I find this approach is useful in new situations. Going the extra inch indicates that you're willing to work, but you're not going to dive headlong into a project without understanding the environment first.
Going the extra mile is a great way to separate yourself from the pack, but it’s not the only way. Instead of going the extra mile every once in a while, consider going the extra inch with every single thing you do.
A new report from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reveals that, since 2010, 81 of 184 officer-involved deaths in Georgia have involved either unarmed victims, or victims who were shot in the back. This report delves into the startling statistics around police shootings in Georgia. Some key findings:
About one in six people fatally shot were unarmed. Of those 31 cases, 17 people were black and 14 were white. That represented 19 percent of all black shootings and 16 percent of all white shootings.
In 18 cases, the person killed was shot solely in the back of their torso, neck, head or buttocks. In 52 other cases, they were shot in the backside, but also suffered wounds in other parts of the body.
In at least 11 fatal police shooting cases since 2010, the person shot by police was both unarmed and shot in the back. Seven people killed in this manner were black, four were white.
At least one in four of those killed by police had shown some signs of mental illness before the fatal encounter. About one in three whites fell into that category, compared to about one in five blacks. About 16 percent killed were veterans, but that figure could be higher because service records could not be determined for every death.
Black citizens killed tended to be younger, with a median age of 29, while white citizens tended to be older, with a median age of 41. Only 9 of the 184 killed were women.
At least 20 officers involved in fatal shootings had serious prior issues documented in their records. Four had previously been fired or resigned in lieu of termination from a previous police job in Georgia. Officers in two other shootings had been disciplined for lying. And two officers had failed to complete state-mandated annual use-of-force training to maintain their powers of arrest at the time they fatally shot someone.
The report also illustrates the fact that people with mental illnesses are more likely to die at the hands of police than other people, and also the fact that officers with serious disciplinary issues are likely to continue campaigns of brutality. These data of course don’t tell us much more than we already knew, but they are useful in policy discussions and in efforts to hold police accountable.
I keep seeing fan art of Poe Dameron looking completely white. I think a lot of the art is great, but if you’re going to draw Poe, at least draw him the color he is. Because he is NOT white. At all.
To be clear about this: Poe Dameron is played by Oscar Issac, who is Guatemalan. His full name isÓscar Isaac Hernández Estrada. It is so important to so many people that both the male leads of SW:tFA are men of color, like… yeah.
To be even more clear about this… Poe’s homeworld is listed as Yavin 4, because the Yavin 4 scenes from A New Hope were filmed in the ancient Mayan city of Tikal, in Guatemala, in order to give that place its distinctive feel, so Oscar Issac requested that his character’s homeworld be there since he himself was born in Guatemala. (source)
So. Yeah. Poe Dameron is Latin American, or at least as close as you can get in ~fantasy space~ where there is no America. Which means he’s not a white guy.
I don’t know if I already reblogged this but I’m gonna keep doing it because representation matters
There are so few Latin-American/Hispanic/(any better words I don’t know) people in med school, at least at my school, and I think a big part of that is that if you never get to see yourself reflected somewhere, you think that’s not a possibility for you. But it is. The non-white students in my med school work hard, harder than the white kids, honestly, because they get more shit from instructors and from fellow students, so they’re trying to work past that. One girl is from Colombia and whenever somebody teaching us has to explain a word she’s not familiar with they get this look on their face like it’s a chore. Like it’s a burden on them that she speaks two languages fluently and is a genius in both of them. And she is; she’s smarter than me. But sometimes a colloquialism she didn’t grow up with and has no reason to have learned gets her. Not a big deal, right? But I can’t imagine what it feels like to see that look, over and over. Especially in med school, where you have to be able to ask for help and for more explanations, no matter how smart you are. Med school is specifically designed to be really hard for really smart people.
More representation. Give us more chances to see people like her, like Poe, succeeding. Because we can’t afford to sideline good talent for bad reasons. And because every kid deserves to grow up knowing that they are important.
“Being quizzed on something that I’ve already told you I love does not endear you to me, no matter how many winky emoticons you include. It’s insulting and will always merit an automatic delete. If you are the type of person whose first instinct is to test me on my nerdiness, I am not the nerd you’re looking for.”
