Tag Archives: police violence

Black Lives Matter. Walmart and Trump do not

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: Philadelphia imposed a curfew after police officers shot and killed Walter Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old black man, after which Walmart removed guns and ammunition from displays nationwide, citing concern about looting, but then walked back the … Continue reading →

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Animal news: why are certain people in Maine attacking animals?

Posted on October 14, 2020 by Naomi

Today, Jennifer Finney Boylan’s essay in the Times is entitled, “It’s Not Easy Being An Optimist in Maine.” As a New York optimist — it’s genetic, don’t yell stats at me, I can’t help it — I read her with … Continue reading →

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Two fucks we need to know about

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: …the Associated Press obtained an audio recording in which a Louisiana state trooper involved in the death of a black man said, “I beat the ever-living fuck out of him”; and CNN released a secretly recorded … Continue reading →

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