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January 29, 2022

It’s Time for Biden to Fulfill His Pledge to End the Federal Death Penalty

Alice Kim Truthout

“Society loses its moral grounds when we stoop to the actions of the most broken people to punish those who hurt people. But I’m living proof that hurt people not only hurt people — we can heal.”

January 29, 2022

Looking for the Casus Belli to Justify War in Ukraine

Tommaso Di Francesco il manifesto

What is the pretext that the US and NATO are looking for? Because it seems clear that the climate of uncertainty, in this dangerous moment, is rife for precisely such a pretextual scenario.

January 29, 2022

‘I Was So Close to the Sky. It Was Spiritual’: Sonny Rollins on Jazz Landmark, The Bridge, at 60

John Fordham The Guardian

It’s one of the most romantic stories in music: the jazz star rejecting fame to practise on a New York bridge for two years. Now 91, Rollins recalls those long cold days – and how he has coped after losing the power to play.

January 28, 2022

Friday Nite Videos | January 28, 2022

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How Does Income Affect Childhood Brain Development? We Need To Talk About Cosby | W. Kamau Bell. Astronomer Explains "Don't Look Up." Now on SportsCenter: Everyone Is Dead. The Facility : The Lives of Detained Immigrants.

January 28, 2022

The Right Is Losing Its Mind at the Idea of a Black Woman on the Supreme Court

Paul Blest VICE

Perhaps foreshadowing the confirmation battle we’ll see in the coming months, the right has already dismissed the idea of a Black woman justice of the Supreme Court.

January 28, 2022

Damn Hard Work: The Life of Clyde Bellecourt (1936–2022)

Nick Estes American Indian Movement Interpretive Center

Bellecourt and the American Indian Movement taught us that colonizing society is weak because of its sense of superiority. It has God, guns, and gold, but its soft underbelly is glory.

January 28, 2022

The Anti-vaccine Right Brought Human Sacrifice to America

Kurt Andersen The Atlantic

Since last summer, the conservative campaign against vaccination has claimed thousands of lives for no ethically justifiable purpose.

January 28, 2022

Cash Assistance to Mothers Boosted Infants’ Brain Activity, Study Shows

Danilo Trisi Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Early neuro-imaging results provide powerful new evidence of what so many other studies have found — a more secure and adequate family income alters children’s lives in concrete ways and expands their opportunities to succeed and thrive.

How Does Income Affect Childhood Brain Development? | Kimberly Noble

January 28, 2022

Neuroscientist Kimberly Noble is leading the Baby's First Years study of how family income changes children's cognitive, emotional and brain development. "The brain is not destiny," Noble says. Article with new study results here.

We Need To Talk About Cosby | W. Kamau Bell

January 28, 2022

Writer/director W. Kamau Bell’s exploration of Bill Cosby’s descent from “America’s Dad” to alleged sexual predator. Comedians, journalists and Cosby survivors have a candid, first of its kind conversation about the man, his career and his crimes. Premieres Sunday, January 30 on Showtime.