Homeland Security wants to monitor journalists. Time to sound the alarm.

"The Department of Homeland Security intends to list and trackhundreds of thousands of news outlets, journalists, bloggers, and 'influencers' in traditional and new media alike. If you find yourself skeptical of this proposal of mass state monitoring of the press, consider yourself a bonafide member of the 'tinfoil hat wearing, black helicopter conspiracy theorists,' DHS representative Tyler Houlton said Friday."

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On Poisoned Ground: East Chicago’s legacy of lead pollution

"East Chicago officials knowingly built the elementary school and, later, the public housing complex on a polluted industrial brownfield, then ignored decades of warning signs that people in this predominantly black area of the city were being poisoned."

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