California Just Became The First State To End Cash Bail For People Awaiting Trial
The ACLU pulled its support from the law because of its reliance on risk assessments without ensuring transparency and other protections against racial bias.
The School Shootings That Weren't : NPR
"But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened."
 | Minerva Zimmerman (@grumpymartian) |
You know why "everything" tastes like chicken? It isn't everything, it's just all the animals that have dinosaurs as ancestors. Technically they all taste like dinosaur. | |
Too big to sanction? U.S. struggles with punishing large Russian businesses. - The Washington Post
"Western customers stopped buying from the aluminum company he controls, sinking its share price and shaving Deripaska's fortune from $6.7 billion to $3.4 billion, according to Forbes estimates."
Democrats Cut Party Leaders' Power to Pick Presidential Nominee - Bloomberg
The 700 or so superdelegates -- party elders including Democratic National Committee members, members of Congress, and former presidents -- will no longer be able to vote in the first round of balloting at the party's 2020 convention unless there's already a clear winner based on the results of the party's primaries and caucus.
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This whole thing sounds a little foggy to me.
