Pretending that everything is normal while everything is crashing around you. Continue reading Pretending to be normal
I love America, even today
December 9 10, 2014
After a day like today yesterday, I still love America. Continue reading I love America, even today
To Annie from Pittsburgh, the NYT reader who asked why…
Originally posted in answer to my comment on Paul Krugman’s column: Recovery at last? Continue reading To Annie from Pittsburgh, the NYT reader who asked why…
Watch: NYPD uses military-grade sonic weapon on Eric Garner protesters
Long range acoustic devices (LRADs) have been previously implemented by police at protests throughout the world.
Thursday night at about 1am, at the intersection of 57 East and Madison Avenue in Manhattan—a populated area about four blocks from Columbus Circle—the NYPD used a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) to disperse about 100 protesters who were on the streets.
Continue reading Watch: NYPD uses military-grade sonic weapon on Eric Garner protesters
Police: Chokehold Victim Eric Garner Complicit In Own Death
| By TOM HAYS & COLLEEN LONGPosted:
NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Garner was overweight and in poor health. He was a nuisance to shop owners who complained about him selling untaxed cigarettes on the street. When police came to arrest him, he resisted. And if he could repeatedly say, “I can’t breathe,” it means he could breathe.
Continue reading Police: Chokehold Victim Eric Garner Complicit In Own Death
Perspectives on the #EricGarner case: Chief Bratton, #NYPD, Protests, Police Union
Watching Commissioner Bratton’s Face The Nation interview was a cringe-worthy experience. The commissioner rendered very opinionated answers, most of the time, very matter-of-factly and underhandedly. When you pressed your ear close to the TV speaker, you could tell that what was said so calmly wasn’t anything that should be taken as friendly to the people.
When asked how he felt when viewing the Garner choke-hold video, Bratton replied almost glibly:
“I don’t think that anybody watching that video isn’t disturbed by what they saw, that policing using involving use of force, it always looks awful. We have an expression: “lawful but awful…”
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Jared Bernstein: A deeper dive into the weeds of the CBO household income data
Jared Bernstein
November 25, 2014
Yesterday, I published a report by myself and Ben Spielberg analyzing the Congressional Budget Office’s comprehensive data series on household income. Here we dive a bit deeper into some of the weeds, expanding on some of our findings.
One motivation for our report was to correct the record of those who claim that the trend of increasing income inequality is significantly reduced when accounting for government taxes and transfers. In fact, as we show, between 1979 and 2011, inequality measured by the Gini coefficient rose 24% based solely on market outcomes and by 22% based on CBO’s comprehensive, post-tax and transfer income data.
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#BlackLivesMatter: Commemorating those who fell to American racism
This is a partial list of recent victims of racism in America. It was compiled with the help of my good friend Charlie. Please look through it and, if you know of anyone else who fell to the militarized racist police state, please give me a name, date, and location.
Thank you. Continue reading #BlackLivesMatter: Commemorating those who fell to American racism
MT: Fireworks on .@AC360: NYT’s @CharlesMBlow vs. Dan Bongino on #NYPD Choking Death
By Matthew Balan | December 4, 2014
Charles Blow of the New York Times faced off with conservative Dan Bongino on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 on Wednesday over whether an inherent racial “bias” against blacks in American society fed into the controversial case of a NYPD officer choking Eric Garner to death during an arrest. Blow claimed that “society…acculturates us to fear, and…that is how the whole justice system becomes corrupted and biased….we are not always even aware that we have the bias.” Bongino, himself a former NYPD officer, ripped the liberal writer’s claims as “utterly absurd.” Blow cited apparent “social science” supporting his “bias” claims, and blasted the former Secret Service agent’s critique as “offensive,” especially in the wake of a grand jury choosing not to indict the policeman in the Garner case: Continue reading MT: Fireworks on .@AC360: NYT’s @CharlesMBlow vs. Dan Bongino on #NYPD Choking Death
Mark Wahlberg Is Seeking a Pardon for His 1988 Assault Conviction | TIME
The 43-year-old former rapper says he is not the person he once was
Continue reading Mark Wahlberg Is Seeking a Pardon for His 1988 Assault Conviction | TIME