Brrr: Seattle police are driving around with a van picking up cold homeless people and bringing them to shelters.
Eww: Cops are still monsters, says Gawker.
War: Violence is engulfing the Central African Republic. One reporter tries to untangle why and says the country is “on the brink of genocide.”
Jobs: The latest jobs numbers are in from the Bureau of Labor Statistics! To summarize: Older workers are doing ok, the death of manufacturing has been exaggerated, pay hasn’t budged for restaurant and hotel workers, and there are still millions of long-term unemployed folks.
Blech: Oh JP Morgan, does your villainy know no bounds? (It appears the answer is yes, as this story is about corruption in China.)
Hah: Morale is down at the National Security Agency.
Boo: The FBI, by installing malware on someone’s machine, can “covertly activate a computer’s camera—without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording.”
Ukraine: Protesters have flooded into the streets of Kiev and toppled a statue of Lenin! I presume he remains untouched in Fremont.
Wow: Some Syrian refugees fleeing war are settling—of all places—in Gaza.
Apartheid: The Israeli military allegedly shot and killed a boy named Wajih Wajdi al-Ramahi in Ramallah and attacked a Palestinian commemoration of Nelson Mandela yesterday.
Filmmaker Jesse Freeston offers a disturbing and comprehensive look at last week’s elections in Honduras and argues they’re just another piece of the country’s unfolding and internationally-backed coupism: