Radley Balko
Opinion journalist, Washington Post. Author of Rise of the Warrior Cop, and The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. Honorary Duckmaster (3/24/18).
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He was praised on the Senate floor as a model DACA recipient. Now he's in detention—with COVID-19.
"I've given so much to this country that still doesn't want me here."
Who Funds The Lincoln Project? Exactly Whom You Expect | National Review
If you advertise your cause as something it’s not, you’re a fraud.
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Radley Balko
Former senior editor for the Federalist says you can tell a lot about a group by looking at who funds it.
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Inconsolable Jeff Sessions Tries To Commit Suicide By Smoking Joint
WASHINGTON—Following months of bruising criticism from Democrats and President Trump alike, an inconsolable Jeff Sessions was reportedly trying to commit suicide Thursday by smoking a joint. “I swore I’d never take the coward’s way out, but what...
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Biden Holds 11 Point Lead As Trump Approval On Coronavirus Dips, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Almost Half Say Second Wave Of Coronavirus 'very Likely' In Fall
Navarro publicly said Americans had 'nothing to worry about' while privately warning coronavirus could cost lives and dollars
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro publicly said Americans had "nothing to worry about" while he privately warned the White House that the coronavirus pandemic could cost trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of American lives.
The QAnon Candidates Are Here. Trump Has Paved Their Way.
The conspiracy theorists accuse Democrats and even fellow Republicans of being beholden to a cabal of bureaucrats, pedophiles and Satanists. President Trump has cheered them on.
‘They Put Us in Here to Let Us Die’: ICE Prison Sees Outbreak of Coronavirus—and Guard Violence
Over two-thirds of migrants locked up at a private ICE facility tested positive for COVID-19. “You don’t treat humans like this. You don’t treat dogs like this,” one detainee said.
Sen. Josh Hawley Says He 'Took on an Asian Trafficking Ring' and 'Freed a Dozen Women in Sex Slavery.' That's Not True.
As a state attorney, the young GOP senator oversaw raids of more than a dozen massage parlors, but didn’t secure a single sex trafficking conviction.
Cop who threatened to kill protesters shoots, kills colleague who knocked on door, affidavit says
Calvin Nicholas “Nick” Salyers, 33, of Alexander, Arkansas, is charged with manslaughter in the June 3 killing of 36-year-old Scott Hutton, who was fatally shot through Salyers' front door.
Radley Balko
A lede for our times.
(via @greg_doucette)
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For better police accountability, repeal law enforcement's bill of rights
The protests of recent weeks have brought to the top of the public agenda the need to quickly remove police officers who commit serious misconduct. When the Maryland General Assembly
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Radley Balko
I think @walterolson may have found the cancel culture incident to unite us all. A state lawmaker was fired from his day job at a public service union because, as a legislator, he was working on police reform. And that angered the police union.
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A Teenager Didn’t Do Her Online Schoolwork. So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile Detention.
A 15-year-old in Michigan was incarcerated during the coronavirus pandemic after a judge ruled that not completing her schoolwork violated her probation. “It just doesn’t make any sense,” said the girl’s mother.
FIRE on ICE policy: Requiring students to return to unfree countries will import censorship to American classrooms
FIRE filed an amicus curiae brief today in the lawsuit brought by Harvard and MIT, which asks a federal court to prevent implementation of the ICE policy.
Alabama jail denies inmates COVID-19 masks because ‘they’re going to eat them'
A sheriff's office spokesman says inmates could use masks to harm themselves or others.
A Deeply Provincial View of Free Speech
Many prominent writers and thinkers seem invested in the notion that simply facing strong public criticism is a threat to free speech.
Poll: Utahns Overwhelmingly Support Police Reform
Earlier this month, Libertas Institute commissioned a poll of Utah voters on various policing issues. The statistical survey, conducted by Public Policy Polling, involved 1,140 voter responses over landline and cell phone, with a 2.9% margin of...
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Radley Balko
Three months ago, poll numbers like this would have been shocking coming from any state in the country. These are from Utah. The protests are working.
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Florida sets record week for coronavirus deaths
More Floridians died of coronavirus this week than in any other seven-day period.
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Radley Balko
“Yes, cases are going up, but we aren’t seeing an increase in hospitalizations.”
“Sure, hospitalizations are increasing, but we aren’t seeing more death.”
“Ok, we’re now seeing record deaths, but ______”
Any guesses as to how they’ll fill in the blank?
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