Liberals Unite is seeking a few great staff writers to cover current events. The focus is politics, economics and feminism with the occasional opinion/open letter/editorial. We encourage folks with snark and sarcasm (not mean-spirited) to apply, but we are also interested in straight-forward reporting. The ideal is a good mix of both. LU owns and operates several large […]
A pro-death penalty federal circuit court judge issued a blistering dissent in a death-row case on Monday. Judge Alex Kozinski, Chief Justice of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, wrote that “Using drugs meant for individuals with medical needs to carry out executions is a misguided effort to mask the brutality of executions by […]
Reports are coming out of the Ukraine that a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet with 295 people onboard has in Ukraine, near the Russian border, on Thursday. NBC reports that “according to the Interfax news agency, and an adviser to the Ukrainian government said that it had been shot down.” The reports could not immediately be […]
Supporters, near and far, are rallying behind Cassidy Stay, the 15-year-old survivor of the Texas family shooting, through a GoFundMe site in her name. Cassidy Stay not only survived the incidentthat took her parents, Stephen and Katie Stay, and four younger siblings, but heroically called 911, giving details to first-responders that lead to saving the […]
A 19-year-old survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing received an apology from a local retailer after she left in tears when she was told her service dog was not welcome inside. Sydney Corcoran told a Boston ABC affiliate, WCVB, that she was told to leave a T.J. Maxx store in New Hampshire unless she put […]