Louisiana may not be a fascist police state, but that’s certainly the impression Louisiana police want you to have.

Local reporter says police pushed him off the lawn towards the street, where he was arrested for obstructing the road. Video “last 13 seconds before I was arrested”.

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This could be the first tangible evidence that Trump might win.

Poll: Majority disapproves of FBI’s Clinton decision

Laughing through the tears of recognition this is true. ‘I’m A Trump-Era Conservative,’ Says Horrifying Man 25 Years From Now

Extrapolating from the theory of relativity, this means I’ll live forever. Slow Runners Live Longer Than Runners Who Push Themselves to the Max

This article answers contradictory information I’ve seen on Facebook. Cop fatalities are lower than they’ve been in decades; cop *shootings* are up, but most of that is post-Dallas.

What strikes me is a cultural change similar to what happened with astronauts; we used to have a perception that “this job is dangerous”. That’s why we call both “heroes”. One cop shooting is definitely tragic, but this article asserts it’s “too many”. We ask them to police heavily armed criminals (and untrained civilians); what should we expect? Police are safer under Obama than they have been in decades

Let’s be clear: this guy is no saint, and hacking a computer in a good cause should still be illegal. But our legal system treats hacking like domestic terrorism, then turns to criminal violence against women and says, “NBD.” The Steubenville Hacker Might Get More Jail Time Than the Rapists He Exposed

Open letter from Wharton students, faculty, and alumni. There’s a link to add your name. You do not represent us: An Open Letter to Donald Trump

A nice recap of political backstory which covers why I’m not horrified by Hillary Clinton. Note that The Rude Pundit uses very bad words (and is funny as hell). The Rude Pundit: Not Giving a Shit About the Clinton Email “Scandal”

In the category of “sometimes blindingly obvious things turn out to be true:” More police officers die on the job in states with more guns

At the risk of pointing out the obvious when it’s too soon to do so, while some Dallas police were being heroes, others were demonstrating why BLM was out there in the first place.

“Hughes said he immediately flagged down a police officer once he learned he was a suspect in the attack.
Hughes said police lied to him while he was being interrogated, “saying they have video of me shooting … saying that they have witnesses saying that I shot a gun.”” Gun-carrying protester mistaken for sniper talks about his hours as most-wanted man in America |…

“Last night’s tragedy was also the grotesque reductio ad absurdum of the claim that it takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun. There were nothing but good guys and they had nothing but guns, and five died anyway, as helpless as the rest of us.” The Horrific, Predictable Result of a Widely Armed Citizenry – The New Yorker

Watch this video. I think this is the woman who ran a famous race experiment in the 1960s on her elementary school kids, featured on Frontline PBS. Occupy Democrats

And hey, look. Data. Have only read the abstract so far, which is why I’m bookmarking this here for later. A Multi-Level Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings at the County-Level in the…

Dallas seems to get it, and has for a while. The irony at the heart of the Dallas police deaths after a Black Lives Matter march