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Black Women and Police Violence

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Keisha Blain is one of our most important historians of Black history. At The Baffler, she has an important essay on Black women's long efforts to end police violence. You need to read it. An excerpt: The Bumpurs and Taylor cases offer a longer perspective on...
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LGM Film Club, Part 165: Swords

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Everyone likes swords. So here's a short 1965 British document on sword factories. They do not look very safe. Also, glad to know that whale oil was still being used a half-century ago to make swords. https://www.youtube.com/embed/XtpMAUf65UQ

Pujols

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It seems that it is the end of the line for the second greatest first baseman in Major League history. If anything, I feel Pujols is underrated as to his.

Vouchertastic

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Wow, it's almost as if privatizing public education leads to bad outcomes for less than ideal students (at least from the perspective of the charter industry). The Arkansas state legislature's.

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Biden and Gig Workers

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Excellent: The Biden administration canceled a signature Trump-era rule that would’ve eased businesses’ ability to legally consider workers as independent contractors, a rollback the U.S. Labor Department said was necessary to broadly extend wage protections while cracking down on employer abuses.A final rule, issued Wednesday, rescinded...
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