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Past studies have shown that non-white people face higher pollution than white people even within urban areas, and even when controlling for income:
https://www.citylab.com/design/2014/04/people-color-are-disproportionately-killed-air-pollution/8881/

Income also plays a role in pollution exposure, but not as much as you might think. "Both race and income matter, but race matters more than income," says Julian Marshall, a professor of environmental engineering at the University of Minnesota. "And that's a really important point, because when you start talking about differences by race people say, 'Oh, that's just income.'"

The discrepancy is so great that even high-earning non-whites are sucking in relatively larger quantities of pollution. For a clear illustration of that, take a look at this graph showing (at top left) pollution/income differences for large urban areas. Notice how low-income whites are exposed to less pollution than even the highest-income blacks, Asians, and Hispanics:

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/isee/o-3-42-04/

For example, within individual urban areas, NO2 concentrations are, on average, ~8% higher for nonwhites than whites (after controlling for income) and ~5% higher for low-income than for high-income groups (after controlling for race).

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Phantom_Nook posted...

She could still end up winning, but hopefully this clears the way for a more progressive candidate.

The way California is set up, Feinstein could finish second in the primary and then win the general due to Republican voters.
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Like, physically, not for office.

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/968155353912369152
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Other articles about this made it a little more clear: one kid made a joke that, when overheard and taken out of context, sounded like a threat and (especially in the wake of recent events) that prompted investigation.
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*whispering* It was never really about the religion
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The Admiral posted...

if Dianne Feinstein isn't radical enough

Dianne Feinstein is far from radical, particularly on issues of surveillance and national security. She's supports the death penalty and pushed for an amendment to ban flag burning, while opposing marijuana and universal healthcare.
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California Democratic Party. The N in DNC stands for national.
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/nidhisubbaraman/epa-environmental-justice-air-pollution?bftwnews&utm_term=.wegyB7gZ0#.fnXpAOjPK

People of color face more air pollution than white people, and black people bear the biggest environmental burden of any group, according to a new study by EPA scientists.

This exposure could explain disparities in health quality among different communities, scientists from the EPAs National Center for Environmental Assessment write in the paper, published Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health.

Its excellent work in a top journal making the point that environmental disparity is alive and well in the US, Manuel Pastor, director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at the University of Southern California, who was not affiliated with the study, told BuzzFeed News.

Years of research has suggested that minority communities face an outsize burden of air and water pollution, and get diagnosed with additional health problems as a result.

Our study contributes to the narrative by providing a systematic study of burden by race, ethnicity, and poverty status across the entire US, EPA researcher and study author Ihab Mikati wrote in an emailed statement to BuzzFeed News.

Mikati and his colleagues tracked the location and quantity of air pollutants emitted by refineries and factories using the EPAs National Emissions Inventory. The team then compared the emissions with the demographics of communities within 2.5 miles of each facility, using data from the US Census Bureau.

The new report found that the average US resident lives near about five emissions sources. But, the authors noted, Blacks in particular are likely to live in high-emission areas.

Compared to the average American:

Black US residents are exposed to 1.54 times more fine particulate matter, a pollutant that contributes to haze and has been linked to heart and lung diseases.

Hispanic US residents are exposed to 1.2 times more fine particulate matter.

People below the poverty line were exposed to 1.35 times more fine particulate matter.

I do see this as a very valuable study, Paul Mohai, professor at the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, who was not involved with the study, told BuzzFeed News. Its very unusual for researchers to try and measure the absolute level of inequality like they do, through their ratios.

In every state except Virginia, North Dakota, New Mexico, and Maryland, and Washington, DC, the study found, nonwhite people have a higher exposure to particulate matter than white people do. The worst disparity exists in Indiana and Alabama, where people of color were exposed to more than twice as much particulate pollutants as white people.

The researchers focused on levels of PM2.5 tiny particles that are 2.5 microns across or smaller. A byproduct of burning in cars, machinery, and a range of industrial processes, these particles contribute to haze on a still day. The EPA regulates this pollutant because it has been associated with heart and lung diseases, and a shorter life.

The researchers found the same disparity when they examined other air pollutants, including lead, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides.
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The new study refutes an argument that pollution impact disparities are driven primarily by economics that factories are located in low-income communities because land there is less expensive, Pastor of USC said.

