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http://nypost.com/2017/08/02/city-approves-4m-payment-to-eric-garners-family/ $4 milion to the family of Eric Garner.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/louis-trumantis-wife-called-911-to-say-he-was-having-a-heart-attack-the-police-came-and-broke-his-back?source=twitter&via=mobile I guess the "Assessing the situation" class got dropped from the police academy due to budget cuts. Although maybe after a few more...

On some currently running MW threads there's been some conflation of "unskilled" with "not valuable". This isn't the case but it's a neat rhetorical trick being pulled by our resident neoliberal opponents of a living wage. If a business can't survive without unskilled laborers (what does...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6zAyPRbels Meet the populist Wisconsin Democrat looking to dethrone Paul Ryan I love this guy.

I did some quick math to try and figure out about how much it should cost, all else being equal, to put in place medicare for all. Currently the medicare population is about 17.25% of the US population (55 million out of 318.9 million). Current total medicare taxes are 2.9% split evenly between...

I read about this a lot. For example some of the top google hits for this are: http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2013/nov/22/marco-rubio/medicare-and-social-security-not-defense-are-drivi/...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/treasury-yields-retreat-from-nearly-3-week-high-as-oil-stocks-waver-2016-07-13 Is the Market's treasury bond price signalling wrong?

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-unarmed-el-cajon-fatal-shooting-20160928-snap-story.html Sister calls police for help with brother who has mental health issues. Brother shot dead while brandishing his vaping device.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/11/baltimore-prosecutor-on-woman-reporting-rape-seems-like-a-conniving-little-whore/ Although he still admits she's a victim we'll take what we can get, right?

I thought just crossed my mind today (inb4 some variant of a dad joke!). Do you think Hillary is being openly against the TPP even though she considered it the gold standard of trade deals not too long ago because she knows that between the time of the election and the inauguration it will get...

http://angrybearblog.com/2016/08/top-marginal-tax-rates-and-real-economic-growth-part-1.html Interesting start of a series of posts on this topic over at Angry Bear. The main conclusion of this part is that there is a significant statistical relationship between higher marginal rates and...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/opinion/sunday/the-perfect-gop-nominee.html?_r=0 Ouch. Didn't Maureen Dowd used to like the Clintons?

I present to you, the owner of Free Republic! Mr. Jim Robinson! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3458729/posts I may have to vote for Hillary just so I can see these guys go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1jf2hOkec4

https://theintercept.com/2016/08/09/ex-cia-chief-who-endorsed-clinton-calls-for-killing-iranians-and-russians-in-syria/ Why, what could possibly go wrong? Sure makes me feel good that foreign policy neo-cons are flocking to Hillary.

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2016/08/bosses-pay-the-rights-problem.html Bring on the revolution.

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/9/12412228/police-shootings-killings-data Better late than never.

http://www.publicdefender.mo.gov/Newsfeed/Delegation_of_Representation.PDF BOOSH! I love it. o7 to you sir! (I'm not giving away any details because I don't want to give away the twist at the end!)

Trump loses. Hillary wins. Populist anger isn't going away once the election is over. What happens next?

https://policy.m4bl.org/ http://www.vox.com/2016/8/2/12341708/black-lives-matter-policy-platform A good start.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/even-corporate-democrats-are-moving-left.html Maybe the times really are a changing?