Criminology
- Met Police release job advert £293k Commissioner rokle for Cressida Dick's replacement April 13, 2022 9:08 pm Daily Mail The job advert for the next Metropolitan Police Commissioner has gone live, and the successful candidate will be tasked with making the force 'demonstrably more professional'. Scotland Yard are giving high-ranking officers from across the country, …
- How a Rotary presentation on "racial inequities" helped lead to criminal justice administrator Maggie Yates' resignation March 17, 2022 3:01 pm The Pacific Northwest Inlander - Washington State click to enlarge Maggie Yates: "We need to acknowledge that this is something worth talking about." For three-and-a-half years, Maggie Yates helped lead criminal justice reform efforts in Spokane County. The Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation had …
- Cressida Dick's ledger of failures February 11, 2022 7:06 am Daily Mail In the end, it is a wonder she survived in the job so long. Only last year, her force was officially branded 'institutionally corrupt'. Incredibly, despite such a devastating finding, she did not resign. Instead 'Teflon' Dame Cressida Dick …
- Online events w) Isabel Allende, Kali Akuno, Selma James, Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, etc. January 25, 2022 10:12 pm Indybay - California Upcoming Online Events: Mon, 1/24, 11 am -- Climate Anxieties -- Together with Sarah Ray, we explore tools to navigate and cope with climate anxieties -- A recently released survey published in Nature found that 60% of respondents “felt ‘very worried’ …
- N.B. man barred from joining Saint John police commission despite having a clean record December 13, 2021 12:23 pm CBC/Radio-Canada Matthew Martin has never been charged with a crime. He's never been arrested, pulled over, or received so much as a parking ticket. So the 29-year-old Saint John man was shocked to be told he had failed a security clearance check required to sit on the …
- “If Everybody’s White, There Can’t Be Any Racial Bias”: The Disappearance of Hispanic Drivers From Traffic Records November 22, 2021 1:41 pm ProPublica This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with WRFK and WWNO. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. When sheriff’s deputies in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, pulled over …
- A decade after the London riots, has anything actually changed? August 9, 2021 5:14 pm New Statesman Ten years ago, as riots swept across London, Pauline Pearce became the voice of a nation. The then 45-year-old grandmother, jazz singer and community radio presenter was filmed by a Telegraph journalist confronting and shaking her walking stick at looting …
- Op-Ed: Homicide is on the rise again, but now we know how to stop it July 13, 2021 10:46 am Los Angeles Times - California Murder in the U.S. has become political once again, an issue for both the left and the right. But the U.S. can’t afford to bicker on this. The nation is ranked in the global murder rate index worse than Pakistan, Sudan and Angola. Homicides in American …
- WATCH VIDEO | 'Finding ways to fight injustice': George Floyd's murder sparked year of protests, introspection, change May 22, 2021 12:45 pm The Tribune-Democrat - Pennsylvania Kirsten Vazquez stood a few feet away from the Joseph Johns statue, a tribute to Johnstown’s founder, and yelled into a megaphone, calling out for criminal justice reform, unity and an end to racism in her hometown. About 500 supporters joined her during …
- Phoenix police keep tabs on social media, but who keeps tabs on cops? May 13, 2021 11:43 pm Cronkite News - Arizona (Video by Michael McDaniel/Special for Cronkite News) Phoenix police don’t follow Fe’La iniko on social media, but he knows they’re watching. “They’re pretty hip to Instagram,” the racial justice activist said. “Sometimes they’ll pop up in my story …
Critical Criminology
- Preventing Student Violence: 3 Key Takeaways May 19, 2022 8:31 pm Education Week While efforts to prevent student violence are most often promoted following high-profile school shootings, they can also be a critical tool for promoting safety in the larger community, school safety experts say. That’s because schools are often uniquely …
- 174 Husker undergrads receive stipends for summer research projects May 19, 2022 7:49 am University of Nebraska-Lincoln The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has awarded stipends to 174 Husker undergraduates to participate in research with a faculty mentor this summer. Nebraska’s Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program supports undergraduates …
- Letters reveal what energy companies told RCMP before Wet’suwet’en raid May 19, 2022 1:04 am Turtle Island News By Matt Simmons Local Journalism Initiative Reporter In late April, RCMP officers walked into the Gidimt’en Camp near the confluence of Ts’elkay Kwe (Lamprey Creek) and Wedzin Kwa (Morice River). Their visits on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory in …
- 'Long tail' of mosque attack felt in Buffalo shootings May 18, 2022 7:16 pm Newsroom Extremism The Buffalo terror attack is the latest entry in a deadly feedback loop of online hate inciting real life violence, which is then repackaged and redistributed as more online hate, Marc Daalder reports Analysis: Counter-extremism researchers say …
- Halala: Stunning young lady becomes UKZN's 1st deaf graduate, “I am able, you are able” May 18, 2022 8:28 am Briefly Voloshni Annamallay became UKZN’s first deaf graduate after bagging her Honours Degree in Criminology and Forensic Studies Although she does admit it was challenging to adjust in the beginning, she used South African Sign Language as a means of …
