Tag Archives: police violence

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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I once went out with a cop

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Naomi

A number of years ago I went out a couple of times with a cop. He was an unusual guy to be a sergeant in the NYPD. He had not only a college degree but an MA. He was a … Continue reading →

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