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Free @bmaz
If the name isn’t familiar from twitter, it should be from his writing as a founding contributor to Marcy Wheeler’s brilliant burden of bureaucracy, Empty Wheel. Bmaz is a criminal defe…
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Scott Greenfield
Free @bmaz blog.simplejustice.us/2019/04/21/fre… pic.twitter.com/xTkluGPr6R
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Grand Rapids could make it illegal to call police on people of color for ‘participating in their lives’
Community members can weigh-in during a public hearing on the proposed ordinance at the 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 23 commission meeting at City Hall.
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Scott Greenfield
Grand Rapids is considering making it a crime to call 911 "to racially profile people of color for 'participating in their lives.'"
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Yanks bench Kate Smith while investigating racism
The Yankees have suspended use of Kate Smith’s “God Bless America” while they investigate an allegation of racism
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Scott Greenfield
"The Yankees have suspended the use of Kate Smith’s recording of “God Bless America” during the seventh-inning stretch while they investigate an allegation of racism against the singer."
Who's next, Paul Robeson?
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Perrysburg High School student faces harassment charge for Twitter account
A Perrysburg High School student was charged Wednesday in connection with a Twitter account that degraded female students, according to the district.
The ...
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Scott Greenfield
Perrysburg, Ohio, high school student criminally charged for "ranking" women in his class on twitter.
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The Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care
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Scott Greenfield
Reputations changeable
Situations tolerable
Baby, you're adorable
Handle me with care
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Conservatives Must Face Black America’s Dark Mirror
This is a universal matter of humanity and justice. Morality demands we take it seriously.
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Scott Greenfield
I'll be damned. @AviWoolf is a really good writer for a guy who likes sprinkles. Who knew?
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Kopf: The Baseless (and nasty) Complaints Against Judge Ellis
I did not pay much attention to the trial of Mr. Manafort. When the jury came back for the government on eight of eighteen counts, I wasn’t particularly surprised.[i] After all, these were essentia…
Karma Or Just The Realization That Affirmative Consent Never Made Sense?
Forget that Joe Biden is the vessel wherein the problem arises for the moment, but consider the problem itself. Is Biden a faux-feminist sexual predator? Of course not. Yet under the modern standar…
The Law of Gravity Is Unconstitutionally Vague
The Second Circuit smacked it down in Copeland v. Vance, when the attack was the lack of a mens rea requirement for New York’s misbegotten gravity knife law. It didn’t matter that you w…
Lynchburg officers who shot man inside his home sentenced to community service
LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) -- Two Lynchburg Police officers charged in an officer-involved shooting have pleaded no contest to an amended charge. Walker Sigler was shot in the leg after police said they were investigating an open door at his home on Link...
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Scott Greenfield
"...who then slammed the door which made a loud clanging sound they believed to be a gun shot at the time. The officers fired four shots..."
Shot for closing a door.
Why do such things happen so regularly with cops in Lynchburg, VA?
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Police Raid Wrong Home During Birthday Party, Point Guns At Children; ‘I Thought They Was Going To Shoot Me, And My Brother, And Everybody Else’
Chicago police raided the wrong home again; this time during a 4-year-old boy’s birthday party. CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini continues his months-long investigation into wrong raids.
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Scott Greenfield
Chicago police raided wrong house, guns pointed at 4-year-old's birthday party.
“They were saying F words and stuff.”
CPD response: "errors can occur."
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Author Fonda Lee Decries Barnes & Noble Stocking J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert Jordan Books: We are Competing with "Dead Guys"
Science Fiction and Fantasy author Fonda Lee, the writer of the Green Bone Saga, decried Barnes & Noble for stocking popular fantasy authors J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert Jordan.
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Scott Greenfield
How unfair is it that female sci fi writers are denied shelf space in bookstores by "dead guys" like J.R.R. Tokien?
30d
Officer accused of giving homeless man feces sandwich wins appeal
A San Antonio police officer fired in October 2016 after he allegedly gave a homeless man a sandwich with dog feces had his dismissal overturned by an arbitrator earlier this month.
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Scott Greenfield
San Antonio PO Matthew Luckhurst wins back his job in arbitration after giving homeless man shit sandwich.
Cop unions, for the win.
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Forget Self-Driving Cars. Bring Back the Stick Shift.
Technology meant to save us from distraction is making us less attentive.
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Scott Greenfield
Would the return of stick shifts restore our attention span and ability to focus, lost in our zeal for an app to chew our food for us because we're just that lazy and inept?
Yes. Yes it would. Bring back four on the floor!
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Trigger Warnings Do Little to Reduce People’s Distress, Research Shows
Trigger warnings that alert people to potentially sensitive content are increasingly popular, but data suggest they may not have the intended effect.
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Scott Greenfield
Empirical study shows trigger warnings have little impact on people's emotional distress.
Go figure.
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A Death And An Impossible Story Regurgitated
The headline alone was either the clickiest of clickbait or a testament to the failure of journalism. Woman shot herself through mouth while handcuffed during traffic-stop suicide, officials say Ne…
South Carolina mayor suspects ‘yellow sticky substance’ on her car was sprayed by vandals, not a pollen cloud
“I know people get angry, and they want to take out their frustration and anger on somebody. It’s just a bit much.”
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Scott Greenfield
SC Mayor claims "yellow sticky stuff sprayed" on her car was hate crime.
Cops: It's pollen.
Newsweek: "In the 1970s, racist acts were not uncommon in Lamar."
Cops: It's still just pollen.
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Vance’s Manafort Moment
Within minutes of D.C. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson imposing a second sentence on Paul Manafort, New York County District Attorney Cy Vance sprung his news. “No one is beyond the law in …
The Southern Poverty Business Model
Many of you out there have no doubt received in the mail desperate cries for help from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the do-gooder group that does very little good considering the vast sums of money it raises. But before you pull out your...
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Scott Greenfield
Apparently (h/t @tcita), Stephen Bright was not a fan of Morris Dees and SPLC. Not at all.
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Southern Poverty Law Center fires founder Morris Dees
The SPLC did not elaborate on the reasons but said the organization is committed to ensuring the "conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization."