Growing up, I used to pour over the Laura Ingalls Wilder books—fascinated by her seemingly endless adventures. The books got pretty dog-eared; Exhibit A: In one of the books, she wrote of a time she and her family—as they were still in the middle of building their log home on the prairie—found themselves surrounded by…
My daughter’s currently obsessed with the movie “The Boss Baby” (or “Mean Baby” as she puts it). At one point in the film, Tim—the seven year old who’s feeling the squeeze of the baby—is cornered by Boss Baby and informed that unless he gets with the program, “there will be cutbacks.” A distraught Tim goes…
I’ve been posting a graphic like this since September 27th. (Here’s a refresher in case you missed the last three graphs.) Why? Because the numbers simply do not support the narrative that cops are targeting and needlessly killing African Americans en masse. And you’re not hearing this anywhere. The percentages are virtually the same as…
I’ve been posting a graphic like this for several weeks. (Here’s a refresher in case you missed the last two.) Why? Because the numbers simply do not support the narrative that cops are targeting and needlessly killing African Americans en masse. And you’re not hearing this anywhere. The percentages are virtually the same as the…
Sourced as of 9/24/2016. Updated statistics and information source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/counted-us-police-killings
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