- UK Research Team Uniquely Poised to Reach Black American Communities, Amplify Health Disparities May 17, 2022 12:34 pm Mirage News The populations Danelle Stevens-Watkins, Ph.D., seeks to help are often difficult to reach. It is a common predicament in health disparity research. One of her latest projects at the University of Kentucky requires asking Black Americans who use opioids to …
- Sociology Department Offers Data Analysis Class May 17, 2022 6:56 am University of Arkansas The Department of Sociology and Criminology will offer the course Social Data and Analysis SOCI 3303 (four credit hours) during the Summer I session, May 31 to July 1. The class will be offered through in-person and remote delivery. Organizations in …
- UL Faculty Senate Approved Teaching Of Liberian Constitution – Global News Network - Global News Network May 15, 2022 8:11 pm Liberian Times Dr. Julius Sarwolo Nelson, Jr At long last, the revised curriculum of the Department of Political Science that has been locked up in an uphill battle finally saw light of day when the Faculty Senate of the University of Liberia last week approved the …
- The importance of studying Sociology across the globe in a Post-Pandemic era May 15, 2022 11:05 am Free Press Journal The COVID-19 pandemic shook the world. Educational institutions came to a standstill - face-to-face interaction, campus sociality, public lectures—a large part of academic life ceased to exist. Sociology, which is about human social relationships, can …
- Johns Hopkins hire trans professor Allyn Walker who defended pedophiles as 'minor attracted persons' May 13, 2022 1:54 pm Daily Mail The trans Old Dominion professor who was forced to resign after they defended pedophiles by saying society should refer to them as 'Minor Attracted Persons' has been hired by Johns Hopkins University. Allyn Walker, 34, will start work as a …
Crime Theory
- Why Immigration Coverage Needs to Center Migrants’ Stories May 21, 2022 4:52 am Nieman Reports Immigrants stand near the bank of the Rio Grande after crossing the river from Mexico in April 2021. Drawing attention to real immigrant stories can go a long way when it comes to detracting from fear-mongering narratives Photo by John Moore/Getty …
- Are Immigrants Less Willing to Report Crime? May 21, 2022 4:52 am Center for Immigration Studies Panel Videos Download a PDF of this Backgrounder. Jessica M. Vaughan is the director of policy studies, Steven A. Camarota is the director of research, and Karen Zeigler is a demographer at the Center. This report uses new data from the Department of …
- Commitment 2022: Republican Gubernatorial Debate May 21, 2022 1:04 am KOAT 7 - New Mexico Commitment 2022: Republican Gubernatorial Debate Copy Link Copy {copyShortcut} to copy Link copied! Updated: 6:58 PM MDT May 20, 2022 Hide Transcript Show Transcript COMMITMENT 2022 DEBATE SPECIAL WELCOME TO DEBATE NIGHT. THIS IS OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU TO …
- Economic research resurfaces debate about the link between legalized abortion and crime reduction May 16, 2022 11:19 pm The Journalist's Resource Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email This article was originally published in May 2019. We have updated it in the context of recent reporting revealing a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade and subsequent news coverage about the …
- A National Policy Blueprint To End White Supremacist Violence May 16, 2022 3:28 pm Center For American Progress Introduction and summary White supremacist violence is not new, but in recent years, it has become a primary national security threat in the United States.1 Notions of racial superiority, hostility toward immigrants and minorities, and the myth of an …
- How to prevent another deadly shooting May 16, 2022 3:35 am CNN Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. His forthcoming paperback is “The Cost of Chaos: The Trump Administration and the World.” View more …
- How Online Violence Against Women Goes Unpunished May 11, 2022 6:37 am Balkan Insight As outlined, violence against women, including online gender-based violence, is a form of discrimination against women and a human rights violation that prevents women from fully enjoying their human rights, from actively participating in society and, …
- Computational sleuthing confirms first 3D quantum spin liquid May 10, 2022 6:53 pm Mirage News Computational detective work by U.S. and German physicists has confirmed cerium zirconium pyrochlore is a 3D quantum spin liquid. Despite the name, quantum spin liquids are solid materials in which quantum entanglement and the geometric arrangement of …
- 'Replacement theory' fuels extremists and shooters. Now a top Border Patrol agent is spreading it. May 6, 2022 9:19 am The Arizona Republic Extremists have long circulated a conspiracy theory that white Americans are being systematically “replaced." But the talking point is now being echoed by the Border Patrol agent who leads the agents' union. The theory was also repeatedly …
- El Dorado County Supervisor Candidate Q & A: Jeffrey Spencer May 6, 2022 12:50 am South Tahoe Now - California EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. - Each of the four candidates for El Dorado County supervisor for District V were asked the same set of 13 questions, and they are being published once per day this week in the order received. Here is the third candidate Jeffrey …
