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The Bail Racket

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On March 31, 2018
This is superb investigative reporting about how bail bondsmen exploit their customers: As commercial bail has grown into a $2 billion industry, bond agents have become the payday lenders of the criminal justice world, offering quick relief to desperate customers at high prices. When clients...
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The autopsy of the Stephon Clark shooting is highly damning: Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man shot by Sacramento police officers while holding a cellphone in his grandparent’s backyard last week, was shot eight times, six of which hit him in the back, according to...

Satire

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On March 30, 2018

Adam Wren of Politico Magazine wrote a bizarre human interest piece about Clinton voters in Brooklyn. After getting pushback due to the article's extremely iffy framing--Adam seems to go out.

https://twitter.com/LedZepBoxedSet/status/978705479248633856 I have not read "Ready Player One" nor seen the movie but I guess if your writing is funny enough you can transcend my ignorance and still make me laugh about something I know close to nothing about. Highlights from McSweeney's "Ready Player Two:...

Redlining’s Legacy

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On March 30, 2018

Redlining, the mid-twentieth century federal effort to determine home loan viability based upon the racial makeup of neighborhoods, both reflected long standing white supremacy and created new structures of white.

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