Of the 50 directors confirmed so far doing #SuperBowl commercials this year (some will direct more than one ad), only 3 are women and 8 are people of color. All of the remaining 39 confirmed directors are white men. One of those is Google’s director, Adam Morse, who is blind.
on daylight savings i awake an hour earlier than usual and think to myself “yes, yes, i’ve won” and then later that day the sun goes down at 4:30 and i’m like “you fool. you fell for it again.”
Whenever you feel not qualified for something, remember that a guy convinced millionaires to go to the bottom of the ocean with him in a Grands biscuit can driven by a game controller.
The Justice Department accused Minneapolis police Friday of engaging in a pattern of violating constitutional rights and discriminating against Black and Native American people following an investigation prompted by the killing of George Floyd. https://t.co/oLu0KvZwAT
Minneapolis is 19% black.
They make up 89% of shooting suspects.
This means that blacks are 33x more likely than whites to shoot someone, probably higher given unsolved cases.
For context, men are only 10x more likely to commit murder than women. https://t.co/O7RLD9dXdZ
DOJ says after George Floyd's murder, MPD officers stopped reporting race and gender of people they conducted traffic stops on, which goes against department policy
BREAKING: the city of Minneapolis, its police department and the Department of Justice have agreed to negotiate a consent decree.
US Attorney General says MPD uses excessive force, unlawfully discriminates, violates the 1st and 4th Amendments