What exactly is a microaggression? Let these examples from Hollywood movies explain (Quartz).
When baseball's best player refused to play (Ozy).
Giant holes are bursting open in Siberia, and you can hear the explosions from 60 miles away (Business Insider).
2016's most & least federally dependent states (Wallet Hub).
THINGS WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT
The true cost ... Why the private prison industry is about so much more than prisons (TPM).
Where productivity is sizzling hot (Ozy).
What Ken Ham isn't telling you about Ark Encounter funding ... Hint: It's a tax scam (Patheos)
The truth about undocumented immigrants and taxes (The Atlantic).
America's rivers and streams are overflowing with microplastic pollution (Quartz).
RAPE CHARGES AND THE CHARLATAN NAMED DONALD TRUMP
Why new child rape case filed against Donald Trump should not be ignored (Huffington Post).
How to cover a charlatan like Trump (NY Times).
THE 'IRISH SLAVES' LIE
How the myth of the "Irish slaves" became a favorite of racists online (Southern Poverty Law Center).
'Irish slaves': Historian destroys racist myth conservatives love to share on Facebook (Raw Story).
POLICING IN AMERICA
New ACLU cellphone app automatically preserves video of police encounters (The Nation).
Cops caught pepper spraying handcuffed 15-year-old girl after she was hit by a car (Raw Story).
How one of the deadliest police forces in America stopped shooting people (Quartz).
Carrying while black? Be careful, community leaders warn (Houston Chronicle).
Are black or white offenders more likely to kill police (Washington Post)?
King: White men killed most cops in 2016, conservatives silent (Daily News).
Once again: There is no 'war on cops.' And those who claim otherwise are playing dangerous games (Washington Post).
Why have we forgotten the FBI's warning that white supremacy had infiltrated law enforcement (Urban Intellectual)?
Study says white extremists have killed more Americans in the U.S. than jihadists since 9/11 (Time).
White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States (PRI).
Right-wing extremists are a bigger threat to America than ISIS (Newsweek).
Here are 10 of the worst domestic terror attacks by extreme Christians and right-wing white men (Raw Story).
MORE IDIOTS BEING IDIOTS
Kentucky governor suggests patriots may have to "shed blood" if Clinton is elected (Mother Jones).
NRA fights to preserve gun rights for convicted stalkers, and domestic abusers (Raw Story).
Ohio Trump campaign chair Kathy Miller says there was 'no racism' before Obama (The Guardian).
MISCELLANEOUS
[She redeems herself, kind of] Ohio Trump campaign chair Kathy Miller resigns after saying there was 'no racism' before Obama (Jezebel).
The U.S. map redrawn as 50 states with equal population (Mental Floss).
Ketchup sandwiches and other things stupid poor people eat (Think Progress).
U.S. Household income grew 5.2 percent in 2015, breaking pattern of stagnation (NY Times).
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