Black Lives Matter
- With Caruso absent, L.A. mayoral candidates argue for progressive moves on homelessness May 21, 2022 4:28 am Los Angeles Times - California In the final group debate of the Los Angeles mayoral campaign, three candidates struck a more activist and progressive tone on the issue of homelessness on Friday night than in past encounters, with calls for strengthened rent control and a shift of …
- Corruption , policing and blackmail May 21, 2022 4:16 am The Nation (Nigeria) The recent suspension of the Accountant General of the Federation by the Minister of Finance and the revelation by the EFCC that he is being investigated for an 80bn naira fraud involving the acquisition of 17 houses locally and overseas , must …
- Racism: We need to start seeing the world in black and white May 21, 2022 4:14 am The Citizen (South Africa) “Saturday night six of us will jump onto the back of a bakkie and jump blacks.” His legs swing as he’s telling us about their national sport in Klerksdorp decades ago. I’m on a course on how to handle disciplinary hearings and can’t handle my instructor. …
- White Bird dance season ends on a giant leap May 21, 2022 4:10 am Portland Tribune - Oregon Complexions Contemporary Ballet performs 'Woke' and 'Love Rocks' on Wednesday, May 25. Dance promoter White Bird's final show of the season is another pop-infused piece of wokery by a classically trained contemporary company from New …
- Journalist And Entrepreneur Marc Lamont Hill Talks Social Media, Technology and The Fight For Racial Justice May 21, 2022 3:20 am Black Enterprise The second day of the Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Summit began with a bang as a political commentator and entrepreneur Marc Lamont Hill discussed the motivation behind his new book, Seen and Unseen, Technology, Social Media and the Fight for Racial …
- Family of Texas BLM protester killed by Army sergeant sues shooter, Uber May 21, 2022 2:38 am Fox News Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The family of a Black Lives Matter protester who was shot and killed by an Army servicemember driving for Uber in Texas during …
- Netflix cancels Ibram X. Kendi's Antiracist Baby project May 21, 2022 1:44 am The Denver Gazette Netflix axed multiple projects this week, including an animated film based on Ibram X. Kendi's Antiracist Baby, a book aimed at preschoolers. The move comes after Netflix lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022, the first time the company …
- Conway School Board race politicized May 21, 2022 1:33 am Arkansas Times CONWAY — Arkansas school board races, once considered nonpartisan events, have joined judicial races in becoming increasingly political without anyone publicly declaring themselves to be Republicans or Democrats. In the Conway School District, for …
- Column: One wrong ‘like’ will get you canceled by cancel culture May 21, 2022 1:18 am Chicago Tribune - Illinois The Thought Police of the American left now rule what’s called the “cancel culture.” You know this. Ask yourself: What is it doing to the young? Some will go through life kneeling. And others may be driven deeper into the arms of the hard far right. What …
- Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro Says He Wants U.S. Visa for NYC Salsa Festival May 21, 2022 12:59 am Breitbart Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro said during a radio broadcast on Thursday that he was applying for a U.S. visa to attend a salsa music festival in New York City next month, omitting that the U.S. government has not only sanctioned him but is …
Gender and Crime
- Armie Hammer Abuse Allegations, Family Scandals Will Be Focus Of True-Crime Special May 18, 2022 6:13 pm HuffPost Armie Hammer attends the 2020 E! People's Choice Awards.Todd Williamson/E! Entertainment via Getty Images The downfall of the controversial “Call Me By Your Name” star will be the focus of a special that promises it also will examine “the dark, …
- Letters to the editor (4/13/22) April 13, 2022 5:54 am New Paltz Times - New York The views and opinions expressed in our letters section are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Hudson Valley One. You can submit a letter to the editor here. Marvelous Woodstock Times archive Thanks to …
- Sex education told me nothing about consent withdrawal, no wonder so many have bad experiences April 9, 2022 1:27 am iNews UK The problem was not that Lucy never got taught about consent. The problem was that the first lesson she got about it came too late. By the time her school taught her about it, she was in Year 12. But during an earlier year at school, she had been coerced …
- India cannot decide if marital rape is indeed a crime March 25, 2022 3:50 pm UCA News A high court judge in Karnataka state recently ruled that rape is rape even if it is within a marriage An Indian groom poses for pictures during a traditional wedding procession on the streets of Amritsar in Punjab state on Nov. 25, 2020. (Photo: AFP) …
- Man can be booked for raping wife: Karnataka high court March 24, 2022 1:04 am Hindustan Times The Karnataka high court on Wednesday said that a man can be booked for raping his wife while rejecting a petition filed by a man seeking to drop the rape charge levelled against him by his wife under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code —a significant …
- One year after the Atlanta spa shootings, not much has changed for Asian Americans March 23, 2022 5:53 am The Butler Collegian - Indiana A year ago on Saturday, March 21, 2021, protestors gathered in Indianapolis’s Monument Circle for the “Indiana Stop Asian Hate Rally” organized by local Asian community organizations. Photo by Kelly Wilkinson. MAE-MAE HAN | CULTURE CO-EDITOR | mhan@butler. …