“How many laws making it harder to get an abortion will pass before the Supreme Court sees them for what they are — part of a tireless, coordinated nationwide assault on the right of women to control what happens with their own bodies without the interference of politicians?
One answer is, no fewer than 288. That’s how many abortion restrictions states have enacted since the beginning of 2011, when aggressively anti-choice lawmakers swept into statehouses around the country.
The trend accelerated in 2015, as state legislators passed 57 new constraints on a woman’s right to choose. Hundreds more were considered, most of which could come up again in 2016. Most of the time, lawmakers are clever enough to disguise their true intent by claiming that their interest is in protecting women’s physical or mental health. But now and then the facade falls away, as when the Mississippi governor, Phil Bryant, called a set of restrictions he signed into law in 2012 “the first step in a movement” that aims to “end abortion in Mississippi.”
Laws like this — known as TRAP laws, for targeted regulation of abortion providers — have sprouted up in dozens of states as abortion opponents test the limits of the Supreme Court’s vague standard on abortion rights, which asks whether a restriction poses an “undue burden” to a woman’s right to choose.
In many states, including Texas, these laws have resulted in the shuttering of all but a few clinics that perform abortions, forcing women to travel hundreds of miles for the procedure. Among other burdens, this increases the chance that a woman will try to end her pregnancy on her own. This is extremely risky, and in some states it is even grounds for a charge of attempted murder. One study, based on a recent survey, estimated that 100,000 to 240,000 Texas women ages 18 to 49 have attempted a self-induced abortion without medical assistance. These women, the study found, were significantly more likely than average to have less access to basic reproductive-health services like birth control.”
But it's a mystery that women don't think Republicans will welcome them.
Jeb! Bush does not seem sure of what he disapproves of more: Donald Trump’s general habit of insulting people and insufficient “level of decorum,” or the fact that Trump’s insults give Hillary Clinton the chance to “enhance her victimology status.”
Bush was responding to Trump’s elegant turns of phrase that, in losing the Democratic primary in 2008, Clinton “got schlonged” and that Clinton’s late return to Saturday night’s debate from a bathroom break was “disgusting, I don't want to talk about it.” This gave Bush the chance to trot out his stock lines about Trump being “the chaos candidate” and “not serious.” But he also had thoughts about Clinton’s likely response, and while his is a different breed of sexism from Trump’s, it’s not not sexism:
“She’s great at being the victim. This will enhance her victimology status. This is what she loves doing. Trump is not going to be president because he says these things, it turns people off. For crying out loud, we’re two days before Christmas. Lighten up, man.”
Q: is saying someone was "schlonged" not victimizing language?
"I’m saying that she will use this in a way that won’t be helpful to our cause. I’m concurring with the question.”
Okay, yes, Bush characterized Trump’s language as inappropriate and lacking decorum. But boy was he eager to talk about how Clinton would “love” “being the victim” in response. Every woman loves to have headlines talking about how she “got schlonged” and about the length of her bathroom breaks. And that was Bush’s real takeaway: Trump’s gonna Trump and that is bad, but in this case it’s mostly bad because it allows Hillary Clinton to claim some kind of unearned victim status that will be bad for Republicans.
Pardon me for thinking that’s not the most inspiringly egalitarian reason to be annoyed by rank misogyny.
“Stop the presses! According to a new poll by Quinnipiac University on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) destroys Republican candidate Donald Trump in a general election by 13 percentage points. In this new poll, Sanders has 51 percent to Trump’s 38 percent. If this margin held in a general election, Democrats would almost certainly regain control of the United States Senate and very possibly the House of Representatives.
It is high time and long overdue for television networks such as CNN to end their obsession with Trump and report the all-important fact that in most polls, both Hillary Clinton and Sanders would defeat Trump by landslide margins. In the new Quinnipiac poll, Clinton would defeat Trump by 7 percentage points, which is itself impressive and would qualify as a landslide, while the Sanders lead of 13 points would bring a landslide of epic proportions.
