Subscribe
The Daily Grind Video
CLOSE

This doesn’t sound good. For the first time in history, most members of Congress are millionaires, according to a new analysis of personal financial disclosure data by the Center for Responsive Politics. Last year, 257 members, or about 48 percent of lawmakers, had a median net worth of at least $1 million, this year’s numbers are disturbingly high — of 534 current members of Congress, at least 268 had an average net worth of $1 million or more. And they’re not all making their money in Congress, either. At least one of the members elected since then, Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), is a millionaire, while most make a median net worth of about $1,008,767. What’s that about fair representation, again? [OpenSecrets]

Speaking of fair (or unfair), a transgender student in San Francisco has been charged with misdemeanor battery after fighting back against alleged bullies in a Contra Costa County school. The fight occurred on November 14th at Hercules Middle/High School, after Jewlyes Gutierrez was tired of being picked on. All teens involved were suspended, but it was Gutierrez who was charged with the crime. Dan Cabral, Contra Costa County’s principal, said he draws the line when a bullying victim takes the law into their own hands. “Words are never enough to justify fists, that’s the law,” said Cabral. Sounds like somebody has it backwards. [CBS]

A Pakistani teen died outside of his school in Hangu earlier this week when he confronted a suicide bomber. Aitizaz Hasan, just 15-years-old, was outside with his cousin when he saw the 17-year-old bomber approach the school. “So [Aitizaz] told them ‘I’m going to stop him. He is going to school to kill my friends’,” Mudassar explained. “He wanted to capture this suicide bomber. He wanted to stop [him]. Meanwhile the suicide bomber blasted himself which resulted in the death of my cousin.” Witnesses say Aitizaz threw a rock at the bomber, then physically grabbed him, at which point the explosives detonated. His father, grieving for his son, had these words to say about the boy who is now being considered for the Nishaan-e-Haider award, Pakistan’s highest military honor. “My son made his mother cry, but saved hundreds of mothers from crying for their children.” [HuffPost]

Disturbing video has emerged of the attack of a teen girl in Miami last November. Hollywood Police say the videos depict Ericka Avery and Patricia Montes relentlessly punching and kicking the victim while telling her that the beating will cease if she has sex with a man named Jayvon Woolfork. Towards the end of the disturbing video, Lanel Singleton dragged her into a room and allegedly held her down while Woolfork raped her. At this time, Singleton remains in jail along with Henry, Woolfork and Avery. Patricia Montes is out on bond. The video will be used by prosecutors to show the brutality of the attack. Watch it here…[CBS]

If you thought Chris Christie’s bridge-gate scandal was created as political retribution for Democratic Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich’s refusal to endorse the Republican governor’s re-election, think again. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has a different theory on why the New Jersey governor may have wanted to close lanes on the George Washington Bridge — perhaps because of a festering feud between the governor and Democrats over state Supreme Court nominees? Scandalous! Read about it here…[HuffPost]

PHOTO CREDIT: Getty