- The Gender question March 23, 2022 3:49 am The News International Few questions in Pakistani state and society are as fraught, divisive and contested as gender. At worst, the inter-subjectivities of politics, religion and culture deter much-needed critical dialogue on the question of gender within the socio-political …
- The Column: The mixed signals of Mike Tyson’s visit to Lowell March 12, 2022 11:07 pm The Lowell Sun - Massachusetts ON THURSDAY it was a tale of two events in the city. The juxtaposition of the two events likely sent mixed signals to the community, particularly to female survivors of sexual assault and violence. Earlier in the day, a White Ribbon Day ceremony was held …
- The scramble to replace Cressida Dick after she blindsided Sadiq Khan and Priti Patel February 11, 2022 9:59 am Daily Mail So who could be next to take over the top job at Scotland Yard? Martin Hewitt One of the most high-profile police officers in the country after running the National Police Chiefs' Council throughout the Covid crisis. His appearance at several Downing …
- Cressida Dick FINALLY quits February 11, 2022 7:06 am Daily Mail The top cop dogged by controversy: String of disasters at the Met under Dame Cressida's watch Jean Charles De Menezes pictured in Paris three months before he was shot dead on a train at Stockwell station on July 22, 2005 July 22, 2005: Jean Charles …
Prison Privatization
- A school district pushes back against privatization May 6, 2022 9:45 pm News from the States [Editor’s note: As readers may recall, earlier this year Policy Watch hosted the executive director of the nonprofit group In the Public Interest, Donald Cohen, as part of our Crucial Conversation series for a discussion of his excellent book, “The …
- Subversion Inc: The Age of Private Espionage April 15, 2022 1:06 pm Journal of Democracy Over the last decade, a sophisticated and lucrative industry has sprung up that puts potent surveillance and intelligence capabilities in the hands of a wide range of private actors. Clandestine influence operations, targeted espionage against civil …
- Privatize this! How we lost control of America's public goods — and how we can get it back February 19, 2022 8:16 pm Salon "The Privatization of Everything" is a book that sneaks up on you. Or at least it snuck up on me. Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian's subtitle should have prepared me: "How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can …
- Who Is Really Killing in Cold Blood: Prisoners or the Prisons? January 5, 2022 6:56 pm The Argonaut - California Profit has been turned into a compelling motive for incarceration By Storey Wertheimer Circa 2009 in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, the juvenile prison population is skyrocketing. Thousands of students are hauled off to private detention facilities for …
- The pandemic proved that privatization can’t provide enough public goods—like vaccines, education, justice, and a sustainable planet December 20, 2021 7:20 pm MarketWatch When the pandemic began, the Trump administration doubled down on a privatized response to what was—and what remains—a public health crisis, putting states in competition with each other to buy personal protective equipment (PPE) and COVID-19 tests. Prices …
- Centurion VP makes 'damning admission' on last day of Arizona prison health care trial December 15, 2021 1:20 am The Arizona Republic Prisoners, wardens, psychologists, correctional experts and medical specialists testified over the course of four weeks in the Jensen v. Shinn prison health care trial in Arizona.They described their personal experiences and observations in Arizona prisons …
- Private prison firms make big money in California December 13, 2021 11:13 pm Capitol Weekly - California (Editor’s Note: This is the first of two parts) In January 2020, Californians thought they were getting out of the private prison business. They are, but under a new law, AB 32, which went into effect at the first of that year, the state remains heavily …
- Legislative Roll Call — Nov. 20, 2021 November 20, 2021 11:06 am Midland Daily News - Michigan This is a summary of activity by the Michigan House and Senate for the week of Nov. 8, 2021.Senate Bill 671, Repeal requirement that corporate subsidy scheme benefit state economy: Passed 28 to 7 in the Senate To revise a 2017 “Good Jobs For Michigan” law …
- Arizona prison health care trial: Director claims prisoners have better access to care than he does November 17, 2021 7:08 am The Arizona Republic The landmark trial Jensen v. Shinn began Nov. 1 in Phoenix, the latest chapter in an almost decade-long struggle to determine whether Arizona’s prisoners are getting the basic health care they are entitled to under the law. The federal trial pits Arizona …
- Nov. 12: Michigan Legislature Roll Call Report November 15, 2021 11:45 am Lake County Star - Michigan Senate Bill 671, Repeal requirement that corporate subsidy scheme benefit state economy: Passed 28 to 7 in the SenateTo revise a 2017 “Good Jobs For Michigan” law that authorized the state to give ongoing cash subsidies to Detroit developer Dan Gilbert and …
Prison Abolition
- Samora Pinderhughes Explored Incarceration in Song. The Result Is ‘Grief.’ May 19, 2022 9:19 am The New York Times OAKLAND, Calif. — Near the end of a sold-out show earlier this month, celebrating the release of his visionary second album, “Grief,” the vocalist, pianist, composer and activist Samora Pinderhughes asked the audience to sing with him. He was about to hit …
