A major civil rights group says the Justice Department has more a lot more power than it's using to change the behavior of local police departments. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund wants Attorney General Merrick Garland to suspend grants to local law enforcement until he's sure that no federal taxpayer money is funding police departments that engage in discrimination, according to a letter obtained by NPR ."
"You can often recognize a Victorian home from the street: Its elaborate architectural details, from fanciful trim work to stained glass windows, are a dead giveaway. But Victorian interiors were just as full of decorative flourishes, from luxuriant furniture to ornate molding and plasterwork --- including ceiling medallions ."
"Democrats have long considered Latinos a cornerstone of what I've called their "coalition of transformation," and assumed that more of these voters in the electorate translates to a widening advantage for their party. Trump's performance has introduced slivers of doubt that the equation is that simple. In the near term, some of the key factors that lifted Trump among Latinos could help Biden if he runs again in 2024. But a close examination of last year's results suggests that neither party should be entirely confident about the direction of this huge, but still dimly understood, voting bloc." [ The Atlantic ]
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We suggest four areas for research that could accelerate potential solutions aimed at influencing white people's choices and dismantling the system of separate and unequal neighborhoods and schools built over generations.
Yet another policing video has gone viral this week, although you'll be forgiven if you missed it in the midst of its more headline-grabbing counterparts. The cellphone video, which has received more than 5 million views on Twitter, shows no less than six police confronting a group of teenagers in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Their crime? Riding bicycles without a license.
"Nationally, more than 74,000 students were subjected to physical or mechanical restraint in the 2017-18 school year, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. That year, more than 2,400 Minnesota students were subjected to more than 11,600 instances of physical restraint. Minnesota, along with Texas and a cluster of Midwestern states, including Illinois and Iowa, were among the most frequent users of the practice, according to a 2019 analysis by ProPublica and The Chicago Tribune. In a blockbuster 2019 investigation, the news organizations found that Illinois schools frequently put students, most of them with disabilities, in padded "seclusion rooms" for reasons that violate state law, like refusing to complete schoolwork or using profanity. The data, which is self-reported by local school districts to federal education officials, is likely a significant undercount. "
"Written around 1100, the Landnámabók ( Book of Settlements ), which documents the Norse arrival in Iceland in 874, makes a handful of volcanic observations: There is mention of "earth-fire" ( jaðeldr ), for instance, and "mountain lava fields" ( Borgarhraun, from Borg (a citadel, castle, or fortress-like hill) + hraun (meaning: a) lava; b) a cooled and hardened lava field; c) a crispy-creamy Icelandic chocolate bar). Yet, as Oren Falk, a historian at Cornell, and other scholars have observed, on the whole there is an apparent "utter disinterest in volcanic phenomena" in not only the Book of Settlements , but in all the Icelandic sagas and poems that follow, too. What accounts for this silence? "
"The beverage category is becoming a veritable forest full of mushroom lattes, coffees, seltzers and energy shots. Adaptogenic mushrooms are in vogue right now. So is beverage innovation and exploration. The younger generations' willingness to seek out and try functional, non-alcoholic beverages (including those laced with CBD) is driving the creation of a flurry of new products, all vying to become the next big thing. The shroom boom in the beverage category is reaping the benefits of all of these macro trends. "
"The more sophisticated plunderers have recognized that leaving those plundered just enough of their capital (and human) resources to rebuild their productive capacity can provide a basis for further happy plundering in the future. Herodotus tells of King Alyattes of Lydia, who, when attacking the ancient Greek city of Miletus, "refrained from tearing down their houses so that the Milesians could set forth from them to sow and work the fields, and through their work he would have something to plunder." From this it was a short step to seeing that the hard work of actual plundering itself might not be needed, the threat of plundering being enough. Tribute—such as the danegeld paid by the English and the Franks to keep the Vikings from raiding—became a more elegant way to achieve, by blackmail, the same effect."
