Cenk Uygur and journalist Karisa King discuss how the military has historically handled sexual assault cases: by diagnosing the victim with a ‘personality disorder’ and then discharging them from the service.
As one victim said: “I was officially diagnosed with an ‘adjustment disorder’ that meant that I had failed to adjust to rape conditions.”
Why Sen. Gillibrand’s bill to remove sex crimes from military chain of command doesn’t go far enough
Friday funnies: FishbowlDC called us out for letting Michael “The Notebook” Hastings show a little too much chest hair while talking about White House security. If you can take your eyes off his chest (his eyes are up here!), watch him, Mark Thompson, Ana Kasparian, and Jayar Jackson discuss why Eric Holder should resign.
Did you know that Shell just got approval to build a new oil well in the Gulf of Mexico? The Sierra Club’s Lena Moffitt joins guest host Mark Thompson and our TYT power panel to discuss why this is just about the worst idea ever - particularly since Shell utterly bungled their Arctic drilling last year.
Climate change scientist and Stanford professor Ken Caldeira came on The Young Turks yesterday to discuss the atmosphere hitting the critical 400 ppm point. Ana Kasparian asked: OK, so what can we do about it as individuals?
Caldeira says: “It’s good to do these things, like try to drive less and to use compact fluorescent light bulbs … but I really think that the most important thing we can do is let our politicians know how we feel. We’re not going to solve this problem by telling people, ‘You can’t plug in your toaster.’’ … Right now, politicians … are more afraid of the fossil fuel lobby than they are afraid of losing votes.”
Watch the full interview here.
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Crickett, the manufacturers of the “My First Rifle” used by a 5-year-old to shoot his 2-year-old sister last week, sells more than 60,000 of that model every year. Because guns are so unregulated, they can be marketed directly to children. Click through to see a commercial advertising shotguns to elementary school kids.
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