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Slashing Racist Crack Sentences Has Already Saved 16K Prison Years And Half A Billion Dollars

Nicole Flatow Think Progress
One federal appeals court panel held that the FSA’s reduction of mandatory minimum sentences should apply retroactively, not just because that was the intent of the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act, but because failure to do so would amount to unconstitutional, “intentional racial subjugation.” Should this ruling does not survive a full panel review and/or appeal, a bipartisan bill introduced this week by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mike Lee (R-UT) would make the ruling law.

Can You Tell What A Black Hole Has Been Eating?

Dave Goldberg http://io9.com/can-you-tell-what-a-black-hole-has-been-eating-670216697
If you jump into a black hole, your mass energy will be returned to our universe but in a mangled form which contains the information about what you were like but in a state where it can not be easily recognized. It is like burning an encyclopedia. Information is not lost, if one keeps the smoke and the ashes.

NSU, NSA and other Embarrassments

Victor Grossman Portside
The hot, seemingly untroubled vacation days were disturbed only mildly by two abbreviations, NSU and NSA – not to be confused!