The City of Rochester failed Daniel Prude and allowed predator cops to fail harder

Bank robbers and mental health patients receive the same police solutions: violence. Daniel Prude’s 157-days old death at the hands of Rochester police officers, and the subsequent overdue and — for the moment — relatively lenient suspensions given to the cops involved, make me think about another way cities continue to set up Black folks […]

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To avoid a ‘small group’ writing the GOP platform, a small group decided no platform is needed

Fake-Christian death cults tend to do this sort of thing — for the good of the people, of course. Remember when I rapped about the Republican Party’s transformation to a fake-Christian death cult? Meet the party’s triple-down commitment on that bet: There will be no GOP platform this year. Instead, and with no hint of […]

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On Obama’s convention speech last night: what the hell is up with the New York Times?

Too much Hollywood on their minds — and at the worst time.  The New York Times’ editorial judgement sometimes confuses me. And then I remind myself that the newspaper loves to publish Upper-West-Side-White-Liberal-feel-good stories on current events as if each are overhyped movie-of-the-year candidates that focus on people’s personal triumphs, and can be screened only […]

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