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Archive for May, 2021
May 23rd, 2021 - 2:27 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Prison for white cop who brutalized innocent black man
A federal judge sentenced Brett Palkowitsch (photo, right), 33, a white former St. Paul police officer, to 6 years in prison for kicking and allowing a police dog to maul a black man, a Minneapolis news outlet reported on Friday, May 21, 2021 (read story here). Palkowitsch mistook Frank Baker (photo[...]
May 23rd, 2021 - 1:37 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
No-bid contract
When governments buy goods and services, they usually do so through a bidding process, but not always. “No-bid” contracts earned notoriety under George W. Bush, where the term became associated with cronyism, political favoritism, and corruption — the most prominent example being t[...]
DNA solves airport monkey mystery
“For decades, a colony of wild African green monkeys has lived in a thick mangrove forest near the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport,” Forbes says. “But how on earth did these African monkeys find themselves in … South Florida … ?” “Earlier thi[...]
Attention seeker
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) stirred up a hornet’s nest on Friday by comparing mask mandates to Stars of David (photo, left) and alluding to Nazi gas chambers (read story here). There’s nothing original or creative about this; rightwing pastors and other anti-maskers have used this[...]
May 22nd, 2021 - 2:22 am § in Science
Mysterious fast radio bursts traced to spiral galaxy arms
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) from distant galaxies have perplexed astronomers since they were first observed in 2007, but an international team using the Hubble space telescope pinpointed the location of over a dozen of them — in the arms of spiral galaxies, CNN reported on Friday, May 21,[...]
55 years since criticality: The Blue Flash
THE DEMON CORE AND THE STRANGE DEATH OF LOUIS SLOTIN Abstracted and edited from article MAY 21, 2016 THE NEW YORKER Alex Wellerstein is a historian of science and an assistant professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in New Jersey. He runs the blog Restricted Data. The blue flash was cle[...]
May 21st, 2021 - 9:56 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
These cops need ashes training
An Illinois man is suing a local police department for “desecrating” his daughter’s ashes during a traffic stop. Dartavius Barnes was pulled over in April 2016, and handcuffed while cops searched his vehicle “without consent, valid warrant, or probable cause,” the legal[...]
May 21st, 2021 - 3:11 pm § in Law and Courts
Road rager kills boy
A 6-year-old boy riding in the back seat of his mother’s car was killed by gunfire on Friday, May 21, 2021, CNN reported (here). Police said they’re looking for a “white sedan” and hope someone caught the incident on a dashcam. According the Carsurance.com (here), Road rage i[...]