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Reading Time: 2 minutes Ultimately, it is important for police departments to address these issues head-on in order to ensure that all officers are held accountable for their actions and that the communities they serve are treated with respect and dignity. By taking steps such as increasing diversity within the department, providing better training on implicit bias, and creating a culture of accountability, police departments can help reduce the number of use-of-force crimes committed by black officers against black community members.

Informed

June 28, 2022 Confluence

Religion Isn’t About Love

Reading Time: 2 minutes How many times do they forget to do something before it actually gets done, if they even heard us in the first place?
I get why dudes are all about it because it’s a tool to subjugate women… but the fuck if I will understand why any modern woman wants to keep that shit.

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October 12, 2021 Confluence

Toxic shame is bad, I agree, but shamelessness results in–45.

Reading Time: 4 minutes . I’ll say it again: we’re not all good, and we’re not all bad. No human, philosophy, group, country is all good. If I’m mostly good, should I try to be better? How does that happen if I make sure not to address what’s bad?

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December 15, 2020 Confluence

NYT – Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?

Reading Time: < 1 minute These simulated people are starting to show up around the internet, used as masks by real people with nefarious intent: spies who don an attractive face in an effort to infiltrate the intelligence community; right-wing propagandists who hide behind fake profiles, photo and all; online harassers who troll their targets with a friendly visage.

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November 20, 2020 Confluence

Medium: A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon

Reading Time: 22 minutes When I saw QAnon, I knew exactly what it was and what it was doing. I had seen it before. I had almost built it before. It was gaming’s evil twin. A game that plays people. (cue ominous music)

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November 18, 2020 Confluence

My relationship is with Thanksgiving is so complicated

Reading Time: < 1 minute For real, this is a holiday that was founded on the massacre of the indigenous people of the U.S.

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October 22, 2020 Confluence

Every word of this spoken by our favorite president, Barack Obama

Reading Time: < 1 minute Former President Barack Obama delivered a blistering account of his successor’s first four years in office in Philadelphia, arguing that President Donald Trump has proved he is “incapable of taking the job seriously” and has shown no interest in “helping anybody but himself and his friends.”

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September 2, 2020 Confluence

Vox: Can anything change Americans’ minds about Donald Trump?

Reading Time: 8 minutes I occasionally hear Trump described as the “Teflon president.” Many liberals are agog at how many scandals, disasters, and offensive comments Trump has survived. It can seem like nothing sticks to him.

But Trump isn’t Teflon. It’s simply that whatever will stick to him has already stuck to him. Absorbing this much damage and provoking this much loathing has not been a successful strategy. Stable poll numbers in the low-40s are hardly a political triumph.

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August 25, 2020 Confluence

Vox: The police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black Wisconsin father, explained

Reading Time: 6 minutes Protesters in Kenosha and across the country are still demanding systemic change. Michael Bell Sr., the father of shooting victim Michael Bell, told the New York Times following the shooting of Blake, “The system is broken. The system here is broken.”

An anti-violence cookout is held to celebrate the life of 11-year-old Davon McNeal, who was fatally shot by a stray bullet in Washington, DC, on July 4. Jahi Chikwendiu/Washington Post via Getty Images

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August 7, 2020 Confluence

Vox: How cities can tackle violent crime without relying on police

Reading Time: 10 minutes Give an alternative coalition of residents and organizations a chance to play a central role in creating a safe community and give them the resources that we devote to law enforcement.