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Jan 05, 18
Supreme Court case from the 19th century which created (or at least greatly expanded) the notion that corporations are 'persons' in a Constitutional sense. "This was the first time that the Supreme Court was reported to hold that the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause granted constitutional protections to corporations as well as to natural persons"
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Oct 10, 17
Chart from MappingPoliceViolence.org showing that "Police Violence and Community Violence are Independent Issues." See the last chart on the page, specifically.
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Oct 10, 17
Study by Cody Ross regarding the shooting of unarmed people by police.
"The results provide evidence of a significant bias in the killing of unarmed black Americans relative to unarmed white Americans, in that the probability of being {black, unarmed, and shot by police} is about 3.49 times the probability of being {white, unarmed, and shot by police} on average."
Also, significantly, found that "there is no relationship between county-level racial bias in police shootings and crime rates (even race-specific crime rates), meaning that the racial bias observed in police shootings in this data set is not explainable as a response to local-level crime rates."
However, he DID find a relationship between police killing blacks and the level of inequality in the county. Also a relationship between police killing blacks and the level of segregation in the county. -
Oct 10, 17
Study from Joscha Legewie & Jeffrey Fagan at Columbia regarding police violence against blacks. They found correlations between the diversity of the force and the rate of violence (an inverse relationship). They cite the phenomenon of group threat, and note that black-on-white crime is more likely to result in police violence against blacks than black-on-black crime, especially where the police force is more white.
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Feb 23, 17
Lincoln Police Dept's response to the violent demonstration at one of Deb Fischer's meetings with a private groupin Lincoln.
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Feb 22, 17
A close look at how charter schools can serve as siphons to remove poor-performing students from public schools, and then drop them out of the system entirely without them affecting the statistics. Ugly, ugly shit.
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Nov 18, 16
Collects some research on how to address white people's racial bias (as well as their LGBTQ bias). Tough read, because it basically says the best approach is to treat them with kid gloves. Which sounds an awful lot like the kind of coddling that progressives aren't enamored of doing for regressives. But if it works, it works. Do we want change, or do we want to punish & feel superior?
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Aug 15, 16
This is the podcast episode where they talked about "weaponized boredom," and the idea that making things boring is a way to guard them against public scrutiny. They're referencing a sociologist named Pierre Bourdieu, and his notion of 'doxa'.
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Jul 27, 16
This has the except from William F. Buckley saying that the greatest presidential achievements had nothing do with a bottom line.
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Nov 26, 14
Has links to some good analysis.
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Oct 13, 14
Quick run-down of stats about the number of people who wouldn't be able to meet voter-ID requirements.
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Jul 17, 09
Refutation of conservative claims that the health care bill would make it so that individuals couldn't change their health care.
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