Policing

– “These highly questionable revelations stirred a fair amount of public outrage, but few people seemed to realize how truly sinister they were, or how they connected to much broader patterns of official lawlessness that have long bedeviled St. Louis County, and Missouri more generally, as well as many other jurisdictions across the land.” Ferguson’s massive cover-up: How police departments are protecting Michael Brown’s killer (h/t @ShaunKing)

– “The question of whether Urban Shield is an essential training experience worth a significant investment of taxpayer money or a chance for grown men to run around and play war games was bubbling beneath the surface the whole time.” Militarized Cops Pretend to Fight Terrorists in Oakland (h/t @MelissaGira)

Reproductive Health

– “Despite the mounting pressures to have a baby already, a number of well-known, powerful women have said no, thanks, and spoken quite frankly about their decision not to parent.” 25 Famous Women on Childlessness (h/t @sovvvy)

Sexism

– “The thing that’s most striking about the opposition to Sarkeesian’s work is that while her opposition comes in very different forms, ranging from simple criticism, to faux-intellectual documentarians, to outright virulent abuse, it’s all pretty lightweight.” Criticism of Anita Sarkeesian & “Tropes vs. Women” Comes in 4 Groundless Forms (h/t @femfreq)

– “In protest, some students are continuing to openly defy the dress code regulations and wear shorts and tank tops to school.” High Schoolers Protest Sexist Dress Code That’s Landed More Than 100 Girls In Detention (via @ThinkProgress)

– “I made the mistake of dating a guy who would later go on to write a several-act manifesto about my alleged sex life and post it to every forum he could create a handle for. Normally, this would blow over with little more than a “whoa, check out THAT guy,” but since I work in an industry that has very strong feelings about women, it quickly mutated from a jilted ex’s revenge-porn to one of the most intense scandals in recent gaming history.” 5 Things I Learned as the Internet’s Most Hated Person (h/t @studentactivism)

– “We may be able to see these small population differences if we ran a large, controlled study but it would be practically invisible to us on an individual level as we go about our lives and it certainly wouldn’t result in large gender imbalances in terms of people who like Sam Harris.” Sam Harris Doesn’t Understand Bell Curves (via @skepchic)

Sexual Assault

– “This rape prevention campaign doesn’t even include rapists in its messaging about personal accountability for preventing rape. Instead, it’s directed at everyone but rapists.” White House Rolls Out “It’s On Us” Campaign (via @Shakestweets)

Homophobia

– “I don’t see how it could be self-defense,” Nagle says. “There were 12 people there. The self-defense thing is a little crazy to me. It wasn’t like a guy just threw a punch to protect himself and ran away. That’s not what happened here.” Philly Hate Attack Mob Claiming Self Defense After Brutal Beating Sends Gay Men To Hospital

Intimate Partner Violence

– “The Radisson hotel chain is suspending its sponsorship of the Minnesota Vikings after star running back Adrian Peterson was charged with child abuse in Texas.” Radisson Suspends Minnesota Vikings Sponsorship (via @AP)

World Health

– “The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has the potential to alter history as much as any plague has ever done.” The Mathematics of Ebola Trigger Stark Warnings: Act Now or Regret It

Awesomeness

– “‘Obviously, my house would not be like this if I didn’t have Asperger’s,’ he said. ‘If it takes a long time, I don’t care because if I like what I’m doing, I almost don’t want to finish what I’m doing,’ Krueger said.” Autistic Minnesota man builds ultimate cat maze in home (h/t @AustinKelmore)

Sexism, Reproductive Rights

– “So the disparity is not because mothers actually become less productive employees and fathers work harder when they become parents — but because employers expect them to.” The Motherhood Penalty vs. the Fatherhood Bonus (h/t @dreamhamptom)

– “Because, really, women’s abortions are none of your business – not even those of a public figure, not even one who became an international figure because of abortion rights.” Bravo for Wendy Davis, but women’s abortions are none of your business (via @JessicaValenti)

– “Miranda’s mother, Dianna Larkin, has referred to the outfit as a “suit of shame” and says that Miranda started sobbing as soon as she was forced to put it on.” High Schooler Forced To Wear ‘Shame Suit’ As Punishment For Short Skirt (via @ThinkProgress)

– “Whalen told authorities there was no local clinic available to perform an abortion and her daughter did not have health insurance to cover a hospital abortion.” Mom Ann Whalen Sentenced To Prison For Giving Daughter Abortion Pills

