Dan Stuckey

I applaud President Barack Obama for commuting the sentence of Chelsea Manning, a former soldier whose decision to disclose thousands of documents, videos and other media related to America’s global affairs contributed shed new light and contributed significant discourse to the country’s geopolitical involvements?—?and at great sacrifice to her own person.

I’m just pasting this here in full, rec’d 9:07 EDT, 10/29/2016: “It took two years and a lawsuit from a news organization (First Look Media, operators of the news website The Intercept) for a memorandum from the Department of Justice intended to provide U.S. Attorneys and the American public with clarification on its prosecutions under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to be disclosed.

At the Topaz Hotel last night in Washington D.C., Daryush “Roosh V.” Valizadeh, the pickup artist who enjoys labeling himself the “Most-Hated Man in the World,” held a “press conference” (see video) in lieu of a men’s meetup he’d cancelled after receiving violent threats. As an anti-Valizadeh group of feminist advocates and protesters gathered in Dupont Circle, Valizadeh held his discrete gathering one block east with an audience of no more than 12 journalists in a small conference room.