Wisconsin Avenue, will manage the installation slated to occur outside City Hall. “On behalf of the residents of the City of Milwaukee, I am happy to accept this donation of the Mixed Feelings sculpture created by...