When the researchers compared exposures faced by people above and below the poverty line, that difference was less than the gap between black and white people.

It will lend credibility to people who are saying that the environmental disparities are real and something needs to be done about them, Pastor said.

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Genocet_10-325 posted...

I really hope he's right about that massive socialist wave he's warning them about

If he keeps talking about it, he will be
https://www.thedailybeast.com/democratic-socialists-of-america-get-membership-boost-thanks-to-nra-smack-talk
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/us/arizona-state-conservatives.html

Around the country, Republican legislatures have been taking a greater interest in the affairs of their state universities to counteract what they see as excessive liberalism on campus, from quarrels over conservative speakers to national anthem protests to the very substance of what students are taught.

In Arizona, the Legislature has taken a direct role, fostering academic programs directly from the state budget and sidestepping the usual arrangement in which universities decide how to spend the money. Lawmakers are bankrolling the new School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State, and the University of Arizonas Department of Political Economy and Moral Science. Locally, they are better known as the freedom schools, and not always admiringly.

Their creation reflects a cultural struggle within academia, one that some conservatives believe requires government intervention to counter a liberal professoriate. Their goal is to promote the study of Western civilization, once a core requirement at many colleges, contending that a well-educated society must understand its roots the Delphic maxim know thyself.

The new courses at Arizona State focus on Western thinking from the ancient Greeks to the Founding Fathers and beyond, with an emphasis on free-market philosophy. They draw heavily from original texts rather than modern interpretations.

There is too much revisionism being taught in universities today, said State Representative Jay Lawrence, a Republican from Scottsdale who backed the new programs. Its a big deal to those of us who feel very strongly about a more conservative education.

But many liberal arts professors view these efforts as reviving an antiquated and Eurocentric version of history, one that they have tried to balance with viewpoints of women and racial minorities.

A number of longtime Arizona State faculty members, as well as Democrats in the Legislature, also complain that the millions appropriated for the new programs could have been better spent. Steady cuts left state universities with $390 million less in taxpayer support in 2017 than they had before the 2008 recession, requiring steep tuition increases. Here you want to create these freedom schools for whatever reason, and there are so many other pressing needs, said State Representative David Bradley, a Democrat from Tucson.
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I think part of the problem is a perception or reality that we got a bunch of libs indoctrinating your children, and theres not a lot of balance, said Margaret Spellings, the president of the University of North Carolina system, which has asked to send a delegation to observe the Arizona State program.
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Private donors, including the Charles Koch Foundation and the Jack Miller Center, have been funding conservative campus programs around the country for years, and the programs at both Arizona universities are absorbing earlier Koch-funded initiatives at each school.

The Legislature has approved $7 million for the Arizona State school so far. In addition to paying for six new professors with intellectually conservative pedigrees, $430,000 has been set aside for attention-grabbing rare manuscript acquisitions, including first editions of the Federalist Papers and Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations.

An additional $75,000 is paying for spring break trips to India for 12 students, a carrot to encourage enrollment in the school, which stands at about 50. Students had to take at least one of the schools classes as a condition of winning a spot on the trip.

Smh big government trying to indoctrinate students
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Ali operated in a very different context to today. That said, I do not agree with his conclusions.
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TheVipaGTS posted...

This topic just reminds me that "Michael Jordan" is a very basic name...2 of the most common First/Last names we know....But the actor had to add his middle initial to distance himself because his own first and last name is already claimed by another, bigger celebrity.

That's wild...

Wouldn't it be wilder if they were uncommon names?
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Car:
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Same thing I do every night

Try to take over the world
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and meet me on the roof!
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Buddy, if they made a movie about it, it would be The Extremely Goofy Movie
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You're not wrong, but also this is a joke about how she's a chiropractor. (Admittedly, til very recently I had assumed that just meant "back doctor" and had no idea there was so much quackery associated with it.)
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I could really use a chiropractor, my back is fucked up.
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Damn_Underscore posted...

Now whenever anyone mentions his name it will be because he insulted Ivanka Trump,

Nah, most people will forget about this in a week
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Emperorwon posted...

