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Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about today.

• The Willful Ignorance Of Hillary Haters
  Nitwits, dolts, and Scott Baio today cited a purloined e-mail as proof that Hillary Clinton "has begun to hate everyday Americans." This will all be over shortly.
• Trump says he'll put Clinton in jail. It's a threat that should terrify us.
  He would use the presidency to persecute his personal enemies.
• Trump’s racist ruse: His farcical outreach to black voters is just white supremacy in disguise
  Donald Trump’s “outreach” to black voters is a farce. Luckily, the mainstream media is beginning to clue into the fact that when Trump speaks about black people, the message is about reassuring his white supporters that they aren’t really racist, more than trying to win over black voters.
• Luke Cage’s bulletproof body: “Marvel’s Luke Cage” is a needed dose of cool at a painful time
  Cool is at the heart of black life and living, available in any number of shades and with various complexities. Series creator Cheo Hodari Coker uses “Luke Cage” to illustrate and play with all the elements of cool in his superhero series, celebrating the preciousness of black life as it’s lived and viewed from the perspective of a black man in Harlem — one who happens to be bulletproof.
• It's The Skin Color, Stupid
  You don’t like the choices? Trump or Hillary? You, and everyone before you, brought us to this point. For whites, it’s High Noon in Mayberry. For people of color, it’s high time for change.

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about today.

• Don’t Ever Say Michelle Obama Didn’t Warn You About Trump
  “If a candidate traffics in prejudice,” she says, “that is the kind of president they will be.”
• It’s time for America to stop putting our black lives on trial
  It seems that the legal system and the court of public opinion work in concert to place not just these particular people on trial in their deaths, but they simultaneously place blackness on trial, instead of the officers or individuals responsible for their deaths.
• Why the Museum of African American History Is About More Than the Past
  “The great force of history,” James Baldwin once wrote, “comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. It could scarcely be otherwise, since it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities, and our aspirations.”
• A Madoff in the White House?
  Imagine how — once Donald Trump is in the Oval Office — this country could become his personal piggy bank.
• The dangerous state laws that are punishing pregnant women
  In the past 10 years, arrests and forced interventions of pregnant women have skyrocketed.
• Fact-Checking Is Largely Irrelevant Because Deceit Is Not What’s Causing Moral Outrage, Clinton’s Gender Is
  People want to believe that Clinton is less truthful and trustworthy because they feel strongly that she shouldn’t be president. If truthfulness mattered, this election would be over today
• Imagine if Donald Trump was a woman. You simply can’t | Hadley Freeman
  Hillary Clinton triumphed in the first presidential debate, but she faces an opponent far more formidable than the absurdist Republican candidate – sexism
• In America, gun rights are for whites only
  Where is the NRA outcry over the deaths of Keith Lamont Scott and Philando Castile?

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about today.

• The EpiPen boss tried to defend price hikes to Congress. No one bought it | Liz Richardson Voyles
  Mylan CEO Heather Bresch said she believes the medicine’s cost has struck the balance of profit and access. But my kid depends on EpiPens, and she’s wrong
• Facts Matter
  When a politician ends almost every sentence with "believe me"… don’t! He’s probably lying.
• Does Fear of Black Men Satisfy the "Objective Reasonableness" Standard? | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
  The case that set the standard on when police officers are justified in using excessive force is Graham v. Connor. But how that standard is applied needs deep consideration.
• Editorial: The EpiPen Outrage Continues
  It’s time for Congress to stop letting pharmaceutical companies get away with price gouging on lifesaving drugs.

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about today.

