In her first year alone, non-violent drug crimes resulting in prison terms doubled, with a full two-thirds ending in imprisonment. And while Minnesota’s record of extraordinarily vast racial disparities in imprisonment certainly didn’t begin with Amy Klobuchar’s tenure, during the eight years she served as chief prosecutor her insistence on longer sentences for less serious crimes actually drove up the number of prison inmates in the state by one-fifth, despite the fact that crime rates in Minneapolis had been dropping at least three years before she took office.
Author: Serene Sargent
I make jewelry and try to read everything on the US Civil War and Reconstruction that comes out, (thereby knowing many smart people.) I know a bit of law, care about Beatles historiography and love the Nagras. Jane Austen whispered her Emma secrets to me across many miles and 200 years. ✨ My father was Bill Sargent, the Pay Per View Beatles guy. #DYRBRY
What’s going on with Flynn and Judge Gleeson, in two pieces
Snuck from behind the paywalls in PDFs. 🤫 The Flynn case isn’t over until the judge says it’s over: by the retired judge who Judge Sullivan would soon appoint (PDF) John Gleeson served as a U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of New York and chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney’s…
The very best U.S. coronavirus timeline ever created (and still in progress)
Deeply dense in some places, thin in others – because I get to concentrating on a certain area before moving on – I am creating the timeline of all timelines. And I will share it with you. The very best U.S. coronavirus timeline ever created in pdf form… … and in HTML… … and DOCX….
Ahmaud Arbery – 911 dispatcher to alleged murderer: “I just need to know what he was doing wrong.” AUDIO/(video with transcript) -911 CALLS-
911: Okay, what is he doing?
Caller: He’s running down the street.
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The second DA to recuse himself from the case was George Barnhill, and his letter doing so is such an atrocious example of victim blaming, ignoring evidence, and pure petulance that it should disqualify him from holding any public office, let alone any within the criminal justice system.
34 Days of Pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America, CDC’s new projections, and a growing collection of COVID PDF’d things
“That’s really the story of all this,” agreed one outside adviser to the Trump administration. “The states are just doing everything on their own.”
How to make a great boiled egg easy to peel 🥚 a Twitter challenge I took way too seriously
make the water really really cold
A promising COVID19 CRISPR-based (very quick) test
UC San Francisco School of Medicine has come up with a brilliant test for COVID19 and I’m obsessed. The breakdown in Nature is highly technical, but fascinating if you’re into gene-replication and RNA. The test takes less the 40 minutes, is highly accurate, and only takes a respiratory swab. So, yeah. YAY.
Men, don’t even talk to me 🤚🏻
Maybe the reason I so wholly understand black people’s complete, burn-it-all-down anger at white people over white supremacy is that I occasionally feel such a hot, burn-it-all-down, DON’T YOU FUCKING GET IT rage against the dumbass, blind, patriarchy. Yes, I blame you, at least until you wake up. So wake up, or go fuck yourself….
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