"We soon discovered a secret, hidden behind a smokescreen of fake companies and false identities. The people facilitating slander and the self-proclaimed good guys who help remove it are often one and the same."
Unfortunate findings but critical research. It’s consistent with the work of Jennifer Eberhardt of Stanford, who finds that increase in racialized perceptions of policy problems decreases overall support for solutions. I talk about this dilemma in @PracticalEqual. https://t.co/N2AsF9xFBi
Article gets into how Covid is affecting NGO's work against child marriage in many places like Nepal. Nepal actually has a legal marriage age of 20, but they're not enforcing it and lots of families are lapsing into old ways against girls' dreams and getting away with off-loading the daughters much earlier.
Two Louisiana state senators will go head-to-head in a runoff election Saturday that will determine who will succeed a White House adviser in the U.S. House.
After decades of not using a huge chunk of the Internet, the Pentagon has given control of millions of computer addresses to a previously unknown company in an effort to identify possible cyber vulnerabilities and threats
The superintendent of the public school district in Broward County was arrested as part of a wide-ranging criminal investigation that began in the tumultuous months after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland. https://t.co/1neukMXZcE
Abolition in Africa brought longed-for freedoms, but also political turmoil, economic collapse and rising enslavement
I highly recommend this historical analysis, skillfully written to be easy to read, which readjusts the whole frigging standard "narratives" with nuance of reality.
Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia accounted for 88% of the 483 reported executions worldwide, according to a report by the human rights group.It accuses them of displaying "a ruthless and chilling persistence" in putting people to death despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
A @MNNationalGuard and @MinneapolisPD neighborhood security team was fired upon early Sunday morning in a drive-by shooting near Penn Avenue and Broadway in Minneapolis.
This is how everyone savvy is doing it, yes ALL SIDES now, not just alt-right. It's our new paradigm. How MSM outlets deal with it, whether they filter it and create balance, or end up feeding certain agendas by covering what the aglorithms rule are hot, that's the thing:
“Focus on conflict. Feed the algorithm. Make sure whatever you produce reinforces a narrative. Don’t worry if it is true.” https://t.co/9boLCcUyzH
Some of the reporting in this is astonishing, and one has to wonder if Trump's plan to install Patel as CIA dep director/acting director in December was linked to the advice he was getting on how to stage a coup https://t.co/amniMFeAvh
Chief of @NYPDDetectives James Essig plans to combat violence by targeting the small percentage of criminals who commit the vast majority of crime — an approach that resulted in a historic crime reduction when he was head of the Gun Violence Suppression Unit.
Nearly four years after the Fyre Festival left attendees scrounging for makeshift shelter on a dark beach, a court has decided how much the nightmare scenario was worth: approximately $7,220 apiece. https://t.co/HJd9XcS5mv
Two Louisiana state senators will go head-to-head in a runoff election Saturday that will determine who will succeed a White House adviser in the U.S. House.