– “What Alden’s bio fails to mention is he has also overseen a series of failures when it comes to how his department has handled off-field issues with players, specifically from the basketball and football teams when it involves violence against women.” Missouri Football’s Rape Culture and So On and So Forth (via @scATX)

– “Domestic violence is so much more complicated than a lack of money, or not having self-respect, or feeling like it’s OK for your man to beat up on you.” Why I Married My Abuser (h/t @DrJaneChi)

– “But judging by the list of banned content, GoFundMe doesn’t necessarily want a positive experience for all visitors. It wants a positive experience for visitors who align with a specific social outlook.” GoFundMe, the site that has raised money for convicted murderers, will draw the line at abortion and ‘sorcery’ (h/t @ClinicEscort)

– “When an incident of intimate partner violence in which a man knocks a woman unconscious gains national attention and every question or comment you think to make has to do with her behavior, you really hate women.” How to know that you hate women (via @mychalsmith)

Racism + Sexism

– “Black feminism is championing a more nuanced understanding of how oppression and privilege operate” After naked photo hack, ‘white feminists’ ignore Jill Scott (h/t @courtenlow)

– “Black women are almost three times as likely to experience death as a result of DV/IPV than White women.” Why Black Women Struggle More With Domestic Violence (via @FeministaJones)

Racism

– “The dream was to make the league palatable to a stereotypical, upscale suburban audience.” Out for Executing the NBA Game Plan: The Atlanta Hawks and That Levenson (via @EdgeOfSports)

– “There have been numerous calls for the NFL to ease up its marijuana punishments, based both on weed’s expanding legality and its potential use as relief for chronic pain.” The NFL Just Suspended Ray Rice Indefinitely. Why the Hell Did It Take So Long?

– “The Economist revealed just how many white people remain reluctant to believe black people about the experience of being black.” The Economist’s review of my book reveals how white people still refuse to believe black people about being black

– “Misee felt unable to continue working under such conditions and decided to quit the dental practice on the spot, much to the dismay of her bosses. They assumed Misee would simply promise to stop voicing her opinions on social media about racial injustice. ” Racial discrimination & resignation of Dr. Misee Harris – An Open Letter to media (h/t @SarahKendzior)

Policing

– “The effect is to make the city more appealing to successful, and mostly white, middle class professionals – while burdening the city’s poorest with more bills to pay.” Bratton-style policing means more fines and arrests for black residents of Detroit (h/t @FatBodyPolitics)

– “The captain, he said, told him we had been filming in an unauthorized location, though he could not tell us where that location was. (We’d been advised earlier that it was okay to film so long as we did not go on the bridge itself.)” Video: What We Saw Before Being Kicked Out of the SWAT Convention (via @MotherJones)

– “Better data, and the will to collect it, is necessary to get the full picture of how many criminals and law-abiding citizens are killed by police every year.” Here’s the Data That Shows Cops Kill Black People at a Higher Rate Than White People (via @MotherJones)

– “The police-military institutions sponsoring and consorting with weapons exhibitions like Urban Shield are not only ensuring that police agencies remain militarized but that the rising climate of both xenophobia and Islamophobia does not shift, the latter having a tremendous and direct influence over the use of the former.” ‘Urban Shield’: where hostility towards minorities meets policing on steroids (via @roqchams)

Trans Rights

– “An inventor, an executive, a lawyer, and even a founder of a religion, there are so many intriguing aspects of Rothblatt’s life. It’s a shame so much had to be made of her gender.” About that New York Magazine Cover Story (via @ParkerMolloy)

Children

– “While no one actually endorses child abuse or neglect, there is disagreement within the homeschooling community about how best to address the problem — and how widespread it is.” ‘Anonymous Tip’: Homeschooling’s Obsession With ‘False’ Reports Of Child Abuse

Disasters

– “Many people asked to return money were deemed ineligible for aid because their damaged properties were vacation houses or rental properties, not their primary homes.” FEMA Wants at Least $5.8 Million in Sandy Aid Repaid (via @AP)

Science

– “It is very clear that there are certain major issues where there is only one correct scientific answer, and political conservatives are much more likely to deny that answer than are liberals or moderates.” Stop Pretending That Liberals Are Just As Anti-Science As Conservatives (via @MotherJones)

Cool Stuffs 

– “To the company’s initial surprise, the feature is popular among late night office dwellers.” Genius Pizza Box Transforms Into Plates, And Then Storage For Leftovers (h/t @DrJaneChi)