It is noteworthy that in this Quinnipiac poll, Sanders runs so much stronger than Clinton against Trump. It is also noteworthy and important that both Sanders and Clinton run so far ahead of Trump in general election match-up polling. And it is profoundly important and revealing that Sanders would defeat Trump by such a huge margin — 13 points in this poll — that analysts would be talking about a national political realignment and new progressive era in American history if an enlightened candidate such as Sanders would defeat a retrograde race-baiting candidate such as Trump by a potentially epic and historic margin.”
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How awful did we let the Westboro folks get before they kind of petered out?
A judge is expected to rule today on whether or not to prevent Black Lives Matter-Minneapolis from holding a demonstration Wednesday, December 23, at the Mall of America (MOA) in Bloomington, Minnesota. Attorneys for the MOA allege that sales were down 15 percent due to a protest the group held in December of 2014 and they do not want a repeat of that. That protest drew about 2,000 people to the shopping center and caused the mall to be shut down for several hours.
Last year’s protest was in solidarity with actions across the country protesting the murders of unarmed Black men at the hands of the police. This year BLM-Minnesota says it is protesting the police shooting of Jamar Clark this past November and the refusal of officials to release video surveillance recordings that may show what happened the night Clark was shot. Witnesses stated that Clark was shot while handcuffed and on the ground.
MOA lawyers are seeking a restraining order against BLM-Minneapolis and they specifically want Judge Karen Janisch to keep BLM-Minnesota organizers from encouraging others to protest and to block all social media mentions of the protest or encouragement of people to come and join in. If the restraining order is granted, MOA lawyers want that info to be shared freely via BLM-Minnesota’s social media networks. The MOA has consistently maintained that they are a private entity and that demonstrations and protests are not allowed on their premises.
Organizers with BLM-Minneapolis have made it clear that regardless of Janisch’s decision, they will proceed with this demonstration—as well as others—until their demands are met. In addition to the release of video footage, organizers also demanded that terrorism charges be brought against the four individuals who shot five people during protests at the 4th precinct police station late last month; and that a special prosecutor charge the officers responsible for Clark’s death.
A judge in Minneapolis has granted in part, and denied in part, a restraining order to keep Black Lives Matter-Minneapolis from protesting at the Mall of America tomorrow, December 23rd.
GRANTED: The judge's order bans three Black Lives Matter-Minneapolis organizers by name - Michael McDowell, Miski Noor, and Kandace Montgomery - from protesting/demonstrating on any part of the property.
DENIED: The order DOES NOT ban Black Lives Matter Minneapolis from being in the Mall of America or on the premises because, and I quote, "Plaintiff has provided no evidence that Black Lives Matters is a legally cognizable entity capable of being sued as a party in litigation."
ALSO DENIED: the Mall of America had also sought to have Black Lives Matter remove any and all social media postings talking about, announcing, recruiting for the demonstration tomorrow.
me: what if instead of doing literally anything i just slept all the time
me: thats a sign of depression
me:
me: ok we'll deal with that later but first we nap
Look I hate to say it, but it’s because it’s Star Wars
it’s one of the biggest movie franchises in American history. The prequels broke records left and right when they came out too (TPM was the second-highest grossing film worldwide at the time–right behind Titanic–and was covered extensively by the media). TFA was the most anticipated movie of the year and was going to break records left and right becasue it’s Star Wars
this is not to deny what the OP says, because they have a good point, and the stellar cast definitely had a LARGE role in making the film a success. All I’m saying is that Star Wars is not exactly a good example to use for this because of its status as a cultural phenomenon
no shit sherlock, now the question to ask yourself would be why every other cultural phenomenon which operates on the scale of star wars (e.g., the marvel cinematic universe, the jurassic park franchise, harry potter, etc.) constantly and consistently pretends women and people of colour don’t exist? could it perhaps be that their producers spout the same tired, bullshit argument about women and non-white people not being sufficiently “marketable” to carry a blockbuster? could it be that star wars deliberately prioritizing diversity and then proceeding to shatter box office records left and right actually matters in this specific cultural and financial climate?
Some people bake for the holidays. Evolution makes hundreds of perfectly round, pointy-eared, ridiculous-nosed bats. Bring some to your family gathering this year!
