“…when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.”
‘Driving while Black’: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.
Yesterday we saw Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” (2024) starring Adam Driver as Catiline. And here’s my review in which I am exhibiting ENORMOUS RESTRAINT opietasanimi.com/2024/09/29/o...
Great (and short) article about two people I LOVE. Thank you and RIP to both of them. americansongwriter.com/remember-whe...
Within two years of releasing "Don’t Let the Bastards (Get You Down)” in 1990, it became an important catchphrase for Kris Kristofferson.
This strikes me as not-quite-right. She's correct that the campus protest in particular has lost power, but social media isn't where we should be looking for an explanation. Simply put: universities used to take student disruption more seriously because they took *their students* more seriously.
oh no!
at this point i think “harris needs more details” is just the way, refracted through consumption of punditry, that these voters are saying that a) they don’t pay much attention and b) they don’t want to vote for a woman www.nytimes.com/2024/09/28/u...