- Teaching prison reform and abolition to future Mass. lawyers May 18, 2022 6:29 pm WBUR - Massachusetts One of the most popular classes at Suffolk University Law School is on mass incarceration: how it happens, why it happens, and how to stop it in the future. Suffolk professor Stephen Cody shares how he teaches the next generation of Massachusetts …
- Charleston's Democratic Socialists to host free brake light repair clinic this weekend May 12, 2022 8:36 pm The Post and Courier - South Carolina NORTH CHARLESTON — Volunteers with the Charleston chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America will host a free brake light repair clinic this weekend, an effort that organizers say is an attempt to enhance public safety by limiting the public's …
- Attacks on Libraries Are Attacks on Labor May 9, 2022 10:33 pm Truthout When Emily Drabinski was elected president of the American Library Association (ALA) in mid-April, she tweeted her excitement that someone like her, a self-proclaimed Marxist lesbian, could garner enough votes to head the oldest and largest association of …
- Let’s Work for Global, Anti-Imperialist Reproductive Justice This Mother’s Day May 8, 2022 8:52 pm Truthout Across the United States this Mother’s Day, the right to have control over one’s body is under attack. More than 530 abortion restrictions have been introduced in 42 states. The Supreme Court is on the precipice of delivering a lethal blow to Roe v. Wade. …
- Criminalizing abortion isn’t just about controlling ‘women’s bodies’ May 8, 2022 4:43 pm Daily Kos ‘Women’s bodies’ The COVID-19 pandemic brought mass death, disabling, and grief. In the midst of immense loss, we have also watched as fascists have attempted to legislate transness out of existence and further institutionalize anti-Blackness through book …
- What Is Our Sound? Queer Bla(c)k Collective FAMILI Aims To Connect & Empower Amongst The Chaos May 6, 2022 2:40 am The Music.com.au It was February 2020 when multidisciplinary Oceanic arts collective FAMILI last performed a show.15 months later, they were anticipated to return with We Take Back Our Mother Tongues, which promised to be a ‘reimagination’ of the 2020 live show and a …
- What does ‘contumacious’ mean? The history behind IHL’s ‘vague’ tenure policies May 5, 2022 7:55 pm Mississippi Today Last month, the Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees shocked faculty across Mississippi when it voted, without discussion, to modify criteria in some of its tenure. Faculty, who had no formal input on the changes, say the revised criteria are …
- Death penalty: Singapore’s growing abolition movement May 4, 2022 5:13 am The Interpreter The sun baked the concrete and tarmac as mourners walked behind a hearse carrying Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, wailing and crying out for the life that had been lost. Over 200 people attended his funeral, sending him off on the final leg of a horrific …
- W.E.B. Du Bois’s Abolition Democracy May 3, 2022 11:39 am The Nation Illustration by Joe Ciardiello. By the time his magnum opus, Black Reconstruction, was published in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois was already a rara avis—a prominent Black activist-intellectual in the midst of Jim Crow. Dapper and diminutive, and nattily clad in …
Corporate Crime
- What to do and what not to do – Cybersecurity standards and personal data online May 21, 2022 3:46 am Fiji Times A very common question I get asked by C-level executives, and most IT-savvy individuals such as young professionals, is obviously “what are the cybersecurity standards or laws that I or our staff/organisation should adhere to?” Here’s the thing, just …
- Election 2022: Seven lawyers vie for the open L.A. City Attorney seat May 21, 2022 2:55 am LA Daily News Los Angeles voters will choose from seven largely unknown attorneys vying for Los Angeles City Attorney in the June 7 primary, a race that could set the course for the city’s approach to corruption, homelessness, housing, public safety and other pressing …
- Review: ‘Chip ‘n Dale’ is a cavalcade of animation cameos May 21, 2022 2:52 am AZ Big Media When Disney was drumming up buzz for Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, some suit described it as “meta, something self-referential and cool,” instantly outing the project as corporate and uncool. “Self-referential” has become a tryhard calling card for studios …
- Israel Killed Reporter Abu Akleh—but US Media Disguised the Facts May 21, 2022 2:22 am Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) Mondoweiss report (5/11/22) on Shireen Abu Akleh’s killling. Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known and much-loved Al Jazeera reporter who covered Palestine for two decades, was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper May 11 …
- Court Tosses Mike Lindell’s RICOlibelslander LOLsuit Against Dominion And Smartmatic May 21, 2022 2:09 am Above the Law (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) A year ago, Mike Lindell told Reuters’ Brad Heath that he was about to drop a lawsuit that would blow the lid off the 2020 election . “There’s going to be stuff in this lawsuit that is going to … stuff that’s …
