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Noveller’s Trippy Vignettes

by LieseloRylah Posted on February 20, 2017

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Noveller
A Pink Sunset for No One
Fire

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Noveller, aka inveterate electric guitar tinkerer Sarah Lipstate, creates intriguing, immersive environments, subjecting her multi-layered sounds to crafty alterations, topped off by a dollop of synths—or is that just more guitar? Any number of terms could be applied to her lovely eighth studio album, from ambient and tender to psychedelic and unpredictable, but no simple description fully captures the elegant charm of her trippy vignettes. At first glance, A Pink Sunset for No One feels gentler and more meditative than Lipstate’s previous efforts, although the rumbling title track suggests the overture to an extravagant Sci-Fi film. Best of all, Noveller’s subtle textures reveal new wrinkles with each listen, making this an endlessly renewable source of stimulation.

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Friday Cat Blogging – 17 February 2017

by HannahLombardo Posted on February 17, 2017

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We have exciting news this week: Yale University has decided to rename one of its colleges after Hopper. It’s a well-deserved honor for her contributions to this blog, and she will be replacing the odious John Calhoun, who spent the second half of his life defending states rights and slavery in uncompromising terms.

You will note, by the way, that Yale plans to keep up a pretense in public that Hopper College is actually named after an admiral who earned degrees from Yale in the 30s and went on to do some kind of computer stuff. But we all know better, don’t we?

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Raw Data: Deportation of Criminal Aliens, 2000-2016

by Brian68819245134 Posted on February 14, 2017

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Last week, ICE coordinated a set of raids in several cities that ended with the arrest of nearly 700 undocumented immigrants. ICE claims this was business as usual. President Trump says it was all part of keeping his campaign promise to get tough on criminals who are in the country illegally. “Gang members, drug dealers & others are being removed!” he tweeted. Who’s right?

One set of raids isn’t enough to tell. In terms of raw numbers, there doesn’t seem to be anything unusual going on. However, ICE doesn’t generally conduct raids in multiple cities over the course of just a few days. That suggests that maybe there was something unusual going on.

My guess: the arrests themselves were fairly routine. However, they were deliberately conducted in a way to maximize publicity. This would certainly gibe with Trump’s usual way of doing business.

We won’t get a real answer about this until the end of the year, when ICE releases total removal numbers for FY2017, which ends September 30. That will tell us whether ICE is deporting more people, and in particular, whether they’re targeting criminals more vigorously than in the past. For comparison, here are total removal numbers for criminal aliens since 2000:

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Trump’s Immigration Order Has Made Him More Popular

by AnastasLyke Posted on February 10, 2017

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A couple of weeks ago I said we’d need to wait a couple of weeks to see how President Trump’s immigration order affected his favorability rating. Well, those couple of weeks are up. Here’s how he’s doing:

Trump was already on a post-inauguration upward swing, and his immigration order seems to have kept it going. He’s gained more than three points of favorability since he announced it—and that’s despite the chaos surrounding the rollout and the near-daily revelations of other incompetence on his part. Buckle up.

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The Dead Pool – 4 February 2017

by CarmineMarks Posted on February 4, 2017

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Members of the Trump administration are starting to drop like flies, and I figure someone should keep track. Note that I’m keeping a spot open for Betsy DeVos in hopes that I can fill it in sometime soon:

So who’s next? Well, there’s this from Rep. Seth Moulton (D–Mass.):

“What I’ve heard from behind the scenes,’’ Moulton said during a telephone interview on Monday, is that Mattis and others who were left out of Trump’s decision-making loop on the immigration order are asking one another, “What will make you resign? What’s your red line?”

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Top Trump Officials Stonewalled Court Order Over Immigration Ban

by RitaCameron Posted on February 4, 2017

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From Politico:

Hours after a federal judge ordered customs officers to provide lawyers to travelers detained at Dulles airport last Saturday, senior Trump administration officials instructed the guards to give the travelers phone numbers of legal services organizations, ignoring a mass of lawyers who had gathered at the airport.

Most of the legal services offices were closed for the weekend, effectively preventing travelers with green cards from obtaining legal advice.

….The CBP officers at airports were not rogue individual actors, according to the documents obtained and people interviewed by Politico. Rather, the agents on the ground were following orders from high in their chain of command.

It would be nice to think that a few people will be held in contempt over this. I’m not holding my breath, though.

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CNN Turns Down Opportunity to Interview Kellyanne Conway

by Julienn20I Posted on February 4, 2017

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CNN, which is the target of a boycott by the Trump administration, turned down an opportunity to have Kellyanne Conway on its Sunday show:

Why did CNN do this? If it’s just pique over being denied access to Pence, then boo. If it’s because Conway is such a serial liar that no self-respecting news outlet should give her air time, then yay. But which is it?

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We’re Better Than This

by EstellaJulia744 Posted on January 28, 2017

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I love America, but I am so ashamed of my country today.

Pretty terrible! Pretty awful! Pretty indefensible! Pretty cruel!

I want to vomit.

This Dr Seuss cartoon is pretty accurate.

Have a good night.

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Trump and the Strong Dollar: A One-Day Follow-Up

by Panchito Zirman Posted on January 19, 2017

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Yesterday the Wall Street Journal blared the news that Donald Trump’s comments on the dollar being too strong had sent the dollar “reeling.” I suggested we might want to wait a few days before buying into this, but it turns out I was wrong. We only had to wait one day:

This follows the usual formula: (a) Trump says something, (b) a related financial index reacts instantly, and (c) by the next day everything is back to normal. I gather that there are folks on Wall Street who are writing algorithms to make money off this dynamic, but it’s unclear how long that can last. I mean, how many times can this happen before everyone realizes that Trump’s blather doesn’t really mean anything?

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We’ve Reached #cut50 For Young Black Men

by ChristieTobey69 Posted on January 16, 2017

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Here’s come good news for MLK Day. The incarceration rate for young black men is now down more than half since 2001:

The not-so-good news is that this has nothing to do with better criminal justice policies or efforts to create opportunities for people of color. It’s because of lead. The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you’re less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison. Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

You’ll note that, generally speaking, black incarceration has fallen more than white incarceration. The reason for this is simple: the biggest victims of lead poisoning in the 1960-90 era were black. They lived largely in urban cores, which had more lead paint and higher concentrations of gasoline lead than other areas. When crime went up, it affected blacks more strongly than whites. But when lead gasoline was banned and crime went down, that also affected blacks more strongly than whites. Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration rates.

We’re still at nothing close to parity, of course. Lead explains some things, but it doesn’t explain the stain of racism and greed in men’s hearts. This is America’s original sin, and it will take more than an EPA regulation to finally overcome it.

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