Dumb, dumb and dumber. NYPD counter-terrorism chief: Apple is helping 'kidnappers, robbers and murderers'

NYPD counter-terrorism chief: Apple is helping 'kidnappers, robbers and murderers'

"Dumb,  dumb and dumber.   More evidence that police forces are still attracting people that are not very intelligent and who are supposed to understand basic Constitutional principles but don't.   The average IQ is 104 as found by  Federal Court.   We have to recruit smarter cops.  In NYC the NYPD is an employer of last resort for kids who did not do well in high school.  This has to change. We can do better.

Michigan Voters Want Political Change - The Atlantic

Michigan Voters Want Political Change - The Atlantic

"People like Khali Sweeney, a 46-year-old African American man who graduated from the Detroit public school system unable to read. He ran the streets, got in trouble, got shot, and finally got his act together. “I decided to stop being a victim.” Now he runs a literacy program on the city’s east side, using boxing lessons to lure kids off the streets and into his classrooms.

While Sanders has made awkward attempts to court African American voters, Hillary Clinton has deep ties to the community. She was the first presidential candidate to visit Flint, Michigan, a predominately African American city with toxic water.

Clinton hopes to appeal to people like Lawrence White, a 43-year-old state employee and owner of a small security firm who feels betrayed by every level of government and by both parties. “I’m not just singling out Governor [Rick] Snyder,” the African American Democrat told me in January. “All the politicians including the EPA are playing tit-for-tat, playing games at our expense. It’s everybody. It’s Republicans. It’s Democrats. It’s a globalization of not caring for the people of Flint.”

Donald Trump's ex-wife: Trump kept book of Hitler's speeches by bed - Business Insider

Donald Trump's ex-wife: Trump kept book of Hitler's speeches by bed - Business Insider

"According to a 1990 Vanity Fair interview, Ivana Trump once told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that her husband, real-estate mogul Donald Trump, now a leading Republican presidential candidate, kept a book of Hitler's speeches near his bed."

Bloomberg Says He Won't Run For President And 'Risk' Electing Trump Or Cruz : NPR

Bloomberg Says He Won't Run For President And 'Risk' Electing Trump Or Cruz : NPR

The Matter of Black Lives - The New Yorker

Garza, Cullors, and Tometi advocate a horizontal ethic of organizing, which favors democratic inclusion at the grassroots level. Black Lives Matter emerged as a modern extension of Ella Baker’s thinking—a preference for ten thousand candles rather than a single spotlight. In a way, they created the context and the movement created itself. “Really, the genesis of the organization was the people who organized in their cities for the ride to Ferguson,” Garza told me in her office. Those people, she said, “pushed us to create a chapter structure. They wanted to continue to do this work together, and be connected to activists and organizers from across the country.” There are now more than thirty Black Lives Matter chapters in the United States, and one in Toronto. They vary in structure and emphasis, and operate with a great deal of latitude, particularly when it comes to choosing what “actions” to stage. But prospective chapters must submit to a rigorous assessment, by a coördinator, of the kinds of activism that members have previously engaged in, and they must commit to the organization’s guiding principles. These are laid out in a thirteen-point statement written by the women and Darnell Moore, which calls for, in part, an ideal of unapologetic blackness. “In affirming that black lives matter, we need not qualify our position,” the statement reads.



Yet, although the movement initially addressed the killing of unarmed young black men, the women were equally committed to the rights of working people and to gender and sexual equality. So the statement also espouses inclusivity, because “to love and desire freedom and justice for ourselves is a necessary prerequisite for wanting the same for others.” Garza’s argument for inclusivity is informed by the fact that she—a black queer female married to a trans male—would likely have found herself marginalized not only in the society she hopes to change but also in many of the organizations that are dedicated to changing it. She also dismisses the kind of liberalism that finds honor in nonchalance. “We want to make sure that people are not saying, ‘Well, whatever you are, I don’t care,’ ” she said. “No, I want you to care. I want you to see all of me.”



The Matter of Black Lives - The New Yorker

Still don't think Trump could win? We've elected xenophobic presidents before | James Nevius | Opinion | The Guardian

"Absurd? Had you asked pundits during the 1824 presidential campaign whether General Andrew Jackson’s mug would ever grace America’s third-most popular greenback, they would have called you insane. The Washington political establishment believed that Jackson’s short temper, reckless disregard for political niceties and desire to insult (or shoot) his enemies meant he simply wasn’t presidential material. Yet in 1828 – four years after he won the popular vote but, through quirks of the system, lost the election, the American people – fed up with back-room “politics as usual” – propelled Jackson to the White House for the first of two terms."



Still don't think Trump could win? We've elected xenophobic presidents before | James Nevius | Opinion | The Guardian

Sanders and Clinton clash over guns at debate

Sanders and Clinton clash over guns at debate

Melissa Harris Perry's exit from MSNBC

Getting in "Formation"