• How to Get Away With Murder: The Death of Terence Crutcher and the Drug War
  Step one: Make sure you have a badge and the person you are murdering is black. Step two: Add drugs.
• Why are cops OK with killing black people? Because American history teaches that we aren’t fully human
  When was the last time a white person was gunned down for needing vehicular assistance?
• The Trump Foundation: what's known is shocking. We need to know more | Jill Abramson
  Revelations that Donald Trump’s so-called charity helped him settle legal disputes are extraordinary, and would sink Clinton. This is vital reporting
• Hating Donald Trump isn’t enough – we need to talk about why Hillary Clinton rules | Lindy West
  If we care about our future as a non-blown-up planet, it’s time to stop treating the Democratic candidate as if she’s barely better than a literal white supremacist
• Enough With the Metrics: Why I Want Education 'Reformers'' Hands off My Granddaughter's Schooling
  Our national obsession with metrics and assessments is damaging to students.
• Terence Crutcher wasn't a 'bad dude' – just a black man in America | Michael Twitty
  The shooting of an unarmed father of four in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a reminder that we are viewed as threats by police simply for looking the way we do
• Michelle Obama Is Not Here For Your Mental Health Stigma
  Got something judgmental to say about mental illness? Michelle Obama is here to set you straight.
• Dear Democrats: Stop freaking out
  To beat Trump, Clinton and her party should focus on fundamentals.
• Hillary Clinton Was Politically Incorrect, but She Wasn't Wrong About Trump's Supporters
  When Hillary Clinton claims that half of Trump’s supporters qualify as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic,” data is on her side.

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about today.

• The GOP Wants To Blame Black Misery on Democratic Mayors. Why That’s Wrong.
  The claim of sole mayoral responsibility for social and economic problems in urban neighborhoods is belied by another reality: Millions of African Americans live under GOP gubernatorial rule and have been subject to some of the most toxic social and economic policies in recent decades.
• Do Half of Trump’s Supporters Really Belong in a “Basket of Deplorables”?
  On Friday, offering remarks at a fundraiser in Manhattan, Hillary Clinton gave her view of Donald Trump’s supporters and caused a scandal by telling the truth.
• Why Urban Rage in America Is a Powder Keg That's Ready to Blow
  In the heart of urban poverty in America, wrote Baldwin, rage festers. Tension increases and the police appear more and more like an occupying army. “One day, to everyone’s astonishment,” wrote Baldwin, “someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.” It is the “astonishment” that rankled Baldwin. How can one be innocent of the social crisis in urban America?
• Op-Ed Contributor: The Rise of Presidential Extremists
  Candidates take extreme stands because there is little electoral consequence to doing so.
• What O. J. Simpson Means to Me
  Long before he led the police on a chase through L.A., Simpson had been an escape artist.

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about today.

• Five myths about smartphones
  No, they’re not giving us cancer or making us more productive.
• Colin Kaepernick Is Winning
  Those who said last week that they disagreed with Colin Kaepernick’s methods but agreed with his goals owe him an apology.
• It's time to stop talking about racism with white people
  No more arguing with disingenuous folks who have nothing to lose.
• [toread] Meet the parents who won't let their children study literature
• The Real Immigration Question: What Forced Your Family to Come Here?
  Let’s face it, everyone in the United States was forced to come here for one reason or another. Like my grandmother.

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about today.

• Abdul-Jabbar: Insulting Colin Kaepernick says more about our patriotism than his
  What should horrify Americans is not Kaepernick’s choice to remain seated during the national anthem, but that nearly 50 years after Ali was banned from boxing for his stance and Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s raised fists caused public ostracization and numerous death threats, we still need to call attention to the same racial inequities. Failure to fix this problem is what’s really un-American here.
• Paul Krugman: The economy of race prevents Medicare and Obamacare expansion
  Medicaid expansion, Krugman noted, disproportionately benefits nonwhite Americas, and voters in red states — particular the white ones — “don’t like the idea of helping neighbors who don’t look like them.” Instead, they elect politicians who paper over racism with the thin clapboard “fiscal responsibility” and deny access to healthcare to millions in their states.
• The debate about trigger warnings and safe spaces isn’t really about free speech
  This debate is not really about pure free speech. No argument ever is. It’s about speech norms and who gets to set them. I think a coherent argument can be made that since colleges are institutions, the institutional authorities rather than the students ought to get to set them. That’s the way institutions work. But it’s a very different argument than free speech, if I may be so unsafe as to say.
• Who Is Ultimately Responsible For The Vicious Hack Targeting Leslie Jones?
  If you’re a white man who believes that minorities and women are seizing too much of the power once reserved for other white men, Leslie Jones is the most dangerous woman on the internet.