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Snowden's Revelation Paves the Way for Federal Lawsuit Against NSA

By Thom Hartmann / Thom Hartmann Show

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed multiple lawsuits against the NSA for spying on Americans, but until now the government has convinced courts to block them.

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Wait! Study Shows Diet Soda Is Not Just Bad for You, It Makes You Fat

By Janet Allon / AlterNet

House Republicans Block Overhaul of Immigration Bill

By Rod Bastanmehr / AlterNet

The Pushback Against the Feds' Over-the-Top Anti-Pot Crusade

By April M. Short / AlterNet

Senate Set to Confirm New FBI Head Who OK’d Waterboarding, Defends Mass Spying, Indefinite Detention

By Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh / Democracy Now!

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Overkill: Armed Agents Raid Wisconsin Animal Shelter; Kill Baby Deer Named Giggles

Gay Marriage Approval Continues Sweep Across the Country

George Zimmerman: Armed and Stopped for Speeding in Texas Is Allowed to Keep His Gun

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Run Sarah Run!

Joan Walsh / Salon

Sheriff: I Just Want Cannabis Off the Front Page

Doug Fine / National Cannabis Coalition

George W Bush Urges Congress to Find a "Positive Resolution" on Immigration

Ed Pilkington / The Guardian

The Backlash Begins: Indiana Makes Same-Sex Marriage a Felony Punishable by Prison

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Justice Denied: 71 New 'Tort Reform' Bills Make It Harder to Hold Corporations Accountable for Causing Injury and Death

Brendan Fischer / PR Watch

Why Veterans Struggling with PTSD Want Access to Medical Marijuana

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Bill Moyers Discusses New American Economy and His New Film 'Two American Families'

AlterNet

Texans to Perry: If We Can't Get Abortions, Can We at Least Get Sex Ed?

Tara Culp-Ressler / Think Progress

How Tim Geithner Gets $200,000 a Pop to Chat With Big Banks

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Coincidence? KKK Leaves 'Neighborhood Watch' Letters in CT, Just as Zimmerman Defense Wraps Up

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Outrageous: Pro-Gun Company Markets Target with Virginia Tech Survivor's Image

Janet Allon / AlterNet

Wal-Mart Will Not Open D.C. Stores if Forced to Pay Living Wages

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Injured Vet Traveling to Be Honored Is Aggressively Searched by TSA Agents

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Activists Sue Federal Agency for Illegally Withholding Affordable Housing Funds

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

An Open Letter to President Obama from Gasland Director Josh Fox

Josh Fox / AlterNet

Meet the "Southern Avenger"! Another Member of Rand Paul's Team Has White Supremacist Past

Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon

Right-Wing Media Call for House GOP to Kill Immigration Bill Immediately

Remington Shepard / Media Matters for America

Southern States Waste No Time Gutting Voting Rights After Supreme Court Overturned Voting Rights Act

Digby / Hullaballoo

Cop Fatally Shot Unarmed Man, Forbade Family from Giving Him CPR, Family Claims

William Dotinga / Courthouse News

We Have to Embrace Apocalypse If We're Going to Get Serious About Sticking Around on This Planet

Robert Jensen / AlterNet

Mining the World to Death

Robert Jensen / AlterNet

Father from Russia Could Be Deported For Smoking Marijuana 15 Years Ago

Esther Yu-Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress

How Unchecked Capitalism Has Brought the World to the Brink of Apocalypse -- and What We Must Do Now

Robert Jensen / AlterNet

Do You Fight Dirty?

Jeremy Sherman / AlterNet

Mining Company Hires Gun-Toting, Masked Paramilitary Security Guards as Protests Flare Up

Alex Kane / AlterNet

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