Re: Prison growth graph. It’s a little misleading to show raw count instead of per-capita. There’s been a marked increase in population in the past 80+ years. Not that growth in incarceration isn’t a huge problem!
True. However, the US population grew like this:
And the prison population grew like this:
Those lines are hella different.
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“…already Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., says he will insist that any federal disaster aid be paid for…”
“…already Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., says he will insist that any federal disaster aid be paid for with cuts elsewhere.” Roll Call (via brooklynmutt) Not the time.
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pewresearch: Europeans Grow Dissatisfied with the Inequities…
pewresearch:
Europeans Grow Dissatisfied with the Inequities of the Economic System
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domesticabusewillsaveusall: Stefon’s Wedding |x| SNL…
domesticabusewillsaveusall:
Stefon’s Wedding |x| SNL 18/5/2013
German Smurfs, Gizblow the coked up Gremlin, Human Fire Extinguishers, Ben Affleck and is that Ryan Seacrest? No it’s a drowned albino who looks like Axl Rose.
I’m going to miss Bill Hader.
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Upcoming Chartist-in-Residency on Wednesday May 22nd!
mappleton:
Next Wednesday on May 22nd, I will be given the digital keys to my favourite visual information blog I Love Charts to run it for twelve glorious hours! The quintessential tumblr for chart-lovers everywhere, I Love Charts has long supplied me with inspiration, information, illumination, and insight. They are also among the impressive ranks of those who turn blogs into book deals – you can buy the book “I Love Charts” (a collection of their best finds) from Amazon.
Previous Chartists-in-Residence include such big-chart-names as Wendy MacNaughton, Jessica Hagey of Indexed, and Dante Sherperd of Surviving the World (better known as science-coat-and-chalkboard-man).
As a chartist-in-residence, I will spend the day posting the mass release of new Quote Charts, a smattered collection of charts that I admire, and an interactive submission session where you can send in your favourite quotes and I will try to speed-illustrate and post ones that “speak to me,” as it were.
I even drew a new chart to “explain myself” (a veritable task in itself):
Stop by next Wednesday and watch it all unfold. The chart glory will be plentiful!
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The president and CEO of the Associated Press says sources are less willing to talk to the wire service in the wake of the phone records scandal.
The president and CEO of the Associated Press says sources are less willing to talk to the wire service in the wake of the phone records scandal.:
Gary Pruitt, in his first television interviews since it was revealed the Justice Department subpoenaed phone records of AP reporters and editors, said the move already has had a chilling effect on journalism. Pruitt said the seizure has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists and, in the long term, could limit Americans’ information from all news outlets.
Pruitt told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the government has no business monitoring the AP’s newsgathering activities.
“And if they restrict that apparatus … the people of the United States will only know what the government wants them to know and that’s not what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment,” he said.
A lawsuit has not been ruled out, but next moves haven’t been decided as of yet.
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kateoplis: Kanye turns the page on rap. Nine Inch Kanye. Got…
kateoplis:
Kanye turns the page on rap.
Nine Inch Kanye. Got some serious “Pretty Hate Machine”-era Trent Reznor vibes from this song as well as “New Slaves.”
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