Failed American freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy, who placed last place with a best score of 35/100

It's a bit misleading to say he finished last without including that he finished last in the final, after qualifying for it. There were other competitors who finished worse than him.
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Fire Emblem
Advance Wars 2
Golden Sun The Lost Age
Pokmon Ruby/Sapphire

... I'm blanking on games from other series that I'd include among those
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https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/georgia-senate-passes-bill-for-adoption-agencies-reject-gay-couples/wExAkUo54719Et4m7QXNjP/
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hockeybub89 posted...

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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'You know the Chinese and Filipinos dont have a drug problem. They just kill them.' - The president of the United States https://www.axios.com/exclusive-trump-privately-talks-up-executing-all-big-drug-dealers-1519595170-402cc386-8729-4684-a7ef-a5bf31876afa.html
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TheVipaGTS posted...

its insane to me that people really think "tide pod" eating is a widespread epidemic....Stupid kids exist in every generation.

Right, like... Every example I've seen of it has been a meme/joke
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itachi15243 posted...

Do we actually know for sure if this was a terrorist act yet?

We do not! We basically just know that an explosion happened.
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This doesn't fit the gimmick
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Leicester is located 177 kilometers, about 110 miles, north of London.

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Oh thank god, it wasn't just me
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This is a little thing that black people like to call a joke. White people also call it a joke. Proclaiming a THREAD in all caps with a plainly ludicrous set-up is a common joke in some corners of Twitter.

There is no ensuing thread despite the declaration of one. Instead, there's the poster himself, calling it a joke.
https://twitter.com/Sir_Hurizzel/status/958434734446702596
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The people should spout this applaud 98 percent of the time a government agent kills somenody
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Doesn't seem great
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This is a strong gimmick and I look forward to seeing more of it.
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https://theintercept.com/2018/02/25/california-democrats-deny-dianne-feinstein-their-endorsement-for-senate/

Despite over a quarter-century representing California in the Senate, Dianne Feinstein in a humiliating setback was denied the endorsement of the California Democratic Party on Saturday, signaling a shift away from moderates at the highest levels of the state political infrastructure.

State Sen. Kevin De Len, offering the strongest challenge to Feinstein since her election, garnered 54 percent of the vote of nearly 3,000 delegates gathered here at the state convention, compared to just 37 percent for Feinstein. The state party endorsement gives candidates coveted placement on state party mailers and can raise the profile of candidates who may have a deficit in fundraising. Its not like Feinstein has a need to raise her profile in the state, and has plenty of money to get her message out. But denying the party endorsement to a sitting U.S. Senator is a remarkable turn of events for a lawmaker who has been a fixture in California politics going back to her days as a San Francisco board supervisor, where she was first elected in the late 1960s.

Had De Len hit 60 percent, he would have won the endorsement outright. As it is, neither can claim it.

Feinstein, who would be 85 by the time she is sworn in for another term, does have a checkered history with the state party. In 1990, she famously gave a speech endorsing the death penalty during a campaign for governor, drawing loud boos from the hall. State delegates gave their endorsement in that governors race to Attorney General John Van de Kamp. Feinstein then used the footage of delegates booing her in campaign ads to prove her political independence. She won the primary, but lost the general election to Pete Wilson. (She then won Wilsons vacated Senate seat.)

But that was long ago, and Feinstein has consistently earned the state partys support for U.S. Senate in the 28 years since.

In the most recent poll from the Public Policy Institute of California, taken in early February, Feinstein held a 46-17 lead over De Len, with about one-third of likely voters undecided. De Len is expected to land in the top two with Feinstein and move to the general election in November, although Justice Democrats-endorsed activist Alison Hartson has earned the most small-dollar donations in the race, even more than Feinstein. Hartson was not on the Senate endorsement ballot, though another challenger, attorney Pat Harris, was.

The party also chose endorsements for statewide offices, as well as congressional and legislative races. There was no endorsement in the closely contested gubernatorial race, between Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, Treasurer John Chiang, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and former State Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin.

In Congressional races, Bryan Caforio, a Democrat with support from leaders in the party running in the winnable 25th District, fell short of an endorsement against progressive challenger Katie Hill amid rumors that the party brass flipped on the race because of Hills fundraising prowess. In the 45th District, former Chuck Schumer aide and Center for American Progress fellow Dave Min got more than the required 60 percent support for an endorsement, in a race that includes foreclosure fraud expert Katie Porter.

