Society – Page 3 – Link(s) of the Day

akintoye please pull your head out your ass

Couldn’t find this on Youtube for easier sharing. All credit goes to Akintoye.

Op-Ed: How Los Angeles pioneered the residential segregation that helped divide America

After real estate agents invented racial covenants in the early 1900s, L.A. led the nation in using them. Their idea of ‘freedom’ shapes the U.S. today.

Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop

An internal police chief memo shows employees were directed to use ‘field interview cards’ which would then be reviewed

Don’t Be a Schmuck. Put on a Mask.

Generations of Americans made incredible sacrifices, and we’re going to throw fits about putting a mask over our mouth and nose?

Why We Won’t Raise Our Kids in Suburbia (and moved to the Netherlands instead)

I was always told, growing up, that the suburbs (of Canada) are a good place to raise children. But I’ve come to appreciate the importance of independence fo...

The Toll of a New Machine

It started with ATMs. Then gas stations. Now self-service kiosks are taking over airports and invading McDonald’s restaurants. Is this the face of the jobless recovery? Or will automation make service better for workers and customers alike?

Nearly all COVID deaths in U.S. are now among unvaccinated

Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are among the unvaccinated, an indication that nearly all deaths could be averted if everyone got the shots

Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank

Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.

Opinion | Dear GOP: MLK had more than one quote, honest

Talking honestly about inequality, it turns out, was a special point of emphasis for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

For Indigenous street vendors, offering free meals in L.A. is more than charity

In Los Angeles, Zapotec street vendors organize free weekly cookouts — but it’s done for more than charity.