This Baltimore Sun report on police brutality is required reading before anyone has anything to say about the #FreddieGray protests:
Over the past four years, more than 100 people have won court judgments or settlements related to allegations of brutality and civil rights violations. Victims include a 15-year-old boy riding a dirt bike, a 26-year-old pregnant accountant who had witnessed a beating, a 50-year-old woman selling church raffle tickets, a 65-year-old church deacon rolling a cigarette and an 87-year-old grandmother aiding her wounded grandson.
Bruce, guys. Sending all my love to Bruce. Also, super stoked that women get to claim the ol’ decathlon gold medal now. FEMALES ARE STRONG AS HELL.
The earthquake in Nepal is absolutely horrifying.
Loved this interview with Monica Byrne, partly because there was a genuine back and forth and OCCASIONAL DISAGREEMENTS, like HUMANS HAVE.
Tatiana Kanga was nine months pregnant and had her 3-year-old daughter in tow when she set out from her native Cameroon, headed for Spain.
Kanga’s journey took her and her young daughter, Chantel, across the continent northward to Morocco. From there, they crossed the Mediterranean Sea in a rubber dinghy.
“It was an inflatable boat, with 17 people,” Kanga explains. “Seven of them were women, three children — and six of the women were pregnant, including me.”
my commitment to science is very limited, apparently:
“I wonder what Louis’s microbiota looks like,” I wondered aloud.
“We know,” Justin said.
“You sequenced his stool?” I asked.
“We did,” he said.
WORKOUT:
big shout to my pals who praise the wire for its realism but also have trouble believing the baltimore PD would do anything untoward
— nomchompsky (@nomchompsky) April 25, 2015