- Wednesday 5/25: Stop The Poison! Speak Out At Twitter HQ To Protest Racist Union Busting Elon Musk May 21, 2022 1:27 am Indybay - California 5/25 Rally-STOP THE POISON! Speak Out At Twitter HQ To Protest Racist Union Busting Elon Musk’s Control Of Social Media PlatformTwitter Wednesday May 25, 2022 12:00 Noon Twitter World Headquarters 1355 Market St. San Francisco, CA Initiated by United …
- Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin tells Economic Club of Chicago that Citadel may move its corporate headquarters unless the city changes course May 21, 2022 1:18 am Chicago Tribune - Illinois Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin, the wealthiest person in Illinois, told the Economic Club of Chicago Monday he has grave doubts about the future of Chicago, and that his investment firm, Citadel, will probably move its headquarters elsewhere — …
- Column: One wrong ‘like’ will get you canceled by cancel culture May 21, 2022 1:18 am Chicago Tribune - Illinois The Thought Police of the American left now rule what’s called the “cancel culture.” You know this. Ask yourself: What is it doing to the young? Some will go through life kneeling. And others may be driven deeper into the arms of the hard far right. What …
- Foreclosure wave sweeping US crests in Chicago May 21, 2022 1:02 am Courthouse News CHICAGO (CN) — A report released in April by real estate data aggregator ATTOM has bestowed Chicago with a dubious honor. Amid a national surge in residential foreclosure rates, Chicagoans are currently losing their homes in greater numbers than in any …
- Judge Proves That Justice Is, In Fact, Blind—and Dumb, Too May 21, 2022 12:35 am The New Hampshire Gazette Superior Court Judge Andrew Schulman sentenced four climate activists on Friday, May 13th. The four had held up a train in Bow in December, 2019. To be clear, there were no horses or six-shooters involved; no looting of passengers took place. The four …
White Collar Crime
- Nyamira man accuses judge in land case of insulting him May 21, 2022 4:52 am Nation Africa Kenya A retired high school principal in Nyamira County has accused a judge of disparaging him during the hearing of a land case. Mr David Ong’era has written to Chief Justice Martha Koome and the Judiciary Ombudsperson asking them to investigate the conduct of …
- Election 2022: Seven lawyers vie for the open L.A. City Attorney seat May 21, 2022 2:55 am LA Daily News Los Angeles voters will choose from seven largely unknown attorneys vying for Los Angeles City Attorney in the June 7 primary, a race that could set the course for the city’s approach to corruption, homelessness, housing, public safety and other pressing …
- The World Keeps Turning by Columnist Allen Woods: Is anyone winning the culture wars? May 20, 2022 11:49 pm Greenfield Recorder - Massachusetts A real military war is happening in Ukraine right now, with all the deaths, disabling injuries, and destruction of property, livelihood, homes, and hopes for the future that are a guaranteed outcome of war. Any other use of the word “war” (so common in our …
- Byers' Beat: One police officer's discrimination lawsuit settles while another just gets started May 20, 2022 11:25 pm KSDK New interim chief in St. Louis named, discrimination lawsuit settles for on St. Louis police commander while another begins for St. Louis County commander Byers' Beat is a weekly column written by the I-Team's Christine Byers, who has covered …
- Boy, 5, has 'sidekick' puppy stolen through kitchen window May 20, 2022 7:58 pm Liverpool Echo A five-year-old boy had his new puppy stolen through a kitchen window. The boy's mum, Karen Higgins, first knew something was wrong when she heard Vitani, her 15-month-old French Bulldog 'aggressively' barking in the kitchen after she left her …
- Nice Time! Central Park Birder Guy Gets Own TV Show, For The Birds! May 20, 2022 7:56 pm Wonkette You probably remember Christian Cooper, the Black man who in 2020 was screamed at by a super privileged white lady because he asked her to please leash her dog in Central Park's "Ramble," a birding spot where dogs aren't allowed to run …
- I Have Seen the Death of Culture, and It Was Anna Delvey’s Art Show May 20, 2022 6:55 pm Rolling Stone “Welcome to my partyyyyyy,” a vaguely Eastern European-accented voice drones, as a crowd of reporters, influencers, and hangers-on whip out their phones to capture the magic. “Shut up! I’m a masterpiece. I’m a masterpiece. I am Annaaaaaaa. Am I gorgeous or …
- Elizabeth Holmes beat charges of patient fraud. Will Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani? May 20, 2022 6:17 pm East Bay Times - California By Joel Rosenblatt | Bloomberg Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes may have been convicted of cheating investors, but Erin Tompkins still thinks she got away with a crime. Tompkins is especially invested in the outcome of the Theranos saga because she …
- Police appeal to find 80-year-old man missing from Roseville May 20, 2022 4:29 pm Mirage News **PLEASE NOTE: An image of the missing man is available on NSW Police Force social media pages** Police are appealing for public assistance to locate an elderly man missing from the North Shore area. Anthony Mitchell, aged 80, was last seen when he left …
- Justice Javed praises NAB Karachi's 4-year performance May 20, 2022 2:03 am The News International ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Karachi presented the report of its performance to NAB Chairman Justice (R) Javed Iqbal for the last four years—from 2017 to April 30, 2022—and according to which during the period from January 2022 to 30 …
State Crime
