Saturday's midday open thread: Assaults spiked on Trump rally days; FEMA drops 'climate change'
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233 days remain until the November election • What’s coming up on Sunday Kos … ° Throughout our history, we have persisted, by Susan Grigsby ° Juan Escalante, the persistent Dreamer, by Gabe Ortiz ° Republicans running out of excuseSaturday's midday open thread: Assaults spiked on Trump rally days; FEMA drops 'climate change'
233 days remain until the November election • What’s coming up on Sunday Kos … ° Throughout our history, we have persisted, by Susan Grigsby ° Juan Escalante, the persistent Dreamer, by Gabe Ortiz ° Republicans running out of excuses why they’re losing elections, by Sher Watts Spooner ° The incredible spirit and strength of the Puerto Rican people is unbreakable’—Sonia Sotomayor, by Denise Oliver Velez ° What can we learn from Conor Lamb’s victory in Pennsylvania, by Egberto Willies ° Seven questions for Rasleen Krupp, high school activist and founder of the Young Feminists Coalition, by David Akadjian ° The lesson of Conor Lamb's victory is clear. Unions still matter, by Ian Reifowitz ° 2020 Census brings up deeper questions of ethnicity, identity for blacks in America, by Kelly Macias • Researchers say assaults spiked on Trump rally days during campaign: New research reveals that, on average, cities experienced 2.3 more assaults on days when they hosted rallies for then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election campaign. In the study, published Friday in the journal Epidemiology, researchers from George Mason University and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania also found no link between Hillary Clinton rallies and spikes in assaults. [...] The team focused on cities with more than 200,000 people and performed a systematic Google search that revealed publicly available data for 38 rallies in 21 cities for Clinton, and 31 rallies in 22 cities for Trump. Using aggravated assault, simple assault, and battery data from police departments in those cities, they then tallied assaults on corresponding days of the week for four weeks before and after each rally. MIDDAY TWEET xAndrew McCabe - RepublicanJames Comey- RepublicanRobert Mueller - RepublicanRod Rosenstein - RepublicanAll of these Republicans are not part of some secret liberal FBI scheme. This ridiculous right-wing fairy tale needs to be put to bed.— Adam Best (@adamcbest) March 17, 2018 • Australian cyborg fined for using his chip-embedded hand to pay for train ticket. • Author of “Brotopia” says sexism isn’t just tolerated in Silicon Valley. Rather the tech industry is hardwired to marginalize women: How did men come to rule in Silicon Valley? You say it hasn’t always been like this. Women were programming computers in the early days of the military and Nasa. Then, as the industry started to explode, these personality tests were developed to identify people who could be good at this job. And it was decided, though there is no evidence to support the idea, that good programmers “don’t like people”. Well, the research tells us if you hire people who don’t like people, you hire far more men than women. These tests perpetuated the stereotype of the antisocial, mostly white, male nerds who many of us think of when we think of computer programmers. That has also extended to entrepreneurs as well. Steve Jobs sort of proved a different kind of person could start an amazing company, but we created another stereotype of a swaggering, risk-taking bro instead, which also selected for men. So what’s Brotopia like for the women who do inhabit it? They are frustrated and tired of being the only women in the room, day after day. They are doing this sort of second job that men don’t have to do, which is prove that they deserve to be there. At the same time, they are fending off sexual advances because they are the only women in the room. The circumstances for female entrepreneurs are especially challenging. Most have not just one story to tell about bad behaviour or an unwanted advance, but several. • FBI agents trek to site where group claims to have found cache of Civil War gold lost or intentionally buried during the Battle of Gettysburg. • Trump regime’s FEMA drops references to climate change in its strategic plan: Despite a disaster-stricken 2017, the Federal Emergency Management Agency dropped discussions of climate change from its strategic plan, the document intended to guide the agency's response to hurricanes, flooding and wildfires through 2022. The plan projects that «rising natural hazard risk» will drive increased disaster costs, but it fails to connect last year's record-setting disasters to the changing climate and does not mention that natural disasters exacerbated by global warming are expected to become more frequent and severe as temperatures rise, a conclusion made unequivocally in last year's Climate Science Special Report, part of the National Climate Assessment. FEMA's last strategic plan, released during the Obama administration, stressed the need to incorporate climate change into the agency's planning. «A changing climate is already resulting in quantifiable changes to the risks communities face, showing that future risks are not the same as those faced in the past,» the 2014-2018 plan stated. 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