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* How Milwaukee became so segregated and why it matters when it comes to crime. Busing for Integration Worked in Milwaukee—Until It Didn’t. It’s not just Joe Biden—the Democratic Party has backed away from its commitment to fighting segregation in the public schools.

* Wisconsin could decide 2020. Inside the new Democratic plan to win it back.

* Bernie Sanders’s Campaign Is Different.

* Not much hope for the University of Alaska. Enter: the accreditors!

* The 10 factors that put small private colleges and universities at risk of closure.

* Odds Are, Your Doctorate Will Not Prepare You for a Profession Outside Academe.

* Now they say the individual mandate, which they always said was unconstitutional, is the only thing that made Obamacare constitutional.

I've seen this movie before with the last challenge to ACA on the funding of the exchanges. Most people agreed in the beginning it was a ridiculous suit, but somehow, weirdly, GOP-appointed judges just kept ruling in favor of the plaintiffs till it made it to the Supreme Court! https://t.co/zhONJnwMEs

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 9, 2019

* These Are The People Struggling The Most To Pay Back Student Loans.

* ICE Just Quietly Opened Three New Detention Centers, Flouting Congress’ Limits. Migrant kids in overcrowded Arizona border station allege sex assault, retaliation from U.S. agents. This gay teen lost his asylum appeal & will be sent back to Iran where ‘they will execute me.’ I’m with her. Trump’s mass arrests are set to begin. Chicago gets it right.

* “A nasty, brutal fight”: what a US-Iran war would look like.

* Trump backs down on rigging the Census directly, possibly for good.

“The structure of the Constitution enshrines white minority rule” lots of room to spare https://t.co/EJJkPR6hDo

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 10, 2019

* Jeffrey Epstein’s Fortune May Be More Illusion Than Fact. This is exactly how I think Jeffrey Epstein made his money. When Epstein ordered a 53-pound shredder. I was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein; here’s what I know. NYPD let convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein skip judge-ordered check-ins. 28 Women Reportedly Sent to Mar-a-Lago in 1992 for VIP Party of Two—Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream: Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine. The Jeffrey Epstein Case Is Like Nothing I’ve Seen Before.

I am Team We’re Gonna Find Out Epstein’s Quote Unquote Hedge Fund Was a Ponzi Scheme Buttressed By Blackmail.

— Nicole Cliffe (@Nicole_Cliffe) July 10, 2019

self-confessed sexual predator is the president and all anyone does is joke about it, probably part of his thinking https://t.co/1mIKHX3x92

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 9, 2019

* The depravity is bipartisan.

* The numbers are in: SF homeless population rose 30% since 2017.

* Escape From New York 38 years later.

* Scenes from the class struggle in journalism.

* The California Bill Challenging NCAA Amateurism Just Cleared Another Hurdle. Here’s How It Got Started.

* “I Did Not Die. I Did Not Go to Heaven.” Gasp!

* Red flag wildfire warning issued for much of Alaska; smoke chokes Fairbanks. New Orleans Braces for a One-Two Weather Punch. Enormous Antarctic glacier on brink of collapse could raise sea levels by half a metre alone, scientists warn. These are Canada’s worst-case scenarios. Between the Devil and the Green New Deal. Environmentalism’s Next Frontier: Giving Nature Legal Rights. The New York Times is ready. What could possibly go wrong?

This is downtown New Orleans right now…and the soon-to-be #HurricaneBarry hasn't even hit yet.

Our thoughts are with everyone in the path of the storm.

Climate change is an emergency. It's time our leaders start acting like it. https://t.co/nNxxVLNnAD

— Sunrise Movement 🌅 (@sunrisemvmt) July 11, 2019

* I didn’t have “the World Wildlife Fund operating a lawless paramilitary force” on my dystopia watch-list, but of course I should have.

* ‘These kids are ticking time bombs’: The threat of youth basketball.

* Hope you enjoyed this look at Ron’s future!

* Google as a landlord? A looming feudal nightmare.

* What Will Life on Mars Be Like?

* DRAGONLANCE FOREVER

* #dataspositronicbrainisinthedog

* RIP, Rip Torn.

* And while The Lion King remake has been getting absolutely brutal reviews, few can touch Dan’s brutal takedown of the original.