Friday, July 31, 2020
The Poison of Male Incivility - When a woman dares respond to it, she’s seen as 'disruptive.'
"[P]atriarchal power abuse remains so expected as to not be notable as a violation of norms or civility, as disruptive or chaotic. Instead, it simply coexists with the authority, the command, the humanity of white men — it’s just part of what their power looks like."
US sheriffs rebel against state mask orders even as Covid-19 spreads
"With its origins in ideas of “county supremacy” first pushed by far-right groups opposed to desegregation, the idea that county sheriffs have a “legal and ethical duty to refuse to enforce state and federal policies and laws they believe to be unconstitutional” has become the basis of a nationwide network, the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) headed by Richard Mack."
"As a cop, I killed someone. Then I found out it happens more often than we know"
"As I investigated burglaries, robberies and homicides, interviewing thousands of suspects over the years, it became clear that a myriad of social forces drove people to behave the way they did. The man I’d killed wasn’t completely autonomous but also a product of an environment we’d all contributed in creating."
Vallejo police chief investigates claims officers bent badges to mark on-duty killings
"This week, the news site Open Vallejo reported that John Whitney, a former Vallejo police captain, accused the department of firing him in August for flagging misconduct that included concerns that some officers bent their badges in a ritual to mark fatal shootings."
Hackers Broke Into Real News Sites to Plant Fake Stories
"Given the GRU's role in meddling in the 2016 presidential election, including its hack-and-leak operations against the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton Campaign, any GRU role in more recent disinformation raises fears that it may be targeting the 2020 election as well. "
Thursday, July 30, 2020
How Apple uses anti-competitive practices to extort developers and support authoritarian regimes
"Apple helps propagate authoritarian laws globally."
“The march is not over”: Read Barack Obama’s eulogy for John Lewis
"And I told him all those young people, John, of every race and every religion from every background and gender and sexual orientation, John, those are your children. They learned from your example. Even if they didn’t always know it. They had understood through him what American citizenship requires, even if they’d only heard about his courage through the history books. By the thousands, faceless, anonymous young people have taken our nation back to those great wells of democracy dug deep by the founding fathers in the formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence."
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