Samuel Alito Believes That Christians Are Oppressed in America | The New Republic

He won’t rest until the Supreme Court enshrines religious freedom protections for a select minority of Americans—at the expense of everyone else.

A few years ago, Justice Samuel Alito addressed the Federalist Society’s annual convention in Washington, D.C. He vented some of his frustrations with a few of the court’s then-recent decisions with which he had disagreed. I found this darkly amusing at the time. After all, the conservative legal movement had just spent four years stocking the federal judiciary with its disciples. It had even secured a six-justice conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court just a few weeks earlier.

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Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them

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Just think if someone hadn’t stumbled on to this ineptitude on securing their servers which is a whole nother issue… this is the epitome of programmed bias when we know ofays do more crime than anyone…

Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Black and Latino neighborhoods.

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9 Horrifying Facts From the Facebook Whistleblower Interview

Most of this should have been obvious to non-sheeple…

Last week, the Wall Street Journal published internal research from Facebook showing that the social media company knows precisely how toxic its own product is for the people who use it. But tonight, we learned how the Journal obtained those documents: A whistleblower named Frances Haugen, who spoke with CBS News’ 60 Minutes about the ways Facebook is poisoning society.

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Secret history: the warrior women who fought their enslavers | Slavery | The Guardian

This is what warrior women look like…

Growing up in New York in the 1970s Rebecca Hall craved heroes she could relate to – powerful women who could take care of themselves and protect others. But pickings were slim. The famed feminists of the time, Charlie’s Angels and The Bionic Woman, didn’t cut it for her.

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Why Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland – Face2Face Africa

 

A year ago, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo became the first African leader to be invited in about 60 years on a state visit to Switzerland. But his visit may not have gone as his host would wish as he announced that his country will soon end the process of selling raw materials to trade partners for onward value addition.

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Tyson Foods Linked to Largest Toxic Dead Zone in U.S. History – EcoWatch

One of the wonderful side effects of mass effects of meat consumption by humans

What comes to mind when you think of Tyson Foods? A chicken nugget? A big red logo?

How about the largest toxic dead zone in U.S. history? It turns out the meat industry—and corporate giants like Tyson Foods—are directly linked to this environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, and many others.

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Godcast Episode 140: The Election Day Special with 2020 Presidential Candidate Deon D. Jenkins

Another good one…. I hate that Lord Jamar has followed the Vlad template of chopping shows but I guess it works for the ADD audiences….

Topic of Discussion: Reparations like it’s never been discussed before.

Godcast Episode 140: The Election Day Special with 2020 Presidential Candidate Deon D. Jenkins. – YouTube