- Neighbors Demand Action On Baltimore’s Persistent Violent Crime As Mayor, Council Talk Strategy May 21, 2022 2:35 am WJZ CBS 13 - Maryland BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore is again on track to surpass 300 homicides and with crime surging, many neighbors are demanding action. “Once it gets dark, I do not come outside. Everywhere you turn, there’s a shooting here, a shooting there,” said Cory, who …
- Election 2022: State Court Judge May 21, 2022 2:04 am Statesboro Herald - Georgia To be determined in Tuesday night’s vote count, the race between challenger Michael J. Classens and incumbent Judge Joseph Cushner to be judge of the Bulloch County State Court for the next four years is officially nonpartisan, but still politically …
- Parole canceled for man who killed 3 in Washington state bar May 21, 2022 12:03 am SF Gate - California GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press May 20, 2022Updated: May 20, 2022 4:56 p.m. SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has overturned a decision to grant parole to man who killed three tavern workers during a robbery in 1980. Timothy Pauley was 21 when he …
- Maryland State Police Arrest Man Wanted In Connection To Calvert County Shooting May 20, 2022 11:51 pm Maryland State Police May 20, 2022 (PRINCE FREDERICK, MD) – Maryland State Police on Thursday arrested a man wanted in connection with a shooting earlier this month in Calvert County. The suspect, Adam Joseph Holland, 20, of Prince Frederick, Maryland, is charged with …
- While NY State rules out death penalty, federal option still exists in mass shooter case May 20, 2022 11:46 pm WGRZ - New York While the State of New York abolished the death penalty in 2004, capital punishment is still a federal court option, depending on potential charges. BUFFALO, N.Y. — The country's top federal prosecutor reiterated Friday that the U.S. Justice Department …
- Illinois becomes first Midwestern state to ban 'ghost guns' May 20, 2022 11:45 pm St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Missouri By TAYLOR VIDMAR Lee Enterprises SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — This week, the Bloomington Police Department in the central part of the state announced its officers had arrested a felon who was in unlawful possession of a "ghost gun" — a gun without serial …
- Maryland State Police Arrest Man Wanted In Connection To Calvert County Shooting May 20, 2022 11:44 pm Maryland State Police May 20, 2022 (PRINCE FREDERICK, MD) – Maryland State Police on Thursday arrested a man wanted in connection with a shooting earlier this month in Calvert County. The suspect, Adam Joseph Holland, 20, of Prince Frederick, Maryland, is charged with …
- More violent crimes will happen if people are released from state prison, says Att. Gen. Miyares May 20, 2022 11:41 pm WSLS - Virginia ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. – Attorney General Jason Miyares says releasing those who served time behind bars could potentially lead to more crime, and some law enforcement officials agree. “Very, very problematic,” said Roanoke County chief Howard Hall. Hall …
- Markel Trial Day 5: State lights fuses; a Latin King breaks code; Corbitt spills data; Wendi takes a weird route May 20, 2022 11:21 pm Florida Politics The State of Florida’s case against Katherine Magbanua ramped up Friday, building out a solid foundation of motive, data, and corroboration. A reluctant redemption and a gutted defense “Do you enjoy having to testify against your friends?” Cappleman asked …
- Polis tours state, signs dozens of bills on affordable housing, health care, public safety May 20, 2022 10:58 pm Colorado Politics Gov. Jared Polis signed dozens of bills into law throughout the week, including numerous measures on affordable housing, health care and public safety in Colorado. The governor has been visiting parts of the state in the last few days, part a bill signing …
Environmental Crime
- Letters to the editor (4/27/22) April 27, 2022 5:08 am New Paltz Times - New York The views and opinions expressed in our letters section are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Hudson Valley One. You can submit a letter to the editor here. Save Castle Point Veterans’ Affairs has …
- How the first Earth Day ushered in a golden age of activism April 21, 2022 7:29 pm National Geographic Each year on April 22, people around the globe come together to honor and conserve their shared home: Earth. Known as Earth Day, the holiday got its start in the United States in 1970 with what was originally billed as a teach-in on college campuses. It …
- Opinion- Who should take the fall for Aurora, Colorado police problems? April 18, 2022 11:00 am Colorado State News Who should take the fall for Aurora’s problems? Re: “Aurora City Manager Jim Twombly must go,” April 10 editorial Thank you so much for writing this; it’s one of your best editorials. I read it online and was very sorry to see the harsh comments that you …
- Welcome to “Cancer Alley,” Where Toxic Air Is About to Get Worse February 26, 2022 8:55 am ProPublica Environmental Impact in Louisiana ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. ST. GABRIEL, La. — Over a half-century, Hazel Schexnayder saw this riverside hamlet …
- Coal fueled industrial revolution but left 'absolutely massive' environmental catastrophe January 5, 2022 10:36 am Courier-Journal - Kentucky HAROLD, Ky. — Along the winding, two-lane road that leads to Tracy Neece’s mountain, there’s no hint of the huge scars in the hills beyond the oaks and the pines. Green forests cover steep slopes on each side of the road, which turns from blacktop to dusty …
