I think the violation of our past treaties with indigenous nations is certainly grounds for substantial reparations to tribal members. However, I don’t think any US court is going to rule to enforce a contract or treaty that was broken over 100 years ago. Seeking damages from the federal government for the treaty…

Jesus.fucking.Christ.

It was not ongoing but it was also never closed, so your understanding is incorrect.

Yeah, it looks like it is some new emails. But since the emails were withheld by the Clinton campaign or State Dept, it still seems like suspicious timing to announce what is basically supplemental evidence. Especially, since they had nothing at all to say about where the emails came from.

The historical treatment of indigenous people in the US is and was terrible. However, I don’t think (and feel free to correct me if what I read about this is incorrect) this land ever technically belonged to the Standing Rock reservation. It belonged to the Great Sioux reservation, which was (against the provisions…

I don’t really see the distinction between “all future projects” and “all projects.” The only projects that could possibly be stopped are future projects, since you know projects not in the future are generally by definition completed. So... okay.

We can pretty safely assume there aren’t “new emails,” because the official letter would have actually said if they found previously unseen emails from the server. That would be a big.fucking.deal. This just makes it sound like they didn’t actually read all the emails in the prior investigation, which seems unlikely.

What is this a last “hurrah” before he’s out of a job?

I honestly thought that the POTUS would put a stop to all future oil projects.

Exactly. The federal government had limited jurisdiction over this pipeline already; outside of the federal land (where construction was halted) they couldn’t legally tell the company to cease construction. The courts have already ruled against the tribe’s arguments against the pipeline construction twice. Is she…

I think they mean control as in “ability to actually do something to help.” This situation is a lot more complicated from a legal perspective than a lot of the commenters on this article seem to grasp. Construction on federal land has already been halted, the federal government has asked for the company to…

What sort of monster would prefer Qdoba to Chipotle? Like the rest of your list, sure, but QDBODA?!

What is even the logic for not allowing multiple reasons for flagging a comment?

Wikileaks doesn’t hack anyone; they receive information from various independent hackers/government intelligence agencies posing as independent hackers and publish that information. The emails recently published by Wikileaks were supplied to them by Russian hackers who breached the State Department’s servers.

I had orthorexia for a while and never had anorexia by any medical or common definition. I did not weigh myself, I did not measure myself, I did not starve myself. I did only eat foods in selected arbitrary categories, exercised for at least 1hr/day, and felt a lot of stress/anxiety if I was forced to deviate from my…

Even in Chicago crime is down compared to the long-term average! Which is what you actually want to use for meaningful statistical comparison. Since it’s time series data, year over year comparison is going to be statistically meaningless normally. This has certainly been a bad year for the city’s crime rate, but we…

“Just as in a previous generation we had an organized effort against the mob. We need to take these people on. They are often connected to big drug cartels, they are not just gangs of kids anymore. They are often the kinds of kids that are called superpredators — no conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they…

I’ve literally never looked at an oatmeal cookie and assumed it would have chocolate in it. Is this a regional thing? Oatmeal base cookie dough goes with raisins, other dried fruits, or maybe nuts. Regular flour cookie dough goes with chocolate chips.

Marion Cotillard is kind of known moron. A beautiful and arguably talented moron*, but a moron nonetheless. For example, she’s a 9/11 truther and thinks the moon landing was faked.

Their marital estate was over $15b at the time they filed for divorce, and as far as I’ve read they didn’t have a prenup, so I’m not sure what’s confusing you. Normally when couples get divorced their estate is not split 7% and 93%.