memeorandum: Do Online Death Threats Count as Free Speech? (Emily Bazelon/New York Times)

1:20 PM ET, November 28, 2014

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Adam McDonald / KMOV-TV:

Pregnant woman loses eye after police shoot bean bag at her — FERGUSON, Mo. (KMOV.com) — This St. Louis woman's picture and story has spread through social media, she's now ready to talk about what happened to her shortly after the grand jury announcement was made in the death of Michael Brown.

Discussion: Liberaland, CBS St. Louis, Mediaite, Addicting Info and Raw Story

Jason Molinet / NY Daily News:

‘I will have justice for what they did to me’: Pregnant St. Louis woman loses eye after police fire non-lethal round at car during Ferguson protest (VIDEO) — Dornnella Conner lost her left eye when a police officer fired a non-lethal bean bag round at the car her boyfriend was driving on the outskirts of Ferguson, Mo. early Tuesday.

Discussion: Mashable

Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Alleged plot included bombing Gateway Arch, killing St. Louis County prosecutor

Discussion: Liberaland, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and Jammie Wearing Fools

Daily Mail:

The controversial rules for white people who were told ‘not to take up space’ at Michael Brown vigil in Toronto — White people were encouraged not to take up space or talk to the media at vigil for Michael Brown in Toronto, Canada, on Tuesday — Comes after shooting …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Kathryn Schroeder / OpposingViews.com:
Black Ferguson Residents Protect White-Owned Business Amid Riots

Discussion: FOX News Radio

Maya Rhodan / TIME:
Darren Wilson's Lawyers Say He Has No Plans to Apologize to Michael Brown's Family

Discussion: FOX News Radio, Washington Post and Mediaite

Wall Street Journal:

Democratic Rifts Surface in Wake of Midterm Election Defeat — Leaders Dispute Wisdom of Health-Care Overhaul, Delaying Move on Immigration — Long-muted tensions within the Democratic Party over policy and strategy are beginning to surface publicly, a sign of leaders looking beyond …

Discussion: Fox News

Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Six Reasons I'm Thankful for a Republican Congress

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Roberta Rampton / Reuters:
Tensions flare between Senate Democrats, White House

Discussion: Hot Air and Booman Tribune

Danny Vinik / The New Republic:

The Reason Republicans Can't Pass Anything on Immigration — Why didn't Republicans preempt President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration with their own legislation? At the very least, that would have worsened the politics of Obama's move. At best, it would have forced Obama to rethink taking unilateral action at all.

Discussion: FOX News Radio

Jeffburkett / CBS Dallas:

Austin Police: Shooter Targets Buildings Downtown — AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW/AP) - Austin police say a gunman suspected of opening fire on several downtown buildings and police headquarters has died after being shot. — Early Friday morning Police officers armed with military-style rifles …

Discussion: Associated Press, No More Mister Nice Blog and FOX News Radio

Paige Winfield Cunningham / Politico:

The coming wave of anti-abortion laws — New GOP state legislatures will make access to abortion harder than ever. — The big Republican gains in the November elections strengthened and enlarged the anti-abortion forces in the House and the Senate. But it's the GOP victories in the statehouses …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog

Emily Bazelon / New York Times:

Do Online Death Threats Count as Free Speech? — Exhibit 12 in the government's case against Anthony Elonis is a screenshot of a Facebook post he wrote in October 2010, five months after his wife, Tara, left him. His name appears in the site's familiar blue, followed by words that made Tara fear …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

S.R. / Free exchange:

China's $6.8-trillion hole? — HAS CHINA really blown $6.8 trillion on worthless investments over the past five years? This is the startling claim made by two Chinese government researchers that has, understandably, caused quite a stir. If true, it would mean that fully 37% …

Discussion: Reuters and New York Times

Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:

Walmart Is Seeing Its Biggest Black Friday Protests Ever Today — If Walmart paid a living wage, “I could buy clothes for my kids to wear.” — Black Friday is best known as the day when big-box retailers rake in money, but it has also become a time for some of their employees to demand a share of the proceeds.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mashable, The Huffington Post and Firedoglake

Joan Walsh / Salon:

Learning from my 2014 mistakes: A year of reckoning for Democrats — But Ebola was a phony GOP-made crisis and Dems shouldn't have cowered — Thanksgiving is a great time for writers to reckon with whatever we got wrong over the year - and to be grateful that in this day and age we get to write every day …

Discussion: RedState

Martin Matishak / The Hill:

Anti-ISIS coalition to meet next week — Foreign dignitaries from around 60 countries that make up the international coalition against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will meet for the first time next week, the State Department announced Wednesday.

Anne Barnard / New York Times:
Conflicting Policies on Syria and Islamic State Erode U.S. Standing in Mideast

Discussion: Business Insider

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Oops: After Threatening Hacker With 440 Years, Prosecutors Settle for a Misdemeanor — 28-year-old hacker Fidel Salinas faced 44 felony computer fraud and cyberstalking counts just months ago. Courtesy Fidel Salinas — Thanks in part to America's ill-defined hacking laws …

Discussion: Raw Story