Misogyny and Sexual Abuse

– “What these people are doing is reminding women that, no matter who they are, they are still women. They are forever vulnerable.” The Great 2014 Celebrity Nude Photos Leak is only the beginning (via @rgay)

– “For every statement of sympathy to the women whose massively personal, vulnerable information was shared, there are several posts about the idiocy of posting these pictures on the internet (which they didn’t) or taking them at all (which is none of our business).“ What Nude Photo Scandals Tell Us about How We View Women (via @courtenlow)

– “The story itself should not be addressed as if it were a scandal, but rather what it is: A sex crime involving theft of personal property and the exploitation of the female body.” Jennifer Lawrence Nude Photo Leak Isn’t A ‘Scandal.’ It’s A Sex Crime. (h/t @M_E_Winstead)

– “The receptionist, on learning I was reporting a sex offence, insisted on me giving details in front of everybody in the waiting room before taking me somewhere private.” How I was raped – and pressured into dropping the charges (h/t @stavvers)

– “So Sulkowicz joined a federal complaint in April over Columbia’s mishandling of sexual misconduct cases, and she will will hoist that mattress on her shoulders as part savvy activism, part performance art.” Beyond ‘no means no’: the future of campus rape prevention is ‘yes means yes’ (via @JessicaValenti)

– “But them there girls didn’t matter. People like us, we don’t matter.” Child abuse revelations divide “most shameful town in Britain” (via @reuters)

– “The problem here is that these squealing man-children, so desperate to keep women out of their precious games, want it both ways. They want gaming to be taken seriously as a culture and art form, while at the same time throwing an unbelievable tantrum when subjected to serious criticism.” Announcement: Readers who feel threatened by equality no longer welcome (h/t @womenactmedia)

Families

– “All the handwringing in the world didn’t change the fact that families needed two incomes to get by and women increasingly wanted their own careers.” Why America Gave Up On The Fight For A Family-Friendly Workplace, And Why It’s Starting Again (via @ThinkProgress)

– “Childless isn’t a synonym for hollow or miserable. And let’s move together towards a world where if women are asked why they didn’t have kids, they simply say: ‘That’s an odd question.'” Jennifer Aniston is right – a childless life isn’t a fruitless one (h/t @nothavingababy)

– “Fears about outbreaks aren’t simply hypothetical. This past year, California specifically has faced a record-breaking whooping cough epidemic, as well as several serious measles outbreaks.” Health Experts Are Worried That More Kids Are Heading Back To School Without Their Vaccines (via @ThinkProgress)

– “After five months, she has been granted full custody of her children. Her kids can finally come home.” Woman Who Left Kids in Car During Job Interview Regains Custody (h/t @msfoundation)

Police Abuse

– “At every point where it’s possible, the cops assume Boucher is a bad, unconcerned mother.” Mom Arrested for (Maybe) Hanging Up on Cop While Her ‘Missing’ 10-Year-Old Plays at Church (h/t @radleybalko)

– “He is accused of stopping women, who were all black and between the ages of 34 and 58, while on duty in Oklahoma City.” Prosecutors Charge Cop Daniel Holtzclaw With Rape, Sexual Assault Of 8 Women (h/t @angryblacklady)

– “While I think it is probably a good idea, it really depends how it’s used and whether or not police officers are disciplined … Are there consequences if the recordings show that a police officer violated policy or a police officer used excessive force?” Watching the Watchmen: Are Police Officers’ Body-Worn Cameras a Win for Accountability? (h/t @prisonculture)

– “And there’s the rub. It is not just releasing the fact that they were looking for Ashya that is being challenged: it is the fact that they put out misinformation about the nature of their search. They insinuated very clearly that the family had removed a child “without consent”. Comment: After Ashya, can the police be trusted with a Twitter account? (h/t @stavvers)

– “The problem with telling people they have to participate in any mandatory expression is that it tells people who might have a religious objection or other deeply held belief that, if they don’t go along with what the government tells them to do, they aren’t welcome in this community.” Mayor orders police to remove man who wouldn’t stand for Pledge of Allegiance (h/t @radleybalko)

– “This is where the fundamental fault in the police culture of St. Louis lies. The use of guns and force define the recruiting message, by having violence as a transcending theme. Imagine how it would feel, if the promotional video of a Medical School was all about the scalpel and the students using it on corpses.” How It’s Easier to Become a St. Louis Police Officer Than a Barber

Racism

– “What is it about black womanhood that renders us so fascinating? Not unlike the manic pixie dream girl, this fantastical stereotype has taken on a life of it own, in which sassy fierce black women are on permanent performance mode.” Why the hell do TV producers think inside every white woman is a fierce black diva? (via @renireni)

