Torture Report, #ShutItDown Continues, 'Selma' Makes AFI's Top 2014 Films List
Here's some of what I'm reading up on this morning (don't skip Curiosity right at the end!):
- An executive summary of what is sometimes called "enhanced interrogation techniques," which is a nicer way of saying "torture" post 9/11, could be released as early as Tuesday.
- Oh, look! The war in Afghanistan is symbolically over except that in reality, it isn't.
- Police in Hong Kong prepare for an attempt to clear pro-democracy demonstrators off the streets for good.
- Protestors in California keep shutting down freeways in demonstrations against the killing of black people by white cops.
- Change.org, which created a platform on progressive values but then sold out, rakes in $25 million from venture capitalists.
- The Sony hack also reveals some Hollywood star's aliases (or, real names, sometimes) and a lot more.
- AFI's top 10 films of the year is actually a list of 11 films--and includes "Selma."
- Myth-busting anti-vaxers may actually be counterproductive.
- My favorite item of the day: The New York Times publishes a lovely interactive of NASA's Curiosity journey on Mars, whose findings indicate the environmental conditions to support life.