Feinstein competed hard for the endorsement, holding conference calls and a scrambled egg breakfast with delegates, sending them numerous mailers and text messages, and appearing at party caucus meetings for the first time in decades. She reportedly received a smattering of boos at the partys labor caucus when she said she voted with labor on every vote I know.

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That gradient is a weird look
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Coffeebeanz posted...

Poor TC. Doesn't realize the Democrats are also bought by the military industrial complex.

I know full well. I wish it weren't the case.
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Antifar posted...

Doom_Art posted...

Decreasing military spending is just not a popular issue.

Neither is half the Republican agenda, but they do not let that stop them. People respect you more when you make a case for your principles, rather than letting your principles be decided by the latest polling data.

To get back to this: it actually is an issue with public support
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-03-08/majority-of-americans-oppose-trumps-proposed-increases-to-the-defense-budget
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So somebody made a joke that was overheard and taken too seriously. It happens.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ellen-degeneres-asked-bill-gates-165400271.html

It's been a long time since Bill Gates has set foot inside a grocery store, he revealed to Ellen DeGeneres on a recent episode of The Ellen Show .

DeGeneres decided to put the billionaire Microsoft co-founder to the test by asking him to guess the price of common grocery store items such as boxed rice, laundry detergent pods, floss and pizza rolls.

The stakes: If he guessed the prices within a dollar for at least three of the products, every audience member would win a prize.

But Gates' first try didn't bode well for the audience. "How much do you think Rice-A-Roni would be, within a dollar?" Degeneres asked.

"Five dollars," Gates guessed before noting, "the audience didn't like that [answer]." The correct price: only $1.

With some hints from the audience, Gates was able to adjust his responses and come up on the right side of a few other products. Eventually he guessed three out of five correctly and sent the audience home with a chance to return to the show for one of DeGeneres's Twelve Days of Giveaways in December.

But his initial guesses were telling: He predicted that a bag of frozen pizza rolls might be $22 while an eight-ounce container of spinach and artichoke dip couldn't be under $10. Both were actually far less.

Here's how Gates fared on the quiz:

Rice-A-Roni

Gates's answer: $5
Correct answer: $1

Tide Pods

Gates's answer: $10
Correct answer: $19.97

Dental floss

Gates's answer: $4
Correct answer: $3.78

Totino's pizza rolls

Gates's answer: $8
Correct answer: $8.98

T.G.I. Friday's spinach and artichoke dip

Gates's answer: $4
Correct answer: $3.66

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Coffeebeanz posted...

Just because it was a shitty plan that didn't pan out doesn't mean it didn't happen

Your claim: the Clinton campaign paid women to accuse Trump of sexual assault
The story: a Clinton donor paid a lawyer who sought to represent potential accuser's. Said lawyer offered money to some women who did not accept.

In no way is your initial post an accurate representation of events.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

Antifar posted...

daftpunk_mk5 posted...

and payed women to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault?

This did not happen. Why are you lying?

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/a-hillary-clinton-donor-paid-500000-to-fund-women-who-would-accuse-trump-of-sexual-misconduct/article/2644747

Bloom told the New York Times that her venture ended up being unproductive and that none of the women wanted to move forward with the plan. Bloom added that one woman even requested $2 million in order to proceed with her accusation but subsequently decided not to take part in the endeavor.

Consequently, Bloom said she had to refund the Clinton donor most of the money, but that she kept some of it. The money that was kept, Bloom says, went to the expenses that she accumulated while vetting the potential women willing to publicly accuse Trump.

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daftpunk_mk5 posted...

and payed women to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault?

This did not happen. Why are you lying?
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clearaflagrantj posted...

This is something Dennis from Always Sunny would do

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Unreliableness posted...

Look I agree with antifa if we don't stop this; liberal execs are going to be in control of EVERY bit of television we see...

Man, can you imagine billionaire executives having control over everything?
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NightMarishPie posted...

But, if it has reduced terrorist crimes, then who am I to say anything.

I mean, its stated success still can be weighed against the infringements of privacy involved. These things would constitute violations of constitutional rights in the US
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Unreliableness posted...

what is this world coming to...

Increased concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few corporations, mainly
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Far from it
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The Admiral posted...

He never said he was a philosopher, that was the title given to him by the condescending liberal writer

The NYT article was not condescending, it was just openly praising Shapiro
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