- ArtPlace America shows why culture matters to communities December 6, 2021 8:31 pm KSAT - Texas Sometime in the next few years, crews dispatched by the Environmental Protection Agency will roll into Ashland, Massachusetts, population 19,000, and begin a $20.5 million cleanup of groundwater contaminated by waste from a chemical dye plant. That day …
- Officials Expect Media Frenzy at Today’s ‘Rust’ News Conference October 27, 2021 2:59 pm Santa Fe Reporter - New Mexico COVID-19 by the numbers New Mexico health officials yesterday reported 687 COVID-19 cases, bringing the statewide total so far to 271,898. DOH has designated 240,803 of those cases as recovered. Bernalillo County had 147 new cases, followed by San Juan …
- World says goodbye to leaded petrol, as Algeria becomes the final country to end its use August 30, 2021 6:06 pm Daily Mail The world has finally said 'goodbye' to leaded petrol, after Algeria became the final country to end its reliance on the highly toxic fuel source. As recently as the year 2000 over 100 countries worldwide still used leaded petrol, despite evidence …
- EPA yanking Toms River Reich Farm from Superfund list; water tests planned until 2023 June 10, 2021 11:02 am Asbury Park Press - New Jersey Above: Learn more about Toms River's childhood cancer cluster. TOMS RIVER - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to remove a once-toxic Toms River farm from its list of federal Superfund sites, a move that would mark the end of the government …
- While the rest of the world tackles plastics disposal, the US resists May 18, 2021 7:04 am Eco-Business For the first time ever, international shipments of plastic waste came under global control this year. That’s because disposable plastic — a major pollutant of the world’s waters and atmosphere, fodder for incinerators, occupier of overflowing landfills, …
Critical Theory
- Benjamin’s Rival Tempters May 19, 2022 2:41 pm The New York Review of Books In April 1940 Gershom Scholem wrote from Jerusalem to Theodor Adorno in New York about their mutual friend in Paris: “I am very worried about Walter Benjamin, from whom I have heard nothing, even in answer to my inquiries, since early December 1939…. If …
- Cheryl Chumley on Marxist Ideas in American Culture, Thought May 17, 2022 9:14 am NTD Marxist and communist ideas have undoubtedly snuck their way into the thoughts and ideas of American culture—from pop culture figures idolizing the likes of communist revolutionaries such as Che Guevara and Mao Zedong, to the Marxist underpinnings of the …
- Marx Would Be Canceled by the Left If Their Criticisms of the West Were Honest: Douglas Murray April 24, 2022 12:59 pm The Epoch Times Journalist and author of the new book “The War on the West,” Douglas Murray, says people around the world have been misled by hypocritical and conflicting anti-West rhetoric by the left, which reveres German political theorist Karl Marx but will allow the …
- The Inhumanity of Critical Race Theory April 21, 2022 9:00 pm The Epoch Times A focus on race, relativism, and rigid groups minimizes the richness of human life and enlightenment Commentary Karl Marx is long dead, and so, too, should be Marxism. But it’s not. Marxist thought is alive and kicking in the twisted minds of critical race …
- Warner Bros. Censors Fantastic Beasts’ Gay Dialogue for China; Social Marxism With James Lindsay April 20, 2022 12:17 am The Epoch Times Warner Bros. censors gay dialogue for China. Is it for profit? Meanwhile, they are committed to celebrating the LGBTQ movement in the West. Why are they promoting a double standard? I speak with James Lindsay, author of “Race Marxism” and the founder of …
- Tendaji Talk tackles critical race theory; 1619 Project creator to appear in Flint April 13 April 9, 2022 9:31 pm East Village Magazine - Michigan Posted on Apr 9, 2022 By Harold C. Ford “Any anti-racist effort is being labeled as critical race theory.” –Jonathan Chism, assistant professor of history, University of Houston-Downtown, co-editor of Critical Race Studies Across Disciplines, 2021, …
- Marxist Penn State associate professor wished for the deaths of Donald Trump, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and more March 28, 2022 5:57 pm The Blaze A Penn State associate professor allegedly hoped for the deaths of prominent conservative voices, including former President Donald Trump, Jordan Peterson, and Ben Shapiro. The Post Millennial editor-at-large Andy Ngo shared alleged screenshots of alarming …
- Critical Race Theory a Form of ‘Child Abuse’: Sam Sorbo March 15, 2022 4:52 pm The Epoch Times Critical race theory (CRT) is a “perverted ideology” that is akin to child abuse, suggested Sam Sorbo, a Hollywood actress. In an interview with NTD’s “Capitol Report” program, Sorbo, a nationally syndicated radio show host, film producer, and author, …
- Remembering Aijaz Ahmad, a Marxist Rebel Without Pause March 15, 2022 10:22 am The Wire Our friend and comrade, Aijaz Ahmad, died a few days ago, on March 9. The passing of intellectuals often leaves behind a void in a world where we have received so much, so warmly and generously, from those whom we remember for their remarkable lifetime of …
- Marxism Is an Intellectual Swindle, Inversion of Reality: James Lindsay March 1, 2022 11:27 pm The Epoch Times James Lindsay, founder of New Discourses and author of “Race Marxism,” said Marxism and its more recent offshoot, critical race theory, are fraudulent because they put theory before reality and are unscientific. “This is the intellectual swindle of all of …