January 4, 2016
- Hate won 2015.
- DHS is preparing to deport "hundreds" of Central American families who fled violence this month.
- At least 83 people deported by the Obama administration to Central America in 2014 were murdered.
- Obama will soon announce executive actions on gun control.
- Executions in Saudi Arabia reach highest level in two decades with a 36% jump in executions for drug charges, many arbitrary.
- Russia has been doing some worrying things, militarily.
- Of those who overdose on opioids, 70% get new prescriptions for the same drugs from the same doctors.
- PA porn scandal: "You get the impression that every white male office holder in the state is a creep."
- California is shutting down group homes, closing children's psychiatric beds, and shipping troubled kids to Utah.
- The eroding effects of the California drought on Central Valley schools and children.
- Inside Central Valley farmers and residents' political fights for more water in California.
- Overconsumption and climate change are contributing to a groundwater shortage that few governments are doing much about.
- Was the 83% reported jump in murders of trans people in 2015 a genuine crime spike or a result of higher trans awareness?
- White Bernie Sanders supporters stir up racist conspiracy theories about Black Lives Matter.
- "Wealthy Men Are Targeted In Nightclubs, Police Say."
- The year in streaming services (and Animal Farm).
- Rosecrans Baldwin shades the cassette tape revolution.
- Ellis Avery on living life at waist level.