– “When April protested by noting her Native American religious beliefs, Warren asked her for to prove that Malachi is, indeed, a Native American.” Texas School Won’t Let Native American Attend His First Day Of Kindergarten Because Of His Long Hair (via @ThinkProgress)

– “During the first round of court proceedings, Texas admitted that between 600,000 to 800,000 registered voters in the state lacked a government-issued photo ID, with Hispanic voters between 46.5 percent to 120 percent more likely than whites to not have the new voter ID.”  Will Texas Get Away With Discriminating Against Voters? (h/t @DrJaneChi)

– “The team tweeted the score at the end of all 16 preseason quarters. Against the year’s first three opponents teams, 11 of the 12 tweets included the opposing team’s nickname. Against the Redskins, none of the four tweets did.” One Redskins preseason opponent showed you can live-tweet a Redskins game without using the word ‘Redskins’

– The Economist just defended slave owners

Gun Violence

– “The weapon was in the employee’s pants pocket and was not displayed at any time. The employee was injured in the foot and treated and released from the hospital.” Police: no charges pending in ISU accidental shooting

– “But it turns out that bringing SWAT teams into buildings to simulate an active shooter situation doesn’t always make people feel safer.” Active Shooter Drills Don’t Really Prepare People, But They Do Make Them Cry (via @MotherJones)

Policing:

– “The research team, which studied clashes between police and activists during the Occupy movement three years ago, found that protests tend to turn violent when officers use aggressive tactics, such as approaching demonstrators in riot gear or lining up in military-like formations.” Police often provoke protest violence, UC researchers find (h/t @BeckyGMartinez)

– “In this era of mass incarceration, the police shouldn’t be trusted any more than any other witness, perhaps less so.” Why Police Lie Under Oath (h/t @Copwatch)

– “An officer on the street let the dog he was controlling urinate on the memorial site.” Michael Brown’s Mom Laid Flowers Where He Was Shot—and Police Crushed Them (via @MotherJones)

Homophobia:

– “The ESPN segment, as Burke and Long both insinuated, had the air of a report seeking to make a story where there was none.” Rams’ Chris Long Tweets Perfect Response To ESPN Report On Mike Sam’s Showers (via @ThinkProgress)

Privacy:

– “EFF opposed the kill switch bill because the legislation does not make clear exactly who can trigger a smartphone’s kill switch.” New CA kill switch law stirs free speech debate (h/t @SeattlePrivacy)

Worker Rights:

– “The policy is that if you have kids, you will never be scheduled past 5pm. The business closes at 7:30, but those without kids work the later part of the day” Child Free Discrimination? (h/t @nothavingababy)

Appropriation:

– “When an aesthetic is divorced from anything essential, from any soul, it becomes little more than a sound. And that sounds bad for the future of black music.” The Tragedy of Whitewashing Hip Hop (h/t @FeministaJones)

Health Care:

– “They assume that pharmacies are charging them the right co-payments, that insurance companies are paying the correct share. But as health plans’ rules for prescription drugs become more complicated, it’s harder to tell.” One Drug. Two Prices. A Reporter Struggles to Find Out the Cost of His Son’s Prescription (via @ProPublica)

Feminism:

– “It sucks shit to be a woman in music and female musicians already get the short end of the music coverage stick, so it’s real bogus to see potentially important ink get wasted on this crap.” Erm…the Weekly’s Bumbershoot preview for La Luz is real weird (h/t @passtheteapot)

-“Abortion is a basic health care service”  Abortions Must Be Covered By Health Insurance Companies In California (h/t @jessicavalenti)

-“When breaking the reviews down by gender of the person evaluated, 58.9% of the reviews received by men contained critical feedback. 87.9% of the reviews received by women did.” The abrasiveness trap: High-achieving men and women are described differently in reviews (h/t @gildedspine)

– “I’m appreciative that young men like want to curb sexual assault, but anything that puts the onus on women to “discreetly” keep from being raped misses the point. We should be trying to stop rape, not just individually avoid it.” Why is it easier to invent anti-rape nail polish than find a way to stop rapists? (via @JessicaValenti)

– “A student who was punched in the face at the Notting Hill Carnival for telling a man not to grope her says she would do the same again.” Notting Hill Carnival: Punched woman talks of outrage (via @BBCNewsbeat)

– The latest Tropes vs. Women in Video Games is really well done and also horrifying. (via @femfreq)