At least 13,395 people have been killed by law enforcement officers in the past 10 years nationally, according to one nonprofit that tracks data. The organization Mapping Police Violence says that means about 7% of homicides between 2013 and last year can be attributed to law enforcement.

Fatal police-action shootings in Fort Wayne reflect broader pattern, concerns continue

At least 13,395 people have been killed by law enforcement officers in the past 10 years nationally, according to one nonprofit that tracks data.

U Chicago: free speech! Me: Great so the university is gonna commit to pro-Palestinian speech? UC: nope Me: um making sure marginalized students have their voices heard? UC: nope Me: fighting book banners and govt censorship? UC: nope Me: what kinds of speech then? UC: you know which ones

MHmarkhisted.orgSep 27, 2024 12:29pm

The University of Chicago has received a $100M anonymous gift to do “free speech” work. As Kagan said in Janus, the right seeks to “weaponize the First Amendment,” pushing a libertarian version of free speech that helps the wealthy. Why is Chicago keeping the donor secret? 1/2

$100 million gift will advance UChicago’s commitment to free expression

Gift will build upon the University’s longstanding leadership in free expression while expanding the Chicago Forum’s impactful work

Utterly damning The Problem with Polls www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The Problems with Polls | Samuel Earle

Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.

Anyone lost a memory card from a birding trip to #Iceland in May in Norfolk? This guy has found it! Please share!

TGtrishgreenhalgh.bsky.socialSep 24, 2024 7:33pm

From the other place. Let’s find this person.

Way better: more innovative, more useful, more known!

Israel has killed 10% of Gaza’s pre-war population.

MSmommunism.bsky.socialSep 20, 2024 8:55am

This is the number from The Lancet which is now likely a pretty big undercount too

A new report found that the for-profit US healthcare system ranks last among peer nations. We spend twice as much per capita on healthcare and have the worst health outcomes. Reminder that Medicare For All would save $450B in health care costs and 68,000 lives per year.

Freddie Owens has been executed in S Carolina by lethal injection, the state’s first execution in 13 years. This is the first of 5 scheduled executions in 6 days of 18 so far this year. Owens had to choose between lethal injection, electric chair or firing squad, all shown to involve suffering.

Outcry is spreading against Northwestern University’s decision to cancel the fall classes of professor Steven Thrasher, who was hired as its first ever endowed chair for social justice in reporting.

Journalism Professor’s Suspension Shows the Hypocrisy of “Objectivity”

Steven Thrasher’s suspension from teaching journalism at Northwestern shows “the Palestine exception” at work.

Can and should