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Multidisciplinary nerd. Use Qual+Quant data for sensemaking. Wrangle data & skip trace for fun. Tweets are my own (or from someone smarter/more clever).
#BBC [World] Legacy admissions: Harvard accused of favouring mostly white students https://w.st/QWV12
Legacy admissions: Harvard accused of favouring mostly white students

Civil rights lawyers argue that legacy admissions benefit the wealthy at the expense of minority students.

BBC News
#BBC [World] Watch: Explosions and gunfire as BBC reports from Jenin https://w.st/i5PyN
Watch: Explosions and gunfire as BBC reports from Jenin

Yolande Knell is near the camp where Israeli forces and armed Palestinian militants are fighting.

BBC News

My shorthand for the approach we most need in election coverage is this:

"Not the odds, but the stakes."

How does this work in practice? Margaret Sullivan answers that in The Guardian today. "Now’s the time to think about just how bad a DeSantis presidency would be."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/25/ron-desantis-florida-record-presidential-campaign?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Not how DeSantis plans to outwit Trump and then succeed in "the general" (itself an insidery phrase...) but what life would be like if he took power.

Not the odds, but the stakes.

#uspol #journalism

Now’s the time to think about just how bad a DeSantis presidency would be

Consider what the two-term governor has wrought in his home state and in his early forays into world affairs

The Guardian

NY: White Vet kills mentally ill Black man—GOP makes killer a hero😳

WI: White shooter kills 2 people at BLM rally—GOP makes killer a hero😳

TX: White Vet kills BLM marcher—GOP makes killer a hero😳

DC: Black cop kills white insurrectionist—GOP makes insurrectionist a hero🤔

This is what white supremacy looks like

With the end of the Public Health Emergency, the CDC has removed the #COVID transmission map from their website.

This is how you manufacture the disappearance of a pandemic.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=null&null=Risk

COVID Data Tracker

CDC’s home for COVID-19 data. Visualizations, graphs, and data in one easy-to-use website.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This piece by Laurie Penny is brilliant and wonderful and made my morning.

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/i-want-to-believe-in-ted-lasso

I Want To Believe in Ted Lasso.

The Apple hit is a fantasy show where the magic system is healthy masculinity and TLDR I bloody love it. [SPOILER-FREE]

Penny Red
Today marks a year since the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin, West Bank. Last year, the Bellingcat team unpacked the circumstances around her death using open source techniques. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2022/05/14/unravelling-the-killing-of-shireen-abu-akleh/
Unravelling the Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh - bellingcat

Here's what audio analysis, video footage and sight lines can tell us about the shooting of the Al Jazeera journalist in Jenin

bellingcat

Video Showed an Officer Trying to Stop His Partner From Killing a Man.

Now We Know Police Investigators Never Even Asked About the Footage.
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We obtained the NYPD’s full investigation into the killing of Kawaski Trawick, including documents and audio of interviews with the officers.

The records provide a rare window into how exactly a police department examines its own after a shooting.

#NYPD #NYC #Police #Shooting #Transparency #CriminalJustice

https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-kawaski-trawick-killing-investigation-questions?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Video Showed an Officer Trying to Stop His Partner From Killing a Man. Now We Know Police Investigators Never Even Asked About the Footage.

We obtained the NYPD’s full investigation into the killing of Kawaski Trawick, including documents and audio of interviews with the officers. The records provide a rare window into how exactly a police department examines its own after a shooting.

ProPublica
George Santos announces special new working relationship with the Department of Justice.

as part ARPA, the City of #Chicago got about $1.9 billion dollars to be spent between March 2021 thru December 2024.

my company worked with the City to build a site to that tracks where that money has been going.

https://chirecoveryplan.com/

Home | Chicago Recovery Plan

The Chicago Recovery Plan (CRP) amplifies once-in-a-generation federal funding to create an equity-based investment strategy to catalyze a sustainable economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chicago Recovery Plan